Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1876 — MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

—Low reflections--Polished booth. —Turkey gobblers—the Great Powers of Europe. For the accumulation of wealth saving Is better than getting. —Motto for the Russian bear about this time—Now comes the hug of war. —A man should live within bb income, even if you have to borrow to do it. —An indiscreet person is like an unsealed letter, which iq seldom worth ing—Appleton't Journal says that children suffer more miseries than adults, bat forget them sooner. —A man might face death at the cannon’s mouth and yet shrifik from collecting an ice bill in October. —Russia feels that she will be all right if she can only get the Bulge-aria on Turkey, before intervention comes. —Wendell Phillips told the Woman Suffrage meeting at Faneull Hall thal seven-tenths of the husbands are frauds. —The days of great profits have passed for the present. We must now be content to build up our bank accounts- by nickels. —There is only one thing more honorable than seeking after employment, and that is to be faithfully engaged at work already secured. —“ Yesterday being a pleasant Sunday,” says the Norwich Bulletin, “ most of the boys who attended Sunday-school brought home a good many chestnuts which a kind man had given them.” —Another growing distress of out afflicted country is. the overweening desire of certain classes of its society to get something for nothing. —We are slowly but surely approaching the Thanksgiving time when a man must know how to carve a fowl or get ready to take a baked turkey in his lap. —The Mohammedans of India are raising funds to help their “ spiritual and temporal lord,” the Sultan of Turkey, who is being “ harassed by the infidel.” —George William Curtis intimates that, in his opinion, there is no man more foolish than the one who commits his indignation to paper and sends it to an. editor. —Palestine is to have a railroad, and the cry will soon be: “ All aboard for Jerusalem. Passengers for Moab and the Dead Sea,will please remain in the forward car.”— N. Y. Commercial. —lke has had an irritating skin disease. Mrs. Partington says “The Charlotte Russe broke out all over him, and if he hadn’t wore the Injun beads as an omelet it would doubtless have calumniated fatally.”

—“ Plenty of milk in your cans this morning?” the customer asked a Burlington milkman yesterday morning. And the milkman nodded gravely as without a wink in his eve he made reply, “ Chalk full.”— Hawk-bye. —The man who has been sitting all summer in a public square looking for a job of work lately transferred his observation to a warm bar-room, where he can see just as much and be more comfortable.— N. O. Republican. —According to an old soldier once serv. ing in St. Helena, the great Napoleon had a leaning toward rural economy. He would carry a stick about as thick as a walking-stick, with an iron spud at the end, and, anywhere he went, if he saw a weed, he would always spud it up.—London Timet. —A cijrar contains acetic, formic, butyric, valeric and proprionic acids, prussic acid, creosote, carbolic acid, 'ammonia, sulphuretted hydrogen, pyridine, viridine, picoline and rubiaene, "to say nothing about cabbagine and burdockic acid. That's why you can’t get a good one for less than five cents. —We now have the fall of the autumn leaf. Also the fall of the man who steps on it on the wet pavement. A leaf no longer than a ten-cent note will get under the heel of a man worth •213,000 and makes,him sit down so suddenly that the most practical eye can’t tell whether his hat or his collar button flew the highest. — Exchange. ' 2 —He called at the police office yesterday, and stated that he was in trouble. “ A fine young fellow, sh ust so nice as anybody, came up to me on the street, and saia: ‘How you does? Long time since I saw you in Shasta Gounty,’ I says: ‘I nefer vas in Shasta Gounty.’ He says: ‘ Why, I dinks I see you dere.’ Isays: ‘ No, I lives near Auburn.’ He goes away, and bimeby I meets a chap and he says: * How you vas since I left you at Auburn?’ Then we has a talk und some drinks, und I lend him ein hundred dollars until the pank opens, und I dond see him some more. Vat you dinks?”— Sacramento Union-Record.

—Yesterday afternoon about three o’clock, a small child, aged about three years, son of Mr. John Haley, accidentally fell into a well on his premises, adjoining Powell’s soap-works. The mother for some days had been confined to the house by severe sickness, but on hearing the ciy given by an attendant, Mrs. Haley sprang out of bed, rushed to’the well and jumped in. The alarm being given, both mother and child were rescued from their perilous situation. Great fear is entertained for the mother's safety. Mrs. Lewis, who happened to be at the house at tbe time, seized the well-chain, fastened it around her waist, and was let down by the nurse. She succeeded in keeping their heads out of water until rescued. There were ten feet of water in the well.— Omaha Herald. —A peasant woman called at a druggist’s with her face bound up, and complaining of toothache. The druggist gave her something to put on it, and she returned to the country. The next day the druggist received another visit from her. “ Do you still suffer with your tooth?” he asked. “ Yes,” she replied. “They tell me it will hurt me aM day.” “ That is not»e’sessary, I will give you something stronger that will stop the pain immediately.” With that the druggist proceeded to prepare the remedy and gave it to her with instructions to be sure and put it on the tooth, etc. The payeanne listened attentively, and then saidv “My kind sir, would you please put it on the tooth yourself? I’ve got it here in my pocket I had it pulled this morning. ’'