Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1870 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

Sup Knots—Lovers' ties — -Fyn. Kight winds* were caught in Monterey Bay, Oal, in one week recently. It coats *3O to refuse to answer the qne»Uon« of a census-taker. A spider Bini the other day proved fetal to a negro woman of Augusta, Ga. A velocipede dealer in Maine has sold out a stock that cost *l,lOO for *BS. The late Fenian scare in Canada is said to have cost the Oominion *300,000. A large vessel recently sailed from Boston to Cork, her entire cargo being Canada peas. Maine is bragging of a matron, in her seventeenth year, the mother of four children. One million panes of glass were irrevo cably smashed by the recent Philadelphia hail storm. One hundred and forty-one thousand cigars were made in a recent week al the Penitentiary at Joliet, ill. A St Louis man hung himselfbecause Us third wile Wanted him to buy her son anew coat. New Yorker* drink about 200,000 glasses of soda water a day during the summer season. A New Hampshire fire originated by a child being put'to bed, and given a kerosene lamp to play with. ThEM were, at a recent date, 313 insane persons in the Jacksonville (Ill) Asylum—more than at any one time be fora. A New Yobe paper declares that the body of Lola Montez has been stolen from her grave in Greenwood. A New Yobe Judge committed a cross eyed woman tor contempt of court because she didn't look at him when told to A widow holding a policy on her deceased husband in the Washington, gets the n oney herself It cannot be taken lor his debts. A Boston Juryman signed a petition for the pardon of a convict, bemuse, as he ■ ud, be was afraid if he aid net the man would kill him. A rear in a Justice’s Court at San Raiael, Cal, recently brought in a verdict “ that they had agreed to disagree.” They paid *2O for this little joke. At Morritania, N. Y., a domestic has been discharged lor poisoning her employer’s *IUO black and tan terriers with great regularity tor several months past. A live oyster in a Portsmouth, N. H , restaurant, caught the tail of a wandering rat between its shelly jaws the other night, and held the animal sate till morning. A hard place to be in-Jdjing, with no money, no property, no Lite insurance policy in the Washington Lile Insurance Company, of New York—with a wile and sms J children. “ When he Shot at me the third time,’ said a California teamster, “I began to think he meant business, so I up with my ride, and put a bullet through his head.” Milwaukee is excited over a young horse in that city, only six years old, who has made a mile in one minute and eight seconds They expect, with proper training, to get some speed out oihim. Ban Francisco is now supplied with ice brought from the Summit (Sierra Nevadas), and delivered to consumers at two cents per pound. Heretofore Alaska ice cost ten cents per pound. The Wilmington (N. C.) Star is responsible for the statement that the names of three g<ntlemen entered in succession upon a hotel register in that city, the other day, were Hoot, Hogg, and Dye. Tub estimated expense to the city of Boston ot furnishing for the season nine free bathing houses lor men and*boys, and five lor girls, and facilities for batnifig in 8< uth Bay and Dorchester Bay, is *31,500. A shopkeeper in Chatham street has posted on his windows the following notice: “The public are requested not to confound this shop with that of another swindler who has established himself on the opposite side oi the w ay.” Am indignant father in Columbus, Ohio, who attempted to trounce a school teacher recently lor punishing his boy, found the teacher altogether. too much for him. In f« t, the father was himself soundly whipped. A letter, bearing the following address, was received at the Syracuse (N. Y.) Post office, a few days ago: “ For Miss Margaret Lee, in care of Mrs. Murphy, Syracuse, N. ¥., two milt s outside Syracuse, N. Y , A Merica or Els whare.” A young couple in yonkers, N. Y., are forbidden to speak to each other, but as they live directly opposite they have managed to correspond by means of an opera glass and a sla e and piece oi chalk. N<-w, even that privilege has been denied them. A young lady fell out of the door of a carriage while traveling the other day on the London «fc Brighton Railway, and was instantly kthed. Ihe guard, whose duty it was to have locked the door, was so horror-stricken at the accident that he cut his throat. Some people might infer that the Boston Fourth of July Committee were a lagged tel of follows, from the fact that an ordvr was passed that no portion of the *zO,COO voted for the celebration be expended for_ hats, caps, bows, gloves, or other clothing for any member ot the committed An intelligent youth, recently engaged in one of the commercial offices in Oswego, made out a shipping bill for “ fourty ’’ ba reis of flour. His employer called his attention to an error in the spelling of forty. “ Sure enough,” replied the promising elerk, “ I left out the gh." —Two rival ice companies in California are to contend for the championship. A bet of *2O a side having been made, they are to test the question of superiority by each placing a block of ice of a certain weight in a room, the block that keeps longest from melting to be regarded as the best. A court at Greenfield, Conn., has granted e new hearing in the case of a man convicted of murder, on the ground that the jury sat up all night playing “ old sledge,” and decided the man's fate by that time honored game. The prisoner wants to be convicted by “euchre,” if at all, and says he wants to take a hand, as it is his belt hold.

A rebidknt of - recently ordered a cabinet-maker of New York city to make him two magnificent book cases, and to hfcve them filled with volumes bound in style to match them. He added, in a' postscript, that he was not particular as io wl>at books were selected, but would like Mr. Waverley’s novels, as he had heard them highly spaken of Th* census takers get two cents for every name taken, ten cents Tor every farm, fifteen cents for every productive establishment of industry, two cents for every deceased person, and two per cent, of the whole amount for names enumerated for social statistics, and ten ceats per mile for travel. A qu*** wedding took place a few days ago io Ness' York city, where a lather and a son married a mother and a daughter, the strange part of it being that the father married the daughter and the mother married the son. Madame Grundy is in great tribulation to find out the relationship between them now. Rsoobokh Hackett, of Ndw York, is iksa sportsman and sn excellent shot rttte*<BA or pistol. He can knock the

ashes off any man’s cigar at thirty traces, who has courage enough to hold it tn his mouth when- the Recorder fires. Very, confidential Iriends have allowed him to shoot a dime from between their fingers; and young Bennett, of the Ileriild, has let him shoot an apple on the top of his head. A New IIAMi-snias man, who has a' nice sort of a wife to have about the premi «w, was rudely made aware the other morning of an attempt by her to strangle him. She had tied one end of a rope, made of twiabd cotton cloth, aronnd the bed post, and, by putting the other around his neck, got a good “ hold." Thia rough treatment, however, awoke him, and the wife insisted that she was fast asleep all the time. Tub American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Henry Bergh, President,) is four years old. Through, the influence of this society, fifteen similar societies have been formed in the United States and one in Canada. Tue receip’s of the parent organization during the past year amounted to *5 «28; ex pen di-urea, *5,737; on hand, *3,114. Since the last report the Society has received, as b< quests, legacies amounting to *7,000; also, *N,OOO toward a building fund. Mr. Sites wished to purchase a farm near Oxford, Ohio, but the price was exorbitant. A girl discovered oil in a swamp on the farm and secretly imparted the knowledge to Mr. Bites. Mr. Bites bought.the farm. When Mr. Sites moved into the house, he found a cellar and in the cellar a drain leading to the swamp, and near the drain a barrel which had con tained petroleum, but the contents of which had, at that tiu.e, merely “left their tracks” in passing from the barrel to the drain. Mr. bites has not yet commenced boring for oil.