The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-04-20

Victor Hugo reached his 10Th birth
day on the 2Cth ult
John l.. Owens e.. Solfn Shingle'')
owns : 100000 IN real estate alone.
General LongStrcet became mem
her Of a Roman Catholic Church in New
Orleans recently.
Miss IhompsOn's picture Of Inker-
man has been purchased by m eminent
London publishing art firm for the sum
Of 5000 glineas.
THERE'S a growing demand in France
for the writings of modern historians
like Louis Blanc, whose popularity was
supposed ~ have declined.
'. ncle Tom.- Mrs. Stoves hero
of the Cabin, has been greatly pcited by
the Scotch nobility. and viii soon return
10 Canada with Il 800 III his pocket.
The woman who pcrsonaicd Katie
King in the Philadelphia naturalization
scances has gone on the stage. She APP
pears IN play called I" Katie King: or,
spiriualism Exposed"
a copy ~ the first edition II the
Mormon Bible j. owned by Mr.. Henry
OR. Tucker, If the Troy Times, whose
father owned the Palmyra newspaper
Office in which il was printed for Joe
smith.
The widow Of Daniel Webster i
living ia New York She was hi. second
wife. and her maiden name was Cathc-
rine Leroy. They We're married IN 1929.
Paul de It. Victor paid 200 francs
for one copy Of Victor IIugo's new
= Legend 81 the Age" printed on vel
mm. aud the Due d Aumalc offered him
5000 francs for it, Edmund dc Roihs-
child j. said To have 100000 francs
worth ~ books in one bookcase
Bismarck j. ~ years old 80 l. lord
Granville Prince Gorichakofi l. ~.
Lord Bcaconsiicld j. ~. aud MIR. Glad
stone &, President Mcmahon il nearly
so. The Pope will soon be. -: The
Archbishop ~ Canterbury j. 66: DR..
Pussy II, and Dean stanley 81. Carl
baldi j. nearly 10, Lord Russell IS, and
Jules Simon 90.
The project II erecting a statue 10
Charles Dickens in his native town Of
Portsmouth has been given up through
the determined opposition Of his son,
who insists On carrying out the injunc-
ton IN his fathers will that no monu-
ment ~ any kind should be erected to
his memory
John Jacob ASior was 4 Mason. a
billiarl-phycr and fhcaier-goer, and
he liked good dinners A. well rs the
next man III owned the Park Theater
while hl> brother Henry owned the
Bowery. and the two divided the town
between them. But hi descendants are
unlike him. The old man sowcd All the
wild oats there We're in the family.
One feature II "Danicl Deronda''
has been unnoticcd by English and
American critics; We refer 70 charac-
tcristic quotation from Zunz. which
forms the headline ~ one Of the early
chapters. i few sentences from the sec
tion >uierings,' ia his >ynarogal
Poetry. That George Eliot should have
cited a passage 81 such beauty and |
paihos. and then referred afterwards IN
her text ~ '.Iunz. j. d gratifying ,es-
timony ~ hrr breadth Of mind and ap-
probation "a Intellect outside of the we'll |
worn drOsS NJ quotation books. We be- |
iieye that this i the first time that a jew
lsh writer q our age has been placed 80 |
prominently before the general reading |
public IN \ novel, and We hail the fact |
~ a good omen. In Germany. We doubt |
very much whether Znnz would have re-
ceiNcd such IN acknowledgement from
,he pen n 4 novelist. Certainly. Frey
tag might have read Zunz with profit |
before hc caricatured the German Jew
m NJ ">ol nnd IIabcn. "--JcriSh Mes
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