Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1873 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

One woman has set out 3,000 forest trees in Greeley, Col. The Mammoth Cave is for sale; price, half a million. Tee poor children of Boston will have a series of picnics given them this summer. The meanest pickpocket in the world stole $424 from a blind soldier in Dayton, Ohio. An Indianapolis parent has been fined $5 for giving his minor son a glass of lager beer. Recorder Hackett, of New York, sentenced a man to State Prison for picking up and spending ten cents. Leer Quin, of Philadelphia, sold her new bonnet so that her lover might purchase a ball ticket That’s true love. A tooth in a Hampton (Conn.) school has been working on the alphabet eight years, and hasn't mastered it yet. . A thirty-pound salmon is worth but fifty cents in Portland, Oregon. In San Francisco it would sell for three dollars. A counterman at Dyersburg, Tenn., was noticed the other day gravely setting his watch by a painted sign in front of a jeweler’s. Hartford, Conn., is to ornament its park with an eight-foot marble figure of General Israel Putnam, the man who rode a perpendicular. The Holly Springs South says that at no time in the history of North Mississippi has the caterpillar been so numerous, at no time so destructive. ——— The Aldermen of Boston have refused to furnish Professor Wise $3,000 to make and start his balloon from the Common on its Atlantic voyage. The skeleton of a boa constrictor belonging to the Transatlantic Circus, which died at Davenport, lowa, is at the State University. Its length is twenty-three feet. _A party of American boarding-school firls started for Europe the other day, uner the charge of competent instructress-' es, for a fifteen months’ tour of observa tion. The babe born aboard the Polaris open- ‘ ed his eyes one hundred and sixty miles nearer the pole than ever babe did before. And still it is not a Pole but an Esquimaux. - ■ Florida proposes to supply the United States .with oranges in a few years. Over a million of sweet orange seedlings are under cultivation on the St. John’s River alone. NORTHWEBTERN lowa exchanges notice the presence of untold millions of grass hoppers in their localities, As j-et, however, little harm seems to have been done by them. A most remarkable cure of the desire for tobacco is that of an InnTf.napolis aldennan. He was thrown from his buggy some time ago, and since then lias loathed the weed. A well-posted fruit grower in Delaware estimates that the peach crop of the present season will aggregate about 3,570, 000 baskets, exceeding by 500,000 baskets that of last year. The Mayor of Nashville publishes a proclamation asking druggists to furnish all persons unable to purchase cholera medicines with the same, and to charge them to the city. Among the Kickapoo warriors slain during General Mackenzie’s recent raid into Mexico was one of gigantic size, measuring seven feet in height, and stout m proportion. The heaviest larceny that lias lately come to light is the carrying off of a small safe in Westcott, Ind. The thieves took it away in a wagon, that it might be opened at their leisure. _■ _ _ _ - An old lady passenger was so much impressed by the polite attention she received from a railroad conductor, in Connecticut, that she recently left him twenty-five hundred dollars by"her will. A schoolmaster of Bennington, Vs., was lately worsted in single combat by one of his pupils for presuming to interfere with the latter's courtship of a female class-mate during school hours. The town of Pomeroy, 0., is literally cracking to pieces. A “slip" of the earth destroyed a large flouring mill, the other day, and subsequent cracks threatened serious damage to other valuable property. An engineer has invented a machine which will cut off the general reporter from many an item. It is a hot-water pump with which to squirt hot water on deaf persons Who walk on the track. A wonderful mine has been discovered by Colonel J. W. McElrath, in the South Mountains, Ya., says the Hickory Press. It contains mica, silver, and assafoetida, with some indications of petroleum oil gas. The editor of the Fredericksburg (Va.) News was asked by a stranger, “if it was possible that that little town kept up four ‘ newspapers,” and the reply was, “No, it takes four newspapers to keep up the town,” The latest gold diggings are located well toward the North Pole in Lapland. Russians and Norwegians are digging out the precious metal “from beneath“ the frozen soil, and there is not an American in the territory. It is better to hesitate sometimes before being courteous to strangers. A jLa Crosse man promptly answered the questions of a stranger, and the man, diiing soon after, left him the care of eight* fatherless children and no money. A country maiden lately drove an.. oxteam into Indianapolis, hauling a load of wood. She said she cut the wood, and with the wood she bought a highly trimmed hat, and with the hat she’ll cut a country swell. Cambridge, Vt., is proud of a family which has moved thirty times in eleven years, has been in sixteen States, and moved seven times in one year. The longest time they stayed in any one place was eighteen months. The Chinese companies expend about SSO each for bringing Chinese laborers to California, and they are paid some S2OO in return. In other words, the companies make nearly $l5O on each laborer they import to California.

Five girls, neither of them over twenty years of age, have entered 330 acres of land in Kansas, and intend to make a dairy farm of it, All but two of the -girls are graduates of Eastern schools and two of them are proficient in agricultural' chemistry. > NeWBtJETPOET , Mass., produces a “smart woman who don’t like to he called old at nearly seventy years, who last Monday did the weekly washing for her family of five persons, cooked for them, and cleaned the paint and papered two rooms.” The miseries of a worthy paterfamilias whose family has been abroad for some yean while he has been working hard to earn the money to support them at home are thus touchingly set forth by an exchange. He met mem in Paris recently, and his children speaking French only, he was obliged to go to school to acuuire the language in order to converse with his offspring. Dobing a recent heavy thunder-storm, me lightning smock the ground near the residence of Mr. Ramsey, in Rockport, Ohio, and,tore up the ground for a conslderabla space, throwing the sand high in the air. The whole family in the house were prostrated by the shock, and so affected that they did not recover for several hours. About two hours after the stroke

a boy went to the pump in the yard to draw water, but ftnutd the iron handle so hot as to burn his hand. A SIO,OOO Cow.—lt has often been said that cows, especially milch cows, never sell for as much as they are really worth, but A. J. Alexander, Esq., of Woodburn, Wopdford County, sold on Thursday, 20th of May, a two-year-old heifer, known as “The Duchess* of Aidric XV.,” to go to England, for SIO,OOO, which may be regarded as a sum not very far below herreal value. She is said to be “a beautiful specimen of a beautiful race,” and it tip-' pears that the English breeders, having heretofore parted with all their finest-cat-tie, are now determined to have some of them back at any price.— Frankfort (Sy.) Yeoman. A Delicate Task Well Done.—Treasury experts have finished the work of restoring thfe securities of the Lambefton Savings Bank, Franklin, Pa., which were thrown into the fire by the insane cashier. Of $140,000 Government bonds, al! were identified. - Of the SGO,tIOO railroad and municipal bonds, all were restored. Of $150,000 notes and bills ■ receivable, all were restored or made good by the parties interested. The. only , loss of the bank has been two or three dollars in currency. When received at the Treasury the whole mass appeared to be ashes and charred remnants of paper.- The experts were Mrs. Davis,' Miss Patterson and Miss Schrimer. The time occupied was five weeks of clear days. The work was of such a delicate nature that it could not be prosecuted in cloudy weather.