Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

St. Louis has her new drinking fountain in order and many of her citizens are tasting water. ? An Englishman was lately struck by lightning out West and they spoke of him as a “ blare ted Britisher.” New York babies are dying at the rate of 100 a day. The heat is too much for them, poor little innocents. A man who received many unreceipted bills said he never paid any attention to a communication which was not signed. Instead of fighting duels Virginians go out and see who can make the best shot at a stump and who would have been hit. It is now proposed to enlist men in the army as cooks, and at each recruiting depot to establish a school for their trainSaufobnia is no place for you, my friend, if you are a quack doctor. They use ’em there to make corduroy roads with. The Government has changed the postoffice of “ Roaring Sam,” Indian Territory, to “ Highland,” and the residents are as mad as hop. The butchers of Montreal are going to start a paper with $50,000 capital. Blood will tell. Perhaps the English language will be slaughtered.

The Sartoris baby hasn’t said anything very cute yet, and his teeth don’t come along very rapidly, although he is a month old and is one of foe heavy-weights. Eggs are only worth ten cents a dozen in North Carolina. It is this poor recognition of their efforts which makes the N. C. hens look upon life as a failure. You can travel all day in New Hampshire and not find any door-plates, but, then, foe kitchen floors are as white as chalk and all the girls can bake bread. The Inter-Ocean says there are 25,000 young men in Chicago who can’t afford to many. It’s sad. Did any of them ever think of going to work and earning something? This is foe season when the festive moth devourefo thy parlor carpets, easy-chaire and laid-by winter garments, and likewise thy precious furs, if thou lookest not after foe same oft-times and carefully. One can learn to be an astronomer in a year or two, while it takes a man three years to learn to play the accordion. Now, then, shouldn’t we look up to an accordionist more than wc do ? —Detroit Free Press. An old Colorado miner writes that all a man needs for a complete summer outfit in that country is one lasso rope, one rifle, with ammunition, and one sack of salt. Any energetic man can kill and steal whatever else he needs. A tall, stalwart Indian is often seen about foe streets of Virginia City, Nev., dressed in calico like a squaw. 4 He is compelled by the Piutes to wear women’s clothes for cowardice shown in battle several years since. The Indians all make their cowards adopt the hard station of squaws.