Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1872 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

A marine plant—The heath of the see. Elk City, Kan., maintains a jewsharp band. New Orleans is to have a Produce .febAnge. d-v- -'"-■■■■ “Diamond cut Diamond’’—The diemond swindlers of San Francisco and their dupes. Providence has only one steam whistle in the whole city, and is bound to eradicate that. Louisiana lias more pork than for ten years before, and will ship tons of bacon to England. Busy Boston has alreadydssued a new directory containing all the changes of residence. The only man who has raised cotton in Sonoma county, Cal., happens to be a slr. Derrick. . A California man is manufacturing water-melon syrup, and thinks his experiment a success. A young lady who thought she could make her voice clear by straining it made a great mistake. A successful borer for petroleum is said so resemble “the oldest inhabitant” because he’s senile, ' 'V ** The Schenectady Union made a bet of a new dress on the result of the election, and won it and wears it. One of the “lyring skeletons” is growing fat, and he now fears starvation because his occupation is. gone. ! The oysters in several of the tributaries of Chesapeake Bay have become green, and, in consequence, unmarketable. A barrel of apples sells for twentyfive dollars in San Antonio, Texas, bpt beef is only two cents per pound. Canvas-back ducks are more numerous in the vicinity of Baltimore than any where else in the United States. The ravages of the boil worm were more serious in Florida and Alabama during the past season than in any other State. The latest thing in opera hmtffe is one by an Italian composer, in which all the Earts, even to those of the chorus, are to e taken by women. An Indian skeleton has been exhumed at Mystic, Conn. At its head was a pint bottle, of thick flint glass, of unique shapeand rude manufacture. The recent failure among the fish merchants of Boston have, it is stated, caused great distress among the poor fishermen of Cape Cod. One day when slrs. Partington heard the minister say there would be a nave in the new church, she observed that “she knew well who the party was.” Iv..M(!SEsl v ..M ( !SEs T)j;vACX,Jouud :gui)ty of bring, ing more passengers to the United States than the tonnage of his vessel alio w ed, was fined $750 and costs. Canada papers say that the trapping season for fine peltries is now well advanced, hut furs are not coming to market in large quantities. Vermont proposes to enact that railway bridges shall he made wide enougli to prevent the frequent decapitation of passengers by projecting timbers. Tiie assets of the Washington are securely invested in bonds anil mortgages (first liens) and United States and New York State stocks and bonds, in compliance with the laws of the State of New York. The Titusville Preen says that the meatiest man in town is the one who horsewhips his wife because she won’t tell him what she intends to give him for a Christmas present. C. C. Coffin lias dashed off “a picturesque story of the Boston fire,” which will be illustrated. Several carpenters are now at work on the “cuts.” Miv Coffin, we imagine,, is a grave Writer. Pennsylvania proposes to amend her Constitution so as to prohibit her Judges from indulging TIT. gratuitous rides upon railways, and to permit Her juries to render a valid verdict by a two-thirds’ majority. A man named Peck, who murdered Mrs. Almira Cheney, in Coleraine, slass., five years ago, and who has been in an insane asylum ever since, hss,been discharged, cured, and will be tried for murder this month. Mr. Joigneray, an atkiete of prodigious strength, has made his appearance in Paris. Among oilier exercises, being suspended by his feet from a trapeze, he lifted from the ground a real horse, by the mere force of his wrists. A pair of loot herons made head-quar-teis at Highland Lake, East Andover, N. Hi, for half a century, and the other day a stranger shot one of them, which so enraged the citizens of the neighborhood that the man was in danger of being lynched., *'