Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1873 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

DußuqVß’a first postal card was carefully indorsed “private and confidential.” A MAW in WoodsCn County, Kan., went insane over the novel sensation of being out of debt. A Larayette (lud.) boy who attempted to amputate a cat’s tail now does his seeing with one eye. Owing to a feud at a ball in Louisiana recently, the party was sewed by the loss of four of its number. Some of the farmers near Fergus Falls, Minnesota, use shepherd dogs to care for their cattle, and build no fences. It has been twice judicially decided that a railroad passenger need not give up his ticket until furnished a seat, A Kalamazoo, Mich., colt found a vest hanging on a fence and chewed it up along with S7O in greenbacks in the pocket. A Kentucky engineer got to jawing with a woman, neglected the boiler, and there was an explosion which Killed three men. «. j Mrs. Mary Sapp, who was imprisoned in Jacksonville, Fla., for having double the number of husbands allowed by law, broke jail last week and escaped. In the San Francisco city prison, recently, a cherry-root pipe was discovered in one of the cells, in the stem of which were concealed four fine steel saws. ■ A man near Dubuque harvested fifty acres of wheat alone, alternately cutting, binding, and shocking. He cut, bound, and shocked five acres in one dav. Two young Americans have gained notoriety by a velocipede feat in France. They made a journey of 272 miles in three days, resting a single day half way. Evil-minded persons steal the dippers from the Louisville public fountains, and bad boys plug up the spouts with clay, while half the women crowd their letters into fire-alarm boxes. The indignant St Louis female who publicly horsewhipped the man who insulted her, and discovered that she had by mistake cowhided another man, has been acquitted. The highest peak of the Cordilleras, in Peru, was honored on the 4th of July by the hoisting of the United States Hag by a party of Americans. This is the highest point ever decorated by our flag. The Nevada Chinamen working among the mines never labor after four o’clock in the afternoon, having a firm belief that at that hour the angels leave earth for heaven. The Toledo Blade is rejoiced to read of two men being hanged who did not attribute their downfall to whisky, and who did not believe they were going right to the better world. A beetle took refuge in a church organ at Florence, Mass., a few Sundays ago, stopping the music, and necessitating the taking of the instrument to pieces before the mangled remains of the bug were discovered. An Indianapolis woman advertises as follows: “Wanted—The people to know that I left my husband, Henry H. Todd, one year ago, because I ascertained that he was part negro; and had deceived me. Sarah Jane Todd.” An undertaker not a thousand miles from'Concord, N. H., having got a fashionablehearse, asks people in a unique advertisement to patronize’ him if they wish to get their money's worth. A Vicksburg bank cashier paid a man S3OO too much, and not being able to find the man, and having no money to make the loss good, leaped into the river and drowned himself. A correspondent writes to the lierue Horticole that he has raised artichokes measuring a foot across and weighing nearly three pounds. We heard of "some in Georgia seven of which filled a champagne basket, but Georgia must try again. A pardon was found more effectual in curing a young man who was dving of consumption in an Illinois Jah than twenty dozen of cod liver oil. In twentyfour hours his lungs were as sound as if there had never been anything the matter. The sparrow is the cause of sundry legal proceedings in England. Evilmindea persons catch sparrows, paint them, and sell them for canaries. Can “airy” person be found stupid enough to be thus deceived ? There is no telling what the coming woman will do. But one of the women of Keokuk, lowa, wishing to aid in the erection of a church, but having no funds, worked four days on the edifice putting on laths. That ia a striking instance of manual labor piety. A cigar wrapper must burn to ashes as. completely and rapidly as the filling, otherwise it cuts off access of air to the latter, which then chars without burning quickly enough, and a bad flavor is produced in smoking. The University Press at Madison in publishing the course of study at the State University, put “Comic Lectures,” in the first term of the Sophomore year, where the Professor had written " Conic Sections.” To cover pictures, maps, etc., with a beautiful and protecting coat, soak gutta percha in ether until it swells up, and then apply it rapidly with a fine brush; dirt settled upon the coat can be washed off with a rag or sponge moistened in water. A young lady of Bennington of a practicul turn of mind, w:as invited bv an Advent exhorter to get her white robe ready, and prepare to ascend. “I can’t,” she replied; “father and mother are going - up, and somebody must stay to we to the cattle.” District Judge Maury of Texas who issued a warrant for the arrest of the Supreme Court of the State for contempt, and was himself arrested and taken before that Court, has been admitted to bail, the Supreme Court Judges having quarreled about the question of jurisdiction. Eyes like diamonds; hair like a vexed mass of golden feathers; a faultless form; a hand which no man can look upon without an intense desire to kiss it—are portions of the description of a young lady who is Captain of a schooner that trades with Houston, Texas. The Windham County Transcript announces that the Connecticut General Assembly, at its recent session, very wisely, and after much deliberation, passed an act allowing anybody and everybody to catch fish in East Hampton Pond through the ice each month in the year! The wild dogs in the woods near Jamaica, L. 1., continue to give a good deal of trouble. Almost nightly they commit depredations upon the pigs and poultry of the fanners, and travel through the woods, especially at night, is dangerous. Three children named Page, lately inmates of the poor-house at St. Joseph, Missouri, and from whence they were adopted by charitable citizens, have inherited an estate worth $50,000 from an uncle who died a short time since at Indianapolis. ' A man in Cleveland, the other day, undertook to seize a letter-carrier’s horse by. virtue of a chattel-mortgage; but was frightened away by the threats of-the combined force as to what would be his portion if he interfered with Uncle Sam’s mail facilities. A Green Bay merchant put out a sign of “ice water free.” -Another put out a sign of free lemonade, arid a third offered every customer ten cents In money. A fourth man, who couldn’t think of any-

thing better, got up a dog fight, and it drew all the crowd. An Indianapolis man serenaded his girl while she slept, but the old gent was awake. He moved upon the enemy of his happiness by way of the back door,’ with his hand 'upon the nozzle of the garden hose. His hand slipped oil’, and Charley’s mother thinks lie was out in a hard, shower. In testing a New Haven boiler recentlythe city inspector of boilers ruined it. The owner sited the city. The Supreme Court, however, held that the city was.not liable for damages, as the- inspector was an agent of the city, and that his business was made necessary-for the public good. A school" committee in an Eastern State brought charges the other day against one of the local teachers, the specifications of which arc as fojlows: “1. Immoirality; 2. Parshality; 3. Keeping disordly schoal; 4. Carrying unlafle weepings.” The man who wrote this charge intends to keep the "schoal" himself next session. The Saginaw Courier reports an epoch in the world’s history. An Indian family appeared on the streets of that city lately, the husband carrying the papoose, and the squaw not Carrying anything. This is the first instance of the kind on record. The woman’s-rights movement has evidently reached the aborigines. People who keep their money in an old stocking will be encouraged to persevere by the case of the Detroit young man who put the only two hundred dollars he possessed into, a pair of old boots, which were pitched out by his mother, and thrown by his father into an old box, which was stolen. Some persons gain a wonderful Control of their features. A newly-married Terre Haute man received a letter from his wife’s mother declining an invitation to make her home with them, and not even his most intimate friend detected a look of grief in his eye. He even smiled occasionally during the day. Some can smile with a breaking heart." The Garden says that a company is being formed for the purpose of heating horticultural and other buildings ‘‘without cost of fuel.” That is the company we have been looking for. Put us down for a tew shares. “This stove saves half' the fuel,” said the dealer to Pat. “Does it, indade? then giveme two, and I will be after saving the whole of it.”