Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1876 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Editor Whitelaw Reid, of the New York Tribune, is mourning the death of his only sister. —The Boston Globe has somehow got the notion that whenever Ole Bull goes into a town he must of necessity put up at somevi’lim ‘•'J' ? —Mr- John Morley, the English writer, says that the history of any isountry can only be effectually taught by treating it in its relationto the history of the world. —Mr. William E. Dodge has been con-* strained to request a public announcement of the fact that he i$ not so wealthy as he has been represented to be; and he desires to have'it Known that the demands upon his purse for contributions to charitable object arq greater than he can meet.

—Capt. John Wilson, who in 1859 rescued 000 persons froip the sinking steamship Conrrttught, is now living in extreme destitution at New Orleans. He was made a hero of on both sides the ocean at the time, but his services have been forgotten, while old age and poverty have ’ overtaken-him. —A photographer at Le Roy, N. Y., a few days ago photographed in one group Mrs. Stanley, aged ninety-two; her daughter, Mrs. Brown, aged seventy-four; her granddaughter, Mrs. Bostwick, aged fortyfour; her great granddaughter, Mrs. Duncan B. McNaughton, aged twenty-three, ;and her great-great-grandson, Roy McJfattghton, agslftvo yean.. t —Wawkeen Sillier agafn utters' a saddenißg wail. Baaays V the lark has loves in sens of grass,”’ and /other wild .heists and maidens and seamen revel iff their affeCriOi»,but/ab for' him; he is “lonely and unlovekf, alas! &s cibuds that weep and droop and Perhaps if be should go out vnpre he belongs, and 1 live with his wife ana Children, he might find a balm for his wops.— Springfield (Mass.) Republican. —The wonderful man-tracks which were discovered in Connecticut recently and. which were instantly pronounced fraudulent lly Prof. "Marsh, might well have alarmed the scientific world if they had been proted genuine. They were found in strata whi%h contain no fossils, and they indicated- thy existence of a race of giants in ho-called azoic period. ’They* wbffld have upset the evolution hypothesis instantly. . ■n<ir 1u« k. i» . ' « »