The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-01-09
Odds and Ends.


Motto of the lard manufacturer: III
try"
san Francisco contemplates the biggest
hotel yet.
Why is selfish friend like the letter
p? Because, though he is the first i'm pity,
he is the last in help.
"A Fort Plain N. Y. } merchant adyer-
tises his goods al. oxyun. That man has
always steered clear of newspapers.
Two clergymen OF DeKalb county,
H., who have been keeping accurate ac-
count of the expenses of their tables. with
view TO ascertain the exact amount re-
qured to supply an ordinary eater with
good plain food. find that they differ ten
cents per week in the amount One puts
il at ninety cents and the other at one dol
lar week. So says the Sycamore Repub-
iican.
Among the questions raised before the
Supreme Court in the case of Perfect. the
Chicago murderer. was the curious one
that the States Attorney. Mr.. Reed. had
wrongfully quoted certain passages OF
Scripture in his closing speech. The pas
sages in question Were from the several
statements given by the four eyangelists
of the inscription on the cross. The APP
pellate Court took no notice Of the point.
The ownership oil one-fourth of Eng
lands land by a score or so of families has
a likeness in California. where there are
eleven hundred owners of fifty million
acres-over thirteen thousand acres each.
This land is now used only for grazing,
and is rated at comparatively low valua-
ton but its appreciation is liable TO make
a few thousand Astors out there within "A
few years.
A young man i'm New jersey sues his
father for loaned money, which the father
claimed was his own property. The faith
er's counsel in summing up the case OF his
client. remarked: Twice has this prodi-
gal returned to the fathers house. twice
has he been received with open arms. twice
for him has the fatted calf been killed. and
now he comes back and wants the old
cow"
The peanut business is not overlone,
though il may seem to be. Old Virginia
is Just waking up 10 the fact that there j.
more money in these ~goobers. as they
are called. than in tobacco. All land i
cheap in that State. but the sandy and un-
inviting sections that are best suited TO the
raising OF peanuts j. held at wellnigh Moth
ing. A farmer near Norfolk has Just been
testing the peanut capacity of such piece
Of land. and has raised a crop on a few
acres which has melted him $1,000. Men
of small capital should consider this fact.
and reflect seriously on the possibilities of
the despised peanut"
There i great deal of debate what
plant il was with a iriioliate leaf which 1T.
Patrick used a. an Illustration with which
10 convert the great Irish king To belief
in the doctrine of the Trinity. The ten
dency of modern Investigators is 10 the be
lief that it was the sorrcl. Oraiis acefo-
seiia. and not the Evolutionary clover.
In like manner there j. doubt ~ To
what was the thistle which the Scotch used
to stly the march Of their harbaric bare
footed invaders. The general belief. too,
settled down on the OnOpord0n acaafhi,rn.
and this was finally selected to plant over
the tomb of Burns. But the question has
been raised again by the discovery that an
old lodge of Scotch Free Masons have from
time immemorial used what they regarded
as the {" Scotch thistle" in their Initiation
rites, and that this was what Is now known
in gardens NJ the holy thistle-StigbWm or
C1rduus marianus Of Linnaus. Prof. Bal
four says il is not native of Scotland. but
was formerly much cultivated in gardens.