Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1875 — BREVITLES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITLES.

A Moving Tail—a hungry dog’#. Many editors ue of each » peaceful nature that they will not put a head on their editorials. l-x i.-' : Thoc divinity that shapes our ends doesn't seem to take hold very young—leastways, not until our mothers let up onus. When the evil one is going to apd fro and up and down over the earth, cah we doubt that he is imp-roving?-— Boston Advertiser. H6e’s new web press prints a continous roll or web of paper on both sides at the rate of 16,000 or 18,000 copies an hour. A gentleman observing the sign oi “Caswell” upon a business establishment remarked that it would be “ m-imII without the C.” “Consummton is an economical disease,” said John Henry, with a cold on his lungs — “you can furnish your own coughin’.” There’s not much grief when a fat man dies in Rhode Island, as it gives the survivors more room to stretch themselves. — Brooklyn Argus. Grandmother's Gwgerbread. —Cup nnd a half of molasses, cup of rich sour cream, teaspoonful of salcratus, teaspoon-, ful of ginger, mix a little stiff. A traveled correspondent tells the Min'or and Farmer that those New Englanders who protest most loudly that farming doesn’t pay are those who grow bushes on their best land. There’s a man in Philadelphia who belongs to fifty-two secret organizations. What a memory for ponderous “ secrets” he must have, and what a faculty for “grips.” A printer out West, whose office is two miles from any other building, and w ho hangs his sigh on the limb of a tree, advertises for a boy. lie says: “A boy from the country preferred.” There have been a great many ex cuses offered for suicide, but no person of tone, pride or courage would ever be caught running away from the battle of life.~

Prof. Wilder, of Cornell University, has a baby whale only two inches long, and he proudly claims that he can say of this baby what few parents can say of theirs, that “there’s no blubber in it.” —Brooklyn Argus. ‘ Two Irishmen traveling on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad track came to a mile-post, when one of them said: “ Tread aisy, Pat; here lies a man 108 years old; His name was Miles, from Baltimore." Fits hundred thousand brushes are manufactured at Reading. Pa., annually, of all kinds and grades, from the small artist’s brush up to cotton factory brushes, and ranging in price from a penny to forty dollars. Sugar Cake.— One pint dir flour, onehalf a pint of butler, one-half of sugar, mix the flour and sugar, rub in the butter, add an egg beaten with enough milk to moisten the whole; roll thin and bake in a quick oven. This recipe is for those who have few eggs or none. If women will insist upon transforming themselves into itransportation companies for drawing men up and down public halls and theater steps and clear out into the streets on silken trains, why iu the nameof all that is enterprising’ don’t they charge something for the service? White clouds can be easily washed by carefully basting them on to flannel or cotton cloth, then squeeze thoroughly. Rinse in lukewarm water, shake carefully and hang up to dry. They can be cleansed by rubbing them smartly in flour and afterward shaken or hung im. a brisk wind.

Goldfish should never be taken in the hand, but should be removed, when necessary, by means of a small net made of mosquito netting. They may be fed with anything they will eat, but what they do not eat should be taken out of the water. They generally die from handling, starvation or impure water. Puddixu-time is precious time: Mamma—“ Do you like this pudding, Frankey?” (No answer.) “You should say, ‘Yes. mamma, dear.’” Little Frankey (who is three years and a half old) —“But you told me -yes’day I shouldu.’t talk when eating; ’sides, dis is too good to lose time over.” The Washington Republican thus speaks of Treasurer New’s signature: it looks like a combination of tea-chest hieroglyphics struck by lightning and twisted into intermingling and confused circles, braided together and twisted up like the ringlets of a curly-headed school-girl who has succeeded in accomplishing an incomparable friz. Mat sits with chubby feet dangling From the porches of men once more; Now greeting the world with a coy, sunnv smile— Now with ft threat’ning tear, At twelve o’clock last night, all veiled, She knocked at Oid Time’s front door, And shyly lisping: “May I come?” came in, While April stepped out at the rear. The latest discovery in France is that the numerous gypsy bands scouring that country are entirely under marching ■orders and military discipline from Ber lin. They are wont to pick out their camping grounds fifty miles ahead, and know in advance the' name of the man owning that giound as well as he knows it himself. J ust as the Uhlans did. The Cologne Oaeette says that the "Russian nobility, and particularly the nobility of the Government of St. Petersburg recently declared spontaneously that they were ready, to pay taxes, an obligation which hitherto applied only to the bourgeois and the peasants. The Baltic nobility do not seem disposed to follow the example thus set them.

Fruit Pudding. —Chop six apples fine, grate six ounces of stale bread, add six ounces of brown sugar, six ounces of currants, washed carefully and floured, Mix all well together with six ounces of butter, a cup of milk and two cups of flour in which two teaspoonfuls of bakingSowder have been thoroughly mixed. pice to taste. If necessary add more milk in mixing. Put in a pudding-bag, tie loosely, ana boil three hours. To be eaten with cream sauce. A wood jin ship can now be built a 3 cheaply in the united States as in any ether country. It is stated that the cost of a spruce vessel built in any of the yards of the British provinces would reach $52 gold per ton, and in the yards of Maine S6O to $65 per ton, the material used being white oak and pitch pine, conceded by all shipping men to be vastly superior to sbruce. At Bremen or Hamburg, owing to the trouble with the workmen and the scarcity of timber, it would cost SIOO gold per ton to build a vessel. .> Ah eminent clergyman in Trenton, Jf.J., sat in his study sometime since.

busily engaged in preparing his Sunday sermon, when his little boy toddled into the room and holding up his finger said with an expression of suffering: “ Look, pop, how 1 hurt it ’ The father, interrupted in the middle of a sentence, glanced hastily at him, and with just the slightest tone of impatience said: “ I can’t help it, sonny.” The little fellow’s eyes grew’ bigger, and as he turned to go out he said in a low voice: “ Yes, you could; you might have said ‘ Oh!’” There was a seriuon in miniature. 4 When you are given a word to spell go through it at one jump. Don’t go feeling along as if you were on thin ice, or down you will go, sure. Tackle it in this style: I-n In, with an In, d i di, with a di, with an Indi, a-n an, with an an, with an Indi, with an Indian, a-p ap, with an ap, with an In, with an Indi, with an Indian, with an Indianap, o with an o, witn an In, with an Indi, with an Indian, with an Indianap, with an Indianapo, l-bs lis, with a lis, with an In, with an Indi, with an Indian, with an Indianap, with an Indimapo, with an ! Indianapolis. —Hartford Herald. Tiiex say that the Duke of Edinburgh has settled down into a model husband and father, having sown all his wild oats and showing no disposition to recommence that unprofitable act of husbandry. It is said that he passes hours in playing with his little son and.,in the company.of the As the royal family of England have refused to yield to the Grand Duchess in the matter of precedence and still insist on her yiehlin gflie step to the Princess Beatrice on all public occasions, Her Royal and Imperial Highness appears at court ceremonials and festivities as seldom as possible, and leads a life of much more quiet and domesticity than usually iails to the lot of married Princesses.

Horn baskets are among the hand sornest made. A nice, white horn should be selected and scraped with glass until a quautity of fine shavings have been obtained. Then make the foundation of the basket in pasteboard, and sew the shavings thereon in small clumps. The first or outer shavings are generally somewhat dark, but the remainder present a beautiful white appearance, much enhanced by the clustering arrangements given them. Baskets of this kind may be made either to sit flat or with standards; and when a well-shaped one Is once covered both inside and out with the fleecy shavings, it is quite an elegant ornament —Maine Farmer. Field Beans . —The bean crop is worthy of a place in a rotation, and not only for its profit, hut for its influence upon the soil. It takes little from the soil; is a cleaning crop; requires little outlay for seed, occupies the ground but a short time, and may follow a crop of clover the same season, if an early-ripening Aariety is chosen. The “ Medium” ripens early, is hardy, but sells at a lower price than the “ Marrow.” The “Marrow” is very productive on a good soil, and is a popular market variety. If properly harvested, the haulm is much relished by sheep, and is nutritious. The bean when ground with corn or oats is readily eaten, and, when cooked, pigs will accept it with avidity. No food is better for a growing animal, nor contains more flesh-forming elements than this bean. The idea, however, that beans may be grown with profit upon a soil too poor for any other crop is erroneous.— American Agriculturist. The Vienna correspondent of the London Standard writes, April 10, to that journal: For years Vienna has not been the scene of such a horrible crime as was committed last Sunday. A Czech, tailor (almost all the Vienna tailors are Czechs), who had fallen into pecuniary difficulties owing to the dissipated life he had led, sent his wife out of the house, bolted the door, and while playing with his five children, the youngest of whom is eight months old, enticed them into a darK room. There he strangled them and hung them up on nails, and when all were thus disposed of the wretched man hanged himself. The nail on which his eldest son hung fortunately gave way a little so that bis toes just touched a little box, and this saved him, but the other children and the father were all found dead. The criminal had had twenty children, eight of whom were by his present wife, but only these five were living, the other fifteen having been dead for some time.