Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1876 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Casual-ties—Modern marriages. Can ladles with enameled faces be said to belong to polished society. Kentucky judges and legislators cannot receive free passes on railroads. Those persons who decide instantly make about one hit to four blunders. Theory may be all very well, but young doctors and lawyetn prate anc-_ HcsT Fifty Bostonians will start for Arizona in February, Intending to settle there. .. A flaw is being elaborated in Paris for the recovery of small commercial debts through the postoffice. Elastic lacings, covered with cotton or silk, gold or silver threads, are the latest inventions for making tight corsets comfortable. The New York Mutical Monitor says that the next President will be the man whose party hires the brass bands during the coming eight months. Shoes with fur around the ankle-tops are the latest agony among the the ladies. They are called Polish, but that doesn't signify anything alarming. A slanderer in Schoharie who walked out to take the air got a flogging at the hands of his neighbor's wife. Well, oxide and cowhide are both tonics. Fifty thousand pins are lost in the United States every minute, notwithstanding Young America's-persistent search for them to pay his way into some other boy’s show. Scribner's Monthly calls out that the modern book-case shall be done away with as unwieldy, unsightly, and of no use except to hide a good deal that people don’t know. Few “popular fallacies” have done more mischief than the maxim that “ charity begins at home." Avaricious people quote it, not intending that charity shall begin anywhere. Fitchburg, Maes., is laughing over one of her richest citizens, who dresses so shabbily that he was arrested in a neighboring recently for a tramp, Mid only got off by showing a thousand-dbllar note.

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children fa New York has discov ered that theworid is on the downward track, as children are becoming fewer each year, and parents leas careful of thoso they have. Our Fltpida friends are now enjoying rare and luscious luxuries. The apricot and tarantula are ripe and fit to pick and the orange, the alligator, the banana, and the gallinipper hang purpling on the vine.-*JT. Y. GraaMo. The most notable overshoes are the tall arctics, coming above the ankles, made of India rubber cloth, tipped with rubber and fastened with buckles and tongue on one side and buttons on the other. They are preferable to the half-high arctics worn last season. A French lady of title fell 111 and called in a doctor, who cured her. The man of medicine requested to be permitted to print on his card, “ Physician to her grace.” “Impossible,” said the latter; “I have a physician-inordinary.” “ Well, we will get over that difficulty,” replied foe doctor. “I will put on my cartn : ’ PbyricKfa to her grace—when she is ill.’ "—Figaro. A phybiognomWt writes that regular white teeth, seen at once upon the mouth opening, but not projecting, nor always entirely seen, denote acuteness, truth and goodness. Small, short teeth, which are seldom pure while, denote strength; long teeth always imply weakness and want of spirit. Those whfou uv firm and strong, whatever the color, denote strength and firmness. If the upper gum is much seen immediately on opening the mouth it generally denotes dullness and coldness. A few evenings ago a German woman of Thirteenth and Grove streets, Jersey City, picked up and attempted to carry off a four-year-okl child of Mrs. Feeley, residing near the same place. She was followed by the mother and others, but re. fused to give up the child, saying ft was her own. She was stopped by an officer, but she still insisted that the child was hers. The officer took the child and accompanied the woman to her home, where he found another child, so like the first one in appearance and dress that he was unable to distinguish them from each otter. The mother, however, recognized her child, and the first one was returned to its mother. ' ''

On a Saturday night, not long ago, three girls came home with their week’s pay. and, as the first one said “Mother, hold Tour apron,” all three .threw their money into it. I congratulated the mother because they were so good. She answered: “ I wish they were bad, then it would not break my heart to see them deny themselves every pleasure and work like slaves.” . . One girl who was out of work and in debt last spring could not bear the cross looks when she went to the table, so in her despair she wandered into the Metropolitan car-house, sleeping under a car three nights and sitting in an ot gee ip the daytime. This exposure to the cutting odd winds of March nearly cost her lite. When she found something to do she dropped oa htt knees and began to pray.-CW.