Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1877 — SENSE AND NONSENSE. [ARTICLE]

SENSE AND NONSENSE.

Do you want your note discounted f Try kluegifiM. Gold bead embroidery on lace Is coming into vogue. There is a revival of fashions demanding the use of lace. Railroad agents are always ready to answer a fare question. , Boston doctors, k is said, average twenty-two dollars a day. Bermuda potatoes are nine dollars • box in New York, and each box has thirty potatoes. Don’t go to law. If yoa feel that way, go sit on a bramble-bush, or crawl through a sewer. A German professor figures that cveiy man Is worth eight women in a commercial point of view. A Chicago paper says tliat the front-ler is the public ear, but you can’t make anybody believe that ’ere. William H. Vanderbilt will publish, it is said, a volume of begging letters he has received from ladies. “ I never was knocked down by a human being but once in my life,” said a braggart, “and then I was kicked by a mule.” Hearing that the matrimonial fever had broken out again, a medical gentleman remarked that he knew it, it was the ticfuss again. The Norristown Herald has ascertained that “blue glass, mashed up fine and administered internally will cure a dog—of sheep killing.” A grocer had a pound of sugar returned with a note saying: “ Too much sand for table use, and not enough for building purposes!” It is still a question in. the mind of the Louisville Courier-Journal whether dogs ot men should have the exclusive right-of-way along highways. The poem entitled “A sigh for my pet poodle,” is respectfully declined. We cannot afflict our readers with such a sigh-at-a-cur.—Boston Bulletin. A Rochester woman’s plan for clearing the sidewalks in winter: Bore holes in the ice, fill them with petroleum, set it on fire, and wait till the snow melts. It is the opinion of some mariners tliat there are rocks in the Atlantic which have been thrown up by volcanic agency, and are the frequent cause of ships disappearing.

A Marlbro Vermonter, aged slxty-flve, has a wife aged 103. He was nineteen when he married her, and she was fiftyseven. And that is the latest recipe for longevity. Some trees gl ow to finest proportions in foliage, with little root. Some men achieve great fame with little education. In both cases there is need of bracing when the storm comes. A Whitehall (N. Y.) woman, who was told to heap hot coals upon the head of her enemy, not having any coals on hand, squirted a lot of pepper sauce in the eyes of her next-door neighbor. The metric system is before the Legislature. Glad of it; the butchers have practiced the meat-trick system of charging for nine pounds of beef and trimming it down to seven and a half long enough.— Boston Bulletin. How a man wears his hat: At twenty, tipped sideways over one ear; at thirty, on the back of his head; at forty, drawn down over his eyes; at fifty, sitting square on his caput, with the brim trying to rest on both shoulders. “ Yes,” said Mrs. Black, as she sat gossiping with her sister, “ you have no idea how much my Jack thinks of you. Only this morning, as I went to wake him, I heard him calling out in his sleep: ‘ Oh, come, ante, will you!’ ” An infant’s apron can be of gray linen trimmed with cardinal braid. The pocket is trimmed to match, with the addition of buttons placed all around. The small pointed sleeves are trimmed with cardinal braid, and so is the belt around the waist. The French can eat anything. Long ago they commenced on frogs. After a while they introduced horse-meat. Then they began serving up mule-steaks. And now —what do you suppose they are at now? They are giving dog banquets—eating puppy flesh! Black and dark colors have gained such deserving popularity, especially in this Lenten season, that the ladies who love a “soupeon” of color, and think their style requires it, have devised quite a pretty means of introducing it in such a way as not to appear remarkably conspicuous; this is to intersperse loops of cardinal-red ribbon ingeniously among the other trimming, only in separate bunches, however, not profusely; a pretty finish is then to wear a soft mossy niching, made>of the silk raveled out, at the neck and in the sleeves. A letter from Deadwood Citv, in the Black Hills, says that the main business street-of that place is in a fair way of being worked out by miners, who nave recently struck it big at two different points on the main tnoroughfare. One man who had been running a cross-ditch camo to the pay-streak at the theater, which was evidently built on an old channel of the creek. Since then another party has tapped the channel a short distance below and near the center of the street. What led to the prospecting of the business portion of the town was the discovery of gold in paying quantities in a well that was dug not long ago. Next summer will see most of the business houses of Deadwood set u p on stilts. Yesterday afternoon a pi geon and a full Sown goose, feeding on the premises of r. W- H. Porter, North Cumberland, got into a quarrel, presumably over the division of their dinner, and organized a veiy lively battle. The pigeon flew angrily about the goose’s head, putting in a little peck whenever he could; bnt finally it received a blow from the goose’s bill and flbd, true to its habit, aiming at the roof of the house. The goose, thoroughly mad, followed, watching the pigeon until It became necessary to concentrate its attention on its efforts to fly so high, when, in its blind fury, it dashed against the wall and fell to the ground, dead. When it was picked up its neck was found to be broken. — Cumberland (Md.) Press.

Mrs. Anna Berrlan, a phonographic writer, of New York, wrote the extraordinary number of 1,054 words in four minutes, an average (of 263 U words a minute. She can write nearly as fast as she can talk. _ The indebtedness of the City of New Orleans was reduced $594,937.85 last year, and $2,102,987 in the last two years, and is but $22,638,779. Nearly half the bonded debt has been placed at a lower interest. »r-Wben an old hotel cook died in Detroit the other day the reporters stood around with uncovered heads and solemnly said: “ Peace be to his hashes.”