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


Sir CHARLES LyELL computes that all
North America will be washed away
into the ocean by processes now actually
in operation, within space of four AND
a half millions Of years.
The hair on camel weighs about ten
pounds, and sells for more than 500.
PIsroLs are an unknown weapon in
Lapland, the ancient fintlock musket
being in that damp climate deemed
most reliable.
The average life of Methodist minis.
tiers is % per cent. below that of minis.
ters OF other denominations. They work
too hard.
The sink.hole on the Sheboypan and
Fond du Lac railroad, two miles west of
Ripon. Wis. has swallowed up from
5000 to 10000 yards of earth, and it is
hoped that the bottom has been reached.
The newest Western wonder is soda
lake, on the Union Pacific railroad
several miles in circumference, and
capable OF supplying 10000 tons of soda
year. We shall probably next hear of
brandy mandatory in that quarter.
The actual duration of a fash of light.
ming does not exceed the millionth part
OF q second. But the retina of the hu.
man eye retains the impression of the
electric flash for much longer pc.
riod.
The English Anti-Tobacco Society
have endeWored to demonstrate the
horrible effects of smoking by inducing
Prof Newman to experiment upon
his own nervous system and note the
results. He found them so pleasant
that he has become confirmed user of
the weed, and the reformers are discon.
ISOLATE.
MAGMA CHARTA was translated into
English in 1858; the Psalms of David
We're done into meter in 1910; plays
were first performed in English in 1928;
wills and settlements were first written
in English in l347 and the first spe ech
In English was made in Parliament in
1862, by Sir Edward Turner.
PRoF. SHEPARD, of Amherst College.
has recently made valuable addition |
to his splendid cabinet of minerals. 1t
Is ruby of enormous size, the largest
in the world, weighing 3l6 pounds. 1t
was discovered somewhere in the South,
and was about to be taken to Europe,
but Prof. Shepard made high bid
$1,000, and secured it.
THERE is an artesian we'll in Paris
which is nearly two thousand feet deep.
our feet in diameter at the top and two
eet at the bottom, and which discharges
upward of FIVE millions of cubic feet
II water every twenty-four hours.
throughout Europe, it is stated, much
attention is being paid by scientific en-.
,ineers to this kind of wells, and the
,pinion is rapidly gaining ground that
hey are the cheapest as well as the best
ources OF water supply for large cities.
In a paper read before the British
association, DR.. Wilson argues that
labitual criminals do not possess such
n amount of intellect as to enable them
D discriminate between right and
'rong, and that the majority of them
re devoid of moral sense; they are of
low type of intellectual development,
nd some of them are unable to sur. .
lount even the rudimentary difficulties ,
education. DR.. w. states that he has /.
lade several hundred separate measure.
tents, and all showed cranial def.
ency, especially in the anterior lobes of :
le brain.
IN Peru one of the greatest works of
le agei is now in progress-the construc.
on OF a railroad from the port of Callao
ross the Andes, involving tunnel
trough those mountains at a higher II
ovation from the sea than the summit
Mount Blanc. Some idea of the diff.
,ulties experienced in the prosecution h
the work may be gained from the X
ct that the Inca Indians are the only 81
.rsons who can work at such high Z
titudes, and that the single mule train =
which all tools, materials and pro. h
sions, except the scant means of sub y
tence obtained in the interior, passes
er an altitude of nearly seventeen I,
ousand feet, amid cluster of rocks n
vered with perpetual snow. The work 4;
wholly under the direction of Ameri. h
ms, and is expected to Thoroughly open b
the vast mineral resources of that IL
rtion Of the Cordillera range. m