The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-08-02

Rev. DIR. Capin, of Steubenville, o
has turned inventor, and ast0nished th
iron men with machine which, II sue
: cessful, will do away with pudding fuI
naces.
John Is. Davis, brother Of Senate
Davis Of West Virginia, has 400 acres i
tomatoes on his farm near Richmond
Va, the biggest field OF the kind in tn
United States.
Tea raised in South Carolina an,
prepared in Baltimore was lately ex
hibited in Washington to dealers, VIII,
were unable to distinguish 1t from SINH
lar varieties Of Chinese and Japanes,
growth.
The London Engineer comedies
that with all the care the English man
ufacturer takes, he can not produce the
faultless light castings, such as iror
shelf-brackets, which the American
manufacturer does.
The largest fiour-mill in the world
Is now being built at Niagara Falls. IT.
capacity will be about 1900 barrels 9
day. The structure is placed on the
hydraulic canal, with a perpendicular
iaii OF l5O feet.
New Jersey takes the lead in the
States in the manufacture Of window
glass. II has "a factories. Pennsvl-
vaHia has 80; New York, IL; Massa-
chusetts. Illinois and Maryland, each 5 /;
West Virginia and Missouri, each 2 !,
Indiana, 3; and Michigan, Wisconsin
and lows, apiece.
Frog culture has attained to some
dimensions as an industry in some parts
OF Minnesota. Very little labor is in
volved. The principal duty Of the frog
raiser is to protect the eggs and tad
poles from birds, and this Is attained by
means OF wire screens. In market the
frogs sell at 20 cents dozen.
Texas has produced a new medi-
cine, whichfrom its intoxicant qualities.
may yet be used as tipple. 1t is de-
rived from bean growing on a plant
known as the Sophoria Speclosa. Pro-
lessor II. G. Wood of the university of
Pennsylvania has discovered il in a new
alkaloid, which he proposes to call So
ph0ria. Half of one bean, it is said.
will produce delicious exhilaration
followed by sleep lasting one or two
days.
The experiment of using superheat-
cd water for locomotives has been sue
cessfuliy tried on the tramway connect
ing Reveil and Marly-le-Roi, France.
The engines are charged with water
heated to $50 degrees c., which is al
lowed to vaporize as fast as required
and by doing away entirely with fur
naces IN the locomotives, the dangers Of
as well as the cause Of ter
ror to passing horses, are easily avoid
ed A locomotive, propelled in this
manner, and attached to two carriages,
assembled q gradient Of five and q half
in the hundred at the rate OF sixteen
miles an hour.
Hsps and Mishaps.
Richard Hallet, aged y, Of Hills
dale, Mich, was killed ~ an infuriated
bull.
The mother Of Rev. A. G. John
son, pastor Of Wesley Chapel, M. K.
Church, Madison, Ind, was killed by
being thrown from a wagon while the
horses were running away.
Charles Phillips, farm laborer.
vas instantly killed at Austintown, o.,
While unloading hay with patent
lorse-fork. The tackle broke and Phil
Ups was struck on the head by pully-
lock.
"A 5-year.old daughter Of William
surns, residing near Salem, o., was ia
ally injured while walking beside her
ather's team, with which he was haul
ng load Of hay. A tug broke, throw
ng the singletree back violently against
Ter forehead.
Mrs. Daisy Thompson, the wife of
)r. w. II. Thompson, q prominent
MUSICIAN In Russell County, Va, was
topping over deep spring near her
ouse, endeavoring to get Jug of but
ermilk from the spring, when she lost
er balance, fell in, became wedged in
he spring, and was drowned.
A son Of Mr.. Samuel Athouser,
ged about II years, residing four miles
ortheast Of Upper Sandusky, o., was
ssisting his father hauling in wheat
ON the field when he was struck by
ghtning and instantly killed. His
Ither was also stunned. The load Of
heat was burned up and the horses
IN away.
JAS. Duncan went to the large hay
led of Langley 4 Son, at Nelson, KY, I
here there Is rugged mammoth hay 4
)isting fork that works from the
round TO the roof by horse power. Dun a
IN got upon one Of the large prongs Of r
is fork to make short ascent, with q Q
ew to jumping out when he become u
tisfied, but In this he failed, and a
~ carried up among the rafters, where a
was squeezed powerfully, and injured 4
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