The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-28
CURRENT ITEMS.

CtKEENT ITEMS.
BrIMISGHAM, Ala, has opened bed
of lithographic stone, pronounced by
Philadelphia experts equal to the best
Bayarian.
A COMPANY has been organized Mt San
Francisco, with a capital stock Of $780,
600, for the publication Of a newspaper
called the Vine Dealers Gazette.
OREGON is estimated to contain about
81 600, 900 acres Of land, of which the
Government has surveyed up to June 80,
1872, only lO,14O,2S1 acres, or little
over one-sixth of the entire area.
IT is incorrectly stated that Bayard
Taylor intends to reside permanently in
Germany. He will return home in about
year and half, according to his pres
ent plan, and will live in New York.
MARK TWAIN says that eighteen or
nineteen years ago the population of
the Sandwich Islands was 400, 900. Then
the people were happy and alarmingly
prosperous Civilization reached them,
and in two years the natives numbered
only 100000. He thinks a few more
seminaries would finish them completely.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER describes fash
ionable religion as beautiful suit of
broadclOth and magnificent suit Of
silk, locked arm in arm, and walking to
Grace Church and sitting and listening
to resplendent music, surrounded by
respectable people that send cards
through their coachmen's hands to each
other.
THREE million of dollars were invest
ed in 1860 in this country in the manu-
facture of silk. Now 10000 operatives
are employed in the business, earning
$4,000, 900 per annum. The growth of
mulberry trees for this purpose is still
limited in America, and the machinery
is so inferior that the raw silk must be
sent to Europe to be reeled.
The maddest woman in the United
States of America is the one that lives at
Jackson, Me-, and recently lent her fifty
dollar muf to female acquaintance.
who sported it at smallpox funeral
who sent it home with neat little note,
stating this fact, and that as she had
sprinkled it with benzine, the owner need
not fear catching the disease"
CARLorrA PATTI was born in Italy. The
oldest Patti girl, Amelia, who married
Strakosch. was born there, while Car
lotta and Adelina was born in New Or
leans. Their parents were poor, the
father being fruit-peddler, suspected
of organ-grinding antecedents. Car
lotta's lameness is owing to a hip dis
ease in early life, which left one leg sew
eral inches shorter than the other.
The annual report of the Philadelphia
Health Officer has Just been made.
There were 2O,O72 births and 20, 544
deaths in the city last year. The num-
Der If marriages was 1885,. and from
1860 to 1872 inclusive there were 211 ,O33
births, 76,l26 marriages, and 200, 94S
deaths. Last years figures will not be
as satisfactory to the local social econo-
mist as they might, but 1872 was an ex-
ceptionally unhealthy one.
The Southerners are engine ering a
great cotton pool, the admission to |
which is S., to test the skill of COMPETE |
tors in making estimates Of the crop of
1872. The person coming nearest the
of bales in the crop, as deter
mined by the Financial Chronicle of
Sept. /. 1873, is to have all the money in
the pool. Each competitor is to inclose
his estimate, with his S., in letter to |
g. W. Trotter, Secretary Of the Augusta,
Ga, Exchange.
Az ingenious machine has been in
vented for spreading mortar on walls.
It consists of trough three and half
feet long, furnished with two trowels,
)ne above the other, and the mortar is
spread by the moving of the trough up
he wall between two upright scantling.
~ means of pulleys worked by crank.
The inventor claims that the machine
Effects great saving of labor, time and
expense.
Mn. J. w. GoLLEDGE, of the Waco