Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1882 — Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS. Cholera in Japan. . Paris has 1,348 journals. Oscar Wilde is in Texas. v Minnie Hauk is at Paris. Vermont has 36,000 farms. Italy has 28,000,000 people. John Kelly is going 'abroad. Blaine is worth $10,000,000. Brigandage is rife in Chile. L. Danenhower will retire. Boston city debt is $40,163,312. St Louis has 30 kindergartens. Chicago has a building boom. St. Louis has 175,060 Germans. Senator Windom was a tailor. Mary Anderson is a catholie. Chinese silk crop tea failure. Senator Cameron writes poetry. Tennyson’s eyesight is failing. lowa boasts of 500 creameries. Philadelphia likes Zola’s books. Danenhower is going to lecture. There are 4,300 saloons in lowa. Langtry tickets will come high. ' Business failures last week, 95. Garibaldi was a carpet-bagger. Eli Perkins is lying in Oregon. Key West has turtle-egg soup. Epidemic cholera at Hong Kong. Magnolia white is the latest tint. Dalton Tenn., has a lady dentist. Still 182 suspects in Irish prisons. Envelopes were first used in 1839. Col. Ingersoll is writing a drama. Thurlow Weeds is entirely blind. Long finger-nails are fashonable. Vanderbilt’ is worth $300,000,000. Des Moines, lowa, has 2,000 dogs. It is time for sea serpent stories. Joe Jefferson is fishing in Maine. Italy wants a world’s fair in 1887. Cardinal Newman plays the violin. Number of horses in Ohio, 736,478. Casanave has gone into bankruptcy. Queen Victoria weighs 200 pounds. Louis Blanc is an incurable invalid. Parson Newman is dangerously ill. Bice is a half a cent a lb. in China. Mrs. Burnett is writing a new play. Mr. Gough is lecturing in Georgia. First horse railroad built in 1826. Joachin Raff, the composer is dead. Mrs. A. T. Stewart is at Saratoga. The sultan of Morocco has 364 wiqss Boston has a freight handlers strike. They call Oscar “Colonel” in Texas. Georgia has new flour this season. Illinois has no state indebtedness. Mrs. Wendell Phillips is an invalid. First iron ship waß built in 1830. Wilkie Collins is writing novel. California has four woman lawyers. First steel pen was made in 1833. Anesthesia was discovered in 1844. The Labor strikes are playing out. Very plain skirts are in high favor. Illinois harvest hands get $3 a day*

Black small-pox raging at Mazatlan. Paris is soon to have a crystal palace. Eugene Hale has been made an LL D. First air pump was made in 1664. Vermont has a population of 432,286. Barah Bernhardt is learning fencing. Louisiana will shut down on lotteries. Sandusky bay has been stocked with eels. The G. A. R. numbers 100,000 members. The first lucifer match was made in 1829. lowa has laid 207 mils of rail this year. King Cetewayo is soon to visit England. Tom Thumb is a successful fisherman. Mrs. Gen. Hancock is at Saratoga. Palatka, Fla., is to have artesian wells. » The captain of the Scito has gone crazy. Peach canneries pare peaches by steam. Susgin B. Anthony will lecture in Texas: Whitelaw Reid has gone to California. De Lesseps is in Egypt watching things. John Dillon will star the West next season. Aimee will sail for this country in August. Joe Cook will be in this country next fall.

SELECTED NISCELLANY.

A man is only as old as he leels. Oh, keep me innocent, make others great A man’s life is in an appendix to his heart. ' > Not work, but worry, makes havoc of health. Men make laws—women make manners. A man can be an honest man in any honest work. Love can gather hope from a marvelous little thing. Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. God created the coquette as soon as he had made the fool. Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from impatience, When you meet a heart that is true, don’t be afraid to trust it. An obstinate man does not hold opinions; they hold him. One is alone in a crowd when one suffers, or when one loves. He who wants to do a good deal of good at once will never do any. Some men in marriage seek company rather than a companion. That which is bitter to be endured may be sweet to be remembered. 11l fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. Flowers that come from a loved hand are more prized than diamonds. We finish by excusing our faults, but we always blush at our blunders. The world is satisfied with words; few care to dive beneath the surface. The noble passion, true love, contains all the elements of self-sacrifice. When was a man ever weak that the devil did not charge down up n him? Men often persevere in loving those who do not love them; women stop at once. Eternity is long enough to make up for the ills of our brief troubled life here.

The whole of our life depends upon the persons with whom we live familiarly. A womans friendship is, as a rule, the legacy of love or the alms of indifference. Pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion. Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream. Envy is a vice which keeps no holiday, but is always in the wheel, and working its own disquiet. True goodness is like the glowworm, it shines most when no eyes save those of heaven are upon it. We do love beauty at first sight; and we do cease to love it if it is not accompanied by amiable qualities. The dependence of the mind on the senses is seen in the fact that the deaf and dumb are apt to be stupid. Nature has given us two ears and but one tongue, in order that we may repeat but one-half of what we hear. He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. Platonic love is like a march out in time of peace; there is much music and a good deal of dust,but no danger. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. Give net reins to your inflamed passions; take time and a little delay ; impetuosity manages all things badly. A new thought may be false; if it is it will pass away. When the new truth hasacome to life it bursts the old husks. >, Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. • The son of an emir had red hair, of which he was ashamed, and wished to dye it, but his father said, "Nay, my son; better so live that fathers shall wish their sons had red hair.” To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself. Thus, earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it a savor of omnipotence. Never compare thy condition with those above tnee; but to secure thy content, look upon those thousands with whom thou wouldst not, for thy interest, change thy fortune and condition. "Employment so certainly produces cheerfulness,” old Bishop Hall used to say, "that I have known a man to come home in high spirits from a funeral because he had had the management of it.” The conditions of success are these: First, work; second, concentration; third, fitness. Labor is the genius which changes the ugliness of the world into beauty; that turns thy greatest curse imo a blessinp. Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm ;it is the real allegory of the luted Orpheus; it moves stones; ic charms brutes, unthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

FOR THE CHILDREN. RATTLE OF THE BONES, How mux bones in the human face? Fourteen, when they’re all in place. How many bones in the human head? Eight, my child, as I’re often said. How many bones in the human eart Three in each, as they help to hear. How many bones In the human spine! Twenty-six, like a climbing vine. How many bones in the human chest? Twenty-four ribs and two of the rest. How many bones the shoulders bind! Two in each, one before, one behind. Hew many bones in the human arm? In each arm one; two in each forearm. 1 How many bones in the human wrist? Eight in each, if none are missed. How many bones in the palm of the hand? Five in each; as in the palms were pat. How many bones in the lingers ten? Twenty-eight, and by joints they bend. How many bones in the human hip? One in each, like a dish they dip. How many bones in the human thigh? One in each—and deep they lie. How many bones in the human knees? One in each—the knee-pan, please. How many bones in the leg from the knee? Two in each—we can plainly see. How many bones in the ankle strong? Seven in eaoh—but none are long. How many bones in the ball of the foot? Five in each; as the palms are put. How many bones in the toes half-a-score? Twenty-eight, and there are no more. And now, altogether, these may fix, And they count in the body two hundred and six. And then we, have in the human mouth, Of upper and under, thirty-two teeth. And we now and then have a bone I should think, That forms on a joint, or to fill up a clunk. A sesamoid bone, or a Woman we call, And now we may rest, for we’ve told them all. —[Mother Truth’s Melodies.

STORY OF A BLACK BEAR.

The following is an incident whioh recently occurred in Michigan, where a bear of this species abducted a little girl about three years old, not with any desire to harm tbe child, but through a strange kind of affection., Mr. Henry Flynn, the father of the child, lives in a sparse-ly settled part of the country, about forty miles west of Ludington, Mich., and from him this account has been derived. It appears that he started one morning to take a horse to pasture, about two miles distant from the nouse, and as his little girl seemed anxious to go,he Irnt her upon the horse’s back, and et her ride a short distance, perhaps forty rods from the house, where he Eut her down and tola her to run ome. He noticed that she continued standing where he left her, and on looking back, after going a little farther, saw her playing in the sand. He soc n passed out of sight and was gone about an hour, expecting, gs course, that the child would return to th« house after playing a few moments. On returning home, he made Inquiry about her of its mother, who said she had not seen her, and supposed he had taken her along with him. On going to the spot where he left her he saw huge bear-tracks in the sand, and at once came to the conclusion that the child had been carried off by the bear. The family immediately made search through the forest, which was grown up to almost a j ungle, rendering their search very slow. All day these arxious parents searched for some trace of their child; nor did they stop when darkness came on, but remained in the woods, calling the lost one by her name. Morning came, and their search was fruitless. A couple of gentlemen looking at land came to the house, and being informed of the circumstances, immediately set out to find her. The gentlemen wandered about, and as they were passing a swamp spot where the undergrowth was thick, called the child, or else they were talking loud, when one of them heard her voice. He then called her by name, and told her to come out of the bushes. She replied that the bear would not let her, The men then crept through the brush, and when near the spot where she and the bear were, they heard a splash in the water. which the child said was the bear. On going to her, they found her standing upon a log, extending about half way across tbe river. The bear had undertaken to crots the river on the log, and being closely pursued, left the child and swam away. She had received some scratches about the face, arms and legs, and her clothes were almost torn from her body; but the bear had not bitten her to hurt her, only the marks of his teeth being found on her back, where, in taking hold of her clothes to carry her, he had taken the fle-h also. The little one says the bear would put her down occasionally to rest, and would put his nose up to her face, when she would slap him; and the bear would hang his head by her side, and purr and rub against her like a cat. The men asked her if she was cold in the night, and she told them the old bear lay down beside he , and Eut his "arms” around her, and kept er warm, though she did not like his long hair. She was taken home to her parents.—Chatterbox.

HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

Tin-Wedding Cake.—Rub one oup of butter and three of sugar to a cream; add one cap of milk,four cups of flour, five eggs, one teaspoonful of cream tartar, half teaspoonful of soda, one-fourth pound of citron. This makes two loaves. Graham cookies are good at lunoh with a cup of tea. Take two oups of sugar, one cup of sour cream, half a teaspoonful or soda: mix quickly, roll rather thin, and bake in a moderate oven. Possibly the inexperienced ccok needs to be told that Graham flour needs to be cooked longer than wheat flour. Haricot Beaks.— Soak half a pint of the small white beans over night in just enough cold water to oover them; the next day boil two hours, strain and put in a pie-dish with onehall ounce of butter, a teaspoonful of finely-ohopped parseiy. previously fried; cover with slices of raw bacon, and bake a quarter of an hour. Antidote for Ivy Poisoning.—Bathe the parts affected freely with spirits of nitre. If the blisters be broken, so as to allow the nitre to penetrate the cutiele f more than a single application is rarely necessary, and even where it is only applied to the surface of the skin three or four times a duy, there is rarely a trace of the poison left next morning. Scalloped Lobster.— Chop the meat of a boiled lobster the same as for a salad; butter a dish, put in a little lobster, then some bread-orumbs, a little pepper and mace or nutmeg, then more lobster, bread-crumbs, pepper and mace. Bake fifteen minutes; pour some mayonnaise dressing on it, and send immediately to table. Then stir in the dressing. Rasberry Roman Punch.—-To one quart of water add one pound and a quarter of loaf sugar. Take a gill measure and pour in some French brandy, peach brandy and Jamaica rum about the same quantity of each until it is foil and add it to the water, with half a pint of rasDberry juice and the grated rind and juice of two lemons. Stir all well together and freeze like ice-cream. White-Mountain CAKB.-One cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter, onehalf cup of sweet milk, one-half cup of corn-starch, one cup of flour, the whites of six eggs, a little vanilla,two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder. ■ ake in layers. Frosting for above—Take the whites of five eggs, twenty tablespoons sifted sugar beaten very light; a little vanilla. Spread between layers and outside of cake. A sauce which is very popular with those whose taste is educated to like a good deal of oil with salads is made thus: Beat the yelk of two or three eggs (the number to be determined by the quantity of salad), to these add as much oil as the eggs will hold without separating, season to suit your taste with mustard, sugar, pepper, salt and vinegar. This dressing is delicious with all kinds of salad.

Haqout op Veal,— Take the breast and neck of veal, put into a saucepan six cloves, some onions, three blades mace, a few pieces lemon-peel, a teaspoonful sweet maijoram and a little pepper; tie in a cloth and pour on water to cover it. Boil till the bones will slip out, take up the meat and boil the bones in the liquor, put the meat into it and boil till tender, add an ounce of butter, a glass of white wine, thicken it with flour and serve it with the meat and force-meat balls. A rich citron cake is made of the whites of twelve eggs, two cnps of bucter, four cups of sugar, four and a half cups of flour, half a cup of sweet milk, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, and one pound of citron cut in thin and small slices. This makes one a very large cake or two medium sized ones, and, unless you have an excellent oven in which you can regulate the heat perfectly, it is better to bike in two tins than one. If one tin is used, choose one with a funnel or spout in the center. This does away with the danger of burnt edges and a raw center to the cake. Scalloped Cauliflower. Choose a cauliflower of medium size, boil it in twenty minutes. Put into a saucepan one ounce of butter, half a gill of milk and one ounce of breadcrumbs. Add cayenne and salt to taste, and stir till the bread has absorbed the milk and butter. Beat an egg and add this to the sauce, but be sure that it does not simmer after tbe egg bas been added. Butter a flat tin dish, take off the fine leaves of the cauliflower and place them all round on it; break up the flower carefully and lay in the centre, making it as high as possible; pour the sauce over that,sprinkle a few bread-crumbs on the top, and bake ten minutes. Ginger Beer—A healthful t-ummer drink. Take three-quarters of a pound of white sugar, one ounce of cream of tartar, one ounce of ginger and the juice and grated rind of one lemon. Put these all together in a jar, and pour over it all four quarts of boiling water; let it stand until it is luke-warm; then add one tablespooful of fresh yeast, and nearly one tablespoonful of wintergreen, or of sassafras; let this stand for twenty four hours, then put in bottles, cork tightly, and seal; it will be ready for use'na few days. Glover beer is made of two pounds of white sugar, two ounces of tartaric acid, three eggs; into the whites of the eggs beat a half a cup of flour: flavor with half an ounce of the essence of wintergreen or of lemon; put in bottles and keep in a cool place. When you wish to haVe a refreshing drink, take two tablespoon fuls of this syrup and a quarter of a teaspoonful of soda, and add to ono tumbler of cold water stir It vigorously, and then drink.

ALL SORTS OF JORES.

Disproportion: “Btrawberry shortoato?’» remarked Bogg, inquiringly, ashegasedat the meagre array of fruit between the thick crusts; “yes, I should say so—a good many strawberries short”; Principals, not men: “Yes,” says the railway magnate, “I suppose it is hard upon the freight handlers to work for a dollar and a quartet a day, but you know it is principals, not men, that we must look after.” A question of wind: Barber to customer, who, awaiting his turn to be shaved, is fanning himself vigorously wi ,tha oopy of the New York Herald ‘There are plenty of fans hying around tbe shop. Customer—“ Because there’s more wind in this paper.” Too frisky: A famous cheese-maker ordered piotures of his produot from a Paris photographer. On seeing the proof, which really was very bad, he said: “This won’t do. Confound Sou, my oheese never looked like iat.” “Ah, sir,” said the photographer “but, you see, it moved.” A ollnoher: Before the oolored folks broke up their debating society, this question was up for debate: “Am fire more useful dan iron ?” The affirmative would have gained it had not a sable member on the other side thrown this bombshell: “Es it hadn’t been fer iron de white folks would er bin lioken’ de niggers tel yit.” With Grant: “I was with Grant,” said the bareheaded stranger at Long Branch.” “Ah, interrupted a kina man, “you are a veteran of the late war ana need money to buy a loaf of bread.” “No; no,” continued the stranger. “I was with Grant. He was pulled out of the wrecked car first and, oonfound him, he walked oft with my hat.” Only her husband: “Mrs. McCoble. an Austin lady, rebuked her oolored oook, Matilda Snowball, in the following words: When I hired you you said you didn’t have any male friends and now I find a man in the kitchen half the time.” “Lor bress your soul, he ain’t no male friend of mine.’ “Whole he, then?” “He am only my husband.”

The dog and the baby: Mrs. Van Rennselaer—"Now, are you sure you have all the needs for the journey ? His cup and his pillow, his saucer for milk and the blsouit?” Maid—’ Oui, madame. (And then with a relapse into brogue and some anxiety) An’ how about the baby, mum?” Mrs. Van R.—"Oh, her father has her. It is as much as I can do to look after Bijou.” Art in the West: Art, as it finds expression in the columns of Western newspapers, is sometimes confusing. "Mother.” asked a pupil of an lowa Jmbiio school, picking up a country ournal and pointing to an engraving that covered the greater part of tbe front page, "is that map of the moon ? ’ ’ "No,my child,” she responded. "That is a picture of Gulteau’s execution. 11 Unsatisfactory arithmetic: Parson —"I wish to complain, Mrs. Dlggins, of the conduct of your daughter at the Sunday school to-day; it was rude to the extreme.” Mrs. D.—"Ah, it’s what they taches her at thattheer board school as dun it; yesterday she came home and she says: 'Mother, they are a-taohing of me vulgar fraxshuns.’ What can you expect after that, sir?” Acrobatic: A news item says that the best female circus rider in Russia is Dounedretisky, who "turns a double somersault through a hoop and carries her name, which is painted in the centre, along with her.” To turn a double somersault through a hoop may not be a very remarkable feat, but to get her name through without knocking off some of its corners is certainly an astonishing performance. A comedown: Lady customer—- " What are the strawberries to-day ?” Tradesman, who thinks he has a grand order—" Two shillings a basket, madam.” Lady customer—" And what are the beans ?” Tradesman—" Three and-six the bundle, madam,” Lady customer—" Well, aheml I like parsley when it’s fresh, so you cap Bend a bit every day when it comes to a pennyworth just put it down to me. Tableau. A sweet girl: They were looking at the painMng. "It's perfectly lovely,” said she; "but what makes tbe animals look so queer ? They don’t look natural one bit.” "Oh,” said he; "they look right a little way off. They are fore-shortened, you know.” ‘Yes,’ she replied; "they do look short, but there aren’t four of them, George; at least I can see but three.” George says Clara don’t know much about art, but she is such a sweet girl. Righteous indignation: It was at a circus, and Herr Signor Von D. Smitbjonesky was going through his thrilling act In the cage of live lions, when suddenly one of the leasts sprang upon him and took a generous bite out of his leg. Intense excitement, in the midst of which a pious woman is heard exclaiming, "Come, let us get out of this Sodom before the centre-pole falls and crushes us! Tbe idea of a lion that eats meat on Friday!” Just married: They were raised here in Austin, but she did not know much about gardening; at the same time she did not care to expose her ignorance to h<r husband. They had only been married a short time, when he said: "I notice the asparagus is about ripe—don’t you want to go out Into the garden and get some?” She replied: "I’ll tell you what we will do. We will go out together. You climb up and snake the tree, and I’ll catch them in my apron as they fall.” *