Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1875 — A Strange Female Propensity. [ARTICLE]

A Strange Female Propensity.

Thk Sacramento (Cal.) Record-Union says: “Whether it is a natural result of champagne atmosphere and strawberries all the year round, we know not, but it has become evident that there is something in the air, in the soil, or in the social conditions of San Francisco which in spires the women of that sea-girt peninsula with a perennial yearning to hill lawyers. The number of lawyers who have been shot or shot at by females id' San Francisco is real’y appalling. Crittenden, McDermott, Cobb are among the most prominent cases, but the calendar, indeed, abounds with them ; and now behold an attempt to. takevoff W. H. L. Barnes in the abrupt and explosive manner which seems to be the chosen method of launching gentlemen of his profession on their dubious voyage of exploration to the other shore. We submit that, in consideration of the frequency of these peculiar attempts at what may be called 1 clam homicide,’ it would be idle to pay much attention to the details of each ease. It is evident that these are phenomena Ulus*

testing a law of nature not hitherto recogA machine for writing spoken words has been invented by M. H. Huppinger. The Revue Industrietie describes the machine as bring about the size of the hand. It is put in connection with the vocal organs, the instrument recording their movements upon a moving band of paper in dots and dashes. The person to whom the instrument is attached simply repeats the words of the speaker after him insudibly. This lip'language is then faithftilly written out. — New York Herald.