Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Speaking about frigid Jane weather old Massachusetts folks te& about a four inch snow-storm June. 13,1842, when the ground was frozen an,inch deep. A printer’s devil says his lot is • hard one; at his boarding-house they charge him with all the pie they can’t find, and at the office they charge him with all the pi they do find. When a Delaware hoy picks a lemon off a street stand, even though it is only a two-cent lemon, they jail him for thirty days in order to strike a blow at the boys all over the world. Astronomers have just found out that it isn’t but 92,000,000 miles to the sun, but 3,000,000 miles on a journey of this sort doesn’t amount to anything. Let’s stick to the old figures.

Boston, populous Boston, may properly be described as foe town in which hun dreds of thousands daily live and move and have their be-ans.” —New York Commercial Advertiser. A girl covered her face with both her hands when she thought he was about to kiss her; then she complained: “Oh, my hands are too small; there is room for 500 yet between them.” A Washington (D. C.) man writes to foe National Republican complaining of “ the water we drink.” He has been examining it under foe microscope, and says “ there’s millions in it.”

York servant girl, out on the harbor in a boat foe other day for foe purpose of committing suicide, saw a redheaded sailor, fell in love with him, and was married instead of drowned. A disease called the “mad itch” has appeared among the cattle that run on the commons near Memphis, Term. It incites them to such playful pastime as tossing men, women and children into the air.

A Philadelphia baker has informed the police that he has an irresistible desire to bake his wife, and they have locked him up. Philadelphians now pull their loaves apart and look for baked bakers’ wives. That was an exceedingly uncomplimentary young man who, after paying attention to a damsel for some months, on discovering her one morning sans her false teeth, remarked: “Goodness gracious! Your mouth looks like a railroad depot after all the trains have left” “ William,” observed a Danbury woman to her husband, “ Mrs. Holcomb feels pretty badly since the loss .of her child, and I wish you would drop over there and see her. You might say that all flesh is grass—that we’ve all got to go the same way; and see if she is going to use her dripping-pan this afternoon.”— Danbury Newt. Judge Hunt, of the United States Supreme Bench, has decided, in the case of the United States vs. George of New York, that testimony taken from books and papers of the defendant seized by the Government shall be admitted, under the statute which authorizes the use of evidence elicited “from the party as a witness.” The jailer of Hartford, Conn., was rewarded the other day by an enjoyable demonstration from his prisoners. The spokesman of the party that waited upon him, in a voice tremulous with suppressed gratitude, said: “ Mr. Belden, in behalfot the other inmates of the institution, I come to thank you for the improved quality of the hash.” . .

At Ban Francisco, the other afternoon; lima De Murska appeared before a large audience in concert She had begun to sing the mad scene from “ Lucia” when two little black-and-tan puppies escaped from their keeper behind the scenes, ran on the stage, and chased each other around and around the singer, dodging under her skirts and out again, until the whole house was convulsed with laughter. De Murska accepted the situation good-naturedly, but not till a long time after the dogs were carried off could she or her hearers recover sufficient gravity to admit of the continuance of the concert. — Exchange. The Indian Mirror gives the following curious report on newspapers in India: “ In Bengal there are forty-nine English newspapers, eighty-eight vernacular newspapers, fourteen in both English and vernacular. In Bombay there are thirtyseven English newspapers, sixty-six vernacular and twenty mixed. In the northwest provinces there are thirteen English newspapers, fifty-eight vernacular newspapers and seven English and vernacular mixed. In the Penjaub there are seven English, thirty-one vernacular and one mixed newspaper. In the central provinces there are three English, three vernacular and three mixed. In British Burmah there are fourteen English newspapers and two vernacular. In Oudh there are three English, fourteen veraac ular and four mixed. In Scinde are four English, three vernacular and four English and vernacular. In Rajputana there are two vernacular and one English and vernacular. Forty-eight newspapers have appeared since 1873. Ceylon has five English papers, one partly Tamil and partly English, three or four purely native (Signhalese), and one illustrated children’s paper, the Palier Nason,"