Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1879 — ODDS AND ENDS [ARTICLE]

ODDS AND ENDS

'A lady in Bridgetown', N. J., h hair eight feet long. This year is especially productive of Area, and the drainson insurance companies are correspondingly large. Driving belts are made of linen that are more serviceable and durable than leather.

Thirty thousand napkins are wash* e d every night at the Hotel Brighton, Coney Island. _ . The Wisconsin State Normal Schools have dropped Greek, trigonometry, and astronomy from their courses of study. ] The champion checker player of New England, Mr. William R. Barker, is insane, at Cam bridge port, Mgss. The London Truth calls English beer “heady, stupefying and muddy stuff.” The armless and legless man in a Boston side-show has married the proprietor’s daughter. The fee that drunken and crazy men are always well supplied with knives and pistols is a sad feature in the records of crime. Here Auoutte Geib, ayoungHam- ' burg book and prominent Socialist, who lias just died, was followed to burial by 20,000 people.

Gen. Francis Walker is in favor of having ladies, in many places, make the canvass in taking the census. R. B. Woodard, the founder of the celebrated Woodard Gardens, at San Francisco, died last week, and left an estate valued at $2,000,000. Miss Peter drew a revolver from her satchel and shot dead a Toledo hackman who struck her for not paying as much fare as he demanded. , Rev. Mr. Gibbs, colored, of Jersey City, has brought suit under the Civil Rights law against the proprietor of an ice cream saloon, fut refusing to serve him. , Mrs. Grant raid on being introduced to the Empress of Japan: “I have visited many countries, but have seen none so beautiful or charmiDg as Japan.” A New York merchant telegraphed to Shanghai, China, 36,000 miles distant by wire, after breakfast one morning recently, and received an answer before dinner.

An old man in the Hartford (Conn.) county poor house has a well-authenti-cated claim for about SIOO,OOO of the French spoliation fund, and the money isiu the United States Treasury. A Norwich, Connecticut, deacbn has been prosecuted for making midnight sallies into his neighbor’s garden with an empty basket under his arm And returning with it full of cabbages. The pastor of the Methodist Church at Oconto, Wisconsin, has announced to his congregation that he will preach again when they pay enough of his salary to enable him to buy a . decent suit, and not before. Thomas Wilson, a philanthropic Baltimore coal dealer, has left $500,000 to fouud a sanitarium for poor children; aud SIOO,OOO, the interest of which is to be applied to lessening the cost of coal to poor people.

A murder was committed in Smyth’s Hotel at Cardington, Ohio, and the enraged populace formed a vigilance committee and burned the building to the ground. The bar was full of liquors and cigars, but it would have been worth a man’s life to touch either. When the hotel aud contents were past saving, the mob quietly withdrew and went to bed. The guests at the Edge Hill, Pennsylvania, tavern, noticed that George Waterfield was downhearted, and when they found him lying on his face with a wound iu his breast, they supposed he had committed suicide, but being unable to find the knife, an investigation was instituted, and it • was found that the wound was made by a bullet shot from a/nflethree quarters of a mile away.