Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

It is said that green or yellow veils will prevent tanning and freckles. A good many idle people in the South are employed la stealing cotton. ft J. W. Gkbbish, of Lebanon, N, H., centiy lost his cow by her puiiiijgtack in the stall so hard as to break her. buckA Parisian bat lately imported, had for ornamenta twenty ostrich feathers, ten small wings and four humming birds. There are very considerable forests everywhere in France, and yet that country produces only one-half of the fuel she uses. t - .., . Aman of parts—The hair-dresser.— Ntw York Commercial. And also the Judge in the Divorce Courts.— Rochester Express. ■ x.v, . :■> A St. Louis paper gravely aMtoto that there will be very little change in pantaloons this season—a strong evidence of hard times. . The Sandusky Reffisler has decided that writing two poems per year and catching fish the rest of the time cannot justly be called a literary pursuit. <. People can bring to bear on babies a very considerable amount of patience when they are abundant m their own households. Otherwise they are nuisances. The original hemlock-log foundations of Long Wharf, in Boston, were uncovered the other day, and found to be as sound as when they were first put down 164 years ago.

Broom-corn is being extensively raised in Kansas—not on broom-sticks in the arbitration of family disputes—but op a large extent of the soil for shipment and manufacture. Every season brings its own pleasures and luxuries. For instance: The delicious ice-cream no sooner steps down and out than the fragrant saur-kraut puts in an appearance. The English Postoffice authorities have just returned a number of newspapers to this country because the parties sending them had written initials and brief messages on the wrappers. An advertisement reads: “ When you travel take the Pan-Handleroute.” Many a man has been utterly routed by the pan- • handle—with a lively and mad woman at the other end of it.— Danbury News. A girl was recently on exhibition in ’ Charleston, 6. C., having four well-devel-oped legs and feet, the two central ones.. being somewhat smaller than the outer. Bhe eats four hearty meals every day. A swarm of bees was recently “ taken up” in Lancaster, Pa.; that had been at work in the same tree for fourteen years, and had never swarmed during that time. Over 400 pounds of honey was recovered. Evil is predicted for Queen Victoria if she continues to hold on to the Koh-i----noor diamond. It is to be hoped that there is nothing ominous about the diamonds worn by our American hotel clerks. When Eve brought wo to all mankind, Old Adam called her wo-man; But when she wooed with love so kind, He then pronounced it woo-man; But now with folly and with pride, Their husbands' pockets trimming, The ladles are so full of whimt. The people call them whim-men. It Was a young and not at all good - looking lady who yesterday stepped out of a Third avenue car and disappeared into a store in the Bowery after apologizing to the conductor for asking him to „ wait while she purchased eight yards of muslin and materials for a winter dress. “ I was back in less than ten minutes,’ she subsequently .complained to an aston- , ished policeman, “but the car was gone.” —New York Bun.

Man’s inhumanity to woman was strikingly illustrated at Worcester, Mass., a few days since, where a woman was arrested and tried for “ talking to her husband in a loud tone of voice.” The report of the case says the woman was acquitted ; but it leaves us in painful suspense as to whether the jury found she had not talked in a loud tone ot voice or whether the Court decided such talking not to be an offense. The most singular freak of nature can be seen in a tree up near Eureka. It is half pine and half fir. It is a good-sized tree, perhaps seventy-five feet high. The body from the ground to a distance of thirty feet is pine. Then for a distance of twenty feet it is fir. The remaining twenty-five feet, like the lower portion, is pine. The fir portion of the tree is in a very flourishing condition. The foliage on that part is so dense that the trunk or limbs can hardly be seen through it. On the pine portion the leaves are rather saarce. The tree is near the road, and has been noticed by nearly all who ever .passed that way.— Nevada (&al.) Transcript. A correspondent of the Providence Journal writes from that city to say: “ At noon-time I often take a walk on the park promenade, and about that hour may be seen women with pails, etc., bringing dinners to their husbands who labor on the streets. A woman came, met her husband, and they seated themselves on the greensward, and spread on the grass the dinner, he giving the wife some of the edibles. After drinking from the pail he gave it to her, gave her a kiss, aad west to his work, and she to her happy home Ob one of the benches sat a man and wife, she had brought his dinner. After gobbling it down he took up the pail and, after testing it, dashed the contents into her face and went to his work. The poor woman, taking her shawl, wiped hm face,, gathered up her pail, etc., and started for her miserable home. I wanted to put my cane over the brute’s head, but I feared he would be too much for me, and let him go.”