The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-08-02

Current Items.
NEBRASKA 10 the only State thu, l.,
,;, ,s..rc : IN running order when ad.
The highest prices for maya,;,.
articles are paid by the French .nS
American publisher. "u
BosToN real estate Valuation has :.
creased $40O0O,OO the pssI wear ~
ducing the tax to $ll on 81 900. -
Tue average cost Of building q nil. =,
railroad is "a, Dos in this country.
The police of Vienna, Austria. b.v.
notited the newspapers that the puh.
licstion of matrimonial advertisement.
must be stopped.
AN exchange says: "a clock in
New York factory has been seized by
the workmen, because it has not struci
for eight hours"
THERE will be enough wild gra, es in
Texas this year 10 make more wine than
WAS ever manufactured in France in
one year.
A GEORGIA farmer had a SOW which
recently gave birth to four pigs. Ona
was like horse, one like an opossun'
the third like child, and the fourth
pig. The owner of the SOW believed
this 10 be witchcrsft, and had all Of
them burned to death.
THERE is more than 81 100000 in.
vested in the manufacture OF lanps in
this country. OF chimneys about | 200.
600 dozen are annually sold, At an
average of Fifty cents dozen.
NEvER before has such an exodus Of
American clergymen been chronicled
as during the present summer. Since
the middle of June there have sailed
for Europe between thirty and forty
ministers of different denominations. and
during the present month the number
will be largely increased.
The total annual circulation of news
papers printed in the State of New York
is 4O2,77O,S68, being more than twice
the number printed in any other State
The next greatest number of copies i,
in Pennsylvania, where 233, 3SO,339
copies are annually printed. Massachu.
sets also prints l07, 69l, 1888; Illinois
lO2,6S6, 2O4; Ohio, 81, 1894, AIS.
A wRIrER from Louisiana says: What
impresses me, among other things, in
this novel region, are the Sindly rels.
tons between whites and blacks. I have
not heard syllable of secessionism.
All the people are glad to see Northern
men all are anxious for immigration
and capital, and really they present
tempting inducements.
NIAGARA FALLS has been stormed bv
bridal parties of late, and their Romeo
and Juliet exhibitions in public have
disguised bachelors and driven old
maids almost crazy.
To BE swell 1T the seaside, the male
should dress in . suit of white flannel.
wear straw hat with blue ribbon band.
and insert round bit Of window glass
in the right eye.
TIE New York Board of Education
have decided to introduce music as
distinct branch of education in the
public schools of that city. This is
long stride in advance, and cannot fail
to bring forth the happiest results.
IT is . common mistake that the Ku.
Klux law is repealed or has expired.
Neither is true. The law is still in
force. A single feature of it, that au.
thorizing the suspension of the writ Of
habeas corpus, expired by its own limita-
ton with the late session of Congress.
But the Ku-Klux law remains in force.
TIE people of Maine held a snow
picnic on the 4th of July. In the north.
ern part of the State there is a snow.
drift of enormous dimensions, which.
although the mercury in the neightor.
hood ranges from ninety to one huudred
degrees, bids fair to last all summer.
The drift was originally seventy.6ve feet
high.
A LIBERAL estimate gives the follow.
ng As the cost entire (including steamer
are and cost OF gold) of three months
rip (6rst-class) in Europe and in this
country: In Europe, 1924 in this coun.
Try, 1882.
TIE old family servants of Washing.
on having about all followed Their
master, obituaries are now in order OF
he colored nurses Of Madison, who are
ust beginning to drop off at the most
ages. One is reputed to
,ave died in st. Louis, the other day,
It the age Of 104 years.
TIE drive of Texas cattle to Kansas
8. estimated, from the most reliable
|ata, at 100000 head, and the cattle
rill arrive in their full average condi.
ion, notwithstanding the hard winter
through which they passed.
APRoPos of the recent demise of the
Jew York Standard, it is estimated that
ne hundred newspapers, embracing
apital of upwards Of FIVE millions Of
ollars, have died in New York within
be past twenty-five years.
ABOUT the middle Of June, a Massa-
husetts farmer cut down q field OF
npinU rS,o foe f>ll~v IT. 49, L.J