Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1878 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—On the 28th of May Andrew Johnson's monument will be unveiled. —A large depositor of the broken Reading fra.) bank, who lives in Cheater, Pa., aid not learn until a few days ago that the bank had failed, although the disaster occurred last November. —The Widow Oliver, through her attorney, has filed a document in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, demanding that ex-Senator earner 01 shall produce before the court all the letters which he has received from her. —When Mr. Anthony Trollope was a very young man be applied for advice to a distinguished person and asked how he might best “succeed in literature." The reply was characteristic: “ Fix yourself to your chair with a bit of cobbler’s wax! I ’ in other words, “ stick to work.” —Not long before Ben Wade’s last sickness he received a letter from Reading, Vt., saying that a little boy there had been named “ Wade” in his honor. He acknowledged the courtesy by writing the lad a letter, which, however, went to the Dead Letter Office through misdirection, and was returned to Jefferson, Ohio, after the ex-Senator’s death. Mrs. Wade will send It to the boy, with a photograph of her late husband. —A naturalist visited the Kanin Peninsula in Northern Russia, last summer, to make natural history collections, and also to study the peculiarities of the Samoyede inhabitants of that region. These primitive people took alarm at his proceedings, especially when he attempted to measure their heads, and, believing that ho had some sinister design toward them, they marched with their reindeer far into the interior of the peninsula, taking the enterprising man of science with them. He was finally rescued by some fishermen, but he lost all the insects he had collected, as the Samoyedes drank up the alcohol in which they were preserved.— Dr. Foote's Health Monthly.

—Hathaway, the notorious swindler at Fall River, in Massachusetts, has been so secretive during his career of crime that his own brother did not dream of anything wrong, and six weeks ago bought some shares of the ruined mills, for which he paid SIOO each. Hathaway’s best friends suffer most. A railroad conductor was asked by him to purchase some stock, with the assurance that he would not be obliged to pay in anything, for the dividends would pay for the stock in time. The conductor said he did not do business in that way, but was surprised a short time afterward to receive a notice that the first 10 per centum assessment on SI,OOO worth of stock was then due.— N. Y. Evening Post. —Ms. Edison, as a young telegraph operator at Memphis, was* known tor the quaint drawings with which, in odd leisure moments, he illustrated the Southern press reports. One habit was to convert the tails of his g’s and y’s into faces, with the most ludicrous expressions imaginable. Another habit was to draw a railroad curve around a hill with a train of cars at full speed; on the first car a T, on the second Y, and so on until Tyler, the signature to the report, was spelled out, and on the last car, barely perceptible around the curve, was “30,” or finis. This continued for some time, until a Memphis editor published a paragraph praising in the highest terms the beauty of the sketches, but objecting to them on the ground that the printers took up too much time in admiring them, and in trying to find appropriate cuts to represent them. This was the last of the “ illustrated press reports,” as Edison was exceedingly sensitive. Chicago Tribune.