Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1873 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

Largs crops are predicted for Kansas. The people of Bearer Falls, Pa., have organised an anti-Chinese league. - .9KM; In another column, the advertisement headed “/ will help my man.” * Tfck City Council of Kokomo, Ind., or dains that any officer whom it elects who gets drunk, thereby vacates his office. Ladies in Eastern cities are discarding false hair, which is the most sensible njovs of the day. Tunts season, for the first time, lumber from the Lake Michigan districts reaches the Atlantic via Detroit River. A New Jersey man who recovered $5,000 tor having his ear pinched, is looking for some one to pinch the other. Somebody says the tariff at the extremely fashionable watering-place hotels is “five dollars a day; meals and lodging extra.” ' New York brewers have gone to making Cincinnati and Milwaukee lager beer. It saves transportation and is just as transporting. Buffalo lias a police dog which has saved several persons from drowning. The coroners have vainly tried to kill the canine. Miss Nellie Thurston is engaged to make a balloon ascension itext fall at the Antwerp (N. Y.) Union Agricultural Society’s grounds. The black flint found near Fort Bridger, Wyoming Territory, is identical, according to Dr. Leidy, with that of the English chalk. Pretty country girls are employed as waiters at some of the Narragansett hotels, but they are terribly high-toned and aristocratic. The wild man in the woods is in Georgia now. He has got to be eight feet high, and tears out a horse's tail with one turn of the wrist. A Louisville womaji bought .a featherbed the other day, and found a sliot-bag in it containing $470 in bank notes. A young woman at Fall River, Mass., attempted to cowhide a young man the other day, and came out second best. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway is to be extended irom its terminus at the west line of Kansas to Grenada, in Colorado. The work of stocking the lakes and rivers ol Wisconsin with salmon trout is being carried on in earnest. Over 40,000 have already been put in this season. Nearly 38,000 barrels of cranberries were received at Milwaukee during the past year, of which 28,485 barrels were shipped to Eastern and Southern markets. A Mobile beggar died recently, leaving a fortune of half a million dollars. Though formerly an outcast, his funeral was largely attended by his relatives. Dover, Yt., has not had a death for five years, and the town liearse was put up at raffle the other day .and won by a man who is going to alter it over into a milkcart Mayor Stockley, of Philadelphia, has given orders that the law prohibiting the sale of oysters in that city in the months of June, July and August be strictly enforced. ——; . A man who had his new hat exchanged for an old one in a barber shop advertises that unless it is returned he will forward to the wife of the person who took it the letter found concealed in the lining of the old one. A Chicago horse doctor nearly lost Iris life last week by the falling of his diamond pin on one of his feet. The entire ankle was badly crushed, and the doctors think amputation will be necessary. The iron bridge over the Marias des Cygnes, at Fontana, Kansas, 150, feet in length, was lifted from its piers during the late flood, and carried to a point opposite Newell's mill, a distance of at least 20 miles. The stock-yards'ih East St, Louis will, when completed, be one of the largest institutions of the kind in the country. The land owned by the company consists - —of 400 mhcb, all of which will-bo tisedfor stock purposes. General Jackson’s Bible, which was given to him during his Presidency by a Washington lady, and after his death was presented to the Hermitage Church in Tennessee, was stolen from the place recently. New Jersey papers are telling some fearful stories about the mosquitoes of that State. The insects have grand roosts, like pigeons, and when they settle down on a cow she is gone up. Arrangements are being made for a national convention of Irish-bom citizens, to be held in Cleveland, 0., about the 15th of July next, for the purpose of forming a league similar to the German union for social and beneficial purposes. A Panora (Iowa) man borrowed a buggy of a livery man, and when the buggy came back there was a lady’s breast-pin in it. The livery man sent it to the resij dence of the man who borrowed the team! The lady of the house said it did not belong to her, but she would keep it and ask. her husband about it.