Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A bevolver —The earth. “ Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves.” But then every tree has to produce leaves before fruit. —Wash floor-cloths in clear, warm water, then go over them again with a wash composed of an egg well beaten and mixed with a pint of warm, clear water. This will give them a newness which will be quite lasting. The luxury of calling a lawyer a shyster in St. Louis is so cheap that no newspaper need practice self-denial or economy in this regard. The Republican has just been assessed one cent damages as the result of a protracted libel suit. Somebody is trying to precipitate a panic in California by publishing the statement that tbe savings banks of that State owe their depositors $70,000,000, and have but $3,000,000 of cash to pay up with. • AN advocate in Paris appeared at the bar wearing bis mustache, "And the President called his attention to the fact that mustaches were forbidden. “Well,” said the advocate, “ I never knew before that the sword of justice was a razor.’’ The London Newt thinks that all this discourse about chords of color, symphonies of white and blue, sonorous spaces of ultramarine and bright-hued passages of music may remind the irreverent of Artemus Ward’s “Do my eyes deceive my earsight?” They are telling some pretty huge stories about Tremor W. Park, of Bennington, Vt., these days, as that he has made something like $17,000,000 by some lucky mining speculations in California, has an income from his mines of $15,000 a day, and is the fourth richest man in the country. “I want it nice and strong and snuglike,” said the widow, exhuming a fresh pocket-handkerchief and controlling her sobs with difficulty. “Oh, that’s all right, ma’am, that’s all right,” returned the undertaker, tapping, the coffin merrily, “hecouldn’t get out of it, ma’am, if he had a mind to.”

John Chinaman, when he wants to hatch fish, after having collected the nece'ssary spawn from the water’s edge, places a certain quantity in an empty hen’s egg, which is sealed up with wax and put under a sitting hen. After some days they break the egg, empty the fry into water well warmed by the sun, and there nurse them until they are sufficiently strong to be turned into a lake or river. It is said that when a Spaniard eats fruit he always plants the seed thereof for the benefit of posterity. As a result no country is so bountifully blessed with fruit as Spain. The Mayor of Topeka, Kan., seems to be imbued with a similar unselfishness. One afternoon, lately, at his request, all business was suspended in tbe town and the whole population went to work and planted in the town about 1,000 shade trees of several varieties. A surr has been instituted in the Circuit Court of Kenton County, Ky., by Alexander Brown, a colored man, who was last winter employed as a roustabout on the steamer Bodmann. On the “ cold Saturday” Brown was ordered by the mate to perform some duty on the boat, and was not allowed to approach the fire to warm for the Bpace of three hours, in eonsequence of which, as he alleges, his, hands were so badly frozen that the flesh all dropped from his fingers, crippling him for life. He demands SIO,OOO damages.

The gender of the ’Frisco hoodlum is not necessarily masculine. Recently a Chinaman died, and his widow set about burning his clothing and effects, according to custom. The rite was performed on a street comer, near which lived a number of Irish women, whose delicate nostrils were offended by the fames of the burning articles. They gathered in force and descended upon that “ Heathen Chinee,” whom they picked up from her seat on the curb-stone and set into the midst of the fire. The miserable creature’s clothing was instantly in flames, but her tormentors prevented her from escaping for sometime, when some men arrived upon the scene and rescued the poor woman, who fled screaming to her home.