Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1875 — Not Pretty but Good. [ARTICLE]

Not Pretty but Good.

The following story is told of the Duchess de Berri: She was extremely fond of Dieppe, and passed a great deal of her time there in summer; indeed, it is said that the town owes to her fostering patronage the establishment of the workshops for the production of those exquisite ivory carvings which are well known to every stranger that ever tarried at Dieppe. One summer evening a fisherman met a plainlydressed lady walking alone on the beach. He ventured to accost her, saying that he had a petition which he wished to present to the Duchess de Berri, but that he did not know how to proceed in order to do so. “ Did you ever see the Duchess V” asked the lady. “ No,” was the answer, “ hut I am told that she is deuced ugly.” “Give me the petition, at all said his questioner, “and it shall be placed in the hands of the Princess herself.” The fisherman complied with the request, and a few days later he was summoned to the villa of the Duchess. What was his dismay, on being introduced to the presence of the Princess, to find that she was the person to whom he had given his petition! lie commenced to stammer forth some incoherent excuse, but Marie Caroline interrupted him. “ Your petition is granted,” she said, smiling, “and henceforth, when people say that the Duchess de Berri has an ugly face, do you add: ‘ But she has also a kind heart!’ ” - Tiie women candidates for County Superintendents of Schools in California fared badly m the late election, only one having been successful so far as heard from. There were women candidates in many of the counties. Are the men of the slope destitute' of gallantry, or what’s the matter ? A fine scene was lately presented on a farm in Clackamas County, Ore. A large separator was at work threshing wheat, and about it were gathered, all at work, Mr. Garrett Palmateer, six stalwart sons, seven grandsons, with Grandmother Palmateer holding the sacks. They do not run to kerosene and buzz saws much in Minnesota, but it may be stated that the earnest threshing-machine is attending strictly to business and getting away with a good many legs and arms. The commercial experiment of shipping live cattle from Boston tp Liverpool has proved a complete success.