Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1869 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

Cunard left 13,000,000. Nabt makes S3OO a week with Me pencil. Tub valuation of Hertford, Conn. ta $41,784,165. N*w Brunswick paid $1,130 for deed bean last year. Opium in Southern Asia enables 400,000,000 people to get drank. An English clergyman charges doable fees for marriages in Lent A pocket rifle, with a barrel only eighteen inches long, has been inrented. It is rumored that Charles Dickens will again visit this country In the folk A boy. in Phillips, Me, has been conyicted of profknity and fined nine cents by a justice. Saxony, with a population of 610,000, had 210 suicides last year—lsß men ana 52 women. They hare stylish parties in Boston at which no one worth less than $250,000 is admitted. Charles Wesley, brother of the venerable founder of Methodism, wrote seven thousand hymns. Melbourne, Australia, though but thirty years old, has a quarter of a million of inhabitants. The bed of the Missouri fiver, at Sioux City, is 840 feet above that of the Mississippi at Dubuque, in the same latitude. The first newspaper printed in America was issued in Boston, April 4,1704. Only one complete copy of it is preserved. A respectable citizen of Philadelphia lives, when they are in season, upon nothing but gooee eggs, partaking of nine per diem. An old woman In one of the French departments has just died and disinherited her nephew because he sung the Marseillaise in 1880. At Alexandria, Va., a gull stuck its talons into the back of a fish, which proved too powerful for the bird, and after a severe straggle, carried it under water. In the village of Union Springs, N. Y., there are a thousand and more shade-trees, planted during the past ten years by a tree-planting association. Four thousand p' vnbrokers, with $35,000,000 capital, carrying on busifaess in England and Wales. Thirty million pawns are affected in London alone in one year. A Cleveland convict hung himself—in effigy—the other day, making a general scare among officials, who proceeded to cut the body down, when a resurrection occurred from under the bed. Milan has provided it* customs officers with very powerful microscopes for the examination of all meat brought into the city, to make sure that none of it harbors trichina: sporalis. In Europe there are about 10,000 known species of flies, included in 680 genera. In North America about 2,500 species have been described, but the whole number will probably amount to 19,000, A deputation of Englishmen lately placed upon the tomb of Maximilian a superb crown of solid silver, the product of a subscription. The crown was made by an eminent jeweler of Paris. A Mississippi editor and Justice of the Peace married a couple in 1858, divorced them in 1860, married the man to another woman in 1861, ditto the woman to another man in 1862, and recently married the original couple. Henry Lewith, of Hartford, died recently, and left an estate worth $22,000, and debts which figured up $7,000 more than that. Mrs. Lewith not only waved her legal rights to one-third the estate, but paid the balance out of her own pocket. An enterprising velocipede manufacturer has offered a handsome premium to the corporation of Paris for liberty to establish velocipede “stands,” as in Um case of cabs, throughout the city, fixing his tariff at four sens an hour, or one frank per day.

It is a feet not generally tknown, perhaps, that Washington drew his last breath in the last hoar of the last day of the last week, in the last month of the year, and last year of the century. He died on Saturday night, at 12 o’clock, December 31, 1799. —Cincinnati Enquirer. A, donkey in the suburbs of London has attained a celebrity by showing a fondness for hearing the concertina played. At the sound of the instrument he will gallop toward the player, braying loudly. It is suggested that he wishes, in a humane spirit, to drown the sound of the instrument Dogs are in training in New York for thieving purposes. They are taught to rush into a room, seize from the counter a parcel, and quickly bring it to their masters. The counter is made to resemble those in banks, and the parcel is covered with yellow paper, to look like the packages of bank notes that are exchanged between different banks. An English physician has just discovered that the moon passes successively, during its different phases, from a temperature of molten lead to that of the congelation of. mercury. While the son darts its rays upon her, a thermometer suitably constructed would indicate a temperature of nearly 500 deg. While, on the contrary, upon the side opposite the son, tie instrument would descend to 70 deg., below zero, thus giving a fortnight of Siberian winter followed by a fortnight of super-tropical summer I An Illinois correspondent of the Country Gentleman has much faith la real estate. He says: u The sharpest and ablest man, with g I,OOO at starting, may buy and sell and trade and deal, add profit to profit, loan money at 20 per cent, and shave notes at 25 or 30, and fret and Worry and ■tew through a long and laborious lifix and at the end he will not have accumulated half as much as he would, had he made at starting, the same Investment in real easts te, sat down, took things cooly and waited on fortune. This Is tae average experience.” A FAin of lovers, near Bristol, England, were taking a walk, when seme slight disagreement awes between them, and the young man walked hastily away. The young woman soon went in search of him and found that he had climbed a tree and hanged himself by bis handkerchief. Nobody was near the spot, and the girt at once climbed the tree to cut h« lover down, but she had no knife with her, and the only way by which she could elfoct her object was by biting through the knotted handkerchief. ThU, with seme difficulty, she suooewled indotojg, wd the youth fell on the ground Insjnslblfc waa taken tofa ho^ital, and ildered doubtftal ** «•* oover,

'*Auy iWWfvi *l*CT§tt an a S*'iiatr.r or Kw|»rccV»itnrv*, ifho c’aall, <ot tin- nur|m|W of p-evTptiujr a miurum. fail or A*Tn*f bo qurtiify, ur wU t*»!l ntiicn / for that pttrjX**’. ■feuMlwill rtud KUtltv o t a (uuMflUimunjr, and ueoti ivnvkrt'.oo *t»»roo#, an*ll be fiu«a wot lows Thna f€a<f (be provision* of a bill introduced Vy Mr. OsiKmx, in ihe State LegtoMnriq to pruvent the Damocrnw 'tnonjli-orn resigning before action is, had upon life 15th Amendment. What direful result* would follow the passage ol' a law like tins, no one fHtlimif the gift of prophecy can tell. It is very Hear « majority of the Dotnorratio minty* l>eis eoiihl not a fine 6f tmeh magnitude, and their constituents would hardly makeup a pony-purse to pay it for them. The only Any left them to avoid Wing enveloped I v the black cloud of negro snfl’rage, woul-l be to rotinuct jitrSer And liefore they consent to the degradation nf going to the poll* with a “Bigger” would they not r*.-:ort ♦« this? Of course they wouf«i : it is of such material that martyrs are made. We pray onr Republican friends in the Legislature nut to pass this law. If ye heed not our prayer* the blood of the martyrs be upon your heads. We are guiltless.— We have warned vow. Already the Democracy sniff the pestiferous scent of the coming African upon the vernal breeze, and before this act can be passed, again will these valiant Democrats fly from the 'Capitol w ith the utmost speed and—all the perquisites they can carry. k-£T~The Indianapolis Jtmruul is daily becoming the most enterprising paper ia the State —to illustrate; they recently published that Hon. Jesse I). Rright was “eorourningin Jasper county,'' a fact which we noticed last October. The Journal led. m the morning and the Mirror followed suit in the evening. Does enterprise flourish very"“muehly” in the city ? is reported that President Grant ha* ordered the commander of the Guff squadron to demand the immediate surrender of the brig Harriet Dane, lately captured by" a Spanish man-of-war, and if the demand is not complied with to take the vessel by force. fSrT’ostmaster General Creswcll is said to make an average of one hundred appointments per day, ami that the pressure ior office continues unabated.