Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1879 — ODDS AND ENDS. [ARTICLE]

ODDS AND ENDS.

Cuba* ladies still trim their drew with living fireflies. A halibut weighing 428 pounds was canght the other day at Cape Cod. OBKKMBACKB are at a premium of ooe-foarth of one per cent, in Tomato, Ontario. Herb Kbcpp, the manufoctarer of the cannons known astbeKrappguns, employs more laborers than any other person in the world. / There is a book in circulation in London giving minute descriptions of all mariageable English ladies having An income of £1,206 or over. Bows (Italy) has been startled by a bicycle rsoe between two ladies who both belong to the best society, and are celebrated for their beauty. Gee. Lew Wallace writes that he likes his office of Governor of New Mexfcx), but finds it difficult to keep pesee among the inhabitants. A Texas man has patented a gate for railway crossings which is lowered automatically by passing trains and raised as soon as they have gone by. Savannah has just shipped to Liverpool the largest cargo of rosin ever exported .from this country. It contained 8,650 barrels, worth nearly $40,000. The deepest running stream that is known is the Niagant river, which, just under the lower suspension!) bridge, is 700 feet deep by actual measurement. - Cashier Jumonvillk, of the Canal Bank of New become a defaulter after thirty years of faithful service. His accounts are twenty thousand dollars short. * Worth, the Parisian man milliner, will not make a dress, material supplied by the customer, for less than • S3OO or S4OO, and be has all that he can attend to fit that price. The Princeton authorities have notified the parents of every candidate for the Sophomore class that any* attempt at hazing will be met by prompt and irrevocable dismissal. An Englishman is said to be examining the villages along the Hudson river for a site for a linen mill, which it is proposed to remove from England. The mill is to employ 2,000 men. Three of Miss Hudson’s lovers at Lakey Bend, 111., combined to beat a fourth, and seized him one night as he was going to see her, and threw him into a pond where he drowned. Brigham Young’s grave is entirely neglected, and hardly a spear of grass is growing on it. His seventeen wives and inhumerable children are too busy fighting over his property to look after it

Boarders at the Atlantic City hotels are not permitted to mash mosquitoes on the walls, but must get them down on the floor and choke ’em to death and ring for the porter to draw off the corpse. . _ . Two casks are being built at Cincinnati for the use of the Catawba Wine Company, which will hold 16,000 gallons of wine each. With the exception of the Heidelberg cask, which holds 18,000 gallons, they are the largest in the world. Great attention is being given to the culture of carrier pigeons at the French garrisons, so that they may be used in Lime of siege, and the Minister of War has given fourteen Sevres vases as prizes for the encouragement of their breeding and training. Those whp believe in the theory that Asiatic cholera makes its appearance once in every twelve years, now assert that it may be expected this year in Asia, and that it will then pass to the westward over Europe and Angelica. This year the twelve-year feastof Juggurnaut and Hundwhor takes place, and the cholera, as past experi- - enee shows, has almost invariably followed that festival. James Casev, of New York, was stabbed on Sunday, probably fatally. A Police Captaip asked him who stabbed him. “I know who did it, Captain.” said Mr. Casey, proudly; •*but,l have the grit of the Twentieth * ward and would rather die than squeal.” Have the dime novels any greater hero t£an James Casey? A young elephant was recently brought into the Court of Exchequer, in London. He was accused of frightening a horse, and thereby damaging a young lady contained in the carriage attached thereto, but bis mild and playful behavior in court, where he amused himself by picking hats off the table, convinced everybody that he did not mean to do It, and the case was compromised. The average of mortgages upon the farming lands of France is but 5 per cent. In England it is 58. The United States have but 3,000,000 proprietary agriculturalists. France, with a vastly smaller area, has 6,000,000, 5,000,000 of whom are small farmers. England has but 250,000 land holders, and 12 per cent, only of the people till the soil; the rest are engaged in manufacturing and other pursuits. One million are paupers.