Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1877 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—Mr. Gould, a Livingston, Me., farmer after picking a lot of potato-bugs from hia vines, ate freely of bread and milk, crumbling up the bread with unwashed hands. It is supposed that some of the poison juice of the bugs got into the bowl, as he died before the morning. —The one white swan upon the Public Garden pond, says the Boston Gazette, has formed an inacperable attachment to one of the velocipede boats that takes the form of a white swan. The swan attends the boat whenever It leaves its moorings, and stays by it during the night, biting most viciously at any one who attempts to drive it away. —The Pottatown (Pa.) ’Lodger remarks that it has beard of an East Coventry township damsel who was aroused from her slumlicrs earlier than usual to milk tho cows on the place, and when becoming thoroughly awakened found she had stripped oue cow but had no milk. The. bucket she supposed she was using proved to be a basket. —A Californian, whose wedding-day was fixed, did not appear at the appointed time and place, but sent a note to the clergyman, saying that he had just received a letter from his wife in New York, and thereby had his mind recalled to the fact that he was married several years before—a circumstance which had entirely escaped his memory. —Dr. Ephraim M. Epstein, a prominent physician and chemist of Cincinnati, made a sad mistake last evening, which resulted in the death of his own son His little son Willie, a bright lad of leas than four years of age, bad been taken ill, and, with the intention of administering quinine, he went to a drugstore and thoughtlessly ordered six grains of morphine, and, although bearing that label, the doctor administered three grains of the powder. The mistake was discovered by his wife. Two physicians were called in, who administered antidotes under which the child rallied for a time and appeared to be out of danger, but a relapse occurred this morning, and the little sufferer died. — Recent Cincinnati telegram . —Yesterday morning, when a box-car which had b*ought a load of coal in cases to the city Bluffs was being unloaded, it was found that some one had occupied it as a passenger-car during the trip, haviDg probably managed to secrete him#elf in it before it was sealed up at the Bluffs. That he had prepared for the trip was shown by the pieces of crackers, cheese, etc., lying around. A piece about sixteen inches in length and ten or twelve in width had been cut from one of the two-inch planks forming the flooring of the car; the passenger, whoever he was, performing the work with his pocketknife. Doubtless it required many an hour to cut through the plank twice; but he probably felt that he had plenty of time. After the plank was cut be bad a convenient little uoor by which he could emerge from and return to his car when the train stopped at night. It is of course a matter of speculation as to when he finished his trip .—/Sacramento RecordUnion. ■ —A young man in this plaice, after fry." ing in vain to get the girl of his choice to smile upon him, as a last resort gave her a $lO gold ring on condition that she “ go with him one week,” he being confident that she would learn to love him. She accepted and kept the pledge. At the end Of the week she did not like him. He then gave a silk dress of the value of $35 if she would tty him a month. During the month he gave her another ring. She tried very hard to love him, but did not succeed, and told him so. The giver was angry. He hurried to a lawyer’s oflSlce, explained his grief, and caused the young woman to be notified to call-imme-diately. The lawyer explained the charge, made some remarks about the jail, and demanded the gold ring and silk dress. The young woman was frightened. She said she would see her sister. The sister inquired about the matter of an officer. The statutes were searched, and the young woman was told to hold on to the preperiv, which she will do.— Nashua (N. H.) Telegraph.