Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1870 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

A " Retiring Addukss "—A shy manPAKiagiKk 14,000,000 aapnally for flowera. The French Government supports 800 musical student*. Thl perfection of politeness—OSetlng, a standing Jokf * seat. The Wtifhfngtfm Is purely mutual, and divides Us proflu among iu policy holders only. A sinr-MarrEß-at Bath, Me , lately had Four tesserrttrack by lightning, and twe of them burned. . . - - c t~Trk cottage of the late President Plaice, at Rye lieaoh, N. 11., was.receaUy told at auctlon/forffm Ex PntsipftNT Jouxao* has purohaaed a throe-story brick house, known as the Lo aery House, in Greenvttla, Tenn. The Boston Common Council have passed sn order appropriating $20,000 for the c'sTebratlon of the Fourth or July. Bo me one putasafmtlda in the witches’ caldron during a recent representation of Macbeth at a New York theatre. A rAUPEßTe&atiy'dled at the Hull-' borough Asylum, iu England, who during his lifetime cost the borough $5,000. Ex'StraoEox Geneeal Ham word testifies in the McFarland case that eight hours’ sleep are necessary to a healthy brain in the active man. A Vkrmontkh, oe a bet, has agreed to harness himself in a sulky -and drew a man weighing 160 pounds a mile in fifteen minutes. How much do you eatfti yearly V Death will stop aU income. Provide for Üby insuringfn the WashiogtoJi Life Insurance Oosnpany, of New York. A "Vermont coroner’s Jury Is “of A Pinion tlWt the DeceSt met his doth from Violent Information in the bed, produced from Unosn Cauz." Four men are ttfoJer arrest in Clinton, Pa, charged With Wealing a church organ. They say the church onrea them S2O, and they took the organ as security. A Frenchman threw himself from the column of the Bastile, in Paris, a few days since, and was resolved into inch fragments, because his brother had been lost stack. • <t~ .

Two young ladies belonging to influential families in Hartford are under surgical treatment for cramped and distorted feet, caused by wearing the prevailing style of high-heeled boots. A Montreal policeman recently Arrested a boy for cruelCy to frogs., He and his companions had placed a kettle of water on a fire and thrown seven frogs into it to be boiled alive. He was fined *3.

A C ’iJ.ikornian in Paris says of Napoleon that “ Those who afe expecting hkn to pass in his cheeks soon, can rest .quisto he is good for a score of years or more yet, unless he should chance to die with bis boots«n,’ 1 ® ' v A YtninG Irian was attested in New Jersey a few days ago for deserting his Judge, nmi.tn| against his WUfe except shat he thought she tM much money for candy and tradi. Is removing the old Stacey House at York, Me., lately, a skeleton was found lying in a cramped position under the foundation of the chimney. This building was over two. hundred years old, and it is thotgbttho skeleton was lying there when the walls were laid. A New Hampshire man- earries what -mpnetf he htte In a pocket-book which his lather bought in 1776, and which has been in constant Hse by the two since that day:- It is yet in good condition, and hs has enraptured- bis son by promising to bequeath it hakim. If ’ V T “ Tiik Inmate 3of the jail in Pittsylvania ebustf, s 'V*} ltawfernWfFthefeSfcives iftto* a mprsl association. Among the articles dff their creed is one against profane swe|rtng; - the pfeßhUy > -for < Violating ‘ which is stripes. It was recently enforced o$ one of the members. A toung man in Belfast, Me , has under consideration the question—“ Does it pay tb smoke The other day he dtmosifod, a short pipe in thp same, pocket .in which was a roll of greenbacks amountla* to SBS. He didn’t have money enough left to bpyna piqjer tohacoo. —A poor rnatr al LouisvfHe sought admission to a hospital a few days ago, so ipld, which his dying wife had left him but r few days before, and which he refused to give up to striagerV though Several offered to take dtSrge oTIt. Matrimony e*. Single Blessedness. —Young husband" Formerly, .when men would stare at you ’Rite tnar, you wottjd drop your eyes and appear to be they go too far in their admiration, why, A have a husband to defend me. I should so,like to have you fight for me; it would he so jYßUhntif.F; jrt VO/ ... Europe, says the Engineering Magazine, contains 70,718milesotxailway, composed of 150/ 00,001 cwt. of iron raUs, oa wl!loh 406,000 passenger carriages and 600,000 of. tunnels, at a, cast, of $60,000,000 per annum, witll aroDsuttptiofl of 4,000,000 tons of coal The New York World hai tfe followfog estimate of probabilities: “ The repotted killing of Major Randall by Indians is perseoally eomkrxdictad by the reputed corpse; but, as we have no knowledge of the Major’s character, we cannot say how forhlsTldWplfortedßUß«t}otißhoukl weigh bgainstthe rtStembnts'of numerous newspapers in a matter in which his interest (S'cule propounded the following to Atom: “A bt^rShift’ s ldf 7 a* k ghhtiMi»an ) and mother have a daughter, but she is B 0» avaifiter/ ■ Now how dqyonexptoin. QiaJ f' Atom reflected, bat all in vain. To his every suggestion Molecule replied by > mild but daided .Atljntfh Atom was forced to give it up. “ Why, fire simple enough,” said Molecule, with anexasperatlng smile, “ the boy lied!”

Pardoned Oct. —General P—— had' taw*i financial agent to the penitentiary in Texa«yihi#dr>|p«BM \fatJnlypppOMhg eril>r of Texas, and not wishing to lose hisplace, he, in due time, presented a petition asking to be retfcfnea, hi# fchg Mrff ■ faithful services being urged as a reason for gianting his prayer. *' It appears from thi* petition, General,” said Houston, ttal you have performed faithfully every jlqty ; bporf you ‘MuriJg •'<& Yes. sir.” “ Then, sir, I pardon yoft ot**’» *« » ! * t-r •J*l ry ; Waste product from soap and stearine [candle WHO.' 2f<wr ft k one tJT tke most tfetful products. Tubs and pails saturatable. It is used for extracting the perj%%*erai Mpfesrfyc.aitmalyub-. styocAiTrom decay, and hence is valuable SJtJ “.preserving" purposes. It is einplnyeihtoi+t&tm&f; Hfiiig? IfocWrtfcf Hfjpivmaking, wine-keeping, and for a | vast Variety of othej

nitric acid it forma nitro-glyoerlna, one of UMJDhst powerful explosives known.— mtaangt. J A rath an amusiag tncMont oocnrred during the revision of the,N»Uonal Guard at a country town tn Fnttiee. The voung mss* mute. He was about to be transferred to the invalid list, wMan.tha surgeon, si A final attempt, sefo.in a low tone of voles: “ Y<«ir deafness exempts yttu from Servorder to go through the requisite formalities” ‘‘At what hirer, Art" stld the young mania great delight t Joy had, in fact, workedw mtrsde. “You ’are - good for service and need not trouble yourself,” was the reply. The followlsg Is recommended by Mr. Tint him, of Kansas: “Calomel is one of the vtry beat remedies for motes or chaff in the ejie of horses or cattle. I bad a cow that got an oat draff bn the eye hall which resisted alt reffbrta at iltoova’. Her eye became *o swollen she could not open it, and a white film had begun to grow upon balk I was speaking to Ohh of my'neighbors about it; h* recommended the above, wttck I app led (blowing it into the eye With a goose quill) about the bulk of a grain of wheat. Twenty-four hours after no one would have supposed anything had ever ailed the tye. I know of other instances where it has bdetftried 1 witji equal sacSss”' w ' -