Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Thk best life out of debt. A truly polite man will always bow to Fate. Desirable bonds for exchange—Vagabonds. It is believed that base bell, as a national game, is on its home-stretch. In what ship has the greatest number of people been wrecked ? Courtship. Good jugglers—The pawnbrokers; they keep their bails in the air all the time. Just as she went away, August began to grow warm-hearted and affectionate. Wagon immigration across- the plains to Oregon this season is unusually large. A jilted one pathetically sings: *Tis sweet to wait, but oh! bow bitter, To wait for a girl and then not git ’er. The Courier-Journal says “ the Bank of California has experienced a slight cramp.” Anthracite coal of a good quality has been discovered about twenty-five miles north of Deeth, Nev. “Thus far and no father”—as the child in the foundling hospital remarked when he was five years old. The oyster that would have poisoned you on the 31st of August will nourish you on the Ist of September.,- • , It has been found that in nearly every civilized country the tree that bears the most fruit for market is the axle-tree. Da. Hammond says that for a sudden attack of horglar nothing is more efficacious than Galena pills applied externally. The editor of the Providence Press wears a kid plaster on his bald head, and the flies have “ Resolved, That some folks are born mean and can’t help it.” Snakes are good for something, after all. One killed and cut open in the Lehigh Mountains the other day was found to eoptain a quantity of potato-bugs^ Texas is going to get up a lottery and raise funds for a .monument so Sam Houston. Those who don’t strike h prize can take it out in cursing dam’s memory. “ Ma,” inquired a little West-Side girl, last evening, brushing her hand across her face, “ what makes musk-eaters come and eat us?. We ain’t musk-melons!”— Chicago Journal. A new fuel, composed of common native peat saturated with crude or refuse petroleum and coated with’ rosin, is hereafter to be used by the New York Fire Department in place of cannel coal. A St. Louis physician has offered a reward of SI,OOO for an authenticated case of death from eating ripe watermelon. He may supplement the offer by another of SI,OOO for a watermelon he will call ripe. There comes a report from a woman in New York of a woman who sheds tears over the perusal of the City Directory. She weeps because it refers to a number of men, alas! who have never been in love with her. A village pedagogue, m despair with a stupid boy, pointed to the letter A and asked him if he knew it. “ Yes, sir.” “ Well, what is it?” “I know him very well by sight, sir—but rat me if I can remember his name.” A flock of 2,500 sheep at Mission San Jose, Cal., got frightened, recently, and ran into a patch of poison oak. Here they got tangled and piled one on another in layers six or eight deep, and some 700 were smothered or crushed to death. A sea Captain, off Massachusetts, has caught a sea-serpent. He espied it to the larboard and gave ehase. Coming up with it, his vessel gave it a fearful dig, stunning it so that the crew could take it. Upon examination it proved to be of the species —sugar hogshead. A conscientious young trotting hone at San Francisco, unwilling to aid in swindling the public, took the hit between his teeth on the first day he was trained, swam into the sea and drowned himself. The driver escaped. The sad events have cast a gloom over the community.