Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Gail Hamilton is spending the winter with Speaker Blaine’s family at Washington. It is a case of consulship. Thk bullion product of Nevada for 18% is estimated at $60,000,000. “Hb provoked me into loving him,” was a Rochester girl’s excuse for engaging herself to a man whom she had always professed to hate. A Wkstkrn dentist advertises: ‘‘Give your sweetheart a new set of teeth.” And now we suppose some Eastern hair-desler will exclaim: “Get your sweetheart, a new wig.”— Rochester Democrat. It js claimed for the Gaelic language that it is more ancient than the Provencal, the Latin, the Hebrew or the Sanscrit. The Chinese is probably the oldest spoken tongue. A touno man in Boston, Mass.,who couldn’t afford to provide himself with $l5O coal-scuttles had a salute of 100 guns fired in honor of his wedding the other night. Thk sacred Ganges has at last been spanned by a bridge, much to the horror of the devout Brahmins, who confidently predict that the structure cannot stand. The span is across the Houghly, one of the deltoid mouths of the Ganges, which is regarded by the Hindoos as the true course of the sacred river and which is the only channel now frequented, by large ships. Says the Bator: “ The, next extravagance when jet shall have its day promises to be in the mohair braids that are now popularly known as Titan braids. These braids have already reached such prices as sl2 for a piece of a dozen yards and are bought in great quantities. Jet is literally fading before them, for dealers already show ‘ dull, lusterless beads made dull on purpose to match luaterless braids,’ and surely when jet loses its gutter it haft: no further reason for being.” A boy about twelve years old entered a Michigan avenue barber shop yesterday and asked the barber to cat his hair down close. The barber inquired if he wasn’t afraid of catching cold, when the boy replied: “ I’ve got to run the chances, for there’s trouble ahead. To-morrow is the day set for me and a Sixth Ward boy to meet over behind Goodhue’s barn and see who’s the bosk'' boy of Detroit, and he’s powerful at pulling hair. Ctot ’er right down to the skulp Free Press.

A new excitement has broken out in Paris. Certain of the philosophers of that city have discovered that dogs are as much subject to hydrophobia in extremely cold as extremely warm weather; Figaro says: “We axe in receipt of many letters ‘ calling for severe penalties, not only against mad dogs, but against the owners of them. These let- : ters remind us of tr small paper which printed at.the head of its- editorial: columns this terrible notice: ‘The authors> of articles which arenet inserted will he burned at the stake.’ ” W During the three weeks -from the !*t v of January a total of n&t less than $150,000,000 will be distributed in dividends on Government, railroad and other ie> curities in New York "alone. Including Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago and other business centers the aggregate will be largely increased and will reach a total of several hundreds of millions. AH the indications are favorable for a decided improvement in business from and after the beginning of the ■ new year. A remarkable result has been obtained at the works of Brown & Co., Sheffield. A revolving disc, made froht a rail saw, with all its teeth cut off, was mounted on a .spindle and driven at nearly 8,000 revolutions a minute; this was—the disc being three feet in diame-ter-a circumlerential velocity of oyer, five miles a minute. Steel rails forced against this disc were most rapidly out through, appearing to melt before the revolving disc, giving off an abundance of sparks, while, after butting five rills, it was itself not sensibly warm. Purses Nicholas Borokajovsk, a Servian noble, died the other day in the Hue d’Amsterdam in Paris. He had been obliged to leave his own country, where he could no longer remain, from the idea among the country people that he belonged to a family of vampires, the eldest sons of which for three generations came out of their graves to suck the blood of living people. It is said that five days before his-death he was conversing With his landlord and told him that it would be well, after his decease, to remove his heart so as to prevent his rising from the grave. Julian Hawthorne writes to the Lon don Athauxum in reference to statements published in this country concerning the secluded and desolate appearance rtf ,his father’s grave. He says the family neVer chose the site with a view to publicity, as a certain amount of privacy and seclusion was deemed desirable, and adds: “ But I have neither excuse nor palliation to offer for the extraordinary blight which it appears has visited the surrounding vegetation. Perhaps, indeed, the 4 entire tt»e hawthorn bashes planted at each coxnjr may be due to the fact that no such bashes were ever seen there at and this would certainly account for the 4 ghostly’ aspect of the dead one which |s described as remaining. For the rest I can only hope that the eyes of the writer in the Home Journal may have keen #o obscured by tearful sympathy as to have become incapable of distinguishing between ‘ dead grass’and pine-treeiHedles. And, finally, I think that the grave of Nathaniel Hawthorne maysafely koto/} to take care of itself.” , r *