Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1879 — ODDS AND ENDS. [ARTICLE]

ODDS AND ENDS.

The London police force he* teen organised fifty yean. The Japanese language Is a complete hieroglyphic system. A Pams omnibus company has 12,000 fine horses In Its Stables. Empebor William proposes a oriel's fair to be held in 1885. There were 131 marriages, 482 births and 530 deaths in New York last week. The mill hands at Bridgeport, Con., spend $12,000 per year for lottery tick- * ets. , ' Princess Lorisc encourages the young ladies of Canada to learn to cook. *

The expenditure of the London School Board this year is estimated at 83,000,000. - A BIRD deprived of food dies on the third day, while a serpent can live three months. One hundred and thirty employes are required atVassar College to attend the building and ground. The expenses of a funeral of an Engt ish soldier in Zululand are deducted from arrears in the man’s pay. Oliver WendejLl Holmes has hud his famous old gold peu repaired, and is writing a new book with it. Machinery baa been erected in Florida to test the experiment of making iHiper from the palmetto liber. Paris Is al*out to expend $6,325,960 in building new elementary schools and enlarging those already in existence. There is iu the ldst rry of Great Biitian t ight societies laboring for the conversion of the Jews, and on the continent a dozen more. The report from the Commissioners f Lunacy in England show that insanity anti idiocy In that country is largely on the increase

A former Chinese student has pre. -ented to the seminary at Eastuarupton, Mass., a history ofChina, written liy Confucius, and printed in Chinese characters. Caleb Cv hinds library, to be sold in Boston next month, is rich in French, Spanish, Mexican and Chinese novtis, but is rather deficient iu English ‘fiction. ’ Estimates of the crop deficiencies iu England place the amount of wheat that must be imporied at 128,000,000 bushels. This is about 35,000,000 bu-h----tls iu excess of an average yield. -*o great have been the changes since the establishment of the Republic •in France that many ladies of high family are studying iu cm vents to qualify themselves for governesses. A German medical writer, iu a ' woik published iu 1877, says that there are but two authentic cases known of live children being bor.. ut one birth A third rase is now reported from Kettwig o’.i the Rhine. A thief seized a pocket book containing fl 2 from an eight year old Rochester girl, who was running no errand for her mother, and the plucky jittife tliii:g snatched it lvu-k, and, after kicking him. wen tun her way. The Hantchoo, China, college students hive had a rebellion a la Princeton, in which sundry sophomore noses were mashed anti divers freshmen pigtails were, pulled. The Chinese are rapidly attaining to c higher state of civilization. Count de Veysy, the enormously wealthy French nobleman, has been taken into custody by the Belgian police for fighting a duel with Baron de -Vaiiloo, iu which the latter was killed. He offered bad to the amount of 1,000,000 francs, but it was refused. • The Whitehall gold, mine on the narrow guaga railroad near Fredericksburg, Va., formerly owned by Commodore .Stockton, has been purchassed- by Boston capitalists, aiid operations will be resumed in October. Some years ago this mine yielded $146,003 iu seven months, A few weeks ago a gentleman of wealth residing near Zanesville, Ohio, died. After his death some valuable papers belonging to his estate were missing, and, although known to exist, could not be found. Finally, after several weeks of ineffectual search, a member of his family happened to remember that be was buried iu the suit of clothes which he wore on his last visit to Zanesville,' aud it was thought possible the papers might be iu them. The grave was opened, the laxly exhumed and the missing papers, along with others of value, found iu the sidfe pocket of his coat