Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 20, Number 35, Jasper, Dubois County, 13 September 1878 — Page 3

WBEKLTCOURIBR C. 10 AXE, Fablkaer. JASl'EK, - - INDIANA. " ITEMS OFINTlREiT. rertoMMl and Literary. Nobling, who shot the Gorman Emperor, was regular contributor to several agricultural journals. Twenty-one American publishers are represented at the Paris Exhibition by their printed books. Thomas Hardy, the novolist, is 88. He was educated as an architect, but concluded to become an architect of fiction. Kosa Uonheur begins to show signs of ageing. Her hair is becoming quite CTgy, though still plentiful; but her frank and charming manner remains. A bust of the late Michael lleose, the California millionaire, is to bo mado and presented to the State University, which he remembered so liberally in his will. I,ieut,-Gov. Underwood, of Kentucky, places a high estimate upon the power of the press, being the patron of no less than 80 different papers. The Marquis of Lome, Canada's new Governor-General, is a writer under the Horn de. plume of " Ross Neil," and i9 reported author of the fairy play El Finnella," now on the Edinburg stage at the Princess Theater. The centenary of the death of the Kev. Augustus Montague Toplady, the author of the "Hock of Ages," and other well known hymns, occurred recently. Commemorative services were held in a number of the English churches. At least one graduate is getting in his work. An editorial ia tho Boston Pott contains 25 French names and expressions, to say nothing of references to Dumas.Chesterfield, Lucullus.Talleyr&nd, Cambacers, Polyphemus, Aristotle, Xenophon and James T. field. Christina liossetti, tho poet, a woman now in middle age, is an invalid and a recluse. Her sweet nature has not, however, been soured by illnoss; she is one of tho most amiable and charming of women. She has a pleasant face, with prominent cyos and a fine head ; andsho is extremely industrious, writing constantly. A series of woman's rights meetings in Paris terminated on the 11th ult. with a banquet, at which 200 persons ate. Mine. Venturi presided and was flanked by Messrs. Antidc, Martin, City Counselor, and Laisant, member of the Chamber of Deputies. The main point of the ten brief speeches was that the admittance of woman to suffrage was the grand panacea for all the evils of society. Mine. Venturi, a delegate from England, was the most successful speaker, and Mile. Mozaoni, whose expense to the Congress wore paid by tho Italian Government, also distinguished herself. Selenee and Indactry. Petroleum has been discovered on the Nueces River, on the border of Uvalde County, Texas. A silk manufacturing firm in Lyons, France, presents on its silks a variety of photographed impressions, comprising pictures by the old masters. The salmon catch in British Columbia this season exceeds that of any other. They are sold along the banks of Fraser River at one cent each. Indians catch them and Chinamen clean and can them. Mr. John Hunter, tho English spiritualist, has invented a hive in which ho furnishes the bees with cells in which only working bees can bo bred. By this means he avoids the production of a number of useless drones. Dr. J. S. Myer,of VirginiaCity,Nev., has rediscovered a lost Egyptian art. He tempers copper tools to a moro lasting cutting edge than steel tools will hold, similar to that of the copper implements with which tho stone by the Pyramids was cut. Professor Edison's latest invention is a new ink, which loaves raised work on paper, with which tho blind can easily communicate with each other. It is in the form of a powder, which becomes fit for use on dissolution in water. A cheap sort of illuminated clock has been adopted in Stutgardt. A magic lantern is arranged so as to throw the face of a watch marking tho timo on an elevated white surface. The movements of tho hands are seen as distinct as on tho largo clock and the expense is but a minute fraction of the cost of keeping a large illuminated clock tower. Tho Buena Vista Vinicultural Society, after losing about $200,000 in the manufacture of California wine, has given up the business. The president says that Californians have not yet learned how to make good wine, that the climate and other conditions are not understood with suillcient exactness, and that even a fairly good native wine will not sell as well as a much poorer imported article. Often tho society's productions could not bo sold at anv price, Its champagne venture added "$65,000 to its kwsM, although tho wine had a considerable sale in New York, under fictitious foreign brands. Scribntr for September gives a paper on a spool of thread, which contains somo curious statistic!. One company makes 1,21)0 different kinds, and it takes 10,000 dozen spools to hold each day's product. There are 200 yards to a spool, and a Hftle calculation will show that tk means that, simply at th?ie mills, 1.1,000 miles of thread are made each day, or about 4,100,000 miles a year.

This is more than 1,200 milee of thread an hour, or 20 milee every minute. And, as the combined work of 1,000 employ makes 13,600 miles of thread, even division demonstrates that the work of oach is equivalent to 134 miles of thread daily. Sekeel and Chureh. The salaries of the grammar-school principals in San Francisco have been increased from $ 185 a month to $200. The revised New Testament is nearly all printed. It will bo presented to the Convocation of Canterbury next year-!, The Protoetant Episcopal Committee of Foreign Missions wants $40,000 at once to moot pressing liabilities, and makes an urgent call for it. Princeton Theological Seminary owns over $1,000,000 worth of property. About a quarter of this is in roal estate, the rest of it in bonds and mortgages. The new education law of Holland, adopted by the Chambers and sanctioned by the King, excludes the Bible and religious teaching from tho primary schools. Six days of the week he's invisible, and on the seventh he's incomprehensible," was the account which a dissatisfied old lady gave of her pastor and his ministrations. Ida M. Pierce, daughter of Rev. J. N. Pierce, of the St. Louis Conference, has been elected to the chair of English literature in Simpson Centenary College, -r-There is now only one Methodist body in Ireland, the Wosleyans and the Primitives having united at the meetings of their Conferences recently held in Dublin. The United Church has nearly 200 ministers. Portugal has but one university, Coirabra, founded in 1290. It has 70 instructors and 1,100 students. There are 2,450 elementary schools, and parents whose children can not read and write by 15 lose their political rights. The New Orleans school directors resolved that all female teachers Who marry during vacation shall lose their places; their theory is that married women have a supporter, and should give way to their sisters who have none. The Chautauqua Sunday School Assembly, which has just closed, was in every respect the most successful yet held. As many as 8,000 persons were there at one time on several occasions during tho Assembly, and the throng was not at any time loss than 6,000. The managers devised liberal things, securing the best and most popular speakers, and paying them well for their services. The whole expense for teachers, speakers, preachers, lecturers, and music was over $7,000. Hnpi unit Mlahnpi. The scratch of a pin, which grew into an intlamed ulcer and threw her into spasms, caused the death of Dr. John Stone's wife at Linton, Ga. James Rogers, of Ashtabula, O., died from tho effects of glanders, communicated by a horse. His body was in an almost putrid condition when death occurred. Samuel B. Mix, a farmerjiving near Trinity Mills, Dallas' County, Texas, was instantly killed by lightning, plowing. The lightning struck him on the bend, passed over his body and tearing his boots off. At Tiflin, O., a 12-yoar-old daughter of Andrew Robinson was playfully tossing her infant brother in and out of a second-story window, when she lost her grip on the little fellow and ho fell to the ground, a distance of 18 feet, fracturing his skull. AtAlgonza, Mich., Jerome Clark and his daughter, 1C years of age, were struck by lightning while sitting in their house. The young lady was instantly killed, and Mr. Clark so stunned by tho shock that he will probably not recover. Win. Braque, a farmer living at Danby, Mich., was getting ready to thresh, the other morning, and going out after breakfast looked up as he was passing under an applo treo and remarked to his wife that ho thought it would not rain much, when a bolt of lightning struck him on tho forehead, killing him instantly. The ice-cream sold by itinerant ven dors in London streets has been found in several cases to be poisonous. A physician of that city has reported two cases under his observation. Both wore of children seized with alarming symptoms of poisoning by some metallic irritant which nearlv proved fatal. They had each shortly "before partaken of colored ice cream from a street hand-cart. Tho poison was in the coloring matter, FerelKn Nete. Pope Leo XIII. is said to be an enthusiastic amateur in music and to be able to sing mass with fine effect. Tho Grand Duke Nicholas, of Russia, is reported to have fallen into disgrace because of official peculation. Tho captive balloon, which is one of the attractons of the Paris Exposition, is said to have cost nearly $150,000, and tho proprietors pay aground rent of $8,000. Tho price for a 20 minutes' ascension is $1 u head. Miss Sarah Bernhardt, the famous actress, makes three ascensions daily. It is reported that, after the close of the Exposition, the balloon is to be brought to this country. An old fellow named Barney Moran, who died recently in the Work-house at Rallies, in Ireland, revealed to the chaplain before his death that he was the executioner of Robert Emmet. He was a young soldier at the time, and performed the revolting office for a reward.

No ae but a few officers kaew who he was, and the secret was so well kept that it has commonly been supposed to be past finding out. The Jevnk World, published ia London, announces that an agent has been sent to Palestine charged with the duty of purchasing land and otherwise commencing the realisation of the great humanitarian scheme of the Sir Moses Montefiore fund,' the object of which is to better the condition of the Jews of Palestine by the introduction among them of agricultural and industrial pursuits, under such control as shall make their improvement permanent and lasting." Five hundred and sixty-three persons, it is stated, have been arrested in Germany since the 2d of June, the date of Nobling's crime, for insults on the Emperor William. Forty-two of these have been acquitted, and the rest, including 31 women, sentenced to terms of imprisonment amounting altogether to 811 years. Berlin, Breslau, Bonn, Bochum, Hall, Lobsaun, and Manheim produced most of the prosecutions, and five of the accused committed suicide before trial. OA& and Kad In Khyme. There was a young man of Ouuawlca, Got married, and went to Chicago With lite darling bride to spend the honey moon ; And this wan their true love's course: In tho morning sue got a divoree, And married another man in tiie Afternoon. eurUngton llamUeyt. That man, said Kate, " to love for nae Im Hurt- a very alave, E'en tho' 't(i full a year since I To him the mitten jrve." " Oh I then he'H not a slave," aald True, As o'er her face there flitted A rogHUh smile, " you Junt confessed That he was manumitted." Y anker t Gmetie. Horn on Monday, Wart on the nose ; Horn on Tuesday, Corns on the toe) ; Horn on Wednesday. Hair will be red: Horn on Thursday, Weak in the head ; Horn on Friday, Kreckly skin; Horn on Saturday, Mole on the chin; Horn on Sunday, Horn to ln. St. Levi Jewnuti. FAST HOKSK. Smart colt? You may bet yer pile, young man, That beaat'll travel her mile, young man, At quicker speed Than you ever seed, As if her J'inta was all lie, young man. Why, t'other day, I'll be shot, young man. Hut ahe hukhI on that 'ere snot, young man, When a li;htnln' bolt Han arter the colt. And she led It all round the lot, young man. ItoHcH Pat. TIIK LUVVKKIXTIIEKIJITOK'S BKU. I slept in an editor's bud last night, When no other chanced to be nigh ; And i thought, as I tumbled the editor's bed, How oa-y the editors lie, Kzckange. If the lawyer rtent la the edltor'ti ted When no other lawyer chanced to be nigh, And thought, m above, he ha naively miti, How easily editors lie, lie must then admit, as he lay on that bed And slept to litrt heart's desire, Whate'er he may my of the editor's bed, Twiie the lawyer himself whs the lier. Xtw OrAwiw JMMtx. THE II.VNCER. He met her at the picnic, I He melted at her glance, And he murmured sadly in her ears, " Dear heart, 1 can not dance." Now the green shadowed woods resound With airs of sunny France; In many figure o'er the ground The youths and maidens prance. Hut who Is ho, far down the irlen, Who eyes this scene askance? ' Who shuns the eye of maids and men? 'TIa ho who can not dance. Xot dance? Yet see! behold him there, Observe him leap and prance; High climbs lie in the empty air, A wild, weird, fiendish ilanee. He leaps, he kicks, he slaps his legs Ah, ha! Ills wide, wide pants Are full of filteen thousand times Ten thousand thousand ante. RHTUH&ton Hmckit. A Guileless Uiaates. The verbal call to tho crowd to come and behold the wonders of the giantess is issued by a large, well developed young woman, thoroughly encased in tights and a close fitting red jacket. Her limb development is superb and boars close inspection. She stands the Bole attraction in the glare before a gazing crowd, with a smile half defiant on her face. We enter the den of the giantess. Front seats, 6 cents; rear, 2. The giantess is seated in a niched raised platform. She smiles benignly as we enter. We are the only audience present. We sit down. The giantess still smilingly regards us. Wo sheepishly regard the giantess. It is rather embarrassing thus to be left alone with such a big woman, who does not speak English. Soon the giantess commences to unfold her vast proportions. In other words, she stands up. She is indeed lofty. Her dress descends to the platform in a trailing robe. We regard it suspiciously. Wo think of very thicksoled boots for increasing the apparent stature of many giantesses. Meantime the giantess is making her set speech. She tells us where she was born, how old she is and how far her head has got away from the earth up to the present time. Then she curtsies and sits down. Still we suspiciously look at that long robe. Thegiantess divines our thoughts. She is prepared for it. She outflanks suspicion. She commences, "upon my soul," to pull up her drees. She exposes her feet, her ankles. She pursues the subject further. Site shows foot after foot of a thick, "white ootton stocking and proves that hers are not false lew). A yard of giant limb is disclosed. The seanco closes at the knees. For a single performer, she is not badly supported. We leave miU&ed.PranKee

Mnljbrd'3 Paris Letter to San Framiim JMMin.

iTirUlA ITfcleftAeUt 1m1am The utmost that the country can boast

" naa-chay," or two-wheeled cart, the I appearance, comfort and speed of which i may be imagined if the reader can pic-! ture to himself one of the old Bath se- ( dans with the bottom cut short off, and t men mounteu upon a spring jess oiumsy frame rolling upon two as clumsy wheels, and drawn by a sorry worn-out mule or pony, over roads to which the application of the name "corduroy" would be a euphemism. Taking MtopIiages, owing to the condition of road, mnger and thirst of driver ami beat, accidents, etc., into considcration.the speed at which such a machine would cover the ground might be handsomely estimated at from five to six miles the hour. These vehicles are mostly used in North China, and the gentlemen as well as the ladies who have the honor of representing European States at Pekin and thereabout might, if questioned, be able to give some very interesting, not to say melancholy, reminiscences of their ex periences of travel after this sort. To Chinese, however, this sedan -cart, or j cart-sedan, whichever it may be termed, is quite a stylish turn-out, mandarins of the highest grade indulging in their use, and they may constantly oe seen curtained and lined with the finest cloth o: silk, and cushioned with the softest and costliest of furs. Their one great lack is springs, and, curiously enough, the invention of John Chinaman, practical as it in most cases, has not compassed the idea of saving his skin and bones to this extent, whether as regards the body or the shafts of the conveyance. Another wheeled vehicle, equally charac teristic but atrocious with the cart-, sedan, is the wheeled barrow, ori ' chotsze. " Is ot any thing like the machine with the terminal wheel and boxlike capacity which we are accustomed to associate with the name ; but a much more ingenious conveyance, in which the passengers sit nearly back to back, with thoir faces outward, and legs pendant, luggage, etc., cleverly packed alongside of them. Could an Irish car ! be reduced to miniature size, its two j wheels substituted, running under and between the two seats, and could a Chi-1 naman be placed between the shafts, face toward the car, and driving it backward, the metamorphosis would come nearer representing the Chinese wheelbarrow than any thing we can describe. These barrows carry both passengers and goods and are constructed of two sizesthe smaller driven by one man, and having a carrying capacity of four passengers or three to four hundredweight; and the larger, requiring a tracker in front, in the shape of a man or donkey, and equal to the conveyance of double that quantity. Often, in long journeys, the pasen?crsfar a consideration get the driver to fit over their heads a hood of oiled paper, stretched upon bamboo frame-work, to keep out the rain and dust; and at times the driver his load by planting a stanchion on either side, and making sail, when the wind proves conducive, thus giving practical exemplification of the truth of the lines On the barren plains Of Sorteana. where Culnese drive With Mills and wind their way canny wagons light. A striking peculiarity of this class of conveyance is the excruciating shriek which they invariably give vent to when on the move, owing to the fact that both axle and box of the wheel are made of wood. Chinese passengers appreciate this music, but it was found so torturing in the foreign settlement of Shanghai, that the Municipal Council was compelled to pass a statute forbiddiug the noise, on pain of forfeiture of the barrow ; and it was always amusing to observe how careful John Chinaman was to stop his barrow on entering munioipal limits, tilt it on end, and grease up previously to venturing upon foreign political territory. Wheelbarrows like their congeners, the carts, are confined to certain tracts of the country only, and constitute, as a rule, the vehicle of the midland provinces. In Shanghai itself they have been obliged to give way to a great extent to the " Ginrickshaw," or man-cart, a Japanese introduction of recent date, which is a light two-wheeled spring: gig, drawn with ease at a rapid trot by one man, and capable of holding two passengers. The facility of jumping ia and out of this conveyance, and the speed at which it may be bowled along; the excellent roads of Shanghai, combine to recommend its use to the shrewd Chinaman, slow although he be as a rule to take up with new-fangled and foreign notions. The fares paid to the wlieelbarrow drivers are wonderfully low. Their remuneration depends much upon the level and condition of road traversed, as well as upon the load carried; but a fair idea of its reasonable character may be gathered from the fact that one passenger can be conveyed from one emdof the Shanghai settlements to the other, a distance of about two miles, for the ridiculous sum of 25 cash, equal to about a penny of our money. Cornhill Magazine. We learn, on the authority of the London Medical Examiner, that it is proposed to form a School of Beauty" in England, in which the members, male and female, pledge themselves to do all tltey can to make themselves comely by natural means. I'riaas will be given to those ladies who can move with ease and grace, and so afford evidence of the free use of their limbs, while it will be a leading rule of the school that, though stays may b used as a means of support, they shall not be deemed essential as an accessory to beauty. In other words, a natural waist and a well-curved back, with a perfectly posed head, will be at a premium.

A TA8TfF ltJBVATY.

The TmtH4 (Fron the Virgin. (Xev.) JtatorprfcHt. Those who have not recently explored tue lower levels oi ue issuing miam oc the Comstock can have but a very faint conception of the hat prevailing therein at the present time. The beat k terrible even in the winter; it is like the breath of a furnace, and in most phtees where men are obliged to work it is deficient in oxygen, that life-supporting ingredient having been burnt out by the many candles used, and in various ways absorbed and exhausted. It can be felt piercing through the little clothing Worn, tTrying the saliva in the south, and almost shriveling the eyeballs. A temperature of 120 to ISO degrees k so much above blood heat that the process of cooking begins in the human fraate. But for the floods of perspiration covering the body the rlesn would really be cooked to a certain extent. A famous English philosopher has given am account of his going; into an ores hot enough to cook a beefsteak, and rowdaing there till one lying near him was actually ceoked. Had it been the dead instead oi the living body of the philosopher that accompanied the beefsteak it would undoubtedly have been " done to a turn." All that saved the experimenter, as he himself says, was the fact that he was constantly in a state of profuse perspiration. A temperature above the natural heat of the body undoubtedly attacks it and cause the flesh to undergo the first stages of cooking. This happens to a miner the moment perspiration ceases to flow from the pores of the skin. The stomach is first affected, then the brain. It is probably through disorder of aad sickness at the stomach that perspiration is checked. As soon as perspiration ceases to flow the body begins to cook, aad first of all, apparently, the brain, as the man at once becomes deliriousas wildly insane as aay patient in a lunatic asylum. Cases of this kind occur much more frequently than k supposed or generally known. Of late they have been very frequent in the California, and Consolidated Virginia Mines. When a miner suddenly begins to rave and talk incoherently his companions " doctor" him. It is rough treatment they give him, but it is found to be very effective. The man affected is seized and carried to the coolest ptece in the vicinity, when he is bound hand and foot and put through a process of rubbing. The friction is applied to the stomach, which k found to te the seat of the trouble, and in which knots nearly the siae of a man's fist are found to have formed. These must be rubbed out, and as soon as they disappear perspiration again starts and the man regains his senses. The rubbing U sometimes done with a piece of gunny sack, but, as this is liable to cause useless abrasion of the skin, a pick-handle is preferred. To be rubbed down with a pick-handle in the hands of a muscular miner is not such treatment as any man ia his seaces would be likely to greatly desire, nor does the miner, even in hk delirium, desire it, therefore he k tied in sack a way that he can not resist. The miners say that they oaa bring a man oat all right by their method of treatment ia less than half the time that it woald be done by the physicians. A day or two since at the Consolidated Virginia the men took one of their companions, who became deranged from the heat, tied him at the end of a rope, aad lowered him about 100 feet to a place where' he could be conveniently " doctored," then went at him with their pick-handles and soon brought him out all right. Day before yesterday a thing happened in the Consolidated Virginia shaft, which borders on the miraculous. A man wae standing on a plaak that was placed across the shaft when he suddenly fainted and fell upon his back, lying as securely along the plank as though he bad been placed there with the greatest care. It was quite wonderful, too, that he remained just as he fell sufficiently long to allow hk fellowworkmen to reach him and withdraw him from his perilous position. Xot once in ten thousand times woedd a man's life be saved when fainting in such a position. The shaft mentioned is so fearfully hot that beside it purgatory would be reckoned a cooling-offsta-tion. Atlhough the men who work there area species of human salamanderlike the philosopher who got into the oven along with the beefsteak still they can not work but about 10 minutes at a time. They then fall back and let others oome to the front. In this way of working it is asserted that there are places in the bonanza mines where it is now cost isg $ 16 per day to do the work of one man. The men could do nothing at al! but for the liberal supply of ice and ice-water allowed them. They swallow ice-water by the gallon, and frequently pour the same over each other. In these hot places they use about 96 pounds of ke per day to the man. Without ice none of our leading mines could be worked. Men can not live in the lower lerek without an ample supply of toe-water, and even with it they are, as we hare seen, almost cooked alive aad frequently rendered delirious would die, indeed, were they not promptly taken im hand and ''doctored." The American" fJaptkts have a theological seminary in India. It k located at ilamapatam, and k called the Brownson Theological Seminary. The native assistants of the Teloogoo Mission receive their training ia it. The Srst class, consisting of seventeen men and four women, was graduated this year. The women are wives of sewe of the graduates, ami have made as geed a record la their studies as aay of the ea. All the graduates are said to have pawed gootf examiaatioM.