Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1878 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Prof. Arnold, of Rochester, N. Y., denies that tomatoes produce cancer. j—The present .Mrs. Ole Bull is the - second lady that has borne that name, and is an American. - —Senator Christiancy’s health is so poor that he is unable to perform any mental labor, and cannot even answer his correspondents.— N. Y. Evening Post. —Mr. Arnold Hague, a son" of the Rev, Dr. Hague, of BostafirliM been engaged by a Chinese Viceroy to look for minerals in the mountains of Northern China, q . —Mr. W. W. Corcoran, the Washington banker, has presented the State of Louisiana with an historical painting of the Battle of Nbw Orleans, by a celebrated French artist, and costing the stsry of the Yorkshire Post, about go home to dinner with him, is only & piece of imagination. —“A few years ago,” says the Cleveland (Ohio) Leader, “ Mr. W. J. Stillman, the American Consul at Greece, married the daughter pf the Greek Minister at London. She was a woman of the rarest beauty and accomplishments, and the wealth and rank of her father made her a belle in London society. Her marriage with the American diplomat was regarded by her family a mesalliance, and she was .discarded by her father.” * ; —Mr Lewis Swi/t, the Rochester astronomer, who is a hardware merchant in that city, was standing in his shop the other day when several with shelves attached, loaded with iron bars and other nieces of hardware, fell not dangerous wound, i He was standing so that he could see the falling tpass coming toward him' or he must have been killed.