The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-01-01
Foreign Notes.

In Scotland people are fined for jump
ing upon moving rail Dad trains. Serves
them right.
- am very happy" said French
mother. " have son-in-law whom eve
nv body discusses and a daughter whom
no one talks about"
"A few days ago, says an exchange, we
noticed the export from New York TO
some European port of 100 boxes of sar-
dimes. We now notice the importation
into New York, from Cardiff, Wales, of %
barrels of pork.
The Prussian Cross Gazette publishes
a letter from st. Jean de Luz. stating that
NJ Dupressoir. formerly lessee OF the
gaming tables at Baden-Baden. is negotia-
ating with the Spanish Government for
permission to establish gaming tables in
the principal towns of Spain. He offers
25,000.0O0 francs for the concession,
which the correspondent believes he will
obtain. VI. Dupressoir has already paid
10 Don Carlos 1900 francs a day for per
mission 10 keep gaming tables at Fuen-
terabia.
"A description of rich deposit of man.
malta remains near Castleton, in Derby
shire. England. was recently read before
the Lit' .ry Society OF Manchester. Bones
and &c ~ of the bison and the reindeer
were most abundant. but associated with
these were the remains of the wolf and the
grizzly bear. In Pleistocene time this spot
was swampy drinking place, and herds
of bison and reindeer halted here TO drink.
Some would fall IN while drinking. and
Others would be begged. while the carcass
of those that might die in the neighbor-
hood would be washed in during rainy
weather.
The Rev. Brooke Lambert, Vicar Of
Tamworth, in England. read paper the
other day on cremation before the Tam
worth Natural History Society. Advert
ing first to the religious question. he said
that st. Paul's argument In !. Cor, XIV,
was directly opposed to the resurrection
of the actual par ticles of the body in sim
liar form. He rested his main argument
on the report of lsl9 10 Parliament as to
the sanitary evils arising from graveyards.
London and Paris doctors agreed that
actual diseases of the throat, low fever,
and diarrhna were caused by the emana-
items from such places. He points out
that extramural interments only adjourned
the evil. He finally argued that decompo-
sition vas a far more dishonorablc fact
than cremation.
"A cashier named Teuchmayer. of
German origin, in the employment of NJ.
Posset, manufacturer of tissues. on the
Boulevard de Strasbourg. in Paris. has
Just absconded, leaving deficit Of go 900
francs. The police. on instituting an in
qniry into the habits Of the fugitive, dis
covered that he had been leading life Of
extravaganza quite out of proportion to
his position. He ostcnsibly occupied a
modest lodging on the Boulevard Ma
genta, where he was known simply us
Monsieur Adolphe, while he in reality
lived at Auteuil in a splendid house, In
which he passed as Baron Adolphus. A
stylishly-dressed young woman who fire.
quently visited him was arrested at the
suburban residence, and was found TO
have in her possession sum of 22.0OO
francs. She confessed that her paramount
had left for Liverpool, and had embarked
for Canada on board the Prussian, and
that she was about to follow him.