Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1873 — How a Danbury Woman Managed. [ARTICLE]

How a Danbury Woman Managed.

A hot tempered Danbury woman who finds considerable trouble tn persuading her husband to furnish kindlings, and then is obliged to do it herself, read in a religious paper, Monday, of how a wife induced a wicked husband to become one of the most affectionate and hopeful _of men by beinginvariably calm and loving with him. The story made a deep iinpression upon her, and when she started a fire that noon, she put a pair of rubbers among the wood. Then she tied a handkerchief across her nose, and went on with her work. When the husband reached the gate, he paused, fetched a sniff that made a hole in the atmosphere, and then went around to the back of the house and fetched another sniff that had an equally damaging effect on the atmosphere. He stared into the next yard and up at his own house, and felt in his pockets, and was about to go around to the front again, when his wife thrust her head out of tlie window and said, “Why don’t you come in the house, you old fool? Come in and get your dinner, and let me read an article to you from the Christian Secretary, you old rip! Come in and see how nice it is to get dinner with nothing to burn but rubbers, you whited sepulchre! Come in here, I tell you, before I lose my temper, and say what I oughtn’t to !" At this invitation he went in, going upon the stoop and to the door very slowly, but, on opening the door, dissappeared inside with marvelous suddenness. The neighbors say he was cutting wood all the afternoon, and thinking of the religious press.— DanbwryNeM.

—The London Timet of a recent date mentions the increasing competition of the American iron dealers with those of England. The Timet says this competition is plainly shown in Canada, where American railway iron is delivered at prices fifteen to twenty per cent below those of Staffordshire. It mentions in this connection an order for fifteen thousand axles, which, under ordinary circumstances, would have gone to England, but which, on account of the cheapness, was to a manufacturer in the United There are those who may scoff at “warnings," but there’s a fatalism in dreams. What else was it, pray, when Mrs. Brown, of Gloucester, Mass., dreamcd, the other night that her absent bus band was dead! In the morning she frantically telegraphed, and found that he was entirely alive and well. But ere nightfall her poodle upset her band-box, and got at her new fall bonnet and pulled the charming thing to fragments. .y. ... _ —The temperance people will be rejoiced at the report from the swt of the Dutch-Atcheneese war, that the bultan of Atcheen refused to treat