Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An old sailor’s yarn is his stock in trade. Christmas is coming, and when the roll is called that morning every little child should he able to answer, “Present.” At a laundry near Jersey City 6,000 pieces are washed daily, and 100 barrels of soap are used per week. “ Big washing!” Five young American ladies have lately received “ honor certificates” from the examiners of the University of Oxford, England. Some Icelandic colonists on the shores of Lake Winnipeg, in Canada, have taken up a'tract ofl,ooo miles, fifty miles along the shore and twenty miles inland. Two and a half acres of rock, at Hell Gate, are to be lifted, next Fourth of July, with 80,000 pounds of pitro-glycerine. Somebody will be very apt to get hurt. Santa Rosa, Cal., claims to have the largest eucalyptus tree in the State. It was planted fifteen years ago and is now 140 feet in height and two feet in diameter. Wyoming Territory has no public debt and SB,OOO are stowed away in the Treasury for a rainy day. The assessed value of property is $8,604,006, an increase of $4,500,000 in the past two years. The great astronomer of Paris, Leverrier, who discovered the planet Neptune, which could eat up this little earth of ours and not suffer from indigestion inconsequence, has made a prediction which is noteworthy. It is that the winter of 1875-76 will be uncommonly severe. Enormous quantities of snow are to fall in December and January. A St. Lake paper says; “It may be of interest to a large number of young gentlemen and ladies in this city just now to know that there is no Marriage law in the Territory. Simply standing up in tbe presence of ydur mother-in-law and saying: ‘ Sal, let’s hitch,’or, ‘ Jerusha, let’s go pards for life,’ constitutes a legal marriage and doesn’t cost a cent.” Hiram S. Beers, one of the original proprietors of the Boston Herald , is now a type-setter in the office of that paper. A few days ago he had the pleasure of setting a take from an article printed in the Herald thirty-eight years ago, which he recognized as having been set by him when it first appeared. The take came to him the second time in the usual way—by lot. Quite a stir has been created in Paris by the refusal of the Government to recognize a title of nobility conferred by the Pope, or to permit the newly-made nobleman to bear it at all. It says that the Pope is no longer a temporal sovereign, and has no right to confer titles of nobility which shall come in competition with those granted by the monarchs of the earth. * A malicious attempt has been discovered to stop the working of two of the Western Union Telegraph company’s wire between San Francisco and Sacramento by wrapping them with fine wire, one end ot which was fastened to a nail driven into a tree in such a manner that it could not be seen by the line-men. It was several days before tbe difficulty was discovered. The company offers a reward of $250 for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons. The act is a penitentiary offense. Wm. Welch, a lawyer and a thinker, proposes a new rule of suffrage. His plan is to allow a citizen forty-two years of age two ballots, and one sixty-three years or over, three votes. This would give the controlling power to men of age and experience. Those who have accumulated property, who have families about them, who have given precious hostage to society for good behavior and learned wisdom, would have the weight in public affairs that is given them in the family.— Madison Journal. At a festival at a reformatory institution, recently, a gentleman said, of the cure of the use of intoxicating drinks: “ I overcame the appetite by a recipe given to me by old Dr. Hatfield, one of those good old physicians who do not have a percentage from a neighboring druggist. Tbe prescription is simply an orange every morning a half hour before breakfast. ‘ Take that,’ said the doctor, ‘ and you will neither want liquor nor medicine.’ I have done so regularly, and find that liquor has become repulsive. The taste of the orange is in the saliva of my tongue, and it would be as well to mix water and oil as rum with my taste.” The following sad tale of disappointment is told by the Portland (Me.) Press: “ A lady of this city recently started to ride from Boston to this city on a ticket which read ‘ From Portland to Boston,’ but the conductor said it wasn’t good, and she was obliged to purchase a new ticket. On her arrival here her husband was very indignant at the conductor, and decided to test the legality of toe thing. Consequently he purchased a ticket for Boston, and then started back an the ticket that the conductor had reftised to accept from his wife. He had no idea that the ticket would be accepted, and he saw a chance for a fortune by being put off. He had consulted authority and decided not to be ooled, but to stand his ground, and if the officials put him off, why then a suit against the road and a large sum in damages. But alas! it didn’t work. When the conductor came around betook the ticket without a word, and the would-be plaintiff in a suit came to Portland terribly disappointed with the w«ty* of railroads.”