Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1874 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A woman by the name of Thomas has sued the city of Syracuse, N. Y., for $5,600 damages for taking a house of hers for a peat-house. Sleighing was reported good at Watertown, N. Y., a few days since. Trees, rOofs and sheds were broken down with the weight of the snow. A MW town in the California quicksilver region is named Mercury. What class of operators that heathen deity presided over every school-boy knows. Am Indiana woman dreamed that she saw her husband kissing the hired girl and she got so mad over it that she discharged the girl before breakfast next morning. There is still another point in favor of narrow-gauge railroads. When the locomotive runs over a man two-thirds of the body is left in good shape for identification. The Danbury Newt says that “the maddest kind of a woman is one who spends a half hour in arranging her toilet before descending to the parlor on the arrival of a visitor—who proves to be a book agent” The New York Mail says that “the average female is just now crazy over hats. If she hasn’t got a soft felt, with a rakish crown and a thievish-looking brim, she is crazy to get one, and if she has got one she is mad because she didn’t get the other pattern.” Miss Anna Snow was just getting up to leave a train of cars at Newburyport some two weeks ago, having ridden from Boston, when she found a roll of bills of large amount in her lap, but how they came there she could not tell. She advertised them, and a man has proved them to be his, though he was not on the train on the day they were found, and had never been in Newburyport.

There is rarely if ever any need of using soap on the face, except for very dirty people, or where there is much oil secreted by the skin. Pure soft water is generally quite sufficient. As a rule avoid the very free use of soap on the skin, except the mildest kinds. Face powders injure the skin just as dirt does, by obstructing the pores. If there is any poison in the face powder, as there often is, it only adds poison to dirt and makes the matter so much the worse. Dan Davis, of Virginia City, paid a visit to Promontory, on the Central Pacific Railroad, and was charmed with the manners and customs almost patriarchal in their frank simplicity of the people. He stopped at the principal hotel of the town. It was a nice place and the landlord was a very agreeable and friendly sort of a man. Says Dan: “ When dinner was ready the landlord came out into the street in front of his hotel with a double-barreled shot-gun. Raising the gun above his head he fired off one barrel. I said to him, ‘ What did you do that for?’ Said he, ‘To call my boarders to dinner.’ I said, * Why don’t you fire off both barrels?’ ‘ Oh,’ said he, ‘ I keep the other to collect with.’ ” A negro of Baltimore has had a warning which, if it does not turn him from some of the errors of his way, ought at least to convey a wholesome lesson to others. He had been indulging in strong drinks to excess and was enjoying a cheerful attack of delirium tremens. One morning he got out of bed and ascended to the roof to take an air-bath. Then he was seized with the delusion that the people in the street were trying to shoot him. To escape from them he jumped from house to house and ran along the combs of the roofs until the row of houses came to an end. He' then dropped himself down a chimney out of the range of imaginary guns. He slid down the chimney until he became firmly wedged above a stove-pipe hole, and in that stoveja fire had just been built to cook breakfast. The negro now became impressed with the idea that he had reached the infernal regions at last, and howled accordingly. It was necessary* to chop a hole in the chimney to release him.