Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1876 — Lost Children at the Centennial. [ARTICLE]

Lost Children at the Centennial.

Of lost children, some 350 have been returned to their homes by the police, but fully four times as many children have been recovered by their parents at the Centennial Police headquarters, and of these no registry has been kept. More boys are lost than girls. As to ages, a baby of two years old has been found and young women of twenty are among the waifs. Bays of about ten are the most uncomfortable in their temporary bereavement, asihey blubber outrageously, and knuckle tneir eyes, embossing their faces in a very unbecoming way. When a big girl is lost she may be thoroughly frightened, too much so in fact to cry. Almost any hour of the day we may see a lost child at headquarters. The guileless confidence of a little lost one, as it is marched along, uplifted on a stalwart policeman’s shoulders, is pleasant to see. There are apples and nuts in store for such. Generally the scene 6oncludeS by a grand rush made by the mother, who bounces in, swoops her little darling, kisses it, cries over it, and generally marches out without thanking anytxxly. The registry book kept at the office is a varied one—amusing as to men, character, and pocket-books, women and shatyls, all gone astray, being indicated. “ Mrs. Dill lost Mrs. NHL Dr. D. will be back at two o’clock to see if Mrs. N. has turned up.” “Mrs. C. Areless is separated from her husband. Should Mrs C. Arcless come in, tell her her boardinghouse is at No. 9,846 Hutton street.” — Oor. N. T. Times. The-American Pomobgical Report says: The rule that the roots will be found as far from the base of the trunk ns the entire height of the tree, after many examinations, has invariably -been found within bounds. In many cases they extend to a much greater distance. Even young dwarf pears, the quince roots of which are commonly supposed to be quite short and confined to a dense mass of fibers near the base of the tree, 1 have easily traced to a distance from foe tree equal to its height. —A young and foolish Sacramento chicken insists upon associating with cats, much to the misery and apprehension of its mother, an experienced old hen. ' ‘i ' The West and South have'spent id Eastern railway travel this year the snug sum of $25,000,000. - re—: i..l —A child died in. Huntington Co\uity, Fa., recently, from an overdose of " soothing sirup.” , . :