Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1875 — FACTS AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS AND FIGURES.

—After a long and exhaustive trial a boy in the High School at Medford, Mass., has been suspended for a month for pinning “April fool” on a tutor’s coat-tail. Two girls were sentenced to a week’s penance each for aiding and abetting the offense.. —Col. Lee Jordan, a Georgia farmer, ,o\yns and cultivates 200,000 acres, the original cost of which was $45,000. He has SOO laborers, but is gradually adopting the tenant system." Six overseers superintend the plantations, and raise from 1,400 to 2,000 bales of cotton. —Recently a young lady fell into the River Caine, in Wilts, England, and would have been drowned but for her heroic rescue by a young man who swam with his fair charge to the bank, amid the hearty cheers of the lookers-on. The young couple, very little the worse for their recent ducking, were escorted by an admiring crowd to the nearest hotel, where the herd \yas rewarded by being entertained at a party in honor' of the happy termination of what might have been a very lamentable affair. Complimentary speeches and high encomiums were showered on the “ lion of the evening.” But the greatest heaor of all was in store for him. The happy father, in the presence of the blushing maiden, offered him her hand and £SOO. This unlooked-for and spontaneous act of generosity evoked general satisfaction ana the guests were considerably disappointed when the gallant rescuer, after thanking the enthusiastic parent for his kind offer, announced that, although he should be glad to meet Miss again as a friend, he certainly could not accept her hand. What actuated him in this decision does not appear to be known. Most likely h J was engaged already. | \- r ' j - —A curious blunder has been discovered in the United States Revised Statutes. By a misprint dint-locks are prescribed as the standard arms of the United States.