The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-07-12

FOREIGN Notes.
King Humbert Of Italy and Carl
baldi's son Menotti are intimate friends.
The estimated value Of the works
Of art contributed to the Paris Interna-
tional Exhibition by England Is $l,-
10000.
The Italian Government has decid-
cd &c hold An exhibition at Rome in
1881. beginning February l, and ending
June 80. French papers think that the
late date Of closing will afford strangers
excellent opportunities for catching ma
larial fever.
According TO the latest returns, the
cultivated land Of France Is divided
into (, 500, 600 properties. Five millions
are under six acres. Belgium has like
subdivision Of property. In ireland,
on the other hand, 10 owners hold
more than one-fifth Of the soil.
The best picture in the American
department of the Paris Exposition art
gallery portrait of Miss Emily
Schaumberg, Of Philadelphia-has been
Withdrawn, because it was hung beside
the picture of fast woman very much
decollette-below-smoking cigarette
and slipping at a glass of champagne.
1t Is said that the Shah Of Persia
was much impressed with the beauties
Of Baden Baden, where be spent week.
He has altered but little in personal ap-
pearance since his visit to Paris five
years ago. He has the same thin waxed
mustache, but conforms so far to Euro
pean customs as 10 wear Partisan frock-
coat and blue eyeglasses.
The birth Of an Anglo-America
boy Of a distinguished parentage is an
nounced in London. Master Vernon
Robert Harcourt is the first born of Sir
William and Lady Harcourt, his father
being English by some hundreds of years
of honorable descent, and his mother
American, in virtue of being daughter
of the late United States Minister to
England, the illustrious historian Mot
ley.
On the subject of dissipation, there
is wide distinction between the work
ing classes of London and Paris. In
London the gin shop is the resort of
men, women and children. There are
no such dens in Paris. l went out
few days ago to eat American wafiies at
little French cafc. 1t was in crowd
ed French quarter, where the work peo-
pie lived and labored, and both the cafe
and customers were as clean and order
" as If they had been on the Boulevard
Italien. The streets and the gardens
are the resorts Of the Paris poor in good,
and the cafcs never, even in bad wealth
err; and noticed when ! sat in the lit
tie restaurant refer TO, that those who
came to buy refreshments always took
light wines, and that there were no wo-
men patrons At the bar.-Forney.
Odds and Ends.
What is really needed is five-cent
cigar that will consume its own smoke.
-Courier-Journal.
-"Age and wedlock bring man to
his night-cap," remarked the philoso-
pher when his wife inquired why he
chewed cardamom seeds in bed.-OH
CITY Derrick.
A reduction has been made by land
lords in Paris. Two wooden toothpicks
are now sold for three francs, and the
price of board is now only advanced on
newcomers once i'm "a hours.-B Boston
Commercial Rulietin.
Wisconsin has a three legged baby
"a natural result, we take il, of the re-
cent Indian scare in that State In these
emergencies, particularly in view Of the
limited power and number of the army,
three legs are not too many.-6nfalo
Express.
An English medical authority says
that the persons who blow the big horn
in band rarely live beyond period Of
three years. The same may be said Of
persons who swallow big horns in q
whisky saloon. Even the Big Horn
country and the horns OF bull are dan
gerous. Avoid all "horns"-even those
Of a dilemma --New York Star.
There is on either side Of the equator
zone of perpetual flies. Farther north
is the zone of migratory flies, while still
farther north Is the happy region where
flies are unknown. II is in contem-
plating the distribution Of flies that we
perceive why the Esquimaux cling to
their frozen homes. Superficial per
sons have often asked why don't the
Esquimaux leave the Arctic regions and
come south to a comfortable climateP--
N. Y. Times.
--Adolphus Augustus, while calling
on Amelia Alice, commonly called
. sissy ran his hands through his hair,
pulled down his vest, and asked, /" Why
didn't William Cullen Bryant invent
any thing better than Thanatopsisp-
and when she gave II up and he replied .
Because there Is nothing which
demonstrates the poetry Of motion more
Thanatopsis, she declared she would
have nothing more to do with such a
bold, bad man, and broke of the en-
gagement. Keoknt Constellation.