Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1870 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

Dr. Mart Walker will settle in Mobile. Dickers left bis library to his eldest SOD. There are now 445 blast furnaces in the United States. Alexander H. Stephens now weighs bat seventy-six pounds. When is a thief like a seamstress ? When, he cuts and runs. Doctors of Law and Medicine insure in the Washington Life Insurance Company. ▲ Spanish proverb says: One “I did,” s worth two “ 1 wish I had.” Policies become self-sustaining in the Washington Life Insurance Company of New York. Prince Arthur’s best horse, at a recent sale of his stud in Canada, brought only |l9B. Milkmen are happy fellows. They enjoy themselves at the watering-places all the year round. A French barber’s sign board reads as follows: “To morrow the public will be shaved gratuitously.” Gold is the only idol that is worshipped in all lands without a temple, and by all sects without hypocrisy. A gentleman looking at his watch after midnight cried: “Ifs tomorrow. I must bid you good night.” Wht is a horse Uje most curious feeder in the world ? Because he eats when he hasn’t a bit in his mouth. A New Hampshire woman told the census enumerator that her age was thirty-one years, and said her oldest son Was twenty-seven. Hon David A Wells recently retired to private citizenship with the expiration of the office he has held for the last four yean. r The fence of a grave yard in Pennsylvania bears an inscription in large white letters, “Use Jones’ b'tiled ale if you would keep out of here.” A call to get up a Fourth of July celebration at Rahway, N. J., and signed “Many Citizens,’’ was responded to by vme man, who adjourned tine die. T p Never listen to flattop- my dear,” said a mothsr dsnghte r. “Why, mamma. ghouM j know tbat they are flatterers unless I listen to them ? ” A Long Branch bells, named Annie Welsh, dresses eight times a day, and dashes 4Bod£ the beach behind four dinerent teams during pach twenty-four hours. Elihu Bcrrit? proposes to publish a book containing all the newspaper notices of Dickens’ death, and all the pulpit allusions thereto, from all countries. *■ A sovereign remedy for hydrophobia is to immerse the head of the canine under water for one half hour. He will be a little mad at first, but soon gets over it. The remains of a young lady were recently consisted to the grave in Troy under the escort of eight female pallbearers, who were uniformly dressed in white dresses and veils. Dr. Livingstone, the African explorer, is supposed to be at Ni.fji, two months travel in land from JSmibar, and no tidings from him areTOked for under seven or eight months. ,Il is estimated that the quantity of beer consumed in Europe each year would require to contain it a canal nearly five English miles in length, fifty feet deep, and two hundred feet broad. The Chinese only pay their physicians when they are in perfect health; as soon a&they get sick the pay of the doctor causes, and it is therefore for his interest dlcure them as quickly as possible. A country poet, after looking abour over life, has come to the following rhyn* ing conclusion: “ Ob, I wogUfc’t'llve fo«*ver, I wonldn’t if I could: - ’ But I needn’t W «bpal it For I couldn't if I would.” Rev. C. 0. Foote, of New York, is credited with telling his congregation that a young lady in that city recently got into a terrible rage and paroxyism of anger with her husband, and that, ing bled immediately after, her bl.Rtflfrwas found to be frothy like champagiAf A hog got drunk in Ky., the other day, by eating eomeStfandv peaches which had been thrown into tjc street. The animal went reeling about for an hour or two, behavijflphowever, as well as most men generally do under similar circumstances. At last he staggered under the wheels of a street car and was killed. The proprietor of the Bridgeport, Conn , hotel was bustling about the other morning at ten o'clock with twenty things to do, when some one asked him why he didn’t call up his clerk. “I shan’t call Mm as long as I can help it," replied he, “ for when he is in bed I know where he is, but after he’s up I don’t know where to find him.** A wealthy old lady living in Brookline, Mass, called in her neighbors one day lately, and told them to take everything in the house. They went energeticaUy to work, and before any of her friends knew It, there was not an article of furniture left. A religious mania did it; ana now legal force is trying to get the furniture back again. The Japanese have hitherto had a coinage of silver pieces, and of silver and gold, bat are about to replace them with a coin resembling the Mexican dollar, Which will be minted with machinery bought of the British mint in China. Much of the old coinage has found its way to England, but more to India and San Francisco, Mexican bars and dollars being remitted for it from the last point. Orpheus C. Kerr contributes there verses on Dickens to Punchinello ■. Tto bomage of owr world to tiara, OMrtehTtaa Scribe! wfeen tboa wert bore. Was all tbat’a loTlngia a Lsugb, AaS all that's tensor In » Tear. mortal who depart*. Immortal ta w Uarta"’