The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-09-26
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5Counier-irritants-Rude statesmen.
The worst sort Of a graie-An migrate.
One who always gets bread when he
kneads it-A baker.
An Englishman who j. visiting IN
Danbury says he has hut "A poor idea Of the
freedom Of "A country that has TO get IT,
weather from the government.
a blushing dam~el called al the Office
offs papar a few days since and inquired
for papers for a week back and that in
noccnt Young publishers clerk thought
she wanted perhaps a sticking-plasier. in
stead of a bundle Of papcr> suitable for a
hustle.
AT a public gathering lately one Of the
gentlemen present was called upon for a
speech. aud this j. how ne responded /:
= Gentlemen and women. amt no speech
er. More'n twenty years hack ! came here
a poor idiot boy. and now what are IL
-- How DO you get along with your
arithmetic. Z" asked "a father of his little
boy. who answered and said: I've cipher
ed through addition. partition. subtraction.
distraction. abominatiOn. justification.
hallucinaiiOn. derivation. amputafion. ere
alton. and adoption"
You have heard OF the snake in the grass, - my
OF the ierriblessnake in the grass;
But now you must know,
Mans dcadliesf Toe
IL a snake Of a different class.
Alas,
It's the enormous snake in IT, giaH'
-Sszc.
1t j. told Of one of the ~supes" who
removc> chairs from the stage Of a Troy
theater with great effect that on the death
of Edwin Forrest being announced to him.
while standing on a hotel stOOp. h. ex-
claimed. with dramatic gesture; "Great
God, another one Of n gone,
One Of the most curious features Of
the Yellowstone region j. To De- found in
the hot springs. ON the border OF the
Yellowstone Lake ar often 10 b. seen ele-
waited mounds. which iut out from the
shore into the water. These contain pools
filed with heated water. 80 that il j. posi-
ble for a person standing on the mount To
catch trout in the lake with the help Of a
fishing rod. and 10 cook them in the boil
Ing spring without taking them of the
hook.
"A minstrel. riding a pumpkin-colored
sorrel. perpetrated a heavy sell on a toll
keeper one day. He rode up unobServel.
and turning hi horses ilce about. directly
opposite 70 the direction he wanted To 90.
called To the toll-keepcr. who by this
time come out. What j. the toll 2"
Twenty cents" answered the toll-keeper.
Too high replied the solitary horse
man "can't pay il. Guess | will 20
back lie mrnedhis horse about and pro-
ceeded i'm precisely the direction lac wanted
10 go. the to~ll-gatherer never dreaming of
the sell.
A young lawyer Of Chicago. disap-
pointed in love. demanded poison from a
druggist. but was considerably given sew
eral delicate little powders Of prepared
chalk instead. He then went 10 the resi-
dence Of the adored one who was soiourn-
ing at Valparaiso. Ind. He again offered
his hand. which was gncOnditiOnally r.
fused. whercupon he cried - Al Your
door i my DEATH and swallowed the
powders. The family doctor wa sent for.
but after tasting one of the powders he
calmly awaited the result. The Young
man lay down and longed for the drow>i-
ness which prccedes death. Nothing came.
Then they sent hin. back to his mother.
What dreadful disasters are IN store for
Us, At the recent meeting OF the Amcri-
can Association for the Advancement of
Science. which was held al Portland. Me-.
the statement was made hat lit J. sup
posed that the resistance Of the ethereal
medium. shown to exist by the undulated
theory OF light. will gradually cause the
satellites 10 fall into the plahei>. the PLAN
etS into suns. and suns into "A common
center. after which darkness. silence. and
death will reign" The possibility Of such
"a catastrophe makes one tnemble. Foriu-
nately il was al>o suggested that the con-
ccntration might be 80 gradual that cita>-
trophic effects. either from tidal influences
or from the final collision. might d. avoid
ed. the former by the synchronism Of TO
tafiOn which reSisiance> 10 tidal motions
will gradually effect. and the latter by the
assumption OF the forms Of equilibrium
under the long continued action of the
forces upon the earth" We advise our
readers to employ these means faithfully
To avoid the catastrophe effects