Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1869 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

Tub Jews of Cincinnati own |10,000,000 of property. Lamaktine’s old buggy sold In Paris for sixty, dollars. Milwaukee has been importing sparrows to clear her shade trees of worms. A Connecticut man went to Ohio fiftynine years ago, in 47 days. Recently he returned in twenty-seven hours. I ILuoas, the lion-tamer, who was attacked by a lioness during a performance at the Paris Hippodrome, has died of his wounds. Professor Elton,of Brown University, has founded a thousand-dollar scholarship in that institution in memory of his wife. The parties who leased the fence around the new postofflee works in New York, for $220 000™ Bt ex P €ot reahae A rheumatic San Franciscan.’bathed his aching joints in coal oil and then tried to light his pipe. A friend put him out with a carpet. At the last meeting of the class of 1833, Yale, fifteen were present, and of this number four reported ten children each. The Medical Faculty of Paris have recently conferred the degree of doctor of medicine upon three ladies—a Frenchwoman, a Russian and an American.

One of the London papers accuses Prince Alfred, when he was a middy, with hawking photographs of his royal mother among his fellow-midshipmen. A man in Texas being bitten on the foot by a tarrantula, his foot and leg at once began to swell and pain him terribly, and in five hours he died. • California has also a female heroine, who has saved nine or ten lives, but her name will kill her prospects—“ Big Mouth Moll.” Tint London General Omnibus Company reports that the number of passensera5 era carried during the half year ending uly 1,1869, was 20,157,926, against 39,313,812 for the half year ending July 1, 1868. Davis Hart’s little six year old son was run over at East Boston a few days ago, and injured so that he died in an hour. When his rather arrived at. the scene of the disaster, the child said, “Don’t whip me, father, I’ll never do so again.” The New York Commercial Advertiser states that a prominent merchant of that city who is sane has been placed in the Bloomingdale Asylum to prevent his' revealing a tamlly secret He has since been declared sane and released by the courts. Since the government began to print currency, Treasury detectives have captured about one hundred counterfeit plates of all kinds. Orders have been given to melt them, with the exception of two br three, reserved on account of unusual features.

A woman in West Stamford, Conn., recently picked from one stalk, raised from a single pea, one hundred and eight pods, and there were forty-five more that would be ready to pick in a day or two. Besides these, there were numerous blossoms on the same vine. The principal German watering places have been visited during the season just closed in numbers as follows: Wildbad, 2,972; Wildungen, 640; Elms, 5,895; Zoplitz, 1,183; Maribad, 4,394: Kissengen, 4,943; Carlsbad, 11,150, and Baden Baden, 21,954. It is said by an old trapper in the Rocky mountains, that the winds are milder and damner than formerly. It seems, too, that the rail of rain is more frequent and copious in Utah and other parts of the far west than formerly, and the rivers have increased in volume. . A private letter from a Canadian gentleman to a friend in New York states that Prince Arthur, moved by the expression of good will and friendship which the American newspapers have been pleased to utter, has resolved upon paving a visit to the States in the course of the winter.

A few days ago a little daughter of Dr. M. Bratt, of Maysville, Ky., while playing “ hide-and-go-seek,” conceived the idea of -secreting herself in a trunk. She closed the lid, and, as the trunk was supplied with a spring lock,T»he Was securely fastened therein. When found she was nearly suffocated. A citizen of London, Ontario, who pulled the ear of a small boy in church to keep him quiet, has been lined 61 for the onense by a Magistrate, who considered that an assault had been committed, in that the pulling of the boy’s ear was unnecessary, and seemed to have been done for punishment Water is so scarce in Philadelphia that the milk is spoilt ■ The Philadelphians complain that a thick yellow scum accumulates on its surface, which they don’t remember to have seen when water was plentiful. The milkmen preserve an obstinate silence, and are equally surprised with their customers.

A cobrebpondery in Japan says that there is, a few miles from Yokohama, an enormous bronze statue forty feet high, of a noted Japanese warrior named Dlaboots. It was erected in the eleventh century. It is formed of large plates of bronze, skillfully Joined together, and the storms of eight centuries have made but little impression upon it. Mr. Benneson, an Englishman, who had paddled a canoe up the Rhine and down the Danube and Volga, has started for a similar journey from New York to New ?rleana. He will go by river and canal to hiladelphia, Baltimore and Washington, to Pittsburgh; thence by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans, and thence to Galveston or some other Texan port. , Jean Mathia, of San Francisco, met bis death In a most summary manner, a few days ago. A very large ox was being drawn by a windlass to the ring in a slaughter-house, where Jean stood ready to knock him down. The ox struggled fearfully, and finally broke the rape, and as soon as he could recover his balance he made a lunge at the butcher, pinning him through the heart to the wall, and killing

The General Land Office is in receipt Of returns from the following district land offices, showing a disposal, during the past month, of 26,687 acres of the public domain: Steven’s Point, Wkt, 19.088; Bay - field, Win, 2.835; Greenleaf, Minn., 6314, and Dakota City, Neb., 6,350. The greater portions of these lands were taken by actual settlers, under the Homestead aft, and the remainder was sold for cash and located military land warrants. ■ A law suit in San Francisco rested ftpop the date of the death of a man whose body was found n an advanced state of HArtAmnnffiltinn ft?: th* mnnnfffiitii Ha hid

wandered off insane and perished of starvation, and meantime a <IO,OOO policy on bis life had run out. The insurance company claimed that it took him five days to starve to death, and the widow that he died in four. The jury said that the widow was right and that the policy was good. The Toronto Christian Guartfinnsays of the wife of Commodore Vanderbilt: ‘•Mrs. Vanderbilt belongs to a wealthy Southern family, her mother being a cousin of Mr. Vanderbilt's. She is a relative bf Blshop McTyelre, of the Southern Methodist ChUrch. She is about 30 years of age; tali and queenly in -form, and beautiful in feature, and. what is better, is an accomplished Christian lady, a worthy member of the Methodist Church, and an active worker in church and Sabbath School work. The architect of the new Boston Post Office advertised recently for proposals for furnishing the cast-iron columns needed for the basement story. Several proposals were made; one party in Providence proposed to do the work for <20,064.61, and another, st West Point, for <20,064.44—a difference of only thirtyseven cents. The contract was awarded to the lowest bidder, ns the parties were equally responsible. It was evident that the proposals had been made upon the same scale of charges, and at the same rate per pound. The successful bidder said he thought some one would bp apt to make the offer, and therefore took out one cent each on thirty-seven pillars.