Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1875 — Stealing a Bull Dog. [ARTICLE]

Stealing a Bull Dog.

One of the New York papers states that somebody the other day stole a very valuable bull dog from the Central Park menagerie in that city, and I have felt ever since as if I would like to get acquainted with the thief. A man who is capable of stealings bull dog has talent that is sufficiently remarkable to entitle him to thoughtful consideration. I suppose for a small inducement such a man as that would pick up a couple of Bengal tigers and a hyena and walk off with them, and if I owned a good wild-cat I would not like to leave him alone with it. I think this man must be related to a boy in Pottsville, Pa, It is stated in one of the Pottsville papers that “ a boy of thirteen ran away with a circus from this place last week.” And this, it seems to me, rather lays over the operation ot the embezzler of the bull dog. He is a boy of thirteen, who disdains stealing a single animal, but actually confiscates an entire circus and decamps with it. Destiny points to a career in Congress for this boy. When I think of the manner in which he would put through a salary grab I feel as if the country was entitled to his services at Washington. He might prove to be in valuable if he should take a notion to steal the Washington Monument, or to elope with the Patent Office just before the annual avalanche of reports descend upon the country.— Max Adeler.

—On Washing House-Plants.—Have a large pail or tub filled with warm soapsuds; then, spreading the fingers and palm of the left hand over the soil in the pot, turn the branches topsy-turvy into the warm soap-suds, swing the plant briskly in the water till every leaf has become completely saturated, then put it through a pail of clean water and rub each leaf with the thumb and finger; give it a good shake and when dry return it to its place in the window. The leaves of a plant are its lungs, each leaf being furnished with hundreds of minute spores whence the plants breathe in carbon and exhale oxygen. The perspiration of plants is said to be seventeen times that of the human body. Many •plants never bloom on account of the accumulation of dust upon their leaves. A plant too large to be laid down In a tub, as above described, maybe syringed and each leaf rubbed clean with the finger and thumb, which are better for this purpose than a brush or cloth.— Land and Water. —The daily receipts of the New York Elevated Railway Company, making trips every thirty-five minutes, have averaged $265, and its net earnings last year were $27,445. Proposed improvements will cost $500,000. —Ham Boiled with Vinegar.—When you boil a ham add to your water two or three cups of sharp vinegar or two or three quarts of old cider. It makes a most delicious pickled ham and destroys its greasy taste. ~The art of voicing reeds, the most difficult and important in the manufacture of cabinet or parlor organs, was invented by Mr. Emmons Hamlin, of the Mason & Hamlin Organ Co., in 1847. It has been universally adopted by American and largely by European makers, but none have attained that high standard of excellence in it which is reached in the Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organs. This fact is universally recognized by musicians. —A German florist in an irritated mood gives his experience in selling roses as follows, and seems to think the ladies hard to please. What do you think of it, ladies? “I have so much drouble with the ladies when dey comes to buy mine rose; dey wants him hardy, dey wants him mondthly, dey wants him nice gouior, dey wants him eberytings in one rose. I hopes lam not what you call one uncallant man, but I have somedimes to say to dat ladies: * Madam, I never often sees dat ladies dat was beautiful, dat was rich, dat was good tember, dat was youngs, dat was clever, dat was perfection in one ladies. I see her much not.’”