The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-10-11
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OF lecturers tnis winner.
Wendell Phillips is getting so iniirn
that he will only lecture this season II
places near Boston
--Edison's yearly income from BIZ
patents is about 100000. He has real
lied in all from them about $400. 900.
MIR. Beccher's success during hi.
lec.uring tour in California has been
very flattering. He has cleared $4,000
BY ten lectures, and the man who hired
him almost as much.
Lafayette is described by an old
newspaper rs having been a man of fine
personal appearance, despite his red
hair, which, contrary to the fashion Of
bis day, he never powdered.
William Ralph Emerson, nephew
Of the philosopher Of Concord, will lee
ture this fall on decorative art. and
strive TO answer the question, :" In a
hundred years, whatP"
Henri Rochefort's name can not be
used in France on a paper or on
placard; SO in the announcements OF
the Tieliesse de Brididi, now running in
Paris, the author figures as an. Henri"
Secretary Ho, of the Chinese Lee
CATION in England, is engaged in trans.
lating Shakespeare into Chinese and has
made considerable progress in trans
lation Of "Blackstola's Commentaries
into the same langua-.
"A pen picture OF Dean STANLEY,
made while he was preaching his Boston
sermon, represents him with slightly
built ard STOPPING figure, neatly cut gray
hair and whiskers Of the old English
style, face expressively full of pleas
ant intelligence and dignity. and voice,
not powerful, but generally distinctly
heard. His discourse was read from bis
manuscript in a didactic but earnest way,
and without any gestures.
Benson j LOSING, the historian.
who formerly lived in Poughkeepsie, n. \
T., has lived for some years past AT 4 !
country place called Chestnut Ridge,
the summit Of a high mountain in
Dover, Dutchess County. Here he docs
his literary work and receives his friends,
though he often crosses the country to
Poughkeepsie, where, Is one Of the trus-
tees, he Is prominent manager Of Vas
sar College.
John Mccullough says of the first
season in Philadelphia, in 1857: 81
was utility man, and my salary was Sc
per week, but at last was an actor and
was happy. On oneoccasion remark
e. @ fellow-actor that l hoped one
DAY to command Sl5 a week. This
seemed to me TO be wild, vain aspira-
[ion, and ! was completely extinguished
when he replied: sYou internal fool:
you'll never again get rs much as you
10 nowi' My cynical friend, l NAV re-
mark, is right where he was twenty
years ago.
John Williamson, whose lately pub.
lsned book on the ferns Of Kentucky has
net with such hospitable welcome. is
young Scotch mechanic Of Louisville.
ne Illustrations, which are the dis
'ncllye feature of his book. are all If
His own drawing and etching, while the
resi- descriptive tekt shows much care.
~ and original investigation. Inas- ]
nuch as Mr.. Wil.iamson's botanical I
Eudles have been pursued and his book 4
repaired In the intervals Of mechanical l
AMOR i is interesting to know that he I
las not been negligent work man. but Z
~, on the contrary, he is first-rate ?
Altogether there is much )
} commend in the example Of Mr.. John .
hnamson.-- New York Tribune. d
49, a
school md ChurcA.
The public, school children OF Chi !
pening. y
nsixty-four women school-teachers y
pennsylvania took advantage 81 their !.
INNER vacations 70 lind husbands and :,
ny in their designations. \
Two japanese girls, Miss Stematz 4
alnagarva and Miss Shige Nagal, who Il
~ oeen studying in New Haven for "a
Y iast nve years, will now enter vassar 81
p.ge' They speak English fluently. al
The Wesleyan Methodist and the b,
lmltlve Wesleyans in Ireland had = M
Larrei IN 1876 and separated. TIE m
vou'es have now united under cir OF
= instances indicative Of great happi- th
= ana prosperity in the future. vi
The Maennerchor Garden in Phila- Is
rpn'a Is one Of the biggest beer-drink- Is
places IN that city, but it is occupi- ve
On sunday afternoons BY large con- ~
gauons. who attend the preaching al
wees which are kept up by city pas ca
" u,opurgcon Is in poor health again
|, men took the tabernacle expected
Y y would kill me in seven wears Nj
II contrived to exist for IA, but can pa
last much longer" De
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5.Slxty-iive Protestants from Boston
y ! visit to the Pope, and went pl
nv Uugn the form Of etiquette customary dis
~ presence Of kneeling before him. I'D
n Of a leading Catholic
spaper says tina, their department en-
sucn as TO elicit every praise. HI
me question referred TO the In Cf
~ Conference ut the last conyen- bic
|. Shall the women OF orr corgro-