Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 20, Number 26, Jasper, Dubois County, 12 July 1878 — Page 3

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ITEMS OF INTEREST. Herman Linde, the Shakspearean reader, will play Othello and other characters next season under the manryhwnV my Maryland," i now St yearn old, and editor of the Augusta (Ga.) Ckronkh 6'ow i'oh 1' . He was a Captain in the Confederate army during the war. Mr. George Nicholson and Mrs. E. J. Holbrook, proprietors of the New Orleans Picayune, were recently married. Tbe lady is well known in literary circles under the nom de plume of Pearl Rivers. ----Old Mr. Loveil, the author of some of the most successful plays of 30 years ago, is dead. He wrote " Wife's Secret" for Charles Kean, "Look Before you Leap" for Ben Webster, " Love's Sacrifice" for Charles Kemble, and The Provost of Burges for Macready. He died at the ripe old age of 74. Gen. James Grant Wilson, at whose residence the poet Bryant happened to have his fatal fall, is about to turn the accident to good account by writing " a biographical memoir" to float a new edition of Mr. Bryant's "Library of Poetry and Song." The Evening Post makes this announcement the text for some pungent remarks on biographical penny-a-liningl The venerable Richard Henry Dana, now in his 91st year, is the last survivor of that brotherhood of poets, Bryant, Dana, Sprague, Pierrepont and Percival. He enjoys good health, is able to read without glasses and his mental faculties are still vigorous. He was much saddened by the death of Mr. Bryant, with whom he has been intitimate for more than half a century. ----The author of "Father Tom and the Pope," a stout.sporting Irish priest, has been made Sir Samuel Ferguson, Q. C, LL. I)., Deputy Keeper of tbe Irkb Records, for a poem which appeared in Blackwood, entitled "The Widow's Cloak," and expressing Victoria's dominion over India. The author has been comparatively unknown to renown before, though he is tbe beet exponent of ancient Irish literature in English, is a distinguished archtoologktf, and is withal one of the kindest aad most genial of men. urtant. Roemtor out I'oet in the i hi mortal choir I Hhi sh1 it fMtt!; m the hhhtjImk breaVs, lie to the (Iwh of jHrft day awaits: The Master Krl await him with detdre Irat hi -ImfiHK TObm, his ttnUUm lyre, And tb vast portal w)Ui thlr vmtoome lakwl Xew have t!y erowaed him be their Joy partake! Kiedfed te new Hfa by seraphic Are. The day 1m breaklaff over ma ami btad ; Tke mim may nklms lorth, bat a light mere ftrasd That he blotted, aJ yt softened Xature'a Ifasdfttappeared: In shadow nnw we rtaml. Sweated, while jtaatoK upward to the place That pre?tie4t la& IHbhwhI, it path to trace. KficohdH Cm Tlwwy p in Jt Tribune So4l5H Ce? ftfid ISMl Hill JF According to Liebig there ought to be 14.0 and to Keichardt 13.7 per cent, of solids in good milk. A Vermonter has put a floating saw-mill on Lake Cbampiain, and does a good business at his stopping-places on tbe coast. Three-fourths of tbe lioorioe manu factured in the United Stales is said to be prepared in Xew Jersey. Spain and Asia Minor furnish tbe root. A new mineral, to which the name rbabdopbane is given, has been discovered among some specimens of English blende. It contains no zinc or sulphur. Prairie du Chien, Wis,, is proud of its magnificent artesian well, 900 feet deep and flowing 1,000,000 gallons a day, from which, the city receives its water supply. Herr Ferdinand Noll, of Brandenburg, has invented and presented to tlte International Postal Congress, now sitting at Paris, a olock which runs on the decimal system, with 20 hours in a day, 100 minutes in an hour, and &0 seconds in a minute. A large portion of the are of the Bahama Islands is devoted to the cultivation of pineapples. As many as 1,500,000 of tbe fruit have been collected from a single acre at one crop. The pineapples of New Providence are superior to any other variety, and often attain an enormous siae. The experiments with the new odee of using tbe electric light have hot proved altogether satisfactory. Many encouraging trials have been ad in France, but the recent attempt to light up the space in front of the Bank of England, London, was a failure, and there have as yet been uo markedsnceeeees in this country. Mrs. Simeon II. Smith, of Jersey City, k a lady of distinguished scientific attainments She has a cabinet, ,colhxrtad by herself, of shells, foeeils, ores and gems, which is worth f 26,000. She Shwttwo years in tbe Sobool of Mines, Freiberg, Saxony, and has been down yito the depths of many of the mines of Earepe. She writes valuable papers on "Hence, is an accomplished linguist and m now translating a soknUftb work frem tbe Frenek. She k a member of the AwerieM Association for tbe Advancement of Science and wae the first Jjwmm to be made a member of the w York Aoademy of Sefencee. Among the many devices for tbe jHUiaetkm of sewage, tht ef eenrertagkintooemtl not the leaet onri-

om, and it has aetually been put Uto praeiiee at Burnley, in England. The town sewage runs into settling tanks, being mixed on the way with "lime ereent." After sealing the sludge is dried, and finally paekud in kilns and burned, no other fuel being necessary than just sufficient coal and shavings to set it alight. "Cement clinkers" are the result; and these ground into eoarse powder make the cement, which is salable' ae Portland or other hydraulic cement. Either Portland or Roman cement, or agricultural lime, is predueed, according, to the quantity of lime employed. 1 SelMMil, and ctmrafc. The Dakota Presbytery has 800 Indian communicants. Rev. Dr. Newman estimates that the Chinese spend $ 168,000,000 in tbe worship of ancestors. The subject of endless punishment is attracting attention in tbe Episcopal Church in Ireland. Tbe English New Testament Comsr.y have reached the seventh chapter of Hebrews. Mrs. H. G. Saunders is one of the assistants in the Harvard College University. She reduces observations made with the meridian circle. T lie re have been only three ecclesiastical trials of Bishops in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States since 1787, and only one involving criminal immoral conduct. The New England Methodist Conference, lately in session at West field, Mass., passed a unanimous vote "discouraging" the holding of more than three regular services in any church on the Sabbath ; namely, a sermon, a Bible service or Sabbath-school, and a prayer-meeting. An institution lor colored students, to be known as " Clark University," is shortly to be built near Atlanta. It will not be sectarian, and it will offer poor stndents work which will help them to pay their college expenses. It will be in part an agricultural school. A West Virginia law enacts that if any person shall be concerned in managing, a raffle or gift enterprise at a church fair or festival, he may be imprisoned one year and fined $00, and the property be forfeited to tbe State for the benefit of the School Fund. Tbe Regent of tbe State University of Iowa have elected Miss Phoebe W. :Sudlow, present Superintendent of the Davenport City Schools, Professor of English literature, with a salary of $1,700 a year. She is said to be thoroughly competent, and in justice to her sex, if not in obedience to her own wishes, should accept the honor without hesitation. The University of London having obtained its charter for admitting women to degrees, University College at once takes the step for which it has been steadily preparing during the last ten years, and next October classes in all subjects of instruction within the Faculties of Arts and Laws and of Science will be open to both male and female students, who will be taught in some classes together and in others separatelyDr. Scudder says that the Oriental nations will never become converted to Christianity until the women first become Christians, and he says that the women can be converted only by the personal agency of women who go there from Christian countries. Ilindeo women will not listen to male missionaries. Dr. Scudder was in India for over 20 years.

v Mmjm aHd MUhap. Louis Nier, acred 14, of Warsaw, Ind., was killed oy falling from a freight-train on which he was stealing a ride. Wm. F. Wilson, of Ossian, Ind., swallowed a dose of strychnine, sup posing it to be morphine. He died in 20 minutes. A 2-year old child of James Mor ton, a farmer living: near Sidney, 0., wandered upon the railroad track near its home and was run over and killed. A little boy named Max Brown, of Mount Gilead, O., was seriously burned by an explosion of a flask of gunpowder, with which he was playing near the fire. C. B. Cook, of Cvnthiana, Kr., was severely wounded by tbe accidental dis charge of a seli-cocKing pistol while taking some clothing from a bureau drawer. The 9-vaar-cld son of Wm. Gard ner, of Lafayette, Ind., was seriously wounded by the discharge of a pistol in the hands of a sister two years younger. Robert Wright, prominent citisen of Louisa County, Vs., was killed oy a siroK o ugniaiog wtme namiing in front of his house. ' Every vestige of clothing was stripped from his body. JuftniGnrdiner. engineer of a portable sa 1 nenrAIIensviUe, Vinton County by the break! was rt James Qagau lor wager. M 1 cento, e fM nm iR mw fore top mil yard et Aim HUbedy wftSMt A 3-year-old child named Hembling, at Grand Rapids, Mich., got hold of a boetnbMkme, whson ittpiH orer He clothes, and approaching too near the fire'ite olJthiiig ignited, burning the poor child fatally. , -rPraufctV-Allen, a St; Paul, (Mmn.V boy of 4 years, was strangled to death by large oarpet-tack he. swallowed, while trying to imitate the workman he had noticed hoMing tacks in his meuth as he laid the carpet.

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King HkmTJchaly and Garibaldi's son MeueiM are intimate friend. Tbe estimated value of the weeks of art contributed to the Paris International Exhibition by England, k f 1,7S0,0C0. The Italian Government has decided tc hold an exhibition at Rome in 1881, beginning February 1, and ending June SO. French papers think that the late date of closing will afford strangers excellent opportunities foroatohlng malarial fever. According to the latest returns, tbe cultivated land of France is .divided into 6,600,000 properties. Five millions are under six acres. Belgium has a like subdivision of property. In Ireland, on the other hand, 110 owners hold more than one-fifth of tbe soil. The best picture in the American department of tbeJBaris Exposition art gallery a portrait of Miss Emily bobaumberg, of Philadelphia has been withdrawn, because it was hung beside the picture of a fast woman very much decollette below srneking a cigarette aad sipping at a glass of champagne. It is said that tbe Shah of Persia was much impressed with tbe beauties of Baden-Baden, where be spent a week. He ban altered, but little in personal appearance since bis visit to Paris five years ago. He has the same thin waxed mustache, but conforms so far to European customs as to wear a Parisian frockcoat and blue eye-glasses. Tbe birth of an Anglo-American j boy of a distinguished parentage is announced in London. Master Vernon Robert llaroourt is tbe first born of Sir William and Lady Harcourt, his father being English by some huudreds of years i of honorable descent, and his mother ' American, in virtue of being daughter of the late United States Minister to England, the illustrious historian Motley. On the subject of dissipation, there is a wide distinction between the working classes of London and Paris. In London the gin shop is tbe resort of men, women and children. There are no such dons in Paris. I went out a few days ago to eat Amerioan waffles at a little French cfe. It was in a crowded French quarter, where tbe work people lived and labored, and both the cafe and customers were as clean and orderly as if thev bad been on the Boulevard Itxlien. The streets and the gardens are the resorts of the Paris poor in good, and the cifes never, even in bad weather; and I noticed when I sat in the little restaurant I refer to, that those who came to buy refreshments always took light wines, and that there were no wo

men patrons at the bar. r ormy. Odd aad Kada. What is really needed is a live-cent cigar that will consume its own smoke. Courier-Journal. "Age and wedlock bring a man to his night-cap," remarked the philosopher when his' wife inquired why be chewed cardamom seeds in bed. Oil CUjf Dtrrkk. A reduolion has been made by landlords in Paris. Two wooden toothpicks are now sold fdr three francs, and the price of board is now only advanced on new-comers once in 21 hours. Boston Commercial- HullUin. Wisconsin has a three legged baby a natural result, we take it, of the recent Indian scare in that State. In these emergencies, particularly in view of the limited power and number of the army, three legs are not too many. Ihtjfalo Express. An English medical authority says that the persons who blow tbe big horn in a band rarely live beyond a period of three yoars. The same ruav be said of persons who swallow big horns In a whisky saloon. Even the Big Horn, country and the horns of a bull are dangerous. Avoid all "horns" even those of a dilemma. New York Star. There is on either side of tbe equator a zone of perpetual flies. Farther north is the aone of migratory flies, while still 1 laniier uoriu is whs nappy region wnere flies are unknown. It is in contemplating tbe distribution of flies that we perceive why the Esquimaux cling to their frozen homes. Superficial persons have often asked why don't the Esquimaux leave the Arctic regions and come south to a comfortable climate? N. T. Time. Adolphus Augustus, while calling on Amelia Alice, commonly called "sissy," ran his hands through hie hair, pulled, down his vest, and asked, " Why didn't William Cnllen Bryant invent any thing better than Thanatopeis?" and when she gave it up aad he replied "Because tliere is nothing which demonstrates the poetry' of motion more Thanatopsis," she declared she would have nothing more to do with such a bold, bad man, and broke off the engagement. Keokuk Constitution, A ftevllFifc Caight Off the FlerMa Ceast. N. T. Johnson, L. B. named, and F. S. Johnson, jr. have returned from a trip to Apalachlcola and the gulf, after havine snent a most nleasant time. fishing, sea-bathing, and cruising aronnd. They boarded the steamer Julia St. Clair at Columbus, with nar tyfrom thatulace. Thev renort that the party ' landed -the first denl-fteh that wm ever caught on that coast: It wae estimated that it weighed 8,000 pounds, and measured fourteen feet across, and about twelve in Hrncth.- It wae first struck with haraooa. aad ttwdr tka mt amtind V Slf at a lively rate, until the second and rd berpeotts were put in the fish. It required the united strength ef quite a number of men to pull it u the boat.

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eats, who oatoh the obit-chat about tbe ' doings of the dignitaries in the Kadaiwiu raiaee, mere uoes not appear tae slightest probability that Beaconsfiekl intends to adbere to his former policy of propping up the Porte. To be sure he told Bismarck that lie did not come to Berlin to yield; but he has already yielded, in a very pronounced manner, to the Eastern situation thrust upon Europe by Russia. Tbe abandonment of the policy of non-interference in Turkish affairs u the distinguishing feature of Beaconsfield's present policy, and the disposition of tbe territory which lay at the mercy of the Csar after the war, shows that what England declined to de in 1875, when Anurassy proposed an European Commission to regulate the Porte'i previnoes, aad what she declined te do", after the Constantinople Conference, (of L!.L -1 - I. . 1 A 1- L Winn sue wan a memuer; propoeeu ine occupation of tbe territory of the Sultan's feudatories by mixed European' troops to secure justice for tbe Christians, England now agrees to, besides reducing the Sultan's suzerainty to a mere name. Russian influence will extend to the Balkans. Turkish influence south of the Balkans is to be superseded by European influence. The Sultan looking out of the windows of tbe Yordiz Kiosk at Constantinople beneath him; the Sea of Marmora and the Astatic hills stretching away to tbe south aad east ; the plains of Thrace on the west; tbe forest of Belgrade, tbe silvery threading of tbe Bosp bonis and tbe shadows of the mountains overhanging the Black Sea on the north, with this grand panorama before, him, Abdul Hamid can only reflect how it is all slipping from the Ottoman grasp, and how the power which meet persistently backed Turkish territorial integrity in the past is now among the foremost to declare, by word and act, that the Moslem game in Europe is played. That is the aspect of the case as far as can be gathered from Berlin briefs. Russia ought to be satisfied with the Bulgarian boundary at the Balkans. That Epirus, Thessaly and Crete, 'and the part of Macedonia which is Greek, will be added to the Kingdom'of Greece, notwithstanding the Turkish protest, is reasonably certain. If it is not done now by the Powers, the Greeks will walk over aad take the territory they have so long claimed themselves. ( In all these southern Turkish provinces there are Sclavs, but the Greeks preponderate. They want the national frontier, which was denied them in 1832 by the Powers. To have "a national frontier they must make their northern boundary as high up as Philippopolis.' It is to get a national boundary that Greece demanded a voice at the Berlin Congress. It will be the quintessence of meanness if the Powers obstruct her. Louisville Courier-Journal. It was too beautiful to lose sight of, we thought, but were soon whined on into Des Italians, and passed Porte St. Martin and Porte St. Denis, and with each step away from the Madeleine lost something of the brilliancy and life. Everywhere the theaters were open (this was Sunday night) aad the people were pouring in. Tbe cafes were filled inside, and sidewalk tables were all occu pied with families who sat drinking their wine and talking, and winding in ana out. In the midst were girls selling nowors, newspaper boys, or rather oia women, and the families of the poor wended their quiet way, enjoying what thev might in all tbis gay scene, xnus 1 saw i'ans on a bundav ntgnt, ana when I thought of our quiet, orderly Puritan Boston and staid Philadelphia, with their Sunday-keeping, in contrast with all this, I could but think an. these cities contain- thousands of hu man beings, all made alike, all heem'to the same final destiny, all worshiping, in their own war, one God And Father, and the question arose, who are right? If Protestant Sabbath-keeping America, what of these? If what is considered as keeping God's law in Boston is in deed according to His will, what thinks He of tbe Parisian Sunday, where the great races all come off on that day, where the Beis ae Boulogne is auve with gay turnouts, and all the thought seem to be for enjoyment? Can He approve tbe two? If not, which is right and where reeta the wrong with other national Let who can answer this question, aad until it can be answered let not one of ue oast the first stone, but doing what we consider right ourselves, let us hope all will be right with tae rest of the world. rarts uor. ms ton Traveller., a A Bird-Iatlng Trent. A correspondent of Lmd cmd Waier tells a well-credited story of a trout caught in the act of swallowing a sparrow wnton it had setaed. t he trout had been Kent for some time in an open shallow well or spring, and bad Become very tame. In tbe well wae a flat stone, one end of which projected above tbe water. On this small birds would alight to drink, and the villagers suspected that more than one of them bad fallen a victim to the trout's rapacity. This surmise proved to be correct, for one' day, while1 the owner of the well was passing with some friends, a splashing in the water ceased them to turn . aad look. There wae the trout struggling hard to gulp his prey. One of the spectators, fear ing that the fish would be choked by the wing feathers, thrust his hand into tbe water and caught hoM ef them. But the trout, unwilling te surreneer any pert of hie print, heM em reselutely, aad the1 leathers had to be taken from Mm by force.

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Prom tbe London Tektffrspb, M.I Early on Wednesday morning Ceuat Auhriet de Pevy, a Freeeh nobleman, lately resident in Loadoa, committed suicide in tbe Thames, at Windsor. While tbe military police were patroltag the river-side shortly after midnight, Mvates Somerville and Tuck, of tbe first battalion Scots Insilier sruards. found near Hill's ferry a heap of cloth ing, neatly arranged, and witn a maoicbordered mourning envelope pinned to tbe coat., , The lletfter bore the words, "Mv last impressions. To be opened. Count Aubriet drf'Ttevy." Mr. Chief Superintendent tiayen, oi the Windsor oorougn ponce, was :mmeaiatMy infddea of the occurrence, and instructed b uumane oeciety 10 urag tee stream, t before this could be done the body ike unfortunate nobleman, attired oaly'fn his shirt, drawers, and socks, was discovered near Tbe Cobbler, east of Windsor bridge. The corpse was removed to the Angler's Rest, Bier Lane. With tbe clothing were found a swordstick, some jewelry, and other articles, also an envelope containing photographs of tbe deceased and his Countess, the date of the latter'a death being written on the back of the picture. There were also two visiting cards, one surmounted by a coronet; with the words, "Aubnet de Pew. 4. Albemarle Street, W.," while tbe other bore the address, "Mme. Aubriet de Pevy, 12a, Cornwall Road, westuourne raric." in addition there a newspaper paragraph, headed, 'Singular Death of a French Countess in Langham street," giving details of the sudden death of tbe counteee, aad to which was attached a verse of poetry, written in Italian; also a piece of paper, with the following: "My olothes and property to be taken to the railway station, oare of tbe station master." Upon opening the letter pinned to the coat, two sheets of note-paper were found, thus addressed: "Count Aubriet de evy'a Last Impressions ; at tbe dispos al of any inquest and the press," some extracts from which are appended: "Count Aubriet de 1'evy's last im pressions : I have resolved to die. To be free of this world, which is after all but an experimental hell, where bad and good are mixed in disorder, may be considered a blessing. Montaigne says : What has mankind to complain pit t there is onlv one wav of cominsr into this world, there are a hundred ways of getting eut of it.' I think, one of the cleanest ways is the water, and therelore c noose it ae a praerreu unh-uwu. There is many a spot where I can dungs' in. I hope, indeed, for a better world. I do not fear death', although it may be disagreeable to our senses. I take it from a higher point of view. I know that as soon as we have separated rom the human frame of this world never to revive again we are immediately supplied with a new body but more ethereal, it has our snaps ana or in, is like us, but more beautiful, lees or more, according to what we are worth. As to the wicked, they bear the stamp of what they are. This is really tbe resurrection, as it ought to be understood; and we also undergo immediate judgment, and are sent to the different parts of the spiritual world, and eft to ourselves. A he good enjoy theirs at once. The wicked are kept under subjection and severe laws , but there is always a door open for them if they purify for God is ever merciful. I leave v 1J m S 1 i . 1 L!-1.1-tne worm mese siiupie uum, aigaiy respecting tbe founders of many religions, and one in particular Jesue of Nazareth. He Was a well informed man, who wanted to free his country from the abuses of priesthood and the oppression and tyranny of kings and. CKttars ef that day." i After some other comments the writer says: r, ( " I.die. therefore, in the .firm belief of being safe not saved," which is ridicuioue. isudda aiso came to ate ana save the world centuries before. . . . Born in rank and fortune, I have yet undergone many trials, misfortune, illness, and mental sorrows. The sudden death of my dear Countess, only 28, handsome, beloved by all in France and here, has "broken my heart. I loved her dearly. " I dare say I shall find her. And now farewell. "C. AUHKIET PR rKVT." A wedding ring, supposed to be that of his wife, was found upon one of the fingers of the. unfortunate nobleman, whose last addrcea. is given as 44 Langhem Street, Portland Place, London. Mas a Ear fer Music. Mr. Booth, of this family journal, k slightly deaf. While in California recently he took a trip on tbe Sacramen to River on the steamboat Whipple. This boat is provided with a "calliope" a sort of a steam hand-organ which ? rinds out "Yankee Doodle' "Rise up oung William Ruey,"aad other popular operas. On his return to Austin he told us all about the oalUope, and said it gave forth the sweetest music he ever listened to. "I don't like the clashing, noisy music of piano, aad fiddle, and trombone, and bees dram, and flute, and cornet, and flageolet, and hand-organ. ana aoooraeon, and jew's harp, ana harmettioa," he remarkde, "because I can not very plainly distinguish the allegro frem the stacoato; but the low, soft, sweet notes of that steam thing playing Yankee Doodle stele in en myi. soul Hke the subdued tooting of the Maehetta 'mill-whistle playiag the; Bead Mare i &m"Autm (Nev.J -rA teiMr-M daughter ef Wm.WntMay ef Leudee, p., waeJaeaUy seuMci uy felling into, tub ef.fcet waer.

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