Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1871 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

A Pretty Hood—Childhood. A Cut and Dried Affair—Jerked Beef. An honest banker sometimes fails in making money, but p dishonest one makes money by failing. . A prudent man forseeth the evil and hideth himself. Insure in the Mutual Life of Chicago. A man in Kansas, on whose shoulder a lady laid a lash, did not- sue for damages, because it was an eyelash. Whbn people invariably find themselves “too fast”—When they get married. — N. O. Time*. The reason why editors have their manners spoiled is because they receive so many evil communications. A very thriving business has been carried on in London, lately, in painting sparrows and selling them as canaries. Insure your life in the Washington Insurance Company, of New York, to the amount of the mortgage on your house. A Chicago debating society wrestled with the question. “ Which is the cleverer, a minister or a lawyer?” and decided in the affirmative. This is the' most productive year for strawberries in the experience of California. The vines bear more abundantly than ever before, and there .are also more of them. A gentleman in New York City advertised, the other day, for an assistant bookkeeper, salary, SBOO per annum. Three days afterward he had received about 700 applications for the situation. Miss Delia Roberts, a scholmistress at Lexington, Ky., committed suicide' because she, at the age of twenty-two years, was too old to marry one of her pupils, only thirteen years of age. “I wish you had been Eve,” said an urchin to a stingy old aunt, proverbial for her meanness.' “ Why so ?” “ Because,” said he, “you would have eaten all the apple, instead of dividing it.” A Vicksburg man who set a spring gun in his chicken hoOse found himself a widower in a few hours afterward. He says he will tejl his second wife when he puts a gun there again. The combined’ population of the eight largest cities of the United States—New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, St. Louis, Chicago, Baltimore, Boston and Cincinnati. —are less than the population of the city of London, as announced by the recent British census. The Western lady who went to a theater and handed the man who took the tickets a fine-tooth comb instead of her ticket, discovered her mistake when the doorkeeper told her she could not comb in. The.rates of interest paid by the savings banks of California are said to vary .according to the character of the deposits, ranging from six. per cent, on short to twelve per Cent, on permanent deposits, although some institutions pay ten per cent, on all classes. In Leavenworth, Ind., a young man the other day attempted to frighten some comrades by playing burglar. By the time they had chased him a mile or so, had Area fifty shots at him, and had captured and whipped him, all parties began to find out their little mistake. The witty John Clerk, the barrister, who was lame, overheard a lady remark to a friend“ That’s Mr. Clerk, the lame lawyer.” Mr. Clerk, who was passing along the street, turned round and, addressing the lady, said: “No, madam, I am a lame man, but not a lame lawyer.” —A Cincinnati man is searching for a clerk who once in a while forgets to inquire of every customer, “ Anything else ?” He insists that the vile phrase is equivalent to: “ Are you sure you have got all you wanted ? Think now; haven’t you forgot something you came for ?” A colored man has brought suit against a New Orleans dealer because he refused to sell him a glass of soda water. He claim* damages under the State Constitution, on the ground that the defendant is the proprietor of a place of public resort for which a license is required, and refused him on account of his color. The marriage of a couple in Connecticut recently took place in the room where the grandmother of the bride was born, married and dial. The aged grandfather witnessed the ceremony by standing in the place he occupied at his own marriage, sfxty-two years before. Knowledge is Power.— Grandma to Grandpa—” Have you heard that strange story about Miss Simpkin’s elopement?” Little Precocious —“ Oh, I know all about that.” Grandma —“ Indeed 1 I should like to know what it is that you don’t know.” ’ Little P.—“ Well, then, I’ll tell you—l don’t know my lessons for to-morrow 1” The heat of the sun must have been terrific at Batavia, N. J., the other day. A milk dealer, after washing his cans, placed them against the side of the house to dry, and the reflection of the sun upon them actually set the building on fire. The man seems to have had an idea of what was to happen, for he had insured the house only three quarters of an hour previous. Gh&rob R. Campbell, a young Scotchman, who had been for some time an occupant of the Philadelphia Alms House, recently fell heir to his deceased uncle’a estate, worth $150,000, and has gone to Edinburgh to secure the property. He does not intend to return to the alms house, at least untill he has spent his inheritance. Payment of the insurance on the life of the late John E. Hayes, of Savannah, Ga., was resisted on the ground that when he obtained the policy he neglected to inform the company that a abort time previously he got into trouble on the street, and was struck on the head by a stone or club, injuring him severely. In a few months he died of brain fever. The jury returned a verdict for the full amount, with interest. The power of photography has recently received a new illustration in its capacity to represent objects which the eye has not seen and cannot «ee. During the last solar eclipse a photograph was taken of toe corona which streams forth all around the sun during totality, and, on subsequent examination, an image of Venus was found among its rays, although the planet was not visible to the eye. Still another and perhaps more wonderful example was recently exhibited in the experience of an English scientist, who was making experiments by passing a current of electricity through a vacuum tube, the results of which were indicated by strong or alnt touches of light about the poles.. In ow instance the light was so f«eW® could not be seen, and the operator doubted if the current were paaafog ; but, at the what had taken plaoa waa produced.