Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 25, Number 36, Jasper, Dubois County, 27 July 1883 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER. C. DOANM, Publfaunar. JASPUL. - - INDIANA. irrn rajfiw rorw rra. Mow mtr and sweet the Mirth appear. How tlue and Im-Ibm Uw aliiee, Mi IMF VIM I KM HUH tow full of hope 9a f Mail vaunar mraa! From Ihew tlM roes hide their thorns. Frr UH .n uw world hnrwlf adora HjtH tfAP UlAW RAW MlMMnm 41anlM To oaptivste totsr youthful mia. The bootetr and familiar scenes Wttea we bat MrttoMo despise AlWejTS POaMSB Rise lovellnees freak jrounw Tssr are the suaMsht hinta through The MUMinwa. ami obtain a view i rt rharmina vtatas, and delltrht lo what to common in our iai. The world of fatter, and of famo An ffortMB. so anurias, lies. MM mlowdora ar, Mot far away From ffaaaiotuuT ook with sawing no That took iMM aajasai rH awssiiiaasn nuiri) wra tvr Iteyoad Uw valleys Iliad with dutt : iMtniat That aB Uw pathways barrtoadaT The mist that volte the mornlnf ma Before their vision awtftly And evrrywhem Tar pnwpect' fair Ta frosh young eyes, t'rwlftnroed hgr trial aad by tear, rntourheit by earen of later year. They kiok abroad on akle serene, Nor see the cloud that intervene. Ah, with what rapturom delight with what tender, eweet eurwriee Karth'a rkHr bunrt tttwpleivlritt flmt Hi reran younir eyes! what though the fal appeared the true! What taouvh the id appeared the aew! "Twf-rc better than to be too wise, Aad eer no roorr with frenh vounar ere. J.Htvhtm I'lUnrd, in V. 1'. Jjugtr. LITTLE THIRttfi IX LIFE. Moat of ta Slight Ceaaea that Have dues Imeertaat neaultaAwrtdeate aad jiM-iiiroU Hrinalng Death to Soma and I nrtuaea ta Othar What fate Mad la Store. How slight a thing causes death, and ei through what beatings nntl failings, l!.on and shooting, wars and bat-tit--, shipwrecks and peril on land and M'l. some person pass and still urrive t pi old age. A short time ago a rhtltl in this city choked to death on a grain of txiffoe. Mrs. Marks, a lady of sixty-two, undertook to remove a wart oa her forefinger by an application of concentrated lye (exhibltira a degree of wimloBj similar to that of the man who find his barn in order to burn oat a wasp-nest in the eares), aad her system was thtts poisoned. A Mr. Mci'abe, of St. Louis, had a alight piaipiV on bis cheek. Cut it off." be said to the barber. He did. and in ten days time a cancer develnmd, and Mr. MeCabe paid the forfeit with his life. Fear causes many accidents, showing bow powerful some people's imagination to batch out the eggs of disaster into full-fledged eJtteketts of death and sickness. General W. S. Harney, the In-dlsa-flirhter. used to tell a story of a young UieuU,tuutt who went with him to aa Indian banqaet Among- other delicacies they bad some rattlesnake, stewed, fried and boiled. The meat was white, tender and juicy. The Lieutenant ate heartily of it, and pronounced it finer hum any spring chicken be had ever eaeu. At last the Ueaeral said to him: "Do yo know that was rattlenakc. yon liked so much ?" The Lientenant tamed deadly paie, was seised with toleni retehinigs, and died beioramoniin with ssastnjsof the atontfttSh, bronfbt oa sntlrely by limwiwary fesur. fargeotVGetM-raT Francis, of the Indian Medical Serrice, tells of a dntmmer who wad soddenlj aroused from hit sleep by something crawling over bis naked legs. He imagined it was a cobra, and his friends collected by the outcry thousrht so, too, sad be was treated accordingly. Incantations, such sare cslomary with the natives on these occasions, were resorted to, and the poor fellow was flagellated with twisted cloths on the arms sad legs la " view partly to arouse him, but principally to drive out the evil influence ( spirit) that for the time being; had taken powssiou of him. With the first dawn f Tight the eanse of the aright was discovered hi the shape at a harmless Uzard. which was lying orusbed and half killed by the side ofthe poordrnm"r, but it was too late. From the inoewnt when he believed that a poisonous nudts bad bitten him be pased into increasing collapse until he died. The drummer was not a strong lad, and (he shook was too much for him. The most remarkable death from the accident of fright was that of the Dutch PhHcr, Fmteman, in the seventeenth tary. He was at work on a picture in which were represented several death "fads, grinning skeletons, and other objrets calculated to inspire the beholder wltb a contempt for the vanities and fellies of the day. In order to do his Work the better he went to an anatomkl room and used It for a studio. One unltry day, as he was drawing these nivlknrholy relics of mortality by which a was MtmnsndecL he fed off into a Piet sleep; from which be was suddenly rwwl. Imagine his horror at beholdtag the skulls and bones damdng aroond "in like mad, and the skeletons which n,Bg from the ceiling dashing themtogether. Panic-ettiekett, he nlied from the room and threw hintheadlong from a window onto the pdvemeai below. He sufficiently reoovto leant that the cause of ids fear w a slight earthquake, but his nervous 7ni had received so severe a shook ' he died in a few days. Krwicriek I., of Prussia, was killed by n accident of fear. He was one day Mecpmjr In an aravehair. when his wife. of Mekietiberw, who had for

eaped from her keepers and made her way to the JUmf priw partents. f fWf tp?f ms 'door, she daWiknilwrself fit btoodTand in a ragdeUrinm cast beraslf upon the King. The Utter, who was not aware of the bopeieunoss of Her lunacy, was so borrined at the appeajaaee of a woman emd only in linen and covered with blood that he imagined, with a superstition characteristic of the age, that It was the White Lady, whose ghost, according to-time-honored tradition, invariably appeared when death was around the house of Brandenburg. Ho was seised with a fever and died in six weeks. More ridiculous Was the death of the French Marshal. De Montrevel, "whose whole soul." says St. Simon, "was but ambition and lucre, without ever having been able to distinguish bis right band from his left, but ooncealingliis universal ignorance with an audacity which favor, fashion sad birth protected." He was a very superstitious man, and one day a salt-cellar was upset at a public dinner in his lap, and so frighten was be that iwaroae and announced

that be was a dead man. He reached home and died In a few days, in 1716, literally scared to death by the absurd casualty of a salt-cellar's turning over. Slight accidents, trivial in themselves, often produce most ill-timed and fatal results. Anacreon, the Greek poet of love, choked to death with a grapestone. JEschylus was killed br aa eagle dropping a tortoise on his head, supposing it was a rock. William the Conuiwror was killed by being thrown on to the pummel of his saddle, andChrvsooI pns, the philosopher, laughed himself to death at seeing an ass eating fig. Molicre, the grtvtt French comedian and dramatist, accidentally killed himself while plaving one of his pieces, "The Man Who Prctendrt To Be lVad." " Old mrty Drath. offended st hi play, would not l joked with In m free a way: He, when hi mimicked htm, hu voice restrained. And amda blm act In earnest when be felsrned." Thomas May, the historian of the "Long Parliament" and translator of "Laean's Pharsalia," and one of the raont versatile authors of the seventeenth century, was found dead in bis bed with signs of having been strangled. He was very fat; had gone to bed drunk, and tying his night-cap string too tight was found strangled. The old authors whom a drop too much and the accident of going to bed boozy killed form qaite a list. Sir George Ktneridgc, author of "Sir Fopling Flutter," having passed the evening with some laborious otd soakers, staggered out to light them down-stairs, lie fell over and broke his neck. Lee. the rival of Dry den. was going home drunk, and, falling in the street, was run over by a dray; and Edgar Allen Poe. the most brilliant of American poets, died of exposure and ill-treatment when recovering from a debauch. A pinch of snuff accidentally dropped into a glass of wine that Jean Baptist Hanteul, one of the greatest Latin poets France ever produced, was drinking, killed him in a few hours. Bating too msnv melons killed Afgyropolis and the melancholy Cowley, who had been to a merry-making-with Her. Twomas Sprat, afterward Bishop of Rochester. Both were drunk and lay down to sleep by a haystack, Cowley caught a cold and died. Xeaocrattff accidentally walked into a well, and Charles Lamb stumbled and produced a rupture which ended his life. William Duprat, the Bishop of Clermont, was the victim of an aockjent which indicated his weakness of character. He was the possessor of the most beautiful beard that, up to his time, had ever been seen in France, and was very proud of it On Easter be presented himself at his cathedral to assist in the performance of religious services. He found three canons awaiting his arrivaL The dean held in his hands a pair of scissors and a rasor, another bore a copy of the statute of the chapter where it is stated that in order to enter the choir the beard mast be shaved, while the third pointed out to the Bishop the spot where these fearful commands were Inscribed. As the dean was about to commence operations the Bishop cried: "Spare my beard aad I will renounce toe bishopric." The Bishop ran off to Ms canteen, but eventually yielded to the stem canons of the church, but the nsottineation of losing his beard was so great that be was thrown into a fever. A curious incident is related as oecnring during the war of 1809 between England and France. A brig commanded by an American was captured by the Sparrow cutter off San Dosahago. under the belief that she was sailing Uttder false colors at any rate, carrying enemy's goods. The court at PortBoyal found the ship's papers all correct, and the Captain swore so positively as to her American nationality that the court decided in his favor. The American commander then began proceedings against Lieutenant Wylie. the Sparrow's commander. While the case was pending a small tender in the charge of Midshipman Kelton came into port, and the young officer being a friend of Wylie at once went on board and learned of his dilemma. The midshipman at once said the brig was lawful prise, aad related that: a few days before the sailors had captured an enormous shark, and, cutting her up, had taken out the genuine papers of the brig which had been thrown overboard when capture was imminent, and they proved beyond doubt that the brig and cargo were French. The friends hastened to Kingstonv but the news traveled before them: but the skipper had skipped, leaving his vessel, and Lieutenant Wylie was richer by several taonrand pounds, t&cstr ACcaMurn. ,, lfotalwan are acatdeaaa Mssitroot,

the parent of many a great invention, and the means of diaooveriag hespfaettons for the human race. Shrewd minds have ofter turned to practical advantage aoohlental observations. Once the great philosopher. Galileo GaWel, was In the cathedral at Pisa watching the oscillations of a lamp that bung from the roof. He noticed that the swings, or vibrations, were all performed in equal times whether the arc of the swing was large or small, and whether the lamp bad lust begun to swing or was nearly ready to osass Its OMcillattons. Returning boa . he made Cndulums of various lengths, to whieh attached weights, and he soon found that the time of oscillation for each pendulum bore a certain ratio to the length of the string. From this accidental occurrence came the application of the pendulum as a regulator of clocks. Blue-tinted writing paper was discovered by aa accident. Mrs. East, the wife of an English paper-maker, going among uw vats wniie ute paper-makers were at dinner, she let a blue-bag fall Into one of them, and, horrified at the mischief she bad done, said nothing about It to any one. The spoiled paper was hidden away in the warehouse fur four years, then seat to his London sgent to sell for what it would fetch. The novelty found favor in the London market, and the agent closed out the bluetinted psper at aa advance, and ordered more. Mrs. East now came forward and claimed a new cloak as the reward for her accidental piece of lessness, and her husband for a time reaped a rich reward by the exclusive sale of his blue paper. Envelopes, now so essential in the transmission of every letter, were diediscovered by accident. A Brighton stationer used to ornament his shop window with piles of writing paperin pyramidal form, rising from the largest sise to the smallest in use, and, in order to finish them off nicely be cut cards to bring them to a point. The ladies thought these card were diminutive sheets of note-paper, and great was the demand for "some of that dear little paper;" so that the stationer found it profitable to cut some of it in that pattern. But there was no space for addressing the notelets when they were folded, and. after much brain worry, he invented the envelope, which be cut with the aid of metal plates made for the purpose. The stocking loom was brought into use by an accident, which is commemorated in a picture belonging to the Frame-Work Knitters' Company. Nearly two hundred years ago William Lee, a student of Cambridge University, wss expelled for marrying, contrary to the college. His wife was poor ana helped him by knitting stockings. Sitting Watching the motion of her fingers, the idea struck him of some device to facilitate ber work, and the ingenious stocking-frame was the result of his thoughts. In baud-knitting polished steel needles or wires arc used to link threads together in a series of loops closely resembling those in tambouring. In frame-work knitting one person can manage a large number of needles at once. Bill Lee's machine led to the circular rotary hosiery machine, which is to-day such a power in manufacture. A girl combing her hair led to the discovery of a oomhing-maohine for long-staple cotton. Joan us Heilmaa was a cotton manufacturer at Mulboase, in Alsace, and for a number of years he studied to invent a machine for carding long-staple cotton. He spent a great deal of money in models and making experiments, and at last was one day watching his daughters comb their hair, and noticed how tbey drew the long tresses between their lingers alternately without drawing the comb through them. Why could he not invent a machine which combined this two-fold action, so as to comb out long fibers of cotton and drive back the shorter by reversing the action of the comb This new idea he at once set to work upon, and soon was enabled to comb cheap cotton into moderately fine vara more easily and eceooaucally than bad heretofore been done. The accident of a game of whist raised an English Lord into royal favor. Lord Bute once wanted to go to a cricketmatch at Mousley, ana a afar Apothecary offered to drive him. Frederick, the Prince of Wales, was a spictstor, and to amuse him while the players were waiting for the rain to eeass a rubber of wait was proposed. Noolemea were scarce, bnt finally some one remembered to have seen Lord Bute on the ground. He was found and asked to Join- the royal party; and, having played his cards so well, when the game was ended the Prince invited him to Kew. The acquaintance ripened into friendship, and ere long the Scotch Earl was chief adviser at LeTeester hodse and director of the education of the heir to the throne. When George HL acceded to the throne Lord Bute s advancement was rapid from Privy Counselor to Secretary of State, thence on to Prime Minister. The plucky Scotsman owed it all to the chance game of whist. A bet was the cause of the invention of the reflecting apparatus of lighthouses. Some one in a small Liverpool scientltfo society made a bet that he could read the smallest print of a newspaper by the fight of a farthing candle placed thirty feet off. The wager being taken up, he coated the inside of a wooden board with pieces of lookingglass, forming a rough substitute for a concave mirror; placing a small lighted candle m front of the mirror the rays of light were reflected and convetged to a focus thirty feet on the other sMe of the candle, and the light at that focus was sufneientir strongr to enable the man to read the paper aad win his bet A nraotteat nam, a a Maawawt aatd nW Idea at PmvRsmswV emjHnfc mnWs snawmse aw

him that If the light of a tsjthjageaadsi could in this way be thrown os a distance, the Rght of a large lamp eouM be protected a mile or no away. Tht

result was the invention of the i bur apparatus for ilsftt booses. Meaaothnto was mvented by Rupert, owing to the simple accident of the sentry's gun being rnsted with dew. Henry Seaonward, a glass-cutter, ot Nuremberg, let some aqua fords drop on his spectacles, and he noticed that the glass corroded aad softened. That was itint enough. He made a 11 juid. drew some figures upon glass, covered them with varnish, applied this oorrodlng fluid, eat away the glass around the arawittg, so mm wnen use varanm restored the nknres appeared upon a dark ground, and etching upon jjtennVnV RFmu) ensmjCai eU eael snsa'neJ Pliny relates that the invention ot glass was due to some merchants traveling with niter, who stopped on the bank of a river to cook a meaL Not having anything to rest their kettle on, they took pieces of niter. The beat melted this, which, mixing with the sand, formed glass. Charles Goodyear discovered vulcaaIsed rubber by throwing a piece of sulphured rubber across the room to amuse a friend. It alighted on a hot stove, and he found that the intense heat bad imparted to the rubber the very quality he bad so long been experimenting to produce. A Limerick tobacconist was burned out, sad looked sadly oa while his neighbors rushed in among the reins, and, after trying the contents of certain canisters, sUaTeH their waistcoat pockets with them. What could they want with burned snuff, wondered the tobacconist. He tried the muff and found it was improved in pungency and aroma. He opened a new shop, built an oven, and m a short time black-yard muff, sometimes called 'The Irish blackguard," had a great run. and the fortune of Lsadyfoot was made. C3Ueago Times. What is thisf A druggist's rlerk, darling. Is he nut a druggist? u No, dear. But he Is putting up a prescription Oh, no! he is not. What, then, is he doing? He is trying to put oaa up. is be succeeding? He is very near success. How near? Well, the doctor's prescription calls for five grains of quuune In each dose. And what Is the druggist's clerk doing? He is patting Its grains of morphine m each nose Oh! But will not this kart the poor patient? Not very much. But how muchF It will kill him. Myl But what a dreadful tkdag for tae cierK! Not half so bad as for the patient. What will the poor druggist say when they arrest him for the maarder He will say lus clerk pot the prescrip tion up. And what will the poor clerk say? He will say he was sleepy aaa mistook the bottles. Why! are the bottles of inorpulnsaud quinine kept on the same saeilr Tnnsuch mistakes WfW to cur at say time? rney are, my precious. But why does not the hire clerks who know the tweeu quinine and morphine r Because be can hire a boy who not know for less money. t nen we are m oeugec wnenevi take the medicine the poor doctor or ders r We sre, darting. Can we do nothing to protect ourselves? Oh, yes! What? We can throw the nantlotno oat of Use window. But is not the druagtst or his clerk nunnmedforiolilnc Ism Musts lit iilu In tout wayr . No, Why? JBtttCewtttMl mnW the iurv with draasdsts they acquit both tint uuggh and his clerk. Oh! the drasviets and seniors stand by each otherr Every time. But when the peer nuts no such a dose br M 0ahsa4sh not really murder the poor patteasf uti, no, my pet. Why? Because the poor Mtient commits stucMe ny taxing it. jr. I. Ada. The question of buildiar a brkbre across the Mississippi River at Memphis is revived. It is beneved such an outlet would make Memphis a leading city of the South. It is claimed by its promoters that a solid rook bottom in tiie river has been found on which to build the bridge, but bow deep down has not been stated. A bridce at Memphis would be a very iutportant thing for that city. A family by the name of at Wlnsted, Conn., casta near having a funeral recently, but, am nnding that . . a w . a .a y . ma. . ute supposea corpsewas aitve, we oomn was returned and reioldan took the place of mourning. Their utile child fell from the piasaa Into a tub of water, and when found by the mother appeared to be dead, and snowed no signs of life until tat neat day when, tht eomm ar Uvea, sti mm

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eoUege Vmm York TMAataw with ley, lives In an bumble way as Hntfsm Mrs. Harriet Batcher Stoi seventy-one years out rceeauy still gets a fair Income from the ITmU Wi rUa 1 Charles Swane Pearee, the tan artiat who haa aaesdwed tan B af tha Parts Rxhihition. fa Ism than twenty-two years old, and is almost am a a "a a w a a - - - mvaua nee sues ox Ernest Longfellow, the poet's son, has made a selection of twenty of bat father's poems, which he will fflustitia. the pictures will be made of thai Don Piatt is living quletiy on hss tatMao4aelLOhlo. Hesammt gteatly from aa aieotloa of the ttfM, and as this preveats his psrtkapatimm dinner occasionally, his Ins Is anySbut a pleasant one. Catenas Miss Moltts Garfwld Is now a cbamins: girl of sixteen, and to her has fallen a greater share of physical beaaty than to an r other mentner of the flamtlv. She is pursuing her studies at a private school, and has few aaces outside of her school i AT. 7. QntpUc John A. (sapbell. of New Orleans, is regarded by many m the arm at American lawyers. He is a very ant man, and was on the bench of the Unnsdl States Supreme Court when the war broke out, aad he went with the Confederates. He lives very quietly, surrounded by one of thefmestlsw Ifbraries in aB languages in the world. CMeaffo JottnuU. Annie Louise Cary seems to be fat earnest when she says shttovoaheghtnv baad more dearly than she loves her art. 81e has refused to sing at the In Brooklyn rltflhanuonic concert, although In ane voice. The oner was 11.000 a sum which she did not stem to regard as aay indunememwluUever. Sim has sung at them concerts every season but one for twenty years. Clfef inter Ocean. Dr. Frederick H. Knapp, a dsntist whodied m New Orleans recently, was a native of Chenaago, N. T. He had certificates showing that ho bad attended professionally upon Henry Clay, Thomas H. Benton, Charles M. Conrad. Xaohsriah Taylor, Andrew Jaelcson, Osnm al Santa Anna, and many distinaulsnetf people. He was a ineni Mason, and took the mirty-mird degsee twenty-elgbt years An OH Cftv choir at rehearsal urday night ran over the "HaJlesujnh Ohkus.' The music esoaped uulnhtred. Oil City Derrick. A railroad conductor Is, about use only man in the world to whom Is bV trasste: the privilege ot maamg Almost aavbodr caa kill time, Dbrby has 1 Italian aU winter, and resolves to try a little oa a newly-arrived imminent. Partem Italiaao, Signer Mi"'snt Arras! now, what am ye giviu' as? Uf. A plant has been found that baswfnlness. It should be triad on the man who leaves the : by the beck window because he h) too difaaeat to sty swod-4rye to the and clerk. Catonps TV! ,., HBTumt smmnWMKi CkMwllmn iml Tsml" botevfBe. is suffering from tri shinny from eating ham. Hare Is aa emaatkmt uBgtinmlty J "Too ntnch pork for a ScbcBmg. bus there are limns, even m "What do you suppose FH look Hka when I get out of this?" fadh, iaoaired a fsehiooahly-dreased kdv of a nmdootor of a fearfully aat-ear rne otaer like crusbed suaar, Jan . 4NBmJanm((PsJuel smJBml mmMk lemaj NmV0ual rode few streets further with of an sswsi. ' The next iwlutm that psetm oanr the country wfll be the "sweet girl graduate." Its path vaUlbeas wide as the continent, and its form wtfl bo seen, that Toothful be a i Is now a butt wfll be wswv w wiwemwae awraw aw -w awwav ww aaw aanr pulverised. The affair will appear as a funnel snanoi KtZmrfT cloud of white Mr. Utta 8. Them through a wood the other day. Ha stopped before a Rne chaster of anna trees, and. striking a sentimental avnV tede. thus sottloouised: "How scorn fully soulful! haw mbUmefulhr utjari Buddealy Mrs. Shillinga iHiiind, a butcher's wife, whom he had ant eberred, standing At, what srrand butcher's bleaks theyvd make.'r Utta 8. Taete staid long enough to utterly utter one soulful throatful teream of Itorror, ami then, vanished.-Jteten 'JML To i emote varahth from the tSk wr n www ww eav wawa as wpwami wwf legs, let the children play ia the paaior. Never clean your teeth with paper, as the sand is apt to ma rums sore. Never attempt to your boots with a scrabbfng-br una ; M has a tendency to ram the leather. Don't throw away your teuotastkas, A broomstick is a sniendid thfaar to tram. a sunflower on. To keen Mat off a bakt bead during a aernton. mt

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