Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1879 — ODDS AND ENDS. [ARTICLE]

ODDS AND ENDS.

. BrauxCK 1m m grandfather Postal cards, bow almost universal started tat Austria tat IMS. * V “Pat as joo go” Is a good motto, but the theaters make yon pay as you corns tat. t . jm The manufacture ot cork solas to an Industry that has groOm to large dimentious in Williamsport, Pa. - . A Texas paperstates thatone-fourth of tbeeotton gins in that State are destroyed by lire every year. Aky mao pays too much for his S htotle when he has to wet it fifteen or twenty timee a day. Weks one ruffian has bitten off the lobe of another's ear, who mates him give bonds to keep the pleoe? A Boston firm is shipping hammers at Buffalo, to tbs Sandwich Islands and New Zealand. Nearly all the negroes in and near Darlington, 8. C., now own horses and cows, and many of them own land.,.*?- -* * •w

. AcmviTT prevails in the real estate market in New York. Arise of sev-euty-flveper oent is reported since March. j^JEffj2 AJEiJ| The Pope will begin the publication of an official church paper on the first of January. It will be edited and printed at the Vatican. The DeeMoines, lowa, City Marshal spoiled his chances for re-election by slaying four hundred and fifty-three •heckles* poodles in one day. German carp are to be introduced into Western waters. They thrive in sluggish waters, and often attain the weight of ten ponnds in two years.» English manufacturing towns are rapidly filling up with foreign workmen who are eager to accent the wages at which the native workmen struck. During the progress of the excava.ions on the site of ancient Pergamos, over two hundred pieces of sculpture t dunging to the best period of Greek art, have been found. The greyhound is short lived. At the age of two years he is full grown, and at his fifth or sixth year he is worth little for the sport of coursing. He runs himself out in three years. Bananas as a material for the manufacture of alcohol are proposed. It is paid that their great cheapness in countries where they are grown am their richness ip sugar eminently fits them for jthis purpose. Germany finds much more pleasure in a cat race than in pushing horses ground the track. Tl>e cats are carried away from home, dumped out of a bag, and the first feline borne takes the pot. Briqukites, or compressed fuel of •mall or waste coal, are now manufactured "ear one of the English mines ataeo».ofls a ton. They are an excellent fuel, and have long been used

Li: r ra^„t. A large box shipped on a railroad at Cleveland was found to contain a live man, a flask of whisky, some sandwiches aud a kit of burglar’s tools. It is supposed thnt he intended to rob the express car. If you want to get rid of your wif dont use arsenic. The Rev. Hayden bas wished a thousand times that he had never heard of the stuff, and had brained hto victim in an honest, •traightforward manner. Mrs. Grant sajb that the General nee lost all his money in a potato speculation. He paid $750 for 150 bushels of potatoes, planted them, expecting to make a large profit, but when they were ripe, potatoes were too •heap to pay for the digging. Enough cloth is made every year from old rags, with a prepor admixture of wool, to supply all the adult population of Great Britain with a new suit, all the children with a dress aud all the women a jacket ' The late Mrs. Angelina Grimke iVeld l§ft a paper in which she said: “I have purposely selected my old clothes to be buried in, that my good ones may be given to the poor, that they may do them good after I am gone.” v

The future Queen Christina of Spain to a wise and kindly young lady. Bhe haa begged, her betrothed to , sonomize as for as possible in the expenses of their wedding festivities, and to give the money to the sufferers by the late floods in Spain. The Newland oik to forty-seven feet rix inches in girth. The Cowthorp, now more than 100 years in process of decay, has a girth of sixty feet. Both are in England. Many of the * fine , in England are, without doubt from 800 to 1,000 years old. The »knll of Lady Jane Grey's fether, Henry Grey,{Duke of Suffolk, was dug up in the yard of the Church of the Holy Trinity, in the Minories, London, a few days ago. Grey was beheaded bv Bloody Mary for participation in Sir Thomas Wyatt’s rebellion in 155^ It to calculated by a Swiss hotelkeeper that in the season which has just terminated 900,000 foreigners have traveled in Switzerland, each visitor staying on an average between three and four days in the country. The av erage daily * expenditure of each amounted, it to further calculated, to jive dollars.

Thb Mississippi, despite- its great seas, to a fickle stream. Many a thriving town established upon its nonVn has been deserted by its creators and left for inland, and now it begins to look as though Helena, Ark., was about to share a similar fate, by the receding of the liver and its cutting away a new channel. A philakthbopi c physician who has interested himself in the subject of employment for women writes: “All women who have opened their hearts to me agree in affirming that they would, by preference, serve the male sex, .inasmuch as women are, they assart, usually hard and unsym-

pathetic in their relations with members of their own sisterhood.” Italy is ■, preparing to extend the suffrage to every etttsen above twentyone years of age who eau read and write ignor Salvatore Morelli, a mem -e f the Italian Parliament, baa proposed that women who fulfills the legal qualifications ffifraired of Hectors shall be admitted to the suffrage. Petitions In its favor are receiving the signatures of a large number of women. Gen. Scbnvck said to the wife of a British Gabinent officer, who assured him that "England made Ameriea all that she is:" "Pardon me, mad erne, you remind me of an answer of the (Ado lad laid* teens, who, attending Sunday-school for the first time, was asked by the teacher, ‘Who made you?’ ‘Made me?* ‘Yes.’ ‘Why, God made me about eo long (holding his hands about ten inches apart), but I growed thereat.’ »

Tuesday Judge Berkshire sentenced Mrs. Amende Lamps hi re, of North Vernon, to the Female Reformatory at Indianapolis for breaking into WilHani Shiddell’s house and rolling him of money, notes and valuables to the amounfbf SIO,OOO. After the sentence she delivered the Judge a lecture, protesting her innocence and professing great piety. She Was firmly of the opinion that “the sentence of a Court nor the discipline could prevail against tbs Christian religion <i>r effect aoglit that would injure a Christian.