The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-09-12
Odds and Ends.

A man at New Hamburg. y. Y. has
papered his horse stalls with gold paper
and carpeted the floor.
Don't count your chickens before they
are Matched. A Western hen produced
twenty-six chicks from two dozen eggs in
one basket.
"A thrifty young farmer in Maryland
has stocked his fix hundred acre farm with
thirty-iye children. all after his own like
ness.
a Clatstop county (Oregon) lady
named Munson chased bear with club
the other day. and made him drop tine
porker which he was carrying of.
Scene in Court: Judge-Haye YOU
anything To offer To the Court before SEN
tence j. passed on YOU: Prisoner-No.
Judge: | had ten dollars. but my lawyers
took that.
A Pittsburg coroner makes no charge
where he sits on young man who parts
his hair in the middle. He says his per
sonal satisfaction i enough without his
fees.
A Cherokee county (Iowa) young man
begged hard 10 yet marriage license on
credit till he sold his wheat. giving IA a
reason why he couldn't wait that another
fellow who had the stamps had made an
offer to his sally Ann. The dispenser of
licenses was memorable.
"A club was organized in Rochester,
y. y. last week. called the Dismal Six
all the members old bachelors. whose sole
aim j. To make themselves miserable. The
presiding ,fiicer l. called the doleful grand.
while his deputy is known a the vice
doleful.
Eyes like diamonds. hair like vexed
At Il.
a hand which no man can look upon with
out an intense desire TO kiss il. are por-
tons Of the description of young lady
who j. captain OF a schooner that trades
with Houston, Texas.
One of the popular and quiet conduc-
tors on the Boston and Maine road has an
unostentatious way of putting things.
During the war. when gold was about 2l0.
discussion was in progress regarding the
probabilities Offs rising 10 higher figure.
when Mr.. - quietly said. well. when
i reaches three hundred, guess I'll UNI
head a barrel -
The medicine of powdered human
skulls. which Charles the Seconds physi-
clans commended to his lips on his DEATH
bed. is surpassed in oddity by New Eng
land remedy for consumption. This is the
heart of rattlesnake just killed. This
strange dose was said 10 have been admin
istered to young consumptive. who had
been previously given up" He recov-
cred instantly.
The people Of Braincrd. Mimi. evil
IDENTIFY believe that pastors are human. and
are therefore not inclined 10 view their
peccadlloes too sternly. The Rev. A. ID.
Williams. a Baptist clergyman Of that from
tier town. bet hi gold watch against 500
on three-cartl monte. and lost. On learn
ing his misfortune his flock at once started
subscription paper. and $40 was given
him 10 buy a new timepiece. The monte
mon. finding that they had swindlcda min
lister. returned the 500. and Mr.. Williams
i a gamer of $40 by the transaction. lie
is probably the first minister that ever
came ahead out of thrcc-carl monte.
Anybody wishing to speculate in real
estate can buy home up town cheap. 1t
l. situated between two churches that have
clocks: and that's the reason Mr.. johnson
wants to sell ii. One of thcsei invariably
a second or two behind the other: conSe-
quently when johnson stops out until one
o'clock. a. he often does. Mrs. j. says 10
him. n each of the clocks strike one
" There. \ nice time for a married man to
come homc-two o'clock johnson. like
the gay old sport that he Is. thought he
might rs well stay out until two. inasmuch
as he got the blame for it. 80 he stayed.
and Mrs. johnson she stayed too-she
stayed up until he got in. and made him
listen as the clocks struck -four. Then she
threatened to 20 to her mother or yet her
ma To come and live with her. as il was inn
possible TO live all alone IN the house. This
kind of frightened the old fellow; so he
came in next night before twelve o'clock.
and n those clocks commenced duet at
twelyeand iinglcd out twcnty-four strokes,