Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1876 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A -he game-Getting married. . Sealskin bonnetsare the n||Mh? t Sombttmes gets out of temper —Steel . A PAIR of pinchers—Those tight boots. Tub hardest part of the cradle—The rock. Often “hauled over the coals” —The poker. J ./ r' I. Emily Faithfull does not believe in wearing crape. A bawl of worsted—The cry of a spanked child. Business when flat on its back of course has to look up. The bean in Montana are hibernating under six feet of snow. There were 44,400 deaths from cholera in Syria the past summer. If yoh find it hard splitting wood, suppose you split the difference. Wbak men are the hardest to control.. They have no more backbone than an angleworm. ’'V-*'-The man who was asked to sing a solo said he would if his friend would help him duet Thb old custom of having wedding in vitations given orally by the bride herself is again being revived. Why must the letter “D” be the most wonderful letter in the alphabet ? Because it is the center of “ wonder.” At a recent fair held in Baltimore a chair was voted to the laziest policeman, but he was too lazy to accept it. The Silver Woild, published at Lake City, Col., was started before the town had a Postoffice, and the editor carried his earlier editions about 100 miles to mail them. There is an old lady in the vicinity of Old Fort, N. C., who has, with the assistance of a large dog, captured two or three escaped convicts, delivered them to the officers and received the reward. It does not follow that a man is a Christian because he accepts a creed and attends a fashionable church any more than that "he is a gun because he swallows the powders.—A r . Y. Herald. A Paris letter says that the Americans are not at all behind the Russians as accomplished skaters, and there are two or three Americans in Paris who can hold their own with the best of the world.

There is commotion among the bosses in the employ of the Maine Central Railroad on account of an Order to discharge such as cannot read and write; four “boss ■ section men” have lost their positions, one of them after a service of twenty-five years. He says that he is going to master his a b c’s or die. Mrs. Ruth Southworth, widow of : Edward Southworth, of Plymouth, Me., ! ninety-eight years old, has gone to keeping house for her son, doing her own work of cooking, washing, scrubbing, etc.*, with all the cheeriness and zeal with .which she entered on these duties in her early married life. A sylph-like lady school-marm, in . Yonkers, N. Y., lately whipped thirty-five school children one forenoon for refusal to learn their geography lesson. Then she kicked the stove over, slammed the door of the house from its hinges and Walked home like a queen of victory. The children say that her touch was warmer than the thickest woolen drawers, and that her arm. moved liked the hind leg of a mule.

There is more or less incredulity of the centenarians so frequently reported nowadays. It is certainly true that people are living longer, or ths Newspapers, are more industrious in finding out the old ones, or there is more lying on the subject of old age, than formerly. The State census in New York, this year, slibws 109 people in that State who are over 100 years old, which is nineteen more than were found ten years ago, Brooklyn has several of the oldest, including the very oldest, Sarah Hicks, aged 114.' About half of the whole number were foreign-born, twelve were colored, and two Indians. | A gentleman named Wall, residing at Phderiixvnie, has several very fine canary birds which he has given much attention. One of the birds he has taught to sing “ Home, Sweet Home,’’ clearly and distinctly. His mode of instruction is as follows: He placed the canary in a room where it could not hear the singing of other birds, and suspended its cage from the ceiling so that the bird would see its reflection in a mirror. Beneath the glass he placed a musical-box that was regulated to play no other tune but “ Home, Sweet Home.” Hearing no other sounds but this, and believing the proceeded from the bird it saw in the mirror, the young canary soon began to catch the notes, and finally accomplished what its owner had been laboring to attain, that of singing the song perfectly. Mf.Wallhas been offered and refused S2O for this yellow-throated soprano.—Reading (P#.) Eagle,