Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The latest Americanism is “ nuptiated,” for married. Putting stops to a gossip’s tongue is difficult punctuation. The walnut and butternut crop of New England is very abundant this season. They have commenced to deny that Gen. Taylor said “A little more grape, Capt. Bragg!” ''’ lZ Mrs. Partington says she was much elucidated last Sunday on hearing a fine discourse on the parody of’the prodigious son. The marrying trade is not so brisk in Philadelphia this year as it was last, by 1,000. Money is too scarce for rings and gaiters. The last Arctic expedition was eminently successful. They got a sight of the coveted land and nobody was frozen to death. The Brooklyn Sun says: “It is a genenerally received opinion that Chicago is built on a prairie. All wrong. It is built on credit,” Cripples may never have been cured by the laying on of hands, but naughty boys have been greatly benefited by the operation.

A Detroit woman wants to set eyes on the female who can empty a pan of ashes and not have the wind blow half of them back into her face... A certificate of marriage was issued in Boston a few days ago to a woman only eighteen years old who had been married twice before. Cincinnati proposes to utilize its vagrants during the coming winter by making them quarry stone under the direction of the workhouse authorities. Chinamen don’t work well on the Southern plantations. When they go out to plow they want to ride the mule and let the plow run itself.— Detroit Free Press. The farmers about Burlington, Vt., have commenced to notice that the cornhusks are thicker than usual this year, and everybody is prophesying a hard winter. A roving gypsy man in Bangor, Me., swapped horses nine times the other day, and when night set in he found he had the same horse he first swapped in the morning, and that he had $45 in money and a watch in addition. The latest social hobby is “Autumnal Leaf Parties,” which is the name chosen by those who gregariously go forth into the woods and country lanes for the purpose of gathering the brilliant-hued leaves that are showered about by the fall breezes. The Freshman class of Hamilton College (the Utica Observer says) has left that institution because three of its members were suspended for hoistings carriage to the top 01 the observatory tower in which Prof. Peters had discovered so many asteroids.

From the general tone of the press it is evident that it is considered all right for American Girl to have a monument before George Washington. The fact that George Washington never trotted a mile in 2:14 bears heavily upon him. — St. Louis Republican. “ As to being conflicted with the gout,” said Mrs. Partington, “ high living don’t bring it on. It is so incoherent in some families, and is handed down from father to son. Mr. Hammer, poor soul, who has been so long ill with it, disinherits it from his wife’s grandmother.” An Englishman was boasting to a Yankee that they had a book in the British Museum which was once owned by Cicero. “ Oh, that ain’t nothin’,” retorted the Yankee; “in the museum in Boating they’ve got the lead-pencil that Noah used to check off the animals that went into the ark,” You forgot to post that letter, eh? Given you three weeks since and it’s been in your pocket ever since! Well, it’s easy enough. Write a note—“ You will observe by the date of this letter that Busan forgot to hand it to me until to-day,” etc. Put the note and letter in a larger envelope, send it. off, and there you are.— Rochester Democrat. A Connecticut girl-baby came into the world the other day to find her relations so mixed up that she will never get them straight as long as she lives. Her great-' grandmother is first cousin to her greatgrandfather; her step-grandfather is firstcousin to her mother; her uncles and aunts are her second-cousins, and her mother is her third-cousin. But of course the poor little thing doesn’t know it yet. As workmen were tearing down an old house in Philadelphia, the other day, they, came across a regular Revolutionary bonanza in the shape of a large number of heavy leather hats and caps which were provided for or used in the war of the Revolution. The house was at one time occupied as headquarters by Gen. Washington, and the goods were concealed behind a partition to preserve them from the British troops who subsequently used the 1 structure as barracks. , -u.: < ‘ ;?■- .r*.