Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1869 — MIS CELLANEOUS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

MIS CELLANEOUS ITEMS.

but not te wfcAt floe*n't belong to them Tee New York Commercial calls Miss Ida Lewis “The Great American Life IfrSMfvsr.” ■ *i.r HArriNßse oonsiris in being perfectly aatisfled with what we have got, and with what we haven’t got. It ia ths privilege of the lover to be at one and the same time in two situations. When betide his sweetheart he is also beside himself.

“it son, know thyself;’’ solemnly said a father to one of his offspring. “ Thank you, sir,” replied the eon, “ but my list of acquaintances is sufficiently large already.” A shoestring saved a little girl’s life In New Haven the other day. It caught on a nail as the fell out of a third story win-, dow, and held her from death until assist-' anc* came. A ,man who died lately at Brannan confessed on his death-bed that he had poisoned sixteen members of his own family. Each of them owned a little property, and he wanted to inherit all of It. Qn a tombstone over the grave of an aged lady, hi the Southington cemetery/is the following singular inscription f “ How I do people who have to go through the world." The British Anti-Tobacco Society held hs anniversary at Exeter Hall, London, on the *4th of May. The report condemned smoking as tending to promote drunkenness, lunacy and pauperism. A gentleman one day indiscreetly asked a friend how old she was. She reflected. “ Let me see; I was 18 when I was married, and my husband was 80; now he is twice 30, that is so| so, of coarse, I am twice 18, (bat is 30." Liverpool is aghast at the presumption of a Yankee who, finding himself in that city without the means to secure a breakfast, calmly smashed a large window and quietly waited to be arrested and taken care of.

A ladt went out with her little girl and boy, and purchased the latter a rubber balloon, which eshtped him and went up into the air. The girl, seeing the tears in his eyes. -arid ' “Never Neddie; when you ole and go td heaven you’ll dlt it.” The passion for dress, about which we hear so much just now, is nothing new. An old artist thus lampoons the ladies of hisday: , “ Whst la the reason -t*n yon gnese—„Why men are poor and women thinner I So much do they for dinner drew. That nonring'B left to dress for dinnerr’ *- About two months ago a dog . was shipped by s gentleman iu Oncinnati to a relative In Dubuque. O!y a few days since the dog turned up ag tin, at the residence of his foimer master, very weary and very, foot sore,, having walk J all the way back; a ii nearly sh hundred miles. Who is Little Sunshine? The child who does not pout, nor say cross words, but who goes about the house laughing, smiling, singing, saying kind words and doing kind deeds—that child 'is Little Sunshine. Does anybody know Little Sunshine? Where does Little Sunshine live?

A journal called the Point of Honor , Is about to be published iu Florence. It it the official nrg*o pi a society recently started in Italy tor'toe purpose of abolishing duelling, by establishing a court ot honor for the settlement of the disputes SSSVTf&EJSiftr.SffF'b A clergyman, who was -consoling a young widow on the deatbqf her husband, •poles in a very serious tone, remarking that he was pus of the few,—puck a jewel of a Christiau,f-yohfhiufot4dhis e WI, you well know To wkfclf Thef sobbing one replied, with an almost broken heart .- “ I’il,bet I will.” The General Conference of the United Brethren passed r .resolution recommends tt&ing Bhoufd' have six months’ notification to withdraw from said pigsniaatfoE, -and ex refusaUo i withdraw, their names are lobe erase 1 from the rolls of the church. t £4 Pwoviaw newspaper speaks of an extraordinary phenomenon discovered in the road of Locumba, which appears to have been caused by the late earthquakes. Every beast that reaches a certain spot immediately falls dead. This has so often taken place that immense numbers of carcasses are heaped on the spot. The following is from the Advance : “ Not a west while ago, one of the New York churches sought to increase the size of its congregation and contributions by employing half a dozen handsome young women to pass the collection boxes for missionary and other objects. The plan was reluctantly given up, however, after the place had acquired the name of ‘ The Church of the Pretty Waiter Girls.’’’ A youth of Lpyrubon. Maine, went “ sparking Sunday night ’Da young lady of quite tender years. The old folks thought two babies had no right to “ sit up,” so they hinted their opinions by sending the girl to bed, and presenting the boy a huge piece of bread and butter with „the. kind remarks: “There,Bub,Jake this tod run home to your mother; it’s time little boys were in bed." Here is a little episode from a^ trial at the Parisian Correctional Police Court: An old vagabond is brought up. Having been often sent to prison beiore, he recognized in Uje prosecutor a man who had repeatedly urged * fre ooirt to ’gad Vin guilty. “ Ah, f recognize you, M. X .” he said to the prosecutor. “As for me,” replied the latter, “I admire you.” “ What, you admire me, and yet you have so often nronaunced me a. worthless old vagabond and! swindler ? t “8o I have, but I admire perfection in everything, and you are a perfect old villain.” A curious case of punishment for cruelty to animals is reported in the English papers. Edward Wheeler, while riding on horseback, was followed by a dog, which frightened the horse. Dismounting, he seized the dog and dashed out its brains against a wall. For this offense he was arrested, convicted and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment at hard labor. He appealed, aad is under heavy bail to appear.

At the Varieties Theatre, in St. Louis. thrown on the stage to the female performers. When Mile. Conchita Ronzati came forward to the footlights,-a young man who was in a private box threw her a bouquet .She (stopped' dancing in a second, bounded into tte box. seized the bouquefcthrowsr by th? hair of ih * head, and administered to h m se veraUefops on the jaws. Leaping back to the stage, she audience cheering vociferously all the time. She then* resumed the dance. "tjrr>**;** Cr •- 'JL Lamt Wicks—A lady contributes to tiHf Agriculturist the following recipe fog making- lamp wricks: •‘Trite a sutKjf Canton flannel three times the width&ffe wick, double it, so it will be three flfijbnesses, the smooth side out, and MfflSfee raw edge and the donhled edge togeimr oyer and over. I Do not get it too large, rad it will burn as wall as the beet sale wick. Every one generally has scraps of Canton flannel in ran house, so that alia wick will neat will be about five minutes’ work."