The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-08-15


The author Of the saying, lyon
must always take a nan as you find him, -
wa a constable.
There were l4l, $50 immigrants land
ed in New York between January lst and
June 18th of this year.
The Graphic suggests that Italy is the
only country which is represented by its
organs all over the world.
"A Peoria citizen claims to have a
stone that General Washington threw at
a wood-pecker on his fathers cherry-tree.
San Francisco hoodlums fill keyholes
with powder, ring the door-bell, and light
the fuse just as somebody comes to open
the doors.
1t is said that the principal dishes at
an Adirondack hotel are deer meat, dried
and roasted bear meat, w~oOdchuck stew
and speckled trout.
A pack of bl~oodhounds haunt the
woods Of New jersey. and parties who go
berrying load themselves with shot-guns
and corn-cutters.
The young ladies Of Winchester,
Mass, have resolved &c discountenance
low men" who swear and chew tobacco.
They only care for Hymen.
Bloomington, ILL.,, is nov receiving
her coal for making gas from Pennsylva-
MIA, the new tariff of the Illinois Central
not justifying the using of Duquoin coal.
The Louisville Courier-Jot1nal says that
unrequited love is the toothache of the
soul. Yes, and the only way to stop 1t
is to use some gold flling.-Bosfoa Post.
We are told of a gentleman in this
section who, though only Is years of age,
recently married his fourth wife. TIE
three previous ones died, each leaving two
children.-C0itonbus Ca Sun.
-Fredrick Sholtz, living near Pleasant
Hill, Neb., the other day cut his sisters.
Mrs. Ferdinand Suckrows, head )f with
an axe. After he had committed the
deed, he left the house and went about
eighty rods into an old field AID cut his
own throat, in which condition he was
found dead.
AT a recent agricultural show In Nor
folk, one of the Inhabitants uttered his
sentiments on n canvas banrer:
s'Of all the crops the farmer Rises,
Or capital employees,
None brings such comforts atd such praises
As q crop of girls and b0wes-'
A recent event which occurred at
Binghamton, N. ". will serve to
strengthen those who believe In the super
natural. The local PAPER states that a
family namcu OlaZef iau just sat uowh "
supper when one of the women informed
them that she had 4 presentiment that
lightning would strike the table and beg
ged them to leave tie room. They had
scarcely obeyed WHEN the lightning came
In, smashing their supper dishes to atoms.
A man NAMED William Harding, OF
Baltimore, the otter day, showed his in
capacity to understand a joke, and also a
very bad temper. A mischievous deer
had escaped from a park near town, n
Harding coming along by himself the
deer thought ne would have a little fun.
He ran up behind the man and knocked
him down. Ne then backed ten or fif-
teen feet, and when Harding made a bow
| of himself tr the effort to get up, the
playful der butted him down again.
This gam, was repeated four or five times,
and at lergth Harding had learned enough
to lie still. The deer soon got tired Of
his STUPID playfellow and went about his
Harding watched his oppor-
nd went about his. His first act
borrow a gun and go back and
e poor harmless animal. He did
about venison but went and got
on to dress his wounds, which
tta eoporo