Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1868 — Much in Little. [ARTICLE]

Much in Little.

—Sen It tfevor t» aetng a fatal tucky. Tenu., boa already hfi » snow- - The posto(flee clerk* in Cleveland, Ohio, are all females. h —Oflne dietui b>ucat:T'<*ftwTby eUfopts, 'have occurred at Athens, Greece. —Coal bos been found under the foundation of the new Illinois statelmnse t -Sipht-eecrs are already engaging rooms in Wanbingtonmrtuaoguratlmi mmr~ *“■ —Ripe strawberries were gathered on the James river, Va., tm late aa the 15th of November —A book has been mado in Hartford which weigh* seventy-five ptmmby .apA j;onuiiis 1,051 i pages. —Many aro enlifitiqg iu tWaimy iti.ludia to mMMtpo UroSa the famine wbhjh i»fi,iar«ly M» pending. t —An Ohio farmer hae raised forty bushels of a new variety of corn in two years, from fourxl-riiels. ’ ’*. —Kailway traveling is said to be more slow nod uucomfnrtabhi ui Italy than anywhere else m tlu) world. - —Fifty thdkisand dclkffs (fi counterfeit 1 currency was lately found by a r Pliiladelpliia garbage picker. —lt took two lreight ears packed -full to carry to Wasliuigtou the records of the mustering office st Columbus, Ohio. - T * —ln Kunnas 2(1,000 acfeh of land bare boon purchased lor a colony of .Swedes, who are cowiug over iU (he spring. * —Florence lias inorexyred iu population from 110,WK) to- 177,2 by yincc tho Italian capital was removed thither from Turin. —The i 1,000 diamond pin stolen from CongruHsmati Sehumaker. in New York, has been returned by the thief, and “no questieiis asked.” _ —The Jews in Warsaw have a theatre in which all tho plays are founded ou Old Testament stories, and all tho parts are taken by mules. —A New York journal has tho following curious notice: “Wanted, a nurse to take charge of a basket of children left at this office a short time ago—Cholera of tho truo Asiatic type has broken out in Bombay, but it is thought t lint sufficient mfifeurSs have been adopted to check the of the epidemic. ■ A family left Buffalo lor a week, recently, their house remaining iu charge of u servant girl, who gave a succession of balls, at which she appeared in her mistress' dresses and jewelry. —A wag seeing a friend bow to an extremely corpulent man,inquired who he was. “That sir, is Smith, the great corporation contract;. 1 in ." "All, 1IH1I!UU, U(! Uloks iikc a corpora-; tion expander I” : TariS is eiiul to have a feline population of 700,k24. Titis would seem to show that tile “harmless cat” enters less tiXtousively into the daily food of the inhabitants than lias commonly been supposed. —A kerosene lamp exploded at the hoiißC of E. J. Leslie, in Sing Sjig, on Saturday, burning lo death Mrs. Leslie and.-her two children, ono a boy of about three years aud the other a baby of nine months of ago. —A wealthy gentleman in Providence, who has made a special tv of collecting political caricatures, lias a full collection, going back as far as tho bard cider campaign. Ris Said to be the richest of tho kind extent, ss he lias been offered repeatedly several tlionsand dollars for it. 1 —The New Orleans Republican lias passed into the hands of a stock company with a * largo capital, and will hereafter bo edited hv ‘cx-Gov. Michael Hahn. The tenor of his salutatory is said to be rather conservative and independent. .■ rI -—; j —lt lias been found that students at Cambridge, England, University arc so deficient iu English grammar anil spelling, that an examination in these elementary branches has been added to the tests to be applied before a student can receive his degree. —A man named Asa Kimbaii jumped from the third story window of a gambling house in Cambridge, Mass., last Sundiy night, to escape fropi the police, who were making a raid on the premises, and was so badly injured that he died on Tuesday ing—An attorney, about to fvrnish a bill of costs, was requested by bis client, a baker, “to make it as light as lie could.” “Ah!’ replied tlie attorney, “that’s what you may say to your foreman, but it’s not the way I make my bread 1” —A cargo of coolies is reported to liavo arrived recently at'Galveston, Texas. These nnfortanate Chinese laborers, it is said, we re consigned as merchandise, with the ordinary bill of lading, and were to be sold at auction to pay freight and charges. Two-thirds of the coolies were females. —A man went up in a balloon a few days since from a park in San Francisco before he was ready for the trip. While making liis preparations, the balloon got loose from its fastenings aud darted up to a considerable height aud collapsed. The ambitious mronaut slid hastily dowu a rope which was dangling from the basket, thereby saving his life fit the cost of some severe bruises.

■ —At one time a woman could scarcely walk through the streets of San Francisco without having every one pause to gaze on her, and a ct*d was so rare that once in a theatre in the same city, where a woman had taken her infant, when it began to cry, just as the orchestra commenced to play, a man iu tho pit cried out, “Stop these fiddles, and let tho baby cry. I haven’t heard such a sound for ten years.” Tho audioncc applauded this sentiment, the orchcslra stopped, and tho habv continued its performance amid unbounded enthusiasm.