Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1870 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

WAB»A»-Army TWtIOM. TnOMKM ok tkb War-Uniforms. McOlxllah’s income retain is >BO,OOO. Tn only persons who really erjoy bad health are the d<xtore. Ik Pittsburgh, r couple, aged 18 and 15, hare recently got a divorce. It makes a great difference whether glaisee are used over or under the nose. Tan letter-carrier* of Nashville, Tenn., deli Vend ®4,M& letters tn August. Tn million heirs of Anneke Jans are likely never to be millionaires. A Jnanr former offers to dig potatoes against Weston, 100 miles in M hours, up and down the rows. Tn yield of this year of one man’s orchard, near Tampa, Florida, will be 36,000 pine apples. •' An Illinois gardener has a garden of five thousand acres, on which he raises seeds. It is corn-seeds that he raises. On of the amusements at Long Branch is Said to be watching the New Jersey mosquitoes open dams with their bills on the shore. Louisa Murray (colored), of Mobile, goes to the penitentiary for dvo years for the abduction of the Digby child in New Orleans. Dubikg the past year, 45 men have been killed, six wounded, and 500 head of cattie driven off, in one county of Arizona. Tonne lady physicians are multiplying rapidly throughout the country, ana consequently the young men are decidedly more sickly than they used to be. A Nevada man was bitten by Mcorpion, which didn’t hurt him much, but he nearly died of the delirium tremens from drinking whisky to cure it. A Chicago music publisher has issued a song entitled, “ Father will Bettie the B11L” All the young ladies in the city practice it at home as well as at the stores. A California lady took a big rattlesnake out of her baby's cradle with two canes, and dropped him into a kettle of boiling water, which took the bite out of him.

Thbrb are twelve brothers and four sisters in a New York family named Frost, and five of the brothers were christened as Winter Frost, White Frost, Sharp Frost, Jack Frost, and Snow Frost. The longest railroad bridge in the United States is the Cayuga bridge ten miles west of Auburn, N. Y. It is one mile and fifty yards in length, and twentytwo feet wide, and cost $150,000. Mark Twaib'b nsw book, which is to be published next spring is to be an account of travel at home, describing in a humorous and satirical way, our cities and towns, and the people of different sections, A well-known old citizen of Sangamon County, 11L, residing near Loami, has for many years past been exceedingly deaf. A short time since, he was struck by a alight streak of lightning, and now hears perfectly well. ■ Thb editor of the Jonesboro, IIL, Gaaette suggests to some of the Union county dairymen to comb their butter before they bring it to maiket. Perhaps, ■area Cairo paper, they want to sell it for Thb Mrs. Thurston who believes that she owns the State of Maine has made a will relinquishing the State to the Governor and 1 : s successors in office, reserving for her heirs a prvate residence in Portland, and some funds in bank. A recent storm passing over Granbundten, in Switzerland, uprooted the old oak under which, in 1412, the constitutional oath was taken. But already from the debris has sprung up a vigorous young shoot. A label, with his name upon it, which is attached to the coat of every German soldier, so that he may be recognized in case of death, is of tin, and not of parchment, which would soon be destroyed by perspiration. An old toper, who had attended the Polytechnic, where the learned professor caused several exp’esions to take place from gases produced from water, eaid: “You don’t catch roe putting water in my liquor after this. I had no ’ idea before that water was so dangerous, though I never liked to take much of it.” Thb thigh bone of a mastodon was ex humed on the farm as Henry Muzzy, near Aurora, 111, a few days ago. It is in a perfect state of preservation, measures tour feet in length, and one foot in diameter at each end, and weighs fifty seven pounds. Search for the remainder of the monstei’s skeleton was being made. A little child 4 years old, son of Mr, George W. Dexter, of Dan'elsonvllle, Conn., recently fell backward from a second story window, sixteen feet from the ground, and turning a back summersault, alighted upon the ground entirely unhurt. He immediately got up and went to playing as if nothing had happened. A PBiBST, the other day, who was examining a confirmation class in the south of Ireland, asked the question, * What is the sacrament of matrimony t" A little girl at the head of the class answered: “ 'Tis a state of torment into which souls enter to prenare them for another and better world.” Thb Postmaster-General has issued an order requiring the name and address of the sender of a registered letter or package to be affixed to the same, and in case of non delivery, the registered letter or package will be returned directly to the office from which it is sent for delivery to the sender, without, as now, being returned through the Dead Letter Office. In case the sender of a letter or package thus returred cannot be found, it will then go to to the Dead Letter Office and be treated as other mail matter. “ Gbt money honestly if thee can, but get money,” said the old Quaker to his son. . Acting upon the principle involved in this advice, a woman in Philadelphia has adopted a novel pursuit. She faints in front of one cf the large hotels or a store. She is carried info the place and receives proper attention. Everybody sympathizes with her, a small purse is made up to pay expenses, and she is sent home in a carriage. The business has netted her a good income. A young fellow in Nashua, N. IL, recently got angry with his sweetheart, and for revenge took her to ride and left her on the steps of a country hotel, several miles from home, to find her way back as best she could. The girl one evening afterward induced him to drive her to visit her sister, twenty miles distant, and while ■ he was out or the buggy endeavoring to decipher the name on a door-plate, she drove off and left him to go home when The fun cost him twenty Wb have tidings from Boston of a clergyman of Massachusetts who, on exchange, preached in a brother’s pulpit. Taking up a note which he found when he opened the Bible, he read that Brother —— requested the prayers of the church that the loos of his wife might be blessed to him, etc. The preacbei prayed most fervently. To his amazement and mortification he found afterward that the note had lain in the Bible a-year, while the bereaved gentleman was on this B*bbath sitting with a new wife in the conjoint OnxßitY, of Cairo, HL, formerly Mayor of that ffitf, being slightly bald, recently purchased a bottle of 41 hair res-

torer." He subsequently mistook a bottle of petro oil for that which he had purchased, and applied some of that very volatilq substance to hiajMad. Prebently he lighted a match' tor the purpose of having a amoke, when the flame set his head on fire. No more serious injury occurred than singeing all the hair off his head, which, although before only slightly bald, is now as bcre as a billiard bail In all policies of life insurance these, among a host of olh< r questions occur: "Age of faltnr. if livingt” "Age of mother, if living?" A man in the counawho filled up an application made his er’s age, 44 if'living,' one hundred and twelve years, an ! his mother's one hundred and two. The agent was amazed at thia showing, and landed he had got an excellent subject; but;' feeling somewhat dubious, remarked that the man came ol a very long-lived family. 44 Oh, you see, sir,” replied the applicant, “my parents died many years ago, but, 4 if living ’ would be aged as there put down." “ Oh, I see," said the agent. Orb morning, Just before dawn, the guardian of the Paris Morgue was called to the door by a rap, and saw there an habitual drunkard of the better sort—if such a classification is possible. 41 What do you wish ?’’ he asked gruffly. 44 1 sit I?'inquired the inebriate. ”1 came to see if I am not at the Morgue, for it is now eight days since I have been seen at my lodgings, and I am getting uneasy.” His uneasiness was quieted, for, a few hours afterwards, through the intervention of a sergeant of police, he found himself at home.

Thb San Francisco Bulletin gives the following account of an Italian organ grinder who recently died in that city: *‘He had traversed the streets for many years with an organ and monkey; and probably ground out as much dolorous music as any one of that vagabond fraternity. Ami j irity cf the people no doubt inferred that he was miserably poor. What other than the direst necessity could drive a man into such a wretched pursuit ? Ard what beside the very pinch of famine could compel small children to become tenders for these mendicants J Or gan grinding, while taking on a very squalid aspect, pays handsomely in Ban Francisco, in some instances at least It turns out that this defunct musical mendicant, who looked up so abjectly to second story windows for a dime, and fobbed the five cent pieces which children bestowed for the antics of his monkey, died leaving an estate estimated to be worth not less than SIOO,OOO. He had no heirs in this country, and we presume the public administrator will take charge of his property.