Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1879 — A Plucky Couple. [ARTICLE]

A Plucky Couple.

Saturday a novel-looking craft hove into this port, which at once created great curiosity. It was a small, twowheeled cart, in which were a child two years old, a couple of sheets and a few cooking This was the coni a family of emigrants from l*unns.ylvaniato Leadviile. After thirteen years of toil in the mines of Pennsylvania, with scare sufficient to keep soul and l?ody together, Peter, Carline, aged forty-live, and his wife, aged thirty-seven, decided to try their fortune in the West. They could do no w,orse, possibly better. Accordingly, on the 13th day of April last, with a small hand-cart, in which they placed their little girl and a few cooking utensils, they started on foot from Wilkesbarre, with fifty-three cents as the total of cash on hand. At a rate of fifteen or twenty miles a day they have been trudging” along, camping at night under a couple of sheets, supplying their hunger by the generosity of the people. The little cart, like the fellow’s jack-knife, after having several new wheels, boxes and tongues, is as good as new, while the family are in perfect health, and not greatly fatigued from their long walk, and well but plainly dressed. They started for the Black Hills, but have changed their minds and will push for Leadviile, where the plucky couple believe they can get a living at least, and solve the labor problem, so far as they are concerned, without the intervention of politicians. He says there are thousands of miners k ‘ back there” who would get away if they could, but .they have not the pluck to start on foot nor means to so otherwise.— l)es Moines (Iowa) Cor. 'liicago Journal. Quassia and soft sOap iS recommended for destroying aphides on roses and other woody plants. It is used bv boiling four ounces of quassia chips for half an hour in a gallon of water. When cold and strained, add two more gallons of water and six ounces of soft. soap. With this syringe the bushes.— lowa State Register. ■A fasokwhabus item sstytu, ..“Charming caps'for breakfast are of muslin, have mob crowns, bordered with scant ruffles.”* It doesn’t tell how. they arc cooked, and we don’t believe we coiild eat ’em, no matter how they were served up.— Chicago Times.