Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1870 — CURRENT ITERS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITERS.

Mare Lemon has written sixty plays. A Philadelphia woman has eleven hundred flower pots surrounding her house. Forty Chinese attend the school of the Five Points House of Industry in New York. The Washington Life offers all the advantages of a stock and mutual company combined. Melvin Foster kiHed a mad dog with his billiard cue at his saloon it Norwich, Conn., the other day. “ Washington’s body servant ” hasn’t all died yet, but one of him is still living at Syracuse, aged 113. Each policeman of New Haven has been presented with a two dollar Bible by a kina hearted old lady. Andrew Stafford, late mail agent, has been sentenced, at Baltimofe, to three years imprisonment for embezzling a letter. A poor woman in Utica, who owns three houses and is building another, sends her children into the street daily to beg.

Harvbt Hawks, of Rutland county, is the name of the solitary voter for female suffrage in the recent Vermont Constitutional Convention. In accordance with the wish of Mr. Dickens, the weekly journal, All (he Tear Round, will remain under the charge of his eldest son. Nkithkr minister, lawyer, doctor nor liquor dealer has a local habitation or a name in the town of Weatporte, Maine, with a population of 1,200. During the late session of the Massachusetts Legislature, the Governor signed 409 acts and 87 resolves. Last year there were 466 acts and 103 resolves. A yellow in Philadelphia has been sentenced to fifteen months’ imprisonment and $325 fine for the embezzlement of S3OO in soldiers’ pension money. Tw*htt thousand kegs of beer, or 2,000,000 glasses, were consumed in Cincinnati during the recent Sangerfest week, which yielded to the retailers SIOO,OOO. Ik you were to die to-day, would you leave your family independent of charityt Insure in the Washington Life Insurance Co., of New York.

At Harvard College the very suggestive motto far dull clergymen of “ He giveth his beloved sleep,’’ has been chos en to adorn the walls of the new chapel. Happy the man who, free from care, flndeth his wife content to wear the dresses she last season boqght, and this year troubleth him for naught A Cincinnati census-taker, who Was also employed by the Marshal in 1860, says many of the ladies have grown younger during the past ten years. . Norwich, Conn , hu 7.W7 namesin her directory, a tax list of $18,500,000, 2,182 dwellings, $10,060,00) invested in stock companies, and ss*ooo,oooin savings banka a

Tnn following epitaph was written by an exemplary wife for her own grave: •• Oh, huaband sweet-rinse I, thy lotto* wife. Untimely thus most tekkmy Veete ofllle, I orny Jnst beaten to eanSradd to thine The happy yean I fondly seckoned mine 1 The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad has been mulcted in SBSOO dnm•ages, on account of the death of Charles N. Bennett, a fireman, who w» knocked from his engine by a mail-catcher, near Cliola station, last September. , Akkroskn* lamp explosion <*CKrf«d recently at Rocky MbunS N. G, setting fire to a blanket, which was hastily thrown out of the window. It turned out, however, that a baby was wrappcd up in the blanket, and died of the falL A lunatic in a New England town was discovered one day lately aS the grave of

his father in'the cemetery, having dug to the ooffln. He had the Ud open, and wae calling on the old man to get up, telling him he had laid there long enough. ' A clergyman list summer visited the celebrated Hoosac tunnel, and encountered a sprightly Irishman, who, in reply to the question, “Do yeu thiak’ this work will pay t” promptly replied: •" Faith, no I but thin it’ll be a great ornament to society.” * A Conhkoticot paper reports that a town clerk la that State has been accustomed to sign marriage certificate! in blank and to give them to a certain clergyman is naively remarked, “doffl much marrying”), to be filled out . and used at his discretion. Aw Irish correspondent o t the New York Herald relates how an old woman, named Gore, was driven into the streets in a snow storm by an agent of lan lady, the Marchioness of Ely, and allow to perish. She was unable to pay the Marchioness her rent Texas is ahead, and Washington's body servant is nowhere. Texas reports that'a negro woman died in that State on the 7th of June, who was 138 years ojd, who. was “one of the oldest inhabitants of Texas,” and who was “ formerly a servant of General Washington's mother.” A widow lady in Durham, Be., said that If the town taxed Women for repairing highways it must allow them to work, out their tax like men. She accordingly presented herself on the regular roadmending day, with a horse and cart, and proceeded to haul dirt and stones with as much facility as the rest of them. Iw Newark, N. J., the other day, one Thomas Flannigan appeared at the jail office, and desired to be committed, to escape the tongue of bis scolding wife. The request could not be entertained, so he went into the street andhurled a stone at the window, thus committing a breach of the peace, when his wishes , were complied with. A young lady reached a town in Maine, a few days ago, direct from Germany, and on the second day after her arrival was married to a happy youth, who was engaged to her six years ago in the old country, and who, after securing a house in Maine, sent for her to “ come over the water to Charlie "—only his name was Frederick. Dr. Stein, while lecturing recently at Dresden, on the preservation of meat and food, produced a tin canister of. good size, containing butchers’ meat preserved by Appert’s method, and prepared by him' self in 1851. Os opening the canister, which had been filled nineteen years previously, the meat was found to be as fresh and full of flavor as when it was first placed in the canister. A young factory operator In Lawrence, Mass., borrowed $2 of a lady friend recently, and subsequently took her to the circus. On pay-day he refunded the amount very promptly, after'deducting fifty cents her circus ticket cost him. ,He was not certain he was going to have her. After that shd was quite certain he wasn’t - A young man in Nevada had courted a young lady in New England by mail ana exchanged photographs. An engagement was made and the young lady started over the Pacific Railroad to meet and marry her affianced. On her arrival, however, she promptly declined the alliance, avowing that while his face looked well enough, she “ would never wed Aith such a little spud of a fellow as him-’’ . . ' r A ludicrous mistake hafl been discov* ered in the bill to incorporate the New Bedford & Fairhaven Railroad Company, which passed both branches oi the Massachusetts Legislature a fsw weeks ago. The bill, among other things, was intended to repeal certain acts of previous )ears, and one of the chapters specified referred to the organization of an independent company of cavalry at Holliston, which is now repealed by this bill. The average velocity of different objects is found in the following: —^ Milas per boor, pereec. A man' wslks * * A horse trots . V *5 A horse runs f” S A steajnboat JJJ A sailing vessel runs "f Slow rivers flow ® Rapid rivers f10w... •••• J lx A moderate wind M0w5.. .....if ‘ v . A storm moves 2 A hurricane moves •••• , . TZI A rifle boll moves L“0 l.G* Sound moves "WoS Ml AM Light moves V’-JSS* Seam Electricity moves . ...SW.OW