Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1879 — ODDS AND ENDS. [ARTICLE]

ODDS AND ENDS.

The Oneida community cleared $78,000 on 700 acre* of land Met year. Skw atob Call's wife la aald to be the moot beautiful woman In Washington. It coat Herr Krapp $50,000 to entertain hie guests at the reoenf trial of his Mg guns. OiCE hundred and sixty-three letter carrears are employed in the Chicago poet office. The mackerel fishing in the Bay of Panday this season is reported to be a complete failure. The profits from a two acre oyster bed are larger than from an avearge farm of 160 acres. San Francisco manufacturers shipped 27,000 machine-made doors to Australia last month.

Mbs. Ann Glanvillk of Devonshire, England, the champion female rower of the world, is 90 years old. Red snow, which is usually found only in Artie latitudes, is seen dt a lofty summit near Mount Stanford, in the Sierra Nevadas. The reunion of late prisoners of. war, in Toledo, October 1 and 2. next, promises to be the largest convention of prisoners ever held. In certain towns of Germany lads uuder 16 are now forbidden to smoke i the street, the offense being punishable by fine or imprisonment, An English nobleman predicts, in a communication to the London Truth, that the aristocracy of England will soon be as poor as that of Italy. Thirty of the Duke of Portland’s tenants have declined to take farms next season on acount of the small returns of this year, and Lord Willougby iias thirteen idle farms. A single Missouri horse thief named Cole rescued four companions who were guarded by six officers, but the whole country turned out and shot era down, not before he had wounded two of them, however. It Is believed that fully 1,000 silk operatives have arived in Paterson, N. J., this year from English, French, German and Italian cities, attracted by the reports of the prosperity of the industry in that city. • Glass rails for tramways and railroads are being tested in Dresden, thus far with very gratifying results. They are not as strong as iron, but resist friction better, are cheaper, and are practically indestructable. The Boston Globe Theater is owned in sections by several persons, and one of them, disgusted by failure tp agree with the others, is putting up a wall at the edge of his portion. Tnis cuts off a third of the stage and part of the auditorium.

Ax English paper relates that in a i farm house at Kukcaldy a tempting ham huDg from one of the rafters, and rat, with rare instinct, gnawed a hole in the woodwork directly over it, and, descending, ate its way into the interior of the sweet morsel. One day the housewife started to take the ham down, when out bolted the depredator and up through its hole. The ham was a perfect shell, skin and bone only remaining to show its form, while the rat had begun to build a nest in it.