Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1877 — Touched Her Heart. [ARTICLE]

Touched Her Heart.

Yesterday morning a woman living on Napoleon street was seen on the walk in front of the gate heaving the snow right and left, and she haabnly got fairly Settled to wdrk when- a boy lounged up and remarked: “ I’ll clear off the walk for ten cents.” “ I guess I’m able to do it,” she repled. “ But see how it looks,” he continued. “ Here you are, a perfect lady in look and action, highly-educated, and yet you grovel in the dust, as it were, to save the pitiful sum of mi cents.” “You grovel along and mind your own business,” she curtly replied, still digging away. “It’s worth ten oentej'’ he said, aahe leaned against the fence. “ but I’m a feller with spine sentiment in my bosom. Now, we’ll say live cents, or just enough to cover wear and tear o’ my bones. Give me the shovel and you go in, get on your seal-skin sacque and best jewelry, and while I work you stand mit here, and boss around, and talk as if you owned the biggest half of North America, while I had nothing, and was in debt for that.” She looked at him sharply, saw that he was in earnest, and when she passed over the snow-shovel she put two nickels Into his hand. He looked after her as she went in, and then sadly mused: ■ ■ > “Oh! Flattery, thy surest victim is a woman homely enough for s scare-crow!” —Detroit Free Preu. —Success appears to have attended, to a very encouraging degree, the use of the electric light on board the French transAtlantic steamer AmeHque, in order to E revent her collision with other vessels. a this case, the lantern is placed on the bow, at a height of twenty-two feet above the forecastle, or forty-two feet above the water, and the current 4s produced by a Gramme electric machine, devolving at the rate of from nihe hundred and fifty to one thousand turns-per minute, ana affording a light equal to one hundred and fifty carcel burners. An ingenious device places the control of the light li the bands of the officer of the watch, and by this he can extinguish the Ilium ipatibn or renew it at will, without stepping the machine. It is stated that experiment has recently proved thht the nitfst effective uge of the light, as a me&ns’of‘wttnihff, is to allow it”to shine for ten rebonds’and then extinguish it for the Succeeding two minutes.— N. Y. Sun. iWVA One of the most ftwiking features .of the great Brooklyn horror is the ynuth of which is generally occupied by the young who earn their ow»4taing> —Of 140 whose 1- nine, 1; ten, l; .tweM, 3: thirteen, 0 ; fourteen, fifteen, ®5 sixteen, 5 ; seventeen, 11; eighteen, 18; nineteen'. 14; twenty, H; twenty-one, 5; twehty-two, 12; twenty-three, 10; twenty-fdur, 2; twenty-five, 8; twenty-six, 4; twentyseven, 2; twenty-eight, 4; twenty-nine, 1; thirty, 5; from thirty to fifty. 10; above fifty, 2. The average age of the victims whose ages are known is twenty-one years and fiye months.—AT. Y. Graphic. —Dr. Slade swears that when he gets out of the Workhouse he will overthrow the British Government, if ha ha* to summon assistance from every spirit in the eternal world.