Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1875 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

New York is seriously talking about a scheme for importing domestic servants from India. .... Ah indignant Jerseyman is going to more to South Abingdon, Mass., where the town canflot have a centennial until' 1975. ’ The block of Switzerland granite which is to serve for a monument Over the grave of Agassiz has arrived at Cambridge, and is now receiving the ioscrip tion. "'?**. . It is said that nothing will cure a poet’s affection for his idol sooner than to catch her at the dinner-table excavating the kernel of a hickory-nut with a hair-pin. > ' • Somebody in Baltimore claims to have •Sen a phantom dog one night recently. This is encouraging to those who have long wished to see phantom dogs supersede all others. A young lady while out walking heard for the first time of her mother’s intention to marry again, andehe wan obliged to sit right aown and csy about it. She could not go a step farther. Texas talks of dividing herself into two States. The worst thing about Texas is that there is too much of her. You could put four or five lUiuoises into her, geographical area and have a big margin to spare. If is asserted that the proportion of the married among the insane is smaller than that of the single j but this may be because an insane married person doesn’t show anything abnormal in his miserable melancholy.

A gold knee-buckle Of good workmanship was recently found by a citizen living in the vicinity of Braddock’s Field, in the western part of Pennsylvania. It is thought to have belonged to one of the unfortunate victims of Braddock’a defeat. The Berlin correspondent of Land and Water says that if a field infested by thistles be planted with rape seed the latter will thoroughly starve, suffocate and chill the weed out of existence. The experiments tried with different varieties of rape seed have been completely successful. A Bridgeport (Conn.) company have just finished a refrigerator-car to be used in bringing strawberries from the South, and the Standard says: “This is the first refrigerator-car of this kind ever built, but will probably he soon followed by thirty more to be used on the different roads about the country.” A seventeen- in Paris -reeently induced a companion of eleven years of age to steal 900 francs in gold and then strangled him, threw him into the Seine and walked oft with the money.He was sentenced to twenty years in the galleys, “ having escaped the death penalty," we are told, “on account of his youth.”

Adulteration of food is made a penal oSense in England, and the laws are.executed with great rigor. Iu this manner purchasers are protected from sharpers and given good articles instead of Spurious ones. In this country a like reform is necessary, for here, as in England, adulteration of articles of food is carried on to a large extent. Applause: It spoils the child, it ruins the youth and makes a strong man weak. Given too oft, it heats away the judgment, unbalances the will ana wrecks the greatest minds. It fosters pride, cradles selfishness and turns to curd the sweet milk of the heart. It tears down what adversity has builded uo, and numbers its victims most among the gifted. Inasmuch as paper has been made available for the manufacture of almost every variety of furniture and articles of dress, it is passing strange that paper coffins should have been left till this late day unthought of. The undertaker is certainly not an enterprising party. Trank-makers have long been credited with using all the unsalable printed books; but at the present rate of production, were every traveler supplied with a van load of these troublesome impedimenta to traveling, such a stock would remain that all the bookshelves in the world would not contain a tithe of them. To further reduce the stock a manufacturer out West proposes to supply every journeyer to that bourne whence no traveler returns with a last trank made of papier mache , waterproofed with asphal turn. —Scientific American.