Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1876 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Mr. B. P. Shillaber (Mrs. Partington) is again very ill. He has rheumatism, and erysipelas badly affects his head. —O’Leary has walked 503 miles in less than six days at the Liverpool (England) rink, and now challenges the whole world at leg lifting. —Queen Victoria has twinges of the rheumatism now and then, and the good old body begins to wonder if the world will miss her very much. - —Prince Metternich is a student of the newspapers, and a wise one. He says he notes what they do not say. Their silence is often mere eloquent than their speech.

—-W. H. Brown, of Pittsburgh, who lately-died, is “the representative Atjierican” who in early life dug anal at one and a half cents a bushel—and departed this existence the possessor of $3,250,000. —When Richard Grant White discovers a man on the street with the word “ pedlar” painted on his wagon, he immediately goes out and labors with lhat Son the deep sinfulness of wrong ng. —John Brougham greatly admires the nobler sorts of brutes, and talking the other day of high-minded lions and mean men. he epigrammatically said: “ Man is a monopolist of an immortality he is not sure he possesses.” —Adeline Patti is afraid to go to St. Petersburg because her husband lives there. So it is not the temperature of the Russian weather that interferes with her engagement, but the iacom-Patti-bility of her husband’s temperament. —Prof. Huxley’s only regret with regard to America is that his stay there was but seven weeks instead of seven months. Both he and Mrs. Huxley declare themselves especially delighted by the glimpses they got of American home and social life.

—Mr. Horace Capron, ex-Commissioner of Agriculture, who went to Japan, there to organize an agricultural department, received for this service $20,000 a year in gold. Now he is go jng to live in Washington, and has built a beautiful house, filled with rare and costly Japanese furnishings. —Tht great commentator. Dr. Lange, has been fifty.years_a professor. He was the son of a peasant and in his boyhood sold milk. Failing in love with a young lady of high family he resolved to make something of himself that he might win her. He borrowed, books and studied and soon became known as a brilliant scholar. In later years he married the girl of his early choice. —Protests have been addressed to Lord Derby with reference to Mr. Stanley’s butcheries of natives in Africa. His Lordship has replied that he has read the re- 1 ports with regret, but hopes that Mr. Stanley may oe able to offer some justification of them. In any event, the British Goveanmeat-^Mmefr’-interfere, as Mr. Stanley is not a British subject He has not the right to employ the British flag as he has done, and will be so informed as soon as he communicates with the coast. —The young lady who was engaged to marry Stanley, the explorist, has taken another man for better or worse. She is evidently afraid that Ujijiji’s habits are not such as would warrant him to be the kind of a man who stays, home evenings. She has reason to fear that if she had waited and married him, some evening he would have just stepped down to the postofflee to get a cigar, and she wouldn’t hear of him agaiiruntil the first mail from the North Pole. — Burlington Hawk-Eye.