The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-03-20

Mrs. Carrie Jessup, of New Haven,
Connecticut, IA invented "A compartment
pot. In which corned beef, fresh Goldfish.
potatoes and plum-pudding can all be boil
ed at the same time.
Fall River. Mass, has nearly twice as
many spindles as Lowell, and i the great
est cotton manufacturing city In the re.
public. Ii If justly called the Manchester
Of America. It's population and wealth
are increasing more rapidly than any town
In New England.
The Whaieman's .Shippinq-List shows
Il steady decline in this industry. OF the
eleven whalers now in New Bedford, that
arrived in i>73, six are for sale, and of the
t~wenty-one now wintering there not over
seven are likely TO be fitted out. OF forty
whalers to arrive during the present year,
probably about thirty will be sent 10
sea. while the others will be dispos-
ed of.
The cotton-mill hands OF P~ennsylva-
MIA do not seem TO be much better Off than
those of New England. Before the panic
the mills were paying the women employ
ed by them five or six dollars a week, and
this has since been reduced fifteen per
cent. Ii is not strange that they have
struck. Yet American women prefer this
life-and-death toll I o employment as house
maids in respectable families.
Some of the capitalists of Boston are
discussing a plan for philanthropically
combining in one institution the benefits
of savings banks and life insurance. As
yet they have gone no farther than TO talk
generally OF the crude idea, which Is 10
enable men of moderate to de-
post money for the insurance of their
lives, the deposits 10 draw interest, and TO
be subject To withdrawal at any time.
The life policy wosld, Of course, be
Cancelled upon the money being drawn
out.
1t Is rather singular that diamonds.
the most valuable of all mineral products,
are bought and sold by a measure based
solely on usage. Carat weight is employ
ed for the purpose. but has never been le-
galized IN England or this country, Meth
or is il governed by any standard. Ii is,
however, generally recognized that l5l
diamond carats are equal TO a troy unce
The fourth part of the diamond carat i
called the carat grain, and is found TO be "a
nearly as possible equal to the average
of a dry wheat grain taken from the mid
die of the ear, which. again, is identical
with the A~lexandrian grain of the Ptole-
meys. four OF which were equal 10 the
Alexandrian carat.
1t is claimed that by means of a re.
Gently invented freezing machine, the
temperature of any limited space can be
kept down TO almost any required degree.
The inventor proposes TO apply the meth
cd TO the construction of cold chambers
on board ships, to be used for storing
fresh provisions, or in the case of mer
chant ships, for the conveyance Of perish
able freight. He does not, however, think
it possible 10 freeze "A whole cargo of meat
so as to resist putrefaction in a long voy-
age, as from Australia to England. Among
the various uses OF the new invention will
be TO cool railway carriages, to provid,
cool vases for the conveyance of meat and
other provisions i'm India, to cool tn,
air admitted into hospital wards, and tt
provide an unlimited supply of pure ice a
almost nominal cost.