Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1875 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

Th* Louisville Courier-Journal reports that they already have spring chickens in Louisville. Possibly, though, this may refer only to hidden of tickets in the late lottery. Talk English papers, not observing the fun hi them, carefully weed Max Adder’s “ humorous” articles of their unnecessary verbiage and publish them in a condensed form as news items. A bride after the conclusion of the marriage ceremony stepped gracefully forward and requested the clergyman to give out the hymn: “This is the way 1 long have sought.” A poor, ill-used wife in Montreal said to her husband just before she died: “ 1 accumulated such a store of love for you during our courtship that six yean of neglect and coldness on your part have failed to exhaust it.” It is the ruthlessly contemplative mind of the editor of the Cincinnati Times which evolves this exquisite consummation: “In all this world of woe can it be possible to imagine another retribution so stern, so awful, and withal so just, as that exhibited in the marriage of a life insurance agent to a book-canvasser.” A dame who in her sweet maidenhood some forty yean ago lost the power of speech, and thereafter and thereby won the heart and hand of an admiring swain, has lately unexpectedly recovered loquacity, and is making up for lost time, and the afflicted husband is said to be anxiously inquiring whether violation of an implied essential condition of the marriage contract be not valid ground for divorce. A gentleman in want of a housekeeper tried an odd experiment. He sent out two advertisements, one for a lady of education and elegant manners, qualified to act as a companion as well as housekeeper, and was overwhelmed with replies. The only requirement in the other advertisement was that the lady should be plain in features, but not a solitary applicant appeared to answer that appeal. Prof. Exner, of Vienna, has developed a formula for the force with which an ax is handled, and shows what carve should be given to the face or cheek of the ax in order to secure, under certain conditions, the least waste of power. By means of these formulae he is able to demonstrate that the splitting efficiencies of the best axes made in Vienna, Prague and America are to each other as 18.3, 9.2 and 4.9, respectively. This places ah American ax pretty low down. The Warsaw New Yorker tells the following singular story: “ A heifer lost by Mr. Sedore four weeks ago was found in a gully near the State Line Railroad, last week, nearly starved to death, with the end of a rope around her horns frozen in a brook, holding her down. She was reduced to skin and bones, and so crazed that she could not be approached with safety. By lassoing her on each side shs was finally drawn up the embankment, and, after drinking some warm water, was led to the stable, and is doing well. How the creature had survived during the weeks of terrible cold,, with no food except what little she got by browsing on brush, and nothing after she was imprisoned by the ice, was a marvel.” A Bangob (Me.) fruit-dealer has been paying a bet recently, with the making of wmch he had nothing to do. A couple of well-known gentleman stepped in one afternoon, and, beginning to eakoranges, informed the proprietor hau made a bet of the oranges on a certain question, and that after the bet was decided the loser would pay for those which they were eating. To this the dealer in fruits agreed, and the customers ate all they desired. The next time they were in the store he inquired which one was to pay for the oranges. “ Don’t know yet,” was the reply; “ I bet that when the Brewer bridge is carried away the Brewer end will go first, and Smith bet that the Bangor end will go first.” The oranges were charged to profit and loss. The following is a summer episode, as evolved by little Johnny: “ Last summer our dog Towser was a lyin in the sun a trine to sleep, but the flies was that bad he cuddent, cos he had to cetch em, and bime by a bee lit on his hed, and was a woking about like the dog was hish. Towser he hel his hed still, and when the bee was close to his nose Towser winked at me, like he said you see what this duffer is a doin, he thinks I’m a lily of the valley which isn’t open yet, but you just wait till I blossom and you will see some fun, and sure enuf Towser opened his mouth very slo, so as not to frighten the bee, and the bee went inside Towser’s month. Then Towser be shet his eyes dreamy, and his mouth too, and had begun to make a peacefie smile when the bee stung him, and you never see a lily ''of the valley ack so in all your life.” Colors in Carpets and Upholstery.— Put a good amount of color on ceiling, not, however, making it so dark as to bring it too close to the eye. The carpets must be either lighter or darker than the walls. This is following out the artist’s rule, to make either background or foreground run into the figure. If this be not done in painting a woman in white satin, for instance, against a dark floor and dark walls will look like a cutout figure stuck on, and the same sort of a result would occur in rooms. As in ordinary life dresses are dark in color, where a light wall tone has been recommended the carpet will have to be darker than the walls. Not too vivid in color, however, and of course no flowers, ferns, birds’ nests and such like fearful things. Furniture and hangings should not be too much alike in color; have, say, the carpet one tone, the coverings of furniture another and the curtains and other hangings a third. Have summer and winter hangings and furniture coverings; those for the former light and cheerful, the others with more warmth and suggestive of comfort and home life. A table-cloth, occasionally a chair, or a rug, may supply a bit of effective contrast with prevailing hues of hangings, etc., and a spot of vivid color in a vase or some small hanging will complete the formal decoration of the r->om. —British Arch. Association paver.