Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1869 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

? " "■ 11 * » H*» j+rnfatm !y married English Lords. Nbablt one-half of the tj in siitfcgon the Paris literary papan i* don* by woM*' >< •»»•• «•( «»« <«f VMfcr*t - dannla, the chief of the Oahu Insurgents, WM ft student al MMdlttowß, Conn., fa 1597. Csab Alkxandxs hat Invited Napoleon to the RuMlfttt International Exhibition next year. Arana, now nearly 00 about composing an open called A Dream of Lore," T' • M Tz. , Boor and shoe making is a great busi nese in Philadelphia—amounting to fIVB milUoaa a year. At a recent wedding -in Sew York, among the bridal gtfte was a bottle m brandy cerked and sealed in 1772. Oran seventy thousand people vWted the french exhibition of pictures on the openlydey of tUTyesr.^ TBS Japanese, in UHMig Using plants to this country, wrar> the snots in a Mixture of earth and carrots ground together. English house-sparrows have been imported Into Buffalo. One gentleman received sixteen pair a few days ago. Snxrarasn Falls, Vt, has a citizen who claims to be the “ champion honeswapper.” He is 40 years of age, and has traded hones over 600 timls. Thb export of cinnamon from Ceylon for 1868 was 2,800,000 pounds, and the estimate for the present yell promises to be not short of 4,000,000 pounds. Or the 10,097,800 furs sold, in St Petersburg last year, about 0,000,000 were from Siberia and 186,600 from Alaska The value of these furs was about $8,480,876 in gold. .- Pabbfa Rosa’s voles is tins described by a misguided Boston critic« “ Five hundred feet long, three hundred teat wide, and as high—as the Coliseum.” A bills of Agra, India, Is ha ftiH dress when swathed m two shawls, with <BO bracelets, 14 pairs of earrings, seven necklaces, one noee pendant, and a assuring on each thumb. A London photographer, who has photographed nearly all the royal family of Englahd, has been paM neatly £85,000 for earttt d» nirite ox its various members. A rouita gent of high standing in Washington recently attempted suicide because a young lady, who went with trim to a picnic, left him to return with another fellow. rZ^ Atouko Welchman, jilted by ttmgirl of his choice, hue sent in to hat h Bui for ny, £4 7s 6d." Tn new City Directory of Buffalo contains about 30,000 names. The Courier multiplies this number by five, and claims that the product represents vary nearly the population of toe city. Tin childnm at the royal cosßteT Prussia are never permitted to ea» sugar-plwßs, bonbons, or any indigestible food, and the servants are especially forbidden to let them have any wine or beer. . ~ Pamcnas Kazlowsxy, of tfsaaow, whose father lost all Us fortune, destined the aid of her friends, and now keeps a cigar store, by which she earns enough to support herself and fatissr. In Schem’s Ecclesiastical Almanac for 1868, the total number of members in evangelical denominations in this country la placed at 4,904.838, in a population of not less than 86,000,008, or one to seven. Mb. Thomas Saysbs, son the pogUtist, has come out as a comic vocalist; and appears at the music halls “wearing ths costume In which his Ikther fought the memorable battle of Earn borough.” Some indication of the number ofpersons who for some cause have left Waite Pine, is afforded by the fret that there were recently four thousand letters remaining uncalled for in Wells, Fargo k Ca’s office In Treasure (Sty. Thb revolution in the island of Crete, from August, 1868, to March, 18fl8, a period of two years and seven mohiha, has, it is reported, cost the Turkish Government $26,000,000 in money and 80JDOO soldiers.

A cur, who replied to an advertisement offering an article of great use to tkoee contemplating marriage, “price 80 cents, or four for 81,” received for his three dimes, a pocket handkerchief of thsv . ooaraet material, worth about six cents. At a boll-fight in Nisme*, Spain, a few weeks ago, the picadors appeared Mounted on velocipedes instead of boms* and displayed such skill in the management of their iron steads that the astounded bull was unable to dismount a single one of them.

PHTLADsunoa Is particularly happy in its detective force. One of the papers says that there is scarcely a professional thief in the city. The chief detective “has mads the air so insalubrious to them that the whole party have left in dfcgsak” At a recent election In Boston, idols Harrison offered to vote. Being told that she could not, as the was not on the list, | she declared that she had a right to wad* all regulations to the contrary notwithstanding, deposited her ballot on the box, and departed. English artists take the rejection at their pictures very much to heart, and one worthy coroner amerts that he has held several inquests upon artists who had been killed by sieer anxiety bn the subject before the d*4akm of the hanging committee was made known. Both Houses of the New Hampshire Legislature have passed a bill making it unlawful for first cousins to SnoTy. * However, In order not to leedtontay Unash os promises already existing, the uegWStnra very considerately provided that the net should not takeeffeot till six months altar its passage. the City IT* 7 °* 5SSg# «SSSrV« ■* tinge The average attendance is lees than 400, so that the attendance in all TWjS m the Rev. Dr. Bridgeman, of Albany, was pasting J-w. ll>. *>® '^^Sul^tTpwwr 1 ,

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