Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1879 — ODDS AND ENDS [ARTICLE]

ODDS AND ENDS

Cwtywayo forbids the use of liquors In his domain. The late Countess Waldegrave had an » nniwl income of SBO,OOO. A Philadelphia lady died Friday from hydrophobia, caused by the .bite of a pet blank and tan. Cm tahsohtih, the North Carolina Indian chief, died the other day, aged somewhere from 120 yean up. The coming Queen of Spain Is an Abte<«ofthe noble order of Prague, and has canoneases under her. NfeAKLY twenty thousand German emigrants have arrived at Castle Garden since the first of January. The Macclesfield, England, silk factories will probably be located at Patterson, New Jersey, next year.

Therb is a weekly newspaper in England which has reached the enormous circulation of over 600,000. Tfr'KHTY-KiOHT hundered men constitute the working force of the Pennsylvania railroad shops at Altoona A French landlady has sued Prof. Bert for damages by the loss of boarders from the howls of dogs undergoing vivisection. A YOUNG gorilla with a face almost the counterpart ot a little Guinea negro, is on exhibition in the Crystal Palace, London. Minister Langston has formed a strong attachment for the Haytian people during bis stay among them. He says they are brave, refined and desirous of higher education . A MAN has died in Washington at ninety-three, who has been drunk for the past twenty-years. His memory has been drunk standing and in silence by all the old soakß in Washington. When a handsome Baltimore lady asked a pedestrian to knock a man down who had been following her, he swiftly oheyed, and was much astonished to learn that it was her husband. The famous old White Hall, Virginia, gold mine, which once yielded $156,000 in seven months, bat which has been Idle since the war, is to be reopened at once by New York capital'ists. * .

Raravaloxa, Queen of Madagascar, has issued a proclamation to her subject* commanding them to send their children to school, saying that it makes her glad to see her subjects wise. The first anthracite coat mined in America was sent to market in 1820. Siuce then the anitual production has increased from 365 to 20,000,000 tons, and the Helds are fast being exhausted. •The late Bishop Ames was said by some of his critics to be miserly in his habits, because he accumulated a substantial fortune. But it now appears that for several years lie gave away all hk> salary. In February next year there will be five Sundays. This fact occurs but three times in a century. Thus, after 1880, we will have to wait until 1920 before the shortest month of the year can again boast of five Sundays. A colored cook at Martha’s Vineyard astonished his mistress the other day by suddenly resigning his position, because he had been “called to preach.’’ Mrs. Laxorty makes her own hats and bonnets. One of her prettiest hats was made by herself from an old Leghorn straw once worn by her grandmother. r Among the waiters in the Leadville hotels are an ex-member of the New Jersey Legislature, a docto*- ol medicine, a lawyer, an ex-Confederate General, and an ex-Minnesota Judge. Gek. Toombs is a tall, big, old man, with great brown eyes; and he likes to hear himself loudly talk. In a quiet neighborhood he is worse than an accordeon. His conversation has dashes in it. • Muki Bacsi. the ablest wine-drink-er in Hungary, was a guest at a recent wedding dinner. A glass holding three pints was set before him, and be was informed that he was expected to empty it as often as au ordiuary glass wi< drained by the host. He obeyed, hut the feat killed him. THRdeaths from violence—by murder, accidents, etc.—are four times greater in England than in Italy, although the latter has a larger population.. This is due to the number killed in mines in England. Holloway, the English pill manufacturer, is to build a college near London for the higher education of woman, at a cost of $1,250,000, and endow it with half as much more. The way in which he became able to do so much good was by spending about $4,000,000 in advertising during the past thirty years.

Twenty thousand people attended a tenant’s right meeting at Fallow, Ireland, recently. Resolutions were adopted calling the attention of the government to the distressed condition of Ireland, and suggesting the establishment of a system of State releif and a general abatement of rents. Wosg Chino Foo, a Chinese Missionary of the religion of Confucius, has arrived in this country, and has entered upon-the task of converting the people of this land, beginning at Chicago. Mr. Foo is enthusiastic in the , belief that the philosophy of Confucius I will fyi a long felt want in this atmosphere of tree thought and many “isms.”

A lady in White Hill, Burington county, Indiana, is the owner of a dog and a dove. Whenever she goes out walking the dove perches itself on the dog's head, and the latter trots happy as a* lark. The bird holds Its _ position until the party return home, unless Tewser Is attacked by some of the had dogs of the borough. Then it flies to a place of safety, returning to its favorite roost when the tussle between the dogs is over. Jkrbt Goldsmith is the hero of

Stone Mountain. That preoipitoas mass of rode is used by Georgians as a sort of picnic ground. On Friday little Emma Jones fell over the steep side of the mountain .which has a perpendicular height of LOOO feet, bat fortunately lodged on a ledge, where she could hold on by sticking her Angora in a crevice. Jerry Goldsmith tied a rope about bis waist and swung down fifty feet below the brink and rescued the child. A man was dashed to pieces at the same prec'piee a few years ago. ■.