Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 21, Number 29, Jasper, Dubois County, 18 July 1879 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER

C. MAJTE, rWiikr. JASPER, - - - INDIANA. iTEMiT Or INTIWItT. rwHMl mhI IMrmrj, Annie Louke Can- received f,400 per month during the last opera mhob. Charles Dickens's last letter, dated Jeee 3. 1S70, has been presented to the British Whwbi. Xr. Rob rt 6. IagersoU k about to oehlkk a tbiid book, " The Religion of wonI and Flaw." Mks Lilian Taylor, the accomplished daughter of our late Minister to Gersway, ha) translated th play of MtuJc and c isto German, aad it has been MMCQOsfttlly produced at Berlin. Mate. Christine Nllesou hM reeeird oners from th royal theaters of Holland aad Belgium, to sing there la the months of December and January. She is to receive 50,000 franca for eight perfonatnoee, besides all her expenses to be paid. The British Museum is about to acquire a well preserved Egyptian enyrus. belonging to the tine of the r i'tolewie. It contains nearly the whole of the thirty-fourth book of the Iliad. The Museum has secured another papyrus eTen more ancient, recently foaad in an Egyptian tomb, and containing almost a complete transcript of the eighteenth book of the Iliad. Miss Thompson (Mrs. Butler) has been requested by Queen Victoria to paint for her two battle scenes, one of them being of the field oi Rorke's Drift. Thk k considered a great compliment in England a condescension, indeed, since it comes in the form of an amiable request," when in other cases it has been a "command." The people who have always persisted in calling the sage of Mealb Park " Profocsor" Edison, nay now be accurate, aad at the same tine satisfy their craring for a scientific title, by calling him Dr. Edison. Rutgers College has bestowed upon the famous graduate of the baggage-car and telegraph oroee the honorary degree of Ph. I). -It is said that the late G. W. M. Reynolds had node more money by his 60 or 70 cheaply sensational novels than maay of the most distinguished authors in Great Britain. His earnings from hie stories have been estimated as high as $900,000, which may be aa exaggeration although that would not be much more than 16,000 a novel, and some of hk nereis are reported to hare brought him in $10,000 and $12,000 apiece. Banyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" has had a larger circulation in England than any book except the Bible. Next in popularity would probably rank " Robinson Crusoe." After that would come the " Waveriey Novels." Nevertheless there are signs that all of these old classics of the people are waning in popularity. Shakspeare aloae steadily grows according to the test of editions, and this fact is itself the highest proof of the sublime genius of this mysterious The Methodists of North Mississippi propose organizing a female high school thk fall. Holly Springs will bid to have it located wkhin its limits. Seven years ago there was not a Protestant Church m Japan ; now are 43, in addition to about 140 places where the Gospel is preached. There are also $4 Sunday-schools. A young Chinaman, named Su, who has been, for three years a pupil of the HighSeheol of Northampton, Maes., has just passed a creditable examination for admission to the Van Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Troy. When he came to Northampton, six years ago, he was entirely ignorant of the English, language, yet at this examination he stood highest of all the candidates in peUig and geography. -Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage has had a remarkable reception in Loudon. On Sunday, Jane 15, he preached at the kfasgtoa Presbyterian Church to an enormous congregation. A dense crowd blockaded the streets leading to the church. Half a mile before the church was reached, hie carriage was lifted from the ground and earned bodily to the church. It was the most singular ovation erer paid to an American preacher in London. The contribution? of Protestant CkriKiaas in the United States to forB missions do not exceed $2,000,000 ManaUy, which k estimated to be oet 90 cents a year for each comSMwieaat. The amount given by the Tarious denominations is as follows: fethodkt, $S4 2,000; Congregation albt, $457,000; Presbyterian (North, South ed United), $52,000; Baptist, $242,Episcopalian, $SO,000; Reformed, morj-mkiag a total of $1,748,000, Mch is increased to about $2,000,000 ? the sums expended by the Bible and Tract societies; President McCosh of Princeton has " &a announcement which reflects ch credit upon the College of New Jer&y, and insures what may he called perpetual prudence for the future in one very '-p-jnant particular, lie states that the College is absolutely out of debt, and signed an agreement not to contract y debts hereafter. The adoption of eha policy by some weaker instKamight be a matter of great diwty, but this example of Princeton ui do much to wake seek a system fseeral. J Boston bee a society to encourage "we at home, which k knng a large

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- j i j - t--.r-k te induce young women to form the habit of devoting souae part of every day to study of a ey.matfe aad thorough , kind. Course of reading and plana of work are arranged by the central management in Boston, from which women may select one or more according to their taste or leisure, and aid is given them from time to time through directions or adriee. The whole is conducted through eorreepoudewee. During the past year 7,158 letters have been written to students residing in 35 States and in Canada. The term of correspondence is from October 1 to Jane 1. ( SMen mm! IwhMtry. Professor Alexander Agaseix of Harvard University has been awarded . the Serree priae for researches in anatomy and zoology, by the Paris Academy of Sciences. Last year not a pound of cream of tartar was imported. A few years ago millions of pounds came annually from . England and France. Manufacturers at home now supply nil that the oountrv needs, and prices are 30 per cent, lower than formerly. The importation of crockery his decreased by about one half in the last tea years. English manufacturers have concluded that the American market is rapidly clo ing to them, and Engliih capital is being employed in the eetab. lishment of new factories in this' country. The notion that ice perifies itself by the process of freesing k not based upon trustworthy observation. Oh the contrary it is utterly wrong in principle to take for consumption from any pond the water of which is so foul as to be unfit for drinking purposes. For the purposes of submarine lighting they now compress pure oxygen I into a cylindrical reservoir of plate iron. This oxygen is supplied by a flexible tube to an alcohol lamp provided with means for the escape of gaseous pro, ducts of combustion. Tbb famishes a1 brilliant light for the period of four hours. The accumulation of soot in chimneys is a great nuisance, and may be remedied by mixing considerable salt with the mortar with which the bricks composing the chimney are laid. The salt acts by absorbing moisture whenever it is damp aad rainy, and the soot, becoming wet and heavy, falls into the fire below. This k aa English idea, and is said to give very satisfactory results. Oatmeal to Scotland seems quite ia the nature of coals to Newcastle, but it is said that a large pert of the product of an extensive factory at Cedar Falls, Iowa, is shipped directly to the Land of Cakes. Perhaps some of it comes back with a foreign label, for those who have yet to learn that there k no better oatmeal available to the American public than that made at home. Barley is the only cereal grata that the United States imports. During the last three mouths of the year 1877 we imported 5,504,513 bushels, and during the corresponding months of 1878, 3,800,081 bushels. The cash paid to for- ' etgn countries for barky during these six months was $7,0f 1.4S8 a fact well worthy the attention of farmers in those sections adapted to the growth of barky. JJejm sMhI HJe?ksapm Akmxo Carbaagle, aged 7, was fatally bitten 5-y a rattlesnake in Lake Township, near Fort Wayne, Ind. Rebecca Ewen, aged 12, was shot and killed by a young son of Joseph Gray, at Batavia, O., while the latter was fooling with a loaded revolver. A colored woman was fatally burned at Mount Sterling, Ky., by kindling the fire with coal oil. The house, owned by W. H. Curtis, was burned to the ground. Mrs. John. Hanky of Viacennes, Ind., was burned, probably fa- ; tally, in a like manner. The only child of Mr. Nelson of Brownsdak, Mower County, Minn., a boy aged three years, while playing in , the barn among the farm machinery, fell and kk head caught in a wheel, j When found he was hanging a few feet from the barn floor deed. Robert Henley, aged 55, a wealthy farmer of Carthage, Ind., stopped hk reaper and went in front of it to remove obstruction. A turkey flew up, scared the team, which ran away, and Mr. Hen ley was thrown beneath the machine and frightfully lacerated. Hk injuries were fatal. Robert G. Slade, a native of Montgomery County, O., was caught in the rigging of a mowing-machine, on the ' farm of Clifton Bogard, in the eastern part of Bullitt County, 0., aad terribly mutilated. Death ensued before the team could be stopped and the victim extricated. John Schermah of Bsn Wade, Pope ' County, Minn., traded hordes. Arciv-1 ing home in the evening, hk children being accustomed to petting the horses, J wesi into uk vuie to see ine new one. On approaching too dose, a Httk two-ear-owl son wan kicked in the forehead by the vicious animal and instantly killed. Boston Towers, while engaged is J oiling the machinery of hk steam sawmill, one mile north of Leavenworth, 1 Crawford County, Ind., fell upon the i circular saw while it was making 600 revolutions a minute. He was thrown i upward several feet by the and i again felt upon it, when it threw htm oft -to the floor below. Both thighs, the calf of hk right kg, hk shoulder, right arm and head were mangled, the pelvic hone sewed through, and hk left ankle broken. He lived for some time after

Fourtk-of-July accident : Monroe Brown and William Bamberg were dangerously hurt by the explosion of a cannon at Columbus, O. James D. Lilly and E. Burdeau were seriously injured by the premature explosion of a cannon at Durhamville, N. Y. In Chicago,

ratncK aexton, aged 18, aimed a revolver at hk companion, Patriuk Carbine, aged 13, and said playfully, " I am going to shoot you." The weapon was discharged and Carbine fell dead with a bullet through the bead. At Frankfort, Ind., Ed. Taylor, aged 21, was shot and instantly killed by the premature discharge of a gun ia the bands of a companion. At Cincinnati, Mrs. Margaret Herd, a wealthy widow, was shot and fatally wounded by a pistol ball while walking along the street. It k not known who fired the shot, which was undoubtedly without evil intent. FerclffM XatM. A collected estimate of the personal estate of the late Baron Lionel de Rothsehihl k $5,0OO,O0O. The Empress of Germany, at the celebration of her golden wedding, wore a dress and train of gold color, with a tiara and necklace of orilliants. Queen Victoria sent to the imperial pair a gift of a magnificent majolica plateau, about 24 inches in diameter. Last year's conscripts of the German Army, taken from all ranks and classes of the community, furnkh interesting evidence of the spread of education in the German Empire. The conscripts numbered 140,197, and it was found that of thk whole body 130,939 had received elementary education, and that 0,283 had gone beyond the elementary &tage into the higher branches. No country in the world but Germany, and no State of the American Union, could make such a showing in the educational line. The way in which a fool and his money are soon parted was shown at a recent sale of the contents of Gunnergate Hall, near Middleborough, England, where Thomas Vaughn had run through a fortune of $2,500,000 in eight yearj. The furnkhing of the billiardroom alone cost between $150,000 and $200,000; in the smoking-room the spittoons cost $100 each; in some of the rooms the leather covers of the seats cost $90 a yard ; a single fireplace cost 10,000, aad the owner's bedstead $7,500. The Associations of " Housekeepers" in Vienna now numbers 1,543 members, among whom are ladies of the best houses in the city. Nineteen officials, women, look after the storehouses, the book-keeping and the sales. The supervision of the whole k done voluntarily by the ladies whom the association appoints. In the shops all is activity and order; the work ia the register office is no less brisk; everywhere there k evidence of women learning to live honestly aad independently by their own labor, whether as servants, artists, work-women or teachers. A youth, even though he be a titled ruler, finds it bard to resist "good clothes." and especially regimentals. When Prince Alexander, newly of Balf:aria, called upon the Emperor at Berin, be naturally wore the uniform of hk rank second-lieutenant in the Prussian Army. It was, of course, unreasonable that a mere second-lieutenant should be cordially received by an Emperor, so that potentate dubbed the young man Major" on the spot. The Prince had guessed what the Empercr might do, and accordingly had a major's uniform ready at hk hotel. He dashed out of the palace and to the hotel, changed his lieutenant's for hk major's uniform, and dashed out again, to finish his round of state and official oalk. OA A a Hit Bad. There I ao etrews teat, kowe'er much watcned ana tenaea, Bt imh1 khiw greater eare; There is no Hete. nawever well tefen!eU, But baa a smalt boy there. jwwwi ijwrnTvnini A smoothly polkhed hoe-handle possesses three times the blistering qualities of a knotty fish-pole in the es timation of every American youth Elmira, GomcUc. In the bright complexion of my youth I'll have no such word as pale," and she reached for the rouge box with the clutch of an angel. New Haven JUgUter. The Yoakers Gazelle says that intellectual men are rarely handsome. Now we know why we are so often mistaken for Ralph Waldo Emerson. Utka (Hmrvcr. Canned strawberries are like Fourth of July orations held over till spring. You can't tell what you are eating unless you look at the label on the can. Detroit Fret Press. Who was it asked what is rarer than a day in June? We want to tell him to salt down the observation that the 2f th of February is. Fond du Lac Rtporter. The sale of striped stockings, it is said, k twice as large in prairie countries as it k in less breezy localities. The reason is obvious so are the stockings Oiinmi RejiblicHH. The philosopher says : " Life k but a spaa." Bat at the rate some of the fellows are going through it we should remark that they must have seven or eight horses hitched to tkm.Ehnira QfueUe. AMarathan boy came home with hk hair dripping wet, having just come out of the swimming hole. He was equal to the emergency, and escaped a ousy time with his mother aad a birch sprout by wearily wiping hk forehead and remarking, " It's awful hoi work, hoeing down there in the garden." SyrttcHU Sunday Times.

FAS M 105 X0TES. The newest laoe k the black Breton. Thin rrenadlne nana will ha hhaH

for midsummer. 1 All the French bonnets thus far im- j ported have strings. j Chaudron," the new color, k old t gold with a dash of red in it. . Suits in two shades of the same i color are going out of fashion. , The first larsre importation oil dresses consists largely of short street ooetumes. "Fair Maid of Perth" k the name of a costume made of wool trimmed with plaid. Shirred fronts and soft full back drapiags are marked features in the new overtkirte. Imitation feather trimmings made of colored muslins are used for inexpensive ball dresses. Late Importations in parasols show striped satin ones, and also those of dark blue, with white polka dots. Pompadour styles will be employed in makiner ud costumes for lawn and garden parties the coming summer. ( Many wraps have jet trimmings. , It k simply a matter of individual taste whether they should be used or not. I Among the most stylish aad dressy fabrics used for spring wraps are the ' soft brocaded cloths in delicate tints such as pearl or cream. In shape the spring styles of wraps do not differ greatly from last season, although everv thin? with dolman HL-a wings hanging down the sides has dk-' appeared. Bayonnaise, a new material resem-' Wing taurine cloth, will be in favor for spring dresses. Light shades of it are ' preferred, and thev are trimmed with ' , saim, Drocaue or ngurea iouiara. The plastron jacket is very simple j in shape, aud is suitable for any occasion. It may be made very dressy by aaaing ncn tnmmmgs. It k largely imported in tan and beige colored cloths. At present the home dress of the Parisian lady, the gown which she wears in the house every day except that upon which she receives, is of satin or bro- j cade, lined thronghout with plush and , trimmed with that material. ' The sleeve to be worn with white jackets thk summer will, it is said, be 1 gathered in three places, and orna-! U16UU9U. wuu mree inns oi xace. xms k aa adaptation of the styles used with transparent sleeves during the winter. The right side of many of the pattern bonnets k left almost bare. The trimming is massed high on the front and graduated towards the back on the left side, ending there in an elaborate bow, but the right frequently shows only a doubled ribbon, which pass ee backward and drops to form strings. For the street,short dresses are universally worn. There k not even the i ghost of a train. All manner of pretty, iancuui stocKings are worn, ana l&uief are having plain Lisle thread and balbriggan stockings stamped in floral designs and then embroider them in colored, shaded silks. Before being washed they should be placed for an hour in a bucket of water in which a teaspoonfill of sugar of lead is dissolved. This will set the colors also of lawns and calicoes. -Dresses are easily remodeled this season, and the tight Princess dress, now discarded, forms an excellent foun dation for a few yards of another material in the way of pankrs, some rib bon, lace or fringe, a simulated rest for , m buib auu ruBb ureauia vo match the vest, a polonaise draped away at the sides and caught up high on the hips, or eke cut oa the edge of the front breadth in three large points as described; thewakt out square at the bosom aad sleeves made into elbow sleeves, will transform something of a past away fashion into one new, fresh 4 aad quaint. , According to Harper's Bamr the new black grenadine dresses have satin I accessories aad jet ornaments, jet gal-1 loon, much shirring, and a great deal of black Breton lace in pleatings, or else French lace plaited, or perhaps glass fringe. These rich trimmings are used on the plain square-meshed grenadines. The new black striped grenadines are very elegant, with inch-wide stripes of moire, or satin, or velvet. The colored grenadines represent the gay manyhued stripes in silks ana in the new batistes ; there are also chintz-figured aud watered stripes in gay colors. Night-dresses are made of white cambric muslin. They are trimmed down the front on the lower border.and the collar and sleeves, with double rows of fluted ruffling and lace. Train ua-; derskirts are still made with full uuffinrs of muslin on the upper part, and waves of lace on the lower. They have very long trains, and are often trimmed with five flounces, each falling over the other, with the addition of six or eight flounces, which extend up the back seam. It ia not necessary that these skirts should be wholly made up, as the trains can be made separately and worn with any skirt. They are cut round or square, and very narrow at the top, becoming wider toward the bottom, according to the width of the drees under which they are worn. Oa either side of the train are bands of goods with buttonholes, and on the back of the skirt buttons which fasten the train to the skirt. Thk is aa advantage, for the skirts thus arranged oan be better peoked'in trunks ana are leeitroubleaosae ia the lauadry.

WESTON'S WAY. K.mlNlaMfHNi ttt ttt (rM PlnrKn M n Kfpnrter wl Poker-playM- MtoMMte hIhh ImprovItfeHtte. From the New York Sun.l When a man accomplishes a feat of courage and endurance greater than, was ever known before in the world.mea turn to him with wonder and admiration, looking upon the man as a hero ; and any thing relating to the hero's life becomes a matter of Interest. Edward Payaon Weston now occupies this position before the people of two continents. The first time I saw Weston was ia the composing-room of the Sun office about 10 years ago. He dashed ia with nervous haste, shaking hands with the foreman, assistants, and compositors, and noddinga jerky "How'ddoP" all round, at the same time presenting tickets and inviting all hands, with their wives and children, to come up to the rink aud him walk 110 miles in 24 hours, or something of that sort. Turning back with a hop, as he was about to depart, Weston remarked to Mr. Watkins, the foreman : " Oh, say; I'm going to give a dinner after the walk. Horace Greeley, the Rev. Dr. Hepworth, Prof, Doremus,aad many other gentlemen have promised to be there, and I want you all to come." Weston was in funds at that time. His whale-bone legs were encased ia natty pantaloons, he sported a white vest, London cut-away coat, nobby Derby hat, and swished a little goldheaded cane as he walked. He was blithe and chipper, hk determined jaw was in working order, his keen eyes lighted up bis sharp face, while hk smoothly combed, well-oiled hair gave a sleek finish to his spruce outfit. He resembled a light comedian on good terms with himself and all the world. After thk my relations with Wostoa were intimate, hk eccentricities often affording amusement after hours of labor. His money would flow through hk hands like water. Although sharp on making terms during a walk, he calculation or management as to the care of money after it is earned. This trait has used up bis profits in England. He was declared a bankrupt there to the amount of several thousand dollars some months ago. During lulls in the pedestrian fever, when there was no money in the business, Weston turned his attention to gleaning city items for an evening paper through the day, aad the Sun during the night. In this capacity he would cover the east side stations from the Harlem River to the City-hall, including a pop into Ludlow Street Jail in an hour after midnight. Disdaining to take a street-car, he would dash aloag like a phantom. Once a policeman arrested him as a suspicious character, when a roundsman who knew Weetoa, came up, saying, "Let that man go; he's Weston, carrying news to the Sm-h." Weston frequently rushed into the office about 1 a. m., dashed off a few pages of manuscript, handing it to the night editor, who hurriedly revised it and sent it up-stairs as the latest news. Then Weston would lk back in hk chair, push hk hat from his forehead, throw hk feet and legs over hk desk aad ejaculate : "By George, boys, we've got the Herald sure thk morning. Ripping murder in Harlem." Or it might be aa important case in Ludlow Street Jail, where the arrest bad been made late at night. During part of this time Weston occupied a room in the Astor House. It might have been the one where George W. Kendall won money enough at poker to start the New Orleans Picayune, At all events, Weston was fond of taking

part in the srame. After the paper sent to press a party would sometii meet with Weston to have a qukt boat at draw-poker. As the Astor House bar was closed after midnight the party would stop in Sandy Spencer's and take along a few bottles of Scotch or Base's ale. Although Weston is a temperate man in the general sense of the term, he k fond of a glass of good ale or wine. Weston k a shrewd poker-player. While hk opponents are looking at their hands to see what they hold, hk keea eyes sweep the circle like a flash. If a look of satisfaction or disappointment appears on a player's face, he notes and acts on it. Coolly raking a bet, his usual expression is : "If you think there is no hereafter, call me." The pedestrian generally manages to hold his own, although he has often risked hk last dollar on the uncertain draw. After one successful walk at the riak Weston purchased a cottage in Westchester County and bought a trottertime, 7 :11. Weston was very hospitable, frequently inviting the boys to ride out with him and dine at the cottage. He never made himself round-shouldered by carrying hk money for any length of time, and when he departed for England he was advised by one of hk poker companions not to play hk haudfor more than it was worth on the other side; beat the Englkhmen oa the sawdust track, which he could do if he used proper judgment, and then return with lreeh laurels and a chaace for big money. That he has won on "square deal" k now a matter of history. The University of Cambridge, England, has resolved to institute a special examination in the art and theory of teaching, for the sake of encouraging teachers in higher and secondary schook to become familiar with the literature of their profession, aad the best methods of practicing it. Well-water which has become tainted by some stable or other object ia the vicinity can be purified by passing it through a good charcoal filter.