Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1877 — Ingenious Roguery. [ARTICLE]

Ingenious Roguery.

Two ingenious young gentlemen were arrested and lodged in jail, yesterday, charged with disregarding the well-known school proverb: He who takes what isn't Us’d, When he’s eatched will go to pris’n. These promising youths had hit on an artful scheme of robbery. One would stand near the door of a store, while the other, from the other side of the street, would playfully throw a stone through the window. While the indignant proprietor would rush out to give chase to the mischievous marksman, the latter’s associate would walk into the vacant store and lighten it of its till and other portable valuables. The trick has been successfully played in several instance*, and the police have been on the track of the speculative young men for some weeks. Some ot these robberies show enough genius to be amusing. A welldressed individual once walked into a ■hoe store and fitted on a handsome pair of new boots, his old ones being vary ranch dilapidated. The customer walked to the door to admire the fit in the full light, while apparently feeling in his pocket for his money. A st. anger in passing stumbled against the * newlybooted man, and, drawing back, hit him a blow in the face and ran away. “ You villain!” shouted the customer, starting after his assailant. “ The ruffian!—catch him! catch him!” exclaimed the indignant shoemaker, following op his customer. The shoemaker was fat; the customer and his assailant were both in good condition. They outran the shoemaker—and the new boots have never to this day returned to their original proprietor.— N. Y. Herald. The following statistics show a remarkable increase in the supply of certain favorite remedies siuce 1865: In that year the central pharmaceutical establishment of the Parisian Hospital furnished 288 pounds of chloroform; In 1878 the quantity had risen to 616 pounds. The increase of chloral from 1869 to 1875 was from ten pounds to 720 pounds. Bromide of potassium, six pounds in 1855, was 1,600 pounds in 1875: morphine, one pound six ounces in 1855, was twenty pounds in 1875. The progress of alcohol, cons tiered as a therapeutical agent, is worthy of notice. Between 1865 and 1870 the consumption of alcohol in the .hospitals increased from 1,270 to 40,000 quarts. Brandy does not appear on the list until 1862, when four quarts were supplied. In 1875 the quantity had risen to 4,108 quarts. ‘ ' ' '' x , . '.i —Rutland, Vt, is a quiet town. The other day a heedless stronger cried “ktirrah” in the street, and straightway there was an alarm of fire sounded. —There continues to be a dreadful discrepancy between the number of men who want to’borrow and the number who w ant to lend. „