Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1879 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Mr. Tilden weighs only 110 pounds. —The health of Archbishop Purcell is fast failing under his financial troubles. Of late he has been attacked with fainting spells. —President Angell, of Michigan University, says that one of the Professors of Mathematics at that institution, who is known all over the world, went to school only six weeks, and, while the oxen were resting at noon, did his first mathematical work upon a plowshare with a piece of chalk.

—Of the eccentric traits of Mr. Sothern, the actor, this story is told: He objects to his dog forming new acquaintances, so be fastens two very sharp needles to the 'dog’s nose, leaving the ends projecting about an inch. When a strange dog rushes up to “shake noses” with him, he gets a thrust which sends him away howling. —Mr. E- L. Smith, the telegraph manager at Topeka, Kan., who was imprisoned because he refused the State Legislature's demand for copies of messages sent from his office, has received from President Green, of the Western Union Telegraph Company, a letter formally thanking him for his course and inclosing a reward of $250. —Mark Twain went to Paris pn a short self-granted leave of absence from Germany, where he is “studying”, for the wedding of Frank Millet, the painter and war correspondent of the Daily News. His wedding-present was a couple of logs of nre-wood prettily bound together with pink silk and offered as “ the costliest thing I could find in Paris.” ---ThrCbarieston Ncwss-sys that Senator Hampton is improving steadily, but the physicians in attendance upon him agree in the opinion that it would be exceedingly imprudent in him to go at this time to Washington. The same paper is authorized to state that “in case any emergency should arise calling for the voice or vote of Senator Hampton, he will, whatever the cost to himself, go instantly to Washington and be sworn in.” —Adjt. Noble, of the Second Michigan Infantry, lost his sword and his fife at the fight at Knoxville, Tenn., in 1868, and his sister has just recovered the sword after searching for it diligently ever since. It was captured by Capt H. H. Moseley, of an Alabama regiment, who discovered the name of its owner by letters found on his body, and last winter advertised it in a Detroit newspaper. The sister heard ot the advertisement and, addressing Capt Moseley at Marion, Ala., received the lo?t weapon with a very gentlemanly letter from its captor. —The impulsive generosity of Col. Alston, who was murderea in the Georgia State Capitol, a few days ago, is disclosed by the annexed story: A few years ago fib was on a Georgia railroad train bound for Augusta, when a woman with three children, in abject poverty, entered the cars and asked the conductor to pass her and her children without the usual fare, telling him her circumstances, and saying that she would certainly starvq unless she could reach her friends. Of Bourse the oejjductor had to tell her that she would be put off at the next station. Alston heard the story and polled out his purse; out he had not money enough to pay the poor family's fare, and so pawned his watch for the remainder until he could reach Augusta and borrow it. \ I -f; -— y i •. i | Soak good r'adtsh-seed In water for twenty-four hours, then put them in a bag and expose them to the sun. Germination will commence >in a .few hours. The seed must then be sown in a yell-manured hot ; bed and watered occasionally with lukewarm water. Treated in this way, radishes may be grown in a very short tiine.— Exchange.