Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1879 — ODDS AND ENDS. [ARTICLE]

ODDS AND ENDS.

eighteen mile* of Hot Spring., Arkan*"om . capital of £BOO,OOO the cotton mills of Augusta, Go., poy . dividend , w twenty-eight per cent. On cutlery Is Mid in Sheffield' ten percent, leas than It eon be mode for there.’ Thb. sixty-five thousand dog. of SC Petersburg bring to the city treasury 8190,000 per year, $2 being the tax upon

In Park kitchen ntenaOs need by all hotels, restaurants, confectioners, etc., are periodically Inspected by public officers, with a view of saving the public from poison. There is not a Turkish family, rich or even In easy circumstances, which baa not a certain number of women and children in bondage. are black slaves and white. The amount of ootton Mid in the Southern States In October, this year, wU net the producers 88,000,000 to 810,000,000 more than the sales for the ame month last)fear. Tns Rural New Yorker Is loud hr praise of emasculated cats. They grow to twice the size of other cats, catch more rats, are cleaner, and altogether exemplary in their conduct. The experiment of lighting the reading-room of the British Museum • by electricity began on the 20th of October, and is to continue until march. The brilliancy of the illumination is said to exoel that of daylight. "The masculinisation of women” is the new women's right gospel of France. “Woman is to take the place of man because she is superior to him in intelligence.” “She will cease to obey the despot named ‘man.’ ,y Three kittens have died of diphtheria in Ogdensburg. They contracted the disease from children affected with it. <« The postmortem examidation showed plainly the diphtheritic membrane in the kittens’ throat. Ditches are dug alongside the Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad, three feet wide and two deep, by means of an enormous plough, which is drawn by a locomotive. This machine does . the work, of a thousand men. The wife of Bodie, who discovered the rich mines bearing his name, and whose hotly was recently found, twenty years after he luui perished in a snow storip, lives at Poughkeepsie, N. ,Y.» where she ekes out a miserable existence by doing plain sewing. The male members of the Keokuk tar showed no jealously when Miss Nannie Smith wxq admitted to practice. The presiding Judge descended from the bench to shake hands with her, and the lawyers subsequently gave ner a banquet. - Some of Dr. McCosh’s New York friends have added SI,OOO to his annual salary ns an offset to the increased expenses of his’ new residence, known •as “Prospect,” and the finest residence of any college president in America. At the close of the seventeenth century pure imported wine was the ordi- _ uary drink of all but the humblest class in England and many parts of Scotland. Between 1740 and 1760 champagne, even with a heavy duty, ~ was consigned to English firms at 50 cents the bottle, equal to about $l6O to 82 at present values. Norfolk, Va., did an export business last year of .810,000,000, and with her cotton returns now ranks as the second cotton exporting port in the United States. It is the first peanut port in the world, receiving the entire crop of Virginia, which is much larger than the growths of Tennessee and North Carolina. After being closed for five years the - oldest, most famous, and most lucrative iron works in the British empire have been set agoing by Messrs. Crawshay at Merthyr Tydril. This is a tremendous event in the principality. Mr. Crawshay, who'died some months ago, vowed that he would never reopen the works on account of the misconduct of his men in trying times. It is becoming the fashion at distinguished weddings in Paris for pageboys to be substituted Jor bridesmaids, f hey are all dressed alike, mostly in .*ed or blue velvet or satin, with silk stockings and gold buckles, and for their business have to attend on the bride, carry her prayer book and bouquet, support her train and veil and generally be at her bidding all theday. Young brothers or relatives under twelve years of age are usually selected or fee office. r •

Bo» Wood at a dance at Waco, Texas, took offence because Grace Stanfield declined to dance with him, and got into a fight about itwlth Will Currie, in which the latter was wounded in the hand, a bystander got shot in the leg, and George Wood was hit in the thigh. then made two attempts to shoot Miaß Stanfield, killed a Mr. Oloch with whom she was conversing, knocked Jim Currie senseless, and escaped. An autopsy which was proposed to have been held yesterday on the body Henry Eli Glazer, of the West Bide, wh<*e death occurred Thursday night, was abandoned on account of the sickness of one of the physicians. The object of the examination was to satisfy the physicians themselves, and the members of the fhmily,aa.to the actual cause of the death of the deceased.

At a dinner party in Bt. Petersburg, at which the Turkish Ambassador was present, the conversation * turned on the social morality of of different nations, and a young diplomatist rashly ventured a pleasantry on the subject of Turkish harems. The ire of the Ottoman representative was immediately aroused and dumbfounded the company by a tirade against Christian immorality in general. In conclusion he said, with a bluntnese which does not bear literal translation: “I have four wives and I have never paid attentions to any other females. Which of the

I■> | j Q % i A | [ uny rastneiea. pome twict noiea i I Lovelace* who were present with tbdr ..... , 1 spouses feit a little awkword. The Hum bolt, Tenn., Argos tells the never attend them so long a* they keep large tracts of land lying idle. It advisee them to cat their plantations up intosmaS tanas, and sell them on ten yean time «t a low rate of interest.

The English girl spends more than one-half of her walking boors in physical amusement, which tends to develop and invigorate and ripen, the bodily powers. She rides, walks, drives, rows upon the water, runs, dances, plays, stags, jumps the rope, throws the ball, hurls the quoit, draws the bow, keeps up the shuttlecock—and all this withbut having it pressed forever nporT her mind that she is j , * Recently, at La Pax,Marshal eou ty, after the aodienoe at a revival meeting was dismissed, a goodly number of them assembled at a house near by and spent the remainder of the night in dancing.

A family of emigrants were found occupying a tomb in a cemetery near Providence, R. L, that had been left open. When discovered they had had possession a week, and were using the coffin shelves to put their dishes on. thereby wasting her time. She does it every day until it becomes a habit which she will follow up through life. Her frame as a natural consequences, is larger, her muscular system better developed, her nervous system in better subordination, her strength more enduring, and the whole tone of her mind healthier.