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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-31

NEVER TOO OLD TO LEARN.

Sir Henry Spelman neglected the sci
ences in his youth, but commenced the
study of them when he was between SC
and go years of age. After this time he
became most learned antiquarian and
lawyer.
Boccacio was 35 years of age when he
commenced his studies in polite litera-
turc. Yet he became one of the greatest
masters of Tuscan dialects-Dante and
Petrarch being the other two.
Ogelby, the translator of Homer and
Virgil, was unacquainted with Latin and
Greek till he was past so.
Dryden in his 3Sth year commenced
the translation Of the niad, his most
pleasing production.
Fudoyico Monaldesco, at the great age
of 115, wrote the memoirs of his own
time.
franklin did not fully commence his
philosophical pursuits till he had reached
his 5Oth year.
Plutarch, when between 20 and 80,
commenced the study of Latin.
Socrates, at an extreme old age, learned
to play on musical instruments.
Cato, at so years of age, commenced
to study the Greek language.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-31
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

TESSYsoS is engaged ON a new poem.
In Edinburgh street-cars are lighted
with gas.
The number OF dogs taxed in England
is /, 1874
ASwEDIsH Countess is going to search
for Livingstone.
ADAILY English journal is to be estab-
ished in Hamburg.
GERMANY has eleven periodicals print
ed in the English language.
ALTOGETHER six plots for the assassin
alton of Napoleon were made.
The cholera is reported to be steadily
advancing in Western Europe.
AT Matow, China, recently, 1l5 crimi-
mails were beheaded in two days.
DIsRAELI was three times taken out of
the Bankrupt Court by his rich wife.
THERE we're over 200 strikes among
the Berlin workingmen during 1872.
In Russia there is school accommoda-
ton only sufficient for one child in four.
In the late great storm in Paris a lady
was blown through plate-glass window.
NJ. DE LEssEPs projects another ship
canal-this time through the Isthmus Of
Corinth.
NAPLES is credited with having the
most timid soldiers and the boldest
brigands in Europe.
DURING the first twelve days in De-
cember Of last year, 449 lives were lost
off the British coast.
In Pesth, the other day, youthful
prodigy repeated the Lords Prayer in
twenty-five languages.
A GERMAN pastor has just been con-
demned to six months imprisonment
for preaching political sermons from the
pulpit.
The Prussian Government has def
nitely decided to Danish from Germany
the ladies of the Sacred Heart, regarding
the order as akin to Jesuitism.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-31
ONES HAND.

1t is profound study. No instru-
ment devised by man compares with it
for complication. 1t is hammer, q
vice, forceps, hook, spring, a
weight; it pushes, draws in, and the
fingers alone contain elements of chisels,
gouges, and all the tools sculptor re-
quires in modelling From the elbow to
the digital extremities its movements are
produced by nearly fifty muscles. So
complicated is the cordage of human
hand expert anatomists can hardly keep
in remembrance its intricate mechanism.
With it all the emotions of the mind
may be both manifested and intensified.
How could a Frenchman talk with his
hand tied? The hand is the prime min
lister Of the brain. 1t is the souls agent
in the accomplishment Of it's designs.
1t is wonder Of wonders.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-31
Agricultural Experiments.

The Boston Journal of Chemistry
says: Field experiments MS rule are
|~eeptive, unless many circumstances are
ARen into account which are usually
|Serlooked. What is usually known re-
|slFding the previous agricultural con-
IT, of the fields experimental upon ?
"hat account is taken Of meteorological
|,'nditions, dry seasons and wet seasons?
us possible for a good artificial ma
Aafe to do positive harm to crop in a
Fery dry season, while an Indifferent or
|,"ueless compound would do no injury.
IS therefore apparent that we are liable
|"oe misled by experiments with fertil-
|4eis' and that the reports so frequently
|AAae Of experimental labors must be
,'a with an intelligent understanding
h Siat is necessary to give such expert.
Ients positive value.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-31
TWO MERCHANTS.

When trade grew slack, and notes fell dus,
The merchants face grew lons and blue;..
His dreams were troubled through the night,
With sheriff., baili6s, Ill in sight.
At last his wife unto him said
Rise up ct once, get Out Of bed,
And get your paper, ink and pen,
And say these words unto al men:-
my goods wish 10 sell 10 you,
And TO your wife and daughters, too:
Ny prices they shall be 20 low,
That each aha buy before they CO."
He did ~ his good wife advised,
And in the paper advertised.
Crowds came and bought Of al ne had,
His notes were paid, his dreams were glad,
And he will tell you, to this day,
How well did printers ink repay.
He told US, with moving wink,
How he was saved with printers ink.
Another-in place ~ tight
Contended with the press TO slight
He did not let the people know,
OF what he had or where to GO;
His drafts were due and were not paid,
levy ON his stock was made;
Tae store was closed until the sale,
And for some time he was In Jail.
bankrupt now, without cent,
At leisure he car deep repent
That he was foolish and unwise,
And did not freely advertise.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-31
AGRICUL TURAL.


innovation Of WOFn.Dut Soils.
A correspondent throws out some sug-
rsstions as 10 the..renovation of WORKOUT
soils, more particularly those Of the
south, that may be acted upon to ad-
vantage by many Of our Southern read
era 1.-The renovation" he says, "oi
our vorn-out and tired lands is matter
of no little Importance to farmers in this
section Of the country CTennessee). We
all have lands, not worn out, but tired
down by continual cropping. and we also
have lands that may be said to be worn
ont since they are no longer productive.
We now want the best and cheapest plan
Of renovating these lands, 80 as to grow
remunerative crops. To do this we must
have our lands charged with a good
supply Of vegetable matter to make the
! land lively and productive. This can
only be done by the turning under Of
green crops, and afterward judicious
rotation Of crops in doing this we can
only cultivate what lands we can manure
well, or such as have not been exhausted.
So long as we cultivate broad acres Of
poor land, we shall have such to Guilt
yate and none other. Let us take the
worn lands in the fall break thoroughly
and subsoil in the spring pillow again
and SOW to peas about the first Of June
and harrow in. Turn under the peas
in September and SOW to rye, and pasture
through the winter with sheep; the Sec
ond spring turn under the rye ut proper
time, and again SOW to peas, these in
turn to be plowed in September; then
in October by sowing one bushel Of
wheat and thirty bushels Of cotton seed
per acre, and narrowing in well with
clover seed lightly narrowed in the
spring, you are ready for ;udicious
system Of rotation Of crops, say cotton,
corn wheat and clover. If lime can be
procured at reasonable prices, it should
be used where green crops are turned
under"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-31
DRESS PLAINLY.

Some one has given the following rea-
sons why people should dress plainly Oh
Sunday. These reasons are as valid any
other day in the week:
!. 1t would lessen the burden of many
who now find it hard to maintain their
place in society.
2. 1t would lessen the force Of tempta-
tions which often lead men to barter
honesty and honor for display.
3. If there was less strife in dress Mt
church, people in moderate circum-
stances would be more inclined to at
tend.
4. Universal moderation in dress at
church would improve the worship by
theremoval of many wandering Thoughts.
5. 1t would enable all classes of peo-
pie to attend church in unfavorable
weather.
6. 1t would lessen on the part of the
rich the temptation to vanity.
Z. It would lessen on the part of the
poor the temptation to be envious and
malicious.
8. It would save valuable time on the
Sabbath.
9. It would relieve our means from
a serious pressure, and thus enable us to
do more for good enterprises.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-31
LARGEST BRIDGE IN THE WORLD

America boasts Of great many fine
bridges and some very long ones, but
Scotland is soon to excel the world by
its bridge over the river Tay. This
bridge will lack but eighty yards Of
being two miles in length, exceeding the
Victoria bridge at Montreal Heretofore
the largest in the worldD by 1877 feet.
Its greatest height will be eighty-eight
feet above high water mark. 1t consists
Of eighty-nine spans, fourteen Of which
will be two hundred feet wide. The
piers require 1900 tons of cast iron, and
the superstructure 5000 tons of mallea-
BILE iron. The contract price for build
ing it is about ,OS5, 900 pounds in gold.
1t will be completed in 1874.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-31
Agriculture in Texas.

agriculture, says the 7sras Farm
n, Is making such rapid advances in
~ u. state that two years ago there was
\ .cely an agricultural society in the
4e Now there are some lorty or
I'led, and Others in progress of forma-
Ea The great revolution from slave
4, I've : labor, so far from discouraging
n southern farmer, has only shaken
Up from his lethargy and compelled
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-31

An English groom gives the American
hostler "talking to" in this way
"Whena horse comes in all wet with
perspintion, You let him stand in the
stable and dry with all the dirt on. In
England, we take the horse as he comes
in from drive and sprinkle blood-warm
water all over him, from his head to his
feet. Then We scrape him down and
blanket him, rubbing his legs and face
dry. Thus, in an hour, he is clean and
dry and ready to take a good feed, while
with your way he will stand and swelter
for hours, and finally dry sticky and
dirty. Our heroes never founder and
newer take cold. We never use curry
comb. You scratch your horse too hard.
The only care necessary is to have the
water not very cold, then battle them in
SANITY, while you arerubbing their legs"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-31

An old farmer writes to the Ohio
f~mcr: About thirty years ago,
thought horses ought to be shod, and
continued the practice several years, but
by degrees 1 discovered L was mistaken.
The facts began to leak out, one by one,
70 prove that it is not best to shoe horses
IN places that are free from stone or
gravel. In the first place, horses that
are shod are liable to so many diseases
|oi the feet; and next, if they choose to
Use their heels, they have destruction
behind them. and if they happen to tread
on fellows foot, it causes some pain,
especially if they are rough shod, and
Unless they are rough shod, shoes are of
no advantage on slippery ground. A
horse slips worse with smooth shoes than
he does barefooted. And again, in a
S0it snow, horses with shoes ball up so
That they can hardly get along, while
Oarefooted horse goes right along.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-31
him to be energetic, self-reliant, and
willing to learn everything that can aid
his farming under the new regime"
To Trap BhuSllxs.

A correspondent Of the Country Gen.
tteman writes The method Of catching
skunks in this section, where they are a
great nuisance, is by batting them in a
large box-trap. Set the trap near the
line of their nocturnal wanderings, baited
with piece of meat, and they are al
most sure to follow their inquisitive
noses inside, and may be found safe and
sound the next morning, and usually with
out having thrown any scent. If they
are then carefully carried to brook or
barrel of water, and suddenly submerged,
they may be killed without their scent
being let off, In this case, their skins
are worth the trouble Of trapping and
skinning. II not scented, and duly
cleansed, the fur is quite valuable, and
makes very pretty durable carriage robes.
Remedy for Cold Feet.
Soak the feet in warm water, with a
little cayenne pepper in it, two or three
times a week. Try this for month, or
longer, if necessary, and you will find it
an excellent remedy for cold feet.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-31

Why is a note-of-hand like rosebud?
Because it is matuIed by falling dew.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-31

If Heaven helps those who help them
selves, how well thieves must get along.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-31

SIR WALTER ScoTr composed as he
rode or walked, and put his thoughts on
paper regularly every morning.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-31

AMERICAN wood working machinery is
awarded first premiums in Europe.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-31

LILLIAN EDcARroN says education will
cure gossip.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-31

THERE are 800 distilleries in the conn
try, with producing capacity of 239, 63s
gallons daily.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-08-20
Filters and Cool Water.

In view Of the fact that tho water
we drink is not unlikely to be crowd
ed with dangerous germs, il seems tho
part of wisdom to adopt the simple
precaution suggested in our heading
A portable filter may be made of com
mon stone-ware or an earthen jar
The bottom is filed with stones a,
large as goose egg, or is covered
with q perforated slate slab, leaving O
space to hold a supply of filtered wa
ter. A faucet is fitted into a hole
bored through the side of the jar, a.
near the bottom as may bc. On the
slab or stone is placed a layer of coarse
gravel, cleanly washed; over that Q
layer of clean washed sand; then 0
layer of powdered charcoal, also wei
washed, still another layer of sand
and tbon one of coarse gravel, bott
washed perfectly clean The remain.
der of the space is for water. A GOV,
er or wet cloth placed over tho toT
excludes dust. Ifa porous jar is used
the evaporation from tho outside dur.
ing hot weather will keep the contents
almost ice cold, particularly if it i:
kept in current Of air. The same
filtering arrangement may be applied
to cistern. At the upper corner is
tho chamber into which the pipe dis.
charges. Tho layers of material are
gravel, sand and charcoal. As the
filter will need to be taken out occa.
sionally, to wash the contents, il il
well to make tho chamber quite dis
tinct, so that access may be had to il
at any time without disturbing the
cistern or its contents.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-08-20
Curious Case Before a French Tribunal

The Pail Mall Gazette mentions q
curious case lately brought before one
of the French tribunals. Eighteen
years ago a man named Eripe was
condemned in contumaciam 10 ten years
pcnal servitudo for forgery aid EN-.
bezzlement committed in Paris. lie
had misappropriated some 4 900 francs
but he voluntarily confessed his guilt
n few days afterward, making rcstitu-
tion at the same time of the sum which
still remained in his hands. The man
ager Of the Office in which he was
employed, who entertained an excel.
lent opinion of him, was anxious to
hush the matter up, but the police in.
sisted upon his prosecution. Eripe
avoided arrest, and enlisted in cav
airy regiment, under the name of Le-
maitre, former school fellow. He
served three years, and bore the best
ofcharacters, but being offered clerk
ship in the Aisne, he deserted. The
real Lemaitre was arrested on this
charge, but he had no difficulty in
proving his innocence, and Eripe was
again condemned in contun,dciam TO
ten years hard labor for usurping a
name which did not belong TO him.
He. IN .hs .-...-wL;ie, L~d Jvou gaiu-
ing the esteem OF his employer, at
whose instance he contracted o mar
riage under the name of Lemaitrc,
by which he was still known. His
wife died soon after their marriage,
but her parents wero so much attach
cd to him that they beQueathed him
some property, and obtained for him
a amore valuable appointment in man.
ufactory at Fismes. Here he made a
second marriage, which also proved q
happy one, and he seemed on the high
road to fortune. One day, while he
was talking with tho station master
on the platform, train arrived, the
engine driver of which happened 10
be tho real Lemaitre, who recognized
Eripc and denounced him TO tho po-
lice. He was at once arrested, and ii
is needless TO say that the matter ere
ated immense excitement in the dis
trict. Hc was arraigncd upon the
charge Of forgery, but he did not at
tempt TO deny bis identity, and hc very
wisely based his defence on the ground
that ho had lived honestly since the
commission of his first fault eighteen
years ago, asserting what was the lit
eral truth, that he could not have dis
continued the use of the name under
which he had enlisted without betray-
ing himself lie moreover begged tho
court TO remember that in two years
time he would have boen able to plead
tho statute of limitations, and bis case
was strengthened by tho presence of
his second wife and her family, who
entreatod the court to take a lcniont
Wow Of his conduct. A petition was
signed by more than / 200 inhabitants
Of Fismos, who bore testimony TO his
oxcellcnt character, and the Jury re-
turned verdict Of acquittal, which
was received with loud aud pnobooked
applause.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-08-20
Cause Of Typhoid Fever.


The Medical Department of tho Lon,
don Local Government Board has just
issued an important report on the
causes of typhoid or enteric fever in
London. OF the various ways in
which water may be made the vehicle
for distributing tho fever, tho report
gives the following as illustrations
"At Terling Place ten persons were
attacked with enteric fever, and all
these persons and these only Of large
family, drank water from particular
we'll into which it was discovered that
n eess-rool loaknd AZ nicLan- Ron.
ont, in Essex, certain well was pol
luted, and out of eighty-eight drink.
ers from that well iorty-two persons
were attacked; while only one per.
son out of population of 206 in the
village was attacked. At Nunney, a
village in Somersetshire, having q
population of 1872, DR.. Ballard records
seventy.six cases of entcric fever as
occurring in four months. The cases
were limited in a remarkable way to
families who obtained their water sup.
ply from small rivulet which rcceiv-
ed the sewerage Of several houses up
stream. AT Hawkesbury, Upton, in
Gloucestershire, village Of 657 inhab-
itants, within short period, ninety five
cases and fourteen deaths from enteric
fever occurred in groups, following the
ouaoaoo;ua volIrt;nn oc J;fpo,ant ,rolla
in the village. Burbage, village in
Leicestershire, as recorded by DIR.
Gwynne Harries, had an outbreak Of
enteric fever from the same cause las.
year. No one took the fever in the
village except persons who certainly
or presumably drank water from q
particular pump, and every house sup
piled from this pump was subject to
Infection"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-08-20

A LAYMAN's GRAoE.-A young mar.
ried friend tells good joke on him
self pcrpetrated by little tbree.year
old "pride of the family" She is the
only pledge of love that has twincd
itself around the hearts and affections
Of himself and wife. A few evenings
since, minister visited tho family and
remained until after tea. At the Ia.
bio the reverend visitor asked a bless.
ing, and the little one opened her eyes
TO their fullest capacity in startled
wonderment. She could not under.
stand what had been done, and it was
with great persuasion that her mother
could keep her quiet during the time
they were at the table. When they
lett it she walked up TO the minister
for whom sho had formed a great
friendship, and said: "What did you
say at The table before we commenced
eating" "My littlo darling, thank
cd God for his goodness in giving us
to cat, so that We might grow and be
strong" "Papa don't say that"
"Wbat does your papa say?" "Papu
says 'Goddlemighty, what a supper -
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-08-20
are periIous from mud and slusb.

are perilous from mud and slush. II
the hot season tho sun and tho easl
wind beat pitilessly on tho traveller
There arc no inns on the way, nothing
but few empty and desolate barns
and posting houses, which swarm with
vermin and afford nothing but q dubi
GUS shelter. The wild tribes on the
frontier between Turkey and Persit
are always in movement, and wander
about in armed bands, thousands In
strength. They are ferocious and fil
thy robbers. Woe to the snug railway
clerk or well fed engineer Of plumI
and rosy aspect who falls into theft
hands. Some years ago they caugh,
an English attache "a Mr.. Tod) and
atc up his pomatum. What was worse
for him, they made him eat some of /,
too, and stripped him naked, tied him
to a horses tail, pricked him up be-
hind with spears point when he
tagged and ultimately held him to
ransom.
Baron Reuters friends will be a rare
prize for the Keords, some of whom
by the way, arc worshippers of the
devil. Then, if the English specula.
tors are ever allowed to get 10 Their
journeys end their comfort will be
small. Until the railways are made
Gan end of tho business which will
hardly como about in the present cen.
tury) everything which constitutes the
comfort OF a civilized household must
be imported, and land carriage is ex.
pensive. A moderate man, too, will
be obliged to keep dozen servants
and half dozen horses, neither Of
which articles are cheap or good, and
upon the whole salaries must be cal.
culated much higher in Persia than
even in India. Nothing undor thon.
sand pounds sterling yearly will keep
a family deccntly and TO 90 to Persia
for mere victuals and drink, without
being able TO save dollar, would be
poor business indeed. There is no
mistake about the actual cost of living
and moving about in Persia, and tents,
cooks, guards, tent pitchers, interpre.
ters, food and wine are not TO be had
and carried about for nothing. There
is, indeed, n certain queer sort of re-
spect paid to the Frank in Persia
For instance, the soldiers present arms
TO every man who wears chimney-pot
undor the belief that he is a foreign
ambassador or one of his suite; but the
fanatical Shiites, or heretical Moham.
mcdans, will not allow Christrian 10
enter public baths lest he should dofile
them. They will not drink out Of o
cup or glass which he has used or sit
upon carpet after him.