The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-06-28

25k Foreign Gossip.
The ramie plant is largely cultivated
Tur champion athlete of Switzerland
Il student from Macon, Ga.
TuE subscriptions in Ecuador towards
ling the war debt of France to Ger.
many was $40, 706.5O.
In Paris, q, 95s babies are =" farmed"
ont every year. Maternal insensibiiity
and fashion are the causes.
The Italian coral fishery has been very
..cseesfule the past season. the total
s.Ius Of the yield bsing 5000 francs.
A ROY has been found in VOLTS den,
n India, cared for by the occupant, and
eating the raw meat that was brought
him. .h..r
THERE is talk OF shipping "Cleo.
ratra's Needle" from Alexandria to
England, in order 10. erect It on the
Thames embankment.
ALyRRp TENNYsoN is member OF the
committee which is collecting books and
works of art to help the Mayor and
townspeople Of Strasbourg to replace
their magnificent library which was
burned during the Franco Prussian war.
The English are doing all they can to
aid in the Rehabilitation Of this old and
celebrated collection.
A scHooLnoUsE in Copenhagen, Den.
mark, is furnished for 1000 children
one session is held in the morning, 1000
attending, and q second in the afternoon,
1000 attending. both schools being un.
der the same general management. The
system secures a happy union OF bodily
and mental exercise, the scholars work
ing half the day.
LIrrIr SWITZERLAND is said to be the
only c. ntry in Europe where more
money !, spent on education than on
the army. The educational budget is
two millions of francs, while the, mill
tary expenses remain below that sum !;
vet, when needed, the little republic
can raise an army of 100000 men.
THERE has been an immense business
done in native rice between Shanghai
and the southern ports in China, during
the past season, steamers receiving sos
freight per picul for four days voyage.
The business Of exporting native rice
from China at present is neither pleas
ant nor profitable, as under the laws of
the Chinese Empire the penalty for en-
gazing in it is death.
Ir seems that, unlike news of the
most terrible disasters, the intelligence
of the earthquake at Antioch was by no
means exaggerated. The telegraph did
not tell the whole truth. English mer-
chants have received advices that
scarcely, q family in Antioch remains in
tact. Two thousand persons are buried
under the ruins. and most OF the survi-
vors are encamped in tents lent by the
military authorities. faT lFNH
THERE has been recently established
in London, England, an" Office for Mar.
riages," which undertakes to provide
duly qualified matrimonial partners
suitable for all applicants. To support
their statemen IT, they publish in their
advertisements testimonials from va.
rious persons who have been satisfac
torily supplied with wives or husbands
BY the office, in the same manner as the
testimonials appended to advertise.
ments of patent medicines.
THE Review of Criminal Statistics, pc
riodical in the French, language, pub
lished In Brussels, states that fitty-nine
criminals were pardened out Of the Ger
man Penitenti sries during the year 1871
on condition that they should exile
themselves to the United States. The
list includes twenty murderers, eigh
incendiaris, eight forgers, three bur
glars, three slioplifters, five swindlers
two infanticides, and two medical prac
titioners convicted rs abortionists. Thir
teen were sent from Bavaria, eight from
Baden, thirteen from the two Mecklen
burgs, and the rest from other States.
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