Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1875 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

It is estimated that the products of Kentucky yield greater revenue to the United States Treasury than ft paid by the whole of NeW England. Skvkntbrs men on a train of cars in Maine vainly attempted to quiet a crying baby. Along came an old woman, pulled a pin out of toe baby’s heel, and all was peaceful and serene in two minutes. A silent member of Congress, being entitled to send his speeches free by mail, put his frank on himself and wanted to ride free in a mail-car under the pretext that all his speeches were in him. Hn blushed a fiery red; her heart went pit-a-pat; she gently hung her head and looked down at the mat. He trembled in his speech; he rose from where he sat and Bhouted with a screech: “ You’re sitting on my hat I” Taylor Pudding.— Two-thirds of a cup of butter, four eggs, one cup of molasses, one cup of sour milk, one and one-half teaspoonfuls of soda; salt. Floor to make a thin batter; cloves, allspice, cinnamon; boil. To be eaten hot, with sauce. Good manners are the blossoms of good sense and, it may be added, of good feeling, too; for if the law of kindness be written in the heart it will lead to that disinterestedness in little things as well as great things—that desire to oblige and attention to the gratification of others which is the foundation of good manners. It is said the American Screw Company, Goddard Brothers and ex-Gov. James Y. Smith have each subscribed $5,000 and the Gorham Manufacturing Company SB,OOO toward Rhode Island’s quota for the Philadelphia Centennial. The total asked of the State is $56,870, and it will undoubtedly be secured without difficulty. “Mydear husband,” said a devoted wife, “ why will you not leave off smoking? It is such an odious practice, and as your breath smell so?” “Yes,” rhj./fed the husband, “ but only consider the time I have devoted and the money I have spent to learn to smoke. If 1 should leave off now all that time and money would have been wasted; don’t you see?” The Brown University boys are charged with “ wavs that are dark’’ in their recent spelling contest with the girls of the Normal School in Providence, R. L The words were to be selected from the daily papers of a certain >date, and the story goes that the students secretly procured the publication of an article containing numerous unfamiliar scientific terms.

Axr old woman-sat on a bench in the Grand Trunk depot yesterday, wiping her eyes with her handkerchief, when a portly man, full of sympathy, said to another: “Tie sad to see the falling tear. It always makes my heart ache to see an aged person in trouble.” Walking up to her he kindly asked: “My good woman, why these tears—why do you weep?” She took down the handkerchief, looked up in surprise, and bluntly answered: “I’ve got the wust cold in my head I’ve had for forty-six yean."—Detroit Free Press. A prisoner hi the Chicopee (Mass.) Jail cut his throat with a piece of glass. Surgeons were hurriedly brought, and, after a difficult and skillful operation, the severed arteries were tied and the gash sewed up. While this had been going on he had several times tried to speak, but had been unable to do so. After the surgery was over he said, with an effort, “All fol-de-rol, doctors. Tiled to tell you so, and save you any botber oi stitching me up. I’ve chawed some of the glass, I have.” He really had swallowed bits of the glass. In a few hours he died. A luxurious beggar is William Mowers, of Millerton, N. Y. Mr. Mowers and his family (consisting of a wife and two children) have been supported by the town nearly all winter because (as he said) he could get no work and bis family were suffering. He was offered a job of shoveling snow by the railroad cow pany at $2 per day. The poor, starving man refused to go to work unless they would give him (8, “for it was real hard work to shovel snow, and.he shouldn’t work for no s2l not he! he would do nothing first.” He was then offered a Job dumping wood, hut with an oath he refused, saying “ that was too hard work for him; he did not like to chop wood.” When given a $lO order from the town to get provisons for his family the first article he called for was some canned fruit and some pickles, necktie for himself and two dresses for Ms starving wife. He mourned his inability to procure a set of bosom studs and a fingerring to stay the cravings of his empty stomach. A few days ago this needy man left Millerton for parts unknown, owing a poor man S6O for rent. His family was ts&en to the poor-house on the Ist of April.