The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-06-07

her borders, many of whom reach the
ace of ninety or one hundred years. 1t
i seldom, however, that person meets
90 many old people - are to be found
mon the plantation OF Messrs. Char
nentier and Como, just below Patter-
sonyille. While we visited there, re-
Gently, Mr.. Charpentier. pointed TO an
old gentleman, who came tottering
along with large stick OF wood upon
his shoulder, and we were surprised to
learn that he was ninety.two years OF
age, and astonished to hear that 1t was
only recently that he performed the
feat of walking from there to Vermil-
ionville and back, a distance of nearly
I5O miles. His name is Joseph Collin,
a Frenchman ly birth, and he has re-
tired upon tract of land in that vicin-
ity for about thirty years-so long, in
fact, that in bis dotage he concluded
that it belonged to him, although
planter had kindly suffered him to re-
main there for charity's sake. For a
time he was sheltered only by a wagon,
which he had converted into kind Of
house. The wind finally blowing this
down, he removed to cabin near Mr..
Charpe ntiers residence. Being very in
dustrious he still manages to make his
own livelihood.
The second curiosity there is an old
African negro, who is about one hun
bred and five years of age. His wife is
about eighty-five years of age, and Mr..
Carpenter bought both OF them, prior
to the war, for $500, as they begged him
to do so, that they might have a home.
Beside this old negro couple, he
showed US an old negro preacher, who
must be seventy or eighty years OF age,
whose mother still lived on that place,
being over one hundred years OF age.
There is another African woman there,
also, whom he believes to be upward of
one hundred years of age, and several
others who would be considered old
people in any other country than this.
Mr.. Charpentier is both kind to and
proud of the affection of these old peo-
ple for him, and they, like most Of his
former servants, will probably die on
his place.-Nc,o iberia Lay Sugar Bout.
Heart Disease.
Those ladies who suffer from the dis.
tracing grievance and disability of
being treated too much as drawing room
pets, and shielded too carefully from
the rougher blows of the battle of life,
may possibly learn resignation, If they
cannot derive complete consolation,
from some dry but significant researches
which DIR. Quain has made, and in
which he stated the result in his first
Lumleian lecture on disease of the
heart, at the College of Physicians. En-.
largement Of the heart, one OF the most
distressing and fatal diseases, is more
than twice as frequent in males as in fe.
males, the precise proportion being
eight to three. This remarkable liabil-
ity to the enlargement of mems hearts,
as compared with those Of women, is,
he thinks, PROFESSIONALLY due to the
greater amount of work and anxiety
which, in the present dispensation, falls
upon men. Ladies may take this fact
to heart, and reflect whether, in claim
ing the rights Of women, they may not
at the same time incur the risks OF men,
and with them new and unexpected
form Of debility. They might do wisely
TO rest content for their sex, with hearts
suffering, it may be, from those tender
affections which often pain, but never
kil.-Brash Medical Journal.
INTOXICATING NorRuMs.-The persons
who have scruples of conscience against
perpendicular drinking" ut tavern
bars, can become blind drunk on almost
any of the advertised "tonics" or in.
MIGRANTS in half an hour. There is,
however, one exception to this rule.
Nobody can "get over the bay" on
VINEGAR BIrTERs, for the simple reason
that this famous renovating and regu-
stimulants of any kind. Yetits strength
reserving properties are marvellous. 1t
restores the relish for food when all
other appetizers fail imparts unwonted
vigor to the digestive functions; regu-
lates the flow of bile; soothcs
the nervous system; promotes
h,althful sleep; and tends to
produce that condition Of body and
brain, which is supposed to be most
conducive to longevity and the enjoy
ment Of life. Its specific effects in
acute and chronic disorders affecting the
stomach, the bowels, the spine, the kidneys,
the Aeshy fibre, the muscles and tho lungs,
are considered by competent judges the most
extraordinary medical phenomena Of tie
age. Vinegar Bitters has now . larger sale
than any of the spirituous astringents, and
its immense popularity in land whore the
people observe closely, test thoroughly, and
act Independently, is in itself a sufficient
guarantee, Of the excellence of the medicine.
We recommend it to all.-[Com.
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A SAN FRANCISCO woman recently APP.
piled for divorce on the ground that
her husband had been for four years
addicted to the use of opium. The
cruel Court refused to crafty her wishes,
ruling that "the immoderate use of
opium, though it may operate substan-
tally the same as alcoholic liquors, is