Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

i ; “ Mustard color underclothing” Is all the rage now for men’s wear, owing probably to an impression Wit makes one smart. And now, close on the heels of the grasshopper plague, we are threatened with a plague of gnats. That would be a gnat-ional disaster. As the Mennonites are also adepts * its manufacture, it is not probable that the intricate art of making eour-krotrt will ever die out in this country. “ The battle of spring,” says the New York Evening Mail, “is fought with blades of grass.” What does jprihg mean, then, by arming all her flowers with pistils ?— Louisville Courier-Journal ‘Here it is the 6th of Milyusifd'uti onions planted yet,” moumfullyobserved a matter-of-fact Rhode Island dame, as : she shoved her glasses hack and wiped ban eyes with a very small table-cloth. A YOUNG Scotch girl inquired of agentleman, in broad Bcotpfi, the road to the Tremont House, Boston. ' Heflesiredher so follow him, tod asked her'bow long ; since she had arrived from Scotland. “ Sax weeks, your honor.” On their arrival at their destination she very coolly inquired: “Noo, sir, wall ye just tell me boo ye kenned I was frae Scotian't"

A' Tennessee newspaper tells a fanny story about a little red bird far Lebanon, which. lately lost its mate. Happening tq alight a few mornings afterward on a vine in front of a highly-polished window, he caught sight of his own reflection, and, evidently mistaking it for his missing companion, began to make love to it Narcissus-like, and has continued the practice every day since. In Boston, the other day, a vain young ) fellow, dressed in a new spring suit, called at the house of alady acquantance and asked her how she thought he looked. “ You remind me of early green peas,” was the answer. He was obliged to depart without a solution of this conundrum, but understood it afterward when he heard a marketman say that early, peas looked Nice but were very insipid. Do Boston women chew tobacco? Tnat’s the question. Rev. Ml. Lathrop ifos declared it a fact, before the Turkmen’s Temperance Union ot Jfcat city. He not only, makes this charge, but, generalizing a little, claims that he can get ten men to leave off chewing where he can induce one woman to say thafsie will never more use “fine-cut” or “street navy.” Can such things be? The following description may serve .to give an idea of the present stylo ‘for a suit: The train skirt is mounted in the bulgare*plait and made of limousine, st&i&djwith blue and gray; the front of the Skirt is of plain gray vivogue andte knife-plaited. Three limousine scarfs are placed at equal distances apart ; they commence at the bulgare-plait, surround the apron, form ,a sailor’s knot in the centef tad fall over each other.in fringed iends. The corsage cuirass is of, gray vivogue and adorned with a limousine paysanne-shaped fichu; ft is trimmed with a fringe corresponding with that on the scarfs; the ends of the fiohu are Joined at the waist under a how and fall over the apron, continuing the other scarfs. * Ax.t. lovers of flowers must remeakber that one blossom allowed to mature or “go to seed” injures the plant more than a dozen new buds. Out your flowers, then, all of them, begin to fade. Adorn your rooms with them, put them pn your tables, send bouquets to your friends who have no flowers, dr ex* change favors with those who. h%ve. You will surely find that the more you wit off the more you will have. Allroses* after they have oeased te bloom should be cut back, that tkfe strength of the root may go to forming new root* for next year. On bushes not a seed should be allowed to mature. - . Th» disaster to the Paris aeronauts resulted from the feebleness Of the human intellect when the body is subjected to abnormal conditions. Probably' the oxygen gas which they carried with them and inhalM. when breathing became difficult helped to unsettle their minds. Sivel threw away ballast with the frenzy of a madman, and his com panions acquiesced in the reckless proceeding; Spinelli did the same thing, and Tissandier, who had the clearest head in the party, was too feeble to make any protest. Hereafter, when aeronauts go up to the altitude of six or seven miles, they out to remember that they may become the instruments of their own destruction, and that there is as much danger from temporary aberration of the mind as there is from asphyxia, and that the one is likely to result from the other. —Baltimore American. ' ; : Retired men, even with the amples claims on their time, are seldom able to work at their new occupations without a considerable quantity of the old work to make them feel busy. Merchants or lawyers who retire early should accept “ directorships” or “ arbitrations,” if only to give that necessity for promptness and for compression to their arrangements which is of the very essence of real efficiency. A task which may be done at anytime is done at none. The paradox that only the busy have any leisure is perfectly true. A manwhb, after being accustomed to the screw of heavy business exigencies, suddenly finds that the pressure is completely taken off, becomes demoralized, and has no time at all for that which Is now his sole duty. Take but a portion of the weight from behind your horse and he will make up the difference in speed; but take nearly sll away and he will soon get sauey and object to go Mty fMter than before,—