The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-03-22


his sweetheart, discarding him, and hi.
friends state he said he was tired OF life
Foreign Notes.
-Garibaldi will visit Paris during
the Exposition, and be the guest OF Vic
tor Hugo.
A Paris journal estimates AT 50, OOC
the number Of American visitors who
will spend freely the dollars of their
daddies at tho Paris worlds fair.
The German Government is about
TO commence experiments with the tele-
phone, with view to introducing that
instrument into the governmental tel
egraphic service.
The Italian exploring expedition,
which attempted to penetrate into the
interior Of Africa, has been attacked by
the King Of Shoa, and compelled to re-
turn to the coast.
Col. Forney says that study of
the faces Of the members Of Parliament
shows them very like our own Congress
men, ''with this marked difference
not one Of them was tobacco-chcwer,
and there was not symptom Of dissi-
paton.n
The StPetersburg Gdzct celebrated
It's l52d anniversary last month by pub
fishing a tac simile Of il first number.
The language Of the initial number was
a mixture Of Rus ian and Slav. and i
found difficult If comprehension by
modern Russians.
Every editor of paper in Madrid
has received the grand cross or CON-
mandery Of Isabella the Catholic, and
among other recipients Of favor com
memoratiye Of the royal marriage are
musical critic, painter, and i large
body Of professors and inspectors Of
Schools.
The fighting editors Of the Paris
papers practise fencing during their
leisure hours. A sdile d'drmes has been
opened in the Offices Of the lie Fsgnrp.
and the brain-wOrkers frequently drop
their pens, and, donning plastron, mask,
and gloves, find relaxation in invigorat-
ing exercise.
The name of D'Isracli has never
been borne by any other family than that
q the present Lord Beaconsfeld, and,
= he has no living relatives, will expire
With him. Among the 600, 900 Jews cx-
,elleu from SPAN IN the sixteenth cen
ury was an ancestor Of the Premier.
Who at that time assumed the name Of
)'lsraeli. The father of BeaconsIiell ,
from the Synagogue in Lon
lon because he had been fined $40 for
efusing 70 serve as Warden.
AT the recent royal wedding in Ber-
in, special attraction Of the supper
sas two gigantic wedding-cakes which
he Crown Princess had ordered from
.ngland, and which were new 10 Ger
nan eyes and mouths. AT the roval ;
able, Princes aud Dukes handed about
oup-turcens and poured ont the spark
ng wine. These important functions /,
re hereditary, and apptriain 10 some !,
The most distingui he'd families inthe
md
Edward King writes ~ a bumptiuus (
ion Of royalty now In England: "rhe \
,ung Crown Prince az Austria Has not q
Iadc many friends here personally. 4
pwever people may feel toward him !
officially lie il altogether too exact
III, and can not understand why ii il 4
Iat noblrmen and gentlemen don't bow /,
~ scrapc before him a. they are COM y
lied a. do ia Austria When he II "A
ling after the hounds, ii ANY one dares i
get ahead ~ him a. many people Il
}, tor an earthquake would not top Hi n
igliShman who " about IN clear n
nee &c ilics into frghtful raye. n
'lks hegan IN laughing NJ him; thev u
\ concluding by heing Ners angry with II
~ for his assumption c
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Odds and Ends. ai
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