Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1879 — ODDS AND ENDS [ARTICLE]

ODDS AND ENDS

Senator Blaine has six children., Hiatt floods are reported in New Sooth Wales. The United States has issued more than 4,600 patents on seed ptenters. The running expense of an ordinary liwfiipir train, exclusive of taxes and interest, is about $1 a mile. A Florida recluse owns 160,000 head of cattle, and buries his hoarded wealth in cans on his farm. Tut New York Sun sends up a bitter wail at the high price of lager beer, and stigmatizes it as an outrage. » M Midget Pinafor* Company is on the road, the tallest member of whieh is under thirty inches high.

The Germans are becoming very numerous in Jerusalem, and they are about to establish a quarterly magazine here. All the teachers who accepted appointments under the new educational laws of Belgium have been excommunicated. ; receipts at the New Orleans custom house are increasing on account, it is believed, of the jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi. 1f The Panama canal scheme has been so poorly patronized In New \ ork that the managers will not allow the subhead he found his hearing restored. .

Adolph Richard, of Staten- Island, New York, left a bakesbop heated to 120 degrees, and entered a refrigerator where he died In ten minutes. CaPt. Stone, of Moundsville, W. Va., was buried a few days age in a coffin of mahogany grown from seed planted by himself on his own farm. Lightning does strike twice in the same place sometimes. A large walnut tree on the farm of Alex. Loucke, of York, Pa., has been struck no less than five times in one season. Mrs. Zimmer, of Gloversville, N. Y., was savagely attacked in her carriage by a tame monkey, who bit her arms and face, and on her return she died of nervous prostration, caused by her fright Bonner’s Edwin Forest trotted a full mile last Saturday, in 2:11} on a private track, and Mr. Bonner has promised to give a public exhibition of his powers soon, when a record will be given the wonderful horse.

A Georgia man retired as usual one night near the end of July and dreamed that he was fishing, and on waking up found himself sitting on a stump beside the river with a baited line in his hand, and two fish beside him. A convict has been pardoned from the Illinois penitentiary that he might be able to attend a meeting of heirs in Sweden, September Ist, when a large estate will be divided. His presence will secure him a comfortable fortune. An oil well which had been torpedoed at Kendal Creek, New York, gave out a rumbling sound, followed by a shower of pumice stone and clouds of smoke and steam. A little later oil began to flow, and *an abundant yield has procured out since. A HARkiSBCRG, Pennsylvania, soldier, whose hearing was destroyed in one of the engagements during the war, went bathing a few eveningß ago, and on dipping his head under the water heard a loud report. Raising his thoughtto be imminent,as the Russians are about to cross the Chinese frontier. The main part of the 12,000,000 acres granted to the Union Pacific are in Nebraska. The rapid increase of the cultivation along the road has extended the rain belt, and' added one-third to the arable land of the grant. The following items appear in the accounts of the Russian burgeon General during the Turko-Russian war:

7,445 pounds of quinine; 5,000 pounds of Peruvian bark; 28,000 pounds of castor oil, and 8,000 pounds of chloroform. The quinine cost $36.00 per pound. “Mother Shipton’s Prophecy” 2 that has kept the faint hearted in torment for the past decade was written by an English student only thirty years ago, who afterward confessed the fraud. It was one of the cleverest- deceptions of the times. Great clumpy iron war ships, like he British Thunderer, are fast giving place to light, wieldy little monitors, armed with single guns, and provided with engines capable of driving them at a high rate of speed. The German and Chinese Governments have adopted the small vessels.