Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1879 — INTERESTING ITEMS [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING ITEMS

Ex-Govxrnor Hubbard refuse* to recognize his daughter, who ran away with his coachman. ' The philantropfets of Boston will give the poor children eight free excursions this season. There is a snowbank seventy-five feet deep and a thousand feet long up in the White Mountains. Mias Martha A. Head, the bride at a recent wedding in Wayne county, Ga., was only ten years old. Her parents were present and gave their approval. Dr. Cummiho, the once famous London preacher, is broken in fortune, health and mind, and at the age of seventy-four has few friends to aid him. A Mr. Sinclair of Muscatine, lowa, awoke in the night and fleeing somebody at his window, blazed away with his revolver and shot his wife who was opening the shutters. . The widow Van Cott is In disrepute at Poughkeepsie, New York. She indignantly returned $36 given to her for . twelve days’ gospel work. She said her services were worth more than $8 per day. Rev.G. R. Scott, of Louisville, kissed a young lady on the way home from a revival meeting, at Boston, Ky., and tried to shoot a couple of Paul Prys who reported on him. Mias Maud Crossland, one of the most beautiful young ladies of Indianola, Texas, after siDging to a select circle of acquaintances, “See that My Grave’s Kept Green,” retired to her room and blew out her brains with a six-shooter. •

Outside of the settled and occupied States and Territories, there are over 724,000,000 acres of land belonging to the nation which have been already surveyed and are open to settlement. There are also more than k l ,000,000,000 acres yet to be surveyed. At a dinner recently given by London University men, the following toast was drank with enthusiasm: “The United States, bounded on the aorth by the aurora borealis, on the south by infinite space, on the east by the procession of the equinoxes, and on the west by the day of judgment.” An old resident of Zululand says that the Zulu king has thus far received no injury at all from the English. His sole wealth lies in his crops and his cattle —he has gathered the former and kept the latter. So ne of his warriors have been killed, but then he loses a certain number every year, either by massacreing them himself or by their flight into Natal. He has gained enormously in arms aud ammunition captured since the war. Prince Victor, sou of the head of the Bonapartes, is descriped as “seventeen years of age, tall, handsome, and straight as a dart, with dark hair and dark eyes, full lips and the Napoleonic nose. His features ifre regular and his hair trained over his forehead and cropped, but somewhat too short to be quite in the prevailing boyish style. He is very high-spirited and rash to a point that gives his friends much anxiety on his account.” THEjcannibalism of the Australian aborigine, is undeniable. But it hasits limitations, The line must be drawn somewhere. A father may not eat the flesh of his child, nor the child that of its father. Yet mothers eat their children, and children their mothers, and >□ other degrees the same horrible custom is followed. The reason assigned for it by the natives is that relatives are thereby enabled to forget deceased will not continue to mourn fortbem too long. A hand of cotton choppers, composed of a dozen women and as many men, have been moving from farm to farm and chopping out the cotton by the day, near Raleigh, N. C. The other day nine of the males struck work, threw down their hces aud swore that the sun was too hot for them, and that they could not bear it. The women held on until the last row >tus chopped out, and then walked off with their wages. A Florida paper says that during he recent dry weather in Manatee ounty, the lower Miaka Lake dried up all but one whole in the middle—a thing never known before—which was quite deep, and the only place In the region where cattle could obtain water. This hole was full of alligators, and, as the stockmen feared their depredations on the cattle, a number of them went there one day and killed 723 alligators, from six to fourteen feet in length. A ran about as unfortunate as the hero of Mark Twain’s extravagant story, who was carried away piecemeal by the doctors, after undergoing a series of extraordinary accidents, to the great grief of the lady to whom he was engaged and who saw her lover gradually melt away, has turned up In lowa. He hurt his knee some thirty years ago, producing an inflammation which never subsided and has troubled him exceedingly at times. Ten years ago he was shot through the breast by some unknown person. Eight years ago he was thrown from a mowing machine and lost his left arm. A year ago he broke his left leg. And now, after suffering from his inflamed knse for years,' the doctors have found it necessary to cut off his right leg.