The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-05-31

hands were badly burned in trying to
save her child.
AT Derrick City, Pa, a 5-year-old
daughter Of A. j. Mckenzie was burned
TO death by her clothes taking fire from
a stove during the temporary absence
Of her mother. The girl ran out on the
street and was met by two men, who in
endcavoring to extinguish the flames
were badly burned, one so badly that
one, If not both hands will have to be
amputated.
Foreign Notes.
The late Nine. Dufaure, wife Of the
Minister, was noble friend to the
young women OF Paris. by her instru-
mentality 30 schools for the education
Of girls were founded in Paris, and 1900
young women were trained under her
unceasing encouragement and observa-
ton.
Cardinal Manning seeded from the
Episcopalian Church soon after the
death Of his wife, Miss Wilberforce,
thereby losing an excellent chance Of
becoming Primate of England. He is
an eloquent speaker, fascinating talk
err, has nose as thin as paper-knife,
and drinks nothing stronger than tea
and weak claret-and-water.
Gen. Grants intercourse with dis
tinguished foreign personages is said to
be generally confined, in his ignorance
Of languages, to shake of the hand and
smile. He is ready in this fashion to
make the acquaintance of all persons,
princes or peasants, and he treats all
who are introduced to him with impair
tial urbanity.
Prince Henry, of the Netherlands,
who is about to marry Prussian Prin-
cess, is 40 years older than his bride.
He is So, she is Is. He is the most pop
ular member of the Orange family, and
is Prince Regent Of the Grand Duchy of
Nuremberg, where he resides during
part of the year, and where he is very
popular.
Some philanthropic London ladies
are endeavoring to assist WORKOUT
workwomen by establishing homes Of
temporary rest for them. One such es-
Enlistment Is specially intended for
those whose lives are passed in the
shops and workrooms of London and
other large cities. A house has been
taken on the south coast of Devonshire.
One lady guarantees rent, another help
ed to furnish, AMI subscriptions are be-
ing raised for maintenance. 1t
sounds like useful charity.
AT the last drawing-room in Lon
don the Countess Of Charlemont at
tracted great attention by her train and
jewels. The former was covered with
lace of extraordinary beauty, bought by
Lord Charlemont for his wife from the
execution of Cardinal Fesch, to whom 1t
had been given by Napoleon /. The
diamonds had been reset from designs
by DIR. Schliemann, and the tiara was
counterpart Of one which ages ago had.
perhaps, appeared on a swell at the
court of Agamemnon.
The Countess Helena Gazewska has
been arrested lately, at Vienna, for de-
frauding jewellers. 1t has been proved
already that within a comparatively
short time her frauds at Paris amount
ed to $4,000, at Marseilles to 1900,
at Yverdun to $4,000, at Nice to 81 200,
at Monaco to $4,000, at Brussels 10 49,
600. The Countess disposed of the
jewels thus obtained to persons in good
society, whom she made believe that
the jewels we're her own, and that she
sold them in order to help the Russian
wounded.
king Humbert, of Italy, has allow
ed 81 900 month for'life to his fathers
morganatic wife, the Countess Mira
ford; a like sum to her son, and $4,000
a year to her daughter, the wife of the
Marchese Spinola, who when she was
married received a liberal dowry. lie
also proposes TO pay off all his fathers
debts by cutting down his own civil list,
and will neither borrow the necessary
money nor ask it Of Parliament.
The Carlist Gen. Boet is charged
with the theft of the Collar of the Gold
en- Fleece from Don Carlos, and is about
to be put on his trial in Italy. After
commanding a regiment in Cuba, where
he is alleged TO have extorted ran
som for some insurgents and then mas
sacred them, he joined Don Carlos in
1873, and few days before the collapse
OF the rebellion became his private sec
rotary, accompanying the Pretender to
Paris and the East. Don Carlos was
thunderstruck on being told who the
culprit was, and wanted to hush up the
affair; but the prosecution had already
been instituted. The two brilliants at
first missing have been recovered, the
total value Of the Collar being f14,00O.
Odds and Ends.
~" The birds are now upon the wing"
The teacher read the pupil hcard
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