The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-07-31
Odds and Ends.

According TO the census, there are
only two men in America who make a spe-
cialty of the manufacture of hand-organs.
just think how easy il would be TO kill
those two men. and yet they still live =
Neio York World.
Coroner Bacon of Buffalo saved lady
from drowning on Friday last. Her beauty
and cries for help overcame the prospect
ola fee. Ii is TO be hoped that the lady's
friends will see that the Coroner does not
lose by his self-sacrificing heroism.
A Streator. Wis, soda-fountain was
rec. ntly charged with arsenic instead of
marble dust, and nine persons partoos OF
the compound before the mistake was dis
covered. A stomach pump undid the
work It's soda brother had done and they
were all saved.
A young widow lady left Washington
the other day for Colorado to marry a
man TO whom she was engaged. and
whose business is so arbitrary as TO deny
him the privilege TO go so far from home,
even 10 marry. About one man in a
thousand is worth, as husband. the IA
tigue. trouble and expense Of going that
far for, and il too often turns out that he
isn't. But women will take such risks for
a very small premium ourier-Jour7adL
=" What may be it, effects. especially
upon the minds of ignorant men. dare
not foretell,' wrote Mr.. Parkhurst, dis
cussing the comets tail, and the possibility
that the earth might come in collision with
il. Here Is one indication of what may be
expected: 1--WE got emf shouted a
Mississippi boatman. when first the wan
derer broke upon his sight. "Snakes I've
had before. and now the stars have got tails
on 'em. I'm a dead man''
Little Johnny b.. of Fourteenth street,
wanted to go to DIR. Buffers church yes
terday. His mother was afraid he would
make a noise. but his father said John
ny knows better than to make "A noise in
church" So he went. He kept very still
till the last prayer. BY that time he had
grown tired sitting still. and was standing
on the new cushion with his back TO the
pulpit. When the lady in the next seat
bowed her head in PRAYER. Johnny thought
she was crying. He leaned over and said
To the lady. in tone that was meant for a
whisper, but which was only too plainly
heard: "Poor lady What &c matterg DO
90 summit ache.''
1t is reported that the Princess Bea-
trice. Queen Victoria's youngest daughter,
girl of IL. is 10 be married to Adolf
Friedrich, the heir-apparent to the Grand
Duke of Mecklenburg-S The IA
Their of the expectant bridegroom rules
over less than one thousand square miles
Of territory. but as he owns over half the
land in his dominions, rules almost abso-
lutely. and has saved large private for
tune. he will bequea,h very pretty estate
TO his son. should the latter survive him
and no revolution overthrow the present
state of things in Germany. Adolf is 26
years old. and his mother Is daughter OF
the late Duke of Cambridge. Nictoria's
uncle. The wife of George Ill. was a
princess of Interchangeable. as was
also the wife of his son. father of the de-
posed King Of Hanover. The patcrnal
Government of the little Grand Duchy il
not much liked by MS subjects. and they
are emigrating in such Runbers that the
population is diminishing yearly.