The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-11-08

wEsr PoIKr has 249 cadets.


wnr PoIxr has 249 cadets.
YAL. CoLLEos has S3S students.
THEaE are TIVE million Ne.Lodists in
the United States.
MAINE has just admitted to practice
it, hrst female lawyer.
CLEvKLANp, with population of little
more than 100000, has ninety-fye
churches.
Tax cereal crops Of the United States
for ls7 i aggregated l $50, 900, 900 bushels,
valued at 81, 900 000, 600.
Or 6O,O0O,OOO feet of logs put into Bad
river, Mich. last spring, less than s.OOO,-
OOO feet will reach the mills. Bad, bad
river.
IT is stated by some of the profession
that there are less than sixty really COM
petent shorthand writers in the United
States.
TIE Boston Journal was the frat paper
Stanley handed to Livingstone, and from
it the latter got his first information of
the Franco Prussian war.
Six establishments in New Orleans,
with an aggregate capital of 81 SOC, 900,
are engaged in the manufacture of oil
and oil cake from cotton seed, the yield
being 100000 tons per annum.
The total quantity of coal used in the
world is estimated at 1851 million tons
Europe yielding 1911 millions; America
% millions, almost entirely from the
United States Asia and Austria nearly
y millions.
A REVIEW of the amount of gold and
silver yielded in California shows that
there il slow but steady decline in the
product. Numerous claims that have
been worked by sluicing and the by
draulic process are exhausted every
year, and very few are opened.
SIR FREDERICK ARROW, deputy master
of Trinity House, who has laterly visited
large number of light houses on the
lake and Atlantic coasts of this country,
stated that our system of fog signals is
ahead of England, though the English
Lighthouse system is superior to ours.
San FRAxcIsco recognizes a great rival
In San Diego, the western terminus of
the Texas and Pacific road. The Alta,
of the former city, says that I" Oakland
will do the exporting and importing of
the State and coast, and San Diego the
overland business, in connection with
all the trade of the Southern country.
CINCINNATI builds its stock pens on
the bank of the river above the city.
and then puts its water works below the
stock pens, and so obtains a bucolic
flavor In the fluid mud it supplies as
water. Uultra fastidious Cincinnatians
are now debating the subject whether
the cattle and hog pens don't slope too
much toward the river.
TEE absurdity of post-dating weekly
papers is exempli6ed in the New York
Ledger. the edition Of which bearing date
Oct. % was printed on the 10th of that
menth. This paper says their popular
contributor, Fanny Fern, is extremely
i'll, when the fact is she will be dead Just
sixteen DAYS when the date of this paper
shall have been reached.
SoxE of the Chicago packers are con-
fident that the coming winter packing
season will be IN unusually active one,
and opinions are expressed that that
city alone will pack 10000 hogs dur
ing the months of November, Deem
Der and January, or an average of 100,-
coo hogs per week. One firm calculates
to pack $4,000 hogs during the season.
AwoxAN Of the period has been found
in Market street, San Francisco. She
keeps q fruit store, teaches a private
school, runs a sewing machine, does
knitting, pinking, and embroidery, goes
out as a nurse, and "attends ladies'"
In addition to her other accomplish
ments, she is a widow, and having
hunted one poor devil out of the world
with her barbarous industry, is now
spreading her net for another.