Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1869 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

Bquabb ear rings are again fashion able. Akdbbw Johbbob’s property is valued at <75,000. Cobx trees are being successfully cultivated in South Florida A Naw Yobx policeman has resigned to accept a legacy of <70,000. Of She *,OOO Confederate dead buried at Gettysburg, only 700 can be identified. Thb salary of .tbs Governor General of the Dominion has been fixed at <22,000 a year. Thb Good Templars of Maine intend to run an indepomdeot Gubernatorial ticket this year. Thb total of in?dmea returned to Trpy, N. Y., is <8,540,754—an increase of <OB4288 over last year. Thb Charleston (8. .0.) Courier thinks that the cotton crop of the South, thiayear, will not exceed 3,000,000 bales. A Nbw Yobx paper says that the very purest milk that can be obtained in that city contain* fully one-third water. of Boston, who, fin- over thirty yeart.Akd been without the power nf smell, has suddenly recovered the faculty. It is stated that the number of German newspapers published to ths United States is over 250, about 50 qf them being dailies A DBTBcnvB officer recently sued a country official in Buffalo, for ten cents, borrowed The court gave judgment, charging <2 70 costs.. X Thb Presbyterian Board of Education, during the year ending April 1, aided 334 students—of which life were theological, 119 collegiate and 107 academical. A. vbssbl load of ice was recently emptied into the Bay at Hamilton, Canada, because the price to be received would not pay the cost of transportation. Thb English Government, considering the African slave trade extinct, has withdrawn the squadron which it has maintained on that coast for many yhars. It is said that farmers made more clear profit on sheep in the last four years, than on any other stock, notwithstanding the low price of wool* and mutton. Mbs. Ckbbdon,'whose husband recently died Of hydrophobia, in Cincinnati, has commenced suit against the owner of the dog, laying her damages at $5,000. .Tbb'monument to Humboldt, in the New TOrk*Central Park will be a bronze bust about -four, feet high, and will be placed bp p. stope column of a height of tfqm tpn to twelve feet At - Irwintown, Pa, the other day, a dauglgre, 12yeau old, of Jacob Bolin, a mteer; diqdt’noni the effects of drinking, •some whiskjt which her fether had left in the house." wirii. othe«,-’was engaged in a New Jersey majshspeculstion. He bought out all his associates, and then announced that he had iounfi- in the swamp a peat bedMpUrtMOfiOJDOO. . T FbS iw to 4ffM-a period of 14 veus—there gerlshtjd.in civilized warfare, hriethdTl'ivre vW,UUV. Thbbb are five weekly American papers in Paris, chiefly supported by advertisements seeking the eyes of American travelers, and there is serious talk of establishing a daily. Mbs. Eunice Nichols died at Middleton, Mass., April 22, aged 100 years and 2 days. Ofi tne 20th, being reminded that itwpsher one-- hundredth birthday, she said : “ Oh, that is too long to live in tide Queen Wtdfftt Was married, twenty-nine jrgars,, ago. she had twelve’ bridebnialda" Ettbrf one of these young ,K FHitoiXGufltom House officer at New Europe, and found that <l,lOO worth of point lace had much to do with the graceful rounding-out other figure. i-. u An enterprising speculator tn Paris talks about starting a mammoth printing house, wfihre he derires to print all the daily newspapers published In the city. He Says by doing so the dailies would reduce their expenses 10 per cent >i A cask exhibiting the arrest of development and growth in a child, arising from the intemperance of parents, has recently beeA reported by the London Pathological Society. The child, in this instance, was five years old, but had the intellect of an .infant of nine months. TN-SWbdeti; since 1863, only seven persons have been executed, sixty-one have been condemned to capital punishment, and 285 to penal servitude for life. No executions have taken place during the last two years, though a number of persons are lying to prison under sentence of death. It reads singularly,in there days of steam, that there are yet stage and post-horse routes for the mail in some of the oldest sections of the country. Some 400 of these mediaeval routes have lately beep awarded in the State of New York, and 558 in New England.

: The St. Johnsburg Caledonian says that there is a farmer in that vicinity who has all his last year’s butter on hand —between one and two tons—for which he was offered last winter fifty-two cents per pound. He asked fifty-five, and—keeps his butter, which will soon be fit for wagon-grease. In London, a few weeks ago, an apprentice stayed out beyond closing time. Borne fellow-apprentices lowered sheets from a third-story window to pull him up, but the sheeting gave way, when he reached the second story, and he fell onto the pavement, striking his head with great violence against the flagstones, and died an hour afterwards. The Pennsylvania Legislature passed an act imposing a penalty of *25 for the killing of any insectiverous bird, one-half of this fine to be paM to the informer. The birds that are classed under the bead of insect! verous birds, are robins, martins, swallows, bluebirds, woodpeckers, eta, in feet all the various small birds generally seen in that latitude. . A little girl at Lianfihangel-yr-Arth, Wales, is ea»to have Jived since the lOih of October 1 ; IM7, without food. A committee was formed some time asm to in-

men wwe‘raqneeted to watck the tlrt. Tbit committee watched the girl contmuooely from March SA to April «, afid they •at* thatnothing whatever was given to her during that time •*,' . 1, At Mount Clemen*, "MJcb., about 7 year* ego, two »l»ter» le-law Uitd e depute over a baking they were engaged in, pnd vowed never so apeak to each other again. They have lived In houae since lheo. iatiug at tha ftome table, ami engaged in work aide Vs aide; but they have oarer once each other, or id any way. recognized eadr, other a presence. A convict, lately released frorntbe Ver-, mont State Penitentiary, after nearly two years' service, carried out with bins a neat box, of hi* own manufacture, ais by nine inches, composed of over 7,W0 different pieces, made by himself, and filled with many small articles nicely manufactured by other convicts from the bones of the beef which supplied their dinner. ■“ j A raw days ago a man ejagagad fnrealpking, in the Caseliff Care, near Dubuque, carte across a piece of bread that must have formed ah eftra slice In some miner’s dinner nearly thirty ytotffrhgo, ,lt was found fifty feet below the surface and in dry dirt that has not been disturbed for at least that length./>f ,ti»? The finder says it was almost fresh enough to'eat! .!• . .A Ltonnesb merchant, named Trenchant, loot all his money contending with the tiger of Homburg, and the bank ib commiseration gave him 42 francs to leave the place. Themoney took him to Vfeisbaden, where he shot himselt The bank always advances this sum from policy, Vhen a player has rained himself, oauandition that he shall leave town at once. *lt is thought to have a depressing effect oh the players to have, people constantly 1 com--mitting suicide oh the premises! - ’ , Dr JJutnsm, county. New Yqsk, the tbi noceroi of Van A mburg’sjmepagerie .es caped, and took refuge in a nopd, Thb animal coat abolit |20,0Q0 aqd the Jteepers were aghast at the prospeat of losing it. The dog “Jack," of ujer menagerie, was sent into the water after the monster. The rhinocerous disappeared under Ahu.watdr and remained some time, but finally camd up some distance off.' The dog Made for him, and he for the dog. 3 The dog dodged and got the rhinoceros by the ear. / sharp fight ensued, thAhlnoperos bellow ing like a bull calf. At length the rhinoceros was secured.