The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-08-01
GENERAL PARAGRAPHS.


MI. MOSES Dupont, VI
Mass, and his twenty-three brothers,
have between them 322 children.
A Mr.. Vents, Of Hartford, recently
illustrated a transit of Venus, by falling
from a third story window.
An indianapolis woman recently
threw her chignon out of the window
when returning from a picnic because 1t
made her head ache.
Mrs. Hathaway, of Temple, Me-, Is
ninety-nine years old, and has smoked
and chewed tobacco since she was a girl.
An eighteen-year-old girl in Cincin-
natl has had six thousand photographs
taken of her. Think of the number of
negatives from n so young.
A clerk in a bookstore In Salem,
Mass. having been asked for Goldsmith's
Greece. replied Indignantly that they did
not keep hair oil.
A wealthy, but infatuated woman, of
Savannah, Ca. ina paid over $1,000, at
various rimes, 20 fortune-tellers, but her
luck has never changed.
A lady living near Green Bay under
took TO kirdle a fire with the aid of kero-
sene. Her beauty hereafter will be
known through the medium of an old
photograph.
-lnt INifFItT-JONTTUl NOuCntc lOI llt
fact that a kentucky widow wa hauled
TO her husbands funeral the other day by
the same mule that kicked the breath out
of his body.
"A Maysville (Ky.) paper alludes feel
ingly To a picnic. and expresses the hope
that the piOus young men who attend will
on that occasion leave their revolvers and
bowie knives at home.
no. Mn;pau wnman Uaya hQr hng-
band morphine TO cure him of chewing
tobacco. Amounting costume is quite be-
coming 10 ner style OF beauty.
A IT. Louis physician committed an
assault upona fellow who tied his horse,
attached TO a load of collins, to a post be-
fore the doctors door. The NJ. ID. OBJ
iected to such a mode of advertising.
A barefooted girl in Ohio, who late
ly walked ten miles to hire out to hoe corn,
has married a widower worth $50. 900.
Herei is a moral for girls anxious TO marry.
A three-yoar old St. Louis girl thrust
her head through the iron pickets of her
neighbours fence the other day, TO smell
the roses. She was compelled 10 smell
them until some one helped her head out.
A concientious Pittsburgh man prom
ised his wife the other day that he wouldn't
drink a drop as long as he had a hair on his
head. That very night he had his head
shaved smooth and then got drunk with a
proud consciousness Of having faithfully
kept his promise.
A constable in Virginia has suddenly
lost both sight and hearing, and down
there thev can't count for il. But it's
a very common affection. in this latitude
We've known half a dozen of them to be-
come suddenly blind and deaf; though
we could generally guess the reason.
Two daughters Of Mr.. Gallagher, Of
Cortland, ILL.,, plowed and put in eighty
acres of small grain this year. One did
the blowing, while the other sowed the
grain and narrowed IL. Either would be
AS profitable a Gallagher as a young far
mer could select for a wife.
A key of birch beer exploded or a
Jersey City fruit.stand, recently, doing
damage 10 the amount Of fifty dollars.
We have known the wonderful power Of
birch from the time we were a boy, when
a very small piece would often make us
explode.
Miss Anne Clough. of Salem, Mass,
had a severe tussel with a burglar that
she found in the room the other night.
The fellow got away from her only to be
pursued by the plucky woman on the
street with outcries for help, but aided by
the darkness, he escaped.
Another smart woman has recently
come to the surface-a Mrs. Il. Nj. Bore
land Of Texas. This lady. who is now in
ST. Louis, Mo-, owns about 900 head of
cattle. and accompanied the herd all the
way from the starting point to the latter
city, doing at least two mems work in the
way of driving and managing.
Floral romance does not succeed In the
South. Several sentimental girls of Ath-
ems, Ca. remembering the superstition
that, by swallowing heartsease whole and
expressing a wish, the wish Is gratified,
tried the experiment. and were made very
i'll. They now think that heartsease
should be called stomach-ache, to prevent
the recurrence Of such plumbers.
There is an amount of pathos in this
little news paragraph from a Western pa
per, that could not be forced into a TO.
nance AT present she Is serving out a
heavy fine at the workhouse, and, when
not at work, stands near the door of the
room where the drugs and medicines are
Kept, begging and pleading with the clerk
70 give her morphine-morphine ; a drug
lor which she Is willing TO sacrifice all he.
happiness in this world, and her hope in
thelife TO come. The once bright-eyed,
r~osy-cheeked country girl has become a
miserable, wretched creature"
The thriftiness Of Mrs. Weller. whose
nrst husbands garments fortunately fit.
ted the classic Tony. Is equaled, II not
surpassed. by that of a widow of Port.
land, in the canny State of Maine. Per-
ceiying that her adored departed's silver
c~offln-plate was lying about generally In
the way, and desiring very much a pair Of
handsome new gold-bowed spectacles, sh,
invited a passing peddler to a barter Of
the same. Leaving the room for an In,
slant, she was shocked on returning e
find that lovely cofiin-plate and the mer
chant alike gone. Her frantic grief wa:
something too sacred to dwell upon. Tn,