Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1873 — Impudence Overmatched. [ARTICLE]

Impudence Overmatched.

I have told the following to bo many people,” says the Table-Talker Once a Week, “all of whom found it new, that it may be so to half the world. Colonel M., of the —tli, was, twenty years ago, the best billiard player in the British army; and, walking into a billiard-room in the Quadrant, met there an American, who was knocking about the balls. ‘Sir,” said he,‘l like your style of play,’in rather a patronizing tone. ‘Wal,’ said the transatlantic, in an off-hand way, ‘you are not the first man who has said that.’—-‘Sup-pose,’ said the Colonel, ‘we play a game together; what points shall I give you!’ ‘Guess" I’ll play you for anything you like without the points.’ ‘Sir!’ said the Colonel, rather taken aback, ‘perhaps you are not aware that my name is M.Y’ (expecting an immediate acceptance of any number of points). ‘M. presents no idea to me,’ says the stranger. ‘Very good, sir,’ said the Colonel, with a pitying smile, ‘then I wUI play you even.’ And, before ten strokes, he found, to his Utter astonishment, that he had, for the first time for many years, got more than his own match. After easily administering a most hollow defeat, the American turned io the Colonel, and said, ‘You had the goodness, sir, to tell me that your name was M„ which I said presented no idea to me. Mine is Jonathan Kentfleld, which, I guess, will present some idea to you.’ ” PnpFESSOn Hayden, at last accounts, was occupied in exploring Long Peak, Colorado. He had already erected three signal monuments, thirty feet high, and twelve miles apart, all of which can be seen from the main range of mountains. According to the Denver News, the cattle, finding these constructions extremely convenient places for scratching, and thinking them apparently erected for their accommodation, have at once commenced appropriating them to that purpose, and evidently with great satisfaction, as it is said that they concentrate in their vicinity for miles around. — . To make a concrete house a frame is erected as for an ordinary house, but with or without studding, as may be desired, and the concrete is "filled in between the timbers, and may be finished to show the frame, or faced over all apd pointed and fienciled to imitate stone or brick. As arge a house may be built this way Ss any other. The cost wilj be about from one-half to two-thirds that of an ordinary building-