Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1868 — Brenities. [ARTICLE]

Brenities.

MlseellancoM 1 terns. A Toronto muto has bad bift* two lost •Misnv restored. . 1, ” —Two hundred and flfly-two couples were married in Now York last week. —Twelve per cent, of English criminal! aro under sixteen. . > •<• ! The belle of Dresden is a Chicago girl, and sings divinely. —Gutta percha houses,pro suggested for earthquake countries. —Bovoral now journalistic enterprises are soon to bo announced. 1 —A colored diplomatic agent from Liberia has been recognized. —A Cincinnati express agent lost, $3,000 at “policy,” which belonged to Homo one ,ol«.. He is now in jail. • * D school similar to that at West Point, at Fort Leavenworth. —Tn England there arc societies tn nasiedischargcd convicts to emigrate to the Unit led Wales . —American steamers aggregating more l han 20,000 tons, are now running in Chinese witters. —A dispatch fi om Council Bluffs says that the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Co. have commenced to lay the track eastward from that city, and work will bo continued until the parties laying the track meet at a point 40 miles east of tho Bhiffa. —A London magistrate lias humanely dos t ided that any householder feeing or Otherwise encouraging a street. musician, to the annoyance of any other person, is liable to the some extcht of lino as tho musician himSJlf, - < ■ '■ —The dead body of Miss Esther Kendall, a l idy about sixty fears of ago, who lived alone in Sterling. Mass., was found nil tho floor of her sleeping room, on Tuesday, whore it had probably lain several days. The cause of her death is unknown. —Philadelphia has a big organ, which was “opened’’ at the Cathedral with nil the usual attendant ceremonies. Selections were given from Mozart, Handel, Rossini, Meyerbeer and other famous cornpasci)B. —Robespierre's walking-cane, which Baron von Iteuot refused to nceept last spring, was ear-ried back Io Paris amH-old by auction, for three hundred franc.-, to a Lyons amateur A certificate of gcnunieimss accompanies the cur.osity —A mischievous monkey, in a drug store nt BosUm, got loose, Bunday, and amused himself by opening the cages of the birds and all the other animals in the store.. Those that lie couldn’t opili lie throw violently on t'lc floor, and things were in a sad plight when the proprietor discovered what was going on and stopped the fun. —Tho Houston Union says that the question of dividing Texas iulo three states will be agitated on tho reasseinbling of tint Convention in December next. JThc bill failed by a moderate majority before, and it is said that several of the delegates wuoHWoted against division then -rill vote in favor of it now. —The first blue book of the United States issticii—fifty years ago, enumerated 5,608 names of offiec-hohlsrs; the blue book of last year contained upward of 60,000 names. Thirty thousand of them are in tho postal do partment. The. compensation of lire offieeof the army and navy—amounts to thirty millions of dollarsamiiiaiiy, The soldiers and sailors of Massachusetts intend to be represented ifi Washington by a large delegation on the occasion of the inauguration of President Grant. A committee of prommcnt ex-army bus been appoiuted to make the necessary arrangements. ,— —; —A citizen of Detroit boa completed an invention wliich is intended to revolutionize tho wholejivstem of street railroading, ft consists (>f a steam condenser, and appliarmes fur aUaching a kmomntive engine to the forward platform in such K manner that neitlM-r ateam, smoke, m r s it.ders can “Chicape. The boiler is upon tlio platform, and occupies a space twenty inches in diameter.