The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-08-20

OF the samoan Islands, for the purpose Of
cutting and sending hardwood timber 20
that port.
The Salisbury, Mass, mills, the larg-
est wooden factories Ia this country, have
closed for three months, on account Of the
accumulation Of goods and slow sales dur
Ing the past season.
AT Rutland, VT. where contract for
gravest0nes IoT the Government ceme-
teries Is being filed, the inscriptions are
cut with \ sand-blast. Castiron letters,
like stencil plates, are attached 10 the
smooth slabs, aud the blast does the work
so fast that 300 stones day are Inscribed.
Australia shows an increase during
seven years Of II 600 900 sheep and 2.000,-
600 head OF cattle, without counting home
consumption and the quantity OF meat ex-
ported In tins. In New Zealand, during
the same period, the increase In the num-
Der of sheep and cattle Was equally re-
markable. the former multiplying from
SIS $40 10 ll.69i SGD, and the latter from
81, $50 TO 494, ll3.
-Lafge quantities Of witch-hazel are
being cut In the wooden country north OF
Little Falls. N. ". which il drawn TO that
village, where Il Il passed through some
process before II is ehipped 20 Europe and
elsewhere, 20 be used Tor medicinal pur
poses. The hazelis worth 50 per ordinary
wagon load, and those persons who have
for years regarded the saplings worthless
as il grew upon their premises are now
realizing handsome revenue in it, sale.
Bank OF England note paper has been
made since l7l9 AT Lavenstuck. Hants.
Note, its peculiar whiteness; 2, its thin
ness and transparency; 8. its crisp and
tough feel 4, It's water~mark-made In
the paper, and on the same side as the
printing; 5, It's three uncut edges; 9, its
strength--Inade Of new linen or cottor
A bank-note will support 30 pounds be.
fore being sized, and afterward support q
man for years ii il Is only for the right
amount.
Il Annee Scienfifg<, by VI. Figuier,
declares that the pyrophone is assuredly
one of the most Original instruments that
science has given TO instrumental music.
In the large pyrophone, which NJ. kastner
has CONSTRUCTED, and which they have not
yet been able to bring to London, an artist
can produce sounds unknown till the
present fire. initiating the human voice,
but with strange and beautiful tones,
capable OF producing in religious music
the most wonderful effects. so SAYS lie
Journal 01ici<i dc q Ezposlfioa de V<rsns.
Foreign Nsses.
-Constantinople Is threatened with 8
water famine.
Hereafter the Prussian Government
will levy a TAX on beer and on stock oper.
atoms. In order TO meet "A deficit of 5000,
000in the annual budget.
M Liitre. the French Positivlst. has
T been made Free Mason. This h remark
able. because OF the Masonic rule requir
I ing belief I'm God by all members
Captain Webb. who swan 20 milei
with the tide down the Thames tine othe
day. will try and cross the English Chan
mel. going over the course tried by Pau
I Boy ton.
has been appointed Prussian LieutenaH
and attached To a Berlin regiment Of foot
guards. lie as0 studies the military ar
under an eminent officer.
The Chief Of Police OF Leipzig sub
scribed $50. 600 for the French sufferers
trusting to get his money back by IN
popular sub scriptions In that city. As h
IL the only German man and Leipzig tn
only German city which thought Of doinl
any thing of the kind. they are both mark
ed extra superfine in Gaul-
An officer OF the French army wor
his uniform about the streets of Rome III
other day. and was on the point Of beinl
mobbed by the indignant citizens wnel
the police took Linn under their protection
That uniform i not very popular anon
the Romans. owing 10 Napoleon Ill.
military occupation Of the city.
Two tortoises. believed 20 be the las
survivors of gigantic race of animal
which were formerly abuadantin the Ma:
carene and other islands OF the India
Ocean. have been brought TO the Zoolog
ical Socieiy-s Gardens in London from A
dabra Island. The male--an enormOu
animal nearly six feet long and weighini
over 800 pounds-is believed TO be NOR
than one hundred years old, and l. stil
growing.
African elephants appear to be liabl
TO fault from which still n0bler anims
is not exempt. There Is a fruit OF whic
they are passionately fond which make
them tipsy. and after eating 1t they stag
ger about, screaming 80 as 10 DC hear
miles Of, and not seldom having fremen
dous fights. This Is voucbctl for by IN
Hon. w. ri. Drummond in his new wor
ON the large game of South Africa.
Foreign Ministers accredited at Coz
, stantinople will henccforth be presente
not only TO the Sultan, but also TO his els
est son and presnInptive heir, the cerem'
NAL observed on both occasions being q
J actly the same. This is the most decisi'
{ step yet taken toward changing the Al
4 Gent order Of succession TO the throne
: Turkey. according to which the nephe
2 Of the present Sultan is entitled TO su
coed him.
, Germany and Russia promise TO ~
! furloughs by the hundred thousand
! their soldiers next year. Austria W
have to follow suit. as she Is a member
the triple imperial league, and France c
y i'm that case have no excuse for not q
I banding some Of her supernumeraries- "A
]. IL. S.....-lrS Of 1ax.in1.s Tor rh.. hin IL