Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 19, Number 20, Jasper, Dubois County, 18 May 1877 — Page 3

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items omnterest: rTHHl HHtl Literary, An Edinburgh professor saj's of litcrarv stimulants tlmt thu Iiest recipe Is, " Scott for boys, Thackeray for men, Slndcsposro for heroes." .The lute (Jon. Ohungarnior had h peculiar horror of tobacco. He pursued his guests who would smoke from one room to (ho other, hihI was aeeutomcd to lecture them all on tho iniquities of tlKi habit. The jK!i with which Francis Marion wrote tho order dissuading hi soldiers after tho devolution, is owned by one Georgian ; and another, a descendant of tho General, has Marion's camp-chest, with its frugal outfit of silver. Peter t ho CI rent, it has Ihjou discovered was tho founder of thu first Russian newspaper and also tho first editor over known in ltussia. He whs his own foreign correspondent, translating from the foreign journals, and correcting and preparing, tho news for tho edilication of his subjects. Speaking of tins utility of studying Greek at college, a gentlemen referred to the reeent article in tho Atlantic, which contended that no graduate could translate an ordinary Greek author at sight. The President of tho Chicago University happily replied: "What of it? Who can read Shakspcaro at sight?" Gov. Colquitt, of Georgia, has a Dromio in the person of a member of the Legislature, Mr. IJ., who so strongly resembles tho ruler of tho Statu that ho is constantly mistaken for him. Scores of hungry office-seekers besiege tho amiable 11., and he, lwing waggishly inclined, promises them whatever they want in the blandest manner, and poor Colquitt is obliged to enduro tho complications which "ensue. At Geneva a blind man's newspaper, called tlto Journal dot Avcugles, is soon to be issued. It will bo printed on typo invented by a gentleman named Kecordon, which Is said to bo a very great improvement, both in point of simplicity and cheapness on previous methods. A principal feature is that each letter has small holes in it, to which tho lingers quickly Income sensitive, and tho position of tho holes determines the letters. Mr. Henry L. Pierce, a wealthy Boston gentleman, disburses his ricfics in the most sunny and gentle fashion. Last year, he took a well known man of letters with his family through Kurope, bearing all their expenses." And how few know, in their delight over the ."esthetic and noetic souvenirs of foreign travel to which they avo now treated from time to time, how much they owe to the generous man of business and affairs, who jierhaps never wrote an hsthetie letter or a jvoem in his life. When Charles Sumner had 6,000 burnt up in the Boston tire, and was about starting forth on a lecturing tour to make good his loss, "Don't take thf trouble," "said his friend, laying i?.r,D0O on the table. no gift-taker, tookTiis friend and his five thousand, as that friend wished, and never went. try Cktnmcr. ,SWhc anil Imltmtrjr. Paper of an excellent quality is manufactured from a sir-cIos of cactus .mm .-Minuter. Uio Uirn in 1 i usual sense which grua iibundantlv iu some parts of California. The Czar has put a stop to the purchase of American locomotives and railroad coaches by decreeing that the Russians must manufacture these things for themselves. -It is mM that Prof. BarlV has dis covered a moans of preventing iron A V8.1" coating it, under certain conditions, with magnetic oxide of iron, which gives it an exterior harder than iron, not to Ihj separated from it, and wholly incapable of rust. Prominent Kuropean capitalists Inyo been negotiating for some time, and at lat sweessfully. with tw Land Commissioners of l'loridaforS8,000,000 worth of orange lamb. They intend to bring ktto the. State 8,000 or,000 hardy farmers fromKiglamI,Gernnv, France and Italy. TImj rapid extension of the cultivation of peanut Is due to thu use now made of them for the oil they contain. Last season's product reached 2,000,000 lMislic s, valued at $3,000,000. The oil is m large demand as a substitute for olive and almond oils, and keeps a much longer time without loooniing rancid. It is faid that the mcsquitgumof W Cittern Texas is almost identical with gum Arabic, and during the past year has become an article of export, some l-'.OOO pounds having been gathered In liexar County, and as much" more botweon that nnd the coast. This gum exudes from the stems und branches of tnoinesqutt, a mimosa, several species of which gwny in Texas, New Mexico ami Arizona, , Ait ieo machine, in Dallas, Texas, just completed by T L. Itankin, produces iee-eakes 30 feet long and six feet wde, weighing from 10,000 to 12,000 pounds each. They are formed by ireczing fine rain or spray after the manner of an icicle. When tho operation is completed, tho bottom and aides or the cake aro thawed loose from the inclined plane, and the cake slides out upon a platform, whero it is cut into chunks six foot square. Four cakes a njynrofrosten. Tho work cost .ft,),. -TA tm f t!(1ton Hoeil yields about '00 wiuuU of cako or meal, thirty-fivo gallons of oil, a few pounds of lint cot

ton, soma ashes and other refill. The meal is worth f 18 per ton, the cake from rli I to and the crude oil thirtyeight cent a per gallon. Tho oil la valuable in paints and chemicals, and when refined making an excellent table oil, The cako is hipM;d to Kuropofor etoek feed, the refuse used in lhatuaniifaeturu of soap, and the meal is in constantly increasing demand as a sugar-cane fertilizer. KchoMl HMit ChHrnh. Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, bouJtts the lowest average yearly expenditure ior student ($;150) of any college in the country. Nov. 1). W. W. Patton, of Chicago, founder and one of the editors of tho Chicago AiUnini 1ms lccu unanimously elected ProaidiMitof Howard University. Tim students of Yale, Harvard, Amherst and othr colleges have moved iu the matter of the can and gown, and now Vale and Harvard appear in them upon thu street. Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island, preached iu Westminster Abbey on April 15. It is said that ho is the first American Dishop invited to officiate in thu Abbey. Although the "Pope's health continues uncertain, ho still holds his audiences. Ho is having n protest prepared against the proposed conversion of parochial landed property in Italy. Six young ladies from Now York State, teachers of the young idea, have sailed for Buenos Ayres, South America. They each get $f00 gold for passage expenses, ami $2,400 per annum for live vears. At tho expiration they are to liavo six months' vacation, and $500 for a trip homo and back. Tho Rev. C. M. Lnders recently preached in Cheyenne a sermon of practical advice to tho people of a region where pistol shooting is common. His text was, Suddeiuy dp they shoot at, him," from Psalms, Ixiv. ; and he exhorted his hearers, in view of four men having been killed in that city within two weeks, to give up carrying pistols. Two New England Congregational churches of strength and standing are reported as refusing to call to their pas torates two of the prominent member of tho senior class at Andover, Mass., because they used tobacco. They threw away the weed" to gain the pulpits,

I and now aro happy. The deidorable stato of education in Ireland is shown by the fact stated in the House of Commons a few weeks ago, that the illiterates in 1871 were!13 per cent of the adult population. That is to say, every third man can neither read nor write. In the report of 1870 the Commissioners stated that of the children In the school roll only 18 1-2 per cent, passed In reading, only 8 percent, in writing, and 0 ikji cent, "in dictation, while only l per cent could do division in money. The Baron Rothschild, who is at the head of the Vienna linn, is said by the papers of that city to possess tho triHiug annual income of $30,000,000. This is the small sum of $75,000 a day. The estate in Kngland to which the Lawrenee-Townley heirs are laving claim is said to be worth $500,000,000. The "true heir" is Mr. William T. Lawrence, of Toronto. His case has been oronouncod good by. eminent chancery lawyers on Ix.th sides of the water. It is claimed that the most extensive line of railway in the world is that of thu Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Company. At the close of 1875 the line iu operation comprised 3,195 miles, and l,2L'S3-i miles more aru being built, or concessions therefor have been obtained. Thus, when complete, tlie system will embrace 4,423 3-4 miles, and tho directors are contemplating a still further extension. The Crown Prince of Germany is a compositor by t rado,and Kaiser Wilhclm is a glazier, though he ljas not practised his profession in a number of years. All the Prussian Princes have to learn Some handicraft, not in order to provide against hard times, but that they may learn the feelings of the common people. I'nser Frit, has never workeo at tho case more than eight hours a day, and never can le pursuadod by his ei'n-' ployers to do so. i King Alfonso's mamma has great: trouble in getting him matrimonially established. Some time ago tho Pope' was notified that tho young King was about to marry the daughter of the' Duke of Montponsier, but now that is off. It appears that while Alfonso was appearently seeking to espousu thu elder Princess, Maria Christine, ho was engaged in a correspondence with tho younger sister, Marie do las Mercedes. This double dealing could not long remain secret, ami a family disturbance instead of a marriage ensued. HarotieM Meyer Rothschild, who recently died at Nice, had a singular idea that ho could onlv breathe free at sea. She ordered a yacht of 800 tons to be built for her. As it. was not ready to convey her to tho Mediterranean, sho hired a Canard steamer, and steamed to Nice. On landing she wished to be again on lioard, and hired a French steamer, which she caused to bo stationed at Nice. Before her death her yacht had arrived, and she died on board of it. The Baroness leaves ouo daughter, who is the richest heireis in tho world. An exchange thinks that women are equal in point of endurance to men, but until women demonstrate their ability to undergo the fatigna of chewing a toothpick on a corner half a day, and sit lU Playing billiards all night, tho question hardly seems worthy of argument,

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MetwrhitltHi. ffrow tk jfew York WrW.J Dr. William A. Hammond lectured at Chicken ng Hall lat evening for thu iKiiiefit of the Metropolitan Throat Hospital upon the subject of Sleep," l)r, iiKiiimuiiu oegnu nix jccuuu uy comparing tho period of rest enjoyed by tlie different vital organs of the human Iwdy, saying that thohoart, aggregating tho moments iMjtween 11a beats, rested lx hour out of the twenty-four, and that: tho liver, the stomach, etc., enjofod each us iKiriou oi inactivity ami recuperation, but that the brain had no rest save iu tho moments of sleep sometimes not men. tho lecturer tiien skolcneu briefly the principles of the wear and tear of i the human organisms and of its building up. The waste of the vital tissues was repaired almost as soon as it was made, but the change was constant. Tho hair of yesterday was not the hair of to-day, and the muscle for extending tho arm was not identically tho same muscle after the arm had been extended. The refreshment ami restorative of thu brain was sleep. Dr, Hammond narrated several anecdotes illustrating the necessity of sleep, and of the inability to resist it after long wakefulness, even when the subject is laboring under severe physical discomfort or "pain. Soldiers frequently, tho Doctor said, had been known to sleep soundly when in the saddle, and he had often slept himself in this manner. Ho also told of a soldier who walked a distance of 200 yards while in a sound sleep, and he would have doubtless walked further if ho had not been awakened by striking his foot sharply against a stone. There was a recorded instance of a Chinaman, convicted of the murder of his wife, having been condemned to die through the deprivation of sleep. Guards were posted with him constantly whose duty it was to keep him always awake. On the eighth day the wretch fell upon his knees and begged for the blessed privilege of being strangled or performing hariknri. The amount of sleep necessary to health varies, the Doctor said, with age. Iu infancy the constructive processes are exceptionally lively and the child needs, accordingly, a great deal of sleep ; and again, in old people decay predominates -over construction, and more -sleep is needed, Dr. Hammond did not think that the necessary amount of sleep which a man required" depended absolutely upon the size of tho brain. He instanced the ca-e of a celebrated French surgeon who was said under the excitement of a certain research in which he was engaged to have gone without sleep for a period of six weeks, and of a General whom report made to have gone a whole year, sleeping but one hour out of every twenty-four, Dr. Hammond thought, howover, that these figures are to lie taken cum yratw salt. Men whose work was mental required more sleep than men wdioso work was physical. More than this, perhaps, there was no positive law to bo set clown. The necessity varied with the individual. One human machine seemed pretty well oiled and ran so a4 not to need much repair; another grated and needed mending constantly. There was a dillerence of opinion among medical men, Dr. Hammond said, as to tho physical motive of sleep, but ho did not see why thero should lie. The condition of tho brain during sleep, ho thought, was only a greater measure of tho condition provoking sleep. Sleep was produced by a diminution of blood in the brain. The Doctor cited several cases to. show that there was less blood in ' the brain during sleep than during wakefulness. One, reported by a French surgoon, was of a young man who fell and ! cut a fissure In his skull. Tho bono nev-1 er grew together, but the scalp gi-ew over th.o wound, and lay directly upon tho brain, and when the young man slept the scalj) over the fissure sunk down to a considerable extent , but when ho was awake the scalp remained even and at times bulged out. Dr. Hammond also explained a series of experiments which he had himself made with dogs, and in which he had determined the amount of blood In the brain more accurately by a graduated instrument, which he had inserted through the skull upon tho surface of the brain. As the brain enlarged or diminished the fluctuations were registered, and there was found to be a great difference in the izo of tho brain during sleep and wakefulness. "And nothing could have altered the size of the brain but the blood thero was in it," the Doctor said, "so we have it irrefutably established that during sleen there is less blood in the brain than during wakefulness." Dr. "Hammond also considered heat and cold as an inlluenco to sleep, and discussed how to make people sleep who through nervousness or some other extraneous cause were not so disposed. He advised them to think of some disagreeablu thing, and had known of a man who was invariably ablu to get to sleep by the simple device of allowing water to fall drop by drop into a tin pan. The lecturer questioned also tho accur acy of common stories of extraordinary thinking during sleep. With Coleridge and Do Qulney ho thought there was opium mixed with it. Concerning dreams, Dr. Hammond thought they were not original impressions, but were founded upon some former experiences; and yet they were sometimes sufficiently eccentric. Delicate women, thu Doetor said, delilKjrately entered upon a career of crime in their dreams, and wakefully honest, men were vilely wicked without so much as a blush. Thu lecturer.eonoludod his lecture with a story of a dream of his own. Ho was on the Mlwfwlppl in a steamboat, and was attracted by a very thin person in a big cloak. After a while he took out his watch to see what timo It was, wnon tho

stranger approached him ami entered Into conrerat ion, "That U a very uicu watch of yours," lie saltf,

would you be kind eaougii to let me see it? " Dr. Hammond 1 winded it lo the titraitifcr. He lookwl at it, held It to hk mr, and threw open his ehmk. As He performed this nction Dr. Hammond remarked that lie w a skeleton. " I am not very well," he re - marked, noticing the mi rp rise of tho Doctor, "and if It's all tho same to you I'll keep this watch for a heart, for you see, I haven't got an'. But I'll tell you something for your courtesy. I'm going to blow ui tliis boat directly. When

you hear the whistle blow just you jump t terUy state. Accordingly she is impaoff and you'll !e all right." The stranger tientto be a butterfly a marrted woman.

went on witn mo Jjoctors watcn alter 'iiie.Missounsciioolma'am often wears this and the Doctor tried to toll the a semi-sentimental air, and sometimes passengers, but lie couldn't speak, dust ' carries a Ixwk in her hand, thereby girthen the whistle blew, he jumped and . ing a literary impression. But if any woke up. A factory whistle in the ' poetic youngster thinks to find in hr a neighborhood was blowing. Within thu chord m unison with his own gush, Its space of a few seconds he had dreamed , will be certainly and sadly disappointed, what had seemed to ocoupv him for ! She is sensible. She is practical and

hours. A, Young Lady MiKslag for 20 Years Discovered by her Kindred at Last. The Marion (Va,-) J'ulriot has the follriwinir? Onilo n riHMtimi wns nroiltieoil , in our town last week by the announcemem mat a vomi" von a voimg gentleman had arrived in our midst claiming as a sister one of the young ladies of tho place, who had lived among us for a number of years an the adopted daughter of a citizen, but of whoso parentage noono previously knew any thing, not oven the young lady herself. Some years previous to tho War a gentleman by the name of Zimmerman died in Greenbrier County, Virginia, leaving a wife and three small children, one of them a mere infant. The grief of tho wife was so intense at the loss of her husband that her reason became impaired, and laboring under a violent fit of insanity she left her home and friends secretly, taking her infant daughter with her, and leaving her other two children, a daughter and a son, leliind her. Those who felt an interest in the fate of the unfortunate woman and child supposed that tkev had been drowned, as no trace of tfiem could bo discovered. And so tho matter rested until the sun and daughter left behind had grown up, when by Home means they were put upon tho track of the missing ones. They found out that the mother had wandered with her child to Bedford County, Va that there the authorities had taken eliartre of her, and that she had been sent to one of the hi- J natio asylums ot the Mate, where sue had died, after remaining about two years. The only thing then to be done was to find, if possible, the lost sister. It was ascertained that the child had been left with a Mr. Wade, of Uedford County, and an ellbrt was mado to learn from Inmifc whereabouts, Letters were written to Jiim, hut he declined to give any response. Efforts were made through other parties to obtain information fi-om him, but for a long time he declined to give any. At last, however, lie was prevailed upon, and told that by consent of Court he had given the chilli to a gentleman and lady, who promised to adopt her as their own child, and never to let her know that they were not her parents, ho promising to keep the secret also. Armed with all the necessary information and proofs of relationship, Mr. M. W. Zimmerman came to our town last week and made known his relationship to his sister, who had lived in our community for more than ten years as the daughter of Captain J. V. Denton, known to tho World :W Miss Jessie Deaton. The young lady about thrco years ago had found out" that she was not the daughter of Captain Deaton. and of course it had Imjcii to her a great source of pain. Wo can well imagine her delight at finding out her parentage, and at being united to those who aro made dear by the ties of blood. The friends of the young lady are deeply gratified at the unlooked-for joy which" has como so suddenly and unexpectedly upon her. No more amiable or highly esteemed young lady has ever lived in our community, She is a sister that her brother and sister will Iks proud to have found, and we trust that much happiness will result from tho reunion of brother and sisters. A Herrible Suicide la France. In Paris, on the 12th of April, a neatly dressed man, apparently between sixty and seventy years of age, climbed to the summit of the Arc do Triomphe about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and remained leaning over the parapet apparently in deep meditation. Suddenly ho disappeared over the verge, seemingly with intent to commit suicide. But, instead of falling to the ground, ho lodged in the line of gas pipe which runs around the summit of the arch just below tho first frieze, and remained hanging there head downwards, his long white, hair waving in the wind. There he continued, a dreadful spectacle, for over a quarter of an hour, tho spectators expecting cverv moment to see him fall to the ground and bo dashed to pieces. Finally a soldier volunteered to descend and bring him up, and was lowered by means of a rope to tho spot whore the wretched victim hung, Both wore drawn up in safety, but on arriving at the top it was discovered that the would-le suicide was dead. The body was taken Into the Morgue, and a postmortem examination was made, which resulted In the discovery that ho died of congestion of tho brain, But whether, ho fell over tho parapet because at ruck with a sudden and fatal seizure, or whether the congestion was produced by ins nnugtng nis ncau downward ior so long, niust remain an insoluble problem,

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iwouri tnrivea oiy umm pteunar eircuiiutUne. Sk U not at aar tfut tb sanM fttiAhit, OMrkxis, tendwtHMtrm somI nIh mm wms in Km,- KngbuHl; m, is site at all like Iter fellow-compatrit, J the city teacher. . 1 Evolution by that nam Is unknown to the Missouri sehoolma'am, although Im ; Is an earnest believer in tlie principle. j She Is Very practical, too, in lier belief, Her present condition being only the chrysalis state, lw looks to matrimony a. the nerfection of existence the Ihuv matter of fact,bocuse it is her nature to lie so, and because all her life and surroundings have been so, too. One might be tempted to question tlto real strength of affection of this schoolma'am, from her odd, earnest view of the tenderer sidu of life; but under the i lr(s sho s l'u,e gold. Un 1,6 lm"ks PI thti Usge KlVl er are more lor school-houses than one. But in not more than one did the genuine gold shine forth as in this truthful narrative. It was the common log house with two windows and a door. It was in summer and the noonday sun scorched the gross along tho roadside. The highway was a long lino of feather dust, so light that a passing rider or vehicle was like a miniature comet a small bead with an enormous tail of dust. Great Cottonwood trees shaded the school-house and the bright but not pretty face of the schoolma'am. For when the primitive mail-coach, called a hack, came slowly down the highway, the lady just named was leaning out of her school-house window watching the coming vehicle. The one solitary passenger in the hack had been watching curiously the movements of the driver for some time past. He was working hard to put on a genteeler air than was to be expected in ordinary from a son of the whip. And he succeeded very well, only there didn't seem to be any good reason for it. Now, when he drove past the schoolhouse, he made his best bow to the young schoolma'am there leaning out the window. It was for her that all this brushing and polishing had been done. And, poor follow! had been done in vain. Instead of returning his bow and smile, as was to have been expocted,she walked away from the window. It was as plain a cut as could be. The driver looked down and sighed; killed a gadfly on his off horse's neck with his whip, and then fell to whistling. But it was a sorry, discordant kind of whistle. There was no tune to it. "Mister, that thar girl, the schoolma'am, is peart as sho can be ; but she's gittin' powerful kind of airy. You ses, she don't notice common folks any more when they speak to her. But, mister," and he sa'id it sadly, "she's as nice a girl as thar is goin', if she has gone back on me." "Perhaps you have not been as attentive to her as you ought to have bn," suggested the passenger. " Perhaps I have, mister. When Barnum's show came 'round, didn't I take her? and when the Georgia Nigger minstrels exhibited, didn't I lake her again? And, then, lots o' times to parties and common doin's? I allowed to marry that schoolma'am onct, but hit don't look like it now, does it?" "Why don't you go and see her, and learn just what the trouble is?" "What's the jrood of iroiiur to see liar when she don't want me comin' 'round ?" " Oh, well, if she don't waut jou, you had better give her up and get another one. Thero must be other schoolma'ams in this Osage country." But, then, I never knew nary another one like her. And I don't reckon thar is another one, not in these parts : no, sir. But, you bein1 a stranger, I don't mind telling what's the matter with that thar girl. You see, I sparked her regular till she found it out on me that I was like most other drivers rather too fond of the rectified. Then she scolded, and I promised I would quit; and I meant to quit short off." "And yon brolce your promise?" "That was when the trouble commenced. I was to blame, of course; but it was the boys done it. I felt so moan that I allowed she'd never speak to me again; but she did. And what do you reckon she made me do? but you'd never guess It. Mister, she mado me give myself the duru'dest cowludin' for gittin' tangled that time. It was mighty rough, but I done it like a little man, because she told me to. And she bought tho cowhide herself to do it with. Then I promised her I never would get full againnever, as long as I lived. And 1 meant it honest Ingin, It was the boys made me do it again." " And what did she 'say then?" " She said she wau't JUenchin1 school to spend her money on cowhides any more; andgood-bye. 'But doc,' she said at parting, l could love a sober man, and try mighty hard to make him happy.' Them's her last words." And he hit at a fly again; but ho missed this time. Terhaps lie didn't see It clearly, for he rubbed his eyes )mrd with his knuckles, as though there was something in them. iVew i'ork Mercury. Iowa tallies four more suicides : J. man at Daveniwrt; Mrs. Howe at Cedar Hanhlai i C. P. Jackson at Du buque: Jacob G marl aru at Waterloot the latter having first kilted his wife. -l