Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Neuralgia is said to be a “cheeky 4 ’ disease. .?•* 1 ■■■-.Lib ft It is stated that there is more railroad building this year than in 1880. When a broker says a man is of no account, he means no hank account. ' A Chinaman in San Francisco is the latest victim of kerosene lunacy. He tried to light a fire in the American way. “ Tax korse bit his master, How came it to pass? He heard the good pastor Say ’All flesh is giasa.’ ” A Montreal physician has lately sued his landlord for $20,000 damages for illhealth, caused, he alleges, by the unhealthiness of the house in which he resides. According to Dr. Hall, a person should always sleep with his face turned to the wall. The Detroit humorist says “ That’s all right, especially if his wife has been jawing him.” j_ A Kentucky couple planned an elopement and the girl invited forty or fifty Mends to be in waiting at her house “to see how romantically they scooted.”— Detroit Free Press.

The Massachusetts State census shows that there are many thousand more women than men in that State. What few men are there, though, are believed by Massachusetts people to be the cream of the world. If ladies of the period ale; as just as they are beautiful they will contribute something toward a monument for King Canute. He was the person who originally ordered the tide back. —St. Louis Republican. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican tells of a small terrier at Meriden, Conn., that lost part of his tail last winter, and now it is growing out again, and at right angles, too, so that he carries behind a kind of stove-pipe elbow. AN ingenious contrivance to evade the Maine Liquor law has been discovered at Bangor. ,It consists of a barrel within a barrel, furnished with a faucet, which when turned one way supplies sweet cider, and when turned in another supplies lager beer. She was brushing his hair and he enjoyed being fussed over amazingly. Rolling up his eyes, he said: “ My dear, why was Columbus, when he landed in America, like me now ?” She couldn’t tell him and he explained: “Because he was tickled at being fust over.” “There maybe such a thing as love at first sight,” remarked a Detroit girl, as she twisted a “ friz” around the curl-ing-iron, “ but I don’t believe in it. There’s Fred—l saw him a hundred times before I loved him. In fact, I shouldn’t have fallen in love when I did if his father hadn’t given him that house and lot.” Bostonians complain that their Cochit uate tastes awfully. The Water-Board think it is nothing but the taint of decaying vegetable matter, but a prominent' scientist says the trouble is that the water now drawn from the lake is what has been at the bottom unmoved daring the summer and has grown almost putrid.

It is related that when Mrs. Molly Richardson, late of Baldwin, Me., was in her ninetieth year, as she was one day eating a fine apple she remarked that she would like to raise some fruit of that kind. She therefore planted the seeds, one of which sprouted and became a thrifty tree. Mrs* Richardson lived to be ninety-seven years old, and ate fruit from the tree. The registering officers in New York recently refused to register two citizens of New York city employed by the Government at Washington on the ground that they had lost their residence. The wouldbe voters applied to Judge Lawrence for a mandamus , which on the day preceding the election was granted, the Judge holding that being in Government employ the applicants did not lose their residence. There is a singular natural curiosity about one and a half miles from Thompson, Pa., on the Jefferson branch of the Erie Railway. It is a deep, narrow crevice between the rocks, about sixteen inches wide. A stone thrown into it can be heard for several seconds strike from side to side, the sound becoming fain ter and fainter until it dies away. Owing to the unevenness of the gap it has been found impossible to measure its depth. On a cold, frosty morning the warm air arising from this pit and coming in contact with the cold air without makes it appear like a smoking chimney.