Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1876 — ALL SORTS. [ARTICLE]

ALL SORTS.

Hjaf Tof* Alderme* have passed an ordinance againsj, barking dogs. The Washington Star advises young men to keep away from Washington. Wbie. a German, proposes to erect 100 “Centennial lodging-houses” in Philadelphia. Uncle Bam will keep open house all this j-ear. Look out for a rush of callers about next J uly. The proposed new Constitution of Texas permits nine jurors in a panel of twelve to return a verdict. One of the curiosities now on exhibition in Hanford is a two-legged horse. He lias no fore legs. In California the Governor has the option of awarding capital punishment or imprisonment for life. The Rothschilds could pay our national debt and then be tbe richest house in the world. Bet you they won’t do it. The age of the persons who waste ' h • precions time guessing, the ves , ‘ f noted spinster is dotag eMlloche* * crat. IJemo ~

The reduction of the wage . „r operators is not purticuli> ly c ]ectrifvin(r to them. The magnet d S. ™»f way. 6 Trimmings for r^ h cloakg are almost e tn rough wool braids or bands of fur, a sometimes both are used at once. Cleanl t JfEBS j s ti, e mos t essential inFT® dr m ®* e art of cooking; a dirty a disgrace to mistress And ’uiaid. r ~ somebody asks in a New York paper: * Who let Tweed go?” but is It not a more important question, who’s going to catch him ? Charlotte Cushman is not a woman’srights woman; if she were she would weep countless tears over the last syllable of her name. A New York man has discovered a chemical process by which worthless tobacco is transformed into fine-looking and fair-tasting cigars. We are told of a California woman who claims to be 130 years old; but she expects to be 500 and accordingly regards herself as a mere child. How many young men scattered all over the country are trying to get a word to rhyme with “ Centennial” is a problem that aill never be solved. The Rothschilds could give eighty-five dollars to every man, woman and child in the country. There, now. don’t get excited; it isn’t certain they will do it. The poem entitled “Beautiful Snow” has reappeared as original in a Montana paper and credited to a poor but intelligent youne man named Tompkins, who is tending bar. Hekr Joseph Fencer, parish priest of Matzenheim, in Lower Alsace, has been condemned to a month’s detention in a forties < for speaking in sermons against the new school organization. A Baptist clergyman in Waterloo, N. Y., recently stopped in the middle of his sermon to reprove a member of liis congregation for taking notes, saying that it disconcerted and annoyed him. A man living in Bucks County, Pa., going home the other evening, stooped at a spring by the wayside to drink. In the morning he was found dead, with liis mouth and nose just under the water. When the truly erudite person is asked regarding his health he says, in a sprightly manner: “ Um! um! Yes, to be sure. Excuse me a moment. I must see what Aristotle says about it.” —Rochester Chronicle. Six attempts have recently been made to set fire to the city of Evanston, Wy. T. It will be hardly necessary to remind the citizens of that place that eternal vigilantes Is the price of cheap insurance rales.

Tiik Omaha Herald brags that “ while all the world is freezing to death, the people of this vicinity are going about in their shirt-sleeves.” This assertion will hardly be swallowed, as it involves the antecedent belief that Omaha men wear shirts.— Chicago Times. , This is the story of the rise and fall of a ministerial scandal at Morrisville, Pa. : The young, unmarried find brilliant Rev. Mr. Shields was the room-mate, it seems, of the dry-goods store-keeper, and, naturally, was frequently in his friend’s store helping him. A few days ago he bought fortynine cents’ worth of goods, Cleaned over the counter, dropped a tjyo-dollar bill into the money-drawer and took out the change. Some customers saw him, guessed he was stealing, and circulated the story in the village. And through this speedily grew the tide that the ypung pastor was a veteran tiil-fapper, and'had raided on nearly every moneydrawer in town. But the church and the pastor went straightway to work and traced the scandal back to its startingplace, the store keeper and his two clerks explained the circumstances, a vote of confidence was unanimously passed, and the little village is quiet once more. The Charlotte (Va.) Chronicle says: “ We learn that within the last two weeks a singular discovery has been made at the house of Jesse Garth, for many years deceased. It is said that a distinct and accurate likeness of Mrs. Garth, who had been dead for twenty years, can be seen on a pane of glass in the upper sash of one of the window s, preseuting very much the appearance of a photograph negative. The discovery is said to have been made by a w'oman who was washing clothes in the yard, who imagined some one was watching her through the window, and went inside to see who it was. We gather these facts from Dr. Charles Brown, who has himself seen the picture. Dr. Brown remembers that about twenty years ago Mr. Garth told him that his wife, while standing at the window, was stunned by a sudden flash of lightning, and the doctor’s theory is that the outlines of her features were photographed on the window-pane at that time. The youngest daughter of Mr. Garth ana others who were well acquainted with Mrs. Garth have seen the picture and pronounce it a striking likeness, it is said to be more distinct about nine o’clock in the morning and three in the evening than at any other tiine in the day.” Emerson, the English chemist, shows that it is not for the purpose of cleaning and pluming their wings and bodies that flies stroke them with their feet, hut that they thereby collect a quantity of microscopic insects, upon which they feed by means of their proboscis. These insects are scraped from the wings, and can be separately examined. He further proves that myriads of healthy flies, covered with lice, float through impure and feet id air: while in localities where the joir is fresh and pure only a few emaciated ones are seen, and thpse quite free from insects. wherever there is corruption and the living jgerm of disease, there flourish their enemies and destroyers, and these are our despised house-flies.