Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Money is one of those peculiar things that, the closer it gets the harder it is to reach it. , Mb.-Harrowing, of Milledgeville, Ga.', while shooting at a cat recently, shot his onlyson. * Lex Spotted Tailionis is what the New York World calls the law of the Black Hills. Don Piatt says that French coflfee is mere slop and London women are as homely as pineapples. .. n ? /• Thirty-five lives were lost on New Orleans steamers during the first half of tikis year—twenty-one by fire. A Bt. Louis paper says that a sensible married couple ought to live on ten dollars per week and save something. - Matilda Cross— Cairo—single woman —weighs 423 pounds—says she wants someone to love her for herself alone. Canada encourages single-blessedness. One of the agricultural societies there offers a prize for the best bread baked by bachelors. The Cresset, of Denison, Tex., remarks: See to it that your wife is kissed and petted and caressed, even if you have to do it yourself.” The people in the United States over 100 years of age—fit subjects for the Centennial —now count up just 412 as far as heard from. An association has been formed in London to secure a supply of live cattle fromthe United States to meet the wants of the English market. Father’s hair ,is growing gray,” is the latest popular ballad; and it is enough to make it to see the way young people are acting now-a-days. Mr. Corn recently sent in a petition to the Chicago Common Council. They should certainly grant him an ’ear-ing.— New York Commorcial. English ivy growing on a wall' does not promote dampness, as has been long supposed; on the contrary, it is said to produce the opposite effect. In many localities oysters and the public schools are opened simultaneously. This accounts for the raw-oysterous conduct of some of the scholars, A New Hampshire man sends fourteen of his children to one school, and when they combine against the teacher he knows he can safely bet on the result. Is our civilization a failure and is the Caucassian played out? The people of Huntington, N..Y., wanted to hang a man because he flogged his wife. Benighted Huntington! The London Mark Lane Express says that the British “ crop is short as a whole, and large importations will be necessary.” Of these it is estimated, two-thirds will be drawn from this country. A Philadelphia.paper talks of “Respecting Cranberries.” Such sour-dispo-sitioned things are not worthy of respect. —Exchange. But people stand goodhumoredly a good deal of cranberry sauce. The happiest moments in a woman’s life are when she is making her wedding garments; the saddest, when her husband comes Jiome late at night and yells to her from the front steps to throw him out some key-holes, assorted sizes. “As A husband,” save a Chicago man, “ I’m ever willing to do my share about the house. My wife for instance, puts up all the preserves in the summer—it is pleasant then; but when cold winter comes I don’t ask her to do anything about them —I put them all down alone.” Mouse holes in wallsand closets should be first filled with lime and afterward pasted over with plaster of Paris, mixed with water. It is a good plan to keep a paper of the latter in every house, as it Is useful in filling cracks, and, in fact, comes in many other ways into household econo-. iVIn Providence, R. 1., a man who was under examination oh charge of being a common drunkard stated that his strange action op. a certain occasion was not owing to intoxicating liquors, as alleged, but to “ the concern of mind arising from trying to negotiate a mortgage on his property to get money to pay his bills and taxes.” Wilmington, N. C., reports a sea serpent ninety feet long and as big as a barrel in its vicinity. He ran on one of the shoalsand a party of brave then ran to attack him, but he raised his head and opened his mouth wide enough to swallow them one at a time and they retreated discreetly. The sea serpent is a diffusive reptile.

A horse belonging to a fanner in Gates, N. Y., while running at large in an orchard recently attempted to swallow a large apple. Jt stuck in his throat, and, hardly able to breathe, he reared and tore around the tree like mid. There was a wonderful hurrying to and fro for a short time, but the animal war finally secured, a pair of long tongs were brought from the farm-house and the apple was withdrawn. Upon examining the edge of the sharpest razor with a microscope, it will appear fully as broad as the back of a kniferough, uneven and full of notches and furrows. An exceedingly small needle resembles an iron bar; but the sting of a bee, seen through the same instrument, exhibits everywhere the most beautiful polish, without a flaw, blemish or inequality, and it ends in a point too fine to be discerned. The threads of a fine lawn are eoarser than the yarn with which ropes are made for anchors. But a silk-worm’s web appears perfectly smooth and shining and everywhere equal. The smallest dot that Is made with a pen appears irregular and uneven. But the little specks on the ■ wings or bodies of insects are found to be the accurate circle, ~ „