Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1878 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A squatter on some land just outside the thickly-populated part of the West Side had $575 in greenbacks, which he had accumulated as the result of many years’ penurious savings. He was too shrewd to invest it in real estate or trust it to a savings bank. After much deliberation this careful man nailed his greenbacks to the underside of one of the boards of the flooring of his humble home. When he went to look for it last week all that was left was the corners protected by the heads of the nails from the rats’ teeth.— Chicago Tribune. —A man at Albany, Vt., who had been a sufferer from dyspepsia for twenty years, died, and some peculiar circumstances in his case led to a postmortem examination. This revealed, in the lower end of the stomach, thirteen well-preserved cherry-stones, so imbedded in the lining of the stomach as not to be discoverable to the eye, and causing a thickening of the stomach case some three-fourths of an inch. These stones had worn a hole through the stomach, and death was caused by dropsy, or drowning. It was the opinion of the physicians that these stones had been there for many years.

—A deserted house near Haverhill, Mass., has a singular history. Twelve years ago, an energetic young mechanic was engaged to marry a young woman of that city, and worked hard to lay up money enough to buy a home to which to take his bride. One morning he invited her and halted, at last, in front of a handsome brick house in the suburbs. He took her in, showed her that it was nicely furnished ampit last told her that he was the owner. To her inquiry as to how he obtained it, he admitted that he had been fortunate enough to buy a lotteryticket which had drawn a prize of $20,000. She was a girl of strict principles, and declared she would never marry him until he gave back the money, and on his refusing, left him forever, and the house still stands tenantless.— N. Y. Evening Post.

—Mr. and Mrs. Flinn, of Sidney, Ohio, were awakened the other night by a noise which they thought came from under the bed. Supposing burglars to be the cause, Mr. Flinn hurriedly’ jumped from bed, got a shotgun, and returned. Mrs. Flinn, all excitement, was just rising, and her right foot hung over the bedside. Mr. Flinn, supposing the moving foot to be the head of the intruder, who was coming from his place of concealment, without any ado or hesitancy, tired. The wife screamed, and the husband flew about in a delirium. A light was brought, and Mr. Flinn discovered that he had shot his wife instead of a burglar. It was necessary to amputate a portion of the foot —a sacrifice all the harder to endure since it was subsequently demonstrated that no burglar was in the house at all. —A horrible affair occurred at Burkeville, Va., a few days ago. About two years since Anderson Miller married Jennie Tyler, a good-looking girl, but possessing a vicious temper and will of her own that gave indications that she would make her husband’s home a hot place. At first they seemed to be leading a happy married life, but gradually the wife’s temper manifested itself in various ways, and on the day in question the connubial quarrels culminated in a most awful tragedy. The husband and wife were seated at the breakfast-table with an invited guest, when the husband chanced to discover a fly in the biscuits, or thought he saw one. Anyhow, he said, “ Jennie, you are a bad cook, to let flies get in the bread.” The wife’s temper increased as she spoke, and finally she called her husband a liar. He remonstrated with her for using such language in the presence of an invited guest. Fairly beside herself with rage, she caught up a new ax which was lying on the hearthstone, and before the guest could interfere she hail brained her husband. When he fell to the floor she brought the keen blade of the ax down on his. neck, completely severing the head from the body, the head rolling on toward the fire and the body rolling under the table.

The little daughter of a St. Paul (Minn/) clergyman discovered, on a recent Sunday, that several of the buttons on her best boots were missing. Her mother proposed to sew them on, but the young lady had too much respect for the fourth commandment to allow it. .However, as the alternative was to stay away from Sunday-School or sew on the buttons, she at last made a compromise with her conscience by saying to her mother, “Well, mamma, you sew and Fllpray,” and pray she did, kneeling by her mother’s side until the buttons were on. • ' . —-A Plain Rice pudding.—A coffeecupful of boiled rice!, a quart of milk, a half-cup of raisins, a half tea-cup of sugar, a tablespoonful of butter. Stew the rice gently into the milk for two hours; add the sugar, raisins and butter, ami bake for an hour, stirring once to mix the butter in. This pudding is very nice eaten cohl for luncheon. Tub “Baby’s Boat Friend” is Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup, since it "maintains the baby’s health by Keeping it free from Colic, Diarrhea, etc. Price, 25 eta.