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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-17
CUSTOMS IN GENEVA.

One of the queerest of Genevese GUS
toms is their manner of conducting
their auctions. When man bids, a
wax taper is Lit, and his bid holds good
as long as the taper lasts. A taper is Lit
for every bidder. Of course the last
and highest bidder has the best chance.
Alongside of the auction should be
placed the other queer custom the Gen.
evese have, of making the world, as far
as in them lies, to stand still for a con-
pie of hours in the middle Of the day.
Nothing can keep your ordinary citizen
of Geneva from throwing everything
aside at noon and going to dinner. The
banker locks up between twelve and two
going on with business in the afternoon.
Even the coachman, that you have taken
by the hour, will want to leave you be-
tween - and O'Clock. The fact is,
there has been nothing on the Genevese
stomach but bread and coffee since the
night before. It is unquestionably the
meagerness of their breakfasts which
makes them so prompt to disappear be-
tween IL and 2.
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CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT NEWSPA
PIERS.

Mr.. D. w. Wilder, in the leading ar
ticle in the Kansas Magazine, has some
facts to tell, old and new, concerning
Newspapers" He has been at the
trouble of measuring a quadruple sheet
of the New York Herald, and states,
among other things of which few news
poper readers are aware, that the num-
Der he has measured contains 960, 900
ems" while Mark Twain's new book,
an octave of SCI pages, contains only
836, 900 ems, and that this one copy of
the Herald would make an octave con-
tanning SO more pages than Twain's
book. Mr.. Wilder adds that ''the price
of the book is $3.50, of the paper four
cents;" and for the further enlighten-
ment of people who do not appreciate
big newspapers and who may not be ia
miliar with Twain's books, says, 'three
copies of this quadruple sheet daily
Herald would contain fourth more
matter than the common English Bible,
Apocrypha included"
An advertisement in New York paper
for three black tom-cats brought the I'M
lucky advertiser $50 cats of all sizes,
colors and varieties. One dealer said he
had tortoise cats valued at 800 apiece.
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A PIECE OF WEDDING CAKE.

We saw piece Of wedding cake the
other day, which had somewhat re-
markable history. 1t was made on the
occasion Of the marriage of lady of this
city, twenty-five years ago, and sealed
up to await the return of her brother,
who was then expected home in a few
weeks. The lady died fifteen years ago,
but the cake was kept intact until Mon
day last, when, as her brother is still in
California, and will probably never again
come East, it was removed from the case
where it had remained SO long, and sent
to him. -Bangor (Mc.) Wing.
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Mr.. WEBSTER ON STYLE.

Some ore remarking to Mr.. Webster
that no newspaper had correctly printed
Latin quotation in one Of his letters,
and that it required scholar even to
correct proof, he replied: Doubtless;
but the man of medical pursuits, Of any
engrossing pursuits, cannot attend to
classical studies-cannot, indeed, re-
tain what in earlier youth he may have
acquired. / find it so. Life is too
short for study. One life is required
for complete mastery of ancient clas-
sizes, of Grecian and Roman lore-anoth-
er for the full understanding and ready
use Of English poetry, from Chaucer
down to the present time; while anoth-
err should be devoted to modern sciences.
/ grow more convinced and more
ashamed of my ignorance daily; and I
fear that in all my productions I re-
cede more and more from the terse
expression of my younger days-that 1
grow diffuse, and indulge in unnecessary
repetition.
my style was not formed without
great care and earnest study of the best
authors. have labored hard upon it,
for l early felt the importance Of ex-
preston to thought. I have rewritten
sentence after sentence, and pondered
long upon each alteration. For de-
pend upon it, it is with our thoughts
as with our persons-their intrinsic
value is mostly undervalued, unless
outwardly expressed in an attractive
garb. Longinus tells us that the most
sublime passage to be found in any lam
guage is this in the Bible: Let there
be light, and there was lght'-the
greatest effort of power in the tersest
and fewest words--the command and
the record one exertion of thought. So
should we all aim to express things in
words"
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NEWSPAPERS,
science.

journalism may be traced back as far
as the year 1868, when the Venetians
paid "gazctta," a small coin, during
the war in Dalmatia between Venice and
Soliman H., to hear the latest war news
read from written sheet. An immense
volume of this manuscript Venetian
newspaper, comprising sixty years of its
existence, may be seen in the Maglia-
becchi library, in Florence. The Ga
sctta-so this paper was called-aimed
only to retail gossip and crafty curiosi-
ty; nobler aims were unknown to the
earlier journalists. The first newspaper
published in England appeared in 1922,
the first daily in 1902, which was a single
sheet, printed on one side, in two col
umps. The name of this journal was
the Daily COurdnt. At the beginning
of this century the London Times print
ed daily edition of only one thousand
copies. In the year 1860, England pub
lished about 800 newspapers. But all
the European countries have been sur
passed by the United States in the rapid
extension of the press. According to
the latest statistics, there were 5,845
journals and magazines publishing in
this country last year.
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A SAD. SAD STORY.

Twenty-Five years ago, says letter.
writer, a company Of young people, farm
ers' sons and daughters, to the number
of thirty-two, drove in the early morning
down to the ancient little city OF Amboy,
N. j., to embark in a sloop for a sail
down the waters of one Of the prettiest
bays that wash the Atlantic coast. Ar
rived at Sandy Hook, they Toasted, fished
and frolicked and firted, too, no doubt,
for the wash-tub and the dairy can never
deprive the daughters of Eve of their
prerogative. At the close of the after
noon they prepared for a glorious bath
in the surf of Florida Grove, the young
men retiring round the point, leaving
their fair friends in unembarrassed en-
ioyment of the situation. Upon their
return the young farmers saw sight
that might well strike terror to the stout
est heart. The cruel undertow had
sucked the poor girls down to their
deaths, and the waves had cast their
bodies on to the sands from whence they
had dashed so merrily into the rolling
surf short half hour before, and not
one of the whole party was left alive.
Sadly the young men bore the remains
of sisters, friend and sweetheart back to
their homes, now made desolate indeed,
and widespread was the grief and
ano7,ish in the hitherto hapDv township
of Piscataway. There was family not
that did not mourn the loss of q beloved
child and daughter; and such was the
shock produced by the terrible occur
renee throughout the whole State Of
New Jersey that the memory Of it is pre-
served to this day, and the story told by
those who listened to it first, perhaps.
from the lips of sorrowful eyewitness.
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Man being omnivorous, his food must
be varied frequently for the full develop
ment of those mental and physical powers
give him dominion over the earth.
If only one kind of food is supplied for
considerable time, as that Of potatoes
for example, there will be strong mus
cles, but feeble brain force. A vary
ing diet, one thing one day and some
thing the next not on the table at every
meal, has wonderful influence on the
harmonious manifestations of both mind
and body. Varying the diet furnishes
elements essential to health. 1t con-
duces to the moral well-being of an indi-
vidual who is both peevish, dissatisfied,
and grumbler if the same dishes appear
invariably at breakfast and dinner. COT
fee and tea, properly prepared, are not
loathed, but are always welcome; but
nothing else is, on clearinghouse
table. In keeping house we provide
what we like. That is the difference.
A positive reason why such multitudes
failof success in keeping boarding-houses
is because they serve precisely the same
articles all the time. A devoutly Chris
tan stomach rebels against that system.
On the other hand, hotels or boarding
houses having the reputation of an adj
mirable table have more patrons than
they can accommodate. That is the
whole secret of having no vacant rooms.
Starving boarders is no economy, as the
cost of advertisements for dodgers is
vastly more expensive than generous
variety every day in the week, which would
keep the house full.
Living well simply means not to SUBJ
sist on the same kind of food, cooked
always in the same manner. The laws
of physiology demand varying diet,
and those hoping for good paying board
ers should profit by the suggestion Of
sciance
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PERSONAL.

JOIN RANDOLPH owned 3l8 slaves.
Mrs. Scorr-SDDoNs earns $3.50 day
by her readings.
BRET HARrE says stealing and civilian
ton go hand in hand.
A. I. STEWART exhibited 30 acres of
holiday goods for sale during Christmas
week.
CHRISTINE NILSSON RouzEAUD pays
taxes on real estate in eleven American
cities.
The New York Fi'ccman's Journal
says that neither of the Misses Greeley
is a Catholic.
IT is said Charles O'Conor will be
made Chief Justice in the event of Judge
Chase's resignation.
GEORGE p. PUTNAM, the New York
publisher, recently deceased, was a great
nephew of Gen. Israel Putnam.
MADAME HYAcINTHE has put $75, 600
into her husbands new paper, La Re
pubtique, published in Brussels.
MURAT HALsTEAD, of the Cincinnati
Commercial, is prominently spoken of
as candidate for Governor of Ohio.
A San FRANcIsCo bride was recently
presented by her father with $500, 600 in
cash, and by her husband with 800, 900.
COMMODORE VANDERBILT is reported
to have bet 500 that he will be ac-
lively managing his business affairs fifteen
years hence.
GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN has sailed for
Europe. He goes for the purpose of in
Producing his sleeping-cars upon Eu-
ropean railroads.
A. H. STEPHENS advises young lawyers
not to undertake a case unless they are
sure they are on the right side. Mr..
Stephens is getting bitterly sarcastic in
his old age.
The latest news from prominent South
ern rebels is that jeff Davis is in Mem
phis, Joe Johnston in Savannah, Beau
regard in New Orleans, and Mosby is to
be married.
The Boston Gazette says that the late
Edwin Forrest, short time before his
death, offered Mr.. James Parton $1,000
if he would write the life of Forrest, but
that Mr.. Parton declined the offer.
AMONG the prominent persons who
have died during the year just closed ere
Anderson, Bennett, Bernadotte, Dayton
Fanny Fern, Farragut, Forrest, Greeley,
Lever, Mazzini, Meade, Morse, Persigny,
Seward and Archbishop Spalding.
HENRY MEIGGs, the Peruvian Jim
Fisk, Vanderbilt, and Drew combined,
recently presented President Balta's
wife with sl5O,OOO upon her birthday,
while that lady's daughter received on
the same anniversary a check for $50, 600
from the same source.
BEEcHER says that one look back upon
the record of American Presidents "takes
entirely from my mind all purpose of
running as candidate for President. If
it is done it will be without my consent,
and should be dragged to that chair in
spite of my screams"
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Facts for the Househol,l.

GARLIC SAUcE.-Pound two cloves OF
garlic with piece of fresh butter about
as big as nutmeg, rub it through
a very fine sieve and stir it into half a
pint of melted butter or beef gravy.
To PREVENT FELoNs HEADING. Take
black pepper in the kernel and pulverize
well; then soak the pepper with spirits
of turpentine, and apply to the felon as
a poultice. If this remedy is used when
the felon first makes it's appearance it is
a certain cure in few applications.
BONE FELoN. The following is recon-
mended: The yolk Of an egg, with equal
quantity of homemade soft-soap and
common lard, and teaspoonful of tlr-
pentine, mixed well and applied as a
poultice on going to bed.
SPONGE CAKE.-Two cupfuls of sugar,
two of -four, four eggs, two teaspoonfuls
of baking powder, two-thirds of cupful
of boiling water, favoring the taste; add
the boiling water just before the mixture
is put into the oven.
FLowER-Por WoRMs.-If any of our
lady friends are annoyed by the worms
that sometimes infest fower-pots, they
can get rid of them by putting an ounce
of ammonia into gallon of warm water,
and watering the plants with it once a
week.
RIcB WAFFLEs. Take q teacup and a
half of rice that has been well boiled and
warm in pint of rich milk, stirring it
till smooth and mixed. Then remove il
from the fire, and stir in a pint of cold
milk and teaspoonful Of salt. Beat
four eggs very light, and stir them into
the mixture, in turn with sufficient rice
flour to make thick batter. Bake in a
wafiie-iron. Send them to the table hot,
butter them, ard eat them with powdered
sugar and cinnamon, prepared in small
bowl for the purpose.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-17
81 LOVE TO STEAL"

A well-known Connecticut clergyman
had deacon who insisted upon leading
the siging at the prayer-meetings. He
was great blunderer, and he sang all
the sad and melancholy tunes he could
think of. The hymn was given out:
az love to steal awhile away"
The deacon began: 81 love to steal
to Near, where he broke down. He
started with DUNDEE love to steal. T"
The third time he commenced and broke
down, when the pastor arose and gravcly
said: II am sorry for our brothers pro-
pensity-will some brother pray?"
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AGRICULTURAL.


Wa need not fear that the human race
II, aver cease to have delight in the
.nlt;vation of land-the raising OF grain
and fruits-in planting trees. Men al
vays did delight in the pleasure OF agri-
,.i,rre II has been the chosen pursuit
= Tho ablest and wisest men in all ages.
Tho Measures Of the husbandman have
hoop the theme of poets and orators in
ivory Language and in every land! These
pleasures Cicero tells us, are not checked
hv any old age, and make the nearest
onnroach to the life of wise man. And
he tells us that Homer introduces
Ioertes soothing the regret which he
felt for his son, by tilling the land and
manuring it. Marcus GURUS, after he
had triumphed over Pyrrhus, spent the
closing period of his existence in agri-
cultural pursuits. Cincinnatns was at
the plow when it was announced to him
that he was made Dictator. "God Al
mighty" says Lord Bacon, "frst planted
a garden; and indeed it is the purest OF
pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment
to the spirits of man, without which
buildings and palaces are but gross
bandiworks." Addison says n garden
was the habitation of our first parents
before the fall. 1t is naturally apt to
I'LL the mind with calmness and tram
ouillity, and to lay all its turbulent pas
sions at rest. The philosopher Boiling
broke was never so happy, Pope tells us,
as when among the hay-makers on his
farm. And not alone in the retinements
Of rural life will there be an interest.
Farmers hold the world together. There
may be years when they seem to be OF
less consequence. Trade or manufac-
lures may allure some of them for a
time. But there will ever be latent in
every mans breast u hope to end his
days on a farm.
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SIPPTNGS OF PUNCH.
ASTOUNDING INTELLIGENCE.


Are we in Wonderland We rub our
mental eyes, and wildly stare, and fancy
that we must be dreaming. Still, here
it is in actual print, like the ballad of
the "Jabberwock:"
Bonnets are still worn much the
same in shape as those of last month"
Can this be really true? Is it possible
that ladies can consent for two whole
months to wear their bonnets "much the
same in shape?" Varium ct nsutabiie
scmper in most affairs of life, the fair
sex in none is more so than in fashion
able matters. We shall be tempted to
believe in the strong-mindedness of
women when we find them wearing bon
nets of same shape for month or two
together.
SOMETHING GRACEFUL.
Mr.. Gladstones good health-which
is happily restored-was drunk after
dinner on the "Grand Day" at the Mid
die Temple In returning thanks our
Premier said:
Il can only say that, in reference to
the recent arbitration, the principles
upon which we have been proceeding
have undergone no discouragementw what
ever"
Good, William; but in so saying, did
you not rather say grace after humble
pie?
CHANGE OF LIVING.
"The Seventeen Diets Of Austria!"
The people of that country are fortunate
in having SO many varieties of food. We
hope to taste few of them, next sum-
mer, ut the Vienna Exhibition.
A POSSIBILITY.
England and Portugal have agreed on
an arbitration, and Mr.. Adolphe Theirs,
the astute, is to be the umpire. One
would not be rude, but George Meredith,
in the "Shaving of Shagpat," asks a
question:
"whcn for one serpent were two asses match?"
Suppose the President discovers that
the subject of our quarrel belongs to
France?
HAPPY TIME.
What a comfort is disrobing after the
dull party and before the bright fire!
When, as my friend Lord Houghton ad-
mirably says,
"a mans best things are nearest him,
Lie close about his feet"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-17

AT the sale, in Selma, Ala, few days
ago, of the Great Eastern Circus, the
elephant was bought by Mr.. DeHavne
for $4,000. Six bay horses brought
S3,40O. The den containing the lioness
and cubs, s6,OS5. The Bengal tiger and
leopards, $1,000. The bufialoes, s4OO
each. The ring horses sold at from $500
to 81, 900 each.
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It is claimed that there is rs much adj
vantage gained in paying strict attention
in selecting hens with prolific tendencies,
from any breed, as in selecting good
mixers to improve the dairy stock, and
the hypothesis-perhaps established fact
is one that stands to reason. Every
one who keeps fowls is well aware certain
ones are greater egg producers than
others Of the flock, and the eggs of only
such as these should be saved for the
purpose of increase.
One writer on this subject says that he
is perfectly certain that the number Of
two hundred eggs per annum may be at
tanned in few years time with perfect
ease should the object be Systematically
sought. 1t is matter within the reach
Of all who feel interested in it, and one
that can be easily tested, without any
knowledge whatever as to fancy points.
II the poultry flock Of a farmer can be
made to produce double the eggs usually
obtained from certain number of hens
the improvement will be paying one.
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mer and cooler in winter, by preventing
access to the earth. Good stone tagging
would he better than common brick.
There should be ventilating flue run
up from the upper part of the apart
ment, in which the current of air may be
regulated by means Of a register.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-17
VIRTVOUS BOSTON.

The leading gambling houses of Bos-
ton were pulled on Christmas night, and
the proprietors, together with about 100
Of their Puritan patrons, successfully
raked in. Among the parties arrested
were a number of prominent citizens,
including besides merchants, manufac-
turers, one prominent bank president Of
Boston and clergyman of a neighbor-
ing city. They we're all taken to the
headquarters of the State police and adj
mitted to bail for their appearance in
court, and were subsequently fined an
average Of about $50. The city, Of
course, is awfully shocked.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-17

The richest man in the world is the
Khcdive of Egypt. His yearly income
is S5O,OOO,OOO.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-17

THE Savage Club Of London, the same
that entertained Artemus Ward and
Mark Twain, has applied the last feather
necessary to dislocate its spinal verte-
brn, by entertaining the perambrilating
lunatic Bates.
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milk cellar will be coolest when well
,unk INTO the earth, and not much above
y surface. Eight feet would be a good
@"n. The windows, near the top Of
~ walls, should be protected from the
y, ,n' either by trees or shrubs, or with
yAnds or shades; and wire screens inside
,.Ould be made to exclude all insects.
sO'erlng the bottom with hydraulic
0uent is not n good conductor of heat;
: VIII rerder the cellar warmer in sum-
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Glover for Hogs.

An Ohio hog-raiser advocates the sys-
TEN of pasturing on clover during the
summer. He presents, as the advantage
Of this plan, the statement that an acre
Of ground in clover will pasture five hogs
four months, and it will take the corn
from half an acre to feed them the same
tine. The cultivation of the corn he
counts equal to the rest of the other half
acre. He further claims that the hogs
pastured on clover are in far better con-
dlton than if fed on corn, rs they are
better framed, healthier, and eat better,
and also states that the land is enriched
BY the clover pasturing.
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During the process Of churning GER
tam uniformity of temperature must be
Observed, or the butter will he soft and
spongy instead of being firm and CON-
pact. The agitation, also, of the cream
must be regular-neither too quick nor
100 slow. II the agitation is too quick
The butter will make and unmake itself
oeiore the churncr is aware Of it, as too
'apid motion induces fermentation which,
When it has reached certain point, is
entirely destructive Of anything like the
possibility Of making even moderately
good or well-tasting butter. If, on the
O'her hand, the motion is too slow, the
asits in the churnoratproduce fail to the
uesired separation of the component
parts OF the cream, and the consequence
y mat after good deal of time spent
~ lazy action the churner is just rs far
lom his butter as he was at the begin
Jung OF his labors. The best tempera-
s .are for the cream in churning is from
MY to sixty degrees.