Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1875 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

A i natural revolutionist —the earth. The delicate-minded Boston belle speaks of Spotted Tail as Mr. Variegated Narrative. During a reign of twenty-nine years the present Pontiff has created ninetynine Cardinals. The old iron mine of Salisbury, Conn, which has been worked over 150 years, rcently declared a dividend of 15 per cent. j The Carlist war is seriously affecting the prosperity of Spain. The exports of that country in 1874 were $50,000,000 less than in 1873. A New York mechanic has just had issued to him letters patent for an end-less-chain water-wheel for propelling steamboats.

The area of the known American fields of workable coal is constantly extending as Surveys are pushed into the wild regions. One and a quarter million gallons of cod-liyer oil has been made in Newfoundland this season. It is valued at about $1,000,000. Philadelphia claims that it furnishes employment to* not less than 60,000 women, exclusive of those .engaged in domestic service. From arrests recently made in New York it appears that the servant girls of that city have to a large extent been cooperating with burglars. The exodus of negroes from Tennessee to the West is causing much concern among those whose business is dependent upon their labor. An old farmer was once asked what a politician was. He answered: “Well, he is a man that serves God as far as he can to not offend the devil.” Eighty-seven big bags of American newspapers reach England every week and there is hope of being able to civilize that country after a while. Eleven hundred and twenty empty houses in the twin cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny attest the severity of the depression in the iron industries.

Florida is said to be the best timbered State in the Union, there being in it over 30,000,000 "acres of timber land. More timber than anything else, probably. THE Q mule-spinners at Warren, R. 1., have struck because the manufacturers decline to put back wages where they were before the 10 per cent, reduction. Russia has been telling ever since 1856 that she didn’t want any more Turkey, but she says now that if nobody else will take it she will not allow the dinner table to go dishonored. The cutting of “ witch hazel” for a patent medicine manufactory, which has a depot at Little Falls, N. Y., is a profitable branch of industry in the towns bordering on the North Woods. The rural papers of North Carolina announce that the failure of a circus concern down there was entirely due to a lack of advertising, and sternly remark: “ Let this be a warning to others.” A Virginian brought home some arsenic and told his wife that it was poison. She had to taste, of course, and his motherless children don’t have their faces washed from one week’s end to another. The lumber trade of Chicago is resj. ported to be active for the season, but prices are not altogether satisfactory, The demand for hard woods is on the increase, with indications of an excellent trade. v The snakes in the Jardin des Plantes of Paris have been fed hitherto on live rats, but one tough old fellow, handed to a 2,000-franc snake, killed the reptile. The authorities kill the rats now r before feeding.. ....

Russia deserves her title of Northern Colossus if soldiers by the wholesale go for anything. She numbers 2,901,000 armed men, including 200,000 Cossacks, in apple-pie order. They are as ready to burn as tallow candles. The intellectual superiority of the Bostonian over the rest of the world is accounted for by the fact that mothers wean their children at nine months and feed them thereafter exclusively upon fish. „ In Corsica, the birth-place of the Napoleon dynasty, Prince Napoleon and Rouher are fighting out a little war of rivalry for the mastery over Corsican affections. The Prince so far has the inside track of the vendetta. The petition against conventual institutions, raised in England, is said to have borne 117,000 signatures, and to measure about three-quarters of a mile in length. Forty thousand signatures were obtained in London alone. Emile de Girardin said, in a recent newspaper article, that “if M. Thiers had remained President of the French Republic the war clouds that for the last month have been thickening over our heads would never have been formed.” Harry Belding of Oppenheim, N. Y., has for several years been convinced that gold or some other precious metal exists in the rocks of his vicinity. He has made an excavation of 100 feet into the rock at great expense, but has as yet found no gold. Mr. Schliemann, whose excavations on what is supposed to be the site of ancient Troy have been so graphically described by Mr. Bayard Taylor, has b£jen granted authority to continue his investigations, and will proceed with his work almost immediately. The number of suicides in the German army amounted -in 1874 to 193, which gives the proportion per 1,000 men of .54 annually. This proportion is, in the Austrian army, .85; In the French army, .51; in the Belgian army, .45, and in the English army, .38. ~ In Burgundy and Lorraine a wild plant grows, on the root of which are tubers like small potatoes, but which have the taste of chestnuts, on account of which taste it is called by the people the ground-chestnut. It is now proposed to cultivate this for food in place of the potato. | Dr. Hall says: “The longer one puts ofi drinking in the morning, especially in the summer, the less he will require during the day. If much is drank during the forenoon the thirst often increases, and a very unpleasant fullness is observed, in addition to a metallic taste in the mouth.” A husband remonstrated with his other half about wearing spring clothes when the weather was so chilly. She silenced him thusly: “You just tend to your own affairs. It is the season of the year when light goods are fashionable, and—do you suppose I’m going to be dictated to what I shall wear?” That settled it. The New York Rural World has discovered a use for discarded oyster and fruit cans by fastening them up in the trees as houses for the birds, and states

that the birds gladly accept them for their summer homes. if some one will find a use for the old bats, tin pans, boot*, loop-skirts and umbrella-frames, a much-needed want will be supplied. The Gauls are wondering over “ the grand Paul Boyton sea-safety-valve-ap-paratus, and how those astonishing Americans manage to do it.” Probably it will occur to them that if this apostle Paul had lived in the time of Napoleon Bonaparte their soldiers oould have crossed over from Boulogne into perfidious Albion with dry shirts and swords on. A Parisian belle became the wife of Tin-Tun-Ling, from the Celestial Empire, in 1872. Their three years of married life was not all a dream of bliss, as Tin-Tun-Ling treated the lady badly, and, to crown all, she found recently that her spouse was an adept in “ ways that are dark,” having left a wife in Canton. The fair Parisienne has procured a divorce The popularity of narrow-gauge railroads is increasing, and a number will be commenced this year. Their chief merit consists in insuring a proper return for the money invested at a much earlier day than in numerous other enterprises. Besides, they are a very gTeat convenience and benefit in communities through which they pass.— Mechanic&burg Journal. A curious freak of lightning has occurred in Morristown, Canada. The fluid struck the limb of a large tree, passed into the body and down into the ground. It then took the root of another large tree, passing up the trunk, tearing the body into splinters and felling the tree, leaving its whole top. An acre of ground was partially covered with the splinters. A negro at Jones’ Bend, on the Cumberland River, Tenn., is creating a good deal of excitement by his belief that he has discovered silver mines. Whenever he is over a deposit he is seized with a trembling and immediately begins digging. He ha 3 made the negroes believe in him, and with their aid he has sunk four immense shafts twenty feet deep through the solid rock.

The two Boards of the Boston Government are at loggerheads over the 4th of July appropriation, and a dead-lock is imminent. The Councilmen at first voted $15,000 for the celebration; then the Aldermen non-concurred and voted $5,500, and now, again, the Council has considered the referred order, repudiated it with insinuations that the Aldermen are men of illiberal ideas, and again voted the original appropriation of $15,000^ If tfiyigs go on about Boston as for a year or two Judge Lynch will find it convenient to hold a short term of court. The Judge is very decided and thorough when once he begins. Well, he deserves to succeed, is a genuine flesh-and-blood sort of a man, hearty, bluff and tender. A great, strong, broad-shouldered fellow, who with words paints charming pictures. In a word, is a good fellow, and success to him, say w c.—Boston News. The Philadelphia Press says: “The officers of the United States Centennial Commission desire to say that an erroneous report is in circulation concerning the selection of orators, poets and marshals for the opening celebration next year. No selection has been made and no programme adopted. A partial and imperfect plan was offered at the meeting of the Commission last week, which was immediately recommitted for revision.” The Chattanooga Commercial sayS: “ The advantages of this section as an ironproducing country are more conspicuously shown in the cost of fine qualities of ore, as compared with their cost in other joints, than in any other respect. Lake Superior ores are worth $7.50 per ton in St. Louis. Here ores that produce the finest qualities of iron can be had, delivered in’the yard, at from two and a half to three dollars per ton, the latter being an outside price.”

Last fall twenty young men and women of Springfield, Mass., who wished employment, associated themselves together, paid in a small capital, hired a workshop and boarding-house and began manufacturing toys, table-mats and baskets. They laid aside one-fourth of their wages to accumulate as capital, and in six months saved $1,424 from their wages and $350 in board and washing, making a total saving of $1,874 by this system of self-support. The preparation of figs for market is reported as follows: “Sheets are held under the trees (clear of the ground) and the fruit is shaken into them. They are then placed in baskets and dipped in a bath of strong potash lye for about two minutes, and then dipped in clean water. This is to remove the gum on the outside of the fruit and to improve the color. They are then placed upon hurdles to dry in the sun, or in a dry-house, and when soft enough to pack closely are pressed tightly into wooden drums or boxes. The drums hold about fifteen pounds, and must not be made of pine, as it injures tne flavor.”

Facts Worth Knowing.—The Wilson shuttle sewing machine is to-day the simplest, most perfect, most easy operated, best made, most durable, and in every way most valuable sewing machine in existence, and it is sold fifteen dollars less than all other flrstclass machines. Machines will be delivered at any railroad station in this county, free of transportation charges, if ordered through the company’s branch house at 197 State street, Chicago. They send an elegant catalogue and chromo circular free on application. This company want a few more good agents. Gbo. P. Rowell <fc Co., 41 Park Row, New Pork, are, without doubt, the leading Advertising Agents of the United Btates, and, therefore, of the world. They have, by the free, liberal and yet well-directed use of money, built themselves up in the esteem of the leading publishers and advertisers of the continent, and by an unusual energy have succeeded in perfecting in every detail a business that more than anything else telle of the growth arid importance of the newspaper business. —Memphis (Tenn.) Appeal.

Wilhoft’s Tonic is not a panacea—is not a cure for everything, but is a catholicon for malarious diseases, and day by day adds fresh laurels to its crown of glorious success. Engorged Livers and Spleens, along the shady banks of our lakes and rivers, are restored to their healthy and normal secretions. Health and vigor follow its use and Chills have taken their departure from every household where Wilhoft’s Anti-Periodic is kept and taken. Don’t fail to try it. Wheelock, Finlay & Co., Proprietors, New Orleans, For sale by all Dkuggists. Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment may be used to advantage where any Liniment is desirable. In cases of severe cramps and pains in the stomach it is undoubtedly the best article that can be used internally. Habitual constipation leads to the following results: Inflammation of the kidneys, sick and nervous headache, biliousness, dyspepsia, indigestion, piles, loss of appetite and strength; all of which may be avoided by being regular in your habits, and taking, say, one of Parsons' Purgative Pills nightly foi four or six weeks.

Statistics show that of the thousands who die annually a large proportion are destroyed, not by old age, or by the natural exhaustion of vitality, but through intemperance, or disregard, either on the part of the sufferer or his parents, of the simplest laws of nature. Such being the case —and figures cannot misrepresent facts —the conclusion is that, were the causesof intemperance, its kindred vices and a disregard of natural laws removed, the average length of the human life-time would be extended proportionately. What agent most rapidly, harmlessly and certainly will eradicate these vices, or the tendency to them, is the question, which has been as thoroughly and persistently agitated as has the search for the Philosopher’s stone. The discovery has been made by Dr. Joseph Walker, whose widely-known Vinegar Bitters are accomplishing wonders which the old-fogy doctors never dreamed of. Try them and judge for yourself, as thousands are doing all over the country. ...-■V, 39

Hon. Alexander H. Stephens.— “ Have derived some benefit from the use of SIMMONS’ LIVER REGULATOR, and wish to give it a further trial.”— Mon. Alex. H. Stephens, Oa. “ I have never seen or tried such a simple, satisfactory and pleasant remedy in my life.”— H. Mainer, St. Louis, Mo. Pressing’s well-known White Wine Vinegar received the Wo'rld’s Fair premium. —ls it rains, and you have no umbrella with you, walk fiercely up to the first man you meet carrying one and tell him: “Give me my umbrella. Where did you get it?” He will hand it over at once. This is umbrella bunko.