Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1879 — ODDS AND ENDS. [ARTICLE]

ODDS AND ENDS.

Tot Chippewa Indian* have been holding a fair. A white snipe Eras recently shot near Sacramento. Debt and violence are most affectionate companions. The estimated number of Indians ■OW living is 300,000. Aar Irish colony la forming in Great Britain for Zoluland. ' English sportsmen are numerous in the Adirondack region. There are 300 young Americans now studying art in Paris. Texas is thirty-five times as large as Massachusetts. " A railroad up Vesuvius will be finished next year. • Last year Tezae produced over 13,000 barrels of molasses. Montana covers a coal field from 69,000 to 65,000 square mile* in area. In a Bombay (India) cotton factory women receive $4 and men $8 per month. Barxum carried $60,000 out of Philadelphia when he moved his circus over ato Delaware. Limburger cheeee made Jn this country is superior in every respect to that produced abroad. There are 6,000 women and girls employed sbout the coal mines of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. A colored preacher died in Richmond last week while conducting the funeral of a member of his flock. A woman’s political club| has been started in London called the Summerrille Club. It numbers 1,000 lady members.

John Dunn say* he will not permit missionaries to settle in the parts of Zoluland over which he is to rule. , It i* said that one firm of steel manufacturers in Pittsburg has made SBOO,OOO profit since the revival of trade. Failing to accomplish his purpose by jumping into a well, a Carroll town, Illinois, man hung himself by the well rope. Twenty-seven thousand sheep were sheared on the Alamitoe and Cerritos ranches, Los Angeles county, this year. Brain fever and death followed Ben Lowe’s exhibition of acrobatic skill in standing on bis head two hours in a Texas saloon. A writer in the Galveston News expresses the opinion that a river of petroleum is flowing through the subterranean cavities of Texas. A velocipede rider made the circuit of Lake Geneva on Sunday, Oct. sth, in 10 hours and 41 minutes. The distance is 105 miles over a hilly road. Vixuxtemps, the chief of violinists a half century ago, has had to retire from the active practice of his profession by reason of his old age and infirmity. As an instance of how a lesser crime leads on to a gi eater, the New York Sun T announces that Gunn, the paracide, has become a confirmed liar since he murdered his father. The dentist to the royal family of Germany is a lady. Her husband, Dr. Tiburlius, is surgeon-general of the army, and her sister, Dr. Franziska, is a prominent practitioner. People in Lawrence, Kan., say that the best fanner in that vicinity is a woman. She was left a widow ten years ago, with a bit of land and fourteen children. Bhe now owns three large farms.

Winnie Johnson, the big negro girl •f Henry county, Ky., weighed 625 pounds last week. The following are her measurements: Wrist, one foot one inch; arm at the shoulder, two feet three and a half inches; waist, five feet one inch; bast, six feet; hips six feet eight and a halt inches. The wan who wins Winnie can start a side show. Some of the especially foshionable colors are: Niniche, a new cherry red; Vieux rouge, a deep blackish led; •anaque and casserole, copper colors; Rembrandt, a very dark blue green; Admiral Blue, a dark shade named in honor of Sir Joseph; donanierj a military or Napoleon biue; antruche, the natural color of the ostriche; pivoine, peony and feutre, or felt color. A party of autumn sojourners at Canandaigua Lake went boat riding the ether evening, there being among them a young lady who delighted in toying'With the waves. Her hand was hanging alongside the boat, just under the surface, when she felt it •loeed upon by the jaws of a fish. Startled by the pain the hand was jerked so quickly from the water that the fish was landed in the boat. The tempting bait was lacerated badly. The English Queen, in exhorting English ladies to a more thorough Knowledge of housekeeping, - Americans: “No on* can deny that, as a rale, they are 'pleasant to the eye*,’ and certainly do not usually sin in the way of neglecting their personal adornment, of in taking their foil share in the pleasures and daintinesses of this life; yet, when the necessity arises, we have the warrant of those who have traveled and lived in America, for believing that they can hold their own as useful members of the households of which they are also the ornaments.”

Statistics gathered In France show that there are not one-half as many married criminals as unmarried. ■» General Sickxes has gone to France to btfpresent at the man ceu vers of the Third Army Crops. The British. Government has award- . ed $5,000 to Hoibom who so narrowlyescaped being hanged for a murder oommitted by the notorious Peace. An embalmed Prince of the Imperial family of Montezuma was purchased at auction, in Paris, a few days ago, by the South Kensington museum. A new temperance movement has been organized in Great Britain. It takes the form of a Joint stock company, with a capital of $5,000,000,

shares of $6 each. It proposes to open temperance houses all over the Kingdom. The Archbishop of Canterbury heads the list in the prospectus of the enterprise. Instead of bridesmaids -fashion prescribes two tiny pages, whoarechoosen from the prettiest of the boy relatives. These are dressed in velvet of the bride’s favorite color, made in the style of a court diess. They perform the usual role of the bridesmaid, carry the bride’s bouquet and gloves, aud in addition meet and assist her from and to the carriage steps.