The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-07-18

k4utuh- ne term oil correspondence
Is from October TO June 1.
science and Industry.
Professor Alexander Agassiz Of
Harvard University has been awarded
the Series prize for researches in anato-
my and zoology, by the Paris Academy
Of Sciences.
- LAST year not pound Of cream Of
tartar was imported A few years ago
millions of pounds came annually from
England and France Manufacturers
II home now supply all that the country
needs, and prices are 30per cent. lower
than formerly.
The importation Of crockery HIS
decreased by about one.half in the last
ten years. English manufacturers have
concluded that the American market is
rapidly clio ing 10 them, and English
capital Is being employed in the estab-
lishment Of new factories in this
country.
The notion that ice purifes itself
by the process of freezing Is not based
upon trustworthy observation. On the
contrary il Is utterly wrong in principle
10 take for consumption from any pond
the water Of which IS 50 foul a. 10 be
unit for drinking purposes
For the purposes Of submarine
lighting they now compress pure oxygen
into 3 cylindrical reservoir Of plate iron.
This oxygen il supplied BY a flexible
tube to an alcohol lamp provided with
means for the escape Of gaseous pro-
ducts Of combustion This furnishes a
brilliant light for the period Of four
hours
The accumulation Of SCOT in chin
neys Is great nuisance, and may be
remedied BY mixing considerable salt
with the mortar with which the bricks
composing the chimney are laid. The
salt acts BY absorbing moisture when
ever it is damp and rainy, and the SCOT,
becoming wet and heavy, falls into the
fire below This Is an Eaglish idea,
and Is said to give very satisfactory re-
suits.
Oatmeal to Scotland seems quite in
the nature of Goals to Newcastle, but il
j. said that large part Of the product
Of an extensive factory at Cedar Falls,
Iowa, Is shipped directly to the Land Of
Cakes Perhaps some Of il comes back
with foreign label, for those who have
yet to learn that there is no better oat-
meal available to the American public
than that made 1t home.
Barley i the only cereal grain that
the United States imports. During the
last three months Of the year 1877 we
imported $685.. 513 bushels, and during
the corresponding months Of 1878, s.
sOV,OSl bushels The cash paid to for
eign countries for barley during these
six months was 81 ,0el ,46s-a fact well
worthy the attention Of farmers in those
sections adapted to the growth Of bar
ley
Haps and Nishaps-
-Alonzo Carbangle, aged :, was IA
tally bitten ~ rationale in Lake
Township, near Fort Wayne, Ind
-Rebecca Even. aged II. was shot
and killed BY young son Of Joseph
Gray, II Batavia, O., while the latter
was fooling with loaded revolver
A colored woman was fatally burn
ed At Mount Sterling, Ky, by kindling
the tire with coal oil The house, owned
by w. H. Curtin, was burned to the
ground.-Mrs- John Hunley of Vim
cennes, Ind, was burned, probably IA
tally, in like manner.
The only child Of Mr.. Nelson Of
Brownsville, Mower County, Mimi, .
boy aged three years, while playing in
the barn among the farm machinery,
fell and his head caught in . wheel.
When found he was hanging few feet
from the barn floor dead.
Robert Henley, aged IS, a wealthy
farmer Of Carthage, Ind, stopped his
reaper and went in front Of it 10 remove
some obstruction. A turkey flew up.
scared the team, which ran away, and
Mr.. Henley was thrown beneath the
machine and frightfully lacera.ed. His
injuries were fatsl.
Robert g. Slade, . native Of Mont
gomery County, o., was caught in the
rigging Of q mowing-machine, on the
farm Of Clifton Bogard. in the eastern
part Of Bullist County, o., and terribly
mutilzted. Death ensued before the
team could be stopped and the victim
extricatei.
John Schermah Of Ben Wade, Pope
County. MINI, traded horses. ArEiv-
ing home in the evening, his children
being accustomed to petting the horses,
went into the stable to see the new one.
On approaching too close, little two
year-old son was kicked in the forehead
BY the vicious animal and instantly
killed
Boston Towers, while engaged in
oiling the machinery Of his steam saw
mill, one mile north Of Leavenworth,
Crawford County, Ind, fell upon the
circular saw while il was making 600
revolutions minute. He was thrown