Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1869 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

J ißKßK'arc miles of.teipgraph in France. San Francisco lias a co-opcrattv e boot fitters’association. n iTfiKRE is a town in Colorado named Purgatory. • . Poor Carlotta’s case has been finally decided as being hopeless. At a recent fire in Gorham, Mq., [the engines were worked by women. Georgia grows the tallest men in the United States; New York averages the shortest. • 1 The bridal tour of a Richmond eouple consisted ip a walk to jail, they having stolen furniture. ' , The chess-players of Michigan intend holding their Seconi annual tournament at Detroit, January 18. Angelina H owe vsvcxtE Thistledown is the name ofa beautiful youngs lady of Provklenee, R. I.' The Rev. Henry Boehm is the oldest living Methodist itinerant preacher. His age is 95, and; f0r,63 years he has been in s -the*minirttyt 'Hi ■public schools of Columbus, Ga., I hate recently received $1,500 ,frqm the Pdabody fond, Waving had S4,OQQ, and are now free from debt. . " 4 . iA hhsgar ill England carjits V tfliysiican’s certificate, which, when decipnered, is found to testify that the bearer is afflicted with “liypoensy and iazitjMk’’l»! Among the curious bequests of the late . Jabez C. Woodman, df Rutland, Me,, was his half of a picture 1A Ms wife, which was originally presented to them both by a friend. ■ • ■‘tf • • & In Marshal freil’s wiH’occfifsthfe ing passage: “ I recommend to mv dear children, , after the fear and love,o| God, honesty and probity, which have been always hereditary in our family.” In France money orders are now transmitted by telegraph. The amount is , limited to SI,OOO. The*exptnse is the cqst Jof an ordinary tclegraih. so Svhiili fa added the ordinary mail rats for The growth of tea in North Carolina-is pronounced a fraud by tfle tyarth and tfomc, wipe!} says that the plant is an annual, coarse-growing, native weed, whose Jcayes are worthless even for the adulteration of genuine tea. Thebe are ,2,814 lighthouses in the world. The coast of Europe (has; 1,785; America 674, and Asia and Oceanjca 193. In Europe, the best lighted coastsare those of. Belgium and France, while the Unittd States comes next in this respect,

A weeks ago, a singular brcaeh.of promise case jwas tried is LdM<V>6. The plaintiff was a woman of 55, and,, the de- ' fondant a gouty, oklmin 4 of ’ll. The promise, W?S alleged to have been given 19 years ago. The woman,! jvHo was in-, trodpeed to the court nsthe affianced bride' of tnc rdeetfred £SO. * v e Choate,, tho NetVburyportfl rebug, was cap lured, • atul while he lujsbeen in jail awaiting trial, several fires have taken place lathe city, kindled, it by his friends, to show that the actual criminal was still at large. pf these fires, a brother of Choate lost his life, and his fcther had his leg broken. j •The fires in the United States, from January 1 to November ;l r ft has been estimated, involved a loss of $33,534,000, divided among the respective iqonths as follows: January, $3,294,000; February, $2,637,000; March, $2,892,000; gsiril, $4,372,000; May, $3,830,000; June, $1,960,000; July, $|,617,000; September, $3,242,000; m - >'/. The following “personal” was recently published in the admitting columns of the Chicago 7Hfo»n«; A young, I llinciss , gthtllman, that luub travebejd rmostaU tru the world itn<l only 25 'of age, po stay in the WHd Mountonco and. is rery lone^, some at time, would like to bpeira correa- 1 ponflpneo vfith sdme young lady, objick frindshlp and"past times. Photographs UX«h»nge.”) -• J j, ; . The pillow of a Japanese bed ts a wood-. .An bbjrawut four inches inches long, and two inches wide at the top. It isoqW’jcJwiJh aomhion of folded papers; and instead of serving as a head-rest the Jfock qnly 4a »supported, .the -elaborate style of dresslhg the hair,-Especially anpjpd the women,-fogluddiug the press- . ure or the head against apiltow. . Tee Melbauttm Argu» reports the (Aire' of a dangerous injury by the use of dry earth.alone, r A Mr. Pratt wm kicked in , the leg by a horse, and the wound only partially healed, se that itisoan broke out again, and spread until the Whole of the lower leg Wawaffeetad. Some earth was applied,tA the wmfnd, and she result was that* the swelling was immediately reduced, and at the end of three weeks the wound was quite healed. • The Pantin murder fe still ranging the greatest excitement in France, and TftUp mann she murderer, is the hero of the day ht Paris, where sentimental ladies adore him. Although sure of suffering the deat> penalty, his avarice has prompted him to go into a speculation with, Ms photographs, which he sells for three francs apiece, advertising at the same time that those sold for half a f«Ocare not genuine and are a ev.indie. Jvrr itacy a group of. medical iWi Bounttag the pulse of a patient ftnirtew j»He» my. yet W wai whM wm ckm« a

nhwv of Balem.exhtbited to his class the pulsations of patients in the Boston Hospital, fourteen miles off,. 4- telegraph wire on “the pulse recctVrtl IhCpnlwt tons’-and' record-! cd them in the diStarft leeturo-room by ths oscillations of a my of magnetic light. At the performance of Btfllachini, in Berlin, they** have -a. speaking machine, Whteb has created the greatest sensation amOiig the spectators. The sounds producetl by this machine are very similar to the.hnman its alphabet contain? only fourteen lettqra all’ fee words' of tl}<? different modem languages and complete sentences cap bfe pronounrad without inconvenience." with the exception of the guttural sounds and the usual U4O speaking machine is a great success. It is a curias'riMsfratiOn of ihe bad-peaa-ofthe dimes in Ehgtaml, that’the marriage rate there" this year is this lowest recorded in any corresponding season during thd last quarter" of ts Century. It has been* long noticed in EngMnd that the fise or fall of the ndrtber o? marriages is in tolerably strict a&ordance w|th Um |n crease or decrease qf the means of living. When the times arc good, young .couples begin housekeeping; when the times are bad they wait for better. The depression of t rode, whieh.thua reacts.upon thfi_marriage ratp, is universal throughout Great Britain 1 this year add its result in the dlmlnhftied number of marriages is c«reJiHjy noteaby ttt’e Registrtr General.

Mb. Chbrvin, the founder and head director of the Paris Institution for Stammerers, has written a report for the Mhiistcr of Public Instruction, whercyi, he araw that this defect has altfiosr In variably a moral cause. A violent ■agitmioa leaves its trace deeply printed ia.a young brain. This trace is often indelible; it reappears even long afterward on the slight.-j est emotion, and paralyzes the act of speakr. ing. Ijt the opinion of Mr. Chervin, stammering often takes its rise in the arms of the nurse, who, screams in the ear of the child, devours it. with embraces, flings it in the ajr to prevent it crying, and StagsIt also in ths air to .make it |augh. Later on the,imagination of the poor little beingisstlll serhitouslv tormented With the phantoms of fear.', , St. John’s, N. 8., has a young lady Who. may be pronounced a Vefy'safe companion Jpt-lt journey along unsafe ways. A local paper says: *' A young man was attacked, while escorting a young lady home front church, in Sackville, a few Sunday evenings ago, by a gang of rowdies, who attempted to ul-trcat lUm. He would, probabljt ijave been severely injured .but for Ms' fair rampanioa, who came to his Assistance and-uMd heir -'flats with.'such vigor and precision sis to bring down three of Jus assailants to mother earth, while he, encouraged by her brayery, inflicted sundry wounds on several -of the-others with a rusty pocket knife, the only weapon in his possession. The rowdies, surprised at this unexpected resistpnrak and finding themselves outflanked, suddenly decamped, leaving the young coapfctogoon their way,in peace?’ ' "