Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1874 — LION NEWS! [ARTICLE]

LION NEWS!

Oh, the snow, the precious snow! The young ladies of Remington call their Wen ‘*my Sunday evening mail.” Go to BEDFORD'S to get your Watches, Clocks and Jewelry repaired. What was the matter with the Remington Record lari week? Neither this or the Union office received a copy. Not nnlike many others the writer of this has already concluded that “courtship is bliss, but matrimony is blister.” Snow fell to the depth of about ten inches last Saturday and Sunday, and the sleighing has been beautiful. There are a great many men in this world who think they are so “beafty” that when they go to the East the West tips np. Sleds, sleighs, cutters, bobsleds and jumpers were on our streets Saturday in abundance. By giving note a credit of six months will be given on all dental operations amounting to ten dollars. Iba C. Kelley. See the change in the time table of the Pan Handle route. Also the additional time table of the Richmond ft Chicago division. “ v Though the weather has been very cold and blustery we learn that it has caused no delay in the progress of work on the Chicago ft South Atlantic Railroad. Persons desiring sale bills or other job printing done will please remember that the Republican office is situated np stairs over the postoffice. % Mishawaka has the “boss tifrnip” of the season—measuring nearly three feet in circumference, and weighs fifteen and threefourths pounds.

We are told that “the smallest hair throws a shadow.” And so it does. It throws a shadow over your stomach when you find it in your butter. A dance will be given in Spider’s Hall on Christmas and New Year’s nights.— -Supper will be served at the Kansas City Hotel. m The boys have brought out theii» old last year’s sleds, and have wasted the usual amount of nails in repairing, say nothing about the mashed and frozen fingers, and the little cuss words

It has ceased. “The tintinnambulation that so musically swells, From the mingling and the jingling of the bells?” They have dances in Logansport, the proceeds of which go to the benefit of the church. How singular, indeed, it would be to see our Methodist and Presbyterian brethren shaking their feet to the tuns of “Auld Lang Syne.”

The lion in Benton county was killed the other day by hearing of May’s patent Wind Engine. Price SBS. Sold by * T. J. CRANE, Newtown, Fountain Co., Ind. Go to BEDFORD’S for Bill and Letter Paper. The Benton county “lyin’’ is spreading if all reports are true; it has appeared in Carroll county, and the Union says it has made its appearance in Jasper oounty. We have not yet heard a description of it as it appeared in this county, but hope to be able to give it as SOoft as the first edition is out.

Just hear what an editor says—a Demo-* cratic editor at that: “Under our exemplary tuition and example, none of the boys in this office chew tobacco, swear or drink intoxicants. That’s the kind of sign board we are.” Blow yer blasts, ye blustering breezes, but you can’t beat that blowing. The Plymouth Mail and Magnet in speaking of a marriage of some one says: “We trust our guardian angel will protect us from such a calamity for many a year yet.” It would naturally be inferred from the above that Brother Brooke is young and handsome and is only waiting for some fair damsel to pre-pose.

A Pittsburgh preacher has been requested to repeat his sermon, and “say it slow.”— In one of his sentences he remarks: “The marvelous multitudinousness of the minutiro of the corroborating circumstances are the insurmountable difficulties which unmistakably prevent the skeptic from discovering truth.” A Detroit young woman tried to he aristocratic, and did not look at the money that she gave to the horse-car conductor, but he meekly gave her back the lozenge on which was written, “I’ll never cease to love thee,” and said that he was an orphan with five little brothers to support, and must be excused. When a woman rushes oat of the house after another woman’s young ’un, seizes it by the hair of the head and “wrassels’’ it around a few times, and the other woman rushes to the rescue with her teeth set and her talons convulsively working, then (here are at least two women with the “god of battles” in them, anyhow. The Crown Point Register tays: “It is estimated that no less than 280,000 ablebodied men are now out of employment in this county.” What a huge tide of emigration must have poured into Lake county since the last census was taken. Perhaps they are Hennonites. Put ’em to work on the now railroad, Frank. Go to the RAILROAD STORE for fine Toilet Soaps.

The “late lamented’’ snow is no more. Christmas—strange to say—comes on the twenty-fifth of December, this year. The thermometer was 12° below xero Monday morning.