Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1879 — MULTUM IN PARVO. [ARTICLE]

MULTUM IN PARVO.

Cream color is a favorite shade for evening gloves. A hog roused no in his sty And dropped a regretful tear— ; Who first wrote the aphorism, “Great aches from little toe-corns grow?" A Texas Sheriff pursued a nine-year old murderer a hundred miles before capturing him. n New England railroads have decided to discontinue the issuance of half-fare passes to clergymans' There is a negro lunatic In the Danville, Va., Jail who claims to be George Washington, to be 2,000 years old, and to be worth 12,000,000. An old hat that once belonged to Napoleon L was recently sold for (35, which is a good price when we consider that both the Nap and crown are gone. The Ashland (Ky.) Review speaks of the gallows-tree as a “ plant which has borne less fruit and hod greater advantages than any vegetable known to the flora of America.”

Gen. Robert Patterson, of Philadelphia, now more than eighty years of age, is said to have entertained at his table every President of the United States since Madison’s time. January wedded May, without doubt, in a town of Calloway County, Ky., the other day. January was Mr. Ronus Kemp, ninety-six years old, and May was Miss Mary Bridges, sixteen years old. A very curious plant is the Desmodium gyrans, or moving plant. It is a native of India, and is curious from the rotary movement of the leaves, which, during the heat of the day, are ih constant motion. In the new Territory of Oklahoma, it is proposed to give every Indian man, woman and child a homestead of 160 acres of land in addition to the tribal lands which now belong to the various Indian families. A German, telling the story of his campaigns, gives the following interesting item. “In this battle we lost the brave Capt. Schultz. A cannon-ball took off his head. His last words were: ‘ Bury me on the spot where I fell.’ ’’ Somebody started the hoax that William V. Taylor, of Wnitehall, N. Y., was to fall heir to (100,000 if he married within a year, and now 300 letters, evidently penned by solicitous and susceptible females, await his call at the Whitehall Postoffice. • Elihu Burkitt, famous as a linguist, has presented to the library of the Burritt School, at New Britain, Conn., all the hooks, in the various languages, which he has collected, at home and abroad, for the last twenty years. f A Jacksonville (Ore.) paper says: “ A flock of geese flying rather low over Gin Lin’s claim, the other day, the man in charge of the hydraulic pipe turned it on them and succeeded in bringing down two of tha birds, one of which was secured.” . - A curious natural telephone is reported by a California paper to exist at a certain point on a ridge high up on Kearsaj'ge Mountain, where can be heard the nimble of trains on the Southern Pacific Railroad as they cross the range to the west of Mohave, 140 miles distant. Mr. Luis Cadena, an artist, of Quito, Ecuador, has painted, and sent as a gift to the United States Government, a full-length likeness 1 of Gen. Washington. The picture, which is very lifelike and skilfully executed, will be framed and hung in the White House. . “Don’t you love her still?" asked the Judge to a man who wanted a divorce. “Certainly I do,” said he; “1 love her better still than any other way; but the trouble is she will never be still.” The Judge, who is a married man himself, takes the case under advisement.—

An old gentleman of eighty-four and his bride, aged ejghty-two, entered a railway car, the other day, and took a seat by the stove. A youth, occupying a seat behind, says he overheard the following: Old gentleman to his bride—“ Who’sa’ittle lamb?” Bride—- “ Bose of us.” Ex-Att’y-Gen. Edwards Pierrepont has been appointed special counsel for the United States in the Lewis will case. This is the case of Mr. Lewis, the Hoboken millionaire, who left bequests to the Government, and whose will has been contested by sev* eral women claiming to be relicts of the deceased. A nice-appeakino young man called at a house in Providence, recently, and told the lady that her husband had authorized him to get his overcoat to wear at a funeral. The unsuspecting woman gave the stranger the coat, ana now the husband ia extremely anxious there shall be a funeral, if only he can furnish the corpse. A good story is told of a prominent Troy clergyman. At the close of the' morning service the other day the pastor reaa the record of marriages and deaths which, had taken place in the parish during the past year, and, having finished the reading, expressed the hope that the record would be largely increased during the next twelve months. The Rev. Joseph Cook on a boy who climbs a tree to steal apples: “The apples are the objective natural motive, the boy’s appetite is the subjective natural motive, his intention is his moral motive." It is hardly necessary to add that the boot or board the owner of the orchard applies when he catches him at it'is the boy’s natural locomotive.— Boston Transcript. —Rev. Frank Block, a Presbyterian minister in Georgia, recently had fl dancing party in hu house, at which he dancea with the guests. The Atlanta Presbytery suspended him, and he appealed to the Synod. The Synod has just reversed the sentence, and restored him to full fellowship in the church. This course was not taken, however, without long and spirited discussion.” —A fish fancier at Boscobel, W»., claims to have domesticated brook trouti and -eo far-eivilized them that they no longer eat one another. He has them of different ages and sizes, living in harmony in same pond, and he gives it as his experience that the trout is the most profitable fist] (Ijat can be raised.