Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1877 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—The Boston Globe has discovered the real secret of Mr. Seligman’s exclusion from the Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga. He is an inveterate snorer. “ The affront to the Hebrew race,” says the Globe, “was really intended as a snub to Mr. Seligman'a nose.” —A woman in Lexington, Georgia, opened the oven door of her stove and found a large sDake coiled therein. She did not scream or endeavor to get up an excitement about the matter, but quietly shut the door and lit a rousing fire. The verdict on the snake was “ Well doriel” —The oldest ex-Representative living is Mr. Artemas Hale, of Bridgewater, Mass. He is ninety-four years old, is still interested in public affairs, and has ail hia faculties, mental aDd physical. He sat in Congress as a Representative from Massachusetts from 1345 to 1349, and in 1864 he was a Presidential Elector. —How little the American parent knows of what his child is doing has just been illustrated in Connecticut. “ A South Norwalk miss, while herself attending an up-town day school, started a private school in the city, and maintained itin flourishing condition several months before her father discovered the fact.” —Thoee Belgians hold birth And heraldry worth Far more than mind, morals or manners; And the King scorns the crowd, And his nobles are prond As the iions that prance on hia banner; Yet yesterday he Took our Julia to tea, While the Queen took the arm of the tanner —ls, Y. Graphic. —Mr. Samuel Sinclair, formerly publisher of tire New York Tribune, was one of the clerks recently discharged from tho New York Custom House. Bam used to be rich—had an income of $30,000 a year —but he went intoepeeulatwa, lost all his money, took a position in the Custom House on & salary of $2,500, and now has lost that. —Gen. Sherman still refuses to take from the Custom-Hause the $300,000 diamond necklace that the Khedive of Egypt gave his daughter on the occasion ot her marriage. The General says he “ hasn’t got money enough to pay State and city taxes” on the necklace, and Fitch doesn’t wish to undertake it on his pay of Lieutenant in the navy. —Elder D. N. Bentley, the pioneer of Methodism in Eastern Connecticut, still i[ves at Norwich, in that State, at the age of ninety-two years, and iH regular attendant at the* church in which he has served for seventy years. In ail church matters he has kepTabreasToTtiie mSC modern innovations, with the exception of pipe organs, which he tenaciously opposes because, as he expresses it, “he does not believe in pumping praises up to God.”

—Gov. Carroll, of Maryland, was married a month ago to Mlsa Thompson, two of whose sisters were already married to two brothers of the Governor, and now his only single brother is engaged to his wife's only single sister. This is the way the Carroll boys have of gobbling up all the Thompson girls, or the Thompson girls have of gobbling up ail the Carroll boys, or both havo of gobbling up one another, says the Pittsburgh Commercial ■ -u. —Lucy Hooper, in describing the farewell dinner to Minister Washburne in Paris, says: "A feature of the dinner was a fine Western ham, boiled and sliced in American fashion, and served cold with the salad. Like Tennyson’s ‘ dusky Joaf,’ ‘it smelt of homo,’ or rather tasted of it, being the very ideal of a ham—tender, savory and not too salt—such a bam as one may pine for in vain amid all the , delicacies of Paris, unless some charitable son! on the other side of the Atlantic sends one Mross.” No wonder Lucy’s heart turned fondly toward her home, for hap, pily this appetizing viand may be found here in every ham-let in the land. “ No,” she said, and the wrinkles in her face smoothed out pleasantly. “ No, I do not remember tne last Mwenteenyear locusts. I Was an infant then.”— Metnirk OaU.