Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1875 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

CoiAKOES. OF Farmacy—Agricultural tustfftftes. Ik what vehicle did tlid man, ride who Was driven frantic? The observant Boston Post calls strikes* “the suicide of labor.” A Connecticut paper gravely talks ■about the Sue Indians. This isn't Siouxtable spelling. Fully SIOO,OOO was expanded by the Connecticut Valley tobacco cultivators for manure last spring. Boston wives no longer “ put a head” on a refractory husband. The broom-stick raises at Bunker Hill. Grayson County, Texas, alone, will have from 600,000 to 800,000 bushels of surplus wheat this year. Maine appi^orcnarcls are alive with canker worms in spite of can-kerosene and sundry other reputed insecticides. Cotton-mills, when well managed, are highly profitable in the Southern States, and they are springing up on all sides. A tkree-fourth-inch round belt running in properly-grooved pulleys will convey the same power as a two-inch flat belt. Regular car loads of cattle go through the Hoosac tunnel —a privilege yet denied to creatures supposed to possess souls. It is said that the bite of a young lady will produce hydrophobia, but the fellows dangling over gates o’ nights are as reckless as ever. The potato-bug is said to be threatening the crop in Maryland, New Jersey, Penn'sylvania, some parts of New York and •other States, The proprietor of the Paris Figaro, bankrupt in 1863 and 1864, has just paid his debts with interest, to all the creditors he can And, and is advertising for the •others.

Two-thirds of the American manufacturers of knit goods have agreed to a general suspension of business for the next two months, and it is said that over fottrflttlis of the number will ultimately fall in with the arrangement. In removing some bodies from the Benning (Vt.) cemetery the other day that of Mrs. Bartlett, which had been buried some twelve years, w r as found to be petrified, weighing 500 pounds. Some wretched rascal has defaced the base of the Worcester (Mass.) Soldiers’ Monument, by painting large letters on it in lampblack and oil, in such a manner that the face of the stone will have to he redressed to remove them. The church bells at Stratford, Conn., were rung on the morning of June 17 in honor of the Bunker Hill Centennial, among them the bell cf the Episcopal Church, which was rung at the receipt of the news of! the battle 100 years ago. The French Ministry has had a conference with leading journalists, with a view to revision of the laws regarding the press. All the journalists .urge the repeal of special laws and the punishment of press offenses like others by the common law' of the cinmtry. The SIO,OOO fishway at South Hadley Falls, Mass., is pronounced a failure. Not a shad lias taken advantage of the opportunity offered hy it this season. The way is 260 feet long, and has 150 turns, and it is said by cynical persons that a shad would need a cast-iron tail to make the trip successful. Prof. W. Stanley Jevons, in a treatise on scientific method, asserts that: “ If the whole population of the world, say 100,000,000,000 of persons, were to deal cards day and night for 100,000,000 years they would not have exhausted the 100-I,oooth part of the possible deals of a pack of cards.” An English lady of rank, who had issued invitations to a grand ball, was horrified at seeing in the morning papers of the day fixed a notice to the etfecMhat the ball was postponed. This was the work of some enemy, ;uad the party-giver had to spend all day in sending letters contradicting the report.

It was Ugly Johnson of Arkansas, who made that novel remark: “ I feel that I’ve got to kill somebody to-night,” and the Coroner who sat on Ugly Johnson next day remarked that it was “ a sing'lar way of Providence that presentiments of Wood should be so true, but so mighty indefinite regardin’ the man.” A Portland (Me.) school-bov has been giving his teacher a good deal of trouble on account of his frequent absence from school. On sending another lad to inquire of his mother in regard to the matter, the teacher received the following explanation : “ I am nothing but a stepmother, and don’t know where the boy is and ■don’t care wliat becomes of him.” Although the late Anthony Radford Strutt, of England, owned property worth fifteen millions, he said the pall-bearers and mourning-coaches must be kept away from his funeral. His friends laid him away quietly, and there wasn’t the slightest bit of barbarism in the whole thing, except, perhaps, a little crape, which they thought Anthony wouldn’t mind. Dr. Peet is the name of an English physician who has demonstrated, at the cost of his life, that one other poison, aconite, has no antidote. He swallowed a draught of this drug accidentally, and, though lie immediately took an emetic and used eveiy precaution to relieve liim.self of the effects, he died in two hours in the presence of brother physicians. A curious case is that of Henry Timmens, who died at Dover, N. 11., a few

days ago, a post mortem examination revealing tlife fact that poor liquor, of which he had drank immoderately during his life, had eaten a hole through his stomach, discharging everything he drank into the abdominal cavity, from which two quarts of beer and rum were taken by the physicians. In the papers of Guizot there have been found some additions to his memoirs, written in 1849, in which he details a conversation held that year with the Duchess •of Sagan, the niece of Talleyrand. Guizot epoke of the Revolution of 1848 as not having produced a man, and the Duchess said- she had met in Germany a little Pomeranian, named Bismarck, who would he talked of some day if he should live. The Scientific pronounces the Kelly motor a transparent deception; the chief pupose of which appears to be the wriggling of money out of silly people, humliers of whom are found to invest in it —just as they-do in lottery tickets—hoping to win. This authority is inclined to think the motor a veritable tion humbug. Meantime the advocates of the motor continue to say: “ Wait and I seeJ’ Manufactures of all kinds exhibit a decided improvement' in the artistic decoration of the goods produced, whether thewbe stoves, machinery, ftirniture, tools or carriages. Hereafter it maybe laid down as a rule that the most highly-fin-ished and tlie most beautiful goods in every trade will command the market

and the highest price, and that, other things being equal, the meiisure of their artistic value will be the measure of their commercial value. - There was an actor married in Paris the other day whose name was Mons. Jaurequisilesbessadiere. There’s a mouthful for you. It reminds one of the story of a French Princess, the Princesse'de Leon, who married a Hungarian General with a frightfully long and unpronounceable came. When she went shop Ding slfe used tc say to the shopkeeper, iu giving her address: ” I was (nee) born PrineesSe de Leon, but, as to my married name, I never could learn it. Ask my servant and he will tell you wliat it is.” ' The boys who pla'v at marbles will like to know that the chief place-of manufacture is at Oberstein, in Germany, where are located extensive agate quarries and, mills, the refuse material being worked up into spherical toys, principally for the American market. The substance is first broken into blocks with a hammer, then thrown upon a stationary furrowed stone, over which a block of hard wood is placed, and is kept revolving while water flows upon the slab. About fifteen minrequired in this milling process to produce the veined halls, which are thereafter termed marbles. A very interesting incident in connection -with the Bunker Hill Centennial was the opening of a box of cigars manufactured in 1760 by Cyrus Green (afterward of Revolutionary fame), at a tobacco store on Tremont street, Boston. The cigars were found iu a good state of preservation and of tine flavor. Three of the cigars were forwarded to President Grant. The rest, were again repacked in an air-tight case, with a copy of the Boston Herald containing an account of the' celebration, and marked: "This box is not to be opened until the second centennial anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill.’’ Centennials are crowding fast upon ns. The next centennial worth commemorating will be on Aug. 26—When Boston will be reminded of the little bombardment it received 100 years ago; after which may come the following: Dec. 61 —Attack "on Quebec; March 5, 1876 Second and more important bombardment of Boston; June 10 —Repulse of the English at Fort Moultrie; July 4 —The Centennial : the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence; Dec. 25'— Defeat of the English at Trenton, N. J.; Jan. 3 1877 —Rejoicing at Princeton; Oet. 17— Capture of Burgoyne and his army at Saratoga. As an instance of what one check accomplished and how its meanderings terminated, it is .stated that one was drawn by a prominent gentleman of this city about two weeks ago for about SBOO, and was passed by the indorser to a lumbei firm in this city. Frqm thence it went to seven other concerns and finally found its way to the original drawer of it. The last indorser happened to be one who was in arrears to the drawer, and seeing his name to the chceK had gone and the good it had done, concluded he would “do something” handsome to the drawer, and paid it over. That check liquidated several thousand dollars worth of accounts. — New Haven (Conn.) Journal and Courier.

An illustration of the astonishing effects on organic bodies of which high-pressure steam is capable is afforded in the process of preparing peat as practiced in some parts of Germany. It appears that in this operation steam at sixty pounds’ pressure is used and passed through hot pipes to obtain at least COO deg. of heat, and is then thrown into compressed peat, where it produces the effect of a fiery sponge—as it is expressively termed—robbing the peat of its water, carbonizing the material and effecting the complete distillation of many substances. The texture of the peat is so far changed and peculiar that it takes fire by exposure to air, so that it is necessary to cool down the charcoal in an atmosphere of steam. A Memphis young ” lady-killer” attended a picnic not long ago and the girls put up a job on him. They organized a secret society to which there was but a single degree, but that was a nice one and consisted in blindfolding the candidate and leading him into the center of a “ magic circle” formed by the young ladies, when he was made to kneel and was kissed, being subsequently made to guess who kissed hint. Such a programme would suit most men, and some of those initiated wanted very badly to take another degree. Finally the young ladies admitted that one gentleman, a real lady-killer, should be "allowed the privilege he asked for and he accordingly kneeled down with a look of intense complacency upon his face that lie should be thus selected as more attractive than other men. He was kissed and the bandage removed front his eyes, only to disclose to hint the fact that his lips had been pressed by those of a colored girl who had accompanied the party as a waiter. There were seventeen of them—exactly seventeen. They marched down Michigan avenue in double-file —all but one. He marched alone at the head of the column. They were noble young men. They had high foreheads and intelligent faces, and there was a stern, determined look on each face—a look which said that they would die, at their country's calf Were they going forth to battle? Were they going to the rescue of some kind sentiment which the wicked world was trying to- blot front the hearts of men ? Were they going to the succor of the unfortunate and distressed? No, not a cent’s worth —they were going out to play baseball. It was an imposing sight to see them march, march, each form erect, each step in time, each face bearing that look which warriors wear when the roar of battle is loudest. If every one of the seventeen had been on their way to the woodpile or the corn-field.the sight could not have been more grand and thrilling.—Detroit Free Press.

Occasional reminders of the troubles through which the inhabitants of Paris struggled during the late war, remthe Pall Mall Gazette, have not 1 - <tr^s ing in the sliane of shellg turPw? 1 ’ Undt'r Hie spade of the gardep*v r * or mattock of roadman, and it Uie ■1,,. the higher pm (,;• the VaoLtJfSl Dennis has been tor the last four , , r ■<! to Oeelr.Ktl.rn from 1 dangerous relic ot Communist A. building society having late’ v 3 Pr taken to erect a number of ho - . Httl "

piece of ground in which the ( , )n a of a large barrack were laid the cellars of this building. wl> !B< ' • parently filled up witfT nil *£ plored, when it was disco’ , cr ot tliese were filled with ' /W ® d U ‘ at . ul . al !-> tar. It appears from an of minera. atelv set on toot that th enquiry lmmediI than 140 barrels of ot no f4wer made by the Commu tkis substance was fore the entrance ' JtiMs a few days neviewto interposin <*-**«. J lth K a tween the avengir g a .girdle of tire •■Resurgent Parisian ig Versailjais and the m- —■ 3 a.'.. Prcssixg’s ce -»«»- r. , has been before nuefl White Wine V inegar . /•ttef ttrij&c- iwenty-seven years.

The New Panacea.—Modem science having demonstrated that alcohol is “neither food nor physic,” but, on the contrary, a species of poison, the introduction of a potent tenic which is entirely free from it is certainly a subject for congatulation. Dr. Walker’s Vinegar itters ,i 9 a medicine which may be fairly characterized-as an unobjectionable specific for many distressing and dangerous diseases. Temperance organizations, heretofore in favor of permitting the sale of alcohol for medical purposes,- are of opinion that Vinegar Bitters possesses all the efficacy as an invigorant that has ever been claimed for spirituous stimulants, and on this account, as well as because of the singular success which has attended its use in dyspepsia, liver complaint, disorders of the bowels, nervous diseases, general debility, and all maladies growing out of intemperance, they warmly recommend it as * restorative and alterative of surpassing excellence. . 43 Scriptural.— “BlMMONS’ LIVER REGULATOR is certainly a specific for that class of complaints wnich it claims to cure. Of its beneficial effects we do know Something; and from personal experiments it is our opinion that its virtues have not been exaggerated by the many flattering notices of the press. If any of our fellow-brethren are suffering from hepatic disorders, and have doubts in relation to ttys efficacy of thi3 popular preparation, we can only offer them the simple and candid argument of Philip to Nathaniel: ‘Come and see.’ Try the proposed remedy, and then you can judge for yourselves. Rev. David AVills, "President of Oglethorpe College, and Pastor of Presbyterian Church, Macon, Ga., Prof. University of South Carolina.”

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