Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1874 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

Something in particular—PoAoßmTeItCbUILnAgR. Yaquina Bat, Oregon, is to be geologically examined. There ia not a paper in Delaware which wants the whipping-poet abolished. Philadelphia wants a few female barbers. How nice to be lathered by a pretty Quakeress! The Rochester Chronicle says that the climate of that city gently wooes Thenmatic twinges from their lurking place. New Jersey quidnuncs mention as a .are phenomenon a native four years old who has just learned to chew tobacco. Bra vs men can term fair women The " apple of ’heir eye.” But when they come to office, ” No ladies need apply.” Some boys at Biddeford, Me., found a woman's head in the water, and the whole of Maine is being searched over to find the body. A burglar who was found under a man’s bed in Philadelphia excused himself on the ground that he was looking for his dog. Texas cattle-drivers are busy gathering herds for an early drive. Cattle are in better condition than ever before at this season of the year. Mrs. Martha Duffy, of Atlanta, Ga., took morphine because she had lost in business the money got on her dead husband’s life insurance. A doctor writes to the Baltimore Sun that the nervous disease known as hydrophobia can be produced by the blte of a perfectly healthy dog. A medical journal says that it is injurious for one to drink water out of pools and ditches. It is not as convenient as drinking from a glass, either. The New York Sun says that any man cui make a fortune in ten years by raising cabbages, but Greeley’s advice to young men can’t be covered up that way. .. Maryland has anew State law fining a barber $5 for keeping his shop open Bunday, but a saloon can remain open all day and incur no prosecution. A Green Bay preacher rode thirteen miles, married a couple on the ice, took fifty cents rs his fee, and returned home without losing his bland smile. A shoemaker out West, witfi a literary turn of mind, has the. following poetical gem attached to his shingle: “ Here lives a man who nevar refuses To mend all sorts of boots and ehoe.es." That is a smart boy baby in Oak Harbor, Ohio. He can walk, talk, speak French and English, whistle and sing, and all at the tender age of thirteen months.

At Fort Wrangell, Alaska, the average temperature during the winter has been thirty degrees below zero. The coldest snap was in January, when the mercury congealed. A blind and Insane Inmate of the Rome (N. Y.) poor-house became imbued with the notion that everybody was trying to poison him. He therefore went and hanged himself. The Cincinnati Commercial says the best way to keep the lid snugly on a tea kettle full of boiling water is to sit on it. Few people would have ever thought of that. Feather Cake.—One cup sugar, one teaspoonful butter, one egg, three cups flour, two-thirds of a cup of sweet milk, one teaspoonful cream tartar, half one of soda. Flavor with lemon. Lamb.—Lamb should be roasted until the gravy that drops is white ; the forequarters are the best for a roast; the leg is good broiled or roasted; two horns will roast the forequarters wellWhen you repeat the proverb, “ Frailty, thy name is woman 1” you must except, hereafter, Mrs. Chloe Jones, colored, of Raleigh, whose waist, at its slenderest point, measures seven feet in circumference. In the stomach of a codfish opened at Boston the other day was found a stone inkstand full ot ink. If the fish had only secured a pen and some paper the world might have had a story of life under the sea. *’ A California newspaper, speaking of a rich mine, says that on discharging a blast a seam of rock about the thickness of a man’s band was displayed, so yellow with the precious metal as to seem almost solid goli . Of all jokes, says the Salem (Maas.) Cazette, that of the Legislature passing a law to prevent young men under eighteen years hurting themselves by overwork is the greatest. Won’t “Young America” enjoy the laugh ? Light Fruit Cake.—Three-fourths pound butter, one pound sugar, one pound eggs, one pound flour, one pound raisins, stoned ana chopped a little, half-pound citron, small teaspoonful soda, no spice. Will keep all summer. The St Paul Pioneer longs for. some preventive against breaking the point off a lead-pencil. A very simple and cheap preventive is to roll it up in tissue paper, tie with silk thread and then carry it around in a padded box. Cherry Pudding.—Three cups buttermilk, three.,eggs, three cujfc cherries, one teaspoonftii soda, a pinch of salt. Stir well, and thicken with flour, and bake. Serve with sauce or sweet cream and sugar. Any other fruit is as good as cherries.

A New Yobe court haadecided in favor of passengers on a crowded train occupying seats in a palace car without paying extra therefor, and has awarded a man S4OO damages for being put off a train because he refused to pay for a seat in such a car when there were none vacant in the other part of the train. Thebe is no’use trying to arouse children in the moVning r at this season of the year, under the maxim that the early bird catches the worm. There isn’t any worm to catch, and they know it. Just as soon as the frost is out, so that the worm can be caught, the boys will be up and have him to go fishing with. The good people of Ipswich, Mass., are pointing triumphantly to the power of prayer in that town. There was a scheme tor a grand calico ball, but the church membershave been praying unceasingly that it might not take place, and a large number of the young ISdies who were going to it have decided to break their engagements, several of them have been converted, and the ball has been given up. Fob cleaning glass a newspaper is one of the best articles in use. The chemical operation of some of the printing ink gives a beautiftil polish. Slightly moisten a piece of paper, roll it up and rub the glass; then take a dry, soft piece and repeat the process. No lint will remain, as is the QSM when doth I is used.