Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1875 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

CansAP drapery—Tt« curtains of the night. THEi'lndian remedy for dandruff—Remove the scalp. v What is the only pain we make light of? A window pane. The aspirations of those French balloonists were too high. A, depraved punster says he shall smoke if he chews too. “ Genius,” says Clara Louise Kellogg, “ is well enough, but perseverance wins.” John Brougham reads it: “Come, gentle spring, diphtherial mildness, come.” There are at present but two manufactories of half-hose in the United States. Ladies’ veils, they say, are now made with a little pocket* for the nose. Some require a big pocket. The sale of a Connecticut paper is chronicled as the transfer of a pair of scissors and some bad will. A business firm failed recently because they were only able to spell dollar thus: “ F-i-f-t-y c-e-n-t-s.” The Kansas City Journal of Commerce styles BlacK Hills emigrants “ candidates for the position of millionaire.” A man recently went West to Nevada to grow up with the country, taking with him his wife and eighteen children. The grasshopper which feeds upon the land is said to have an enemy in the form of a minute parasite that feeds upon him. A little boy returning from the Sun-day-school said to his mother: “ Ma, ain’t there a kitty-chism for little boys? This cat-echism is too hacd for me.” A man is said to be absent-minded when he thinks he has left his watch at home and takes it out of his pocket to see if he has time to return home and get it. In 1867 the United States produced but 3,000 tons of Bessemer steel; in-1873 the production rose to 157,'000; and in 1874 to the estimated figure of 175,000 tons. The son of M. Leverrier, the distinguished French astronomer, was recently killed in his chemical laboratory by an accident in experimenting, it is supposed. At Sheffield, England, they have found a new objection to pigeon matches “in the interest of morality..” They stimulate theft. Two thousand pigeons were stolen there in one year. The net profits of the Bank of British North America for the year 1874 were £100,925; the usual dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, has been declared for the half year ending in June. The largest gas-meter in the world has just been built in London. Its capacity is the enormous quantity of 150,000 cubic feet per hour, and its measuring drum delivers for each revolution 1;6Q0 feet. The San Francisco Chronicle calls the highway robbers “ a disgrace to the State.” That’s right. Sit still and howl about it. In the meantime Chavez goes right on doing a large receiving business. The muskets furnished to the Indians in trade by the Hudson Bay Company are of the old flint-lock pattern, the barrels being so thin that owners are often seen straightening them across their knees. The buffalo-gnat in the South is larger and stronger than the New Jersey mosquito. The latter only flies away with ducks and chickens, but the former carries off whole droves of oxen, mules and horses. It is reported, with how much truth has not been discovered, that since the introduction of the spelling exercises the orthography of the scholars of the academies all over the States has experienced a marked improvement. When a woman is care-laden and heavy-hearted, nothing shakes the megrims out of her quicker than for acouple of ladies to stop in front of the house long enough for her to examine the trimmings on their bonnets. —Brooklyn Argus.—— — It is an interesting fact that those bedbugs which have been grafted flourish best. Graft ’em on a bed-post, says the almanac, at the beginning of winter, and they will come out of their own accord fresher and stronger and better than ever in the spring. The Chinese tailors of San Francisco have struck, and have posted bills throughout the Chinese quarters offering a reward of $460 for the killing of any boss tailor who won’t pay the wages demanded, and an additional reward of S3OO for the killing of any tailor who consents to work for less money. Between the Ist of December last and the Ist of April $11,377,200 in gold was exported from California, and $2,457,700 collected for duties, making $13,834,900 gold coin withdrawn from circulation, while only $7,920,000 was coined in the same period, showing an abstraction of the gold coin of the State to the extent of $5,905,000 in four months. An Oregon paper says: “When a young lady living on the 4ine of the California & Oregon Railroad wants to get married she only takes one refusal to give consent from her ‘ stern parents,’ and then seeks her lover true with the remark: ‘ Smithie, old boy, I guess we’d better canter down to the gospel-shop; it’s no use waiting sos those idiots to become sane again.’ ” Let there be no further complaints about the non-enjoyment of their rights by the women of Nevada. The contract for furnishing the iron fencing for Capitol Square, at Carson, has been awarded to the Misses Clapp and Babcock, Principals of the Sierra Seminary. Their bid ($5,550 in coin) for the delivery of the fencing upon the grounds is the lowest by some hundreds of dollars of any submitted. “Arrah, me darlint,” cried Jamie O’Flannigan to his loquacious sweet heart, who had not given him the opportunity to “ get in a word even edgewise” during a two hours’ ride behind the little bay nags in his oyster wagon. “ are ye afther knowin’ why your cheeks are like my ponies there?”* “Shure an’ it’s because they’re red,-is it?” quoth the blushing Bridget. “ Faith, and a better raison than that, mavourneen. Because there is one o’ them aich side of a waggin’ tongue.” A London paper tells a very romantic story to the effect that the deceased elder son of a noble Lord just now dead was secretly but legally married to a lady, who gave birth to a son still living. She was sworn to keep the facts secret until the death of the child’s lordly grandfather. There is a certain gallant exCaptain of . the Lancers who will lose a long expected title and heritage if this story true. German professors are gradually gaining a foothold in the colleges and uni-

versities of Italy. Their knowledge is accepted with a good’ grace, but their superciliousness in regard to what does not suit them—their inflexibility—is highly objected to. The most eminent and successful of these scientific emigrants. is Prof. Maurice Schiff, who is universally admitted to be contributing some valuable mites to science ip Florence. In the province of Silesia 260,000 colonies of bees are kept, representing a capital of more than $1,000,000. These even in the most unfavorable years yield a profit of 10 per cent, and in propitious seasons, such as the year 1846 tyas, the yield was fully 100 per cent.,/or more than $1,000,000. It is well ascertained that the whortleberry and buckwheat blossoms are much richer in saccharine juices on the poor soils of Silesia than in more fertile districts.— N. 7. Indevendent. \ ' The Pottsville (Pa.) Standard says: “ Whether the present strike in the coal region has in any respect promoted the welfare of the miners or is likely to do so in the future, there is, of course, con siderable diversity of opinion; but, in our judgment, after a careful survey of the field, we are forced to the conclusion that the present strike has not only not promoted the welfare of the miners but that its termination, be it sooner or later, will leave them in a worse condition than where it found them.” The Angora goat, which furnishes the mohair so largely used in the manufacture of various fabrics of wearing apparel, thrives wonderfully in California. In 1870 a number of these goats were imported into that State from Asia Minor, and their number along the Pacific coast is now estimated at 2,000,000, while it is doubling yearly. The cost of the hair or wool of this animal is from fifty cents to $1.25 per pound. There arc three manufactories in the United States in which mohair is woven into fabrics. Geo. P. Rowell* Co., Advertising Agents, No. 41 Park Row, New York. As the proprietors of the first and most extensive of these agencies in New York they are well qualified to furnish information. The details of the work transacted by the agency,' and the way it is done, the perfection of the arrangements for facilitating the act of advertising by relieving the advertiser of trouble and expense and bringing before him all the various mediums throughout the country, with the necessary knowledge pertaining to thbtn, are given with a minuteness that leaves nothing to be desired. All the particulars respecting the character and position of a newspaper which an intending advertiser desires to know are placed before him in the most concise form. —New York Times , June 7, 1874. Save Money and Health.— I The reputation of the Wilson shuttle sewing machine Is so thoroughly established that no word In Its commendation is necessary. The .plan adopted by the manufacturers of this fa? mous machine of placing their prices so low as to come within the reach of the poorer classes certainly entitles them to the gratitude of those who are really most in need of sueli an article. Machines will be delivered at nhV railroad station in this county, free jp 'transportation charges, if ordered through the company’s branch house, 197 State street,-Chicago. They send an elegant catalogue and eliromo circular free on application. This company want a few more good agents.