Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1878 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—Kerosene is a bad drink for children. It killed a New York child the other day. —A New York man partook of a pailful of boiled cabbage and died from a rupture in his stomach. —A woman fifty-nine years old, with her son, arrived in La Grange, Ore., recently, having walked thither from lier home ifi Indiana. She" carried a pick. —A young man in New York has been amusing himself by calling out the fire-engines; and the worst of it is that to the Penitentiary, where he is going for ninety days, they won’t let him laugh. —About eight weeks ago LauraDesch, of Macunglc, Lehigh County, Pa., was bitten in tne finger by a pet Maltese cat, which died the next day. The wound Inflicted on the girl’s finger healed, but a few days,since she grew worse, and after suffering several hours she died of hydrophobia. —Some Canadian lumbermen, by way of joke, convinced one of their number, after he had recovered from a spree, that he had murdered a Magistrate. The poor fellow took to the woods, wandered there for ten days without food, became a raving maniac, —An Oshkosh, Wis., lady of color recently revenged herself on a procrastinating shoemaker with whom she had left a pair of shoes for repa'r, in a novel manner. After repeatedly calling for her brogans and being put off, she lit down on the unfortunate son of St. Crispin and smothered him with kisses, to the great amusement of his shopmates/ The next call brought the nhnaa. .. —A young lady while returning from prayer-meeting m Middletown, N. Y., recently, lost her bonnet, and would have gone as far as her father’s door without missing it ifa handsome gentleman walking behind her had not picked it up and rim after her. When she had gone half a block he overtook her and handed it to her, whereupon she clapped her hand to her back liair and murmured: “Thank you; that is mine!”

—The Aiken (S. C.) Courier-Journal says that one John Palmer, after having imbibed too much whisky, went home one day, recently, and to frighten his wife, with whom he had some unpleasant words, procured a rope and attached it to a beam overhead, got on a chair, placed his neck in the noose, and requested her to pull it from under him, as he did not want to live any longer. On her refusing to assist in the execution, and after she had left tho room, he kicked the chair from under him and found himself swinging in ~Tlrer sensation was not agreeable, nor the result what he expected. After considerable exertion and some tall climbing, he succeeded in getting out of the scrape a sobered, if not a wiser man. —A few days ago, in one of the most careful households in this city, where fenders guard the fireplaces and safety matches aggravate the strange visitor, smoke was discovered in a room adjoining the one where the family were at breakfast. Investigation snowed that a chair in the room was burning. How it could have taken fire was a mystery, until it was noticed that the sun's rays falling on a large magnifying lens, used to study photographs with, had been concentrated through it upon the chair, and had set it burning. If the family had not fortunately selected for breakfasting an hour when the sun is pretty near the zenith, and so prudently fixed it to have someone in the room at that dangerous time, the whole house might Have been mysteriously destroyed.—Hartford (Conn. I Courant. The future greatness and destiny of this country depends upon the virtue and intelligence of tho farmers:—Exchange. - , , _ The new King promise)! Italy un- ■ Humbert blessings, * '» .