Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1875 — VARIETY AND HUMOR. [ARTICLE]

VARIETY AND HUMOR.

—Jesse Pomeroy says he’d like to live so that he could go around lecturing next winter. —The (toryphora decern limeata is alt around us. The reader needn’t pack up for Europe—it is only the potato-bug —“ Can a gentleman bet?” asks a correspondent of the New York Evening Post. He can, but he had better not. — Boston Post. 1 • —Still full of trouble in Nevada. A citizen can’t put out a solid silver doorplate without having to sit up all night to watch it. —Boston papers are rejoicing over the fact that the health of that place, compared with that of other great cities in this country, is very good. —Prof. Tice says that we shall have snow in October, but if he can fix for spring weather in January the public won’t growl. P —Chicago has a floating hospital. Patients can hear the sad sea waves beating against the planks as they imbibe their mutton soup. —This year the waiters in the White Mountain hotels are students of Bates College. It has been more or less the case for several years. —Winchester, Va., which was fokenand retaken seventy-two times during the war, has not varied a hundred in population in tw r enty-five years. —The sea-serpent needn’t expect any further favors from the press unless he wriggles into sight oftener than he has for the last two months. —At a meeting of doctors in New Orleans the other night it was unanimously agreed that New Orleans is the healthiest city in the world. —During a thunder-storm in Maine the lightning killed a horse worth S3OO and never touched an old cow which had just kicked a woman senseless. —“ Mrs. Mary Coffin” is credited with an unsuccesslul attempt to smuggle a Chinese cargo into California. “ Honest tea is the best, Polly C.”— Graphic. —Parasols, except in the middle of the day during the “heated term,” are pernicious things, as are the veils with which so many fashionable ladies shade their faces.

The dawn of freedom for woman |is seen in Kentucky. It is seen because Mrs. Lovejoy left her husband and seven children when given her choice between that and lecturing on woman’s rights. —We have seen dyspeptics who suffered untold torments with almost every kind of food. No liquid could be taken w ithout suffering; bread became a buring acid; meat and milk were solid and liquid fires. We have seen these same sufferers trying to avoid food and drink, and even going to the enema syringe for sustenance. Ana w r e have seen their torments pass away and their hunger relieved by living upon the white of eggs which had been boiled in bubbling water for thirty minutes. At the end of the week we have given the hard yolk of the egg, with the white, and upon this diet alone, without fluid of any kind, we have seen them begin to gain flesh and strength and refreshing sleep. After weeks of this treatment they have been able, with care, to begin upon food. —Medical Journal. —A curious incident is related by the Newport (R. I.) Postmaster. Afewdays agoaletter arrived there directed to a gentleman who owns a lock-box. Upon lobking at it, without opening it, the gentleman said that it did not belong to him, and it was advertised. By some means, however, the letter was again placed in his box; this time the owner opened the envelope, and found that it contained information of the sickness of a child who bore the same name as one of his children who, had died some years ago, and the name of the writer was the samq as that of his first wife, who had also departed this life some time ago. In other particulars the letter would have been just what the first gentleman might have received years ago. Ihe letter has since been delivered to the rightful owner.