Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1869 — MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Meant—Gelling up * frpwjtaJWrtd men are addicted to tamfAW® %oy Was M«e asked if he bed any Hking for oat*. “Oh, ye*," he repltefif* ijike them wy much-to throw If iwttri of yonr he*rt yon for month, hire not FD*«’trww»y «»to<rlof or tomorrow; yoer port, wonld bo awfuliy VatM» MN to fodew tomorrow. Ba who read* and think* litUe must Wort* hard, and the finally pinch and acre. Onfocahn rands and use* skill may work >aa»nndalmp in a spring bed. > Aaongineer resigned his position on a Western Railroad in disgust, because, a* he mid, it consisted of nothing but the right of way and two streaks nt rust. A young married man of Bridgeport, Conn jM sent home from church by his wiUffßf reeant.Bunday, for a prayer boot, utd brought her a photograph alHnh in a characteristic mot of a French mother in4«W ‘ What affords me pleasure in the death of my little grandson la the irrtef which it will pause my son-in-law."! A I I = ■ A Quaker once hearing a person tell how much he felt for another who wu in ' distress and needed amistanoe, dryly asked him, ** Friend, hast thou felt in thy pocket for bitar Bat ano Taylor says: “I consider Kansu and Nebraska, with the western portiena of lowa and Missouri, to be the largest unbroken tract of splendid farm-ing-land in the world.” A wot, when asked to what business he would wish to be brought up replied, “ I will be a trustee, because, ever since papa ba* been a trustee, we have had pudding for dinner." J Th* following advice is offered by an exchange to people who pine for a supply of great men : “If you would, select a youthVho is likely to make bis mark in the world, take one who is carting mud in a ckm-shell wagon.” It used to be the custom of the smallfruit growers of the South to import their cate* and backets from the Northern State* Of late they have learned to min ntacture these article* nearer home, and thereby ansnsiderable having is secured Paris trades to the figure of 5,000,000,000 Sinreja year,? gives employment to 600,M fowk people, and pays 2,000,000,000 francs in wage*. There are 4.000 gold ■mhbs and jeweler*, whoapnnally dispose of 800.0001 M trA>ds’>er*,«&i, &C-, and the slightest political agitation affects all this Wtople apd.all thi* wealth. A Hadley, Mass., a few weeks ago, some workmen, while* repairing the old Hayes place, found in the chimney on the aecMd Amr an entrance opening into an unfiKa *u-Bef. and in this oven like place were two smoked ham* that were in a perfect state of preservation, and had beewaknavwvsr fifty yean. Thebe was a great flatter among the police >| thfc Lonrre Station House the othegM^RKetr discovered that •omemiipiuevou* uys. i*..had besmeared quretfren statue of Napoleon sneers It worknwfi two hoare to clean the statue thoroughly. Th* con of a Buffalo jeweler, named Walktr, was killed by the Angola Railroad disaster last year. A watch known to be on hM tetaon, ta #>e time ,wa* pot found, but *r left days ago was brought to his father’s establishment for repairs, and has been traced back to one Robins, since arrested, who was on the train at the time of the disaster. A FUWKMmnt in Germany made some time ago an offer, which he designated in his letter as very lucrative, in order to in duce Charles Dickens to write for a paper he was publishing. Dickens replied that he had no time to write for him, and as' f ,r foctatfwa ot the offer, he was paying twice an much as had been offered to him to the humblest of the contributors to ifW the Year Round. Popular Errors.—That editors keep pubhaAAMmg That they aredelightefiWg*» anything to fill up the paper with. That they are always pleased to have assistance tn selecting copy for the paper. That every man’s own private act is a “ matter of public interest.’’ That it doesn’t make much difference whether copy Mw+itten on both sides. That the return rejected manuscript. Public Opinion furnishes the following epigram on the marriage of a very thin couple: St. Paul ha» declared that when persona, though Are in wedlock United, one flesh they remain. But had be been by wtaa, like I‘ha.aoh'a kin* palrDr. Douglas, of Benet, espoused Miss Malnwariug, St Peu-r. no doubt, would have altered his tone. And p*ve said, " These two splinter* shall now make onsTSese." A tours lady who had just purchased a watch.-aad wanted to show it, was shopping at a dry goods store in Springfield, a few days since. Drawing it forth with a flourish and glancing at it and the young man who was waiting upon her, she inquired : “ Can you tell me what lime the 12 o’clo k train starts for Northampton ?” “About noon,” very quietly replied the young mas. “ Ah. indeed I then I have just fltafefi-ififtmtes.” Rampall Sylvester, of Freedom, Me:, a man-82 years old, has lain in bed for fifteen years, cannot apeak above a whisper, and « a mere skeleton. He dreamed one night how to make a violin, alth' 'Ugh he had never seen one made. He was supplied with timber in the rough, and such tools as he could use while lying on his back, and fabricated a beautiful instrument, ornamented with shells resembling pearls. , U ie composed of ninety-two pieces, but, appears like one piece till examined closely. Its tone in very fine. A vest singular case of somnambulism rerenjteygcurred in Chicago. A young man yp*. found walking the streets of the city in a somnolent condition. He was taken to the County Hospital, where he was awakened after having been in a •omnabulistic state for four days. He in that condition he was cogniflHMl srii*A*waa transpiring around him, and several times attempted to make signa to be provided with a "pencil and some paper so as to write out a communication, but wak itaable -to* make himself understood. Chicago medical men pronoundßMffite of the strangest cases of j somnolence that has come under their j •npervUon . ■

TmiUili Antbhla jKqprm has seen the! eightn wonder of the world. It says that Judge McWillie brought with him to that cita, from the city of Mexico, “ a vegetable be9o4|Me9KiUß*lana> hpi ■maiUir, than <BMta«tedto<>eeite. The vegetable .beetlMßM!Mw<Mud tfrewbrlda certain length of time, and WWtntt te tired, it burrows in the ground with its head up. After being in thia position a given period, a little stem shoots out from between the tit irir: fhjg jtem Wiri-nr '~r i — r • <m thMMW «M* pnong a beautiful cluster ofTttte I** d tMke their appearance—the whole five clusters being a little smaller than a half dollar.. These flowers finally drop, bach containing a seed, which eventually becomes a beetle.** The <3nlssek>s(Ots*te«s<biakathi»diecoverv would have done credit even to the Mutant of the New York Farmers’ Club.

Parish Church at A*her*tone, England, was, m all houses of worship had been, entirely ope* and available to *H wor■hippera, but it entered the min i of an elderly lady that she would prefer to know where to sit. It was unpleasant to think anybody should be placed beside ,her. She accordingly begged to be al--1 >wed to put in a piece of boarding to screen herself off from the rest of the world. No sooner did this appear than another wanted a partition to enable her to enjoy, as her own, some particular spot. Then an old gentleman thou.'ht he wnnld like to have some accommodation reserved for him. Thi* closing in of the church for private purpose* gave its interior such an irregular and patchy appearance, that It was presently resolved to pew the whole building; which was accordingly dona, a large share of the expense being d» frayed by a family well-known in the neighborhood. And so this pew system has grown and grown on, until it has become ingrained in English church life.—MxcAanfc.