Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1874 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

White jet is becoming fashionable in Paris. A paper containing many fine points— A paper of pins A tasteful villa proprietor of Lee, Mass., has imported a basaltic column from the Giant’s Causeway as an ornament for his lawn. A narrow escape from death under the administration of nitrous oxide gas is recorded in London as a warning against the American system of painless dentistry. Opium, belladonna fed arsenic are the Jaycyrite. luxuries among the ladies of Reading, Pa. It is unnecessary to add that suicide, blindness .and sudden death are not infrequent items in the local press, f At a recent sale in Berks County, Pa., a wagon was sold that had been standing long enough in one place to permit a walnut tree about five inches in diameter to grow up through the bed of the wagon. Lancaster, Da., boastfully records the building of a “ large shoe factory” within its limits, but its pride is abased by a Maryland critic who’ observes that of course there would be no market for small shoes there. The Rev. J. F. Dayan, of New York, has inaugurated an international campmeeting, to be held hereafter annually on one of the islands of the St. Lawrence River. One of the .Thousand Islands will probably be selected. A AfKMRF.Tt of the Committee on Public Instruction of the Fall River (Mass.) Common Council is credited with the composition of the following ordinance: “ That tho super in tinder of stseets is heir By stroised to Erected and maintain 2 street lites on John street.” Riches never showed a pair of wings measuring more from tip to tip than in the case of Coal Oil Johnny, the whilom young millionaire of the coal regions, wht>, after risihg from the humble position of ox-teamster to the wealth of a prince, has again subsided into agricultural pursuits, and is glad to plow all day to make a dollar or two. In Maine the curtailment of the lumber business is to be a pretty extensive thing. The principal lumber mills on the Kennebec and Penobscot are now shutting down and discharging their hands. It is reported that this is the result of an understanding among the heaviest operators for the purpose of increasing the price of lumber and reducing the wages of workmen. - Another cause assigned is the dullness of the lumber market.