Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1877 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—William Lloyd Garrison is remarkable for his youthful appearance in his old age. A writer in a Liverpool paper says: “No one would take him to be in his seventy- thi-d year. He is one of the youngest septuagenarians I ever saw.” —“ Lou ” Hubbell, “ the strong man of the world,” once well known in the circus arena, is in the Poor-House of Putnam County. In his time he could hold back two yoke of oxen, and support a weight of 1,800 pounds resting on his arched hands and feet, with his stomach upward.— N. T. World. —Mr. George Grennell, of Greenfield, Mass., now ninety years old, the firet Presi dent of the Troy & Greenfield Railroad Company, and who stuck the first spade into Hoosac Mountain, made his first trip through the Hoosac Tunnel, the other day. He went through with his family by special invitation of the railroad managers. —King Alfonso of Spain has welcomed Minister Lowell. After the first embrace, the Kine said in broken English: “ Yaas, Mseer, Yer Highness—l hear off you so mooch. Craaate noeet! Write pooty grrrand, lofely: ‘ Zekel creep, up quite onbeknown’—hal I—vot you sayln’oublier pas—l remember him!” And Hosea Biglow put his hat gently over his face and said, in a faltering voice, "And even that is not my best, Yer Majesty!”— N Y. Graphic. —Mr. George William Curtis writing of official precedence inhis ‘‘Easy Chair,” saysA • Senator gave a dinner, and when the moment arrived, he turned 1.0 the senior Senator of the United Slates, who was present, and asked him to hand out the lady of the house. 1 But 1 see the "Secretary of State,’ replied the senior. ‘No guest in my house takes precedence of the senior member of the body that makes Secretaries of State,’ was the lofty reply.” —An amusing incident of the reception of the Presidential party by llie young ladies at Rutland. Vt., is related by the Boston newspapers. As the story goes, they arranged themselves in line, with boqueta in their hands, ready to throw them upon the President. Being in some doubt when the great men moved along, as to the proper person on whom to bestow their honors, they very naturally took the best-look-intr man in the party for the President, and bestowed their favors accordingly. In consequence, Gov. Vain Zandt was almost smothered with roses, and had to beg Mrs. Hayes to set the matter right. She did not care, however, to interfere, and so the fun went on.

—The story that Moulton is financially embarrrassed, and that Tilton offered to loan him several thousands of dollars, is going its rounds in spite of the contradiction it got in the Brooklyn Enq'e, where it first appeared. The fact is that Mr. Tilton has not offered to loan Moulton thousands of dollars, for two excellent rc asons: First, lie bad not the money to loan; and second, Moulton is not financially embarrassed. and does not need to borrow mdney. The tale was manufactured out of an incidental remark which bore about as close a relation to the finished story as the original rib said to have been taken from the side of Adam bore to Eve.— N. Y. Exprats. —One of the largest diamonds ever found in the South African fields belongs to Miss Schreiner, a tempeiance preacher. It weighs 288 carats and is called the “ Faith Diamond.” It is said that one of her brothers would not become a Good Templar on any consideration unless he found a rare big stone. Miss Schreiner finding all ordinary means of converting him to Good Templar principles in vain, at last prayed that be might find a large diamond. Soon after the monster gem was unearthed, and the brother, who was a partner in the claim property, was as good as his word. He became, and is still, a consistent Good Tempiar. Local merchants have offered SIOO,OOO for the stone. The lady is an enthusiastic temperance advocate, and preaches with wonderful ability. ■ ■■ ■ nm It is essentially effeminate to have no opinions, but to abound in convictions.