Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1875 — GLEANINGS. [ARTICLE]

GLEANINGS.

-Obliging—tiro N«W York chap who hungkiiWr in a amatory, —Dry good* clerks are paid themunlfioent Rum of throe dollars per week in auvutmah. —Good looking lessee and good lookin’ —A. rooster was ftocen to death in a vacant lot in Bridgeport, Conn., the other day addle standing erect. —A Philadelphia manufactory is laying hr something for a rainy day. It makes 3,000 umbrellas a day. —Balm, Maas., is making a practical experiment of lighting her street lamps by electricity. It works well. —A Connecticut firm has just received an order for wooden type from China, to be cat in Chinese characters. —Singular that Trask should have died of heart disease—which is supposed to be peculiarly the fate of tobacco-users. —A corner in hops may be expected. Large shipments are made to Europe, and the prioe has gone up considerably. Crimped hair softens a feminine face. The masculine head that will wear it doesn’t need softening.— Yonkers Gazette. —Boston men complain that the coasting boys in the Common “ catch pedestrians bv the legs as a tack-puller does a tack." —Massachusetts is to have an asylum for indigent persons who are nervous without reaching the point of actual insanity. —One fortunate thing in being a king is that kings never have to get up nights and lug the potatoes in beside the coal stove. —There is some probability of the revival of crinoline in all its glory next summer. The news ought to occasion ISgiet. ■ —lt is singular that the man who borrows a paper is always the man to find the most fault with its contents. — Rome Sentinel.

—The Baptist Centennial Committee for Illinois are engaged in an effort to raise $1,000,000 as an educational memorial fund. —A gentleman in Cleveland' now jumps up and says that Benedict Arnold was as true a man to America as George Washington. —The school-teachers in Ireland ask an increase of wages, and the fact that they venture to do this is a hopeful sign for that country. —Paper undergarments for women hate struck the Pacific coast from Japan, and are likely to soon make their appearance this way. —There are eight metals—indium, vanadium, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, uranium, osmium and iridium—more valuable than gold. —When Mrs. Minnie Sherman-Fitcli rides on a Pullman none of the ladypassengers should attempt to get up a jewelry contest with her. —William Howitt is eighty-two, and walks daily to the Pincian Hill and back to his house in Rome. Feeble octogenarians wonder how it is possible. —Charles Re&de says that his true stories will outlive his fictions a hundred years. The old man with the scythe will have a tough job in separating them. —Toothsome.—A Washington dentist advertises for “ the front tooth of a young girl fourteen years of age. Will pay liberally and replace artificially.” —Kittie Bates, of New Bedford, lost a large piece of her tongue by applying it to a frosty iron hitchmg-post the other day. Kittie will miss it when she grows up. —A young lady m Pittsburgh lost a lover worth $50,000 because lie caught her eating Dutch cheese. She was trying to be a dutcbeese, but he couldn’t see it.

—Hearts have windows. They should be kept open at all times that the glad sunshine of all that is true and beautiful in this liie may enter and abide therein. —Mrs. Manchester who died recently in Pittsiown, N. 11., aged 105 years, used often to remark in reference to her long life: “ I am afraid God has forgotten me.” —ln India there is one Christian preacher to about a million heathens. In some of our Christian villages there are half a dozen preachers to a few hundred souls —'The Rev. Mr. Julien, of New Bedford, Pa., says there is more heavy lying done to the square inch in that city than anywhere in the world except Washington. > ■ —John J. Denison, who lias lived a recluse at Norwich Falls, Conn., ever since the death of his wife, twenty-nine years ago. was found dead in his bed the other day. —The people of the Pacific coast have become thoroughly convinced that the highest prosperity rests on manufactures and are continually engaging in new enterprises of that kind. —The Delaware tribe of Indians, numbering about 1,000 persons, has a Baptist Church of 230 members, with a fine house of worship and a large Sunday-school. The chief of the tribe is a Baptist minister. ' ! —Quiz asked his landlady yesterday whether the quaint old Dean of St. Patrick had any reference to butter when he remarked: “Only a woman’s hair!” and John Henry told him he'd butter shut up. —One hundred women engaged in a rubber manufactory' in New Jersey have struck against a reduction of wages. They don’t propose that even a rubber manufacturer shall stretch his preroga: lives too far. —ln Rhode Island, the home of Roger Williams, the Baptists have fifty-nine churches, forty-two padtors and *IO,OBO members. In 1874 there were 487 Baptists, being an increase over the aggregate of the three previous years. —A double flower is unnatural and will take every chance to get back into its single or natural state. It is useless to try and save seeds of double petunias, balsams, etc., for they will surely be single the next year.— Exchange. —A couple of Bangor men have organised quite a business in the manufacture of boot heels from scraps of leather purchased at the shoe factories. About 25,000 pairs of heels are made annually, for which four cents per pair are obtained. —The Queen of the Madagascar Islands has issued a proclamation, dated Oct. 8,1874, ordermg the liberation of all daves imported into her Kingdom. since the date of her treaty of 1865 with Great Britain for the suppression of the slave traffic. —A finely-dressed young lady slipped and fell near the Postoffice yesterday,

and the boot-black who assisted her to her feet inquired: “Did you break any bones, madam?” “No,I guess not,’’she replied, “ but I’m just as mad as if I had broken a dozen of ’em.’ I —Detroit Free 'Drew. \ r X ■. —The firm of Crocker & Brewster, of Boston, is the oldest publishing house in the country, the members being respectively .seventy-eight and seventy-seven years of age, ana having been in business together for flfty-6ix years, besides being apprentices together seven years before going into partnership. —We are told that the most lucrative position on a New York newspaper used to be the financial editorship. Clark made a fortune in that position on the Erpreu , Mellish on the World , and Norvell on the Timet. All that is changed, however, and the financial editors are now forced to divide with the publishers. —The branch of the Russian Imperial Bank at Tomsk, in Siberia, has been robbed of 840,000 roubles. The thieves excavated an underground passage to the vaults of the bank, effected an opening in spite of the strength of the masonry, and carried off all the cash. No clew has yet been found to the perpetrators of the deed. —The Emperor of Russia was not over J leased with his visit to England to see is daughter, the Duchess of Edinburgh. The imperial family rather look upon the English treatment of their offspring as cold and ever so little snubby. The Russian aristocrats are peculiarly bitter in the sentiments they entertain for John Bull. The Crimea is a sore point, and, besides, old Bull’s ways don’t inspire them with sympathetic feelings. —The American Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society in the past year sent out thirty-eight new missionaries, and has now 370 in the field. Its native helpers amount to more than an hundred educated pastors, 800 preachers and catechists, and nearly 800 teachers and Bible readers. In twenty-one different languages have missionary labors been performed, and preaching in near 600 cities, towns ana islands in different parts of the globs. —Those wbo are in the habit of buying plants at greenhouses know how fresh and delicately green they look when they arejtaken out, and how apt they are to droop down afterward from the effects of the change from the warm, moist air of such houses to the dry atmosphere and draughts of the sitting-room. We see it stated that if the plants are enveloped for a few days in thin soft paper, leaving an opening at the top, they will become acclimated without feeling the change. Sprinkle the leaves daily on both sides with a small wisp broom with warm water.

—When you wish to know what the weather is to be, go out and select the smallest cloud you can see. Keep your eyes upon it, and if it decreases and disappears it shows the state of the air which will be sure to be followed by fine weather; but if it increases in size' take your great-coat with you if you are going from home, for falling weather is not far ofl. The reason is this: When the air is becoming charged with electricity you will see every cloud attracting all lesser ones toward it, until it gathers into a shower; and, on the contrary, when the fluid is passing oft or diftusing itself, then a large cloud will be seen breaking to pieces and dissolving.— Scientific and Mining Journal. —Mrs. Mary Clemmer writes to the Independent from Washington: “There, on a sofa, sat Bancroft, historian diplomat and publicist— sat as straight as one of the Kaiser’s guard—ever" so much straigliter and more stately than I remember him at the New York Academy of Music ages ago in war days. ‘Bearded like the pard,’ it is snow white as his full crown of hair. His black eyes are undimmed—full of force and fire, like a man in his prime. Looking into them it is perfectly easy to understand why this man of nearly seventy-five makes liis own fire at six in the morning, studies till one and then starts for ahorseback ride.” —The French say that “Calendar- for Almanac is an improper term. It was first applied to express the year-book, according to the old Romans, from their word “ Calendes,” which signified a series of days recurring each month in the nones and ides. The substituted appellation, year-book, tinder the Revolution of 1789, was very much ridiculed, then and since. Charles IX. was the sovereign after the fall of the Homan Empire, who took up a notion to fix the beginning of the year on the Ist of January—it previously fell at Easter. The Revolutionists fixed it in the spring, dropping from their almanac the entire nomenclature of Roman Catholic saints and festivals. —Many Jews have purchased houses in Rome confiscated from the church and sold by Government at auction. These houses have sold very cheap, as the idea prevails that their tenure in such a manner from the Government, in spite of the protest of the ecclesiastical authorities, would be liable to contestation in the long run, in view of the ups and downs to which the city has been subject. The Israelite® have never harbored any scruples and fears in the premises, and accordingly have invested their moneys largelj - in the confiscated propLike true Romans they have already placarded their names and ownership in marble slabs on the purchased dwellings. —Jennie June describes A. T. Stewart as a man of seventy who looks not more than fifty—very quiet in appearance and manner; not at all above medium height, rather slender, his gray eyes alone quick and clear, showing the power and habit of taking in detaifs at a glance. He is absolutely destitute of pretension, and though fond of art and proud of bis pictures deprecates being considered a connoisseur. He is very abstemious in liis habits, tats h cup of Indian meal gruel the first thing in the morning, toast” jnd a fresh egg for breakfast, stewed chicken and rice pudding, made without eggs, for dinner. These are his favorite dishes the year round. He never eats at public dinners, preferring to take his meals at home before going. —Castelarhas very lrangiy contessed some illusions he cherished in regard to his countrymen, and has quit them for Geneva where true Republicans inhabit. He is of opinion now that the Spanish cannot be judged as many other European people, because they overflow with Moorish blood of African source, too fiery for the purpose of self-control. The Spaniards are depicted as a lot of absolutists. who hold fast to those idea® they have, right or wrong, and refuse to take in any others — intransigents. “God is God and Mahomet is His prophet’’ is their motto, and he says they have not got any farther than that; and so the vicious circle of reaction and liberalism, or sham prouunciamentoes, will remain unbroken.