Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1873 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

The Ssengerfcst of 1874 is to be held in Cleveland. ' * A Mihnrsota. tovfn has subscribed SBOO to aid in the establishment of a faro bank. American sardines have received the grand prize at the Vienna Exposition. The Siamese twins have been _ summoned to sit on a jury. They will sit next to each other. A Paducah man drowned himself rather than go to the penitentiary for six months. A Baltimore boy thought he was governed too much, and he hid in the cellar for fourteen days. A man in New Hamburg, N. Y., has papered his horse-stalls with gold paper and carpeted the floors. A pish caught at Pubuque was four feet long and weighed fifty-nine and one-half pounds. t Charleston negroes make money Incatching sharks and trying out their oil, which is used for greasing harness. Immense clouds of grasshoppers are moving southward from Utah, because there they couldn’t Utali-lize their craving appetites. Joshua Nicholson, who expired under administrative circumstances lately in , Baltimore, was a bigamist. Tie cheated the gal, if not the gallows. An iron bridge will be built across Looking-glass river, at Portland, just to accommodate the ladies. > Mrs. Christian, of Augusta, tackled a burglar so violently the other night that, he jumped from the window. She is evidently a fight ing Christian. A Pennsylvania girl went blackberryin g five weeks ago, and when heard from the other day was keeping house with her husband, in Georgia. A Pond du Lac man has invented a machine which harvests wheat, threshes it and bags it, ready for market, but he can’t bring it into use this year. Even a man with a wart on his nose ha« rights in Baltimore. Mr. Johnson, of that city, lately recovered SSOO from a man who spoke of him as “Wart}- Johnson.” There is nothing like exact statements. Hence, it is not reported that five inches of rain have fallen in Boston since August came in. The fall was only 4.999 inches. The Romeo (Mich.) Observer says a man in the township of Almont Cradled eight ~ acres of wheat between sun and sun on a bet of S3OO. He won the bet and had an hour to spare. A Louisiana sheriff feared that two prisoners in his custody would be lynched and hung in a bungling manner, and so ran them off a bridge, and gracefully drowned them. - At a candy-pull, recently, the two-gal-lon pot full of blazing liquid w-a? put out in the yard to cool, while the jollity went on in side. The cat’s corpse was removed, and the candy given to the poor. A man at Lansingburg, N. Y., wagered that he could jump fifty feet, and he won the money by jumping off a building. The satisfaction of knowing that the idiot broke his neck is withheld. A Scott County Ivy., negress is suing Benjamin Osborne, a white man, for killing her husband, laying her damages at SIO,OOO. Osborne has been committed, without bail, to answer the' charge. The St. Paul papers assert that there is a gigantic pine-land ring in Minnesota, which sold 60,000,000 feet of timber from the public lands last year, without the State receiving any benefit therefrom. A Galena, 111., man went to the cemetery, dug up his father’s grave stone, and offered it for sale to a marble-cutter. The Gazette, triumphantly adds, as a challenge to the world, “Bring on your mean men !” A club was recent!}- organized in Rochester, N. Y., called the Dismal Sixall the members bid bachelors, whose sole aim is to make themselves miserable. The presiding officer is called the doleful grand, while his deputy is known as the vice-doleful. 1