Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1869 — MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Gxoss behaviour—Getting fab Tele best substitute for silver—Gold. The oldest woman’s club—The broomstick. Tan Boston Pott calls a pillow a soothing nap-sack. Fumo^Democrats(»ll the PrincelmIt n thought the wheat crop of Calinia will be nausually large this year. Why is a room frill of married people empty t Because there is not a single person in it A Cincinnati lady on her tax return, “ taxation without regimentation is tyranny.” A Young lady in California broke her neck while resisting the attempt of a young man to kiss her. Thb strongest kind of a hint—A young lady asking a gentleman to see if one of her rings would go on his little finger. Aclwgykan who had been accused of preaching long sermons, excused him self on the ground that the church was a large one. A writes, describing one of the engagements in the late war, gives the following interesting item. “In this battle we lost the brave Captain Smith. A can-non-ball took off his head. His last words were,' Bury me on the spot where I felL’ ” Meyerbeer left several compositions sealed, which, by his will, are never to be opened unices his family has need of farther resources. In spite of his great wealth, he was always haunted by the fear that Us family would some day come to Want. In one of Cooper’s novels occurs the following passage: “He dismounted in front of the house and tied his horse to a large locust” A French author, in translating this passage, renders it thus: “He descended from nls horse in front of the chateau and tied Urn to a large grasshopper. A xan in Brooklyn was thrown from Us wagon recently, and seemingly died. He was laifi In his coffin, and when his friends were about to bury him, he awoke with a shudder, and walked about the room. He said he was conscious of all that was passing but was unable to make a sign of life. Mb* often loee opportunles by want of self confidence. Doubts and fears in the minds of some rise up over every event and they fear to attempt what meet probably will be sneoemftti, through mere timoronsness, while a brave, active man will, with perhape half the ability, carry the enterprise to a prosperous termination. The afternoon New York service nsnal at Christ Church was on a recent Sunday the scene ora novel feature. The organ suddenly stopped In thrfmidat of a hymn, and not another note was heard from it daring the entire exerciMe. Upon inquiry It was ascertained that the organist had taken offense at something done by one of the officiating clergymen daring the service, and abruptly ton the char ah. In Greenfield, N. H., a few days ago, a man add Us son, aged respectively about 70 and 18, were called upon by about thirty men and boys, and treated to a ride upon a rail, a distance of about one and one-half mile, for the offence of abusing the wife and mother. They were made to take tarns; while one rode the other carried one end of the rail, and *m* wpm.

They were acoompenled In their mar-g by music from fife end drum, tin pew, Ac. Tun Vienna Medical Time* tells the following : “ Last week, at the clinic, in the presence of a daw of students, an operation of the stomach waa performed by Professor Billroth. The operation was gone through with and the stomach was properly sewed up. On the next day the patient died. A poet mortem examination showed in the re-opened stomach a large epongei which had been used in the operation, and which the operators had forgotten to remove.” It may be important for some people to know that, where % widow re-marries before the issue of a pension certificate, the children, if any are living, are alone entitled to the back pension. If a widow re marries during the pendency of her claim for pension, she is entitled to the pension to the date of her re-marriage, unless the soldier left minor children surviving him. Hbhlock, to which Socrates and Fhocion were said to owe their death, is now pronounced by eminent toxicologists, to be no poison at all. Sixty grains of tincture of hemlock were recently administered to a young woman without any apparent effect, ana a person, after a dose of 34 grains of the pure juice of the leaves of hemlock, only experienced a slight muscular numbness, which pasMd off alts an hour. A'bwahm of bees and a bountiful store of wild honey were recently found in a tree by woodchoppers on the west side of the Sierra Nevada mountains. The incident is recorded as the first discovery ot the kind on the Pacific slope. There were no wild bees beyond the Sierras when that portion of the country was first occupied by emigrants from the Atlantic seaboard; but it was soon discovered that bees imported from the States thrived well, and several persona who engaged early in this business acquired large fortunes from the production of honey for the markets. Molded bread, meat, cheese, or any other eatable, is an actual poison, whether inhaled or eaten. One kind of mold causes the fatal ship-fever. The mold in damp cellars causes various grades of typhoid fever, diarrhea, dysentery, etc. Recent chemical researches and microscopic observation seem to show that miasm is nothing more or less than a mold, and that this mold is, in reality, a cloud of living things, each too small to be seen by the naked eye, and are drawn into the lungs, swallowed with the saliva, incorporated with the food eaten, and by being absorbed into the blood, are sufficient to cause all grades of deadly fevers; elevated or dry localities are wholly exempt.—Afechange.