Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1870 — [?]RNT ITENS. [ARTICLE]

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THEM. nfcrNrw EbslanD boy loot Ma non rewmuy, by peering into a trout pond. Tut Jtvnrita romance of office aeekeri inbtaptaw.* _ Amtom the 170.000 inhebftante of Ban VtaMtolA about ditto an Gtemnx Tn Plbasamtbst Ta»— Gfe tn«ur ance, The Company—The Wheblngton FnanrYocu. American Secretary of at Park, ft writing a life of aaaadh tett It wUHwtyey to galtier thorn 1 A •toWM terrier mounted oteA‘ Wy trptteroan often beam taking an airing onHariem Lane. N. Y. Ttt dlvidands of the Washington Life aramadeand paM in cash or insurance, annally teem date of policy. Tan latest flak story Trom Northern New York la, that four men caught 1,607 trout one afternoon recently. ▲ RATYLBAnakb, with eight rattles, was killed In one of the streets of Meridan, Cqnm, a few days since. A Pbobia, HL, man has had a " revolution * that he Is to die August 16,1871, and has hla tomb-stone lettered to that effitcL • An eaghkwa* shot near BeUye, in Austria, recently, bearing a Dollar with the date IMS, a*d a partially effaced ooat-of-arma. Nxw York physicians daim that soda water was largely responsible for the great number of sudden deaths during the recant hot weather. Ajr old lady at St Landry, Louisiana, before her death, could count up over eight hundred lineal descendants, all blood relations of hern Tmb Philadelphia Ledger says: “We have had another trial in this city of a woman indicted as a ‘common soold,’ and, what is most extraordinary, the lady when she was arraigned.” A New York lady, who used eome kind of dye to produce the golden hair so much admired, has had one side of her hair tun perfectly white, and the other side of a yellowish green. At Boddin, Mo., lately, a lad was bitten on his foot by a common gray spider, and in a few days mortification took place, and large pieces of flesh .dropped out, so that his foot had to be amputated. Wun the SB,OCO insurance on the life of a Mr. Cole, late principal of the high school in Walpole, Massachusetts, was paid, the legal heirs at once handed over the amount to the young lady to. whbm he was engaged to be marned. Thu Boston Journal of Chemietry warns against the dangerous character of galvanised iron pipe when employed for conducting water to be used for culinary purposes, as it will rust even more rapidly than dean iron m most localities. The Austin (Texas} Body Journal says they had snow balling there on July 6. This luxury was due to the working of an ice machine recently established in Austin. The snow-balls were made of ice shavings. A vbrdant Rhede Islander, looking at the trench for the water pipes on William street, New Bedford, the other day, and mtetring the gas pipes, asked a byetandtr if all the streets were held together with iron rods.

A wild cat attempted to take a baby out of its cradle in a cabin near Mankato, Minn,but a little black and-tan dog attacked the catamount and fought it until the mother came in and drove the .wild beast ont with a brand of fire. Turn is the latest from Paris: “Doctor,” said a nephew, on settling the fee question for his uncle's illness, and from whose death he entertained great expectation sj “I beg, for the future, you will not interfere in family matters.” Mbs Kate Howard, who died reccnfly at Paris, Ky., at the age of 89, was six feet and one-half inch in height, and weighed 280 pounds. Her husband was six feet four inches high, and all but one of their ten children were over six feet iq, height, the tallest being six feet ten inchex Thb other day Mrs. Vincent Colyer, of East New York, after rescuing her little grandchild from being run over by. a double team suddenly put her hand to her forehead, exclaiming, in a faint voice, “I was scared so much,’’ and fell heavily to the ground, and died in three minutes. Or a recent hot morning the Oberlin, Ohio, College junior class, built up &Hre in their recitation room, and when the hour for recitation came, and with it the Professor, the heat was so intense that it was almost suffocating. The Professor stood his ground, and made the class sweat before they got through with the joke. By Prussian law every man capable of bearing arms must enter the army. _Np substitutes are allowed. He is enrolled at 20, and serves seven years, three in the regular army and four in the reserve He is then in the “ Landwehr” for nine years, and is then enrolled in the “ Landstrum ” till he is fifty. In case of war the regular army is called first, then the reserves, then the Landwehr. The Land strum is not called beyond-the frontiers. A gentleman yas recently poring over what to give a young lady friend, and at last decided that it should be a ling. “Now, my dear friend, what kind of a ring would you like!—it is so very puzzling; there are so many sorts.”—“Well, Mr. Johnson—one, you know, don’t like to make a choice in these matters—little delicate—you understand—but really, if you insist upon it—l s’pose you willwhy, I should like an engagement ring I dearly,** was the innocent reply.

A story has been told of a graceless scamp who gained access to the Clarendon printing office in Oxford, England, where the forms of a new edition ot the Episcopal Prayer Book had just been made up and were ready for the press. In that ot the “form” containing the marriage service he substituted the letter k for the letter v in the word live, and thus the vow “to love, honor, comfort, etc, so long as ye both shall live,” was made to read “ so long asye both shall like !*’ The change wa* not discovered till the whole edition was printed off. ▲ widow of New Jersey, who was once fascinating, haying noticed that her beauty was becoming daily more “modified,” and, as a consequence, less to be admired, invested in a quantity of that “refrigerative balm which restores the freshness of youth,” and applied it to her scalp and face. She was awakened on the following morning to find that her hair had all dropped out, and that her face was all covered with blotches that no effort of science could remove. She has only one desire now left unsatisfied, and that is to be brought face to face with the owner of the ’* balm,” Aa American on his travels says: “I asked a fellow touiist his opinion of the Rhine. ‘ Wai, sir,’ said he, *it is not so grand as our North River. We hain’t got them old castles, to be sure, but our water's as broad, and our rocks are twice as big, and mostly perpendic’lar.’ I remarked that the Rhine ruins were extremely picturesque, .and certainly enhanced the beauty of the river. * Wai," said he, ‘I shouldn’t wonder if our builders could put up a few if we offered them the contract, but our people don’t deal mue i in ruins, that’s a fact, and when you oome to think ot it, you can’t say there’s jnucuusein 'em’”

. A mam recently died in Paris in whose mattrees was found Bb,ooo franca Bvery morning ho went out armed with a good hunck of bread; then, taking a turn round the market he would pick a cherry here, a staawbeiry there, try a bit of cheeee, and then a eared of dried fish, Just testing and trying before baying. In this way he would ■ make hie. chief meal. Water wawMtxacnlsr dring, but on occolons he would be tafcen sick in the street, and then the charitable would run to the nearest wine shop end get a chopin for the poor invalid overcame by the weather. Tn Louisville Courier reports the case of a bdy burglar tn that city who had entered and robbed many houses with the assistance of a trained raccoon. The boy’lplaß consisted in letting the boon looefwear the house intended to be robbed, and then in asking permission to be allowed to hunt the animal, which had been taught to enter tbs premises his master had designated. While the search was going on, the boy would pack up such valuables as he could lay his hands on and escape with them unseen. The boy in his last attempt had packed up a market basket with clothing, and was making off through the back yard, when he was arrested and, after a vigorous struggle, held fast to by a young girl, and handed over to the police.