Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Thebe is one OeqUle to five Monpons in Utah . Queen Victoria’s pet horses are handsome grays. . The enrolled militia of California numbers 118,823. A lad with drop-sickle tefidenci^S—4 lazy farm boy. ' “ Thou art so near aad yet so Air,” said the maiden as she hugged her seal-skin, about her. Kansas has 106,000 sheep and 75,000 dogs. Scarcely a .sheep awl a nklf for each dog. jErt A man who must draw the line some-, where—-The surveyor . —New York Com,' mercial Adteriitef. . * Good rules, won’t always work both ways. For instance, to carp at Turkey doesn’t make a Turkey carpet. »ttnf The German Empire has 800 Consuls in foreign lands. Twenty-two of these are in the United States. To the surprise of everyone but her husband a California woman has just licked a lion in a single combat The thrifty farmers who take poultry, into Hartford, Conn., have taken ito pitting in chunks of lead before they are weighed. There is something in pronunciation, after all. A Detroiter found U out wjpfn,, he went into a grocery and inquired .for “ oblong” tea. They “ cure consumption” in Reading* Pa., by giving the patients doses of pH made from dog fat, and feeding them ohs dog-steak fried. " ,1 H .It For a fit of idleness- Count the ticking, of a clock; do this for an hour, and you will be .glad to pull off your cost the next one and go to work. ; • In Boston women have so thoroughly proved their entire fitness as school -officers that their re-election is almost unanimously called for. o; .ui * ‘‘What makes water hard ?” is a quesr. tion recently propounded in the Popular • Science Monthly , and every school-boy yells: “ Freezing weather!’?. Mb. Bixdd asked her: “Rose, wilt tliou be mine?” Rose answered: “lain 1 sorry it cannot be—but a rose cannot be come a bud.” Then he arose and departed thence. Over the porch ot the old South Church, at Boston, is chiseled; “Behqld! I have set before you an open doorj” aid : under, on the door, is painted in emphatic letters: “Positively no admittance.” A maiden once s&id: “ I’ll not mate * With a man who ha* not fortune great.” So she pouted and wilted, And scorned to be mated, She’s a maiden yet—age forty-eight. Guilford, Vt., had a shocking suicide, the other day, the victim being a boy of twelve, by the name of Cross.' On coming home from school he bade his mates good-by and then deliberately shot himself.

Speaking of school examinations, the editor of the San Antonio Herald says: “ We examined one of our boys, the other day, with a fine comb, and it is asking too much for us to say we were pleased with the result.” An association of officers of National Banks in Vermont was farmed at Monti, pelier, in that State, recently, to provide for better protection against burglars and for the speedier punishment of those who commit crimes against banks, -.j■' Once in a while a man gets the starch so thoroughly taken outof him that it’s no use trying. A few days ago a prairie schooner passed eastward through Peoria.'. On its canvas cover was painted in large . letters the legend: “Going back to my wife’s folks.” The Utes at the Uncapahgre Agency will be poorly sheltered this winter. The contractors announce that li Will be impossible to complete the new quarters short of another summer. The Indians are not pleased with the outlook and threaten to abandon the reservation and winter in the towns. A Williamsburg (L.L) man, the father of seventeen children, found a basket at his basement-door the other morning containing a little golden-haired cherub about two weeks old. A tag appended to the handle of the basket bore this legend: “You appear tobs fond of children. I ain’t. Please accept this one.” A Manchester (England) firm, which takes all its employes for a day’s trip to the seaside during the summer, decided last year to visit Blackpool. It is the general custom of the workers to have a dip in the sea beforejbeginnning the usual amusements. “Eh, mon, how dirty ye are!” said one hale Lancashire lad to his fellow-bather. “Missed the trip last year,” was the laconic rejoinder. “ Madam,” he said, “you see before you a blighted fellow-creature! 1 ain’t a tramp, marm, I ain’t! I have had my little store of wealth laid away for these rainy days; but ah! marm, a relative and speculation brought me to this sad state In which you see me! I was Jong on E. railroad stock, marm, and—eh? Wood? Me!. Me saw that wood? Madam, I&el you cannot -ealize my situation. Good morning!” ! ’ Daniel Perkins, of Pleasant Valley, Vt., recently had a desperate fight with an enormous black-snake. When within six feet of each other the snake raised his head about tour feet from the ground and jumped for the young man’s throat. He caught the snake by the neck in snch a way as to guard himself from its fangs, and by main force twisted its neck completely off. The snake measured nine feet in length, and in the larger part of its body bad a circumference of twelve inches. Perkins was so exhausted after the battle that he could not drag his victim homo.

Itery Republican in the county should subscribe tor The Jaspkb Republican at once. Next yew befog the Centcnuial yew of the Nation, aod it alsobeing the yew of a Presidential election, every' citiwo should take a county paper. In dubs of ten or more we will tarnish the Repvs&kia* from now until the first of January, 1877, for one dollar and twentyfive coots per year.