Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1872 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

TnE best throw of dice is to throw -them away. The pre-hysteric period—before tight" lacing was invented. Nitro-glycerine is transported down the Hudson in a small yacht. Pollard’s Peak, Nev., is to be the site of the great national observatory. A citizen of Maine hasf'beeq fined SIOO for selling two gallons of cider. Girdling fruit trees, and shearing horses’ tails is-a favorite furm of vengeance in Boylston, Mass. Mock Turtle.—Kissing before company and fighting afterward. No noose is good news, as the man said when lie was reprieved. A couple of jour, printers lately traveled from Chicago to New Orleans in a skiff _ . . Fifty Italians, of the fiddling, orgaife grinding, and apple-peddling occupy- one small two-story house iir-Now York. f [Forethought and prudence both gay insure your life. Take fheir advice and insure in the Washington. While hunting on Mary’s Peak, Oregon, A. M. Osburn killed a cougar nine feet in length. " ' " There is a rule of “society” common to the European Continent, whioh forbids unmarried ladies wearing jewelry':" The school teachers in Massachuseets have organized an association for mutual ■consultation and improvement, A number of the Saginaw (Mich.) salt boilers will soon suspend business for the season, on account of the scarcity of fuel. /‘The present age is impudent enough,” said George Channing, “but I foresee that the next Will be one of irony and railery !” ‘ ■ ——~ ~ - ; —— There is a gread demand in San Francisco, from Chicago and other Eastern cities, for Chinese domestic servants. The efforts made to cultivate the tea plant in Calistoga, Cal., have entire failed. Nearly all of the plants, it is stated, are dead.

Cider can be bought in Western Massachusetts for .$1.50 a barrel—and. if the purchaser thinks the price too high they’ll throw in a tubful or Hvo. Thev are building a new hotel on the 'summit of Mount Washington, and it is said: “They have to hold it down with chains attached half way up the sides of the building, and fastened to the rocks.” Eureka Jones, widow the late jailer of Hudson County, N. Y., has been elected to fill the unexpired official torm of her departed spouse. " f’;*. By the accidental flooding of a coal mine, near Wrexham, Wales, five hundred miners have been thrown out of employment. When a man falls into a forty-foot well at Omaha, and ropes are not at hand to draw liiurup at once, a bottle of whisky is sent down to him as an elevator, A letter, bearing the following address, was lately received at the St. Louis post-office: “This letterjs to be delivered to the policeman of the Fourth Ward, Ido not know the man or his name. City of St. Louis, I beg pardon.” “My son,” said a fond papa, who was looking over the lesson his son had recited that day, “how did you manage when your teacher asked you to spell metempsychosis?" ‘‘Oh, father.” said the bov, “I juststood spell-bound!" The largest rifle ever-fired on the firmset earth is now mounted at Nut Island, in Boston Harbor, where its inventor: Mr. Norman Wiard, is preparing to amuse himself with a few experiments cm a gigantic scale, before Christmas; A patent has recently been taken out feu - the preparation of an improved safely Writing ink, which consists in the addition, to any ink, of a solution of yellow prussiate of potash. Any attempt to re-move-this ink by means of oxalic acid or other substances changes it to Berlin blue. The Western Rural gives the following ns the prices of common wool in New York City since and includinglSol: 1861, 32 cents; 1862,42 c.; 1863, 70c.; 1864, 70c. ; 1865, 65c ; 1866, 65c.; 1867, 48c.; 1868, 4.Ve ; 1860, 45c.;. 1870, 44c.; 1871, '4Bc;; 1872, 70c. In relation to silk worms on Osage orange, the United Stales Commissioner of Agriculture says fall experiments have been made in rearing the silk worm on the leaves of the Usage orange. The Worms fed greedily, and were perfectly healthy, and spun large-sizedcocoons of' very fair silk. 1 A correspondent of the Country Gen- \ llernan argues in favor of raising early spring chickens as the most profitable branch of poultry culture. The birds always find a ready market and a good, price. With clean, warm coops, he says, the hens will begin laying by the first of i January, and in a month will be ready to sit. I? is said that recently a merchant went to Chicago to purchase a bill of goods.. The last that was heard of him he was, in' his room, surrounded by seventeen drrtm- | mers, who had crawled through the tranI. sonvwhile an energetic reporter was ,be- ! low stairs pumping ttie clerk for the age of the unfortunate man, and the probable -circumstances o f his farmly.' A hunting boat,, weighing only 14t£ - pounds, has been cons t runted ay Mr J M OrcUtt, of Cato, Mich., for hisperson'al ! use. It is made of ducking, with ribs of ash' splints, fitting into loop sockets. He can fold it up and carry it on his hack with his gnu and provisions.: In ease a storm overtakes him on the water, he can run his boat ashore, take it apart, and put it