Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1874 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

Oregon never bad a breach of promfcfe suit. . ; Feather fans are In vogue. They look well, but give Rttie air. Mexicans appear to like Texae, for they take considerable stock in it. Cape May has a roadster in the shape of a Shanghai rooster that draws abhby around in a baby-co&ch. -g Squirrels are unusually plentiful in Warren County, Ky., one man having counted sixty within a mile. - ' North Carolinians tempt immigration by the assurance that a n6me in the pine woods is a sure cure for consumption. » *, A revolving fragment of the ppleozic age collects no cryptogamous vegetation, is a new translation of’ a popular proverb. The latest sensation is a balloon face that will soon occur at Reading, Pa.,’between the aeronauts Pkillippi, Donaldson and Shearer. It seems that female suffrage has not entirely bahished matrimonial infelicity in Wyoming. Six divorce suitg are pending at Cheyenne. Fifteen years ago a Washington gentleman scratched his name on a gold dollar and sent it on its travels.. He has never seen it since. The First Congregations} Church of Bexington, Mass., is still using a Bible which was presented to the parish by John Hancock in 1798. The flower charity, one of the most beautiful and graceful charities of the season, is meeting’ with wide-spfcSd support and encouragement. The Georgetown (Ky.) Timeq is quacking over a breed of duhks, in Scott County, that lay eggs with doubleyolks—not occasionally, but all the time. A Connecticut Coroner’s jury naturally decided that a suicide must, to all intents and purposes, have lost his head when he neatly severed it from his body. Montreal merehahts are kicking against the duty on tea. Another revolution? If so, we can lend several thousand Indians to throw the test overboard. A Vermont man, whose name is Bugg, lias been confined to his bed nine years. Should think his wife would try some of the patent exterminators on such a bedBugg. Case May has an ancient lady who has worn the same bonnet since 1812. If any watering-place can lay claim to superior attractions it should “ ante up” at once.— Boston Post. A poetical New Hampshire ‘ editor, speaking of trees, says: “ Every tree is a feather In the earth’s cap, a plume in her bonnet, a tress upon her forehead; wherefore, plant trees!” In Maine, recently, by the, advice of a clairvoyant, a body was exhumed and reburied with the face downward, as a means of staying the ravages of consumption in tne corpse’s family. Kentucky doesn’t care a continental for the transit of Venus, since it has discovered itself to be the possessor of a colored woman 103 years old “who actually saw George Washington.” Numerically the male is the stronger in Japan by about 500,000, and it is to be hoped by evefy one who takes stock in civilization that the muchsquelched and altogether-ignored father-in-law receive* proper recognition by the Japanese ladies. An old negro woman waa arrested and brought before the Mayor of Montgomery, Ala., for picking up some driftwood at the edge of the river. Het defense was that God scht the rain that raised the river that brought the wood. The Mayor thought it a good defense and discharged her. Several persons were recently made ill in Cleveland, Ohio, by ice-cream which they bad eaten, and one of the “ theories” is that the milk was exposed to a dense poisonous fog, when set for the cream 10 rise, and absorbed the foul vapors of the fog. ' - rl The bridge painter who fell‘overboard at Niagara, apd succeeded in getting a front seat directly over the edge of the falls, says he never in his fife saw* such a grand and imposing spectacle-; - also.. that be never knew the true beauty of a rope’s end till he got hold of it on that occasion. Bliss Goddabi* of Londonderry, Vt., whose $4,000 of United Statss bonusjwere 'burned in the tea-kettle in Which Be had placed them for safety, darittdtlte-ttKfttat burning of his house, has had the whole amount restored to him by }he Treasury Department. *•< **• * r Tbe fit. Louis Bridge Company, in a few days, will put in place a mechanical arrangement for ceuntihg each pedestrian that passes ever the bridge. This-ma-chine will be a stile that allows only one person to pass R at a time, and on turning registers in successive nomhara upon a series of dial wheels, like a gas meter. Tire prevalent custom on the part oi most women of wearing the hair twisted into a mass on the .top or back, of the head, and the more modern and still more pernicious custom of loading the head with false hair or substances resembling it, is a frightful source of headache, ana Indirectly a cause of dyspepsia.—®rekange. A correspondent of. H*r(heiek% ftci-ente-Gossip state* that a hollow tree wafi cut down in Kent last February', when out fumbled upward of thirty squirrels,, most of which were dormant or hi a state of semi-sleep- On being roasedtitey-dto-the hollow. It is common to find squirrel 9 thus stowed awayjor the winter, but not often in such hufhbert together. Tbe Louisville Couritf-J&ifym “ The transfer of the Louisville & Forthas lifted from the oommmeeof purely - ers a burden which it could Ul afloro to bear. The fall from flftf cents to ten cents on every ton nf. urfiigW pesrap through the canpl ulate the river trade and to all me gasabAscs&a on evary trip, and the smaller boats WUI SdUbelS much nguSer by the change t"-?.. n lo Pee* - « f