Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1879 — ODDS AND ENDS. [ARTICLE]

ODDS AND ENDS.

Gex Hooker’s estate is worth SIOO- - 7 Every railroad entering Chicago nas adopted wire for fencing. Oxe-half of the babies born in Berlin die before they are a year old. Five persons were run down by bicycles on London pavements week before last. Wasfuxoton’s birthday, Decoration day, July 4th and Christmas will fall on Sunday in ISBO. A Detroit undertaker advertises that Senator Chandler was buried in one of his coffins. The owners of the horse St. Julien, which has a record of 2:12}, have refused $40,000 for him. Spurgeox says that now, as in . the day of Luther, men stand staring at the truth like cows at amew gate. The cattle fed on the slop from the Peoria distilleries are dying at the rate of forty a day fever. Two neighbors at Plain City have paid over SSOO in contesting for the possession of an iron bolt worth forty cents. Thomas Jackson, an Albany stone cutter, has recovered $20,000 damages for injuries received in the Ashtabula disaster. The cotton mills of Augusta, Ga., pay a dividend of twenty-eight per ent. on a capital of nine hundre thousand dollars. General Whitfield, the Southern leader in the fight to establish slavery in Kansas, died the other day at LavTexas. Rochester University has received a donation of $4,000 worth of books from the Rev. E. L. Magoon, of Philapelphia. j Dr. J aqer A. Stuttgart, professor, informs an enraptured world that he has discovered the nose to*be the seat of the soul. No one objects'to seeing the Indian summer here, but out in Colorado they say they would* rather see the Indian somewher’ else. Queen Victoria sent word to the London papers a fortnight ago that she was eating new strawberries grown at Balmoral Castle. John X.. Brown, Esq., the oldest apothecary in Boston, now in his ninetieth year, has voted the State ticket every year since 1812. The price of wine is variable, according to the label on the-bottle, notwithstanding one label can be printed as cheaply as another. No matter how handsome a family' monument a man may have in the emetery, he never wants to lie on bis back and look up at it.

Dr. William Schmoele, a professor at Bonn University, says he has discovered that human life can be vastly prolonged by eating lemons. Half a bushel of plate and jewelry has been contributed by the members of a Baltimore church to the manufacture of a new communion service. A butcher in York county, Pennsylvania, while cutting rounds from a slaughtered steer, recently, found in the beef a gold dollar, dated 1862. The nose of a steamer at a fire in Albany, recently, was choked by an eel thirty-one and one-half inches long

> ■ 1 tar* “A PEW for sale, commanding a beautify view of nearly the whole A CANAL has just been completed In Hawaii for the irrigation of the sugar plantations in the center of the ieland,

which crosses twenty-eight gorges in the moan tains and is thirty miles in length. After witnessing a shooting match in which glass balls were need instead of birds, the Emperor of Germany told the marksmen that be was very much gratified to learn that the cruel practice of killing birds for amusement is no longer countenanced by sporting entlemen. The London World: “The *youn girls of respectable families’ who support a pair of aged parents on their earnings, and who lead the life of vestals, are perhaps as common behlDd the footlights as the daughters of dignitaries es the Church of England and eminent military men behind the refreshment bar.” v Baron Rothschild, the head of the Vienna house, has built a stable on hi suburban grounds which cost SBO,OOO. The chains, rings, and drain pipes are es silver, the floors of marble, the ceilings are covered with frescoes by the most eminent Austrian artists, and the wails are of the finest eucaustic tiles. The stall in which his favorite horse is kept cost $12,000. | |Beforb he entered the arena of politics, the late Senator Chandler was known among the irreverent Detroiters as “Old Yardstick.” Liverpool commission merchant charge our shippers enormous rates. “Rattage,” or destruction by rats, forms a large item, and the other day aLivers pool agent charged “rattage” on a cargo of lead. An eccentric Englishman has built a house in Paris whioh is the talk of the city. It is circular, has neither door nor window externally,,and the approach to it is from the ground to the roof by means of a ladder, which is moved up and down by machinery. There is only one floor, but eighteen apartments look into the center, which Is lighted by a cupola. Dr. Dusch, who lives in Belgium, on the other side of the Atlantic, says that a red canary can be made easily. Get a canary of the Norwich breed, and just before and after moulting feed it on the white of an egg which has been sprinkled with a little of the very finest cayenne pepper, and before long the canary will turn to a pretty red color. The highest inhabited point in the world is the camp at the mouth of the Present Help mine, 140 feet below the summit of Mount Lincoln, in Park oounty, Colorado. According to Prof. Hayden’s government surveys it is 14,167 feet above the level of the sea. Ex-Minister Washburn, in speaking of the Paris Commune, says: “For months there was no meat in Paris but horse meat and mule meat. I never ate horse, but I confess to have partaken freely of mule; and I will say, to the credit of that much-abused animal, that I found him quite good. My Secretary assured me that of the many kinds of meat he had eaten none were so good as that pf the elephant. The stories about people eating cats, rats, dogs and other small animals,. in-Paris, are literally triie.” Soon after Ward Lamon was made Marshal of the District in 1861, he was in the neighborhood of a corfler fight, and in restoring peace, he struck one of the beligerents with his fist, the weapon with which he was notoriously familiar. He struck rather harder than he intended, and the fellow was picked up unconscious and lay some hours on the border of life and death. Lamon was greatly frightened, and reported the affair to the President. “I am astonished at you, Ward,” said he. “You ought to know better. Hereafter when you have to hit a man use a club, not your fist.” A laDy in Philadelphia attempted last week to swallow $375 in greenbacks at a single gulp. She had taken this sum from the pocket of her brother-in-law, and he had called In police officers to arrest her, and when they undertook to search her she struggled so violently that they were compelled to desist. When she was arraigned in the Central Station her shriveled jowls were observed to be inflated, and something like green paste wss oozing between her lips. The officers pried open her jaws and ascertained that her mouth was filled with greenback pulp.