Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1874 — CUBBENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CUBBENT ITEMS.

The autumn silks will be striped. Six men recently caught 1,000 grown trout in one day in a Montana stream. The latest “ charm” for watch chains is a stick of caustic to cauterize dog bites. French milliners are already at work upon, the autumn bonnet. They have promised to produce a “ perfect love.” A Brooklyn girl claims to have changed her dress and completed her toilet in three minutes, the other afternoon. It is shrewdly observed that sawdust pills would cure a great many diseases if the patient would only make his own sawdust. A gun standing in the corner of a room in a house at Monrovia, Ind., was fired' off by electricity during a recent thunder-storm, . . : • When a man saves his cigar monfey to buy his wife a new bonnet and the children new shoes, it indicates a spell of sunsh'ne. — Danbury News. An old maid is not without power. A writer observes that he has known one such to turn a steamboat excursion intc an occasion of gloom and despondency. A Brussels telegram says the Washington Government has given notice to terminate the treaty of commerce and navigation with Belgium the Ist of July, 1875. There are no bouquets about a newspaper office, but sometimes the contents of the paste-cup acquire a maturity which by any other name would smell as sweet. A scientist announces that a human being has 7,000,000 of pores through which perspiration and exhausted particles of the system escape. We are all pore creatures. Kate Field writes from Spain that if nature would economize on fleas, and disburse the extra energy on the men of that country, she would be doing a thrifty piece of business. It is said that the Transatlantic .Steamship Company will appeal against the award of the British— Admiralty Court, in the case of the abandoned steamship Amerique. A traveling circus company has sued the village of Great Falls, N. H., for damages incurred through the unrepaired condition of its roads, whereby several of the troupe got great falls. “ Thicker than the surrounding foliage, with wings like Apollyon’s, a beak like an artesian auger, and a voice like the sound of many waters,” is a poetic description of the New Jersey mosquitoes. • < Miss McHenry, of St. Stephen’s Church Philadelphia, sets a noble example to women who wish to be of real use in the world. She has raised $200,000 for three church homes, which fare for 000 children. An awful animal, ten feet long, with yellow eyes, switchy tail, cream-colored fur and shrieky voice, is what some railroad laborers say they saw in the night on Dresden Mountain, Vt. Probably a combination of cat and imagination. A street beggar in New York says that the panic has ruined him. His collections have dropped to $3 a day; rents have fallen 30 per cent., and he has two houses and three stores empty even at this reduction. According to- the census, there are only tiyp men in America who make a .specialty of the manufacture of handorgans. Just think how easy it would be to kill those two men, and yet they still live!— N. Y. M»rW. This is the way in which an observer classifies them: The Comanches have a concealed look; the Kiowas more fearless and open; the Apaches are a steady set. The Sioux have all three, of these looks and more to suit occasions.