Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1878 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Brigham Young’s watch recently ; broughts6oo at auctioh.and the watcliguard 9300. - Senator Itandol|>h, of New Jersey, will exhibit at Paris a machine of hiH own invention for digging ditches. —Some one prbnounces tho earliest printed productions of Elizabeth Barrett Browning "pert, flippant and pretentious.” I —^—•—-—s —Dean Swift proposed to tax female beauty, and to leave every lady to rat* her own charms. He said tho tax j would be cheerfully paid, and bo very productive. —Bishop Quinlan!, of Tennessee (Protestant Episcopal), has Imicii elected a member of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain, of which the Enel of Shaftesbury is President. —The salary of Lord Duffcrin as Gov-ernor-General of Canada last year was 948,666. But the cost of maintaining his staff and of his trip to British Columbia brought the sum paid to him by the Province up to 9130,000. —lt is now said that the late Judge Leonard's visit to Cuba was neither for the purpose of investigating the negrostealing stories nor to win a wife. A friend of his declares that he was engaged to bo married to the sister of his late wife, who is now in Europe with his two children.— AT. Y. Evening Post, April Oth. —Edward Wheeler, late of Nashua, N. H., who had all Ms life been a most economical, person, lately astonished everybody by the directions he left for his burial. He had saved 911,000, and directed his executors to spend 90,000 on his funeral, including the cost of fitting up his burial lot. Before his death he nad a gold coffin plate made at a cost of 9100,

—Messrs. Moody and Sankey are entitled to large sums from the sales of their new hymn-books, but have steadily'refused to touch the money, which, in England alone, amounts to 968,000. Hearing of an insinuation that his work was partly for pay, Mr. Moody said, recently: “If you want to attack me, do not attack me there. I have weaknesses, hut they are not in that direction If I had come for money, it would have been in some other work.” —While Theodore Tilton was lecturing in Northtown, Pa., a few evenings ago, tho Court-House bell rang because of a report that a child was lost, and a great many people left the hall. This greatly annoyed the lecturer, and, rubbing one hand across his forehead, he said: “It is within the power of every man to do his duty, as the man that is ringing that bell appears to be doing his, and I hope there may be half as as much fire in my lecture as he seems to be indicating in your city.” A gentleman in the audience volunteered an explanation and the lecture went on. The Newburyport (Mass.) Herald relates the following anecdote of Joaquin Miller: “ A few years ago Mr. Miller came into the Herald office and asked the meaning of the word ‘ cyclades,' pronouncing it in two syllables. He said it * was a line sounding word, and he wanted to use it in a poem he was about to publish. We gave the meaning and the pronunciation, which he did not fancy, whereupon wc suggested ‘ cyclone,’ and sure enough, soon after came out one of his striking poems wherein a cyclone was introduced as occurring in-Oregon.”