Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1879 — ODDS AND ENDS [ARTICLE]

ODDS AND ENDS

,<Jrecjan ladies coant tMir age from their marriage, not from their birth. More snow fell on Motmt Washington the past winter than for forty yean. Newburyport, Mass., is happy over the improved condition of her silver mines. ? Sir Edward and Lady Thornton delight in riding in a canal boat on the Potomac.’ Ancwb, when it is long in coming, is stronger when it comes and the longer kept It is a well-established fact that the 'teJ plant will grow in many of the Routhern States. Tire acreage of the cotton crop in Western Texas is fifty per cent, greater tins year than last. TheT< Christian Union has been sued for sso,o<>»» damages for violation of business agreement. Twigs always attract attention. From babyhood to maturity they are objects! of observation. There are twenty alligators in the Jardin'jdes Plantes in Paris, the largest being over seven feet long. Phosphorescent paper is reported to be wie of the latest novelties. Writing done upon it can be read in the dark. I ThH Silk Association of America rqporti a' good business for last year. The price of raw silk has constantly detained. A lady in .Paris, named Chevassus Clement, has been frequently prosecuted for wearing a nun’s costume,'but she pers.sts in the offense. Tueorchards in Northern Pennsylvania,- which is the greatest fruit raising reigonof the State, never looked mofe promising than now. The city of Rochester is being sued for $1 ,00b damages for tlte destruction, by order of its Board of Health, of rags supposed to be infected with the smallpox. | The ghost of a woman haunts the track of the Kansas Pacific railway at Smoky Hill, Col., and when they try to ruitheV down she doesn't give them a ghost of a chance. Among the speakers of the next • Yale Commencement will be Chun Lung 3 a Chinese member of the class of. 187$, who will deliver an oration on . ‘‘The Chinese in America.” Mosfr of the wines used in England for the holy communion in Roman Catholic churches comes from the vineyards bf English colleges of Libtson and yiilladolid, and is white. An Aryshire cow belonging to the Sears brothers, Elmwood, Conn., gave 386 pofinds of milk in ten days. Sev-'enty-fhur ounces of butter was made rpm the milk drawn in one day; A gruel exchange, noting that a meteorite weighing several hundred poundi fell near Ottawa, says the people for* miles around thought it was the arrivaj of the daily Canada newspaper. Miss C. L. Wolfe, the wealthies single’ woman in the United States, has arrived at Newport, after a tw years’ {trip to Europe. Her residence is in jNew York. She is worth $lO,-000,-oof. . " Hundreds of cold-blooded wretches are putting themselves forward as candidate# for the office of public executioner? in Paris. The bulk of the wouldj-be-neck-choppers are tors and cdachmen. ' In Sumatra, wheu telegraph messages hre delayed pr fail to~ be transmitted, it is because the wires are down or wota’t work as elsewhere, but it is not attributed to storms. Elephants and timers upset the poles, and monkeys breakithe wires by taking gymnastic exercises on them. Central Pacific freight train, No. 6, was(detained one day lasT week at Staton, Nev., for two hours by crickets. The track was covered with them for a distance of three miles, and the boys bad to have the patience of Job while moving the train over such a slippery mass. 1 Thb United StAtes produced 50,000,000 tobs of coal in 1877 in a coal area of 192,000 square miles. Germany, with a coal area of 1,770 squares miles, produced about the same amount, and Great« Britain, with a coal area of ll,9oolsquare miles, produced in the same tear about 135,000 tons. ThR old chimney of the house in which! Washington was born, on the estate of “Wakefield,” in Westmoreland bounty, Virginia, is still standing—all that is left to mark the spot, the tablet erected by Parke Custis in 1815 having crumbled to pieces. It is suggested that an enduring monument be placed upon the spot. According to statistics just published, tnire were 18,738 young men studying at? the twenty German universities during the Winter semester just passed. Qf these, 2,438 were studying theology 15,106 law, and 3,537 medicine, 7,657 being inscribed in the philosophical faculty. Their ages ranged for the most part from 19 to 22 years. A Man bough t.some of the $lO Government certificates at the Cincinnati office,! and missed one after retiring from the window. He oould find t nowhere. “Give me a dollar and I’ll get it for you,” said a boy. The offer was accepted. The boy yanked another urchin out of the line and choked him until be opened his mouth, from which the hidden certificate dropped OUt. i S: A young man with two wooden legs was recently sent io prison in Paris for forgery. He lost his legs by machinery,

and had a pension of $l6O a year from his former employer, but he was rather a fast youth, notwithstanding his defective means of locomotion, and used often to pawn his legs until bis pension came in. Finally he took to forgery, and was sent wheie he will have little occasion for legs. A Kentucky girl and her lover had vainly tried for four years to elope .together. They were Thomas Owen and Miss Kate Sanford, of Milburn.

A few nights ago Miss Kate bravely jumped out of a window. She broke one of the small bones near the ankle, but Tom got away with her, and she was held on her feet while the marriage ceremony was performed by a sympathizing clergyman. Mr. Augustus L. Whiting, member of the New York Coaching Club, was driving in a one-horse carriage at Newport bn Monday, accompanied by his wife abd another lady r when both reins broke and the horse started on a run, dashing down Bellevue avenue at a frightful pace. Mr. Whiting, with remarkable presence of mind, reached over the dashboard, unhitched the traces, and allowed the animal to get clear of the shafts. A new form of disease has become apparent in the heart of a very crowded portion of London. It is a new form of Cyprus fever, and a diagnosis of a recent malignant case shows the patient to be suffering from hallucinations and lowered vitality. The faculty ascribe the disease to impure water,and have given it the name of detephobia, and though it is seldom fatal, the sufferer remains but a shadow of his former self.