Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1869 — A Trifle and its Results. [ARTICLE]

A Trifle and its Results.

A man from the country invested five cents in the purchase of an orange, and jteparatory to getting himself ojjjside of it threw the peel on the. sidewalk. Soon after a young wpman came along, slipped upon the peel,- a’nd fell upofi the walk, breaking her leg. The young woman was to have been married the next day, but wasn’t. The man who was to have mar ried her had come from Sti Paul, Minnesota, andwas obliged to return on account of business, to await the recovery of the girl. On bis way back he unfortunately took a train on the Erie railroad, which ran off the track, and his shoulder blade was broken, forcing him to stop at Dun kirk for repairs. The Travelers' Insur’ance Company, in which he was insured, had to pay $250 in weekly installments before he recovered. On getting back to St. Paul, he found that hie forced absence bad upset a business arrangement which be had expected to complete, at a pecuniary loss to him of $5,000. Meantime the injured girl suffered a relapse, which so enfeebled her health that her marriage was delayed, which had a bad effect noon the young man, and he finally broke the engagement and married a widow in Minnesota, with four small children. This so worked upon the mind of the girl that she is now in the insane hospital in Middletown. Her father, outraged by the conduct of the young man, brought a suit for a breach of promise, and has just recovered $10,000.. The anxiety afad expense of the whole affair thus far has been enormous, as anybody can see. Similar cases are likely to occur so long as people will persist iu throwing orange peel around loose. — Hartford Courant.

Mr. Greklky is eaid to be particular to a degree about the spelling of the proper names tn his **■ copy.’’ In a leader upon the Chamber Of Commerce, he had occasion to use the name of the well known merchant, A. A. Low. He was horrified next morning at seeing it printed in the <4Hsum A- 1* Loir. Rushing up to tbe domposing-room, he Ming out to tee urbane foreman, “ Tom, somebody is to be kicked. Who set this up?” pointing to the obnoxious paragraph. Tbe compositor of this special “ take ” presented himr self, manuscript in hand. '* The man made this mistake is going to be kicked," sang the frdte 'editor,’ snatching the copy and glancing his eye over what be-tab doubt honestly intended-for letters, and reading A. L. Low,-just as it was printed, he added slowly, handing back the manuscript: "Torn, please have somebody come and kick me.” The ray that always lighttup awoman’s despair—raiment.