Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1879 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Lockyer says educated men “hardly ever” use the word “scientist.” —Mr. Georgo S. Vest, the new Senator from Missouri, is the shortest man in the United States Senate. —Senator Booth, of California, a bachelor some fifty years old, is said to be engaged to a young widow in Washington. —Wesley W. Bishop, the Norwich (Conn.) poisoner, is in so poor health that he may die before a verdict in liis case is given. . —The eldest ex-Representative of Congress living is Mr. Artomus Hale, of Bridgewater, Mass., who is ninetysix years old. —The wife of Gen. Sherman thinks that Roman Catholic women should assume the task of paying Archbishop Purcell’s debts. —Mr. J. Milton Turner (colored), ex-United States Minister to Liberia, is lecturing against the emigration to Africa of his race. —A writer in the Boston Herald says that Alcott, of Concord, is a muddy Plato and that he is very indolent, especially in house-cleaning time when there are bureaus to move. —Gen. Robert C. Schenck, ex-Minis-ter to England, has received the largest payment yet made under the Arrears-of-Pensions act—s4,62s. For a wound in the hand he has been receiving a pension of thirty dollars a month. —The mechanical legend that “ the best motive is a locomotive” was successfully illustrated by tho late Matthew Baird, of Philadelphia, who by the making of locomotives amassed a fortune of $1,156,000, which passes into the hands of his widow, ten children and two grandchildren. —The physicians are making a strenuous effort to save Elliott, the prize fighter, whose ribs were broken in the “discussion” with Dwyer. It is not that he is regarded as particularly worth savThg, but fears arc entertained that if he were to die it might interfere with Dwyer’s project of inviting some other brute to stand up and have his ribs broken. There are meddlers in the world who would have Dwyer arrested on a charge of manslaughter if Elliott should fail to recover .—Detroit Free Press.