Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1870 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

Th* number of OentOee in Utah is stated to be Icm than 8,500. At Ware, Mm*., a couple have married after a ooortahlp of thirty years. Rvhry member of the Washington Life Insnranos Company !■ interested in its sneoeaa Th* wheat harvest of France will be about one fourth below the average. A Philadelphian recently died from the mistake of drinking erode oarbolic acid, thinking it was essence of ginger. Th* policies of the Washington are paid within sixty days after receipt of proof of death. Th* wife of Gideon A. Gray, of Bcllaire, 0., recovered SBSO damages recently from P. Burke, for selling liquor to her husband. Charles Dkwolf, of Harmony, 111, wafWjsently stung to death by bees. A horse upset a hive, and the whole swarm settled on his head. A certain photographer in Indianapolis exposes delinquent customers by displaying their pictures upside down, end labeled, “not paid for.” A voexo lady strolling through the woods in Jersey was bung up by the chignon to a limb, Bnd liad to wait two hours fbr a passer-by to extricate her. “ Pat, if Mr. Jones comes before my return, tell him that I will meet him sttwo o’clock." “ Ay, ay, sir ; but what shall I tell him if he don't come ?” A census marshal in Foresteounty, Pa., states that there is a woman in that county 107 years old. She was engaged in chopping wood when he saw her. It is stated that except for a single mile there is an uninterrupted water course from the mouth of the Hudson river to the mouth of the Columbia, on the Pacific. Belfast, Me, is happy in the possession of the Passagassawaukeag Base Ball Club, When they go to a match they take an extra stage coach to bring along the name. I At Pittsburgh, recently, a child fell over a precipice a distance of 300 feet, but his fall being broken by shelving rocks, he was not killed. lie sustained serious injuries, however. A man in Vermont has succeeded in making a folding globe. It is hollow, and can be shut up and carried in a small space. Much ingenuity is displayed in the construction. A toung man recently died at Cincinnati from the effect of pills taken without regard to time, place or number. He was a bachelor, lived alone, and had no medical attendance. A toung lady of Baton Rouge sent a poetical piece to a local paper entitled “May Thirtieth.” She felt unpleasant next day to see it headed “My Thirtieth.” It was about her birthday. To make a valuable speckled dog bul-let-proof, Mark Twain says: “Take off his bide and Hbc it with sbeet-iron. Russia iron is the best, and i 3 slicker aid more showy than the common kind. Dogs prepared in this way do not mind bulA French-Chinese dictionary would seem to most persons a work above any one man’s strength and patience. Au apostolic missionary has just completed that tremendous piece of labor, the first oppy of which he has presented to the French Emperor. A thief went into the depot at lowa City the other night, with revolver in hand, and in the presence of five or six employes of the oompany, broke open a trunk, took from it a quantity of valuable clothing which he recked In a valise of Ms own, sit down, waited till daylight, and then went his way. The witnesses were afraid of his revolver, .

As Governor Fairchild and a friend ■were riding by rail from Madison lately, two young ladies with their beaux entered the crowded car, and the distinguished gentlemen tendered their seats to the fair ones. But great was their surprise to see the younp men occupy their seats and take their fair companions upon their laps. “By George,” said the Governor, “ we might have done that.” A am, iu one of the Boston public schools applied to her teacher for leave to be absent half a day on the plea that they had company at home. The teacher referred her to the printed list of reasons that the School Committee think sufficient to justify absence,'and asked her if her casecame under any of them. She naively replied that it might eome under the head of “domestic affliction.” A traveler who recently passed through Salt Lake City says he saw people at work in the gardens attached to nearly every homestead, driving the grasshoppers in swarms out of the enclosures, using green boughs to whip them with, and “smndgeß” to discouraging them from coming back. A person "vr&ikiDg along the street would have a cloud of them rising before him at every step. The Worcestershire (England) Advertiser publishes an advertisement in which Edward Hicks, No. 27 Friar street, Worcester, invites “his Christian friends” to inspect his “large assortment of boots and shoes.” He expresses a desire for “ihe Divine blessing upon his diligence in business," and promises, if herein sell boots and shoes enough, “to devote a portion of his time to gratuitous mission work. Repairs neatly executed. Bespoke ordej* punctually attended, &c, &c.”