Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1889 — Curious Things of Life. [ARTICLE]

Curious Things of Life.

A St. Joseph, Mo., lad rides a pony that weighs only 130 pounds. “A superior house parlor maid can teach elementary music,” and “a plain cook, under 25, who knows shorthand,” were advertised for in a recent issue of an English paper. Out in a backwoods town in Indiana the sheriff left the court room for dinner, forgetting all about hia prisoner, who afterward ieisarely walked off and has not since been captured. Buris, used in making veneers with remarkable eccentricities oi grain, are excresencee that grow upon various trees, such as the rosewood, oak and ash. They weigh from 1,000 to 6,000 pounds, and the largest and best come from Persia and Circassia, and cost in the rough from 15 to 40 cents a pound. In a new book upon “Americanisms” some of the less familiar are: Bibbiblee for drinkables, bohn for a crib or translation, balditude lor a state of baldness; to deacon, or to place fine fruit at the top; parquet, or the pit of a theater from its mosaic floor; piraaro for pisraL skullduggery, wire pulling; trampooa, to wander aimlessly; and daisy, for anything first rate.