Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1879 — INTERESTING ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING ITEMS.

A Swiss colony has purchased 75,000 MM of Hafaraaka land in onebody. - A good wile sells for four cows in Zoluland. London has a society to encourage he keeping of goats. Chicago slaughters a hog every ten seconds during the year. California has 00,000 acres of vineyards, valued at $80,000,000. Unitkd States capitalists are rapidly gyinfwft eon tret of the Mexican nil ■ ver mines. A man on Upper Lynx creek, Arizona, one day last week picked up a SSO nugget. The expenditure of the London School Board this year is estimated at . $3,000,000. The rinderpest is ravaging Russian Poland, and Germany is taking precautions against it ? ; A New Jersey veteran committed suicide with SSOO arrears of pension in his pocket. A valuable discovery of gj psum has been found in Squak valley, Wastangton Territory. The English politicians believe that Hamilton Fish will return as Minister to the English Court. The wild geese have become a plturue to the farmers in the swampy districts of California.

John Stuart Mill’s stepdaughter,' 1 Miss£Heleu Taylor, is a member of the London school board. Gen. Banks was an actor in his early days, and his daughter, Miss Maud, has adopted the same profession. • * The Holly system of transmitting heat for manufacturing and housewarming is in successful operation at Oubuqe, lowa. In the cotton States negroes are paid from $lO to sl2 a month, with rations of four pounds of bacon and a peck of meal per week. The San Francisco tax gatherers levy on their Gods when the Chinamen refuse to pay, and they are always redeemed. The last Legislature of Texas passed » an act directing the sale of 31,000,000 acres of land in fifty-four counties at fifty cents an acre. Miss Hood’s wealth aud haughty relations did not prevent her from eloping from Granville, N. C., with a blind Hiid moneyless suitor.

There were 1,463,189 more letters and postal cards in the outgoing New York mails in September, 1879, than in the same month of 1878. President G levy killed 63 hares, 215 orace of partrides and nearly 500 quails duriug his recent hunt of five weeks' duration in the French provinces. It is tvfflevM that the Emperor of Russia is going mad in consequence of the Nihilist troubles and the repeated threats that he will be murdered. Miss Ida Tucker, of Pomeroy, Ohio, has been awarded $35 damages for being turned out of the puhlicichool because she would not study drawing. The wolves devoured 3,4Q0 beef cattle, 318 cows and 450^ horses in a single district of Waldai, in the government of Norgorod the*past year. Gen. Eli Warren of Perry county, Georgia, has assisted in prosecuting or defending every murderer who has been tried in that county for fifty years, . The Michigan State Fish Commissioners advertise for proposals for 20,white fish eggs, to be hatched and the young fish turned into the lakes. •

A nineteen year old youth at Spezia put a sole’s head between his teeth to kill it, and the fish slipped down his throat and choked him to death. The scar oil the cheek of the great actress Rachel was made by an angry ►, dog 4gom which she had snatched a bone when a starving child on the street. - / The Emperor and Crown Prince of Germany have not withdcawn from Freemasonry, but simply transferred themselves from the Swedish te the German rite. An English importer offered the Cutler’s Trade Union $250 for a homemade pair of tailors shears equal to a a pair of American ones in bis showcase. The offer was not accepted. A Nihilist in a Polish village saturated a cat with coal oil and set it on fire; the poor animal rushed under a wooden building and from it to others until half the houses in the place' .Were fired. * The Yale Uuiversity Crew are re-

quired to be iu bed by 11 p. m., to ..forego the use of tobacco and all stimulating drinks except ale, and that after supper. No candidate will be recognized foot ball. A lone peach tree marks the spot near Yorktown, Va., where Lord Cornwallis surrendered and handed his V sword to Washington. The four poplars that formerly stood there were cut down during the war for firewood, and a peach stone was planted in their place. Fannie Baker, a colored woman, aged 65, of Blanden County, N. C., has been arrested, and in the course of her examination it was found that she is at the head of a band of forty or fifty of the most respectable colored men In the county, who believe that she is possessed of supernatural powers, and who would not under any circumstances dare to disobey or displease her. The old negress claims to have the keys to bell and heaven. * Iceland is progressing famously under the liberal constitution granted by King Christian five years ago, and will elect its new Parliament, the second, next year. Though taxation is light, there is a growing surplus in the treasury. Compulsory education has been introduced and receives popular support, and convenient roads are building throughout the island. San Francisco is probably the most cosmopolitan city in the United States. An English traveler lately

visiting there writes: “I had my boots by • European, and my bed made by an Asiatic; a Frenchman cooked my dinner, an Englishman showed me my seat, an Irishman changed my plate, a Chinaman washed my table napkin, and a German handed me my bill ” Divorce or no divorce to the social question convulsing France to-day. A father writes to a Paris journal: “Sir, you ask if it is just to re-establish divorce. Can the question be seriously put? I have three daughters. It was myduty to marry off all three. This was not done without trouble, but at last it was done. I am told that divorces will be granted by the Chambers. If this be so, my daughters, who are unhappy in their homes, will get divorces, that is certain; and when they are divorced they will wish to marry again. Behold me compelled to furnish them with three new husbands. I trust that your paper will print this protest of a parent.”