Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A breech of the piece—Butt of a gun. Only two of the States let first cousins wed. A metallic sort of marriage is one where the bride’s tin is matched by the bridegroom’s brass. Prof. H. R. Palmer’s Musical Institute at Dunkirk, N. Y. t begins July 19, and holds four weeks. Chicago cannot .boast of any Bunker Hills, but then she has plenty of bunko hells. —Chicago Journal. Donaldson says he expects to be killed this summer on some of his balloon trips. He has unroofed barns and knocked down chimneys nntil he has a presentiment of shot-guns. When they build a railroad the first thing they do is to break ground. This is often done with great ceremony! They then break the stockholders. This is done without ceremony.

“Ah,” said John Henry, the other day, “ England is a lovely country. Marriage contracts are still in fashion there, and one lawyer can ask the other: ‘Does your client snore ?’ ” A Mr. Francis Galton has been comparing schoolboys in town and country, and announces that at the age of fourteen the average rural pupil is an inch and a quarter taller and seven pounds heavier than his city cousin. They had a good deal of trouble with an elephant in Rhode Island recently. It appears that they were feeding one end of him in Massachusetts and the other end got into a farm-yard in Connecticut. The neighbors came out and attacked the Connecticut end with pitchforks, and the Massachusetts end got mad. There was a good deal of excitement for a time, and a majority of the inhabitants stepped over into the adjoining States till it was over. —Norwich Bulletin.

Mrs. Blibkins says she’s not a-going for to go to any of your stuck-up, fashionable summer resorts this season, but she and little Tommy and “my darter Mary Jane” are a-going for to go down to Uncle Daniel’s farm, where the milk is pure; where no “style” is seen or expected, and where it costs less ’an nothing for livin’. But ’sposin’ Uncle Dan and his wife should not be favorably disposed to this little sponging arrangement? Has the madam thought of that?— Exchange. There is a very good reason to suspect, the New York Times says, that numbers of those persons who are supposed to die intestate do not so die in fact. In too many instances the will has been destroyed. The temptation offered is too strong to be resisted. There is a bright fire in the grate, and standing beside it the finder of the will peruses clause after clause only to discover that a sum infinitely less than he thinks his due has been bequeathed to him. Let him drop the document into the flames, and, under the assumed intestacy, a handsome slice must be his. The solicitor may, indeed, produce a duplicate, which can be entered for probate, and the criminal may thus find himself defeated. But what then? The crime, at all events, cannot be brought home to him. It was the opinion of one of those most experienced in testamentary suits that the offense was frequently perpetrated.

The prince of haberdashers does business in Boston. He employs in his establishment many women, and his regulation is that when a female enters his employ she is informed by the head of the firm that whenever she is not serving customers she is at liberty to sit down in a comfortable chair, provided for her, and take it easy, and that the approach of one of. the proprietors is not to scare her into an appearance of “being busy.” She is also to have four weeks’ vacation every summer, and when she is ill her salary is continued without interruption. By these rules the dry-goods man maintains a spirit of loyalty among his employes and gets quite as much work out of them as if they were kept upon their feet for ten hours and treated like slaves. If poor young women will not do household work, and will insist upon ruining their health in fashionable dry-goods establishments, their life behind the counter should be deprived of ftß many of its thorns as is-possible,