The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-10-04

conductor.
The best get up for ladies-eight
o'clock a. IN.
Or what nation are all stocking.
members? Darnation.
II seven days make one week. how
many will make one strong9
The yachtman's motto-Large sails
and small profits.
The richer man makes his food the
poorer ne makes his appetite.
Why is newspaper like an army ?
Because 1t mas leaders, columns and re.
views.
No INDULGENCE of passion DESTROYS
the spiritual nature SO much as respect.
able selfishness.
Why should man with a termacant
wife be considered smart fellow? Be.
cause he's shrewd individual
SOMEBODY says ga wife should be like
roasted lamb, tender, and nicely
dressed" A scamp adds, land with
out any sauce"
To MAKE girl love you, coax her to
love somebody else. If there be any
thing that woman relishes, it is to be
contrary.
A GRAVE DIGGER, walking in the streets.
CHANGED to turn, and noticed two doc.
tors walking behind him. He stopped
till they passed, and then followed on
behind them. Sand why this ?' said
they. II know my place in this pro-
cession," said he.
Two YEARS ago n Connecticut man re-
ceived gross insult from neighbor
who lives quarter of mile or more
from him. After long meditation he
has purchased peacock and iackass.
and anchored them in a field adjoining
his neighbours back yard.
The Rev. Samuel J. Browne, who. in
1904, published the first number of the
Cincinnati Gazette, and who, last july.
shot boy for robbing his garden, died
lately at his residence near Cincinnati.
aged So. He died possessed of real estate
worth not less than 100000, which he
had owned since the early days of Gin
cinnati.
ONE of the best political notes of the
day occurred at Fairhaven, VT, the
other Sunday. On returning home
from church, little Freddie, who is about
five years old. said to his father: "Our
minister is Republican. amt he, pap
IL hope so, my son, but why do you
think he is?" Because, when he was
praying this morning. he said, Grant.
our Heavenly Father If he had been
a Democrat, he would have said, Gree
ley, our Heavenly Father
A COTTON harvest machine has been
invented, which, it is claimed, will per.
form the work of fifty hands a day, col
Letting and gathering into bags the cot.
ton from twelve acres with the assist
ance OF two men, one boy and pair of
mules. The cotton plant passes be-
tween the two sections, and the foliage
is left undisturbed for the second and
third pickings.
ATLANTA. Ca, is the coming great in
and city of the South. Its railroad
ines, diverging to all points, make it a
great distributing center, and its roll
ng-mills, machine shops, flour mills.
cotton establishments, car-works, and
,ther manufacturing establishments,
give it articles of its own product to dis
tribute broadcast over the country.
A POLITICAL orator in New Orleans re.
'ently "quoted history" by referring to
the iron coffin of De Soto, containing
he gold trumpet presented to the illus
rious discoverer by Queen Victoria
Why. you fool!" exclaimed an in
elligent auditor, "Queen Victoria
wasn't born for more'n two hundred
ears after De Soto died an how could
he give him gold trumpet"
"She left it to him in her will" sol.
mnly replied the orator.
NEWARK has un dertaken an enter.
rise which has no precedent in Ameri.
an history. II is an industrial exhibi-
ion of the manufactures of single
own only. Even her sister city, Pater.
on, is forbidden TO exhibit. II j. sim.
ly an exhibition of what Newark
lone can do. The whole plan
unique, and as a display of what
single city can do in the way
{ manufactures, the exhibition is said
} be remarkable success.
Miss AVERY, the telegraph operator
Stonington, on the day of the terri.
lie disaster TO the Metis, remained in
,e Office for seventeen consecutive
ours, and sent, during that time, 4,OOO
ords to the press, besides 4S3 paid
essages Of various lengths. a very
rye proportion Of which she had to
ceive from Watch Hill and repeat to
her points. A gentleman of Boston.
total stranger to her, was so much
ruck with her faithful devotion to her
ork, that he sent her quite sum OF
oney as an expression of his appre.
alton.