Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Donaldson say* he expects to be kilted this summer on some of his balloon trips. The Appletons keep ten presses going on Sherman’s Memoirs, yet find that the demand outruns the supply. Jackson, the Boston defaulter, says that people had no business to trust him. Wonderful coincidence—all his victims say the same thing. No, don’t you do it. If you are courting a woman and she talks about your settling $5,000 on her, you just settle yourself out o’ that Tis naught when woman humbugs man, For that’s the good old style; But oh! man's confidence in man Makes countless thousands smile. When a Detroit sign-painter gets to work there is no “ stopping” him. He says: “Groceries provisions sugars teas oils codfish starch the nimble sixpence is our motto we can’t be undersold if you don’t see what you want ask for it." “No, gentlemen of the jury,” thundered an eloquent advocate the other day in a Denver court, “ this matter is for His Honor to decide, who gjjs there sleeping so beautifully.” His Honor opened both eyes and mouth, and said: “All owing to your narcotic speech, sir.” He leaned on the fence pouring out warm vows of love and admiration to the lovely being on the other side. It was dark. We could not see her fttce, hut she said: “Pray desist. You are too vacillating. Only a week ago you told that same story three doors below here.” They parted. If a man wishes to cruelly lacerate the feelings of an acquaintance, he remarks: “ A cow would regard your feet with comj placency,” and upon being questioned why he answers: “Because she would see at a glance that her hide would not have to be cut down very much to make shoes for them.”

Canning green currants is done as any fruit canning is, but the following recipe is worth trying: Gather when green, strip off the stems, put the currants into dry, clean bottles and cork, with rosined corks, tightly. Kept in a cool place in the cellar they will be fresh for a year or more, and are very nice in the winter for pies. Two persons were once disputing so loudly on the subject of religion that they awoke a big dog which had been sleeping on the hearth before them, and he forthwith barked most furiously. An old divine present, who had been quietly sipping his tea while the disputants were talking, gave the dog a kick and exclaimed: “Holdyour tongue, you silly brute! you know no more about it than theydo.”

By an order from the Postoffice Department separate pouches for registered letters will soon be placed on ail the principal mail routes in the country. This will be invaluable assistance to the mail robbers. Heretofore they have been obliged to carry off bags of unremunerative letters and with much care and toil fish out ftie letters that had money in them. Thus doth a beneficent Government extend its benefactions over all its subjects. —Detroit Tribune. A Mexican bandit was recently shot and killed near Lone Pine, Inyo Gouuty, Cal. The “Investigating Committee” which went out to discover the cause of the robber’s death made a report, which the Inyo Independent says was as follows: “Lone Pine, Inyo County, Cal., May 20, 1875—We, the undersigned members, who were sent by the Committee of Six to investigate and find all particulars regarding the killing of the Mexican, do find that the man was one of the robbers or bandits, and that his name was Jose Maria Guerro; that we found him in the canon described and that we buried him according to Hoyle.” There is a young colored woman in Oskaloosa who has a strange history, if the story told by herself and friends be true. She. is called Maggie Adams, and is about seventeen years of age. Until recently she had lived with a family by the name of Allen, in. the south part of this county, who came from Missouri to Kansas. During all the years since the war she has been in a state of slavery, receiving nothing for her work, being compelled to do washing, etc., for various families, allowed no books or opportunities for learning, and kept in ignorance of the fact that she was no longer a slave. She was kept so jealously guarded that she knew nothing whatever of the abolition of slavery, and was enlightened and her release procured by a yonng colored man who somehow learned the facts and went to work to have her set at liberty.— Leavenworth (Kan.) Times.