Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1879 — ODDS AND ENDS. [ARTICLE]

ODDS AND ENDS.

Queen Victoria drinks tea out of a saucer. » Thebe are 300,000 Russian exiles in Siberia. The slave trade in Upper Egypt has - been crushed. Th*y have a new postofßce in Texas called Hash. i C anoeing is the latest pastime for English ladies. The milk supply of New York costs 94,000,000 a year. Elizabeth, N. J., has been sued for over $1,515,000. There are 300 brandy distilleries in Middle Tennessee. Robbing stages continues to be a Texas amusement. . Artificial ice in Florida costaabout seventy cents a ton. Chattanooga has a boy orator who is only six years old. Gambling is unusually active in Washington this session. An extensive lead mine lias been discovered near Berne, Tex. f RosEwood is taking the place of black walnut in furniture. There; is one divorce to every ten weddings In Connecticut. , Omaha is building 750 new dwellings and business buildings. Negroes are said to be less liable to color-blindness than whites. Since the war 200,000 negroes have Joined the Methodist Church. The guinea hen is said to be a sovereign remedy for potato bugs. A man living in Henrietta, Tex., has domesticated four buffaloes. In Kansas they now put their wheat crop at a possible 40,000,000 bushels. There are 300,000 seamen employed on the rivers and Lakes of the West. Beans planted between thin rows of potatoes drive away the potato bug. Every State in the Union except Louisiana has a Sunday law of some kind.

The Jewish Times computes the number of Jews over the world to he 6,503,000. A Massachusetts man decides that whep a robin becomes white the cause is disease. ~ { , One hundred and eighty-three cotton mills have been built in the South /since the war. A farmer on the shores of I akeOntaria has had nine acres washed away in twenty years. , A whiter frdm California says the ground-squirrel in that State is the great pest of the farmer. s There is a Justice of the Peace in West Alexander, Va., who has married over 1,400 couples. The Key Stone spouge trade; is on the increase. Seventy vessels and 350 men are engaged in it. Farmers along the Warrior river, Ala., have planted more cotton than any year since the war. London Truth thinks the Swedes are more like Englishmen than any other people in the world. In "Paris and its suburbs tliere are more than 18,000 people who live by rag-picking or rag-selliug. Troy, N. Y., makeass,2so,ooo -worth qf shirts, collars and cuffs annually, be sides her laumlry business. A Boston woman poisoned herself aud died rather than testify against a lady friend accused of arson. A British religious newspaper, The Rock, announces that the surplice is the harbinger of spiritual death. * Fifteen general managers of railways in the United States have salaries of from SIO,OOO to $15,000 per year. Tins country uses up 1,000,000,000 ;*aper bags annually, and several manufacturers report increasing demands. It is said that Mississippi farmers ( are thinkiug of goiug into the corn aud cattle trade aud leaving cotton alone. The destruction of wild beasts and snakes is one of the duties undertaken by the authorities of the East Indies. Houston Tex., has got hi debt $2,000,000, and the tax-payers have voted to resist taxation to pay the interest.

A gentleman in Copiah county, Miss., shipped liis strawberry crop to Chicago and sold it for ten thousand doll are. The last Austrian census shows that 183 men .and 229 women in that Empire have celebrated their own centennials. * * An overseer in Paris became sc en raged at a laborer, that the blood vessels behind his eyes buret and he became blind. A German philosopher says one grain of wheat could be so multiplied in twelve j’eare as to supply all the inhabitants of the earth with food during their lifetime. Wm. Gale, of Cardiff, has just completed at Bradford, England, the feat of walking 2,500 miles in 1,000 consecutive hours. . On Easter Sunday the sound of an organ in public worship in Glasgow Cathedral was heard for the first time in 300 years. There are ten ice companies in N«w York city, and one of them, perhaps the largest in the business, has a stock of 1,000,000 tons. Egyptian ,wheat is attracting attention in California, for the climate is particularly favorable to its growth. It yields enormously. The increased consumption of opium by the working classes in England is attributed by the London Lancet to the hard times. Hannah Deal, a Swedish girl of New York, took nitroos oxide for the extraction of nineteen teeth, and laughed herself insane. Paris having copied the American idea of a college for women, has resolved to introduce the American steamboat on the Seine. The Russian Government incarcerates political prisoners a long time before trying them, and even before making charges against them. The orchards in Northern Pennsyl-

vania, which is the great fruit raising region of the State, never looked more promising than now. A maple tree in full leaf, standing in a large snow-bank, was one of the curiosities of the season at Montgomery, Vermont, the other day. The proposition for an international exposition in Mexico has been virtually abandoned for want of adequate means to carry on the undertaking. 4 John Dunn is handsome and has seventeen wives. Several were presented by Kaffir chiefs, who would ill have brooked rejection of their presents. Hartford has just had a Grand Jury whose average height was 6 feet 1| inches, and average weight was 195 pounds. The tallest was 8 feet 4 inches. 1 The largest bridge ip Europe will be completed next year. It will cross the Volga in the government of Samara, Russia, on the Siberian railroad. Tne river at the point of crossing is soul 1 miles wide. A woman at Hill, N. H., received a visit from her sister last week, it being the first time the two met for sixteen years, although living within four miles of each other.