Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Employment is scarce on the Pacific ’ COaSt. A man’s action is only a pibture-book of his creed. He does after what he bei;Ueves. , The letter mail is the only portion of the United States posted service which is self-sustaining. : • A popular actress who died recently left an unprotected hnnbtod without visible means of support. . The late Mary Diamond, a. jewel of the first water, left to religious and charitable institutions in Philadelphia more than $60,000. , ' An exchange speaks of a “young lady with blue eyes dressed in black.” She must have been engaged in some domestic squabble.* - , • : r * A lbaping citizen of Hampden County, Mass., recently buried ,his daughter from another church than his 6wh, owing to a superstitious fear of passing a church with a carijne. Tan police authorities at San Francisco have made their first raid on the opiumsmokers and will continue the crusade till they have broken up all the dens frequented by white people. r The spectacle of»a fiiac fcJtering with the small-pcx walking through the streets citizens of g / A rural gentleman who visits Memphis occasionally is the observed of all observers while he is in town. He has his name printed fax white letters, near the top of his boots, which are of the knee-high sort < r. An Austin (Nev.) ma», Who was fined for sleeping on the sidewalk, remarked to tixe Judge that he must think the sidewalk was a seventeen-room suite in the Palace Hotel when he charged that price.

The time when a mail fully realizes that womah’s sphere should be enlarged Is when he finds that his washwoman has mistaken his stockings for his sliirt-bosoto and starched them accordingly. —Notttich Bulletin. ’ * A movement is on foot in France , to abolish the custom of shaking hands. As we never expect to run for a political office, we don’t care whether the custom is abolished in this country or not. — Norristown Herald. -■ Dr. J. R. Dean, of Spartanburg, S. C., has an old colored woman on his place near seventy years old, who picked out over 2,p00 pounds of cotton this season, oftentimes sitting in a chafr and moving it along ih the row, so as to be within reach of the cotton, which she grasped with nimble fingers and transferred to her bag. Conductor Wadleigh, of the Hartford, Providence &Fishkillßailroad, who was killed at Boston, Conn., the other day, was a pretty cool man. When he recovered his consciousness he inquired the time, and, ordered a subordinate to take his train out Of the way of another, which was soon to follow, and then died in a few itfuiutes.

“ Benjamin,” shouted Mrs. Toodles to her husband, who was going out of the gate, “ bring me up five cents’ worth of snuff wheu you come.” “ Snuff? Mrs. Toodles, snuff?” he ejaculated, as he paused with his hand on the latch; “ no, no, Mrs. Toodles, the times are too hard to admit of such extravagance; you must tickle yoftr nose with a straw when you want to sneeze.”— Fulton (N. Y.) Times. Sheriff Morrill having a couple of crazy men to convey from the St. Albans (Vt.) jail to the Brattleboro asylum, the other day, resorted to this strategy: He called one-aside and asked his aid in keeping watch of the other on the journey, and the man was overjoyed in having such a trust placed upon him. He then dfd the same with number two, and started on the train. The span of lunatics sat side by ride, silently eying each other through the whole route, and they have continually kept guard over each other in the asylum ever since.

Ah attempt similar to that of Thompson (or Thbihassen) to destroy the Mosel was made in 1858 upon the Vanderbilt steamer Ariel, sailing from Bremer HaVen. After the vessel had left port She was signaled to stop, and word was sent to the Captain that twb eases ih the hold, marked as containing silks, held combustibles with a clock-work arrangement to ignite them when the vessel was at sea. An examination proved the truth of the story, which was disclosed by the conscious-stricken mechanic who had made the boxes. The guilty parties were a father and son, the object being to collect insurance. After the detection and arrest Of the criminals the father committed suicide aitd the son is still in prison for life in Bremen. The story is remarkably similar to the present one. ; A FELUOW got* fearful blow on the head with ■ stone spittoon at a Booth C street saloon night before last. The blow left his head ail out: of shapes 'There was a dent in one side of it about four inches deep. As he lay there onthe floor of the saloon the man was a horrible, looking object. Some of those present said the fellow’s head could never be got In shape again. A wise-looking, little, old gentleman in spectacles came to the front, however, and said he could fix it. Procuring an ordinary hand-bellows he inserted the nozzle into the ear of the injured man. After a few puffs with the little machine the fellow’s head was brought out as smooth and plump as a freshly-blown bladder, and he got up and walked off as fine-looking a man ashewas before he incurred the injury.— Virginia City (Neo.) Enterprise,