Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 21, Number 9, Jasper, Dubois County, 28 February 1879 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER

o. KAJrr, riiikK. JASPER, INDIANA. 1 ITEMS OF INTEREST. fwwMl end Literary. Paul Gervanls, an eminent French novelist, is dead. Florence Marryatt'n latest novel is "Her World Against a Lie." A volume of Hans Christian Andersen's letters has appeared in Denmark. Gladstone's admirers intend to build a hospital to his memory that will cost $110,000. lt is said that (lie Goethe collection of the late Bayard Taylor, conbistlng of riehaad rare volumes, some dating from 1790, will soon be sold. Gen. .Tubal A. Early will write Virginia's Part in the Late War," in eonaeotion with rrof. Conrad's "History of Virginia for the Use of Schools ami Colleges." Mr. F. Hassaurek, the well known editor of Cincinnati, who was United State Minister to Ecuador under President Lincoln, has written a romance called 14 The Secret of the Andes." Miss Blanche Nevin, sister of Captain Nevin of tho Philadelphia Press, has been commissioned by tho State of Philadelphia to make a statue of General Peter Muhlenburg. It. W. Gilder, of Scribiier's Monthly, it is said, has broken down in health from too assiduous devotion to his work and will sail for Europe shortly to spend four or five months, principally in Venice. Ralph Waldo Emerson is thus described: His figure is still erect and firm, his face still full of vigorous expression, and he talks with accustomed strength, though his memory is not no good an it used to be. He still holds his faith in the future of humanity. Of English authors named Smith J there have been 810 whose full names are known. The next longest list is of I Wilsons, who number 330; and the next I Williamsos, of whom there have been 325. Tne Taylors come next, anu tno Whites next after them. The Goodale children, who write for Scribner's and who lately published a volume entitled "Apple Blossoms," have a rival in Maggie Qulnn, a girl of 11. in Atlanta. Ga., who rejoices in the tide of " The Child Poet " and has just I miblisned a poetical book called Vio lets." It is said that there is little or no hope of another novel from the pen of George Eliot, at least for years to come. Mr. Lewes left at his death an additional work on " Positive Philosophy,' to the completion of which she has already brgun to devote all her timo and energies. Madame Von Stamwitz is to appear as the heroine in Joaquin Miller's sew play, "Mexico." The New York correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal says she Is " such a superbly stately lady nearly six feet tall, and generously developed; a large, eloquent moutn, large, lustrous eyes, large cor-, dial hand which i does half of her talking, and a turbulence of dusky crowning a majestic Juno." hair Sshael m4 Ofcmreta. There are 178 schools of stenography in the German Empire, of which ; 57 are in Saxony. Saxony -Ex-students of Vassar College who I marry, are alluded to touchingly by the -arwwnwrjy, ibb college paper, as iu "late departed." To maintain its 21 universities, which have about 20,000 students attending them, the German Empire expends annually $2,500,000. Mr. Potter, American Consul at Wurteaburg, Germany, thinks that the youag men of America acquire more evil tendenciee than saving knowledge in the Universities of Germany. The report of the Trustees of the University of Alabama, or the sessions of 1876-77 and '78, to the General Assembly shows that the institution is in admirable working order and its condition to be very satisfactory. Professor Swing, of Chicago, coneludes that " sensationalism " is a term which ought never to be applied to the manner of thought belonging to the pulpit and that it is not the duty of the preacher to keep every body awake. He recalls the fact that while even Paul preaehed n young man went to sleep and fell out of the window. Mies Josie Baker, though only 1G, has jest been appointed a tutor of the Greek language at Simpson College Indiaaola, ifllaok. She reads and writes Greek fluently, ia equally proficient in Latin, and is familiar with French and German. When but eight years old she had read three books of Homer, as well a other Greek authors, and at 14 had made a complete lexicon of a tragedy of Sophocles. The California Constitutional Convention basso amended the educational article ae to exclude all foreign languages from the primary and grammar schools of the State. It also provides that the text-books adopted shall continue in use for not lees than four years. It declares the University to be a " perpetual institution of the State;" its officers are to hold office for such time as tho Legislature may prescribe. It is be kept from all political Influences. to Science- anil Industry Steel ralli are produced with onefourth the fuel ami omvthSrd the labor required in the production of iron. A flexible carbon for electric lights,

is a new and important invention jest patented in England. It can be relied up and stowed away ia small space. Combe of real tortoiseshell are inaaiive In (IuS?iim. and atinw bulla and

bars initead of the foliage patterns which were once in vogue. A new street railway track has been successfully tried in England. The rail is a Hat plate regularly pierced with holes which lit protuberances on the I wheels. I The statements of the several express companies show thattheir business for 1878 was some 20 per cent, heavier than in any of the three years preceding. s A Nuremburg chemist is said to have discovered the secret of black , Venetian gloss manufacture. Sand, sulphur, and 15 per cent, of manganese are employed. The Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Lafayette management is using barbed wire extensively for fenoinsj purposes. It is put up at an expense of only 50 cents per rod. The principal clay-pipe manufactories of the world are at Dorsetshire and Devonshire, England, where a pure clay is found in abundance. Several million dollars' worth of clay-pipes are annually made in England. The lee-Trade Journal says the cost of harvesting this winter's ice crop in tho United Slates will bo larger than ever before. Four millions dollars, it is estimated, will be paid for cutting, hauling and storing, and at least six jtimos that amount for marketing in l spring and summer. Tho General Ice Factory Company, having an agency in New York, contemplates a novel experiment that of heating a room by means of open firos.to a temperature of between 95 dog. and 100 dog. Fahronheit, and while the Ores are burning reduce the temperature by their machine to freezing point. A little cotton mill has been started at Westminster, S. C, tho machinery costing only about $3,500 run by eight hands. Tho capital was made up by a company of farmers and one mill own er (who furnished the water power) who manufacture their own cotton from the seed, and turn out about $25 worth of yarns per day at present low prices They have a homo market for their farm products, and greatly increase the value of their cotton. Haps and Mishap". Mrs. Caroline Davis, of Bay City, Mich., fell dead while hanging out clothos. A daughter of James Robinson,who livos noar Stanford, McLean County, 111., lost hor Hfo by her clothes taking fire from a grate. Louisa Walter, 9 years of ago, was choked to death in Chicago by one of those noisome toys termed a balloonwhistle, which she accidentally sucked into her throat. Miss Annie Truitt was thrown from a horse at Flat Rock, Knox County, Ind. Her foot caught ia the stirrup, and she was dragged about 200 yards, receiving fatal injuries. Marie Azurine, a female trapeze iTformer, fell during a performance at gtrikiair on an orchestra chair SO feet Kinw am1 receiving nrobablv fatal inbelow and receiving probably fatal in juries. A 6-year-old daughter of James Robinson, near Stanford, 111., was burned to death by hor olothiog catching fire from the stove while her parents away" At Boxville, Hamilton County, Ind., D Kearns, a miller, was attempting to thw jlt on a corn-sholler, WheH he was caught by the shaft and whirled around several times, breaking both legs, severing one foot, tearing one from the socket, and otherwise injuring him fatally. Robert Smith and his daughter were riding In a wagon near Littleton, W. Va., when the horses became frightened at an approaching train and ran towards the railway track. The daughter jamped from the wagon and fell directly in front of the locomotive, which ran over and crushed her to death. At Joliet, 111., Bridget and Maggie Crane, sisters, were drowned in the Des Plaines River. The girls were aged 20 and 14, and lived with their widowed mother, near the river. The younger sister went to the stream for water and broke through the ice. Bridget attempted to rescue her and both were drowned. Feiwttra Notes. It is reported that Prince Leopold, the eighth child and fourth son of Queen Victoria, now in the twenty-sixth year of his age, will enter the Church of England. Princess Matilda, the niece of the King of Saxony, is one of the few marriageable daughters of Roman Catholic reigning houses, and has been for some timo spoken of as the future Crown Princess of Austria. The marriage of the Duke of Connaught is definitely fixed for the 13th of March. A fanoy ball on a magnificent ma1a is to be riven in the Exposition Palace. Dublin, on the occasion of the Duko's marriage. Garibaldi has written a letter to tho effect that if the present King renders Italy prosperous, ho will deserve the gratitude of all Italians, including the Republicans. Tha latter pretend that j the old man has sold out in ins uoiagc. It ia said that Princess Beatrice, Otiaen Victoria's vouueost child, will soon visit Merlin, and it is further ru mored that tho trln is not entirely ttn connected with a matrimonial scheme planned in hor bahalf by her eldest sister, the Crown Princess of Germany.

The King of Spain reoeatly mot King Lottie If. of Braganae of Portugal in Klra, en the frontier, on the ooeaeioa of the opening of a new railroad from one kingdom to the other, and it k said that their meeting, ostensibly to honor the opening of the railroad, wan really to treat upon the marriage of Louie's eldest son to the Priaeeee Maria Pi a, second sister of Alfonso. FreHeh Xewtf)T WK. Translated from the Pari Journals. Maw. X, who hae no teeth, is in the habit of speaking very ill of Mme. Z , who has very ugly ones. Their respective situations were tkue pleasantly summed up by a mutual friend; "If Mme. X. had teeth she would

bo quite as ugly as Mme. ZA gentleman who is no longer young and who never was handsome, says to a child in the presence of its parents: "Well, my you think of me, eh?" makes no reply, and continues : "Well, so child, what do The little one the gentleman you won't tell me what you think of me Why won't want to get you." " 'Cause I don't licked." There are Gascons in America as everywhere else. One of them recently said: "In the State of Ohio the cold is so intense in the winter that this happened to me : I wan attacked by a robber, I took out my pistol. There was powder in it. but no ball. I was inspired by a lucky idea. I spit in the barrel and fired. The spittle froze on its way, and the malefactor was shot dead!" Mme. R , a Parisienne, whose least defect is to be as old as she is coquettish, arrived the other evening after 11 o'clock at the house of a friend, where only a few intimates had been invited. "How late you are, ma toute belle," said the lady of the house, in a tone of friendly reproach. "I am very sorry,' roplietl Mme. R.,'butthe truth is that I have a femme de chatnbre who is slowness personified. Would you believe it? she took more than an hour and a half to dress my hair." "You had one consolation," interrupted one of the ladies present, "and that was that you might have taken a walk during the operation." Two friends lived close to each other, one of whom wag in a state of constant impecuniosity. The latter got up in tne middle ot mo nigat ana rushed breathless into the house and bedroom of his more fortunate neighbor. " I have had an awful dream," ho said. "I fancied you were ruined and reduced to the last degree of want. I rose from bed under the impression of this nightmare, and I ran to my desk to get some money to taw to you." "How good of you!" said the friend. "Yos." said the dreamer, "and you can imagine my annoyance on finding that 1 had not a sou in my arawsr. n was completely empty. By the by, do you baDnen to nave ou iouis in toe aouser- - - m e m AparopriatleM fer Mirers u Marerg. Washinotoh, February II. The River and Harbor bill ordered reported to the House cobUmm the f ellewln wnreprUtiens for Western tad Southern State: Removal of snags, etc., from MifrslsulnntKiver 1199.080 RemoTal of snags, etc, Missouri Rlver. ... ......,......... ......... uv.vi'v llemoval of snafrs, Arkansas Klver. .. oto uiver r... aee.eee Improvement of the Mlsislppl, be tween tne mourn o wre iuimjw the Ohio aee.eee Improvement of tbe Missouri River. above fue moutn 01 tne xeuowHtnnn 96,990 Improvement of the Missouri Klver, between CoaaeU Bluff and Omaba. as,ee Improvement ot the Missouri Klver, oitv as.eee Improvement of the Missouri River, at Atcmson.... Improvement of the Missouri River, at sioux citv le.eee Improvement of tbe Missouri Hirer, atrort ieavenworxn Improvement of M Issouri River, at St, Joseph .SS Survey of Missouri Klver, from Me mouth to Sioux City, Iowa.. .. .... ,5j Missouri River, near Kansas River.. Sf.e&e Rnuhnat for Unner Misim4fiB( M.eGO Mississippi River from St. Paul to Dea Moines iwmius mv.vw Mississippi River near the mouth ot the Illinois River 1M0 Kentucky River I9),m Improvement of the DeeMoInes RapiU9 and opening the canal Sft.we Galena Klver and HarHor. Chippewa Klver St. Croix River s.eee Red River of the North lO.SW Illinois Klver. ?. Big Sandy Klver Wabash Klver Duluth Harbor Ontonagon Harbor l'.flea WlMomdn Klfer, Wisconsin 12, Fort Washington Harbor, Wisconsin. Milwaukee River Improvement of Fox River lM.Wfl Improvement of Caluwet Klver H.ew Manistee River W.oee White Klver, Michigan 7.R00 Grand Haven Harbor South Haven Harbor 7,W0 Michigan city Harbor M.ces Chicago 11 alitor ?.. Harbor of Kef uge, Lake Huron... . .... 75,600 Ste. Marys Uivcr and Ste. Marys Falls Canal.. 2ie,fr Detroit Klver 6 Saginaw Klver , 8,'W Cleveland Harbor, Ohio, lee.W AeliUbula Harbor. Ohio ....... Toledo Harbor, Ohio le.eee Cedar City. Mo. lo.oeo GtaKow,Mo White Klver, Indiana Oaaire River. Kansas...... ojk i nail le.eee ie,e 19,900 Removal of raft, KedUlver Siirvnvs of South Vas. Mlsslssinrtl Klver W.ece Removal of otw tract Ions In Ked River. W,.W) Mouth of Red River .. Ouachita Ktver 1MX GauRliiK waters of Mitstrpi River. S.oon Tennewtee River, alMjve Chattanooga. ll,Me Tenneseee Kiver.beiow unawaaooKa. we.we Natchez uiver.,., Memphis Harbor. VleksburK Harbor..... Yaeoo Klver MlM(lPti River. u Ctunberinnd Klver.below Xaehvtlle.. Ouinlteriand River, alwve NahvUle. Itutlalo HarDor....... Oswego Harbor.. a Amount appropriated fer examinations and surveys. is.e lee.we Total ameaat appropriate by tke bUl.... ,7M,m

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After the oM man had taken hiaerders for the day he atopped to ay : "UK 'peers ter mm oat ee Korea n noraifi' on 4e hard times hit de nale mo' squar'ly dan you's in de habit!" " How to you isaice mat ouir" " Well, de idee w dat de 'kaahun oh de hard times wnc de laeknees oh konfidenee twixt man an' man. Dat'n Wm whar I puts hit, too. Dar ain't no kondndenee nowhar!" We spoke generally of the public." " An' I npeaks genirally an1 individJelly. Ebber sense dewah I'm nett'd dis erowin' 'spwrnsaese twin peepie. Jese er few years back yer could lead yer naber er dust ob flour er pound ob meat, an' aao some jconnoence in gmua ob hit hack in de oourse ob tix or aeeen weeks; now, ef yer lends hit ter him he moves away dat same night an dar yer is lef ' with auflln ter sho' fer de pervishans, 'ceptin' de konfideaee!" " It is not exactly that sort of eoni enoe we mean " Tas; I kno's dat Bat whar's da dMTranoe. Be higher ar' only de same kin' as de lower. Jeans britches ie Jeans britches jees de same, whedder day is made for Giarul Grant or Ginrnl Tom Thumb. De same laeknees ob konfdence in biz new dat makee dese big fokes feel bard times an keeps deem karomin' ebery now an' dea agin de Eo'-house ar' de same ex dat which eeps de nigger shinnyin' 'round ten stay in sight ob er livin' !" " That is true enough " Hit's jees dat way, sho' ! When de white fokes true' one aundder dey alias keeps er lookout ter bed de creditor off fum de homestid offis er de bankrup' sbop. An' den fokes hez ter pat bargler's 'larms on dere corn-oribs, spring E ns in uere catvua-cwpa, vn r ll's eye lantern on dere wood-pile ob niehts an' set up ter watch fer nirrera! Dat's de pass dat things is got ter now! Joes no longer dan Saterday night er wLnto man out dar nex' ter me run two of his mos' konfidenohil cullud nabers outen hi smoke-house wid one ob dene new-fangled pistols dat yer has ter pot in a tub ob water ter stop hit when hat trnaa tar hrut!n' t " roes ter sbootin'! " Well, let us hope for better timet and au early return of confidence between man and man!" " I'se willin', but in de meantime I'se done gib bit out dat I puts my true' ia my ole dubble-bar'l shot gun wid nine buckshots in each bar'l. I don't like ter be 'spishus ob my nabers, but I likes ter ne at ae seie eena od ae gun wnen x meets dem in my back-yard aese aaxx nights!" Atlanta Constitution. Te See Through a Hele Sa the Hand. Boll up a piece of paper, a pamphlet, to make a tube about nine to twelve inches long and an inch or so across. Put this tube to voar rierht eve. and look through at some obje attentively keepIup nnts M nua. Mnw Wild tin vMa ins; both eyes open. Now hold up yonr ten nana, wita its ones: towards yon, and bring it near the lower end of the tube, looking at your hand with the left while your right eye is fixed on something through the tube. If you hit the right position, which yon earn do, putting the edge of the hand against, not over, tbe lower end of the tube, yon will be surprised to see very clearly the things beyond. It is a very easy, but most surprising little experiment, and will Dlease old as well as young people. You will, of course, wish to know why this is so, why there seems to be a bote where there is none. The scientifie Journals are talking about this, bat their explanations would hardly suit youngsters. We usually look at the same thing with two eyes,and the two images make one in the mind. Here we separate the two eyes in an unusual manner, and the mind brings together the eirele made by the tabs for one eye) and tbe hand seen by the other, and makes one of them. You can vary this in several ways. If, when looking through the hole in the hand, yon stretch oat the left thumb, so that H will be seen by the right eye through the tube, tho thumb will appear to be directly raoroas the hole in your hand. Instead of looking at your hand, nee a card: make a black spot on the eerd as bis; as a half-dime, and look at it as before; the black spot will appear to be floating in the center of the hole, with aothing to bold it there. Another variaUoa is to make a round hole in tbe eerd of the vise of the half -dime; look at this hols with the left eye, so that the real hols will be within the imaginary hole; the hole will appear exeeeeinfflv bright, and surrounded by a ring ef shadow. merieen Yetnf Folks. Feeled by a Fertnne Teller. Miss Julia Lamar, a young lady living at No. 2228 Chestnut Street, is anxiously awaiting tbe return of a certain female fortune teller wno causa upon nor a few days ago and told her fortune. The woman charged a dollar for revealing tke hidden future, bat as Miss Lamar hadnt the ready cash, she was induced to give the fortune teller an alpaca dress, two pairs of gold ear-rings, a breastpin and n gold buckle as security until the money could be paid, the fortune teller promising to return and exchange the articles for the money. The fortune teller gave Miss Lamar a red bag and told her to put it in tbe left side of her trunk and not to remove it until after she was married, then to throw it into the are and burn it up This would destroy all chances of marital ialarv. Tl woman said ahe lived at tha aorntr of Twantv-ffrat and Dnvton Streets, but investigation has proven the statement to te lake. St. ejs

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very Lrrosa Mm faUadesassa Tfaaes. It had been anaeemeed that Mite Jen nie Sacith would speak at the Green Street Methodist Churoh last night. When the hoar eame the enureh wan - peeked from pnlnk to mulerv and of people had to stand for waat of seats. The speaker was iatroduoed in a brief address by tbe pastor, Ker. B. W. Humphries. Mies Smith did not propose te preach a sermon, but to rive an iiluetratkn of tbe power of faith by relating her experience. When she ww about 16 years old she wan seised with a painfuTdieeese of the spine, which oonf ned her to her bed for six months. At the end of that time her strength returned, but she had to he taught to walk before she bad full control of her limbs again. Not long afterwards she was seised again with the same disease. For eighteen months she was in her bed. When she recovered again she enee more had to be taught the ase of her limbs. She remained in comparative good health till the year 1862, when for the third time she was seised with the malady and again took to her bed. For IS years she was bed-ridden. Daring that time, at regular intervals, paroxysms would seise her affecting one of her limbs. So terrible would be the effect on these occasions that as many as six men would be required to hold her in her bed. On one occasion the paroxysm was so terrible in her limb that a man weighing at least 200 pousds sat down upon it in the endeavor to hold it, and the quivering was such that a stove in the room was shaken and the windows rattled as though a stoma was blowing against the house. Afterward a box was made in which the limb was confined, the box being bolted to her cot. She was brought to the Homeopathic Hospital in this city, where her recovery took place in March last. Her deliverance from her long suffering she waa urnuj 01 uhs uouvicuok was a iuauif estation of the efficacy of prayer and of faith in Providence. Here Miss Smith sat down, and. Key. Mr. Humphries read a statement from . T- TU r ainM v .L. tTH.A Dr. John C. Morgan of the Homeopathic Hospital, setting forth the facts of her recovery. Tbe statement said in effect that on the 39th of March last he was aroused by an exclamation from Mis Smith's cot. "Oh, doctor, " she 1 cried. Then she aeked the doctor if he , would pray with her. She felt that she WM going to sit up. He did so, and in & few minutes after afterward she sat up ia her chair. This was after all trials to bolster her up by means of pillows and hands had failed. From this time she began to have a strong belief that she would be able to walk again. So strong was it that she wrote home to her mother that she would have paroxysms no more. The Tuesday evening following her success in sitting np was the time j br iimbe. 1 a . t . she sad set for the restoration oc tne use Some of her friends were iavifced. To others she wrote asking them to offer up specific prayer on her behalf on that evening. After waiting till toward 12 o'clock she aeked two persons present to take her by the arms, as she felt that the time had come. The brothers Gorrigues, stationers and booksellers of this city, complied with her wish, and, with barely any effort on their part, she rose to her feet, and walked. Since that time she has had complete use of her limbs. Not long afterward see went to Ocean Grove, where, for some months, she conducted evangelistic work. The statement of Dr. Morgan, which closes with a description of her recovery of the use of her limbs, is also signed by B. Sarriguee. The point of singnincny in this recovery, aside from her own premonition of it, is that she at once recovered the use of her limbs, which had been entirely helpless for 16 years. On uw oooasiona ui ner pruTKnw msujnot, first of six months and afterward of 16 months, it took a good while even after her recovery to get into the way of walking again. The audience listened to the narration with great interest. Criminal proesoutfons have instituted in Germany asrainet no than 18 Hanoverian gentlemen, on the ground of their haying collected money toward a wedding present to be given to tbe Duke of Cumberland. In the hones of one of these gentlsmsn a considerable sum of money was feond, which was seised by the officials. The Cologne Oasette says that Users can be no longer any idea of the Duke succeeding to the Brunswick crown. The only question is whether the difficulty of succeseion shall be settled in Brunswick, as it was in Eastern Frjsia in the time of Frederick the Great, "by a Prussian battalion," or if Brunswick k to be made a dnefcy subjeet directly to the Emperor. -Mrs. John Winke. of Detroit, Mioh., ran oat te oell upon a neighbor, leaving her 5-year-oki son alone at home. The little fellow, while trying to entertain himself, got his father's pipe and went to the stove to light it with a handful of shavings. A spark fall on his calico waist and ia an instant he was ablane. Agonizing screams were heard by his mother, who ran home and found him n mass of blistered flesh, writhtnc and shrieking with aiievtatee. a. the little sufan hour. Miss Pella M. Kobbins, a teacher in the Plymouth, Maes., publkvsohools for 2s years without losing a day front her W am. i u-nj ' 9mM DJ WK.nees Or tna weawer, bub Just resigned. -Frank B. Wilkk, of the Chicago. mm, is to publish hie ooileetioa of letters from Europe to that paper.

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