Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1870 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

Bangor, Maine, ha® a mud turtle weighing 100 pound® « Pkkmobnt Grant will visit Bt Louis in July on private business. * PmnuRGH propoae® to have a rowing regatta on the Fourth of July next.. Litchhild county, Conn., boasts of a child with eleven living grandparent® The rates of the Washington Life ars the same a* other good companies. Tub total cost of the late Illinois Constitutional Convention wa® about <170,000. r=~ ———; ~ Tint aeronaut King recently made hie 144th ascension at Charleston, 8. C, The new Police Commissioners of New York city are each paid <15,000 a year salary. A goop constitution is like a money-box; its full value is never known till it is broken. “It is a curious fact" says some entomologist, “ that it is the female-mosquito, that tortures u®” It is said that 105 rich persons in England hold <1,745,000,000 worth of the British consol® Large numbers are already securing board for the Musical Institute to be held in Chicago the last of August. A i.ad named Grown was killed the other dav, at Dover, N. H., while playing base ball, the ball striking his head. The Milwaukee .Sentinel says: Seven daily, ten weekly and three monthly newspapers are published in that city. Insure your life for the amount of the mortgage on your house, in the Washington Lil® Insurance Company, of New York. I have alwus bore it in mind that, Jist about in rasho that a person or individual iz proud and haughty, they are ignorant. —Billings. A boy at Waterbury, Connecticut, split his companion’s head open with a hatchet, because the latter would not give him a bile of candy. Thb Attorney-General has decided that internal revenue officers are not to be excluded from claiming and recovering informers’ shares. Says the Louisville Courier; “ Louisville can’t boast of her‘Red Stockings’ or ‘ White Stockings,’ but she is pretty heavy on her ‘ black leg®’ ” The ungallant editor of the Elko (Cat) Independent says “all the plain females of the New England Slates are flocking to the Pacific coast” ■. , . A San Francisco editorjcomplains that when an Eastern journal wants to locate a joke without truth or moral in it, California is always selected. A carriage which was presented to Daniel Webster by his New York friends in 1850, brought only <B6 at auction, in Portsmouth, N. Y., a few days ago. The guests at a Calcutta dinner party were very nearly poisoned by the trifling error in passing around chloride of zinc, as a beverage, instead of wine. The late John C. Baldwin, of Orange, N J., started life a poor man, and during the last fourteen years gave to educational and charitable purposes <670,000. A candid saloon keeper in Brooklyn displays a sign, “John Doe, dealer in barley water and bad cigars.” His description of his wares is said to be eminently truthful. The model husband lives in Lewiston, Me. He takes the baby with its nursing bottle to his place of business, leaving his invalid wife to take her ease at home.

A lady 'recently sent a fur cape to a fur establishment for repair, explaining her wishes in the following note.- “ I want mi kape mend id whar the mices nored it in gud shaip.” A picture broker in Wilmington, Del., has been convicted of obtaining money under false pretenses, for selling a paint ing as the work of the marine artist, Hamilton, which had never been touched by his brush. A young man, aged twenty-two years, whose term of three years’ imprisonment in the Cambridge, Mass., house of correction had expired, Was recently moved to the State prison to enter on a life imprisonment. _ Some Newport school-ma’ams have been invited to go to Montana to teach. The Hews warns them if they go they must expect to go to housekeeping at the end of three month® It’s the custom of the country. A practical man died not long ago in Devonshire, England. Almost with his last breath he enjoined upon his wife and daughter to have the funeral procession leave the house at an early hour, that they might get back in time to milk the cow®

Some boys of Montpelier, W, recently went on a hunting expedition, carrying their ammunition in their pockets. One of them sat down to smoke, when a spark was communicated to his pocket, exploding the powder and burning him fear At a place of amusement in Indianapolis, the other night, a little girl actress sang “ Little Barefoot” in costume. Such was the effect on the audience that at the repetition of‘‘Please, sir, give me a penny, sir, ’ it fairly rained nickles on the stage ; at least two dollars' worth were thrown. A young man named Frank Thorne, stopping in Buffalo, has concluded arrangements with parties at Niagara Falls, to make a leap from the new suspension bridge into the river, a distance of 190 feet, on the 13th of next August. He is to receive the sum of 110,000 for the undertaking. The Philadelphia Prat of a recent date says, “ For the first time within living memory there is not a gambling house publicly open in Philadelphia. The blaze of light through half drawn blinds and half-opened doors no longer at midnight lures our youth from home or tempts the stranger.” While passing a house in Virginia, two drummers observed a very peculiar chimney, unfinished, and it attracting their attention, they asked a flaxen-haired urchin standing near the house if it “ drawed well,” whereupon the aforesaid urchin replied: “ Yes, it draws the attention of all the fools that pass this road.”

The other day some ladies were out visiting There being a little two year old present, one of the ladies asked him if he would not kiss her. answered, “NO." “ What is the reason you will not kiss me»” “I m too little to kiss you. Papa will kiss you. Papa kisses all the big girls.” He was permitted to play with his toys. The Louisville Courier-Journal gets off the following: A short time ago the bOdy of D. C. Miller Was found floating in a creek near Evansville. A few days after the burial he appeared upon the streets of that town and offered to prove that the body found was not his, whereupon he was arrested and indicted by the Grand Jury for obtaining funerals under false pretenses. „ Three Maryland papers assert that there is, this season, a strange tendency ip. the peach trees to produce two, and even more, peaches from a single blossom. The editor of the True Marylander says he has about half a dezen trees in one clump which are ful), and yet no oti6 blossom in ten produces a single peach, and that all ov< r the orchard the samp tendency “to twu)” manifests itsell

A SERVANT girl, Who waa sent a few day*,ago to a druggist in New York, with a request that he would give her tome caster oil •’ disguised as much as possible,” waa asked by the druggist if she liked soda water, and replied in the affirmative The drugtfist thereupon gave her a glass strongly flavored with lemon, with much oil cast upon the troubled water. Note* ing that she lingered after receiving this, the druggitt inquired the cause, and was told that she was waiting for the oil. “ Oh,” replied the man of drug® complacently, “yotr have taken that.” The startled woman gazed at him in dismay a moment, and then exclaimed, “ Oh, murder, I wanted it for a man who is very sick.”