Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1871 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

A Poor Place —The alms house. A Snug Place—The county jail. An Object of Interest— Your deposit in a savings bank. London is said to contain two hundred female students of medicine. A fond father in Detroit gave a sailor a fifty-cent scrip for saving his child from drowning. The waiter is a most irresistible person; he carries everything before him. Pastry and pickle fed babies generally live about eighteen months—and sometimes two years. Six boys, under twelve years, were found dead drunk in an alley in Detroit the other afternoon. During a recent wind storm in Yellobusha County, Mississippi, a boy about twelve years "old was blown a hundred yards. A policy of life insurance create an estate at once, which cannot be taken from your wife. Insure in the Mutual Liffe, of Chicago. A burglar broke into a liquor store at Burlington, lowa, drank himself into oblivion, and was found asleep on the floor in the morning. A Vermonter has just paid seventyfive dollars for a piound and a half of lead. It was purchased through a New York counterfeit money firm. A Hard Case — Dying, without money, without property, no life insurance policy in the AVashington Insurance Company, of New York, yet leaving a wife and small children. Recently, at Rockport, Coosa County, Ala., during a thunder-storm, a dog was killed by a flash of lightning, whilst being fed by a child. The child was not hurt. A “ magnificent gift enterprise,” lately broken up by the police at Cleveland, was found to be conducted on a capital of four dollars and a few odd cents. “Is your brother in-law really such a lazy man ?” asked one gentleman of another. “ Lazy!” was the reply; “why he’s so lazy that he has an artist employed by the month to draw his breath with a crayon.” Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the man who is possessed by it;more than any other against whom it is directed. Considerable excitement was occasioned recently at Pittston, Pa., by the strange fury of a mule, which bit several horses and mules. He is bejived to have been seized with hydrophobia, and died in great agony. The bitten animals were corallcd. Peter Ross, of Nashville, Tenn., concluded, a while ago, to step over to New York to see his friends. He reached Easton, Pa., a few days ago, aged 103, by Foot A Leggett's oid reliable conveyance, which had brought him all the way from Tennessee, and on which he depended to see him through.

A bullet-noLE made in a house at Lexington, Mass., at the battle on the 19th of April, 1775, is cherished as a precious relic by the present owner of the property. The house has decayed and fallen down, but the hole is in an excellent state of preservation, aDd the proprietor intends to nave it appropriately framed. Josh Billings says: “Mostenny man will conceed that it looks foolish to see a hoy drag a heavy sled up a hill for the fleetin’ plesher of ridin’ down again; but it appears to me that the boy is a sage side of the young man who works hard all the week, and drinks his wagts on Saturday night." In London, recently, a stableman was arrested who was charged with stealing a quantity of hair from horses' tails. It was proved that the prisoner had been seen pulling hair out of horses’ tails; that he had sold hair plucked out by the roots, and that thirteen horses in the prosecutor’s stables had tails “very thinly covered with hair.” A Baptist preacher of Dunkard, Pa., went to a neighboring town to exchange the other Sunday, but mistook a Universalist church for one of his own fiiith, and got nearly through with the sermon before he found it out. He thought while he was preaching the people were much given to levity, but charged it to their being amused at hi i broken English. The Universalist minister sat, with the congregation and relished the joke hugely. The activo principles of plants, according to recent investigations, are more concentrated in the leaves of plants grown in cold climates where the vegitation is less vigorous, than in warm climates. Inillus-

tration the well known fact* are cited, that tobacco grown in northern regi6ns is stronger than the same plant raised in mild or tropical regions, and celery, it is stated is effected in the same way by the influence of temperature and climate. Appropriate Names —The following names are appropriate for the uses mentioned : For an auctioneer’s wife—Bid dy. For a general’s wife—Sally. For a sport’s wife—Bet ty. For a fisherman's wife—Net-ty. For a shoemak< r’s wife—Peg gy. For a teamster’s wife—Car rie. For a lawyer’s wife—Sue. For a printer’s wife—Em. For a druggist’s wife—Ann Eliza. For a carpet man’s wife —Mat-tie. Tiie Newport Ne iw«ays: “ Recently a white-headed veteran came into our office to ‘ advertise his wife.’ He wished it distinctly understood that, as his wife had left his ‘ bed and board without just provocation,’ no one was to trust her on his account. The advertisement was written and ready for insertion, but when informed that it would require one dollar to pay the expense, the money was wanting. After a diligent search, seven cents were found, and the,would-be advertiser wished us to lay the notice one side, and he would hunt up the remaining amount The supposition is that he is still hunting, as the notice is Still laid aside, and all the world still have the privilege of trusting the wife on the husband’s account.” The Mdieal Gazette gives a resume of the diseases now prevalent in various parts of the world, from which it appears that small-pox yet lingers, though with diminished intensity, in some of the southeastern portions of the United States, as also in England, Scotland and Ireland. In Paris, where dead bodies have so long been neglected and allowed to poison the air, and where starvation has lent its malefic influence, small-pox, typhoid fever and abdominal affections continue their ravages, and .tetanus and pyaania prevail among the wonnded. In Lyons, hydrophobia is on the increase; influenza, pneumonia, acute articular rheumatism and erysipelas show no abatement, and scarlet fever is increasing. At Vienna, during April, typhoid fever and petechial typhus prevailed to such an extent that a special supplementary hospital was necessary. Small-pox is epidemic at Berlin, and prevails more or less /n almost event town and village throughout Germany. In Holland, also, this terrible disease is at work, especially at Delft and Breda, and at last accounts was increasing at Amsterdam. The same is true of Italy. Russia is afflicted with cholera, as also are some parts of Persia 5 and in Madagascar it is especially virulent, and it is expected that India will shortiv enter upon another small-pox cycle. Yellow fever is abating in Buenos Ayres.