Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1870 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

Fifty-one of the,7ll students at Heidelberg are Americans. Fairmount Park, at Philadelphia, is to have a ten-mile drive. Tris Chinese have earned $68,000,000. in California since 1855. '. Mr. Seward is said to be looking ten years younger, after his travels. Kansas City has a man in jail who has married six females since last August. Tmt Chaplain of the California Senate has been dismissed for reporting for a sporting paper. , - f , Paris is going to have a gigantic gymnasium and swimming school, which Will cost $600,000. a A New Orphans man painted his neighbor’s door with tar, and paid SIOO for the joke. ~ The religious papers report extraordinary revivals throughout the- country in the Various churches. A spirited San Francisco girl broke her parasol over the head of a man who insulted her the other day. . The large organ used in the Boston Coliseum has been sold to the. Central Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn ‘ The Post Office London Directory is a volume of 2J564 pages, and contains 1,6*0 Smiths, Smyths and Smythes. ", '• ‘ A goose In Fairfield County, Conn., has laid an egg'nine inches round and twelve inches long, weighing five ounces. A poor widow in Dedham, Masa, arraigned for liquor selling, brought her five young children into court as her plea, and the justice let her off unpunished. A hard drinker in Louisiana furnished a party of congenial spirits with a brilliant pyrotechnical exhibition, his breath taking fire from the stove and burning with a bluish flame. At the recent farewell concert of Ole Bull at San Francisco, he was presented/ in the natne of his Scandinavian and other friends, with a costly wreath of solid gold. A sign 170 feet long and 5 wide, containg 1853 feet of lumber, is about to. be put up on a machine shop in Worcester. It is heralded as the “champion” Sign of New England. A Berkshire, Mass., divine recently deducted ninety cents from thq wages of a servant girl who was working at $1.50 per week, because she had another servant girl lodge with her one night An elopement in Hannibal, Mo., was frustrated the . other day by the cruel parent, who disguised himself and officiated as hackman to the pair, driving them home instead of to the railroad station. Says the Matteawan (N.Y.) Herald: " Miss P——, of this place, made an offer to a young hatter. Bhe claims women have as good a right to make an offer of marriage as a man has.” General Walker reports that the Chinese imported by him to work on the Texas Central Railroad labor steadily with docility, and evince not the slightest inclination to strike. He is about to send for more. / A boy, 14 or 15 years of age, accidentally shot himself at Belvidere, 111, a few days ago, while carelessly handlings gun, tearing away the whole left side of his face and killing him instantly. Tbe Hamilton Timet thinks the proposed Canadian shinplasters will be a greaternuisance than the despised American coin, and that the time is not far distant when the Canadians will wish the American silver back again. At Stralsund two schoolboys quarreled lately, and fought a duel with pistols at fifteen paces. One had a bullet through his jacket, and the other would have been killed but for a cigar-case that.he carried in his breast. Anonymous proclamations, threatening the French Emperor and Empress with death by the guillotine, were posted the other night/on the portal of the Tuileries. The police did not remove them until 10 o’clock on the following morning. An English burlesque actress haa -recovered $4,250 from a railway company, having been present at a railway accident the “ concussion ’’ of which prevented her from learning the dog dance, and generally disabled her for work in t her profession. ■ . . The New York Sun pertinently asks: "Why shouldn’t people have more sense than to use tobacco in theatres, churches,, and other public places! ■. The world is all before them where to chew, and they might ba a little more delicate in tse matter. Tbe Richmond State jJaurpdl sass: "We see it stated that of 'th* wife of James Monros, twice President of the United Suites, is situated tn a retired spot in Loudon ooup.ty. Va., '-unmarked i bv even an ordinary stone to desighate lhe last resting place of the honored dead.”’ A Pennsylvania man ordered' |ioo worth of goods from a Melodeon Compa my in Hartford. He seem? to bee very*' suspicious ehap, for instead of sending a draft, fie cuta SIOO HU in two and. «n-

closed one half, saying that when th qfUie bfL a/ , , the-value CFIm ports- frehr «6unlrieS'M ! Europe to the United 186 ft: I-Moto rial w ft The. following marriage notice Ycc-nt’v appeared iwW Cincinnati paper: Veuvg-to Jlartia Laie.CUylpn, the 16th ultimo, in' thepresence or the Saints,’Brigham’Yretiig to IbvjHlto Mite Emfty P: MarWri,'uH-4f theemfoWof ‘ Bark* qards. flr , largp tectoryiM Barkteg has been ..ini Mur discipline was as -severe as in the navy. > The magistrate who tried the case .dimresed the workwotaafi because the girfr had signed a contract in which "they whjpped ifguijty of ■demeanor.” A WAfflri Sacramento city has-stfed V savings bank for one thousand dollars deposited by his wife, who. died recently’ The Wife deposited the money its her ownname, with an order that in the event of her death the amount sfioqld be paid to a certain revhrend father of the 'CAthiflTd Church,’ in trust for the benefit of Awrr children. The bank refused to pay ths money to the husband without an order of the court." 'sWHftffijjif Thry say that fifty young Radicals in. Paris have sworn to avenge the death of Victor Noir, in case inerely nominal pith-’ ishment should be. inflicted on Pruga Pierre Napoleon. They propose to chaL lengc the Prince successively, until one of them succeeds in. killing him* the Princp should refuse to met them “ in the -field of honor*they will, by turn, watek for him op the streets, and msult him in public. The averege rate of wages paid td form labored in 186 ft, according ito fibe with board. The avemgs waged for-the cm States, $3«.39;:Mi-ldte States, -sßo.«T<t wage* H W 69 WSYe as follows: Eastern Sfotes, mo 3 ; Middle Q States^s23l.s; Western Btatei, $2701; Southern States, fffiftl; Gallfomte, $46.83. ri-ib-ta:.-Ual A BEMASKABLE piece of modem Quhr etism is related by tlic Dresden WoafrseAten: Near AnsiJhatz there’ ir air 6M wtndmill, thohaiis. of Which, a “cording to C<wnrt/ Wha S» et.'pserent torritovin-Mte whoa they ware going round it fUi spedd. .The miller granted thq request, and tfie Bon Quixote flrged hft tt Strange to say, the horse .w&a onjy .slightly grazed on the haunch by dhe ofthe sails. The rider, who had net Iris fifeupen this feat, escaped unhurk” ? ; . ‘ C6f?KTBSt.—A correspondent of the CeieaTegatimaligt caMa the attentioMsf ■boys—formers’ boys and all others,—to a word 6f counsel in behalf of "Borne seem to think that. cte*rtesy _.can sot the attainment of every *tfier<a«B«Et of a successful life more ttoMK thja,. 8?« h greatly mistake, for in mist (foies kiotirteßy is ths result of long and patten* endeavor, and is valuable in proportion as it nal. How often is the remark made of men of sound sense and resneCMbte Mcquirements, that they, show a fofk culture, which is often equivalent to' saying that they ; triad* -thb -niiitake lfcf neglecting courtesy in . Now is the time for you to become courteous. 1 BeginJn your intereowstf with yaur school-mates, to treat ottesrs same kind and considerate manner ,m which yotf would yourself b» treaitel. Obedience to the. cmmS 6 ; ous’ is but compliance in the minuti® of our social actlbn Wlth thdgolden rtife:**