Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1892 — Brother Jasper. [ARTICLE]

Brother Jasper.

“De sun do move” with Brudder Jasper now, sure enough, for he has just been married at the age of 80 to a bride verging on 60. —New York Press. Rev. John Jasper, 80 years old, of Richmond, Va., he of “the sun.do mov . ” theory, was married recently to the Widow Cary, aged 59 years. It is a condition, not a theory, that now confronts the old man. —Philadelphia Record. Eighty years old, Rev. John Jasper, famous for his theory that “the sun do move,” has taken his fourth wife. The old man wanted someone to “keer” for him in his old age, and Richmond colored society is talking of the bride of sixty summers. —Buffalo Times. The marriage -of Rev. John Jasper, the noted astronomical colored preacher of Richmond, la., has caused an estrangement between himself and hie daughter’s husband, who had be n living with him, and the son-in-law do move. “Dr.” Jasper insisted on that.— Philadelphia Ledger. Having satisfied himself that “de sun do move, 'Brother Jasper, of Richmond. „has taken unto himself a wife—a fourth wife, to speak more accurately. The fact that the lady is the fourth to share Brother Jasper’s lot would seem to prove that Ihe wives do move, whethei the sun is stationary or not. —Philadelphia Call.