Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1879 — ODDS AND ENDS. [ARTICLE]

ODDS AND ENDS.

Americans eat more potatoes than any other nation on earth. Albion, N. Y., has a prospect of a colored theological seminary. A Boston belle has two French snails for pets. They live on clover and lettuce. Beer haw supplemented wine on the tables of some of the best Vienna hotels. V * An inmate of the Widows' Home, Allegheny, Pa., is known to be 112 years old. . Germany has just discovered a buried forest in her midst, supposed to be 10,000 years old. The work of assassination is going right on in West Virginia. Tennesse, Kentucky and Texas. The skeleton of a child was recently found in a chimney in London in paper dated three years ago. The choir of one of the colored Catholic churches in Washington fe considered the best at the capital. The armory of New York’s Seventh Regiment will be completed in November. The total cost will l*e $250,000. j . He who makes a wayside tree grow where none grew before furnishes shade and consolation for a tramp with a sun burned chin. l ' Kit Carson, a son of the famous scout, and a very witty and intelligent gerson, it is reported, is making temperance speeches. Mr. J«»seph .Sei.igman, the eminent banker of New' York, began life paiutng canal boats for the late Asa Packer, at the rate of fifty cents a day. j ~

Prince Leopold wishes to marry the Princess Marie of Hanover, to whom his brother, the Duke of Con naught, unsuccessfully proposed. It was recently stated in a Liverpool court that nearly all'“teetotalers” thereabouts indulged in port wine, regarding it as a harmless beverage. During 1878, the American Bible JSociety mode 1,286,958 Bibles, and during the sixty-three years of its existence the society has issued 36,052,160 copies, A North Greenwich (Conu.) hen recently deserted her nest of eggs after setting two weeks, when a cat immediately took possession, and hatched five chickens. A New York letter-writer says: “I saw a man the other day, who a year ago bought $2 worth of cigars daily to giveaway; his lunch now costs him fifteen.cents a day, A Picture has been put on exhibition in Paris, and is to be shown in all the principal ei ties Of Europe, representing the Exhibition of 1878. It covers about 3,000 meters of canvass. Forty-five years ago Paul Dillingham, ex-Governor of Vermont, took a boy into his service to do chores for his board, and allowed him to use his library and attend the - district school. He Is now fifty-five years old and he occupies a seat in the United States Senate. His name is Matt. H. Carpenter.

The distinction Is finely made. An exchange says: “An American gulps down a glass of lager as if he believed his stomach on fire, and a prize depended on a speedy extinguishment. A German lifts the sparkling amber to his lijisand sips as though afraid to impose a too great burden upon so good a friend as his stomach.” - . The Prince of Wales was so tickledwith the rifle shooting of Dr. Carver, the American, before his august presence recently, that he sent him a letter, of compliment, accompanied by a gold horse-shoe scarf-pin, studded with »diamonds, ami having in the center the Prince’s feathers, with minute, colored precious stones in the band of the coronet. • L Americans can sepd wheat to Eur gland and sell it at a profit for less than 4 costs the English to grow it. This fact and several similar oues mean that there is aclyange in store for landed proprietors jin that country. A writer in Macmillan’s Magazine insists that every owner of laud sliall become an absolute freeholder, and that game shall be extirpated as vermin. A. if. Grimke, a colored lawyer of Boston, was united in marriage a few days ago to Sarah E. Stanley, a daughter of a Wisconsin Eoiscopal clergyman of Caucasian blood. Mr. Grimke was a slave in South Carolina, but received a free education since the war, and is a man of the finest literary tastes and qualifications. The happy

couple are assured of the warm friendship of a large circle of friends in the very best ranks of Boston society. A tree 325 feet high, in the neighborhood of Stockton, Cal., has hitherto enjoyed the reputation of being the tallest in the world; hut an official of the Forrest Department in Victoria, Australia, lately measured a fallen eucalyptus in Gippsland, which was 1435 feet long. Another tree of the same species in the Dhndenong district of Victoria, still standing, is estimated at 450 feet. In a dream last week a Middletown (Conn.) man passed through a trial for murder which seemingly lasted three weeks, in which a great many witnesses were examined and eloquent pleas hours long delivered. At last he was convicted and sentenced. While

on the scaffold, protesting his innocence to the last, the trap was sprung; hut the rope broke and he fan away. He was pursued by the people and the police, but he eluded them until nightfall, when he ventured to visit his home. There he found his wife attacked by a gang of ruffians. He killed j' one of them and drove the rest away. Then he awoke and discovered he had been through these terrible ordeals, all this suffering and anguish, and the three weeks’ trial, while sleeping only three minutes. It is stated as a singular fact that not %

one of the Imperial Napoleons has died in France, or on French soil. Napoleon L, the founder of the family, died a prisoner on the British Island of St. Helena, In the South Atlantic Ocean; his son, Napoleon 11., died in Austria; his nephew, Napoleon ITL, died an exile in England;- and now. his grand nephew, the young man whom the French Imperialists have hoped would one day rule France as Napoleon TV., has met his fate at the oint of Zul u spears in Bouth-Africa.