Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The only Duke who reached Bong Branch last summer is now husking corn in Herkimer County, N. Y., to get money for the winter season of gayeties. A South Carolina lady has a lawsuit against the United States in which she claims $11,000,000. She would be satisfied with six or seven States and a Territory. Braid trimming will be worn greatly on winter garments, the wide and narrow together; the only rule being that the rows must be straight, or rather not curled and parallel. Tennessee farmers look meek and peaceful, and will stand a good deal of “ sass,” but kick one of their dogs and the owner towers like a giraffe and strikes out like a grizzly. Bayard Taylor goes for railroad peddlers ; but as good men as Taylor have been thankful to see the pop-corn man come along to break the monotony of an all-day’s ride. The buttons worn on a dress made recently were made of scarabees mounted in gold lozenges. It was a brocaded cassimere of bottle-gteen, velvet and faille.— Brooklyn Eagle. An English Judge has decided that no rooster in that country has a right to crow at four o’clock in the morning. Come over here, you birds, and crow all night if you want to. Seventy million dollars for the Black Hills country! Red Cloud must be crazy. We’ll leave it to any fair-minded Indian in America if it is worth a cent over $69,000,000. — Detroit Free Press. Of the new dress fabrics most to be worn the coming winter will be soft, finished silks in reversible and armure patterns, diagonals, cashmere, serge, tartan cloth, merinos and English twilled flannels. They were husband and wife, and as they stood before the soldiers’ monument she asked: “ What’s that figger on top ?” “That’s a goddess,” he answered. “And what’s a goddess?” “Awoman who holds her tongue,” he replied. She looked sideways at him and began planning to make a peach pie with the pits in it for the benefit of his sore tooth.— Detroit Free Preet.

In about a month the old weather prophets of the country will all be out predicting a hard winter. At present they are engaged in studying the amount of husks that envelop an ear of corn, observing the thickness of the shucks on the hazle-nut bush, watching the fligh. of the wild goose on her way to the South, measuring the size of the muskrats’ nests in the nearest pond, and counting the number of burrs in a prairie-colt’s fore-top. Yesterday, when an old lady on the Baker-street cars got out a nickel to pay her fare, a gentleman sitting opposite her held out his hand to take it and save her the trouble of leaving her seat. “ What you want ?” she demanded, giving him a keen look. “ I’ll pay your fare for you, ” he politely replied. “ I’d just like to see you or anyone else get hold of my mon ey!” she exclaimed. “ I’ve traveled afore this, and I know what I’m about, I do!’’ and she stalked forward and deposited her fare in the box.— Detroit Free Preet. A Providence woman visited a store a few days ago to procure some winter suits for her children, and the clerk, to assist her in making up her mind, showed her a certain styls, saying that he had just beforesold some of that pattern to Mrs. , naming the wife of one of Rhode Island’s most prominent men, for her children. She quietly remarked: “ Why, lam quite well acquainted with Mrs. , and I did not know she had any children.” This was rather a poser on the clerk, and he didn’t better matters by saying: “ I mean her grandchildren.” Thomas J. Weeks, of Jersey City, has just been sentenced to three years in Sing Bing Prison, having been found “guilty of receiving stolen goods, knowing the same to be stolen.” He endeavored to purchase lightning-rods at a reduced price of Joseph D. West, of New York. Failing, he purchased the same at his own price of Henry Zimmer, West’s clerk, having first told Zimmer he should get more money for his services and hinted to him how he could make it Zimmer sold him 750 feet of rods and omitted to report the transaction to his employer. It is one of Recorder Hackett’s sentences, and melancholy as the case is it is just— Rochester Democrat,