The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-02-27

persecures him with all his power. lie
has been removed 10 a lunatic asylum.
Odds and Ends.
The old conundrum about the num-
Der of apples eaten by Adam and Eve in
the Garden of Eden has started on another
tour We are sorry. for the answer has
never been correctly given. making the IT.
suit a follows Eve and Adam ,. a to-
tai Of 10 only. Now we figured the thing
out far differently long ago. but through
exceeding modesty never proclaimed the
result. which is now given: Eve ; and
Adam also. Total III.
When YOU have interfered in family
fight, and been Knocked down stairs by
the brutal husband. and had kettle of hot
water poured upon YOU by the ill-treated
wife. console yourself with the reflection
that the memory of noble and useful acts
wrought in early youth is like the coral
islands. green and sunny amid the melan
chOly ocean. After il has happened 10
you several times you will decide that you
have laid up memories enough OF that sort,
and will never. never interfere between
husband and wife.
An Irishman while on his passage 10
England in search of harvest work. was
observed TO walk up and down the deck at
a brisk pace. occasionally giving a look at
the captain whenever he came in sight. as
ii 10 attract his observation. On being
asked by the steward for his passage
money. when nearing the port OF destina-
ton. Pat replied. 'Arrah. honey. be aisy
now shure the master won't do such
dirty trick a charge poor shearer who
has walked all the wayT
some students fixed up a ghost and
placed il on the staircase of a Troy news
paper Office the other night. and then re-
tired and waited developments. One of
the editors came along and didn't get
frightened. He disrobed il and now wears
a Sl5 pair of panialoons. $40 vest. -
pair of boots and an - hat. while one Of
the students goes about without vest
aud another roams through the least fire.
quentcd streets wearing very ancient pair
OF pantaloons.
The village young mans greatest trial
j. not when he makes his advent at the
BARRIERS shop. and receives the starcs of
the customers and the grins Of the opera
tors. but when he first makes his appear
ance with a Young lady ~ an entertain
ment. Ii j. not enough that the usher
should ret the wrong aisle. and thus make
him him and her 20 around at the front
and come back up the middle aisle. TO the
enjoyment of several hundred people. but
IN, has got 10 escort her through "A file Of
his acquaintance al the door, after the per-
for1nance j. over. and i Obliged 10 bear
with stolid Indifference the grins of delight
I show cred upon him. and 10 hear with
Christian cOmpOsure the young man at
I the head of the row adjure somebody not
\ in sight To '.fIold my clothes" and some
exqnisitely facetious inquiries from one To
another a. to who will care for mother
now = and Wont YOU look at our John
ny y''-Danbury.
1T i remarkable how old-time super
1 stitions crop on, now and then. and take
root i'm the public mind. AT present the
lucky horseshoe" i the fayorite emblem.
appearing in nearly every device to which
| it can be- adapted Irrespective of the horse
hoof. Horseshoe pins in gold. bronze. or
oXidiZed metal are worn aS ornaments by
men and women alike. Small looking
/ glasses, framed in imitation horSe-sloes OF
| gutta-percha or some other material. are
in great demand, and in some instances
real horSe-shoes. gilt, are used as frames.
Most bar-rooms have horseshoe nailed
up somewhere, and the old women who
sell newspapers at corner tables prefer
/ fl0I-t-~llDt-- W bAithr i'i latt'A NNs-Hs-'
The original notion OF the talismanic prop
critics of the horseshoe arose from the
supposition that an evil spirit, in trayers-
ing il. Is sure to fly off at one Of the ends.
In Cincinnati they tell a little story
abou Mrs. ChiefJustice Waite. About a
month before General Grant had broached
Mr.. Waite's name TO the Senate. Mrs.
Waite wrote an article on cookery for the
Cincinnati Ga-stfe. The article was signed
.lankee Cook Girl" IL was full of sound
suggestions on the cookery question. and
replete with good advice 10 housekeepers,
The article from the Yankee Cook Girl
arrested so much attention that finally d
rich old widowcr in Cincinnati wrote to
sam Reed. the editor, that he would be
glad To give the Yankee Cook Girl .
situation-not a. a servant. but she might
preside over his household. In fact. he of
fered marriage. Mr.. Reed had To answer
in paragraph that the Yankee Cool
Girl was not in the market, she having
got n situation in a neighboring city. tn,
people Of Cincinnati don't know even now
that the .Ya nkee Cook Girl" was Mrs
Waite. the sensible and practical wife o
the new Chief-Justice, and that her new
situation il to be- the highest in the land
chief mistress in Uncle Sans houSehol,
Of law and justice.