Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1871 — CURRENT ITEM [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEM

Troubles, like babies, grow bigger by nursing. Philadelphia proposes to erect a monument to the memory of Martha Washington. Too many persons are far less ashamed of having done wrong than of being found out. The climate of Louisiana is said to be three degrees colder than it was fifteen years ago. Fob thirty-one years William 8. Stod dard has been a watchman at the Massa chusetts State House. Death will stop all income. Provide for it by insuring in the Washington Life Insurance Company, of New York. The Rev. James L. Vallandlgham, of Newark, Delaware, is to write a biography of the late Clement L. Vallandigham. A Connecticut editor unkindly alludes to a'rival editor’s head as the Polar regions, because it is a great white bare place. Since 1866 there have been twenty-six small planets, or asteroids, discovered. Fifteen of these were discovered in America. Commencing atthoage of thirty, fl vecents a day will secure a policy of $1,l01) in the Mutual Life, of Chicago. At one druggist’s in New York 1,1,000 glasses of soda fizzle down the parched gullets of Gothomites daily, and the profit thereon is S4,£OJ a week. Many cows in Baltimore have recently been strangely afllicted with an incurable inflammation of the eyes, ending in total blindness. During the present year, up to July 6, 116.211 immigrants arrived in New York. Up to the same date last year 129,855 had arrived. “If you will all only do wrong and ;be sorry for it, you will go to heaven,” is being extensively quoted as the last remark of an Indian who was hanged recently in California. Three Texan women were shot lately, while robbing a house. One said, as she lay dying: “My father forced me to steal before I was ten years old, and Gbd will not punish me for my father’s crime.” A hotel-keeper in the Schuylkill Valley has placed in his bar-room a placard; “Young Men and Boys are Forbidden to Occupy these Seats. " They Will find their way here too soon for their own good.” In a speech in 'San Francisco, Senator “Cole expression the opinion that the Treaty of Washingtou will preclude the possibility of war between America and England for perhaps a century to come. Burglars stole everything there was eatable in a dozen houses in one street in Baltimore ou the Saturday night before the Fourth. Some of the families were left without sugar, coffee, butter, or bread for breakfast, and one or two who had laid in provisions enough to last over the Fourth, lost them all. Croquet is a more ancient game than most people suppose. It was introduced into England from France in 1630, under the name of “ peie mele,” and gave the name to the celebrated London avenue, now the street, called Pall Mall. It was a favorite pastime of Charles 11. and the Duke of York. A little Irish boy w r ent into a barber shop in DesMoincs, lowa, the other day, to get his haircut. Chris. Bathman and Hawthorne, barbers, thought it a capital opportunity for a joke, and shaved smoothly the head of the lad. For this bit of pleasantly they were fined S4O and sls respectively, and appealed from the decision. The Lebanon (Ky.) Standard says.- “A boy gathering blackberries near Bradfordsville, the other day, encountered six rattlesnakes, five of which he killed. It was not a good day for snakes—at least not for the five thatjwere killed. Miss Kidge and Miss Bowman killed a nine-year-old rattlesnake, last week, in the lagoons below Newmarket.”

Two well-dressed and fine-looking ladies instantly dislocated their necks while passing each otiior, in trying to discover what each had on. It was cloudy; the spesd at which they were moving, and the delicate shade of the dry goods worn by each, operated against them, and a sudden tack with all sail set against a stiff breeze fetched them up too short, and they perished.—Titusville (Pa.) Htrald. Louisville boasts of an eightcen-year-old belle who can lift a tub of cl ithing from the .'ground to an elevation of four feet, and have the clothes-line white with the results of the labor of her own little white hands in a short while. Meantime her mother sits in the. parlor taking her ease in her old age. As soon as this becomes generally known the railroads running into that city will have to run extra trains. A few weeks ago the remains of UgoFoscolo, the Italian poet, patriot and scholar, were exhumed at London for transportation to Italy. The coffin was opened, and though the body had been buried 44 years, the form and features were as perfect as when he died. r _The physician and hairdresser who a».teh<led him in his last sickness were present and were much affected at the sight of the man they had known so well and so long ago. In order to prevent the introduction into the United States of the cattle disease known as the hoof and mouth disease, now prevailing in Chili ami the Argentine Republic, orders have been issued that no cattle or hides be allowed to enter the United States ports from those countries unless accompanied by an invoice, having the Consul’s certificate that he is satisfied the importation is free from disease. Judge Paxon, of Philadelphia, has decided that a procession has no right to interrupt the ordinary travel on a street. The Mayor had issued orders that no street cars should be allowed to cross the streets so long as the German procession was passing. A superintendent of one of the lines endeavored to force his cars through a gap in the procession, but he was prevented by a police officer. The superintendent sued the officer for assault and battery, and won his case. . The California gamblers are despondent again. Only a few, days ago Judge, Sawyer, of San Francisco, decided that keno was not prohibited by the statutes against gambling. Then everybody went in for keno, and everything was lovely. But the brightest prospects soonest fade. Judge Stanley hai rushed in and utterly undone the work of the other man, ruling that keno is a game of chance, and therefore unlawful. That decision overcomes the votaries of fickle fortune like a summer cloud. —T. is a pretentious youflg man of slender acquirements, who affects liters-

lure, especially in the presence of young ladies. On one occasion he brought down the house by asking a lady if she had wad Mr. Dickens last novel, “The Diamond Edition!” A more astounding blunder is the following: Seeing a copy of Leila Rookh lying on the center table, he called attention to it, when somebody inquired If he had ever read it. “ No,” he replied, “ I have never read any of Miss’ Rookh’a poems." Willard Young, the Morman cadet at, West Point, told an interviewing reporter, the other day, that he has sixteen brothers and twenty-two sisters. In regard to “ hazing,” the young prophet complained: “ If the cadets see us go by, they spit out their quids of tobacco on the grass, and then order us in the most peremptory way to pick them up with our fingers and carry them off the ground. Now, I think that's a shame. I know it’s only done to annoy and degrade us, and I’ve made up my mind to put my fist under ths ear of the first fellow that orders me to do such a thing jgain. I don’t believe that there is any sense in such things, and I’m sure I didn’t come here to be a menial.” ; f The Davenport (Iowa) doctors are puzzling their heads over the remarkable recovery of a girl named Mary Blacknier, in the Orphan’s Home, at that place. She had been afllicted with a peculiar malady, known as the disease of the cerebellum, which causes the sufferer to lose all control of equilibrium and motion. She had been under the treatment of the most experienced physicians, but none of them gave her any relief. A few days ago she arose from her bed, and found that she had complete control of her limbs. To the astonishment of everybody she ran up and down stairs with all the agility of youth and good health, and was found to be entirely cured.