Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1878 — PERSONAL AND LITBRABY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITBRABY.

—ln letting Stanley discover Interior Africa tin! sura of SIOO,OOO has been expended. —Editor Samuel Bowles says: ‘‘Nothing is th« matter with mo but thirty!five years of hard work.” —Dricsbach, the lion-tamer, died on his Ohio farm, lately, a poor but contented man of seventy years. —Farjeon has made more notoriety from marrying the daughter of Joe Jefferson than from} writing books. —Flood and O’Brien, of bonanza fame, live in unpretentious style in San Francisoo. O’Brien is a bachelor. —ln writing for Canadian papers you have to nut au in your colour. They don’t mind a little extra labour over there, either. President Hayes’ annual message con* tained 13,000 words. It was telegraphedfrom Washington to Philadelphia and other points in forty-five minutes. r—Burton, the comedian, used to refresh himself by going into a compos-ing-room and setting up a stickful! of matter, to remind him of early days. —Senator Hamlin is the oldest member of the United States Senate. He is sixty-eight. The youngest member is Senator Dorsey, of Arkansas, who is thirty-five. —Why do papers speak of America’s poet as Mr. Longfellow. The “ Mr.” adds no honor to nis name. Who would say “Mr.” Milton, or “Mr.” Homer? — Exchange. —Representative Gilbert C. Walker, of- the Richmond (Va.) District, announces his intention to retire from public life at the close of his present term in Congress. -- —The health of Elihu Burritt, of New Britain, Conn., the “learned blacksmith,” is quite precarious, and he has had several hemorrhages within a few days past. —President Porter and the Rev. Dr. Bacon are to have chairs made out of the largest elm in New Haven, which has just been cut down. It was nearly 162 years old, and was planted by the Rev* Joseph Noyes. —Matt Carpenter is the most brilliant pleader now before the United States Supreme Court, and is making there an income of $50,000 to $60,000 a year. Sidney Bartlett, of Boston, is at the head of the Supreme Court Bar. Senator Edmunds stands next. Ben Butler, David Dudley Field and Philip Phillips, of Alabama, are other prominent practitioners. — Chicago Tribune. —Benjamin Mott died recently, in Alburg, Vt. He was an ardent sympathizer with the French-Canadian rebels in 1837-8, and when he left home to join their forces, his wife, who knew nothing of his intentions, bade him bring home a pound of tea. At a fight next day ho was made prisoner by the British, and shortly after condemned to death, a sentence commuted to transportation to Van Dieman’s Land. He was released in 1846 and enabled to return homer Like a dutiful husband, he did not, forget the tea, but, entering his house after an eight years’ absence, placed a package on the table and said to his 'wiferwho-had failed to recognize ■him. ‘JLMother. here’s that tea.” 7;