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

Personal.
JOAQUIN MILLER is going to Eurooe
again. pe
STRAUSS is Al years old, and is worth a
million dollars.
Ex-MINIsrER j. LorHRoP MorLry 10
permanently settled in Holland.
Mr.. L. F. JOHNSON died in New Haven
last week, and upon examination his
stomach was found to be petrifed.
IT is said that Hon. Mrs. Yelverton
IL nowin India, and is about to start OUT
in search Of DIR. Livingstone.
MR.. COBB, OF Georgia, recently mar.
ried Miss Webb. He knew that thew
were to be joined as soon as he spied
her.
JAMES MCDOWELL, of Macon countv.
n. c., aged rs, is the father Of 81 chill.
dren.
Mn. LEVI TuRNIPsEED, an old and
esteemed citizen of Georgia, recently
died, but, as he was buried, his resur.
rection is sure.
WHAT is the difference between the
entrance to a barn and a losfer in q
printing office? One is a barn door and
the other is a darn bore.
~JANAuscHEK wears $780, 900 worth Of
jewels in n of her characters.
GEORGIA girls use none but reli pious
papers for Sunday bustles.
The oldest printer in the United
States is William lawson Barry. Of
Nashville, Tenn. He began to learn his
trade in 1897.
N. D. CONWAY tells a frightful tale of
an ~Englishman who has just arrived
from New Zealand with a new poe of
$4,000 verses. Who is this fiend?
TaE oldest singer in the Boston
Jubilee chorus was DR.. Ebenezer Alden.
Of Randolph, Mass. His age is eighty.
four.
The class that graduated from Prince.
ton College, June 26, weighed Just six
tons. The average birthday of the
graduates was July Is, 1850. The az.
gregate age of the class was 2,O49 wears.
8 months, Is days.
MISS VIRGINIA GoIDscuxIpr, JENNY
Lind's eldest daughter, a young lady Of
eighteen, is said to possess as glorious a
voice as her mothers ever was.
WILLIAM DoTY died in Marysville, CAL,
on the 10Th ult, having lived 81 days
with his windpipe severed. His throat
was cut by two robbers.
TIE DUKE DE NoArLLEs, the newly
commissioned Minister of France to the
United States, is learned and most &C.
complished gentleman, very rich, of
most distinguished lineage, and an ex.
cellent soldier a. we'll a. an experienced
diplomat. He is of the aristo-demo.
cratic school of European politics, and
will, with the members Of his family.
make a brilliant addition to society in
Washington.
Z WARD BEECHER says his early
in the West was rough-a large
room, two slabs for seats, and these not
full-tallow candles, each man bringing
one but ne wa quite q happy then as
now. de processes great love for the
hooeier Christians, and if God should
send him back to that humble kind Of
labor, he would not cry.
A New York correspondent saws that
Dr.. Holland will temporarily sure nder
The editorship of Ne-ibnr's Monthly, the
coming autumn, and 60 abroad again;
journey being prompted by the de.
Iire to consult the leading oculists in
Europe in respect to his wife, who, from
serious opthalic trouble, has become
nearly blind.
The moet sensible thing Eli Perkins
'ver uttered 10, that for a girl to whiten
Ter face, pink her lips, redden her
'heeks and blacken her eyebrows is to
that she is one of the demi.
monde.
TIE Pittsburgh Commercial says the re-
emily published Life of Abraham
lincoln" was not written by Ward II.
anon, whose name appears as the
uthor, but by Chauncey Black, SON Of
eremiah Black, Mr.. Buchanan's AT.
orney General. Lamon gathered much
I the material, and, as q close friend Of
1r. Lincoln, permitted his name to be
sed as the author. The two have been
'lling out, Lamon being of the opinion
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