Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Tab Bartoris baby will be home in time for Christmas dinner. It makes a hen tender to Jet her lay awhile after she is dead. A cactus at East Fairfield, Yt., is *®- ported with 215 buds and blossoms. “ Hard-times parties” and “calico balls” ought to be very popular this winter." '• Derating clubs are taking toe place of last yeM’s spelling-matches in the country towns. . n „ ~ y.nißo means nothing until the mercury in toe thermometer reaches it, and then there’s trouble. It is estimated that no less than 50,800 snorting, puffing and screeching locomotive engines inhabit this mundane sphere. An exclusively colored panel in a Louisiana court lately returned the written conclusion: "We, the verdict, find the jury guilty.” Ip names mean anything the recent marriage of Mr. Grippia and Miss Clinch gives promise of an occasional lively matrimonial set-to. It is said toat there are more lies told in the sentence “ I am glad to see you” than in any other six words in the English language. . “ Latin and Greek are all right,” said a Delaware farmer, as he halted his team, “ but gimme a man who can plow around an apple tree ’thout touching the roots.” A man ta Greenville, Tenn., has captured twenty-seven hawks by setting a steel-trap upon the dead limb of a tree upon which they have been in the habit of alighting. A New York rabbi states that he has admitted thirty-eight Christian male adults to membership in the Iraelitish Church. There was a marriage ceremony immediately after each case.

A careful housewife in Altoona, Pa., put an eighteen-doilM order and a tendollar greenback into toe drawer of the coffee-mill for safe-keeping. Next morning tie family enjoyed a twenty-eightdol-1m cup of coffee. A little fellow only nineyears old was arrested in England a few days ago for causing the death of a girl eleven years old. He struck her in the stomach with his clenched fist, and she dropped immediately, dying soon after. A surveyor, while fixing the boundaries of a farm in Huron, Wayne County, N. Y., a few days ago, discovered that more than seven acres of land had been washed away by the waves of the lake since the first survey was made. The signification of pet names appears to vary according to locality. Out in Arizona, for instance, a “jolly dog” is a man who keeps a well-stocked private grave-yard—at least this is the term applied in an Arizona paper to one of the plass. If there is anything that will bring tears to the eyes of an Indian tobacco-sign it is to witness a young lady undergoing the trying ordeal* of endeavoring to bring a fallen elotoes-iine full of clothes to a realization of its solemn duty. —Detroit Free Preu.

At; the departure of the Prince of Wales from England, says the Boston Commercial Bulletin, a sailor rebuked a landsman who was laughing at the grief of the royal family in the following juaprempta: Avast with your laughing, You heardess land lubber; At such a sad parting What can Whale* do but blubber? A Philadelphia friend, who rejoiced in the name of Comfort, paid his devoirs to a young and attractive widow named Rachel H——, residing on Long Island. Either her griefs were too new or her lover too old, or from some other cause, the offer was declined. Whereupon a, Quaker friend remarked that ft was not the first modem instance he had known where Rachel refhsed to be Comforted. The Sanitary Inspector of Glasgow, Scotland, has found that the yellow toyballoons sold to children are poisonous. He says that the coloring matter consists of one part of chromate of lead and three parts of carbonate of lime. Children, being in the habit of applying their mouths to the orifice of these balloons for the purpose of filling them with air, may readily receive a quantity of such poisonous powder into their mouths. Toy-bal-loons, therefore, although admirably fitted few playthings at baby-tarms and other institutions of a similar character, shonld be viewed with Suspicion in every wellregulated nursery.— Exchange.

There is nothing half sofiinny as a practical joke, and this, as told by an Eastern paper, is a regular rib-tickler: “Frederick Walker and Peter Kohler, of Guttenberg, N. j., stuffed in old stilt of clothes with straw, the other night, and carried it to Bull's Ferry road and Herman avenue, where they placed it against a lamp-post. About midnight they began an imaginary quarrel in a loud tone, and continaed it until a number of people were aroused from their beds. Then they shot the imaginary man. The body fell down; and the young men ran away. The neighbors, thinking a murder had been committed,, chased the young men, and Kohler was shot in the leg before the deception was explained.” Think what solid enjoyment Mr. Kohler will have laughing at that for six weeks while he nurses his leg, and what a scream ing three it would have been for his whole family if he had been shot in the head.