Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

.Ah Jack, of Ban Luis, Cal., cut off his queue, and the natives ordered him up to a leafless branch. How to turn a riding-coat into a walking one—hang it up in the passage, taking good care to leave the street door opeiv It is now in order for some newspaper to come forward and predict a winter which will freeze the heels off a lawn ornament. No paphb has any, more right to leave the “e” off of “ envelope’* than to leave the same off of “take” or “bake.”—Detroit Free Frets.

Venice, the beautiful Venice, is not only romantic, but late visitors say that the city smells worse than the Chicago River in its best days. Oh. yes! Editors, printers and others chipped in fora monument to Greeley, and the mon But where is the money? Who took charge of it? Budd Doble earnestly moves that Goldsmith Maid, who is now in her twentieth year, be allowed a farewell benefit and retirement to private life. The latest mineral discovery at Newburyport, Mass., is that of a $5,000 rough diamond within the city limits, but how it got there they don’t tell us. A Chicago doctor says that mustard plaster will cure a broken heart m twen-ty-four hours by the watch, but the world will prefer to cling to sentiment. “ What branches of learning have you been pursuing at school to-day ?” said a father to his son. “ None, in particular, sir; but a birch branch has been pursuing me.” No more gros-grain, big-bowed, longend sashes, if you please, says Mme. Modiste, but instead wear a narrow ribbon around your waist with a lotof streamers at the side.

The demand for one little word, just one little word, from Mr. Keeley,of motor feme, continues pressing, but he is as silent as the woman with the worst bonnet at a garden party. At Silverton, in the San Juan mines, Col., a boy thirteen years of age, named Wallihan, accidentally shot and killed his mother with a shot-gun which he had taken up to shoot a hawk. A man in the Omaha jail is noted for his fine penmanship; but the jail is mightier than the pen, and he will have to do his “stretch,” notwithstanding talents which might be useful on the outside. It is stated that over $300,000 are due to Albany physicians by patients in that city. A Troy surgeon asserts that during the past ten years he has gratuitously treated in the single department of fractures alone 1,000 cases. There’s a comer in salt. People are salting it away, and salt-cellars are inactive. Lively discussions are taking place between cucumbers and green tomatoes relative to this high-handed attempt to keep them out of their native brine. Salt, they say, is their only preservation. A too much married Mormon in SaltLake City had his clothes tom off him by a swarm of jealous wives the other day, who then turned him into the street While prowling around the house, trying to get in, he was collared by a police officer, who took him for an insane man.

Hartford, Conn., has some queer horses. One animal will not drink a drop of water on Sunday. Another takes a nap every Sunday morning after breakfast, and does not doze on any other day. Still another likes to chew tobacco, and will masticate a paper of fine-cut with evident relish. One Brutus W. Liski, of New Haven, has been busy robbing his sweetheart and her mother, and is now m jail. An exchange blames him for not calling himself a Count If he had the parents would have pardoned him, and the girl marrying him would have clung to and fed and clothed him as long as he wished. It is proposed in France that the right to take, collect and use water for purposes of irrigation should be granted to the inhabitants of agricultural districts in the ■same manner as it is now granted to the inhabitants of cities and towns who require water for drinking or household purposes. The owners of the land are to be indemnified as when their property is required for any other public uses. The Lowell (Mass.) Courier says that a few evenings since a lady called into a store in that city and asked in an excited manner to see some revolvers. A secondhand one was offered her for $4, and on purchasing it Bhe expressed a desire to have it loaded. The revolver was loaded —■with blank cartridges, unknown to her-%-and she made a hasty departure for home. The next morning her husband came to the store and offered the revolver for sale. The storekeeper offered him $3.75 for it and the offer was accepted. The husband said teat the wife fired the revolver at him, and on finding that he escaped unharmed regretted her attempt at his life, and the result was the disposal of the "revolver.