Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1874 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A lady physician in Utica has a practice amounting to $4,000 per annum. Porter, Me., prides itself because it has already Had ice almost thick enough to skate on. An Ohio man well posted in arithmetic says it takes thirteen hours’ work and four quarts of soap to remove a coat of tar and feathers from a martyr’s back. — Detroit Free Press. Last Thursday there wasn’t a single horse “swap” at Pittsfield, Mass., for the first time in six years, and the inhabitants felt as lonesome as if it were Sunday.—Detroit Free Press. Boston men can’t believe what they see. One of them had to feel a steam auger in Chicago to see if it was really whirling. It really was, and three or four of his fingers fell down behind an Alderman’s cravat. An old man in New Hampshire, who in his youth followed the trade of a tailor, stuck a large needle into his leg just above the knee twenty-five years ago. He never experienced much trouble, but always joked about it, saying he intended yet to make his shroud with it. A few weeks since it came to the surface and was taken out entire. But as soon as the atmosphere touched it it dropped to pieces, and the old man’s burial robe will have to be made by a machine, after all.

Protection for poor, annoyed, outraged housekeepers at last. A New Hampshire jury has awarded $145 actual damages to the man whose female servant was enticed away by his envious neighbor, notwithstanding the sum of SSO had been paid for her passage by the man who was thus vexatiously deprived of her services. If every one who entices away his neigh bor’s cook shall be mulcted in such damages hereafter, housekeeping will soon be relieved of one of its greatest perplexities.—Providence Journal. During a performance in the Metropolitan Theater, in Sacramento, Cal., a few nights ago, it was ascertained that a large number of young “ hoodlums” had managed to gain access to the loft of the building, from whence they could look down through the ventilators upon the stage, and several men connected with the theater, accompanied by two policemen, went to dislodge them. While doing so the occupants of the loft flew around nervously to avoid arrest, and three of them, in their flight, made missteps, and their legs passed through the ceiling and dangled in sight of the audience below. The falling plaster and the jar of the building occasioned by the general shrinking of the audience created the impression that an earthquake had occurred, and quite a panic ensued. Frank Mayer, a miner, walked into an abandoned shaft near Chestnut Hills, Pa.,, a few days ago, and fell to the bottom, a distance of over 100 feet. When he returned to consciousness he found himself encompassed by the carcasses of horses, cows, pigs and goats that had blundered into the shaft at various times; and the horrid hissing of snakes that crawled about him warned him that although he had escaped death by his fall he was in danger of a more painful and lingering death by the slow poison of venomous reptiles. -All that terrible night he lay quietly at the bottom of the shaft. The next morning he made an attempt to climb out, but sojon discovered that all human efforts would be futile. He then sought to attract the attention of the people in the upper world, but as the shaft is a hundred yards from the public road it was several hours before his cries were heard. Ropes were brought and a dozen strong men with willing hands soon had the sufferer out of the pit. Physicians .examined him but found no broken .bones and hardly a bruise.