Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1870 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

nf mto^* B** 8 ** on record—Time out tfflJffJwSuT* 14 ” * hiUlnff ’ Wi#» 6*t« have committed much tbu wtae growing districts of «» time to be insured in the. t Tomorrow the time to enr cook, named Grey, at the *, 8t Joseph, Mo., has had a French writer says that every Foresight to the right eye of Prudence, and Prudence dictates Life Insurance. Insure in the Washington. An Englishman has been adjudged • two months on the treadmill for taanng out a friend's side whiskers in a scuffle. 7 A. Gang of laborers on a strike in England hare painted on their banners: “A little earning is a dangerous thing.” A Detboit couple brought a sick child tn C police justice, a few days ago, and demanded the arrest of a neighbor for bewitching it Tn great difference between grown persons and children consists in the 1 st being extremely selfish without trying to conceal it. . Tn recent great hail storm in Phils dclpbia has induced some enterprising individual to start a ** hail insurance company." Tn Woman’s Club have coms to the conclusion that no girl should marry unless sue has money enough to support a husband. A Nnw Ton reporter says that the legs of Weston, the pedestrian, resemble two ordinary lead pencils fastened to one end of a small banana. Thb Greeks are said to be the most sensible people in the world, as they wear one style of dress all the year round, and the fashion never changes. , Huby K. Brown, the sculptor, has ' made a bronze statue monument to Abraham Lincoln, which is to be placed in Union Square, New York city. Pearls an said to be the most troublesome property tn the world. Unless they are constantly worn and aired, they change oolor or crumble to pieces. Kossuth Is giving lessons in foreign languages, at Turin, in order to make a living. He steadily refuses to accept any presents at the hands of bis friends. A CntrniMATi man threw his wife out of the window because supper was not ready whan he came home drunk. Forher injuries were not dangerous. A new medical association, with the name«d u The Academy of Medicine of the District of Columbia,” has been organised* at Washington. It includes both white and colored members. - Pan, db Casagnac, the champion duellist of France, declared recently that he would not accept any more challenges from tpen that could not prove that they were good swordsmen. Thb Milwaukee Sentinel says an old gentleman who resides in the suburbs never has green peas tor dinaer without remembering the poor in sending the pods to the orphan asylum. Thbodorb Clay, the lunatic son of Henry, used to remark, while in the asylum that “it was a very good boarding house, but some of the boarders were the biggest foils he ever saw.” Two rival undertakers of Pittsfield, Mass., recently indulged in a fight at a funeral, at which both attended, one fur Dishing the coffin and the other the hearse; and mourners had to interfere to prevent bloodshed. An English farmer lately placarded the following announcement: “ Extensive sale of live stock, comprising not less than 140,000 head, and an unlimited right of pasturage.” AJI he had was a few hives of bees Bomb one says that to have a really happy household the most essential thing to to have a good cook, and that more immorality aud misery are occasioned by bad cooking than can be traced to any other cause. T#o deer-hounds treed a boy in a field near Petersburg, Mich., the other day, and kept him in that position for several hasre. A brother ot the treed boy procured a gun, and the dogs were shot An advertisement was sent to the Cleveland Zferoid office on a recent Sunday night,-in which occurred the words, “ The Christian's Dream: No Cross, No Crown.' 1 The blundering compositor made it read — “The Christian's Dream: No Cowt, No OroaaC' Ths Luzerne (Penn.) Union says that during a violent storm on the 21st ult, a large -quantity of sulphur fell in certain portions of the township of Hanover, and that “ a tin pan exposed in the yard of Dr. Bakes exhibited a deposit of some fifty grains of the mineral.” A small boy in Boston showed bis rare talent tor devising means of cruelty by abutting two little girls in a barn and setting two large dogs upon them. The shrieks of the children called the neighbors and they were rescued, but only after they bad been terribly lacerated by the half maddened brutes. A man named Elijah Monsell, of Monson, Mass., recently caught the small-pox, and. ignorant of the fact, spread the disease in his family. His wife, mother and two children died from the effects within two weeks, and he, left alone, the sole occupant of his once happy home, became despondent and was driven to suicide. A frightful scene occurred at the Bowery Theatre, New York, a few nights ago. The young woman performs in the cage with the puma lions was seized by the throat by one of the beasts, and terribly lacerated before she could be released. Her piercing shrieks threw the audience into a panic, and many people fainted. She was taken home, and received prompt surgical attendance.

A Bboomton man went into Lafayette, Ind., got *• fatigued,” laid down close to a molasses barrel, accidentally turned the Meet, and went to sleep, with a full stream running on his head. He was discovered after about eighteen gallons of the sweet had ran out over him. The Mayor further sweetened him by a fine of SB. He paid the fine, and gave his note for the molasses. Dn. Thomas Smith, of Charleston, 8. 0, wee deprived of the power of speech, about three months ago, by a paralytic stroke; but, “with characteristic energy and determination, he commenced immediately to train his vocal organs as if he were a child learning for the first time to MMhk, and, by dint of persevering effort, expreßS LntelAh editor of* country paper, having lent an axe to one of his subscribers, the borrower unfortunately broke the handle. On returning it, the man said, “Toucan easily get it fixed." “Yes,” replied the editor, “ but that-will cost at least a quarter of a dollar.” “Well,” rejoined the borrower, “if you ain’t rather small for an editor I Here's the quarter, but I’ll thank yoeto stop my paper at once.” Charleston (8. o:> reports that there was in that city, a few days sotored man who, during the closing days of the war, was tried by a drum-ApMoobrt-partinl, found guilty, sentenced W-OMM, duly hunted .and pronounced

dead by two surgeons in attendance, one I of whom secured the body and then restored him to life. The Norn adds that the man hid himself until the war w»» over, and then settled on a firm within thirteen miles of that dty, where he is now at work, and that the surgeon is now a resident of Charleston. An old Boston merchant once said to a young man of good reputation from New Hampshire, to whom he had just sold a lot of goods, partly on credit: “My young friend, I have a word of advice to give you, a* you are just commencing business oh your own account; it is this: You should always keep in mind that you must either cheat yonr customer or your cred itor." Th- young man listened, went home, thought over the matter, and tvx>n packed up nearly all those goods, shipped them to a distant point, and ran away, and the Boston merchant never got a dollar for them.

Tire women’s branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Philadelphia, recently Interceded in behalf of the dogs, and succeeded in having the old method of disposing of them dis pensed with, and the introduction of carbonic acid into a large tub in which the dogs were confined, ' substituted, as a means of destroying them. The new plan would not work, however, and when the cover was removed, instead of seeing, a mess of dead dog flesh, the spectators beheld a lot of lively canines, s'aring them out of countenance as if desirous ot knowing the cause of this new movement of humanity. It was found necessary to resort to the old method. A singular contest took place lately in a Mexican village near Monterey. The Periodic# Official of that city gives the particulars.- “Two young brothers, Eu genio and Jose Maria, sons of Don Fran cisco Cantu, were engaged in clearing out a well, at a place called Los Positos. Slid denly a rabid lion appeared, and violently rushed upon ope of the young men, Eu genio, knocking him senseless to the ground. The other young man, twenty years of age, on seeing the immittnt danger of his brother, rushed in turn upon the beast, who Immediately abandoned his prey, and furiously faced the one who intended to dispute him. Jose Maria pos Besses extraordinary strength, and having succeeded in drawing his arms around the beset in an advantageous manner, he attempted to choke it The young man and beast rolled on the ground for some time, and finally the beast freed itself from the hold of its oppressor, in a dying condition, and the brave Cantu-finished killing it by smashing its head with an agricultural instrument which he was using at the time when he was attacked. The two young men were hurt more or lisa. The beast was attacked by hydrophobia.”