Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1874 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

Baud Mountain had a head-ache. Thai was allTjie New York detectives are successful in only one case out of nineteen reported. Wyoming has finally decided to call its female Justices “Justices of the Peaces,” and to fine any one who growls about grammar. A Kansas girl wouldn’t be married without a yellow ribbon around her waist, and a boy rode eight miles to get it -while the guests waited: It is said that if women didn’t talk so much most of them would live to be ninety years old, but what object would life be if they couldn’t talk ? A Kentucky farmer says that three good bull-dogs roaming the yard nights will do more to keep a man honest than all the talking in the world. ... . A young, unmarried clergyman, of Brookport, Pa., offers twenty cords of wood for a good wife. He retains just enough for crematory purposes, in case slie isn’t a success. Mbs. Williams, of La Crosse, talked too much, and her husband filled her mouth with wafers, but the court decided that this wasn’t no wafer to stop her and fined Williams $25. One-half the world doesn’t know how the other half lives. For the benefit of the first half it may be stated that John Giddey, of Illinois, has eaten nothing but boiled eggs for six months past He is yolked to his idol. The town of North Providence, R, a 1., has only one pauper to support This individual has a farm all to himself, with carriage, horses and cattle, food provided by contract, and a poormaster and family to take care of him. The Bruntwieker, of Missouri, says: “ There is an undeflnable something about some men which commands our respect whether we see them heading a conquering squadron or bending in lowly toil over an onion bed.” * A Pittsburgh man sold his wife the other day for five dollars and a secondhand suit of clothes. She heard of the transaction before the delivery took place, and his neighbors say it will probably cost him about fifty dollars to get well again. A man in the Philadelphia insane asylum imagines himself a woman. He dresses in female attire and parts his hair in the middle. Daring the aay he associates with the females and does sewing and embroidery of the finest kind. A Danbury house cat was cremated the other morning. She had crept into the kitchen oven daring the night, and in the morning got accidentally shut in. When the oven was opened to bake the breakfast roils her remains weighed but thir teen and three-quarters ounces. In Lawrenceburg, Tenn., a tax-collect-or named Weaver killed Justice of the Peace Green when the latter “ wasn’t prethat he would haunt his murderer night and day for taking his life without “ fair play.” And sure enough the ghost of the slain has driven the slayer crazy by its constant presence. Such is the story. —We observe a tendency among newspaper writers to indulge in redundant expressions. For instance, the Louisville Courier Journal says; “Two physicians are in attendance, and it is thought he cannot recover.” It would have been sufficient in this case to have said simply; “ Two physicians are in attendance.”— Neva York Mail. A gentleman connected with the press of this city celebrated on the 2d of May his birthday, his wife’s birthday and his wedding-day. It was the twentieth anniversary . When married, the joint ages of his wife and himself were fifty years. On the last 2d of May the joint ages of his children were fifty years. These coincidences are rather remarkable.— Cincinnati Enquirer. Congressman Lamar spoke like a true patriot when, in tendering the South’s tribute of respect to the memory of Charles Sumner, be exclaimed: ‘‘My countrymen! Know one another and you will love one another.” But, granting that we possessed that knowledge, how many of us could put our hands in our pockets and respond to the request for the loan of a quarter with unhesitating confidence? — Brooklyn Argue. The girls of a California seminary lately developed a singular fancy for using three one-cent stamps instead of the regular kind upon their envelopes. The letters were so very plain and matter-of-fact, and the attempts at evading surveillance in the old-fashioned way grew so scarce, that one inspecting teacner investigated this whim. And lo! the cunning creatures had taken to writing tender, emotional little epistles to their lovers under the stamps. A couple of facetious drummers who were on a train of cars that was going very slowly up a sharp grade near Burlington, Vt., the other day, made considerable fun es the conductor for the slowness with which the cars were moving, and began to amuse themselves by jumping off from the rear car and running around the train. Boon, however, the cars reached the top of the hill and began to spin off at a rapid rate. One of the men succeeded in jumping on, but the other was compelled to walk four miles to " the next station. The Secretary of the National Association of Veterans of the Mexican War has issued a circular calling the attention of those interested to the fact that an obstacle has been thrown in the way of obtaining pensions for the surviving veterans of the Mexican War by the probably extravagant estimate made by the Commissioner of Pensions of the number of such survivors. The circular calls for a thorough canvass of every State and Territory of the Union, through the instrumentality of the town, county and State organizations of the Association, and the enrollment as soon as possible of then am a of every known survivor, or widow ot a veteran of Mexico, the postofflee address, his rank, the company, regiment, commanding officer of each; term of service, when and where enlisted and discharged, and the same to be forwarded to the First Secretary of the National Association of Veterans or the Mexican War (address, A. M. Kenaday, Lock Box No. BT, Washington, D. C), to enable him to prepare the rolls for the inspection of the Committees of Congress before the close of the present session, if possible. The Secretary says: “In this wav only can a reliable estimate be arrived at for an appropriation; and it is confidently hoped. If our case is to be fairly con.id- ‘ ered and public sentiment regarded, that Congress will promptly vote an amount sufficient to cover the applications thus presented."