Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1876 — MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

XwltligoM tiineriJook out for ttt Ite ~-Mfoistci*iconi|ftin tlmt thpfa from mwrrtnge fewire w —Tlie nutnlx-r of books carried under a achooltayfa arm is not always an tadp; oi the nttmbeFhe carries in his head, because theirs is such a kiln burinem. ■' of fhr pnwwflrihßßflttMßElM Ul . H!» H’-ril' f , —A writer in MaoatimMys that the moon has no jnore effect on tne WeatfaT than red hferHifai hkve on thq Switaerlaai- jm ib < • the streetcars of that city be regularly fumigated at thp end of each, trip. —The young collegian who wnjte home far a netv oori and got one a mile too tyg, auggesta that that was not a reK uinnmerci'il Adcertiter. . -I-** Any offers!” says Miss Whifet to Mws Wriggle, both home from the country. “Nous.” says toe Wriggle girl, laughing hysterically, “ but I’m gboa for another Meson!” , —lavender’s wife said to her husband, the other night: *'l’m afraid you have taken more beer than is good tor you-” And the unexpected reply was: “Well, I think myself I could have brought it home easier in* jug.” —A Preston man who called upon a musical friend last evening at supper time was warmly welcomed,'*as they had a party, and were just going to have a Symphony. He said he thought he smelt it as be ever.-—TFanrifeA Bulletin —>Girlsr don’t fltrt; there! is unfalA duoger, in it.. Your father may Whing behind a distant tree box, watching you, -ck-iyour big brother may-eome unbxpbctedly lunging from behind the blinds qf a sample room just as the fun is growing furious. " • / . —English newspapers have adopted what they once so decried —the American practice of interviewing—and now the English notable instructs the servant to keep “an htye liout for those himpudent hexaminers hos heverbody’s hown hinternal harrangomeuts.” • ’>*.*»<

—A Baltimore man, after many sleepless nights, thought he would smoke out the mosquitoes with gunpowder and to-. Vacco. An explosion followed, the man was lacerated, and the mosquitoes, after joining in a grand chorus of triumph, left for the next Equsc. —The bite of a Spitz dog seems more likely to produce hydrophobia ffiafi that of any other animal. The greater number of cases of this dreadful disease recently reported ate said to have come from the bite of this species.— N. T. .Conimcrcial Adoertiner. —An lowa man has invented a machine for taking rtfl* stockings. It can be attached to a hassock, and works something M the principle of a corn-busker, ’ 9 BStimated that it will save, in this country alone, ninety million cricks in the back a year. Tbe ipventor has filed a caveat. — St. Louis Republican. —Women, maids, misses and female iervants have all grasped the unusually tong finger of Fashion which points to fed trimmings as “the thing.” And so <eseeithem with ' Bed ribbons -round th"ir waists, '■ Red ribbons in flJftir hair, Bed ribbon* to tbcirfaates, Piaued to them everywhere. -rCMcago Evtnma —Section five of the act authorizing the appointment of bank receivers says that“all officers of N»iionjd banks shcM stamp or write in plain letters the woW ‘counterfeit,’ ' altered,’ or ‘ worthless,’ upon all fraudulent notes, which shall be presented at their counters. If they wrongfully stamp a genuine bote they-are required to redeem it—A WhitehaUer has .invented a fly protector for bald-headed men to vear during sermon time. It consistfl of a cldsefitting paper cap to be.wpm on the head. On the outside is a coating of sticky substance, and when a fly lights on it it is “stuck.” “Th&beauty,<&Um thhig-ifl,” says the Times or that ourg, “that when the paper is thickly COTerefl wlfh 'flies’fiie wearer looks as if hp had 4 [read of beautiful black hair-’*

1 ■*- Pi 12** * ' w’ *’ '-i ! t —The attefitiod of the world is temporarily called from the Bulgarian atrocities to a dreadful malady ip England, which is quite as appalling to a certain class of Englishmen as the mangling of Christians'lni a.fpreign land cap mjssibly be. ii_ kndwu as the “ dumb madness” is raging among the female hounds of Essex; and" the heartrending inforptation goes out-to all mankind that Mr. Loftus W. Arkwright has been compelled to destroy his entire pack. So respectable a jourpal as the London News solemnly says that the f destruction of Loftus’ dogs has “cast a gloom over the whole • district!” In most i civilized countries the dumb madness, or any other form of canine insanity ! likely keep the troublesome be 'Welcomed as a Godsend, but the thick, Englishman is never disturbed -by the noise of his favorite nuisance, and tye is only moved when the death of the nuisance becomes necessary.— New Odeans Bulletin. ' —By jlie aid of parakites » c«rtaiu&immqns, dubbed “Professor,” hopes to sail IflWafr.- The “Profess.a-'fl” [iliui W Mr. Dick, flies a’large kite* winch lifts ■ « larger kifo, which in U* torn lifted kite, and sp on, until “ Professor” Simmons is lifted himself, and he, hi tarn, lifts a,larger in»Ub/mtiJ by tfe) cumulative process an entire army of men, of all sith», is sailing in the air. If he Tan only his kifefl sarge enough. ,mid slwpg enough he will put Archimedes ,to shamej anri lltt the - earth itself. Thus- fat, htoijj evpr.ihe has not, succeededthem substantial enough to lift adnnw-Uftw-boy. ‘ Why 'he began with' a drffm-.ftier-lioy is not explained; but eqGid begin the other day in one of the syburbs< WLondon, and the drammfereboWHfll to the ground, and the parakitoj fefl (a tlw estimation of a crowd Qs.gaping; N. Y» Bsens ng Bosi-