Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1870 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

Jrromu Bonaparte left an estate worth $220,000. At Rome a mart for female slaves existed up to A. D. 1501. , Tan census recently taken in Hungary shows a population or 15,429 238. Bishops insure in the Washington Life Insurance Company of New York. Philadelphia has a photographic artist named Guleknusleuackcroferson. The average age of the present members of the United States Senate is 46 years. Five thousand houses in Philadelphia, nearly all flf the better class, are said to be tenantless. Titusville, Pa., which is not named in the census of 1860, now numbers nearly 9,000 inhabitants. Queen Victoria is now in the thirtyfourth year of her reign. She ascended the throne on the 21st of June 1837. The Directors of the Washington Life are some of our best and most reliable men in the city. Thomas Carlton, Methodist Book Concern, New York. There is said to be among the prisoners in Jail a* York, Pa., a man who has been confined for over nine years for refusing to answer a question m court. A California father has purchased his children for $575 each from their mother, to whose custody the divorce court awarded them. A youno man of Peoria, 111., a son of one of the oldest families of that city, has gone crazy by the continued use of whisky.

A man in Troy 103, years old, hauls a wagon about the streets In the capacity of scavenger. He is a French Canadian by birth, and his namo is Pickard. The people of Boston consume 20,948 fallonsof milk a day.atacoatof $17,122. 2. They have 752 wholesale dealers in that commodity. Bomb ingenious biped has a machine to make a man rise early in the morning- j A young. Benedict says a six-months-old baby can beat it to death. One of William Penn’s sliver spoons withjhis name engraved upon it, has been found near Reedsville, Pa., by workmen who were digging a cellar. A man is traveling about Scotland in a coat of mail highly polished, the object being to advertise the excellence of the black lead with which the mail is kept bright. A smart 10-year old girl, at Prince William, Va., lately fell into a well twentyeight feet deep, with twelve feet of water In it, and clambered out again without assistance. Dr. Btkousbero, the Prussian Railroad Ring, owns eiiough landed property in various parts of Europe to make a territory as large as the Kingdom of Saxony. A reverend professor of Amherst woke up; a drowsy audience on a recent Sunday morning by putting them through the exorcise ot singing a hymn in the middle of his sermon. A New York letter asserts that Beecher’s pew rents are high because prominent New York merchants buy the best of them up for the use of their customers on Sunday. The agricultural societies of France are organizing an International Congress of Agriculturists, to be held in France next year. It promises to be an interesting affair. A furious correspondent of the Csu,. cinnati Inquirer having demanded the title of the most effectual fly poison, that paper confidently recommended boarding house pie. A party of pleasure-seekers, in California, were recently poisoned by eating a hearty meal of muscles. They produced vomiting and cramps, which were only relieved by careful medical treatment. A very polite Frenchman apolauded vehemently at the close of an exceedingly tedious performance by a fair but wretched musician. “Why do you applaud?” asked * bystander. “ Mon Dieu! because it is endedJ"

The veteran statesman, William H. Seward, who will be 70 years of age in May of 1871, is preparing for a voyage around the world, upon which he will start at an early day, accompanied by a portion of his family and several friends. Johnny Btkele, the played-out “oil prince,” is said to have recently received a letter requesting his instructions concerning $20,000 which he deposited in a New York bank during tho hoy-day of his prosperity and had utterly forgotten. A Newark (N. J.,) lady has applied for a divorce, just because her husband has an unpleasant and eccentric habit of sleeping with a knife under his pillow. As he is a somnambulist, she fears that he may do something rash. A most remarkable gathering, or reunion, took place at McCutchensville, near Evansville, Ind., a few days since. Fifty-two years ago a company of eight came over from England; the eight were all present, the oldest being in his eighty third year.

. Lord Lytton, talking to Dr. about public speaking, asked him whether he felt his heart beat when he was going to speak. “Yes.” “Does your voice frighten you?” “Yes.” “Do all your ideas forsake you?” “.Yea” “Do you wish the floor to open and swallow you ?” “ Yes.” “Then you’ll make an orator.” First and Last.— Just come from Heaven. how bright and tslr The soft locks of the baby's hair. As If th? unshut gates still abed . Ths sharing halo round his head. Just enteric" Heaven, what sacred snows Upon the old man's brow repose, For there the opening gates have thrown The glory from the great white throne. Thbsx are seven families now living in a “ co operative ” cottage at Long Branch, and they declare themselves highly pleased with the experiment They contributed an equal amount for the erection and furnishing of the building, have a steward who assesses the cost or the table and household expenses pro rata , and thus live more cheaply and comfortably during the summer than they could at a hoteL A Brooklyn Judge having told a lawyer the other day, that his mind was made up on the ease, and that counsel need not read from a decision of Chief Justice Marshall that he held in his hand, the lawyer replied: “I do not wish to affect your honor’s mind by reading the decismm, but simply desire to give the members of the bar present an opportunity to Sec how Inferior Chief Justice Marshall was to your homor.” The Judge wilted.