Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1875 — MULTUM IN PARVO. [ARTICLE]

MULTUM IN PARVO.

Saratoga has only one Duke this seasonjj The bat now flies much in sporting circles. If “a stitch in time saves nine," will a double stitch save eighteen ? A woman’s name leads the list in the Boston Directory for 1875. Nearly all the horses nowadays make “the quickest time on record.” The person who says a new broom sweeps cleann ever tried*it, that’s all.- . The cost of remembering a man can be counted by the price of his monument. A Virginia horse deliberately drowned himself, which demonstrates that that horse may be an ass. South American soldiers have had their pay raised to eight cents per day, and now look out for war. A new industry is the shipment of live frogs from this" country to England for breeding purposes. Handkerchief flirtation, to be successful, mpst have a fool on either side of the street to make the motions. A man being commiserated, with on account of his wife’s running away, said: “Don’t pity me till she comes back again.” The free-excursion system in Baltimore has much reduced the death-rate among the poor children of that city this summer. The bank robbers are at work again after their summer vacation and the sound of the exploding torpedo is heard in the land. There are not as many old fools in the world as young fools, but there is more hope for one who belongs to the latter class. This will be an unusuafinontli in that there will be two moons, making it the most moonshiny month known for seventeen years. , “Under some circumstances glass is liable to break,” is the way a timid grocer warns the public not to punch their elbows through his show-case. The Washington Chronicle claims to have never yet had a slur against baldheaded men* but there’s a good reason for it—all its editors are bald-headed. All butchers are not hard-hearted as has been asserted. One of the craft in San Antonio cut his throat the other day because a girl of sixteen made faces at him. The exultation of the New York editors over the prospect of a poor water supply at the Philadelphia Centennial next year shows clearly that they intend to be present. A good many things that would seem silly in broad daylight sound beautifully in the moonlight. Likewise many a romantic lady-killer at night is a gibbering fool in the daytime. There was a boy in Maine a year or two ago who could pronounce the name of every town in the State, but of course he died. His own parents knew from the first that he would die. - This is the season when Death perches himself on the sickle-bar and rides around the field' with the mowers and reapers looking for snakes, toads, small children and an occasional man. Neatness, simplicity and durability are what are wanted in wives as much as anything nowadays. When the first two qualities are lacking, however, as little ot the third as possible is desired. The man who has spent weeks to train and tutor fifty head of cabbages may not say a word when he gets up some morning and finds six cows in the garden, but if he doesn’t speak he will die of a broken heart within a week. — Detroit Press. If you are going to travel in the Indian Territory you should provide yourself with a plug-of tobacco. Alonzo Davis,, from New England, was killed by some miners the other day because he couldn’t furnish them with a chew of the weed.

Among other improvements introduced in the United States Assay Office in Wail street, New York, is a pair of balances to weigh gold and other precious metals. Their capacity is equal to 10,000 ounces, or over $1,000,000 worth of gold, and the scale is sensitive to one-tenth of a grain. Capt. Webb has determined to attempt the feat of swimming across the British Channel, and has begun training for that purpose. As he can remain in the water for fourteen hours, and can swim one mile and a half an hour, he believes that the feat is quite within the range of possibility- _ The Chinese Government has estab-" lished pharmaceutical laboratories for the analysis of drugs at Yeddo, Kiyoto and Osaka, and decreed a tine for any druggist who shall be found to have in his possession adulterated quinine or iodide of potash. Another healthy example which Christian civilization would do well to follow. Dr. Barrett, of Middletown, Conn., thinks he has discovered the cause of hay fever in the pollen of the ambrosia plant, which matures about August, and, carried about by the wind; causes irritation in the nasal passages; aiM says that trig way to escape the disease is to go to some town where this plant is not found. The Taunton (Mass.) Gazette tells of a Bman who recently conceived the nt idea of popping the question by postal card. Accordingly he dispatched one to the idol of his heart, bearing simply his name and this character: “ ?” His feelings can be imagined on receiving “by return mail a card inscribed most energetically: “I” When last seen he had checked his collar-box for Chicago, and was inquiring the price of through tickets to the West. An extraordinary outrage upon a Peruvian newspaper editor is reported. The editor in question, Castro Ramos by name, and residing at Iquique, was severely beaten by a police inspector and two constables, and an attempt was made to make him swallow a newspaper which cos-” tained articles obnoxious to the police. The inspector afterward shot the editor in the stomach. By the last accounts he was not expected to live, anil the inspector was in custody. By a recent decision of the Court of Equity in London the fund of SIO,OOO raised in 1857 —by Dickens, Mark Lemon, John Forster, Maclise and others —for the family of Douglass Jerrold, just then deceased, in poverty, goes now to Jerrold’s only unmarried daughter, Mary Jane Jerrold. The sum was originally invested in Government securities for the benefit of Mrs. Jerrold and her daughter, with remainder to the survivor. The widow is dead. The claim of Miss Jerrold’s brother was denied. A very ingenious method of making inlaid or mosaic work in wood has lately been introduced: Two contrasting kinds of veneer—say bird’s-eye maple and black w alnut—are laid one on the other, and confined between the covers of whitewood or something similar. The desired design is then cut through the whole by a fine

jig-saw, hardly larger than a horse-hair. The part that is cut out of the light-col-ored veneer is then set into the place of the corresponding part inthe dark veneer, and rice versa, and glued firmly upon the article to be ornamented in the usual manner of veneering. The trade m tissue-paper patterns is enormous. One house recently ordered 5,100 reams of paper and 2,000,000 envelopes in which to place the patterns. These patterns are so perfect that dresses for costume parties are easily mac e, and are fast becoming popular. These patterns are a real boon to the mother of a family living far from any village or settlement. Every garment worn by men, women or children can be made from them; they are notched at the places to join them; the number of yards for each garment and its trimming is faithfully given, ingenuity is fostered, comfort is promoted, and, in fine, we are inclined to class paper patterns among the great inventions of the age. — N. T*. Sun. AN extensive manufacture of lock and morticed bricks is carried on at Waterbury, England. These bricks, while producing workmanship greatly superior' to walls built with pressed brick—being tongued, grooved and locked at intervals at each angle—are also found to be stronger than common hand-made bricks, besides possessing the additional recommendation of effecting a saving of twothirds in the material used. These lock and morticed brick, it also appears, are adapted to extensive and varied uses, and are specially serviceable where space and light with solidity are an object. Their usefulness is likewise very manifest, it is stated, when employed for the building of or sustaining and retaining embankments, sea and other walls, quays and river frontages, as also in the erection of shafts, and, in fact, the formation of all works to which bricks can be applied.

M. Jacquin’s system of recording the vote of the Fremm Assembly by means of electricity 7 is very ingenious. Before every 7 Deputy tw 7 o ivory buttons are placed, like the buttons of electric bells. If the Deputy wishes to vote “ yes,” he presses the button on his right; if he wishes to vote “no,” he presses the button on his left. The voter establishes by this means an electric communication, which is transmitted to an apparatus close to the President and his Secretaries. Every time the electric current acts thus, it opens the door to a ball, and the ball falls through a tube into the< ballot-box. The balls are made of glass or ivory, and are strictly identical in weight. The two ballot-boxes are then weighed, and the number of balls indicated bythe weight. Finally, by turning a handle, all the balls which have not been used are let out, and they give the exact number of members who abstained from voting, or who were absent when the vote was taken. The device appears to be very simple, convenient and reliable. A very important, but, until quite recently, neglected, constituent of the wasteheap are the old iron, battered saucepans, old pails, rusty hoops, and horse-shoes and nails from the road. All waste soldered articles now have the solder extracted from them, as it is more valuable ihan the iron, and the cheaper metal is then melted. Nor are the horseshoe-nails mixed with the common cast-iron, as they are much sought after by gun-makers for the purpose ot making stub-twist barrels. Scraps of iron, it is found, may be made very useful in securing the copper in the streams washing veins of copper pyrites; pieces of battered iron are placed in tanks, into which these are collected, and under these circumstances the copper incrusts the iron, in process of time entirely dissolving it, a mass of copper thus taking the place of the iron, and the residuum, in the shape of a colored deposit, is at times taken out, dried and smelted. These are but a few among the almost numberless examples of utilization processes how in vogue, and by means of which the merest and apparently most worthless waste is made to yield an important value.