Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1874 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

Interest ing man— A bank clerk. A man is thinnest when he’s a shaving. Many a man with means is a mean man. The love for office is the Toot of much evil. To keep food on a weak stomach—Bolt it down. . Moonlight is merely the beautiful old age of day. Deep waters make a still noise. So do deep men. Rats are for the cellarity of their movements. Dark rooms are unfit for the dwellings of human beings. An unpleasant sort of arithmetic—Division among families. Happiness is where it is found, and seldom where it is sought. No matter how ignorant a man is, ha can at least make his mark. The season for sleeping op windowsills and rolling off is here. Monogham buttons are introduced on some of the new walking-suit. Why should a magistrate be very cold? Because he represents just-ice. ’A Portland (Me.) railway crossing is called “ the gridiron of death.” Little girls should remember that murderers die of dancing rope. Greenfield (Mass.) girls have taken to “the national game” with success. Colorado claims to yield sapphires, one of which was sold recently for SSOO. The Jackson Whig and Tribune has been presented with a hen’s egg which is the perfect shape of a walrus. It isproposed to try cremation on the dogs. Well, they would burn easily on account of the quantity of bark in them. —A Virginian is under arrest for pawning his wife’s corset for a pint of whisky. He believed that tight-lacing would kul her. An Atlanta child, only three years old, makes its parents proud and happy by carrying forty-eight pounds of meal fifty yards. A Delaware man, arrested for murder, proved that on that night and at the hour of the murder he was at home mauling his wife, and this fact saved him. A word to the wise is, and so forth. The strike of the omnibus-drivers in New York has gone far to convince the people of the city that the omnibuses are a nuisance any way, and may safely he abolished. The Grand Trunk. Railroad authorities have decided to change the line to narrow gauge east of Montreal in September. It will then be of uniform gauge throughout, and correspond with its American connections. , A contribution in aid of the Mill River sufferers was taken in a church in an adjoining town, a few evenings since. Among the articles contributed was a new clothes-line from a lady, labeled, “To be used in hanging the contractors of the reservoir.”— Boston Traveller. On a recent Saturday afternoon George Mead, nine years old, while playing with several other boys in front of a blacksmith shop, near Boston, accidentally ran against a piece of wood which was propping up a wagon, and, knocking it down, the vehicle fell upoc him, killing him instantly. A novelty, is the handsome $4.50 field Croquet Set that the Excelsior Magaaine is giving to new subscribers for 90 cents, through a special arrangement with a large manufacturing company. They furnish sample copies of the Magazine for 25 cents, from their office, Room 59, No. 157 La Salle St., Chicago, 111. The Detroit Free Preu says that recently, while a runaway horse was going up Michigan avenue, haying a saddle on his back, a horse and buggy crossed the avenue in front of him, and he made a flying leap over.the ijorse and continued his flight. One of the flying stirrups knocked off the hat of the man who was driving, but he forgot to get frightened until the runaway was a block distant. The historic $7,000 package which Col. York flourished in the memorable joint convention of the Kansas Legislature is again engaging public attention. Mr. Francis, the new State Treasurer, has receipted for it, and reports it among the list of valuable papers in his keeping. What to do with it is the all absorbing question. York, who surrendered it as bribe money, will have none of it. Pomeroy claims that it was given to York in trust for Page, who has relinquished all claim to it. Hence there appears to be ho owner. Strawberries. —Never wash strawberries if it can be avoided. If it must be done, do it before they are hulled. Use a large bowlful of water, put in a few berries at a time, stir them lightly with the hands until clean, skim them out and hull them at once, putting them into the saucers in which they are to be served. Sprinkle sugar over them if needed, and send to the table without further handling, or leave them to be sugared by the eater. Every time they are handled takes something from their freshness, but if it is preferable for other reasons to place them in one large dish on the table put them at once into the dish as you take them from the water and hull them, sprinkling on the necessary sugar as you proceed, so that they will need no stirring afterward. They need no draining. The little water that clings to them will melt the sugar, and with the juice of the fruit will make an exquisite dressing.—Herald orHealth. A Georgia paper describes a Soutlfern beauty as follows: “Among the many visitors who came to our city on Saturday last to sell their country produce was a young lady from an adjoining county who had chickens, eggs and butler for sale. Her beauty was of transcendent excellence. Bright, flashing, intellectual eyes and face round and rosy, while her calico dress was plain and neatly made and fitted beautifully. Her rich, black hair flowed in luxurious richness. Highly educated, she conversed and deported herself with becoming modesty. She wore no purchased complexion; had no top-knot on her head, but stood in the majestic beauty of a created intelligence that would not yield to thh despotic dictates of frivolous fashion.' ’lt has been a long time since we gazed upon such a sight. The young men crowded around her wagon with curiosity in their eves and admiration in their hearts. The old men wept for joy that there was one who had not bowed to Baal. She sold her country produce, went home, milket} the cows, cooked supper for ten farm laborers, and went to church that night with her sweetheart.”