Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1879 — INTERESTING ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING ITEMS.

Nik* suicides have occurred in Central Park within the year. • Gladstone kwt much popularity in 1874 by snubbing the press. On* million English railway employes are obliged to work on Sundays. The peanut boom has reached 1,825,000 bushels, with all the back counties to hear from. An advertisement in the want column of the Boston Herald calls for 1,000 cloak makers. Texas has collected SBO,OOO license fees from commercial travelers since the law went into effect. The Tichbome claimant has Won 15,670 marks of good behavior and is therefore entitled to a pardon. __J, One million four hundred thousand tourists crossed into Switzerland this year. Of these 210,000 were Americans.. The canal between the Caspian and the Sea of Azof, a survey of which is being made for Russia, is estimated to cost $20,000,000. A French agriculturist proposes to feed cattle, sheep and pigs on provender containing savory herbs, to give •flavor to the flesh. Skinchi Yanadi is a Japanese reporter, who came over the sea with Ulysses, and is now taking notes of Pacific coast receptions. There is a report in San Francisco that Ulysses S'. Graut, Jr., is affianced to a daughter of Col. James C. Flood, the bonanza millionaire. Kossuth, the illustrious Hungarian, is livingat Turin where he makes a scanty living by teaching. One of his sons is a civil engineer. The Government of Mexico has received authentic accounts of the immense richness of mines recently discovered in the Sierra Majada. Suit has been commenced by John P. Stremmel, a New York professional beggar, for SO,OOO, given to a friend in a fit of temporary benevolence. . The French artillery has been doubled since 1870, and now numbers guu for gun and man for man, exactly the same as that of the German Empire. A London correspondent of the Boston Post says that Mrs. Woodhull and Tennie C. Clatlin are soon to marry ‘•leading members of the British aristocracy.” Miss Mary 'C. Welles, of Hartford, Conn., takes the prize of S2OO, offered for the liest entrance examination at Smith College, in Northampton, Mass.

The prominent feature of a reeent Baptist Church entertainment at Provi'ience, was a lecture by an ex-convict »n his nine years' experience in the State prison. NrrßO- glyceki xk pills for the relie cf patients afflicted with augena pectoris. a disease of the chest, are now manufactured in good faith by a London chemist. The Chicago Interior has started out to show that TO cent, of all the money contributed to the cause of the heathen is absorbed i a paying fat salaries at home. ... < ’ Glai>stone has taken to writing letters to show that mort’ than half of England’s disease and pain is swallowed from the tea cup and coffee bowl. According to him beer is a harmless beverage compared with tea or coffee. The Prince of Wales is turning grey, and the dissipations of his youth and earlier manhood are telling on him. His w ife retains all of her maiden beauty, and ra’her improves with age. New York divers are hunting at the bottom of the sea off Port Morris for the hulk of the British treasure-ship Huzzar, which went down 100 years ago with $4,000,000 for her army on board. # ■ % De Quixcey very wittily invers the ‘ order of crimes. Hesajs: “If once a a man indulges himself in murder he very soon comes to think little of robbery: and from robbery he comes next to drinking and SabDuth-bre&king.and there is but one step from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon the downward path, you never know when you wilt stop. Many u man has dated his ruin from Home murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time.” . A Leahville jury last week, becoming disgusted with the “sass” administered to themselves as well as to the lawyers and witnesses by the Judge, ordered the Sheriff to lock the latter up for a couple of weeks, “just to take norne of the style out of him,” as the orem an expressed it. And, to His Honor’s great exasperation, he was incontinently lugged off to jail, and i , now in durance vile, while.the case is go ; ng quietly on with the most popular bar-keeper 'in town occupying the judicial chair.

The new hospital for female insane persons in this State has been formally placed under the management and care .of the State Board. It is the largest of the public buildings in this State, having a capacity for 750 inmates. Its cost was $700,000. Nothing aborbs poison in the air so readily as milk and water, and they should never be exposed to impure air. Water that has stood exposed over night, especially jn a sleeping room, should never be used for drinking or cooking purposes. When a woman loses a desire to please, she loses half her charms. Nothing is more conducive to beauty than cheerfulness and good humor; and no morose or unhappy woman can be good-humored and cheerful. ' A lady in Philadelphia was fortunate in being robbed last veek. The light fingered person who operated upon her pocket secured her pocket-book containlngpDly beautiful dtamdno ring Valued at S3OO, which must have slipped from his

finger. The lady avers her entire satisfaction with this exchange. The Island of New Guinea, which has been frequently visited by French navigators, hut never formally annexed to France, has been chosen for an exclusive Catholic colony. The devout emigrants have chartered a vessel, running up the stare and stripea to avoid the French laws, and start under the command of the Marquis de Roys,who is to b« their first king. The Prince de Joinville brought home from one of his voyages the entire ooetume of a Queen of Zanzibar. was contained in a box twice as large as his hand. The ladies of the royal family of Louis Phillippe at the Tulleries crowded around to see the contents of the little box, and were quite shocked to find when it was opened only a pair of earrings and a pair of sandals. The Goloe newspaper says that in the central prison of Moscow during the summer Just elapsed no tower than 11,854 persons were incarcerated, of whom 11,477, including both sexes, were condemed to be sent to Siberia. There being drafted off Into exile, upward of half a thousand remained in jail, the remainder being admitted into the hospital owing to illness resulting from the Incredibly fllhfy state of their cells. The land reform agitation in Ireland begins to alarm the British Government. It is taking a political turn that threatens serious trouble. The mutterings of the London Times are ominous. The reversalof what it sis pleased to call the liberal policy of the Government towards Ireland, which it hints as a possibility, means a reinforcement of the English constabulary in every county, and a repressive military administration in that unfortunate island.