Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1875 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

An Austin (Tex.) paper advertises to be raffled for, “ an Indian outfit, consisting of a bow and quiver and an Indian scalp. There is also one white feather on a string, showing that a white man had been killed by the Indian to whom it belonged.” ~ Hasty Bread Pudding. Put one quart of milk in a porcelain kettle, set it over the fire, butter slices of bread and crumble in until thick, beat three eggs, add sugar and flavoring as for custard; when the milk is hot pour in the eggs, well, take up and serve. A report comes from London that Mr. Disraeli is to be married again. As the venerable statesman is within twelve months of his seventieth birthday it would be remarkable if in his old age and infirmities he should seek another consort. It has always been supposed, too, that his extreme affection for the estimable lady vvhoni he married when he was over sixty, and who died two years ago, -would prevent another matrimonial alliance on his part. In Springfield, Mass., recently, a young .married woman became possessed with the idea that her proper vocation was that of a novelist. So she secretly began a thrilling story in which the hero was to be strangled' by his Jealous wife. Into the murder scene she determined topour her whole soul, and in order to properly describe it she went to the bedside of her sleeping spouse and, placing her hands about his neck, choked him into insensibility. He knocked her down with a chair as soon as he revived, and the novel went into the Stove. There recently died in the north of France, at the age of eighty-three, a miser who lived alone, and whose hut, when examined by the authorities after his death, proved a sort of gold snine. His pillow alone contained 19,000 francs in gold pieces of the time of Louis XV. and XVI. He had a taste for old pieces. He had been robbed many times, and the thieves were generally detected through the antiquity of the money they stole. The total of the sums robbed from him in his life, for which men have been convicted and sentenced, reach 100,000 francs. A bachelor in Omaha, Neb,, who was the fortunate possessor of a house ready furnished, recently effected a most advantageous arrangement. He found a pleasant family anxious to take boarders, and willing to take his house and furnish him with board and part of the profits for the rent. This arrangement worked very pleasantly for the bachelor until the other morning, when he awoke and found the family gone and himself with a house full of boarders to provide for. At last accounts he was trying to extricate himself from the dilemma. Only the female spiders spin webs. They own all the real estate, and the males have to live a vagabond life under stones and in other obscure hiding-places. Jf they ccme about the house so often as to bore the ruling sex they are mercilessly killed and eaten. The spider’s skin is as unyielding as the shells of lobsters and crabs, and is shed from time to time in the same way to accommodate the animal’s growth. If you poke over the rubbish in a female spider’s back-yard among her cast-off corsets you will find the jackets of the males who have paid for their sociality with their lives — trophies of her barbarism as truly as scalps show the savage nature of the red man.—Prof. E. S. Morse. The annual report of the International Executive Committee of Young Men’s Christian Associations reports the following list of Young Men’s Association buildings, with their valuation: NewYork city, $500,000; Philadelphia, Pa., $260,000; Chicago, 111., $30,000; Boston, Mass., $150,000; Cincinnati, Ohio, $40,000; San Francisco, Cal., $100,000; Montreal, Can.. $60,000; Washington, D. C., $200,000; Newark, N. J., $50,000; Cleveland, Ohio, $35,000; Jersey CitJj N. J., $35,000; Toronto, Ont., $45,000; Indianapolis, Ind., $75,000; Syracuse, N. Y., two chapels, $5,000; Halifax, N. S., $35,000; Portland, Me., chapel, $800; St. John’s, N. 8., $40,000; Dayton, Ohio, two chapels, $4,500; Newburg, N. Y.. $5,000; Poughkeepsie, N. Y., $50,000; Poughkeepsie, N. Y., chapel, $2,500; Chelsea, Mass., $3,000; Omaha, Neb., $5,000; New Brunswick, N. J., $15,000; G-ennantown, Pa., $45,000; Aurora, 81., $11,000; Charlestown, P. E. 1., $12,000. » r r There are few who need to be told that the Sherman House is the best hotel in Chicago. Bqjt all may not have learned that its prices have recently been materially reduced.

A Beautiful Woman. —The perceptive faculty of women ia usually keener than the same phrenological organ in men. Woman knows that beauty rather than genius is worshiped by the sterner sex. A man may talk with his lips of the latter to his lady-love, but the keenness of the woman knows he is thinking of the former in his heart. All women have an innate desire to please their beaux. They are fond of admiration, hence one of their longings is to be beautiful. The grand secret of female beauty is health —the secret of health is the power to eat, digest and assimilate a proper quantity ofc wholesome food. Take Vinegar Bitters. It will cleanse the stomach, tone the vital organs, give a perfect digestion, purify the> blood, clear up the complexion and produce a state of mental and physical electricity which gives symmetry of form, bright eyes, white skin, glossy hair and a genuine type of female loveliness which no cosmetic can compare with. . 19 No use of any longer taking the large, repulsive, griping, drastic and nauseous pills, composed of crude and bulky ingredients, and put up in cheap wood or pasteboard boxes, when we can, by a careful application of chemical science, extract nil the cathartic and other medicinal properties from the most valuable roots and herbs, and concentrate them into a minute Granule, scarcely larger than a mustard-seed, that can be readily swallowed by those of the most sensitive stomachs and fastidioua tastes. Each of Drf Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets represents, in a most concentrated form, as much caTHartic power~as is embodied Irt any of the 1 large pills found for sale in the drug stores. From their wonderful cathartic power, in proportion to their size, people who have not tried them are apt to suppose that they are harsh or drastic in effect, but such is not at all the case, the different active medicinal principles of which they are composed being so harmonized, one by the others, as to produce a most searching and thorough, yet gently and kindly operating, cathartics. The Pellets are sold by dealers in medicines. We received a very pleasant letter of thanks from our old friend Kendall, since his return home, for a bottle of Johnson's Anodyne Liniment which we gave him and which he-says has entirely cured him of the troublesome and dangerous cough he had when here. On the death of one of England’s most eminent physicians all his effects were sold by auction, and among other things was a sealed packet, marked “ Advice to Physicians,” which brought a great price. The purchaser, on opening the packet, read as follows: “ Keep the head cool, the bowels open and the feet warm.” If physic is necessary use Parsons' Purgative Pills; they are the most scientifically prepared pill that ha» appeared in the last hundred years. Wilhoft’s Fever and Ague Tonic.—This medicine is used by construction companies for the benefit of their employes, when engaged in malarial districts. The highest testimonials have been given by contractors and by the Presidents of some of the leading railroads in the South and West. When men are congregated in large numbers in the neighborhood of swamps and rivers, Wilhoft’s Tonic will prove a valuable addition to the stock ‘Of medicines, and will amply reward the company in the saving of time, labor and money. We recommend it to all. Wheelock, Finlay & Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. For Sale by all Druggists. Important to Consumptives.—The long-looked-for specific for the cure of Pulmonary diseases is found at last. Allen’s Lung Balsam has proved to be the most extraordinary medical preparation for curing Consumption. It not only cures Consumption, but relieves immediately the incipient stages, such as Coughs, Colds, Oppressions, etc., Pains in the Chest. It breaks up the most distressing cough in an incredible short time. For sale by all Medicine Dealers. We learn that the Co-operative Stove Co., of Cleveland, are the only manufacturers of the celebrated Rotary Soft Coal Base Burner, said to be the cheapest, most economical, powerful heating, durable and only successful base-burner stove for soft coal yet produced. Call at your stove dealer’s and see the Rotary.