Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 21, Number 28, Jasper, Dubois County, 11 July 1879 — Page 3

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ITEMS OF INTEREST. G. W, M. Reynolds, the English writer of sensational fiction, isdoad. Tennyson's early poem, " Tho Lover's Tale," now just published with his sanction, was written when ho whs .eighteen. --The health of Joha G. Saxe, the humorous poet, la better now than for three months. His trouble, sleeplessness and nervous despondency, is leavinz him. His age sixty-throe years, ami hie home ia Hi Brooklyn, N. Y. Tbe memorial to Bayard Taylor a Medallion of tho poet in gray raarblewaleh tho graduating class of Cornell has just presented to tho University, hae been received with fitting ceremony. Under the medallion ia the inscription Lecturer on German Literature," with -the dates of his birth and death, Mr. Gladstone, although he has pissed his GO h birthday, wields the ax with groat force, and is more than a match, as a walker, for active and alert men 20 years younger than ho. Gout ami rheumatism havo no terrors for this busy man, Hud one of his most intimate friends used to say that " woaderful as is his mind, it is nothing to his body." Charles Dickens's home tho dream of his youth, the delight of his primeGads Hill Place, is for sale. Ho bought it for $8,950, but improved it so much that it will now bring five times that sum. When ho died a reserve fund of $M,000 was put on the property, at which prico it was secured by his eldest son, Charles, who nbw oilers it to tho highett bidder. Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson's lawn at Concord Is said to ba the favorite pattering place of the young people and children of that pleasant town. Even- year he invites them to a pi mic at his home, and himself enters into their games with great enjoyment. He talks to them, not didactieRlly, but with simple interest, of their plays and aims and duties. " What are the relations of literary rmn to the formulated creeds of Christian ty?" asks Prof. Swing in a recent sermon, and in answer says : "One can nut but say that those relations have never been and are not cordial. If you will glance overa list of 100 great loaders in letters it will be remarkable how many you will find who, like Carlyle, and Raskin, and Macaulay, and Dickens, and Thackeray, conceal wonderfolly any details ot religious belief, and content themselves with the assumption ota God who demands righteonsnoss. To iuch a group of literary minds you may add another group who havo made philosophy and science pass before us m the garments of a literature Isaac Newton, and Locke, and Hamilton, and Cousin, and in all this group you will find combined a silence toward a definite worship, but not an espousal of dust and oblivion, but a calm assumption of a. Jehovah." SotattM and Industry. The manufacture of coke iron in Alabama has proven a success. Oatmeal contains nearly 16 per cent, of flesh-forming constituents. The crop of Key Wet pineapples ia double that of any former year. The average consumption of wheat for each individual of the population of Great Britain, is eight bushels per annum. A New Jersey man has invented a paper stocking, intended to be worn over the cotton or woolen stocking, thereby exoluding cold and dampness from the feet. A new German invention for rendering boot-soles flexible and almost indestructible is to mix a water-proof glue with ground quartz and spread it on the soles. The roughness of the sole prevents slipping. In a report made by the Department of Agriculture of the Italian Government, it ia stated that borax used instead of salt in preserving butter imparts to the butter no flavor whatever, while it is entirely inocuous. Samples of fresh butter, in which much of the buttermilk was purposely left, have retained their natural fine flavor without changs for three months after having been salted with borax. The neweet thing In machinery is a device for track-laying. It has been successfully used on the Central Pacific and other railroads. It consists of the application of a system of adjustable ways, on each side of a train of flat oars, by means of which the rails are brought forward on one aide and the ties or the other.in a continuous stream, and delivered to the trackmen on the exact part of the roadbed where they we to be laid. Behest anA Chmreh. The sum of $31,000 was presented to Mr. Spurgeon on his completion of a pastorate ot 26 years. The General Synod of the Moravian Church met at Heernhnt, Germany, May 26, after an interval of about U years. Fifty-three members were present, of whom 11 were from America, including two Bishops. Bishop .Edmund ossohweinitz of America was chosen President of the Synod. ine London Vaxly Chronicle says of converting five Jews had been

w. ine report on ine Jewish Mission emitted to the Assembly of the Free Church at Kdinhnr!i sfartwul that ttia

$ 5,121 a head; while from the corresponding report ia the Established Assembly It appeared that some $25,000 had been spsnt in producing one "anxious inquirer." The Northern aad Southern Presbyterian churches have been.trying for several years to come into fraternal rela. Hons with each other, but have had some dllnoulty in agreeing upon the language of the terms. The Christian Observer, Southern Presbyterian, asserts

umi wiey nave come into such relations in fact, If not in form, without thinking of it, or knowing it, and oites several acts and words of the last assemblies of botii bodies in proof. The question of holding Sunday services has divided tho wealthiest Jewish congregation in Chicago. Rabbi Kohler sought to fleet a compromise by keeping up the regular observances on Saturday, and also having a sermon on Sunday. Tho result was that the attendance was large on Sunday, but dwindled to almost nothing on Saturday, and his demand that hU members should be nreeout on the latter day was so generally disregarded that ho has resigned. Hapn anI MlMiapn. At Palestine, ()., Sylvanus Beight, aged 17, was killed by the accidental ducharga of his gun. At Lafayetto, Ind., Jacob Noibauor's 3-yoar-old son was scalded to death by falling into atubjof boiling water. At Van Wert, O., Benjamin Hattery was accidentally shot and fatally wounded while belling" a newly mariied couple. At Cuyahoga, O., a blacksmith's 18-nionths'-ofd child crawled underneath a team of horses and was stamped and kicked nearly to doath. At Wheeling, W. Va., a lad named Samuel Woodruff was fatally wounded by a pistol in tho hands of a careless companion, named Louis Stevens. Mina Krausc, tho 11 -year-old daughter of a prominent German citizen of Hexar County, Texas, fatally shot herself while handling a revolver. A 2.year-old son of Wm. Hilliar, at Rogue's Hollow, near Doylostown, O., drank a solution of concentrated lye, causing its doath in a few hours. Gus. Draper, an old aud respected citizen of Standford, McLean County, 111., had his braiss knocked out while gumming a saw, by the bursting of an emery wheel. Two ohildron, aged 11 and 9 years, sons of Alfred Stoutenberg of Ciarksburg,Ind.,took shelter under a tree from a passing storm. A limb fell and killod both instantly. James Clarksou,"aged 14, whilo sleeping outside of a tent, on the River San Gabriel, Texas, was bitten by a snako, and, after lingering some hours, died in great agony. A little daughter of William and Bridget Blowers, of Waseca, Minn., died last week from the offsets of drinking a small quantity of concentrated lye, which had been left lying within reach. Eddy Yocum, a 12-year-old son of Jack Yocum, of Carbon, Ind., was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of an old musket while out hunting. The load entered his right eye, tearing through the brain. At Mooresvillo, Ind,, a 5-ycar-old son of L. A. Apples, while playing in the engine room of his father's mill, fell between the fly-wheel of the engine and the stone work built for tho wheel to run in, and was instantly killod, his skull being mashed in, and arms and legs broken. Foreign Notei. Another royal marriage is gossiped of in Europe that of the Crown Prince of Sweden and Norway and the Princess Victoria of Baden, the Emperor William's granddaughter. The Empress Augusta's recent vlsi to England is said to have been with a view to composing a quarrel between Queen Victoria aud her daughter, the Crown Princess of Germany, but the gossips declare that the mission didn't mend matters, for the Queen started for Balmoral and left the Empress at Windsor Castle. A London correspondent says of the recent golden wedding at Berlin that" Queen Victoria had arranged 12 months ago to be present on the occasion, but in consequence of the extraordinary inhoepitallty with which the Empress Augusta was treated during her recent visit to Windsor.it was plainly intimated that the visit was not desired by the Kalstir or his family." The Whitehall Review prints this story of Canada, the scarlet fever and the Princess Luise ; The wife of an official was Invited by Her Royal Highnees to pay a visit to Government House, and a . suite of apartments was placed at her disposal. Unluckily.and, as it turned out, disastrously for the guest, she and her child were attacked by scarlatina of the most virulent description, and the infant died. During the whole of the illness of mot lie r and child not a day passed without the Royal Princees paying two visits to the sick chamber. , St. Petersburg is to be made a seaport by moans of a maritime canal, which will permit the large vessels, obliged Mow to stop at Cronstadt,to take in and dkeharge their cargoes in the capital. The works necessary to make St. Petersburg the largest seaport in the Baltic will be executed within six years at a cost of 8,000,000 roubles. The port of Ribau, which, according to its situation, is destined to take a leading part

in the competition against the Prussian port, is also to be enlarged and dean-1

ened. , The iaaoy penman's business is flourishing. Uneasy lies the head on a picnic ant-hill. A stern necessity-A patoh on a fellow's pants. A little foot that grows a corn requires a big shoe one that will cover an acher at least. Boarders who are fed with cucumbers are not so apt to forget that they have been to dinner. There is nothing in the world that will so quickly and completely reconcile a starving man to death, as the aspect of a railway lunch counter, at a Erairie station, near tho close of a hot, reezy, dusty dy.IIawkeye. About the poorest "Pinafore" joke of all was tried on Miss Anthony. " I shall never marry!" said thai lady, sternly. "W'bat, nevor?" exclaimed the gentleman to whom she was talking. " Now, you go right away from here," ropliod the lady, with great violence, or I'll hit you with my umbrella." Bvjjalo Express. An item of interest to theater-goers is to the effect that Mr. James E. Murdoch will shortly return to tho stage. Mr, Murdoch is now 67 years old, and lives in Cincinnati. He is described as being comparatively youthful in looks, with but a slightly wrinkled face, clear and brilliant eyes, orect form, and a graceful carriage. He is still, in a largo mcamre, tho same Murdoch whoso Alfred Evelyn is vividly remembered by an older goneration. There was a fair maid ot Oil City Who "bRnxoil" hut-front hair what a pity, She stood by the kUs ORStlnj? oyes when, alai, Ilcr nm bunged the head ot Miss Kitty. Another sweet maid of Oil Citv. Who heard of the fate of MIm Kitty, Said hIih would bis handed If tdie'd hare her head osnfced, For jiutfs are more tityiiah and pretty. Derrick. A clergyman, talking to some youngters on the coming vacation and diverging into the necessity of kindness to animals, incidentally remarked "Boys are often cruel to frogs aad toads. I remember when a boy of wickedly filling up a toad with fire-crackers and then lighting a slow-match." He was horrified to see this remark received with the liveliest emotions of interest and delight, and utterly prostrated as ho passed out at hearing one urchin say to another, " By jingo, that's a new note. Won't we have fun blowing up tho bull paddies down in the medder!" Boston Commercial. Brother Oardner on OMcc-scekers. u It hcz pained me to obsarve," began the old man, as the meeting was called to order, " dat certain cull'd folks whom I kin name am mighty roetless an' oneasy to git on do Jury, or to fipeer in a fat nlace in de Citv-hall. or to creep under de wing of de Pos'-offus. 1 Some of dem can't keep still fur achin' ' to git sumwhar' or strike some job by which dey'll save doir elbow grease an' ' draw big pay. Almos' ebery day I am axed to sigh" petishuns to help git dis man or dal man inter sich a place, an' I begin to wonder if de day won't soon come when de rich man who wants a ( job of grass-cutting or wood-sawing done won't hev to do it hlsself. Now, let me say to de members of dis club, gittin' on de Jury at two or three dol-" do feel in's of a nigger who can't read nor write nor tumble to de big words of de lawyers, sittin' on a bench between two white men who have been frew college, mus' be like de aige of a bucksaw. He knows jist about as much about law an' de case on trial as a lamppost knows of climbin' de Alps. Even de build of his hoad give3 him dead away. Gittin' in de City-hall to clean de spittoons fur white folks may pay well, but you mus' bow down to one, bow up to de odder, grin at all, an' when you lose de place de poorest darky in town won't nod to you on de street. Gittin' in de Pos'-oflue may pay better dan days' works fur awhile, but de fust ling you know, long comes somebody wid moar names on his petishun, or bigger men behind him, and you git de grand skip right when work am skeerce and wages way down." Detroit Free Press. The Marnhys. A freckle-face girl stopped at the Post-office the other day and yelled out : "Any thing for the MirphysP" "No, there is not." " Any thing for Jane Murphy?" "Nothing." " Any thing for Ann Murphy?" "No." "Any thing for Tom Murphy?" " No, sir." " Any thing for Bob Murphy?" "No, sir; not a bit." " Any thing for Terry Murphy?" " No ; nor for Pat Murphy, nor Dennis Murphy, nor Pete Murphy, nor Paul Murphy, nor any Murphy, dead, living, unborn, native or foreign, civilised or uncivilised, savage or barbarous, male or female, black or white, f ranchised or disfranchised, naturalized or otherwise. No, sir; there is positively nothing for any of the Murphys, either individually, jointly, severally, now and forever, one and inseparable." The girl looked at the Poet mas fee r in astonishment, and said : "Please to look if there is any thing for Clarence Murphy?" This is about a fair sample of the questions asked at the Post-office when school is out. OkvcUuul Ailvmcc.

FA.SH10.N .NOTES, Black silk, oamel's hair, oashmere, Henrietta oleth and nearly all black goods are the popular materials for street wear with American women. Laos is the moet fashionable of all

trimmings; waistcoats are trimmed with , it, anu also the lace jabot u considered a part of the costume. Polonaises aud basques are both worn with waistcoats; the latter are worn with ball and fancy oostumes, as well as with walking costumes. A street or walking dress must be dark, short and unobtrusive in its general effect; while Wright colors and laces should be worn with tbe house dress. Dressy aprons of muslin are fashionable for home toilette ; they are trimmed with lace and bows of ribbon, and tbe one pocket is ornamented with a bow. Two small red-clay pipes, decorated with flowers and mottos, with the stems tied in a cross with blue ribbon, is the newest ohandelier pendant in fashionable houses. They are called peace pipes." Satin and French bunting makes a beautiful combination for walking suits. Lace will be usod profusely on these costumes, but it is very poor taste to wear white or colored laces on dresses for the street. The vest is the distinguishing feature of the stylish costume, for the reason that is affords excellent means of introducing bright and contrastive effects. Some very elegant goods, embroidered by the hand In brilliant colors, are shown for vests and revets. Jet ornaments are very stylish, particularly tho cut jet horseshoe and crescent. Those two are worn on nearly every thing whero an ornament can be put. Jet is the only ornament used for deep mourning, steel, silver and oxydized silver being reserved for halfmourning. The fashion for flower bouquets is to have garden posies with several oldfashion od flowers in them; bunches of thousand-leaf roses, a spray of mignonette, a pansy or two, a marigold or a buttercup and a few ferns are tied together and used in bonnets or for waist bouquets. The " Zenobia" armlet is a band of perfectly plain, smooth gold, with one large stone, either topaz or crystal, set in a band of the severest simplicity. This armlet decorates the upper arm, and there must be a pair. Its simplicity of effect is most chaste, becoming and classic. Novelties in shoes have Louis Quinze heels, and many straps across the instep, with bows and buckles. These are for the house only. A neat, trim boot should be as muck a part of the walking costume as the well fitting, soft kid glove is considered inseparable from a lady's toilette. The late handkerchief is almost wholly of lace. The center is a small square, round or oval piece of fine linen cambric, upon which is the owner's crest or monogram. For every-day use the small square of linen lawn, with deep hem, is in more perfect taste than those i with colored borders. A German feather dealer in London , reoentlv received 82.000 humniinsr birds. 80,000 "aquatic birds and 800,000 parrs of wings in one consignment, and all these were meant for the milliners. The humming birds' tiny wings are mounted as a pin and used to fasten lacee at the throat and on the hat. The moet original bonnet of the season is a coarse straw, composed, like Joseph's coat, of many colors. It is not at all so striking, however, as a straw in plain blue or deep wine color. The combination usually consists of ivory and mastic shades, combined with dark maroon, olive, Faience blue, paler green and brown. The trimmings must correspond in every particular, the most fashionable consulting of a broad, full estrich plnme, containing a mixture of Vie same colors, and satin ribbon stripi to match. Of course such a hat lastly, because it is unique and rare, and the colors are so artistically blended that Its effect is not showy or pronounced. Very many of the dresses for girls from 2 to 10 and 12 years old preeentthe effect of a kilt coat. The kilt plaiting is made up of either very wide box or very wide side plaits. Often these dresses are nearly all in one piece. The trimmings, instead of giving a priBoeese effect, simulate a long cut-away coat with a Franklin vest extending to meet a deep kilt flounce sewed on underneath the eoat, and representing a kilt skirt. Again, the coat effect is brought about on princesee dreseee by the addition of broad pocket placed low down on the ides. For school girls wash dresses are made of pretty Scotch ginghams, percales and chintnet, with polka dote and borders and bandana plaids. The prlaoipto of combination rules alike in ladies' and children's costumes aad in Uk, wool and cotton fabrics. .In all. olid colors are made np with 'figured stuffs to match. "A favorite way of fashioning the gay plaided bandana and percale dreeees Is in a kilt skirt set on a deep yoke fitting about the hips olosely, and a yoked or plaited blouse, belted in. For younger girls, in wash goods, come little slips, with the whole front of the garment laid ia box plaits down te a Spanish flounce, while the back is gathered into a yoke and the neck of the drees is finished with a deep sailor collar. One of the simplest ways of making up dreeees for littls girls is the Gabriels shape, fastened at the back and finished around tbe bottom with a kilt trailing, White dresses are in many instances finished with a Spanish flounce, box-plaited on instead of being gathered. These ionnees are ia tern 4ged with lacs, embroidery ec Hawfcurg edging.

A Went te CentrJIxiters.

The Indianapolis Herald polishes the following sensible advice to contributors to the newspapers: Theteisone mistake which amateur writers for the press usually make, probably more from a lack of knowledge of what an editor wants than otherwise, and that is in tbe selection of their subjects. As a general rule they choeee some abstract theme whioh can only be made interesting to tbe public by the charm and perfection of its treatment, and the ab.lity to give it such a treatment is tbe very thing their inexperienced pens lack. Obviously tbe proper subject for the amateur writer to choose is that which will interest his audience, not alone by the method of Us treatment, but because they will wish to hear about the thing for its own sake. Such subjects are usually of a local oharaoter. They are the things whioh "lie nearest us, lie close about our feet." Why not write of these? Not, certainly, because they do not afford sufficient scope for the exercise of one's literary talents; for some of tbe most exquisite literary wotk that has ever been done is that which embalms such simple little incidents, whether real or imaginary to the writer, as occur every day among us all. In every town there are scores of things constantly taking place which never find their way into the newspapers and yet are, many of them, more interesting than much of the news that is published. The editor would be glad to publish them, his readers would hail their appearance with pleasure, but they pass unrecorded simply because those who see or hear of these incidents will not write of them. They fancy the game is too small for their guns, and soar away into the realms of the imaginary to meet the greatest authors, dead and living, upon, their own ground. Our one word of advice to the amateur writer, if he wishes his work to be Eublished and read, is to " fling away" is superfluous ambition and direct his attention to those humble things which are transpiring before his eyes. Let him expend upon these as much thought and labor as he doe? on his abstract aad imaginative efforts and theresultwillbe far more profitable to himself and gratifying to his friends. While the Herald is always ready to publish contributions of sufficient literary merit to deserve a place in its columns, it receives with special pleasure well written accounts of current events of a local character. A Slight Mistake. A countryman walked into one of the leading wholesale and retail dry-goods and millinery establishments on West Fourth Street, yesterday, and after looking around a while with mingled astonishment and delight, picked up a lady's handsome cap and said : " That's all-fired finejfeoods for the money." The clerk said it was certainly very choap and a very excellent quality of goods, at the same time wonderingLow the stranger knew the price of the f 'tide without asking. " Goods is 'way down, an' that's a fact," continued the countryman; "but blessed if I see how a thing like that can be built for twice the money," and he examined the delicately wrought garment with much curiosity. " Goods never were so low as now," explained the clerk ; " and, besides, we import such enormous quantities of them that we can sell them at the lowest pos sible figure." aiming lurtner aiong tnecounter, tae rural delegate picked up a rich opera cloak, and after admiring it for some time, and without asking if it was 11 or $75, said he believed it was the cneapeet piece of goods he had overlaid his eyes on. " I know a little gal," said he, with a sly wink at tbe salesman, "that'll jest , lay 'em all out in that shawl. Wrap 'er up, and tie it with a red string, an' the money's yourn." The salesman tied tae pacicage witn a red string, as directed, and laid it down by tbe counter, as the country man shored over a handful of coin. "There's only 99 cents here," ssM the clerk, as he counted the last copper into his hand. " Well, how maoh did you suppose there was there?" " I want $13.50," said the clerk. The countryman uttered a prolongeel whistle, and then asked : Isn't this a 9 -cent store?" " Not bv a imrral it isn't. This is an importing and jobbing establishment, one of the largest " But the countryman was gone. The parcel had dropped from his nerveless ;rasp. lie rescued ine stoewaiK, anu, ookinsr up at the bir, Wr 99 whisk in dicated the number, remarked: " All I've got to say is, if thy ain't a 99 shebensr, they'd better take in their sign l "Cincinnati Enquirer. Tli nftraifttant Mtrah for new smms allied to gutta peroha and rubber has hMti rw.rdd hv a. ewnm whioh has been named " Belata." It is won front the " bully tree," a native of the Amazon region, and in appearance it is said to closelv resemble gutta peroha, though it is tougher and more flexible. It is tasteless and has an agreeable odor when warmed. It may be joined plees to piece at ISO Fahrenheit, aad melts at 270, Fahrenheit; is soluble in old benzine and carbon desulphkk and in warm turpentine. It may be strongly sleotrifled by friction aad is a better insulator than gutta peroha. It is thoucht that the gum will find many uses ia the arts. ... i hi Paris ladies may now olimb to the top of omnibuses. On a Caltfomia stage-coach ladies ride with the driver, ts a Matter of south.