Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1874 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

A Milwaukee horse has died of a broken heart. The. Patti is the name of one of the new bonnets. The crack of base ball clubs will soon be heard in the land. Moments of triumph are not always moments of happiness. “ The Order of Enoch” is a new society established by Brigham Young. Boston’s new Postofflce is called a “magnificent heap of ugliness.” Memory is the only paradise from which nothing can overdrive us. A Maryland miller has owned and tended one mill for forty-eight years. No Northern man who goes to Florida can rest until he has shot an alligator. An o4d sinner grumbles at the gout as a precious “ leg-acy” —only it.isn’t aisy. The Siamese twins, it appears, are not to be allowed to rest either in peace or in pieces. ■ It is very ruinous to move, but especially expensive to move in the best circles. See what It is to live in a warm country; theJittle boys# in Texas are going to the circus now. ' California still sneers at greenbacks, and if a man hasn’t gold and silver he is rated “B 2.” The first and only Grange in Arizona was a few days ago organized at Phoe nix in the Salt River Valley. A New York Shaker shook $4,000 out of the colony the other day and then shook himself far, far away. Glass will sustain 2,000 pounds to the square inch, it is said. Just threw a twopound stone at a plate-glass window and see. Jones says that the difference between his wife and the Pope is that shepossesses temper-all-power and His Eminence doesn’t. A company has been formed on Bear River, Cal., for the purpose of manufacturing butter from the fat of the seal and sea lion. A wedding took place at Cairo a few days ago in which the ceremony was performed by telegraph, the clergyman being in Memphis. A New Haven paper has finally admitted that there may possibly be one welllearned man and one well-bred lady outside of New Haven. Fourteen fathers in Quincy, 111., have signed a pledge not to allow their daughters to take music lessons until they know how to make good bread. More than a hundred people are drinking warm blood at the Brighton (Mass.) abattoir, for various diseases, and there is talk of building a hotel to accommodat the patients. A clergyman writes to the Baltimore American that its attempts at criticising Mrs. Van Cott are as ridiculous as the efforts of a mouse to nibble ofi the wings of an archangel. The Palatka (Fla.) .HeroM says that Florida has been talked of South more romantically, and examined less accurately, than any other section of countryon the continent. A Montreal paper, speaking of a recent dualin explosion, says, m a most pa- ■ thatin style, that the bodies of the victims were spread over many rods, “ here a piece and there a piece.” “Municipal insanity” is what they call it in Chicago. In New York ana Brooklyn it is called “ municipal rascality.” To doctors of law it is known as a complication of “ring-round." Overskirts are made very long and come from the waist to the edge of the skirt in front and puffed into the side seams so as to be looped very high on the hips. This is the latest style.

A man named Gail petitioned the Mississippi Legislature for leave to hang himself, but they refused to report favorably on the document and he still lives, desiring, he says, to abide by, the laws of his country. The Maine Solons have curious notions about the care of She poor. The Legislature is seriously considering a bill to make railroads support persons whom they have brought to towns, if they become paupers. The Terry Island Second Adventists stick to it that the end m coming pretty soon, in spite of the recent miscalculation, and Rev. C. C. Barker devotes four columns of the Watchman't Cry to an argument on the point In reference to a distinguished surgeon's opinion that Chang ana Eng might have been safely separated in life, the New -York Commercial Advertiser thinks that Of all sad words to a Siamese twin The saddest are these r It might have been. A cat in the Louisville Courier-Journal office lived in a drawer for nine days without food, light or drink, and in three minutes after being let out she was playing base ball with a paste cu{>. This, it must be remembered, was a Kentucky cat. - *• A yovng lady graduate of the medical department of lowa University has won the first prize for the beet performed dis* section in surgical anatomy, from a class consisting of twenty-four young men and one other young woman. A confidence woman of rare beauty and adroithess has swindled almost every merchant in Virginia City, and gone off with <3,000 of net result. The victims, however, admire her cleverness so much that they refuse to attempt her capture and punishment. The filial tenderness of Mary Kane, of New Haven, is truly touching. She desired to elope with a party already ornamented with a wife, but would not budge until she had seen her old and feeble mother provided for. And so she had her placed jn the alms-house. Varnish for Grates.—To one pound common asphaltum, fused in an iron pot, add half a pint hot boiled linseed oil; mix well, and boil an hour. When partially cooled add one quart oil of turpentine. If too thick, add more turpentine. Apply with an ordinary paint brush. Texarcana, Tex., a town built in a dense forest, is located nineteen miles from Fulton, Ark., and is less than ninety days old. It now numbers over 2,000 bona fide citizens, and there are 200 buildings going tip. There is a general ticket office, two railroads, two express companies, two telegraph lines and forty saloons. One of the ornaments picked out for. the coming bonnet is the Russian pompon. It is of several colors nicely blended, and stands upright from the side of the headgear like an illuminated cornstalk. Of course it will be fashionable. Anything imported and with as high-sounding a

name as. “ Russian pompon" cannot fai 1 to be. Recently a lady walked into the rooms of the Home Missionary Society in the Congregational House, Boston, and laid a SSOO bill upon the table of the Secretary, Dr. Barrows, with a note containing these words: “ Please appropriate the inclosed to the cause of borne missions, and acknowledge it in the next Home Missionary as cash from H. Y.” Having thus done her errand, the lady walked out as quietly as she came in. Shortly after the American steamer Illinois left Liverpool on a recent trip a man was discovered who had concealed himself for the purpose of stealing his passage. When questioned he handed the officer a card bearing the name of a correspondent of a New York daily paper. He stated that he had money, but refused to pay for his passage. He was therefore confined in a state-room during his passage, and kept on prison -diet. The New York varnishers and polishers are reorganizing their trades-union with a view of being enabled to regain, with the opening of the spring- business, their former rate of wages, which, owing to the financial convulsion of last fall, were reduced by an average 20 per cent. Their present average rate of wages is fifteen dollars per week, and they expect to have it raised when the time comes to eighteen dollars per week, at an average estimate,