Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 15, Jasper, Dubois County, 17 May 1872 — Page 3

"Ob the Plea of Insanity." Ol faahiuiu-wuieh forever rute M .!.- Mlible huiuanilyTbe forewnt fashion of the ae Aiear tu be inutility I Whene'er a -rime committed U Unusually bad. Itn author thus acquitted is t " Of course b' ust be Land I A scholar all a enrewUh wife. Who little thiol complain about ; lie eU eo rased and take her life Be scatter! q ber brains about. He'd ne'er, had he retained his wit. Have done an act ao ad ; Hit studies overatraiaeJ his wlU Poor fellow, ha was mad I A woman, dragged by i anions down. To hide her criminality, Sowed poison broadcast through a town With hideout prodigality; By strychnine shed diBufively. She ohanced one luckless lad To kill whiob prove conclusively Tne ah, of eourae. was mad I Brought up on mad Dick Turpin tale. And lick for notoriety. An idiot the Queen assails, And horrifies society ; But when to tales he's read so oft We nine more tail would add, Again it baa been said ao oft ! We're told. " Poor thing, he's mad !" Of intellect's vast march we bearBut thin I y unfeiarnedly. The march of intellect, I fear. Is inarching March-hare-brainedly. That " madness " is paronymous With badness." seems the fad; If so, why they're synonymous. And every one's gone mad t

Farm and Harden. When to Use a Roller, A correspondent of the Rural World says : It may seem like presumption to attempt to tell a man when and how to use a farm implement, but no man knows a thing until he learns it. A very mistaken notion prevails as to the effect of rolling land. The most common one is that it packs the soil. This is nevei true except where the surface is smooth and the soil fine, and then perhaps only an inch deep. Usually the land to he rolled is uneven and rough, as the plow leaves it, or is lumpy, as after the harrow. The roller will crush the lump in the one case (if they are not too hard), and the lumps, although crushed, have buoyed up the roller so that an examination shows that the loose soil is not packed only the lumps are crushed. But to roll directly after the plow is, above all, the proper time to do it. Even when the soil is apparently dry and hard and comes up in chunks, there is a little dampness in it that enables a heavy (weighted) roller to crush it ; but if it be delayed six hours, and even three -ometimes, it dries out so rapidly that it is past cure. A very foolish idea prevails amoni! many that it tends to form a crust and Lake. This can never be the case, because, first, one cannot roll land at all that is wet enough to bake : and, second, soil will " run " and crust more not rolled than if it is. First, and most important of all. keep the roller in the field with the plow, and always "roll up" before noon, and again before night, except on a damp, cloudy day. Second, roll all plowed land, no niatter what use it is to be put to, except fall plowing for spring crops. Third, always roll before the harrow, and then keep rolling and harrowing until the soil is in condition, no matter if it is packed with continual tramping if it is dry. It may be crushed to powder under the hows' hoofs and 'be all the better. Fourth, if the crop is planted and is up (if corn) a foot high, or if nothing is planted and the soil is nothing but a mass of hard lumps, stand steady, watch the weather closely, so as to let nothing interfere except the observance of the Sabbath, and as soon after a shower as the soil will not stick to the roller, put it on, weih it down, have a change of teams, if necessary, and do not let the roller stop t breakfast, dinner or supper, till darkness stops you : thus by "striking while the iron ia hot,'' i. rolling while the lumps are wet, you will have mastered the situation. The text is, roll ; rell your meadows, your wheat, your corn, your turnips, your fresh plowing and your fallow : and if you are in doubt how to subdue an unpromising seed-bed, roll it. Finally, during plowing time, do not lend your roller for over three or four hours at any time. An Experiment in Feeding Horse. The London Omnibus Company use six thousand horses. To economize in feed is an important matter, and has led to several tests, the result of which is re corded as follows : To each of three thousand of their horses they gave a daily allowance of ground oats sixteen pounds, ground hay seven and one-half Kunds, and cut straw one and one eighth pounds the hay and straw being cut into pieces about half an inch long, and well mixed up with oats in a little water, and o making twenty-six pounds of food for each horse. And to each one of their other three thousand horses they gave a daily allowance of whole or unbruised oats nineteen pounds, and uncut or whole hay and straw thirteen pound-, without any water, in our old-fashioned way. making thirty-two pounds of this food for e..ch horse. And what waa the remit T Why, it was soon discovered that the horse which was fed on the twenty -six pound of ground oats remained in as good a condition, and could terform just aa much work and do it just aa well, too, as the horse did which consumed thirty-two pounds of food aa aforesaid, thus showing a saving of six pounds of food per day in favor of bruised oats and cut hay and straw, which, if valued at five cents per horse per day, amounted to a saving of the neat little sum of N0 per day. Extracting Honey. At the Iowa Bee Keejters' Convention, Mrs. Tupper said: I have used the extractor on comb not a week old, and no comb broke down. lk not extract from comb containing brood, believing the brood to be far more valuable than the honey. Took from six hives 420 pounds of

honey in a week, and at a favorable lime believe this can be reieaied every week. Can better afford to sell extracted hooey at ten cents pr j-mnd than comb honey at twenty-6ve cents. Comb is of ao high a value that we cannot afford to sell it at an ordinary price. Some hare obje cted to the extracted honey, but as Cple become acquainted with it they ' it readily. Sells all ahe has to sell, and the demand ia increasing. Remedy for Heat Ealing Em. BuUd a laying room a little dark, ao that they cannot see to do that kind of mischief. Hens naturally like to retire out of eight to lay, in a snug, oozy place. It prevents hens that are laying from being disturbed by going into the house ; and strolling hens do not bother, for they cannot see to pick. A room six by eigh t feet, is large enough for seventy-five or one hundred hens ; for it will accommodate twenty nests or more. Shelves are necessary to set the nets upo, with a projection in front for the hens to walk on. To Make a Partridge Trap. Make a box three feet long and a foot and a half in height. Make the side of lath. Make a door on top two and a half feet in

length, and suspend or hang it by a wire th rough the oen ter of the door. Then put grain on the top of the trap and door so that the game must alight there to get it. When the partridge steps on the door it turns -o suddenly that the bird is not able to escape. Try it. rA Air for Sheep. Sheep require abundance of fresh air, as in fact all stock do, but sheep especially. Close pens are very injurious, earning, first, running at the nose and colds, which finally result in a cough and inflammation of the lunes. The cremtest need is to keep them dry under foot and protected from snow and rain storms: sheep will choose to lie out of doors in a well-littered yard rather than under cover, and thrive better in doing so. My First Lion Hut A writer in a London magazine thus graphically describes his first adventure in bunting lions : On Coming in sight of the natives, who had been left to watch the animal. I at once saw that it would be a case of i close quarters, as the men only made '", signs and would not speak and on our j quietly asking where our expected foe was hanging out, they pointed to a large treej certainly not more than forty MM distant from us. Taking a good look at the caps of my rifle, ana feeling j with the rod that both balls were close j down, 1 took up a position in front of j the tree just in the line of road the j natives said the tieast was in the habit of taking when going abroad, and placed a native with my second gun close behind me: the rest of our party and the native hunters distributing themselves in a circle round the tree, so as to be ready for whichever side the broke cover. All being ready, a signal was made to a numler of natives stationed in the adjacent trees, and they began to about at the top of their voices ; and in an instant we heard a noise like the growling of a mastiff, in creasing in sound and intensity. My readers must not fancy that the noise t hey hear from the kingly beast in cap tivity is anything like that which he ! make when in his native walks. I Placing his mouth near the ground, the j monster gives a prolonged growl, which j reverberates around in a volume of sound which can be heard for miles, striking every living thing with terror. Such was the sound which now broke the stillness of the air. The native behind me pressed my arm, and told me she was very angry. Immediately after this she got up. and we saw her for the first time as -he began walking up and down under the tree, as you see the animals in the Zoo do in their cages, lathing her sides with her tail and sometimes throwing it right over her back. All at once she saw me, rather stooped the tore part of her body, put back her ears, opened her mouth, gave three or four heavy growls, and showed the whitest teeth I ever saw in my life. At that moment 1 fired my right-hand barrel direct at the dent between her eyes, and no sooner had I done so than, with a frightful roar of agony and rage, down she came full upon me. Thank Ood. I am steady and c ol, and let her have the second barrel full in the chest : but it failed to stop her. I had just time to seize my second gun from the native, who fortunately, stood like a rock : and not being able to get it to my shoulder, I fired both barrels from hi straight into her chest ; but that tliu not stop the infuriated beast, for with a plunge she threw me flat on my back and lay on me, with one paw on each side of my chest. She then put her head dbwn with that kind of growling noise with which a bull terrier worries any kind of varmint, right over my throat and cheat. To attempt to de scribe the horrors of the situation I was in would le simply an impossibüity. My friends ahd the natives were transfixed with fear, utterly unable to render me the slightest assistance. But one little accidental circumstance saved my life. In being thrown down. . ...... , j mm I w. i second gun, and on the brute stopping to worry me I thrust it up in involuntary self-defense. Laying hold of it in her massive teeth she took it out of my hands like a straw, and for some moments contented herself with venting her rage upon it, and broke it all to pieces. During all this time my friends, though but a few yards from me, feared to fire upon her leet their shots should strike me. Presently she seized me by the shoulder and shook me as a puppy does a ball of cotton, fearfully mangling and crushing the arm ; and then for a time lay perfectly still, keeping her teeth in my shoulder. Suddenly ahe let go, rose slowly to her feet, staggered away a few yards, and fell dead. My friends, on coming to lift up what they

j fully believed to be mv dead bod v.

could hardly credit their senses at finding me still alive, and, with the exception of a badly mangled shoulder and arm, comparatively unhurt, the more so aa I waa perfectly drenched with the animal's blood. It bad long been the wish of my heart to have a hand to-hand encounter with the " 1 rd of the forest," and I certainly had it gratified with a vengeance. I have shot others since, but have never had ao near a shave ; and frequently, when I wrap myself up in her akin, now doing duty as a rug, I think to myself, with a shudder, how near death I was in obtaining it. Hlits on Hoase Bnlldlnir. A paper on this subject, read by Edward Roberts, F. S. A., before the Royal Institute of British Architects, close as follows: I. Never allow pervious drains in pervious soils. -. Never allow a cesspool or drain near a well. 3. Never select gravel as a buildingsite if well-drained clay can be obtained. 4. Never allow drinking water to be drawn from a cistern supplying a water closet. 5. Never allow waste-pipes to be inserted into water-closet traps. 6. Never allow rain-water to run to the ground if it is required above. 7. Never allow water to stand in pipes exposed to frost. x. Never allow pipes to be fixed so that they cannot empty themselves. 9. Never ventilate except by pipes or tubes : inlets and outlets being of equal size. 10. Never use glased earthenware pipes for upward flues, II. Never allow chandeliers te be the exclusive light merely because it has been customary. How a Pennsylvania Judge Obtained a Competent Jury. His Honor, Judge Kirkpatrick, of the District Court, if we are informed correctly, has done a very wise and praiseworthy thing. An intricate and complicated business question being involved in s cause to be tried before him the other day, he requested several of our leading and prominent citizens to serve on the jury, as the ordinary methods of drawing jurors hsd, in this instance, almost wholly failed to secure the attendance of such shrewd, keen business men as could master the intricacies of the matter tobe decided. This ia not at all prejudicial to the clear judgment of ordinary jurors on ordinary subjects, but illustrates the proposition that in the trial of important causes, in which the clearest possible j perception not only is wanted, but also j perfect familiarity with business rules. ; methods and customs, care should be j taken to select such men as can readily appreciate the facts in evidence and adapt them to the determination of the issue. Pitubvrg Gazette, April 27. Colored Eloquence. At a Fourth-of-July celebration, just after the war, a colored orator was holding forth to a crowd of his feliowcitizens of African descent. He was much disturbed that the whites and blacks had been separated during the exercises of the day, and thus deplored the fact : Feller-citizens." aaid he. " dis is 11 wrong. 'Taint so in the animal kingdom. Out on de perairey ye kin see de white cows and de black cows sll eatin' de same grass. Dey a n't ashamed o' one an oder. De white cow don't turn up her nose and say, 'Go 'way, nigger beef!' An' in de wegitable kingdom it is de same. When you pick a posey you put de white flowers and de black flowers all in togetner, and one smells j ist as good as anoder. So it ought to be. bredren. in the human kingdom." A French Cardiff State. Some Yankee-like Frenchman has produced a new edition of the Cardiff statue. His ingenuity has made it a great improvement on the original. It was dug out of a stratum of sand in a cavern, in which many relics of the stone-ace have been discovered. Then, too. it is life-site, so that the pretense of its being a petrified man can be made with some show of truth. The face is nicely tatooed. and bears petrified wreath of pebbles and shells. Two arrow-heads are stickim? in the temides and r. choice assort ment of miscellaneous curiosities was dug up around :he body. Ingenuous j antiquarians are alreadr disputing the precise age of the world in which this petrified mortal lived ; and it bids fair to have as good a tun as its kindred humbug on this side the water. A Mow M Samba. Brigham Young's brilliant success in sanctifying lust has inspired a woman in Nebraska to do likewise. As Joe Smith founded the sect of Latter-Day Saints, this adventuress styles herself Josephine Smith, and her followers (when she has any) Latest-Day Saints. She abhors polygamy, and proclaims the holiness of polyandry. Her credential consist of several scratched stones, which ahe declares came from Heaven, and which she interprets as authorizing a plurality of husbands. Not having any money, she lacks the respectability of WoodhuH, and, instead of living on Murray Hill, sojourns in an oM mny tent. Her converts are not numerous, but she is unshaken in her faith. A c tutors lunatic made his appearance, a few days ago, in the Luxembourg Gardens, in Paris, and, before an excited audience, commenced te ring up bank notes, each for one thousand franca, with a remorseless indifference. Before he could be checked in his de structive little game he had torn up thirty of the notes.

Cariosities of Science. C0404NCT OIL. Residents of temperate zones have no realization of the immense importance of cocoanut in countries where the tree abound. It yields a delicious fond, a nutritious drink, a rich oil, and fibers which are manufactured into thread, twine, ropes, and all kind of strong useful cordage. Boiling the pulp breaks open the cells. As the oil is liberated it rises to be skimmed off. A few years, ago the Dutch Government ordered a census of the cocoanut trees in Java and Madeira, which footed up twenty millions, Wing an average of three to every native inhabitant. Vast quantities of the oil are burned

in lamps throughout the whole Indian Archipelago. A tumbler half filled with water has oil poured in to the la ssn i - a O a onm. i wo ngniea sucks are me wicks, which burn brilliantly. Every native glories in a display of lamps in the house and about the grounds at the approach of night. When first taken out of the boiling pot the oil has a rich flavor, but soon becomes rancid. So copious is the supply, however, it can always be had fresh and sweet for the table. Like olive oil in Syria, it is butter, lard or oil, according to circumstances, in cookery. Soap is made with it, lamps supplied, leather dressed, and cosmetics are fabricated for beautifying the homely faces of women. ANTIvlCITV Or BIRDS, Those most competent to give an opinion, supported by the disclosures of the rocks, which are records in the great volume of nature more enduring than public libraries, are satisfied that the first birds on earth were waders, and not organized for flying. They were very large, too, and their legs long, fitting them for searching for food on the margins of muddy lakes and lacustrine shores. This is inferred from the foot-marks of those monster bipeds found on the red sandstone in the Connecticut valley. The stride from one step to another shows they were tall, '.nü known in geological science as ci lithiehnites. There may have been others on a smaller scale of construction. But they were extinct, probably, or disappearing with the advent of birds and wings. The ostrich, etc., are tolerable representatives of the nonflying birds of old red sandstone ages, both in their stilted legs, toes, resembling ornithichnite tracks, and their undeveloped pectoral stumps, which are merely the anatomical beginning of wings exhibited in higher families, their successors. When birds appeared that could soar in the air an internal modification of structure came with expanded wings, and the weight and exterior form were essentially changed and diminished in size. The condor is probably a type of the most gigantic of flying birds whose appearance belongs to the tertiary formation of the globe. BEIM DEVELOPED. Education is simply exercising the brain varying the movements bo that each new impres-ion pro luces a new action or a repetition of them in the orfan by which the mind is manifested. Vi thou t Mich efforts the individual remains ignorant. In other words, there is no progress, which simply means there is no mental development. A capacity for intellectual progression depends on the volume of brain matter and the size of ganglionic convolutions. The brain of a monkey, or a sheep, for example, in their form are the same as in man, but the volume is very far less. Certain prominence, arrangement of ventricals, and the origin of special nerves of sense are not essentially different. Mental capacity, therefore, as exhibited in man, is due to the amount of cerebral matter rather than to the form of the hemispheres, or the precise shape of ganglionic arrangements within the skull, otherwise all the lower animals would be susceptible to impressions that would develop progress in thought. They cannot be intellectually elevated because deficient in that element a great amount of which gives man his commanding position, rendering it really doubtful in the estimation of some philosophers whether men are animals. From reptiles to humanity the brain presents always the same original pattern, but increasing in volume till it attains it maximum in the annals of intellectual fame. It is a favorite theory with a few that the man of celebrity a million of years hence will be infinitely superior to the stock from which he emanates in our day. Constant progress will give a mental development hardlyinferior to the common notion of the intelligence of angels. CELESTIAL Sl'ACE. When astronomers assure us that the diameter of the circles which the planets describe in their perpetual revolutions round the sun, are millions upon millions ef miles how is it possible for the mind to take in an idea of the .-pace or room in which such globes as those of eighty ami ninety thousands of miles in diameter are running thirty limes more rapidly than a cannon ball, without the slightest interference with others 1 Space without limit ! There is no boundary, no barrier, no precipitous termination, but space forever and ever, and there the intellect leaves the pursuit the brain of man cannot grasp it. But there is something more perplexing in the belief that interminable space is filled with billions, aye, with countless organized worlds, beyond all human computation, far excelling our own in grandeur of proportions, phy-ical resources and beauty, so immensely distant no telescope can ever survey thosv on the nearest border of that celestial space which they occupy ; and yet still beyond and beyond so far that the

light they send abroad at the speed of I one bundreu and ninety-two millions of miles in one second, may not reach 'his earth for a hundred of millions of years to come and then again tbereure globes infinitely multiplied be-yond. Space, then, ia a field in which the Almighty displays the 'majesty of His supreme power. How a Baker Discovered Who Stole His Pies. Says the Louisville Courier-Journal : Some rhubarb pie were stolen several days ago from a I aker living in the lower portion of the city, and he has been on the qui vive ever since to discover the thief or thieves. Three or four days were spent in fruitless watching, Mi'l daf before yesterday a novel plan was adopted, by which the criminals were caught and punished. The baker prepared a dozen of rhubarb pies, and sprinkled tartar emetic on the tops instead of white sugar, which bad been used on former occasions. The drug resembles white sugar in appearance, and as it is tasteless the difference would be apt to pa unnoticed, especially as these pies were likely to be eaten in a hurry by the thieves, who would naturally want to get them out of the way an soon as possible. The baker plaeil his flm on the fiont porch to dry and cool in the evening breeze, intending to take them in if not stolen during the early part of the night. But they were stolen, as usual, in an hour or two, and the owner began to congratulat" himself that his plan would work adt: irably Another family, era! ratk.g men, women ai d children, old and young, lived in adjoining apartments, and were the suspecteel parties. The baker saw them retire one by on .and then, lying down himself, watched from his couch through window and door the slow but sure workings of the metic. In an hour or two one of the children became veiv

restless, and soon commenced to cast up its ill-gotten food. Another one was seized with the same complaint a little while later, and by midnight all the inmates of that ) ortion of the house were in a terrible state of retching and sweating under the oiieration. The baker lay still for a while, and enjoyed the port, laughing heartily to himself at the powerful effects of the melicine and the nausea and fright of the victims, who thought for a time that they had een poisoned. A few hours later, however, they began to recover, in the sameorder in which they were taken sick, and soon got over their fright. The baker thinks now that his pies are safe at least from that quarter. Difference Between Strength of Will and Strength of Mind. A very clear illustration of the distinction between strength of will and strength ol mind was once ;iven by a gay young fellow who probably hajl never read a pace of metaphysics in his life. This young gentleman, whose friends called him pob, for shortness, was of an excee'dinjrly nervous temperament, and any unusual indulgence in wine was sure to leave bim in a shaky and unhappy condition. Bob had a consequential acquaintance named Waffles, who was gifted with the absorbing qualities of a sponge, and who, although in the habit of drinking much more freely than Bob, was never known to exhibit any signs of inebriety. One morning Waffles called upon his friend, whom he found seated on the stool of rejenton e. with a wet towel bound round Iiis head, and several empty soda bottler by lis side; and, shocked at the sight, he began to moralize. 'So you were tight again last night, eh?" said Watties. ''Now. why don't you do as 1 do? When I have drunk enough I stop. You should have more strength of mind, and imitate me.'" " Strength of mind," snarled Bob, who, nervous' and irritable, had very little disposition to submit to a temperance lecture from such a source ; "what the duce has st length of mind to do with it? Strength of will, you mean ?" "Well," quoth Waffles. " what is the difference ?' " I'll tell you the difference," retorted Bob, vindictively ; ' brutes have no mind at all. but a jackass has more strength of will than any being that breatnes. An Anecdote of Balzac When he traveled abroad as he often did to verify the most trifling particular which he might be introducing into one of his lomance some money, of course, was neeeary. His mode of paying the po-tdions in a country where he knew neither the language nor the tariffs, is thoroughly characteristic of him. u 1 did not know a word of the language of the country," saya he, "nor did 1 know the value of its current ooin, but I do know the human heart, which is the same in all countries, and I understand physiognomy ; so this is what I did : 1 had a bag which I filled with small silver money, and each time that the horses were to be changed I took this bag in my hand; the postilion then came to the door of the carriage: 1 looked searcbingly into his eyes while I dropped into his hand one coin, two coins, then three, four, or ever so many, until at last I saw him smile. Now as soon as I saw him smile, 1 understood that I had given him a coin too many. Quickly I withdrew that coin, and my man was paid." This anecdote shows us Balzac as he was possessing the simplicity of a child united with the profoundest insight and the deepest philosophy. But in small things wisdom is apt to overreach itself and we fear that if he had tried a second time this original mode of settling the score, our worthy postilion supposing him to be equal in wit to the ordinary tun of his class would have refrained from smiling for an uncon scionuble time. London Society..