Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1876 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Dv some strange ovwaMit Lts#Lytfor. ;j^^j(thp^^Bg •.rf-rTha mWwaeC'Wbd bwmgbv Qper#-houso at U*lun<ore|t^.j»<mS|<ffMm Wing* just as thft . Vshw**! -pftho dead w 9 m W vwholly wprqparodjw btoJfX* Mricoof •‘ffiMn .I. .T ; Kew tofki fo an Sttcpifll be»pa witness th« other 4»yv j /‘j YwiTW discharged from .JRailwayv were ypu pot?” ro/ued the counsel at the wib fPW*j “ No ri pif. I opCM, Oge ip returp ai the sgms thpa 'Whipping off his coatW 1 lawyer. There waft. M instant subsidence in the tone qf the latter,; the examina* tion came to an end without anV farther insult/ Ift : i-"’/ goU mi- • tfr. * —The following Dr. Dllver Wendell Holmes, writfoffi tweuty yeart , ago, is quoted to show IHe AlifferenOe ’between the charges' of lecturers‘ntNr and in former days 4 “My tewi* Tor lecture, when I Way- over sight, art'- thred: Fifteen dollars and expebsM/m fodßi'With afire in it, ma public house, and a maU tress to steep on—not a feather bed. As • you write in' your»individual capacity, I tell you at once all myi habitual dxigenl oiea; I am afraidtto sleep in a cbld room, * I can' t sleep on a. feather bed, I wiU - not go to private houses*-and I have fixed upon the sum mestwned Us what it is worth to me to go away for the night to ploceathtft cannot pay naora.” ?» a J . T -< —Mr. W. J; Bishop -fads posed a spiritual mSdiunv in Bestob. She profesced that the Spirits at her request made hands from i» i pail full of melted paraffine which she provided. Mr. Bishop pinched off a piece of one of the specimens of so-called spiritual workmanship; and: isubihittedisit with* some of. the paraffine from the. pail toJßrof. Horsfoed; of Harvard College, who plqcai a part of each in test tubes, and, by the application of . proper chemicals, found that the paraffinetaken from the pail exhibited a jslightly reddish colpr, while that from the imold gave no *ppearahce ( cxist, of coloring maUm:. This, of course , proved that had been prepared before tbe exhibition., ' —A. Kentucky correspondent, writing from Greenville, Tenn. r the former home of Andrew Johnson, mentions some ofthe mementoes of the ex-President, as follows: “ The veritable tailor’s shop is standing, and maybe seen .byany-visitor- Mine host worked w^th,Andy on .the bench* Mr. Johnson’s old home, a plain and simple structure bearing the impress of tirpe, is on a retired street The, house ia-aduch. Mr. Johnson lived, when he first came to <m\t mindow. Ifitii taU<sHishop Adcfoiir^ the same kind of a structure, Wdth a plain board sigmatMtogt bordfflt two 1 dpid onehalf feet long and eighteen inches wide, he last lived I te a m ltd JSIt story> with-a two-stoiy wing runnjng from tone end. ffts Bofl noW‘dCdupfoff thClWßie. Crape hangs on the. doarr knob yet”/:! ; /TJuTvexsalTst; 'rCos.yehfion7fii' Lawrence last-week, an incident occurred Which caused considerable uforrihreUV adiopg those m V the the- relation es wkieh w worthy of a wider circulation. A member of the Lowell was-geated at ilia between a reverend gentleman und a lady \yUh whom tod in thneourse of the conversation, which had turned on politic*, this lady, -was asked jby t!»b (fogatfog 1 ' whatw^s her nrefohp.hee ‘ AtnhnVthe Gntooresflianal *’ "iinißupaaawjwßpi» iiafTiwa®■ iwc- .-yus* r m*v ~~o'* r a*c nominees in this pistoict. • Her reply ;was that 4f she had thupilriloge she ghowld wpnse she wue wbhe - losing- eider he-adde«p4u Ills blunt Way: 1 “1 should like to knbW j ViUWrihffie, maT"T)-niaysflp?myconffo-lCßanonthe. Jthof . .lifovamhM,.’.;,At this S point a nitotua! acquaintance came to the rescue, '•ahd'gracefuttyriresentcd ttartady as the wife of the Hon. John K. Tarlxjjs. —Lorpell iHaas.) Courier. J” 1 '; V 1 4