The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-03-07

Gen. J.bal A. Early says II Is not
,rue that he Il going 70 prepare school
S;s,ory Of the War u the Rebellion, as
.,ated on the authority Of Southern
newspaper.
Joaquin Miller has written q play
az Kiuy Blanchard, called "49 Miss
blanchard, however, is somewhat du-
mons about playing IL. as she fears
that those figures may be taken as her
age
The Vatican Is TO have its own
;,rrnsl. published in Italian, French,
rnvIish. German and Spanish. All the
sspaI briefs and allocutions in the orig
lrsl text, but with translations, will APP
pear 10 It, /.
The exiled editor Of the suppressed
German socialistic paper, The focsin 81
~ German Empire, has founded In
Sx;,zerIand an association for the
protertion and aid Of the politically per-
secuted"
Sarah Helen Whitman left behind
her the materials for = prose volume,
which will include little monograph,
Edgar Poe and His Critics." that was
FIRST published in 1860 as defense OF
the dead poet
The Emperor Of Germany has sane
toned the publication of the political
correspondence OF Frederick the Great
n will comprise about 80 volumes, Of
which one or two will appear every
year.
The official list of German books
published during last year has just been
issued by the Leipsic Booksellers Assoc
citation. The total number Of novelties,
together with new editions, was 1892,
against Is, 92l in the preceding year.
The State Library at Albany, n. r.,
hiss received copy OF the celebrated
Cax,on Memorial Bible, which was
printed. bound and lettered in IL hours
a the oxford University Press, on the
occasion Of the opening Of the Caxton
celebration in 1877.
Paris has AZ daily papers. ~ OF
them being published in the morning.
The large papers have = circulation
ever day OF $50 go, and Of that circu-
la.ion 400, coo advocate Republican poll
tics. The smaller sheets have daily
circulation Of over million. three
quarters of which is Republican.
--Tennyson is extremely fond OF
smoking the long clay pipe called the
.churchwarden-" The venerable poet
has rough deal box holding about 20
pounds Of tobacco, and in an upper
chamber, with this box near and long
:. churchwarden " in hand, he will talk
by the hour to chosen cronies-
The Bsrliasr FrcmdenIEnn says that
the late Prince Henry Of the Neither
lands has LEFT no viii. His immense
fortune will therefore 60 TO his brother
and sister, the King Of Holland and the
Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar. His
widow is entitled to . yearly allo vance
of 1900 thalers, and to the Chateau Of
Weissenstein As q residence The Crown
of the Netherlands will have To main
tain this residence in repair
A kentucky man has been looking
over the editorial stock Of Cincinnati,
and he declares that Murat Halstead Of
the Commercial Is the handsomest and
the ablest; Deacon Smith Of the Gazette
the crookedest in the legs and the
straightest in the morals; Col. A. &.
Sands 81 the Times the biggest around
the middle and the shrewdest; Johnny
Mclean Of the Enquirer the sharpest-
noscd for news and the quickest ~ get
il, and A. Minor Griswold Of the Safur-
tias Niglf the funniest and the surest on
telling what's in bottle from the smell
OF the cork