Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1873 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

Main* has a hop patch of eighty acres, ■cS7fiHPS» he said to die of | &ser Mglect? , o&ASß&nstirf* LIVERPOOi.,MShio, settled in 1829, has never lost a building by fire. <*»i€fcSTßSrtSSfi&L show” is the] latest name for an evening yiarty. A Cbm dated 1364 is the historical pocket-piece of a lady at Rhinebeck, N.l t to pupil : Where does tea come from? Naughty-little boy: Out of the tea-pot. At a concert the other day one of the vocalists lb and her voice ’ thick; she strained it, but without good effect. A Hoboken editor being challenged, sent word in reply: “When X want to die, I can shoot myself.” The* <St ratogian says that not one perr; son in fifteen who comes to"‘Sarafoga drinks of the spring water. Eleven Baptist converts have been in prigon in Kiew, Russia, for almost a year, bn account of their faith. Ocean shells don’t murmur. A New York than says that iris only such ,a sound as one can hear by placing the mouth of a jug to his ear. An up-town younglady, speaking of one of her aversions, said the severest thing on record, “lie’s almost a perfect brutelie only lacks instinct.” . A Young man recently popped the l "IJueßtiGnin a new Kentucky Court House, and now boasts of hiving" held the first “court” in the building. sociable as a batch of candidates two weeks before election,” is the latest way of expressing the fact that a man is :: good *a tured slid pleasant. A Boston jeweler lias on exhibition what he claims to be the largest diamond * <lM»e UAited States. It "weighs thirty-two carats, and has a yellow tinge. An enterprising dog in Utica secured camples from the clothing of eight light-ning-rod agents within half an hour after a thunder storm the other day. V St* Louis Democrat says that eitv invested over $60,000 in the Louisville library loLtery, and not one.tentlt of that sum was drawn by ticket holders A Detroit man was masquerading on - ths streets as a genuine Modoc, and was ducked by a party of patriot ic newsboys, intent upon avenging the Oanby murder. According to the last market reports, cheese is “strong and active.” We feared a& much. According to the same reports, „ “whisky is going down.” We should say it was. ; We are told of a gentleman in this section who, though only twenty-eight years of age, recently married his 'fourth wife. Tket%a»revlqus ones died, each leaving two cHfldf-eii.— Cdlunibm {On.)Sun. Focn toy balloons-,-tied together, were sent up at Peoria on the Fourth and landed in Mackville, one hundred miles away. They were identified by the cards of the owners attached to them. When Shakespeare wrote about, patience on a monument, did lie refer to doctor’s patients ? No. How do you kniow he did not? Because you always find them under a monument. Jacob G. Large was shot, scalped, and left for cfcad by Indians, -in Western Kansas, some months ago. He arrived in Leavenworth recently, on his way to his former home in Minnesota. Rather Nice —Algernon Eltlielred—“What do you think of my new’ portrait ? They- have made me precious ugly, haven’t they?” Constantina I.avinia—“Yes, they have, verv; but it is a splendid likeness.”— Punch. Henceforth, every man who enters the British army may, if he will, learn a trade, the choice being left to him : and thus, at the same time that he is subjecting himself to discipline, and acquiring habits of obedience, he may become an : artificer, skillful or not, according to his capabilities. Thk woman who is annually killed by the bite of a spider expired this season at Knoxville, Tenn. Her gifted sister, who works out the road-tax, had, when last heard from, completed grading a section of road in Maine. The remaining sisters plow eighty acres and plant it in corn this year in Kansas -. The Tycoon knows how to starts newspaper. He does not offer big beets, nor prize squashes, nor oroide jewelry as premiums for subscribers. Having taken an interest in the publication of a-new paperat the Japanese capital, lie has issued an order that all then "of certain social and political circles shall take it or be beheaded. Miss Maria Porter, the Yankee girl who toiled eighteen hours a day learning to show off on skates, and who acquired such skill that she had the honor of skating with Napoleon 111., and became the belle of the Parisian skaters, has received her reward. She. lately married & Prus.. sian nobleman old enough to be her grandfather. We trust our readers can succeed better than we have in pronouncing the three following Indian words which are to be found in Church’s “History of King Philip’s war,” printed in 1829. In this language: “Nummatchekodtantamoonganunnonash, signifies—our lusts. Noowomantammoonkanunnonnash signifies our loves. Kummogkodohatfoottummovetiteaodgannuononnash signifies, in the language of our time—our question.”