The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-12-06

THURLow WEED, who is IS years of
age, has given up smoking after half q
century's indulgence.
MARX TwAIN's middle name has been
a mystery. His full ~patronymic 10 Sam.
uel Longhorre Clemens.
IT ia just as impossible to get along
without advertising as it is for a cross
eyed man to borrow a gun.
The wife Of Jack Grant, Representa-.
tive from Polk county in the Oregon
Legislature, last year shot and trapped
1853 squirrels.
DIR. PAUL ScHGPPE, recently ACQUITTED
of murder, after two or three years inn.
prisonment under the charge, is lectur.
ing On Science in Law"
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, whose pic
turesque management OF verse il known
and appreciated by all lovers of poetry,
is wintering among the students of the
Latin Quarter, in Paris.
A coLoRED m in New Jersey is
under arrest for trying to kill a neigh.
bors baby by feeding it bent pins. An
emetic was administered to the limo.
cent, and all the pins came TO the sur.
face.
SAMUEL AUSTIN ALLTBoNE, author of
an enormous critical dictionary of au.
thore, making 3.l40 pages, 40 indexes,
and including 46 on lives, is secretary
and editor of the American Sunday School
Union.
Col. RICE, a ~recluse, who, since the
war, has been living in an old barge at
Fortress Monroe, lately shot himself
fatally. He was at one time a promi-
nent citizen Of Richmond, Va, and
Colonel OF the Black Horse Cavalry.
The proof sheets of the remaining
pages Of Mr.. Stewards book are now
being received at Auburn. The bind.
ing of the edition will be rapidly pushed,
and the book will be distributed for sale
throughout the country during the holi-
day season.
A PITTSBURGH paper heads an oyster
dealers advertisement with Reader,
did you ever swallow a baby?" and goes
on to say that if you never have done
90 you can realize the sensation of swal-
lowing two infants by eating one of its
Advertisers oysters.
MANsARD-he of the roof-was super.
intendent Of public buildings in the
reign of Louis XIV, of France. He
was a wretched carpenter, but possessed
the subtle gift Of fattery, and frequent
ly fooled the astute monarch of France
with impracticable architectural plans.
PEOPLE generally are not aware that
Gen. Meade died a poor man. For
tu~nately, the fact of his poverty became
known to a few wealthy gentlemen of
Philadelphia a few days previous 10 his
death, and $4,000 was Immediately
subscribed for his family, and it has been
agreed to make the sum 100000.
7. BUCHANAN READ, who wasn't much
of a poet himself, said of Tennyson:
He looks no more like a poet than
does a looster if compared with a gold
fish. Angular, awkward, with great
hands and feet, and coarse hair stream.
ing away, he is not the man that q
romantic lady would die for"
The Stephen Pearl Andrews, who has
been arrested with Mrs. Woodruff and
Miss Clafin, in New York, was once a
resident of Houston, Texas. He came
here in 1889, we believe; but had not
been q resident long until one day he
was conducted to the wharf by a mum.
Der of citizens, put aboard Of a boat.
and requested to make himself scarce
in Texas at once, which he did.-Hous-
Union.
JOHN P. JONES, the San Francisco
operator in mines and politics, who has
for himself the Nevada Sena.
went out from Cleveland, Ohio,
in lS49, in the bark Eureka, which YES.
sci made the voyage from that city, via
the st. Lawrence and around Cape
Horn, to San Francisco. He is now
one of the wealthiest, if not
The wealthiest, Of men on the Pacific
soast-his possessions having been esti.
mated as high as $4,000, 900. On the
Stock Exchange Of San Francisco he
precisely the same position
hat Commodore Vanderbilt does on
Wall street.