Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1874 — Dangers of Miscellaneous Smoking. [ARTICLE]

Dangers of Miscellaneous Smoking.

The Paris Figaro gives the following details of ■ an extraordinary robbery of jewelry: “A Parisian commission merchant, M. Cohn, had purchased a quantity of jewelry for London houses to the value of £6,000. On the evening of his departure for London he dined with a number of his clerks, ■who accompanied him to the station, where he got into an empty compartment of the train which was to take him to Calais. Some minutes later four persons entered the carriage, and, although he would have preferred to be alone, finding there was no time for change, he engaged in conversation with them, at the same time keeping his hand on the traveling bag which contained his valuables. On arriving at Calais, the strangers disappeared. M. Cohn proceeded on board the boat. He was immediately joined by a person whom he recognized as one of his fellow-travelers in the train, and who, after a short discussion on the evils of sea-sickness, offered, him a cigar, which he refused. His interlocutor, however, was very pressing, and tendered a case of what he called real Havanas, which Mr. Cohn believes now, although he did not specially notice at the time, was not the same as the stranger himself had. In the Cnd Mr. Cohn took a cigar, and lighted and commenced smoking it, when he at once became insensible. On recovering he found he wss at Dover, and that his traveling bag and impromptu acquaintance had disappeared. Three trains were about to start. A search was made for both bag and stranger, and the telegraph was put into play, but without success.”' . —The arsenal at Rock Island, 111., when complete, will have a capacity equal to the manufacture of munitions of war sufficient to equip 1,000,000 men every six months. •\ * ' ■ —The Blue-Grass regions of Kentucky lie across the middle of ..the State, and contain some 12,000 or 15,000 square miles or about one-third of the State, and include about twenty counties. —The bonded and floating debt of Chicago has been increased since 1869 by 88 per cent, or from $8,189,371 to $15,393,832. The expenditures for four years have amounted to $25,500,000.