Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1874 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Better slip with the foot than the tongue. Partial culture runs to ornate; extreme culture to simplicity. To cure dull times—Apply an advertisement to the afflicted part. Cartridges for Turkey are manufactured extensively in Connecticut. Who ever heard of a great man whose mother was a fashionable woman? Gentlemen are wearing the ribbon and seal fob watch-chain as grandpa used to. Why should a spider be a good correspondent? Because he drops a line by every post. The handsomest bonnets are of black velvet, relieved by one bright color in ribbon, flower or feather. A boy has just died from a dose of ink out West. An ink west determined the fact. — Washington Chronicle. Why is a beautiful young lady’s foot like a romantic tale of olden times? Because it is an interesting leg-end. The most unpopular man in the country these days is the one who saws his wood too long for his neighbor’s stove. By a recent invention, called the quadruple telegraph, four messages may be simultaneously sent over a single wire. Small men are generally plucky men, and a Bantam rooster with one eye will whip ten times his weight in Cochin fowl. A New Hampshire woman when dying made her husband swear on the Bible that he would never marry a woman with a sharp nose. A Boston girl had a man arrested for “winking at her” in a street-car, and he proved that he had been blind for twen-ty-two years. What is the difference between the outer wall of a bridge and two nice young ladies? The one is a parapet, and the others a pair of pets. An editor says the only reason he knows of why his house was not blown away the other day during a severe gale was because there was a heavy mortgage upon it. An lowa farmer declares upon his solemn honor as a gentleman that the last grasshopper leaving Hie State stood on a gate-post and said: “Get some more fence rails ready for ns by next June.” A New Jersey contractor has jnst discovered that a handsome bridge he has been building over the Hackensack is exactly five feet too short. He says the fault isn’t his; the river’s that much too wide.