Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1872 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

Epidemic yellow fever—Greed for gold. *, > -Y .I::g2Y=====l A rosEit for an ochlist—Windowblind. , Below 1,700 feet deep colliers are too liot to mine profitably. f It is proposed to light the Atlantic steamers with gas. Baltimore is exercised over its inadequate water supply. TV orms are making havoc with cabbages in fields around Portsmouth, N. 11. Wa-Shing is the appropriate name of a Celestial, laundry man in San Francisco A NEty York Poxl critic puffs “ the flawless transparency of Lucca’s hiehef notes.” Dividends are paid in cash in the Washington Life Insurance Company; of 'New York. - A grocer of Ipswich, Eng!, is exhibiting a genuine painting for which he paid sls. A disgusted Kansas pioneer says that Barnnm’s mummy is “nothin’ but a jerked Injun." A buried town in Oregon and the hull of a ship in the American desert are among the latest discoveries. IlArry thought by a cheap shirt maker on his own work women: “They come like shadows, sew, depart!” The pecan crop promises an abundant yield. This native production affords an immense revenue to Texas. A German lately married says: “I vas yopst so easy a needle cood valk out mit a camel’s eye as to get der perliindt vord mit a womans.” An instrument nas Decn invented in fGermany which will measure with perfect accuracy the heat, of the hottest furnace. A professional beggar of Yamhill County, Oregon, for fourteen now holds mortgages on the farms of several of his former benefactors. Mbs. Partington,“does not approve of this new-fangled stuff, diabolic acid, but she is highly delighted to see there is an antisceptic. Judge Ingraham, of New York, has decided that a watch belongs to that class of necessary articles which cannot be taken on execution for debt. An illuminated copy of the sacred writings of Buddha, in the language of Thibet, is being executed for a .Mongol prince. Samvel Dennv, of Salem, lnd„ among his relics, has the trowel used by Daniel Boone in building liis first log cabin in Kentucky.. . George S. Kittredge, of the Old Mission, has a California mocking-bird that whistles with artistic grace the air of “Ten Thousand Miles Away,” An artesian well in Lincoln, Neb., is so magnetic- that it will draw a tin cup toward it. That is nothing, though, for a small black bottle will often draw a whole crowd toward i,t. A drunken fiian applied at a.druggist’s for something to drive away rats. The druggist advised him to stop drinking, and then he wouldn’t be troubled with them.

A Washington dispatch says that another Cuban expedition is being fitted out on tpt extensive ucale, under the auspices of the so-called General Ryan, who himself gives information of the project, Wliat Londoners' call beer —that* is, porter—was known in England as early as 1492. Ale was brewed fourteen centuries before the Christian era; it was known to the "ancient Egyptians and Hebrews. Ax old sailor recently refused to ship on a Lake Erie schooner, because he had seen a rat swim ashore from it. Curiously enough, the vessel was foundered the next night, with all on board. ‘'-Bridget, I told you to have my hot" water the first thing in the morning.” “Sure; sir,” replied Bridget, “didn’t I bring it up and leave it at the door last night, so as to have it in time?" A Connecticut editor, having got into a controversy with a cotemporary, congratulated himself that his head was safe from-a “donkey’s heels.” His cotemporary astutely inferred from this that he was unable “to mgke both ends meet.” One of Hartford’s popular dry goods merchants w T as asked the other day how he spent his evenings. His reply was: “At night I store fny mind, and during the day 1 mind my store.” He was alive at last accounts. Giving a lady away at n wedding is simply a farce. The old proverb says: “Where there’sa will there’s a way.” Consequently, as the world-knows that every lady has a will of her own, givingher.a “waj” seems quite superfluous. ; L - "‘John, where have you put my steel pen?” asked an editor. “Haven’t seen it,” said John. “Yuu Jtnow better, sir,” said the editor, producing the desired implement fromadrawer,“youputit here your, self.” “That’s your.scissors, sir.” “Well;, that’s mv steal pen, isn’t it?” “What is the matter here?” inquired a man coming upon a group,ot exciled people about a well. “A woman has fallen to the bottom of the well,” was the reply., “Ah!” returned the inquirer, shaking his head sadly, “always a woman at the bottom of it.” A DnuGGtsT recently received the following prescription, with a request to put it up: “Fur Kramps.—Tinct. kamfire, won ounce; tinet lodenum, a little; tinct kvan pepper, two pen’orth; klouform, a little, but not much, -as it is dangerous medicine. Dose, half teaspoonful when the krantps come on," A gentleman ’handed up a ten dollar bill in one of the Red-Line coaches, from which one fare, five cents, was to be taken. “Look aTieie,” said the driver down through the hole, “which of these horses do you want to buy with this $10?" “Well,” coolly replied the gentleman, “I thought I might get both for that.—Boston Traveler,