Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1875 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

' One of the most perfect of mechanical motions is that which lifts a lump of sugar from a grocer’s barrel. A cabkful medical authority estimates that a man with a sore throat swallows ten times to where a well man swallows once. “ Thebe is one thing about peanuts,” observed a man who was helping himself from his friend’s pockets, “ and that is the shells.” Douglas Jerrold used to say of feminine writers: “If you once dip a woman’s finger in the ink-pot she will go on writing forever.” It must be unpleasant for a stuttering man in Berlin to hail a street car, because there they call a street car a pferdestrasseneisenbahnwagen, for short. New Orleans announces the advent of the first ice-cream cart of the season. We have all the requisite material for icecream, but don’t want it. It may do very well f©r New Orleans, but it is quite too ordinary for this locality.— Rochester Democrat. It’s setting pretty near time for the oldest inhabitants to predict that there will be no apples next fall, the frost having killed the buds. This is a great comfort to our aged citizens, but it doesn’t seem to discourage the apples worth a cent.— Fulton {N.Y.) Times.

Ik Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County, N. Y., is mi extensive gunpowder manufactory. The successive buildings in which the drying of the powder is done have been blown up at the rate of one a year for ten years. Three men are required to operate this part of the works. Ln the ten years five men have been killed and seven mangled by the explosions, the last accident occurring a few days ago. Yet, notwithstanding the deadly risk of the employment, more men are constantly offering their services than ate needed, and the wages are low. The fascination which danger has foi some temperaments is the only explanation of this strange fact. . A lady residing in the extreme southern part of the city a few years since was left a widow with a family of small children. Of course for a while she was inconsolable, and religiously taught the little ones that papa was‘‘up in hearen,” She is to be married again in a month, and, while not allowing the children to forget their father, she instructs them to view her intended husband as their father in a secondary sense. Yesterday a gentleman called at her house. He is very intimate with the widow and the little ones. So he ventured a question. “ Muriel,” said he to the youngest, a blue-eyed, ruddy-cheeked, five-year-old girl, ** where is papa?” Said the little thing abruptly: “Up in—down town.”— Chicago Inter-Qcean.