Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1874 — Seraps. [ARTICLE]

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A man in Linn county, Oregon, has a span es fast trotting elks. New Zealand imposes a tax of >5 on each and every bachelor. Bsnstor Morton wore out his last pair of pants to small advantage.— CourierJournal. The Dodge gold mine at Lisbon, N. H., produced the other dhy. a nugget of gold valued at >4OO. • New version of Barns, by the medical student: (with a local application) “If a body snatch a body.” You look as if you were beside yourself, as the wag said to a fellow who stood by the side of an ass. Five of Boston’s banks have each a capital of >2,000,000. Her strongest bank has a capital of >8,000,000. Mme. Thiers, who is over seventy years of age, wears jaunty litte hats that would be youthful for women of thirty. The steam-propelled street cars in Salt Lake City are working to the perfect satisfaction of Mormons and Gentiles. Lumbermen's wages for the winter are unusually low in Minnesota; >ls a month being the offering wages at Stillwater. Redwing, Minnesota, has a Ross affair, only it is supposed the child -thief is the divorced mother of the child, whose name is Ralph Taber. The recumbent figure of Bunyan, which his admirers placed above his grave, is crumbling away. Three parts of the nose have disappeared. The birth of the Duchess of Edinburgh’s baby increases the number es Queen Victoria’s grandchildren to twenty-six, of whom twenty -three are living. A Missouri man swears he won’t pay taxes on his farm, and he has erected a fort, supplied it with arms and provisions and the tax collector keeps out of rifle shot. Sixty butchers are sueing the corporation of Montreal, Canada, jointly, for damages amounting in the aggregate to >IO,OOO, arising out of the private stall dispute. The wife of Mr. Sipple, president of a grammar school in Philadelphia, has disappeared, and they don’t know whether she is a past or present part o’ Sipple.—lndianapolis Herald. •