Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1870 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

New York newsboy* earn $3 a day and smdke expensive cigars. Baron Haussmann expended $428,500,,000 in improvements in Franc*. The Canadian Government is issuing twenty-five-cent fractional currency notes. P. S. Gilmore, of Boston Jnbilee fame, has purchased a villa on the Hudson rivet. It is estimated that the total loss by the late freshet in Maine will amount to sl,000,000. It cost a Syracuse druggist five hundred dollars to mistake laudanum for rhubarb. New York boarding house keepers now add to their advertisements: “No moving May 1.” Virginia has passed a law allowing twelve per cent, interest in case of special contract. A Quebec paper says there are three tons ot twenty ceat pieces in one of the bank vaults of that city. Two deaths from congestion of the brain, produced by the intense cold, occurred in Paris a few days ago. All the roughs of Denver got valentines this year, each one reading, “Travel or hang.” John G. Saxe, the'poet, fell and broke his left arm while #n his way to the theater in Albany, a lew evenings ago. The Knife and Fork is ahnounced as the name of a new gastronomic weekly journal about to appear in London. A letter from Nice sets the number of strangers residing there at twenty thousand, America furnishing the largest con-. tingent. - A London photographer carelessly left a solar camera exposed to the rays of the sun one afternoon, and the next day he was looking after a new studio. Horse cars are to be introduced Into China. An enterprising, Prussian has obtained the privilege of laying down tramways in all the cities of the Empire. Philadelphia has a “day nursery,” where on an average twenty-three children per week are taken care ot and fed while their mothers go out to work. A patriotic young lady of Philadelphia decorated the railing around the Washington monument with immortelles, early on the morning of the 22d. In Georgia, the other day, a party of-ne-groes captured an alligator seventeen feet and three inches long. The animal was attended by fifteen young alligators. The Legislature of New York has passed an act to enable the American and Foreign Bible Society to consolidate with the Baptist Publication Society in New York city. Rosa Bonheur said recently to an ad- • miring visitor of hers, that for some time past she had hardly been able to overcome her laziness, and that she did not believe she would paint much more. Professor King, the aeronaut, who recently made an ascension at Augusta, Ga,, was up in his balloon three hours and a halt In this time he traveled a distance of 180 miles. The Hessian Government has forbidden the exhioition ot.children of school age by traveling showmen. It has also forbidden the employment of children as rope-dancers, horse-riders, and gymnasts. A boy only twelve years of age has been brought repeatedly before tho Police Court at Montreal on charges of drunkenness. It is a disease with him; his father and mother both fill drunkards’ graves. Less than six years ago, ninety-five citizens of Portland, Me., signed a testimonial to a clergyman about to remove to another city. Already its author, Hon. Wm. Willis, and twenty-four others of the ninety-five signers, have died. Walter Mariutta, the tieroic steam boat clerk who lost his lifo in the Emma disaster on the Mississipi river, in endeavoring to save a young lady’s life, was a citizen of Beaver, Pa., and was married inside the past year. Tns law courts having decided that the Duke of Newcastle could be adjudicated as a bankrupt, notice of the same appears in the Official Gazette. It is the first time within the memory of man “that an English peer has been thus gizetted. At Fredonia,. New York, a few days ago, Lieutenant Commander William B. Cushing, United States Navy, was married to Miss Kate, daughter ot Colonel D. S. Forbes, of that place. The bridal presents were ,very valuable, including a $3,000 set of furs. An autograph of George Washington sold at Leavitt & Styebeigh’s sale in New York, recently, for-SIB.BO. The Detroit Tribune say s that Washington’s autographs are higher now than they were a few months ago, as the man who makes them has been in jail at Philadelphia ever since October. At Elkhart, Ind , the other day, a woman, in a drunken frenzy, threw a lighted kerosene lamp at her husband. The lamp exploded, setting fire to the house and the husband’s Clothing. The house and its contents were destroyed, and the man burned to death. On* of the Wesleyan Academy students, at Wilbraham, Mass., rushed up to a sleigh load of tippeted and muffled riders, gave a friendly tweak to the nose of a person whop) he supposed to be a CfiUfflj but who proved to be a woman, and the wife of a professor. A Taunton paper says that a dozen bushels of potatoes were dug on Friday, February 18, on the Britton place, near Rajnham, Mass., which are as sound as those dug in the fall. The land was i* litigation at harvesting time, hence the delay, and the mild winter had not in the least injured the appearance or quality of the esculent. THBjiB is a boy in Vermont who has eleven grandparents living, and he proposes to give a party for them exclusively one of'these days, although his five uncles and aunts, his thirty great uncles and aunts, his twenty six great great uncles and aunts, and his forty second cousins may feel slighted. * The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has decidea against the Commonwealth In the case brought by the State Deputy Esoheator against the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, for $700,060 unclaimed deposits, which the Commonwealth claimed on the ground that it consisted of de* posits the owners of which have died leaving no-lawful claimants, Mr Samuel L. Harris, a mechanic of Bristol, Torn., says- that at the battle of Guttysburgj he told his brother had been killed He Secured the body, and buried It, digging the grave with a pick. Ho uever doubted his brother’s death, un-, til a few nights since, when his brother surprised all parties by walking in.

A small electric battery has been ap-' plied to ordinary sewing machines, and has been found to operate them very successfully Two small battery cups furnish sufficient power for pll ordinary Ma-chine-work, while three drive the needle with astonishing rapidity through ted thicknesses of material. The expense of operating by this means Is said to be aDout five cents a daw., A few weeks ago a merchant -of this city was'married. In the second week of the honey-moon business required his presence In 8t Louis. He notified his wife of his intended departure and made his preparations for the trip. At the moment of leaving, his wifs approached him, pul up her mouth and asked him to kiss her good-bye. As he Intended returning to the house before going to the depot, he playfully refused, saying that he had not time to wait. Unfortunately he was prevent! ' rom going home again, and left the without bidding his wife good-bye. After an absence of about two weeks he returned and hastened to his domestic bower, where he expected to find his little wife waiting with opened arms to receive him. But what was his amazement to find the house deserted, and fbroiture sold, and his wife absent on a visit to her relations. And what was bis horror soon after to learn that she had sued for a divorce. An interview followed, mutual explanations were made, and a reconciliation was effected, the sole cause of the young wife’s singular pro-*' oeedings being jealousy and the her husband to kiss her good einriati Gazette. I