Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1868 — Much in Little. [ARTICLE]

Much in Little.

■ Miscellaneous Items —A heavy w\irtt—the 14 600 pounds Godde.n*of U&rtjyfor tb« G»Vyl>qrg montv. imurt. —An elevator of the capacity of 600,000 bushels ib no.w completed al New Orleans, aud ready for operation. —A merchant traveling An the Pennarlvania railroad was quietly relieved of 86,000 by a follow traveler. -The Erie Railway Company have put down over 9,000 tons of steel rails within tho last few months. commonly called look-jawhas-been successfully treated by repeated applications of chloroform trf tho spine. -Ermjno and cuffs will ho tho style this wintffj const qnefifty the'price 'of the fur has increased. —The wood-work of the new suspension bridge at Niagara Falls 1b completed, and foot passengers aro crossing. Society has refused to notice a Fifth avenue lady boonuso fortnorly.hcr husband kept a stand in Fulton market. Australia has an ostrich pasture of ten thousand acres. The feathers of a full grown bird are worth a hundred dollars a year. —Tho demand for seed cano in Louisiana indicates a disposition on tho part of. theplanters to put. more laud in cane next year than they did this. —.Warmer in Vigp County, Indiana,-Is said to have raised four hundred bushels of apples on IS trees this season. He sold tho crop for $ 1.75 per bushel. —Thn Iron Mountain -Railroad ie going forward rapidly, and in four or five months St. Louis i« promised connection with the southern roads at Columbus, Ky. Th*’hare lives 1(1 years, the cat It), the goatfi, the donkey 20, t « sheep 10, the dog 14 to 20, the ox 20, the cow 25, the pigoOn R, the turtle-dove 25, the partridge 25, tl»e raven 100, the eagle 100, the goose 150. —The University of London has recently established anew degree, the highest in the faculty of arts, with the titla D. LU ,or Doctor of Literature. Il is open to all graduates in arte o: the English universities. —A new process in New Hampshire, called the “Robbins process,” produces dry lumber, out of grepn in nine hours. It seems, therffore, that though one swallow does not make a spring, one Robbiii can make a complete * , —■ - I —A pimr friendless negro named John Me-. Caul, has been convicted of horse stealing in Virginia and sontenebd to be hung pnFriday ■ the 18ttrof DWTlilbGr nexE The condemned man claims to be ii native of .South Carolina, but was more recently a resident of Maryland. A Utica clergyman cherishes the opinion that enough breath has been expended on political subjects during the last campaign to • waft a fleet around tho world. The ink that has boon used would make a good sized lake, and the paper, if collected and set on • fire, would make a bonfire that would bo visible over half a continent. —Tho principal of a Missouri institution for sheltorlng homeless children, and getting them adopted out to advantage, says there is great difficulty in getting jjlaccs for children who do not possess blue eyes. A maniAfbr bhrn-oyadcbiWroaqptfcvails among the childless in Missouri. —Ben Forley Poor, looking at Gaacnougb’s undraped statue of Wat "'rgttw], one day, with a frozen rain drop on oflts nose, sitting out in flic woat. _ . .10 freezing point, saiil: ‘.Poor Goor ... ha’s pointing to the Patent Office, where timbi?eches 'acai" A firm in Portland, Me , bought about a year since twenty thousand acres of heavily timbered land liau Ith o ensuing winter six mi 11 ion fcct oflumber, to bo floated down tho Androscoggin in the sunng to Lewiston and other points for manufacture. iS I —A raanuscripi of some thirty or forty pa- | ges, relating to the history of Buxton, sle.,liau just como to light. It gives a description of every houje in that town in 1797, telling who owned and occupied each, and on what lot each was situated. -It is supposed to have been writton by Cadwallader Gray, a native of Saco, and a graduate of Harvard College in 1784. —A wonderful discovery has beon'mado by tho citizens of Elizabeth, N, J., iu.tho vicinity of the Cross Roads. It is a cavern of im - penetrable depth, w ioli'promisc>, when fully explored, to take rank among the wonders of the country. It has been but partially explored, and found to contain many beautiful chambers, which are adornqfi with strangely shaped and handsome stalactites. —At tho Court of Criminal Correction of St. Louis, lately, a learned lawyer dissatisfied at hia success with an Irish witness, complained to tho Court. The Hibernian said: - “I’m no lawyer, yer honor, an’ lie wants to pnzzle me.” Counsel/-“Come, now, do you swear you are no lawyer?” Witness—“ Faith, an’ I do: an’ you might swear the same, about yourself witbout danger of perjury,” —The Cunard and Inman lines have concluded an arragcm.-nt with tho British government, which .injures a regular tri-weekly mail between England and America, for a term not yet definitely fixed, but probably for not less than seven years. Two of those mails will conn-, to and go from tho port of New York, and one will be landed and one depart from “tho hub” of the hemisphere. —Wt Ai my mill N5Vy Journal tells a story us one of Sherman’ soldiers who, at the eloso of the war, when ho returned home, was never able to accustom himself to the soft luxury of a feather bed, and had to stretch himself, if Re would sleep at ail, ou mother earth. Ono night a pistol shot awoke the veteran, when lie instantly turned over and began to intrench himself, scratching up tho ground with his hands. * , —Josh Billings has been experimenting with pills for tho good of mankind, and says: “El yu aro looking after a pill az mild az a pot lamb, and az searching az a fine toothed comb, buy Doctor Kingbouc's silent perambulators, twenty-seven in a box, sold by all respect fnl druggers. Thcze pifis don’t pliool round, but attend striktly tew bizzuess, and are az good in Ike dead of night az an alarm clock.” —Lite Monday night a private watchman in Bridgeport, Conn., heard ominous sounds proceeding fwini a grocery store. He obtained pohcemcii, who placed tbcnuielVes two in the roar and Imo in front of tho building. The door was then quietly unlocked and opened, and tho quartet entered, and the supposed burglar was discovered making strenuous i ft’orts to escape from a rat trap, hia vain efforts making the noiso which startled the careful watehjuan.

—Recently two canditlalCß for Parliament at Liverpool,Lord Sandon and Mr. Graves, unejertook to make thcmselv'ee agreeable to the fiehwivoß of that city. While promenading tho ftali market, one of tho women left her eland, and linking her arm in-. Lord Sandbu’s, walked tho rounds, followed bv the Town Council, who accompanied his lordehip and the body of fishwives,who followed them; knd at the close of the perambulation another tiahwifo rimhod forward and kissed both the caudiilates atnid general applause