Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1876 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TAw ’Art Unio«—-A tove best of iaiubo MflMrtf 1 WBtllrtK - j Skating risks are al! the rage in Ea. glaad. When does a laborer do the best digging? When he’s apode by the day. What a world of sorrow io contained in the simple item: “ A poor, houseless dd man.” When the Declaration of Independence was signed there was not a bank i* America. A Montreal physician, asking for the renewal of a note, writes: ”We are in a horrible crisis; thvre is not a sick man in the district.” An itinerant preacher from Ohio has been holding " meetings” m Baltimore, near the City Hall, his chief object being, confe sedly, to convert the city officers. What Is there in the constitution a baby that prompts it to lay asleep all day in order to get a good square opportunity of bellowing the roof of the house off at mtonight?

Brooklyn is the home of a charming girl with a face so sunny and alluring that an old gentleman recently mid to her: “If kisses had been entirely unknown she would have invented them.” A writer in Ftauur remarks that aman is a man whether he be bachelor or bom dick; whereas a woman may only be properly so-called when she has fulfilled her destiny as wifirand mother. You would not sink from the way that some people strut around and lord it over others that all men have sprung from one or the other of the three brothers who “climbed down” from the ark. Oliver Wendell Holmes says that young men from nineteen to twenty-five ought to be put under a barrel. It .does seem as if the average young man about that period in his life should have a head put on him. ; The German woman is described as “ absolutely contented with her lot, despising the frivolity of the French, the freedom of the EngHsh and the fearless strides and absolute independence of the American women. ” Never presume to shake hands with a red-hot poker until you have been properly introduced. A little politeness on the part of one and all »f us in matters of this kind will do much -toward improving the civilization of the nineteenth century. In tiie Hartford Cowant of a century ago is an advertisement of a runaway wife, wherein the deserted husband delicately speaks of her merely as having “ behaved verie odly.” It might be well to adopt that substitute for the too-plain 'fiangnage of to-day. The Communists at Wallingford, yonn., are about to start a university, in which will be taught printing, book-binding, stereotyping, electrotypmg, engraving, hygiene, commercial transactions, agriculture, woodworking, machine business, domesticlndestry, Journalism, Communism, etc. The Woman Suffragists of New Haven, are discussing the question: “Are the women of the country more responsible than the men for the extravagance of the times?” Btlt to a thoughtful mind it would seem that as long as men don’t wear eighteen yards of cloth in their pantaloons there’s net much need of considering the matter seriously.—JforwicA BnlIttin. ?■

—As the space set apart in the Exhibition buildingfor the American book trade has been found to be inadequate, it has been proposed to double the space for books by erecting an ure of iron, forming a second floor’ over the entire space, reached by staircases on either side. A willingness has been expressed by the leading publishers to share the expense of $5,000 for this structure. A case of chronic laziness is reported at Washington. A young man appointed to a clerkship in the Treasury Department was conducted to his desk and informed what his duties were. The chief of the depaitment discovered him, a short time after, comfortably reposing in his seat with his feet characteristically resting on lhe desk. “ Heltof” said the chief; “don’t you expect to do any work?” “Work be hanged!” exclaimed the astonished youth; “ I had to work hard enough to get here.” The IfeMoger du Midi states that a merchant vessel arrived at Marseilles lately, laden with sugar, from Batavia. “ While in the act of unloading the workmen suddenly left their task, and, rushing up to the deck, gasped out inarticulate words. Among the hampers they had found three immense boa-constrictors. These reptiles seemed to wake from a state of lethargy, and advanced toward the terrified men, who had only just time to hoist themselves on deck and close the hatches. The Captain was, of course, obliged to suspend the operation of unloading and to look tor the means of getting rid of these strange passengers. Two pigeons were poisoned with strychnine and dropped into the hold. They were devoured at once, but only two of the serpents died. The third reptile has not been seen again, and it is with the greatest trouble that the Captain can get men to assist him in unloading the ship.” —The Northern Presbyterian Church in its march South has organized the Synod of Atlantic, composed of six presbyteries in four States, having 123 churches, forty-four •ministers and about 10/100 members, mostly colored. Most of the churches have preaching but once a month, but other services are kept up regularly. _ —When a man has nothing elw to tex hetexMhta resources.