Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

K'anhab sows 25 per cent, more wheat this year than last. Gail Hamilton wants all hotels supplied with libraries. Cranberries will keep fresh and good all winter if kept in water. This is the hottest and driest autumn ever known on the Pacific coast. The latest weather prediction is that it will blow great guns next Christmas. Gossip has been defined to be the putting of two and two together and making five of them. A recent writer says some plants have sullen and awkward ways—dead beats; for instance. Since last January we have imported $90,000,000 worth of dry goods. There are 16,000,000 women in the country. - Two children were recently poisoned in Ohio by eating a fungus growth which they found on a stubap. One of them died. A man who has traveled says it didn’t tufrft him long to find out that the brakemen own all the railroads and the clerks all the hotels. A suggestive sight at Jacksonville, Fla., lately, was three sharks swimming after a boat in which was seated a man who had cut his foot.

The Boston Advertiaer tells an actress of that city that among the rudiments she has yet to learn is the fact that her nose is too pretty to be talked through. ( A Boston butcher has just received a legacy of SIB,OOO in recognition of his kindness in sending a chunk of meat daily for four years to the testator’s cat. According to a recent statement, prepared for the Centennial, the Navy Department, since its organization, has cost the Government a total of $1,000,000,000. There is in Chicago a very interesting relic of the great fire of 1871 in the form of a boy fourteen years old named Albert Bussy. He has never seen his parents since that awful night, when he was taken from a burning house on West Van Buren street and carried along with the maddened, affrighted tide of humanity which rushed toward the lake, and does not with certainty remember their Christian names. At the recent session of the Kentucky Conference of the Southern M. E. Church a resolution was adopted declaring that it rejoiced “in anticipation of the time when the great Methodist churches of this continent should everywhere, with true Christian fraternal feeling, co-operate in the great work of the world’s conversion.” A Frenchman said to an American: “ T*ere is von word in your language 1 do not comprehend, and all ze time I hear it. Tattletoo, tattletoo—vat you means by tattletoo?” The American insisted that no such Word exists in English. While he was saying so his servant came to put coal on the fire, when he said: “ There, John, that’ll do.” The Frenchman jumped up, exclaiming: “ Tare,tattletoo, you say him yourself, sare; vat means tattletoo?” At a French village, the other day, Mme. Reene, an English actress, at one time popular in London, committed suicide in the rose ot Ophelia. She was six-ty-five years old, and had lived in the village ten years. Nobody thought of ridiculing her odd ways and appearance, for it was well known that she had carried a dead love in her heart for nearly half a century. She had left London years betore because her affianced married another woman. The last part she had played on the London stage with him was Ophelia to his Hamlet, and what news had

come to her of him no one knew; bat she was found floating under . the surface of the river, her gray head decked out with flowers. The killing of R. P. Benton in a game of croquet at Titusville, Pa., was recently announced. It seems that Mr. Benton and a Mr. Strickland were playing together. Beth gentlemen were on toe most friendly terms and were in toe habit of playing almost daily. Mr. Strickland mad* a misplay, and as conuqonly occurs on such occasions among toe boys he peevishly attempted to throw his mallet after toe ball. By some unforeseen chance the handle of the mallet caught in toe sleeve of his coat and it was hurled in toe direction of his companion, striking him on the right temple and felling him to toe ground. It appears that the blow was not sufficient to cause a fracture of toe skull at that point, but, as is often the case, produced an effusion of blood at the base of toe brain. Such an injury is almost inevitably fatal and the patient lingered on until evening, when he expired without recovering consciousness.