The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-07-18
Personal and Literary.

| MATE II leu Is rItHUlflg Tie SUMMER
with Sir Charles Dixie, the English re-
publican leader, in London.
On dit that Whitelaw Reid will marry
Miss Ida Greeley so soon as a seasonable
time elapses after the death Of her beloved
father.
A Providence, X. l., paper states that
Mrs. Senator Sprague invites clergymen.
school teachers and common people to fill
the eighty rooms Other home at Newport.
Another Life of Jesus is put forth i'm
lessor at Giessen University. The book
attracts much attention in theological cir
Giles abroad.
Theodore Hook..was once asked for "A
contribution to the treasury of the Society
for the Conversion of the Jews. He said
he was quite unable to give any money,
but If the society would send him jew,
he would do his best to convert him.
1.-THE history Of pottery is the his
tory of humanity" AT all events, so
says M. Albert Jacquemsrt, who has
given to the world a highly interesting
"History of the Ceramic Art" i'm which
he traces the fashions of dishes in all ages
and among all races, from Egypt to Bir-
mingham.
Mr.. j. j. Murphy has written book
on ''The Scientific Basis of Belief" i'm
which he ably sets forth the arguments
for theism. He reviews the work of the
leading Christian apologists Of the last
century, but with an eye to the changed
methods of thought and investigation
that prevail.
The late John Van Buren, once,
when travelling on one of our Northern
river steamers, asked his friends friend
to join in a drink-probably soda-water.
The man said he had mot the pleasure of
an introduction" "But,' said Prince
John, you know enough to drink"
Writing to the London Ne,os. Mr..
George Jacob Holyoke, long the personal
friend Of John Stuart Mill, suggests that
there could be no form of memorial TO the
dead more appropriate and more in ac-
cordance with his views when living than
peoples edition of his works.
And now the stove trade has its jour
nal, a monthly magazine, published at
Albany, and devoted exclusively to the
warm advocacy of the burning interests
Of stove manufacturers. The first num-
Der is just out. 1t might have appeared
more seasonably in January than in July.
Mrs Elizabeth Stuart Phelps refers.
in print, to Miss Smiley, the Quaker
preacher, as "a woman who has a voice
as sweet as a robins, a face as serene as
Madonna's, courage as resolute as an
apostles, and apurpose as fixed as Qua
ker's, and who wears her bonnet into the
pulpit BESIDES"
Professor Lowe, the well-known aero
naut. Of military balloon observation in
the Army of the Potomac fame, has in
PRODUCED into the South new branch of
industry-the manufacture of ice by arti-
nj a foh ara1
ice factories in that section, the main ones
being in Atlanta, Charleston, and New
Orleans.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
thus corrects the Courier. Journal, saying
1t is mistake to suppose that Colonel
Susan b. Anthony's childhood was con-
temporary with the PhHnicians. She and
her brother Marc were born about SO Ii.
c., and Susan made her first woman's
rights grafton when Mares red-haired
sweetheart in Egypt took 'pson.'"
"A San Franciso paper states that Mrs.
Fair, having failed to effect compromise
with Judge Quint, or TO induce him to
abate a dollar of his Judgment claim
against her for legal services on her two
trials for murder, has settled the same.
The judgment was for 81 900, which was
raised by the costs to $500, which sum
Mrs. Fair has paid In United States gold
coin.
A great book sale is to come of at
Leipzig, July Ia, of one of the choicest
and costliest private Libraries recently
gathered in Europe. The books belonged
to Russian named Sobolewskl, who died
three years ago, at Moscow, leaving be-
hind an inestimable collection of book
rarities, which now come to the hammer.
Among other precious articles is copy
Of the Voyages of De Bry," which Is
unique In its completeness and In the
perfection of the first impressions Of the
plates.
The death of Emanuel Deutsch will
shade the minds of all scholars with sin
cere sorrow. He died May Is, at Alex
andria, whittier he had gone to regain his
shattered health. Mr.. Deutsch had long
been connected with the British Museum