Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1870 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

A Cincinnati lady has hair ten feet long. There was but one marriage in Coventry, Vt„ in 1869. The Baptists of Ireland have doubled in numbers since 1859. A girl ih Dover, N. H., has constructed 171 words out of Washington. There are upward 0f40,000 more white. males than females in lowa. A Roman letter says the Pope is positively infinn and cannot last the year out The London (England) Chess Club has been dissolved, after an existence of sixty-' three years. A New York paper says that not one pound in ten of the honey sold in that city ever knew a bee. The National Base Ball Club of Wash* ington have decided not to play any professionals this season. A citizen of Baltimore recently died from having taken a quart of whisky at a single draught. A man lay in bed and read "a newspa-' per at the City Hotel, in Mobile, until the candle consumed all his hair. Austin, Nevada, has a Judge who lately fined himself $5 for not arriving punctually at the time fixed upon for opening Court. . . The new Houses of Parliament in London, completed only twenty years-ago.are crumbling to pieces on the river front. A man, lately returned from Alaska, sayffthathe livwl there thirteen months, and was not. once asked for tbe l«an of a dollar. The death rate in New York city is' about 34 28 I per I.fJOO-; in London 80, in Paris 38, in Berlin 32, apd in Vienna 80 per 1,000. A horse attached to a Minnesota stagecoach, while trotting at tho usual pace, the other day, threw off one of its hoofe, and bled to death in a few minutes.

John Taylor sawed wood for his family, Maxell 14, at Oswego Fulls, N. Y., and on hanging up his saw, laid down and died in five minutes, aged 1.)2 years. A Brooklyn restauranter keeps a “dosed ’ pie sitting yist where some thief steals it every day, but not the thief that, stole it the day before. , , A boy, ten years old, whose parents are dead, shot himself through the heart, in Portamouth, Vt., a few days ago. It is supposed harsh treatment drove him to the a«t.

A lad in Evansville, Ind., of an inquiring turn of mind, exploded five cents’ worth of powder in au oyster can, and now wears his head in a turban saturated with glycerine. The Scientific Amcincan predicts that, in less than twenty years, ittustrationa will be as common a feature of daily pa pers as market reports are now. A letter reached Washington a few days ago dated “ August 7, 1849,” having been twenty-one years on its passage from Germany. The sender wil be informed of its safe arrival. A matrimonial engagement was recently broken off in New York because the high-spirited (?) young woman and her lovet quarreled as tb who should purchase the wedding ring. There were sent to the United States from Leipsic, during the last three months of 1869, books, Journals, and other printed matter, of ttys ynlue of $45,154; and maps, paintings and pictures to the value of $9,-

Gov. Geaby, in the course of some remarks at a recent Temperance Jubilee in Philadelphia, stated that out of 3,000 applications made to him tor pardons, nine ty-five per cent, of the crimes could be directly traced to rum; The vine is cultivated in sevento nine departments of France, and yields the .sum of 1,690,000,000 francs. The cultivation and production of wine gives employment to 6,500,000 pevple, and the wipe trade alone employs 2,u00,000 more. A woman’s-jught advocate insists that divorced women have a right to vote tips dwt tlie Fifteenth amendment, which provides that the right of suffrage shall not Be denied or abridged ofi account of race, color, or “previous condition of servitude.” In 1869 tfeo number of inland letters posted in the United Kingdom, exclusive; of-official correspondence, was 772,00UJXJQ,,' realizing in postage £3,438,183. In the same period newspaper and book packages figured up to 55,000,000, realizing £408,752 A TOCN®man recently went to the banks of the Danube for the purpose of drowning himself, lie laid hat on the around, whan a aoldier on guard shotted, s - Fad back there, or I'U shoot you.” The yqpug man picked up bis hat and rapidlyrun away. Death by shooting was notiU his programme. J .. ,

M.RB,.CnqacmLL, oneqf the advocates of woman suffrage in Vermont, refused to walk. the Other hlght, ttam a hotel to the had jn which she was to lecture, with a member of the Woman Suffrage Association, because be was drunk; and declared that Hither he must leave the canvass or? she would leave the State. A' BLACKaMTTH residihg in Willfattistowh; Oswego county, New York, whdto Jabwing under <«**?*, * feW< days ago, rubbed live coals on bis face, laid red-hot iron bare across i*. And Anally fell into the' blazing forge! He Waa res cued, bus his hum and ine upphrpart of hrs bddy were'burned to a crisp; «d there is scarry. u qhance, ftf hta recovery. ~ covered with cashmeres embroidered with gold, which he gave away V> the depart ing guests. One “lady,”'not caring for cashmere, took away a Uarsten carpet. .Supper wys. served under a gilded trelUa. bearing ripe grapes, peaches and cherries. more than 5'20,000, Tn*U>irector» the Buflkto Drwing Park Association have decided to offer in premiums at' tbair-summer UwOtiog, coiuniencing Afiguat The principal prizes are s3o,tioo for horses t hat qever beat 2:30; <4,<•# for horses ti-at never beat $2:27; 84.0 W for horses that never bust F=2s; $5,000, horses, ana large purtes fornll horses that,

never beat 2.34, 8:46 and for double i teams and dash of five inikx * /•>». ;i 9*. Vibomua has a natural curioaitytn the shape of a girl, four years old, having a moustache afid Whiskers, the feSf upon the forehead-rcaghin* Io the sye-brows, child is quite sprighrty* Witff ten/ dbieloped limbs and a weliubritad bodyi' ‘The arms, shouldersand back, tfnpt.lhe.whole body, are covered with °^ n illMd*’ A most remgrkabla. death occurred at Rome, Ga., a'few days ago. A negro was workingbeneath a bank of dirt, the dirt -broke off, feHon hhfi, and crushed bite. His heart was shot eutfrota l»i»hodr, and thrown to a distance of sixty-two feet (by measure) from him. His lung* arid rtver were fnattered between him and hjaheart, and his body was completely crushedby the dirt, when the*” ■»■ Was thririrn ’off, it Was found' that ■he T>rokßp .nil to pieces. t |The scenery of a Paris operW house took fire a few nights ago, during-:* performance. The manager hade,hfa firemen use their hoge, and at the same'film said in a firm voice, “ A fihe fbr We first ’person that moves, frouj his post fiveJErancs for each one that remains still. ”* The bal-let-dancers stood firmly, and aMflwWtttem- - selves.to. be drenched. The'audjence noticed the rainipg on the stage- but never guested'the cause, and wsj® Parted from panic. •>. U- ... ■* i A Glbn’s Falls, NT.. Y-, recently hired a new telcrip, "and- of course initiated him at once into the mystery of the “trademark/* The same afternoon the inducted knight of Hu* yard stick was showing some good# to/a lady cuatbmer when she demurred’to (he .price of she articles. ‘The feelings df the merchanfmay Ue inwgined when the young man called at the top of his voice; ’! What qnall I sell this for * it ismarirof |tLM-an<r tost 00 cents.” J; communication, *o that they will aomeI times shrink away to a mere cupful, leavI ing many square miles of surface Uncovered, and ! t>en agate fiflup fifomi.kelow and spread out owtofoww area. Some of them have outlets In the beean, fat from the shore, throwing up a-perpet-Wrt spring of Duppg along ’exhaustive dry season, men nave gone unilergrouhd in ofieof these raMertanean rivers, from Uke to lake, a distance of

SpMK Interesting fttets bn thdcattle trade were recently subnrittefi before a social science association, ft! Albany. It was stated that the consumption or beef teFrance was 910,000dons?:in England, % Shfei sources Of supply of cattle tn the Bae tern States and N.?w Y<wk ; Wben the war broke out Texas had only $.000,000 cattle. ThCre-ari’ now n.OOO.OObdifad of cattle in that State- Tho total supposed value of all the cattle in the (JniteiFßtates whs $100,000,000. and the totjftannual max* worth of meat annually eon«ute»fr?4ftsidea 83,000,000 pounds of butter, valuedal $33,000,000; 73,000,000 pounds Of Cheese, valued at ’$14,4)00,000, and 29,0005000 gallons of milk, valued ats7 WOOfif-a total 0ffM.000.000.. -f Ohe of the delegates from Mystic, Ct., to the recent Sunday Schwl Convention in New Haven did not strive I* the city until a late hour in the afternoon, and when ba wentto the church thepommittee to receive delegates and provide them with stopping-places hud gotee -home. There were twenty other belated ones with him, and after weiring' some time the* became feitrful that they weremot to be provided-tor. The representative from bell *” The sharp dang of the bell araused°from his IwHlgtit riap’ rushed out of his hbusas and down the attest' io the church, aud. entered 4he Mlj2gg. wlth 1 look, exclaimed : nut are TOu-dtfing? Ton will bava c very fireman in the city here intaf than five mjnutes, if you do not stop.’ The Mystic man Was equal to the situation, fie.neplied: “We thought we WflUtewe if th«e was come nere to tno oonYm«i<w, «uu wv want some plane so Their want wag immediately supplied.