Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A long-headed man is never headlong. The Rochester Chronicle says that “ fluttering in the head” is whit ails Boehm’s boy-murderer. The remedy is fluttering in the air.— Free Preee. • This is grass-cutting time, and every dntifUl Maufl Muller should now be in the field raking hay or holding conversation with Judges.— Exchange. A deaf and dumb man in Ohio is the most successful ox-teamster In the State. There are moments when he wants to yell sq that he can be heard four toiles, but he can’t do it A fur firm in Buffalo keeps, right on . advertising muffs and collars and gloves,, and they can’t understand why women don’t rush into their store instead of going into parlors. The other day, after an Alabama fanner had been visited by the third , tornado inside of four weeks, he nailed up sign bearing the words: “ Now, hang ye, blow all summer if you want to!” The Chief-Engineer of New York reports that the portion of the city below Canal street is illy supplied with hydrants in case of fires, and that the most valuable districts are those which are in the most danger. To avoid liability to mistake, caused by the similarity in color beween the twocent and ten-cent postage stamps, the former will in future be printed in vermilion, the old color of the seven-cent stamp, the use of which has been discontinued.

Chicago suggests that publishers should employ more substantial binding, to stand the wear and tear of boxing hard-headed urchins’ ears withal. With the flimsy covers now in vogue the public schools of that city use up $190,000 worth of school books per anqum. The apple crop througbbut New York the present season will be a comparatively small one, as the trees blossomed very sparingly. The prospect lor pears is far better, though it is feared by some that the cold nights of late have somewhat injured them. Eccentric outbursts of patriotism are becoming common. Among the latest is one of a Boston man who sent a box filled with the sacred soil of Bunker Hill, in which were buried twelve hatchets, to citizens of Georgia, to he used in the celebrations of the Fourth. Hairdresser— ’Air’s very dry, sir? Customer (who knows what’s coming)— I like it dry. Hairdresser (after a while, again advancing to the very scurvy, sir. Customer (still cautiously retiring)—Ya’as, I prefer it scurvy. Assailant gives in, defeated. Dio Lewis says that if a man will eat blackberries and oat-meal for a year he will be able to lift a horse. Friends and brothers, will you loaf around like drones and miss this golden opportunity of lifting some despondent'equine up in the world? —Detroit Free Press. Canada proposes to send to the American Centennial, next year, a full exhibition of cured or stuffed fish. A grant is also asked to aid in securing a collection of insects. From present indications Canada will make an excellent display of manufactures and products of forests and mines. The following scene occurred in a Justice’s court in this city: A question was asked a witness by Mr. R., an attorney, as to a statement made by a witness on the other side. The question was objected to on the ground that a proper foundation had not been laid, and the objection was sustained by Justice H. Mr. R.— “ I did lay a foundation; I was fifteen minutes laying a foundation for the question; and if the Court had attended to its business, and had not been so much occupied in pulling its whiskers, it would have known a foundation had been laid.” Justice H.

—“ Mr. R., if you repeat sffch words I will send you to jail.” Mr. R.—“ I’ll bet you SSO you can’t draw a commitment” Justice H.—“ I’ll take that bet; (after feeling in his pockets) I only have $25, but I’ll give my note for the balance.” Mr. R.— “ Here’s another SSO that you can’t write a note without copying from a form. You are a pretty specimen of a Justice!” Exit in great disgust. —Stockton {Cal.) Leader. A wedding was lately postponed in Kansas junder circumstances of a somewhat thrilling sort. The bride was the only daughter of a family of early settlers, named Falconer, and the day of the wedding had arrived, when it was discovered that Miss Falconer was missing. Her parents,supposing that she was in her room, went tothedoorto warn her that the time for the ceremony had arrived, when they found the room empty. It was early evening, so they walked to the window to discover the truant Their horror may be imagined when they saw, rapidly disappearing through the woods nearby, a man carrying in his arms the form of a young girl, which, from the dress, they immediately recognized as that of their daughter. In an instant the alarm was given and the whole party, well armed, started in pursuit. Within a few minutes they were in gun-shot of the fugitives, but were unable to use their weapons in consequence of his shielding his body with the loved form of the bride-elect. The young bridegroom was almost frantic, and, overtaking the almost-breathless abductor, he seized him, and, after a brief struggle, wrestled the girl from him, at the sameatime discovering that the abductor was a Cheyenne Indian. At the same time that the lover regained his sweetheart, the savage, with an eel-like wriggle, escaped from his hold, but the pursuers were too much for him, apd one of their number brought him to the ground by means of a well-aimed bullet. The wedding is said to have been indefinitely postponed in consequence of an attack of prain fever, the result of the fright the bride received.