The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-08-28

siderable part of them. have. according 4
this theory, been incurred in the discharg,
OF these duties. and hence il j. urged thai
the Queen, who has had and kept IN,
money given her by the State for sucf
purposes, ought 10 pay them. The Prime,
OF Wales has e4O,0OO a year. plus the reve
nue. OF the duchy of Cornwall, which now
amounts to over 100000 per annum.
Odds and Ends.
"A Providence street boy asked for q
ticket TO the poor ehildren's excursion OF
the Christian Association. He was asked
If he was Christian, and promptly said
he was. Are you an honest boy ?'
y Is, sir J" The phrenologist of the force
lifted the boys hat 10 examine his bump
of consciousness, when out fell ticket
for the excursion.
One morning recently a woman,
armed with club, accompanied by her
son. aged eighteen, who was armed with
a Henry repeating rifle. entered the school
house at Briggs Ranch. near Waldo. Cal
fornla. The woman informed the school
=. lster. young man named John Del
~ iter. that she had come to kill him for
improper conduct to her daughter. She
then commenced striking him with her
club, and her son also opened fire with his
rifle. The frightened school children ran
from the house and gave the alarm. but
their unfortunate teacher had received a
fatal wound, from the effects of which he
died fourteen hours afterward. Delmater
bore an excellent character. and before dy-
ing solemnly declared his innocence of the
crime imputed 10 him. The woman and
her son were arrested.
Among the guests at Lebanon Springs
Is wealthy bachelor, whose bank account
Is much better than his photography. A
party OF guests were playing a game
where a ball, made of a handkerchief. is
thrown from one TO another with the salu-
tation of Here comes a ship laden with
- each successive receiver being OBJ
liged to name commodity for cargo. be-
ginning with the letters of the alphabet
In turn. When the handkerchief alighted
at the letter n in the bachelors lap he
shouted krockery," which excited a
smile, and the game hastily proceeded.
when il was found the word was really
given in good faith and not as Joke.
The roguishness of a young lady. how
ever, caused the flying messenger to alight
in his lap second time at the letter 5,
whereat the receiver shouted "Sinna-
mon " so triumphantly that somehow or
other there was - much laughing that it
was thought best TO try another game
Hudson (N. ~ Register.
"A certain lawyers clerk had been in
the habit of taking an afternoon nap in the
absence of the boss. On such occasions
he has been in the habit of putting up this
placard on the front door: Gone TO the
clerk office" Some young men who
had witnessed the performance concluded
to play joke at his expense. Accord
linz II h.v
ternoon. and after he mad put up the usual
sign. and dutifully laid him down on his
lounge. they removed il and put the fol-
lowing in its place ION the lounge in
the back room asleep-don't knock-will
wake up at ) O'Clock. Call then" A
number of persons read the notice and
went away, wondering what the country
could be coming TO, when young man
could thus fritter away time. AT last the
young man awoke from his dreams. and
his feelings may be imagined when he saw
what had been dOne-PItersoa Guardian.
i met woman this morning. evident
ly down-east school-ma' (which Is
the way, sir. il you please, to Prospect
Park Right along that plank; you
can't miss it, and | raisei INV hat to pass
along. would you be good enough. sir.
10 20 down with me? am almost afraid
to 20 alone Upon my word the poor
woman was as white as this paper. and her
teeth chartered like frozen newsboy. and
! suppose her knees shook together like
drumsticks. 80 went down with her and
fairly dragged her TO the parapet. where
she could overlook the Falls. pulled her
hands off her eyes and babe her look. She
slowly obeyed, and such look of disgust
| never saw: What, is this Niagara
that mighty cataract that have seen In the
geography. and heard so much about
And have spent all my money to see this
thing" Well. / reasoned with that poor
school-ma'am for half an hour: but do my
best. she was bound to be Disguised, and
off home she went In the next train.-Ni-
agara Correspondence.
The other morning at Saratoga. while
everybody was rushing pell-mell over TO
the races. crowding every vehicle from a
hay-team to lundaulet with wild mass
OF humanity. Colonel Alexander quietly
took crowd of children down 20 see
Educated Ben the miraculous pig.
Among the children was little Freddy
Wall, who has always been troubled be-
cause he had no little sister to play with.
When he asked ms mother to get him a
little sister she always put it off with:
. es, Freddy, when children get cheap
Ill buy you little sister. You must
watt 30 to-day when Mr.. Jarvis read
these red letters on Educated Ben's tent
-" Children half-price-l5 cents little
Freddy jumped straight up and down.
clapped his hands. and exclaimed "Now
mamma can buy little sister for me. for
little children ain only half-price-l5 cents
now .''-Louisrltt Commercial.