Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1872 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

Havana boasts of a larger organ than Boston. A good coal fire on cold mornings is a grate comfort. Shelby County, Tenn., is persecuted by wood-ticks. A Malay prince owns the largest diamond in the world. Some Georgia ladies flogged a bogus doctor for quackery. Quantities of Irish moss are gathered near Plymouth, Mass. Bui.wer says that “ poverty is only an idea.” It’s a very bad idea. Spotted fever is becoming quite common on the Pacific slope. Quite large amounts of timber are exported from Quebec to Europe. AT Santa Fe, in defiance of the latitude, there was a snow storm recently. Penn Yan, N. Y., lias a young-lady who nails up 400 grape boxes a day. Connecticut expects to close about one-half of her dram shops next month. Beet root sugar is preferred for fine confectionery when it can be procured. Of forty steamboats navigating the Red River, thirteen are named the “ Era.” A year and a half old colt weighs 1,180 pounds on the Olathe scales, Kansas. The Adams Express Company has a monopoly of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Florida is manufacturing feather flowers from the plumage of the whiteJieron. A New Jersey locomotive pulled seven loaded cars fifty miles in forty-five minutes. ——— Why is a bashful girl like a cameleon ? Because she often changes color. A suggestive Spanish proverb—“ The road By-and-by leads to the town of Never,” They are fools who persist in being quite miserable because they are Hot quite happy. Shakespearean reader to Mr. Fahrenheit’s thermometer : “ Down, down, thou climbing sorrow !” The wearing of turbans has almost been abandoned by the negro women of the South. ■ A reward is offered for a barber who doos not ask you to be shampooed or “hev your hair cut, sab!” The Mormons complain that ever Gentile who Visits their country is a walking armory. - • Bad manuscript makes an editor think sometimes that he keeps a house of correction.

BARNUM’sgorillasuffers dreadfully from the headache, and cries- salt tears while the infliction lasts. A husband can readily foot the bills of a wife who is not afraid of being seen footing the stockings of her husband. The Boston car drivers complain that old ladies punch them in the back with parasols when they want the car stopped. “Tins is the rock of ages,” said the father, after rocking two hours, and the baby being still awake. The Washington Life Insurance Company is increasing more than two thousand dollars per day above all losses and expenses. An unsuccessful attempt is said to be on foot in Maryland to produce a “corner” in oysters. In fish, now, there might be a chance for an angle. “What is yonr hurry, Jimmy?” asked a kind lady of a precocious little urchin who had called on his way to school the other day. “O, I must go.” “Where are you going; Jimmy?” With a heaving sigh, and pointing to the school-house, “Into the house of correction, ma-aju!” In a London police court the startling disclosure was recently made that more than one hundred'tfrson offenses had been committed by one individual, and in another case the fire ceased in a district when a certain individual was arrested This person had set fire to sixty or more houses merely to obtain the informer’s fee of half a crown or so. There must be something done to prevent those horrible mistakes of druggists’ clerks. One of the-careless fellows lately gave a young man in Louisville a bottle of .mucilage instead of cologne. The youth went’ to church, and, after applying the contents freely to his handkerchief, and applying the handkerchief freely to his nose, he was in no condition for devout worship. This thingis-fgetting to be al arm ing.— Chicago In ter- Ocean. In a St. Ikmis court, the other day. a lawyer asked, the witness, “ Are you a Jew?” He replied, “Yes, I am. Whatis that to you ?” The lawyer was going on, .when the jwige reminded him that the witness had asked him a question. -Me had nothing to say, and the judge told him he must not put such questions to witnesses in that court. ofrace has no place before.legal tribunals.