Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1879 — ODDS AND ENDS [ARTICLE]

ODDS AND ENDS

AN ancient mound resembling the Aztec mounds of the Mississippi valley has been discovered in Japan. RATTLESNAKE oil sells in New York for $1 an ounce. It is said to be an excellent ointment for the cure of rheumatism. CHEERFULNESS, says a newspaper moralist, is just as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek. A FARM known as Lammermoor, in Essex county, Va., that before the war was valued at $10,000, was sold the other day for $850.

THE metalic casing destined to protect the subterranean cable which is being laid down between Cologne and Metz weighs 60,000 tons. MR. CAIRD, the agricultural statistician, estimates the capital of English landlords at $1,000,000,000, and of English tenants at $2,000,000,000. COLONEL KING, a Texas cattle man, has a fence seventy-five miles long, inclosing about 337 square miles, on which range 110,000 beasts. ACCORDING to Dr. Dean, of Siam, there is in a temple there an idol in human form 117 feet in length, clad in gold from head to foot. ENGLISH capitalists have projected three different railway lines, aggregating 850 miles in length, into the interior of Africa, from points on the east coast.

THE Princess Louise, not liking the paint prepared for some woodwork of er residence at Ottawa, mixed it over with her own hands until she got the tint she wanted. It is seriously asserted by an English physician, as a result of his professional experience, that every healthy person may, with entire safety, make a trial of total abstinence. A LTRIAnow going on in St. Petersburg has led to the disclosure that poor people arrested for not paying their taxes are liable to be beaten with rods steeped in salt water. THE recent fires in the woods on Long Island have bewildered the birds, and in the night time great numbers have flown against the lights of passing vessels and been killed. OF the Cardinals recently created by Pope Leo XIII, the Cardinal Zjgliara is the youngest man now wearing the purple. He is the son of a poor sailor, and is but forty-five years old.

New Hampshire’s manufactures last year amounted to over $96,000,000, among them being $30,588,500 worth of cotton goods, $11,709,000 of boots and shoes, and $9,222,000 of woolens. At the close of the present fiscal year there will be a deficit of nearly $2,250,000 in the revenues of Pennsylvania. That is, the revenues will lack so much of paying State expenses. Revivalist Mitchell sells his portraits to his Tennessee converts, for $1 including a verse of scripture appropriate to the particular case of the purchaser, written on the back of the card. In two of the largest Connecticut manufactories, two of the most successful in the State, the mill-owners have provided books, papers and general reading matter and reading-rooms for their help. The Presbytery of Cork has asked the Irish Presbyterian Assembly that is “the use of instrumental music is warranted by the Scriptures, the Assembly shall take action to prevent continued interference with the scriptural liberty of congregations in the service of praise. At a recent demonstration in Rome against the spread of Protestantism in the Eternal City there was a great exhibition of relics at St. Peter’s, including the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul, and the large piece of the True Cross, a foot long piece of wood, black with age or burning, preserved in a glass jar. An elderly gentleman finds himself at a masked ball set upon by three lively dominos, who finally ask of him: “Oh, is it true you are sixty years old?’’ “Whoever told you so, ladies, told you a no-such-thing,” cries the old gentleman, gallantly. “I’m twenty yea old for each of you—that’s what I am.” | The ice mountain below the American Fall at Niagara has been lessened but little by the hot weather, and still looms up some seventy feet in the air. It is yet quite an effort to climb to the summit, and last week two foolhardy youug ladies, fearing to trust their shoes on the ice, deliberately took off their shoes and stockings and scaled the mountain in their bare feet.

The pastor of the African Methodist Church at Middletown, Conn., visited the museum and menagerie part of a ent show, and was pained to see members of his church going in to see the circus performance. On the following Sunday he refused the communion to these offenders, and all but four persons in the congregation were found to be disqualified. In Ireland there is a scarcity of ministers to such an extent as to prevent the disgraceful crowding of candidates to secure vacant pulpits, which is such a prominent feature of American ministerial work. The demand being somewhat greater than the supply, the ministers can dictate their own terms. Sometimes it happens that one man has three or four church calls. The Belfast Witness regards this state of affairs as ominous for the future of the church.

A novel and interesting wedding took place recently in the court room at Franklin, Ohio. Mr. Ed. Wilson and Mrs. Hettie Danforth were the happy couple. Just ten minutes before Mrs. Danforth was granted a divorce from her husband, Charles Danforth. As soon as the divorce was granted Mr. Wilson stepped forward, took Mrs. Danforth's arm, and the presiding Judge, at their request, made them husband and wife.

The Duke of Medina Coeli, the chief peer and grandee of Spain, has met a sad and early death. He was out with his young wife in the mountains, and accidentally stumbling over his gun, received the contents of both barrels in his body. He lived only three days after. Although only twenty-eight years old, he had been twice married, and his widow, the daughter of the Marquis Torrecilla, is only nineteen. His first wife was the daughter of the Duchess Alba and the niece of the Empress Eugenie.