Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1879 — ODDS AND ENDS. [ARTICLE]

ODDS AND ENDS.

THBpeopieof Kalamazoo dfolike to be eaM Kalamazulo*. A Liverpool man baa died from a bite on the linger inflicted by a drunken woman. ] , One millioo pereons in the United States are dependent on the railway* for support. Cincinnati is the greatest sheep market in America. In July 108,000 head were received. It cost considerably over $6,000 apiece to convert live Jews by the Scotch mission* last year. Queen Victoria has received the twenty-five pound salmon caught by Princess Louise, in Canada.

Znto-U-Zuio, the Chinese giant, who is eight feet high, and twenty-right years old, is now on exhibition at the gt. Petersburg zoological garden. Notwithstanding the heavy importation of American meat into England, beef is higher in the London market than it was five years ago. The trustees of the Metropolitan M. E. Church, Washiugton, of whom General Grant to one, have been sued for a debt hanging over the church.

A mam in Parma, N. Y., has been hr nged in effigy by the village boys for whipping his girl who accepted a nice young man whom he did not admire. The New York Tribune offers an amendment to the constitution'providing for the appointment of a receiver for States that do not pay their debts. * A nun has been dismissed from a convent at Sprague for allowing her father to remain in her eeU over night, no filial relationship being recognized bv the authorities.

The girls’ base-ball club is having a lively time down east. The spectators tease them unmercifully; sometimes trip them up as they run, and even seize and kiss them. The California papers are publishing a report of a game of poker between Tony Pastor and George Thatcher and two Chinamen, in which the latter won SIOO from Tony and his partner. The London Echo calls the completion of the jetties, by which vessels can caary grain from the West to England via New Orleans, “another nail in the coffin of the English farmer.” Last wee Ira tramp about thirty-five years of age, walked into a tavern at Tremont, Hchuykill county, and called for beer. The landlady, a buxom widow of fifty, with silver threads amc ng the gold, found her affinity in the stranger and a justice of the peace made her Mrs. Tramp four hours afterward. He now bosses the ranche. i i About 100 peasants are exploring for the treasures of Ivan the Terrible, hurried, according to an old document, in a wood.bet ween Solowizy and Borzy, in the Russian Province of Smolensk. Two gold horse shoes have been found, but a gold cross weighing thirty-three kilogrammes, and sacks full of coin to the value of 48,000,000 rubles, have yet to be discovered. A sixteen year old boy at Sloan eloped with a widow forty years old, and after being married in Missouri, returned home. The bnd«f is the mother of five children, the oldest being only two years younger/ than his step-lather. Thirty-two tramps stripped to the skin took- possession of i Humboldt Well, a small Nevada milting town, and announced that they were going to sack the town, but a squad of mounted miners from a neighboring gulch rode down on them and whipped them with riding whips. They took to the hills and have been peaceably iudined since.