Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1877 — SENSE AND NONSENSE. [ARTICLE]

SENSE AND NONSENSE.

Every man is tbo architect of hi* own trouble* The Government still owns one-fifth of all the land in Alabama. Was the oat sack the original of the sack-coat?— Commercial Bulletin. Gracious Heavens I The potato bug* are tackling the beans.— Boston Pot'. The right eye of an engraver, on which he uscn his glass, is usually tbe stronger of the two. Never choose a one-armed man fora Magistrate. It would be impossible for him to deul even-handed justice. One of the acute sayings of a humorist Is, “ There’s a great deal of liumnn nature in horse trading, but few assets.” A woman may not care for art, but she docs not like to have a man spit on the stove hearth. — Yonker* Ornette. Bays a correspondent: “ The Grand Duke Nicholas is ill. What makes Nicsic just now ? Has lie been too often?”— Boston Globe. When u mau becomes a tramp, he becomes a being bereft of self-respect; and when self-respect is gone, little Is left but a dangerous brute.— Chicago Journal. A woman in New Jersey was cured of deafness by a thunder storm. How many men have been deafened by domestic thunder storms, tlic report does not say. The Warden of Bing Sing Prison says that 1,506 men are easier to manage than 120 women. But wliat does he want of those last two figures.— N. Y. Oraphie.

Andrew Jackson was accused of bad spelling, but John Randolph defended him by declaring that “ a man must be a fool who could not spell words more ways than one.” Dkessy shoes are made with the upper* to match costumes; or for walking-boot* gaiters are used. Slippers have rosette* or bows matching trimmings of dresses.— A- Y. Evening Post. Tennessee people depend upon their local papers to tell them when it is safe to take off their flannels. The power of the press is getting to be mightier every day. —Detroit Free Preu. Bermuda is proud of three things—its onions, its potatoes and its roads. It is a delightful island to walk over, and if one is fond of onions there is no place in the world where his taste can be so perfectly gratified. The fickleness of the weather makes a green grocer pause and scratch his head when he goes out on the sidewalk and finds his ripe strawberries frozen until they rattle in the basket like hickory nuts.— Oil City Derrick. A man will carry S4OO in his vest pocket, but a woman needs a morroco portemonnaie as large as a fist, and too heavy to carry in the pocket to escort a fifty.-cent scrip, a recipe for making jelly-cake, and two samples of dress gwds. The fly that curiosity has led to explore the inside of the chimney of a lighted lamp acts when it gets down to the burner very much like a young woman trying to sell a young man a ticket to a church festival. — Turner'» Fallt Rer.oter Ethnologists are indulging in a wordy war over the question whether Israelites of the days of Abraham were or were not taller than those of the present day. This, however, is not the first instance in history of a battle about the Heights of Abraham.

Mr. Alger says “a woman opens a book, sees a dried leaf and sheds tears.” And it is pretty much the same with a man. He opens a favorite book just returned by a borrower, sees a torn leaf and feels like shedding tears—or the borrower’s blood.— Norrist /wn Herald. A mother, in commending her daughter to a situation, was asked if she was an early riser. “An early riser?” she exclaimed. “ I should think so! Why, she’s up in the morning, and has breakfast ready, and makes all the beds, before anyone else is up in the house!” The growing custom of putting the choir at the pulpit end of the church has the very serious drawback that it prevents a man from turning around and looking up at the organ in a critical manner just before the contribution box approaches his pew. —Baltimore Bulletin. A girl that is never allowed to sew, all of whose clothes are made for her and put on her till she is ten, twelve, fifteen or eighteen years of age, is spoiled. The mother has spoiled her by doing everything for her. The true idea of self-re-straint is to let the child venture. A child’s mistakes are often better than it’s no-mistakes, because when a child makes mistakes and has to correct them, it is on the way to knowing something. A child that is waked up every morning, and never wakes himself up, and is dressed, and never makes mistakes in dressing himself; and is washed, and never makes mistakes about ibeing clean; and is fed, and never has anything to do wj|h its food; and is watched, and never watches himself; and is cared for, and kept all day from doing wrong—such a child might as well be a tallow candle, perfectly straight and solid, and comely and unvitar, and good for nothing but to be burned up. —Henry Ward Beecher. State-Assayer Hayes of Massachusetts prints a warning about the use of Paris green to destroy potato-bugs, in which he says: “The danger is much too great to permit its use by New England farmers. It is not known that the arsenic or copper is absorbed by the plants; they may be; but assuming that they are not, then the danger attending the common mode of digging and gathering potatoes, from the adhesion of particles of the poison, in a soil upon which it has been scattered; the danger in distributing it and placing in the hands of the workmen; and the danger to animals, such as poultry, hogs, sheep and even dogs, who may venture into the fields, make only part of a list of dangers that may be readily brought to mind. And when we add to this that the effects of .metallic poisons may not be observed for months, or years in some cases, there is certainly reason for saying that the indiscriminate use of Paris green on these plants may be more disastrous in its results than the loss of several crops of potatoes. I cannot suggest any harmless chemical agents that will drive off the bogs, but do xot use a metallic poison.”