The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-04-11

-" $500 ~ ftAAicr1iC ooClnilst papers.
Don Carlos. who has been little
heard OF for some time, is understood 10
be writing q history OF his last futile
campaign.
The late Duke Of Newcastle Is said
70 have insured his life in different Offices
10 the astonishing amount Of 81, 500, 900.
The Car and the Empress Of Rus
sia will leave st. Petersburg for the
Crimea about the middle OF April. The
Empress's state Of health, it is an
nounced, renders the change desirable.
Seven newspapers are now printed
IN the Bulgarian language. At Sistova
IS 70 be brought out the Dosn1rska Z0ra.
and very shortly a newspaper in the
French and Slayonic languages will ap-
pear at Tirnova.
AT the first public reception given
by the new President Of the French Re-
public, bis daughter, Mile. Grevy, was
an object Of especial notice. She i 4
brunette, with rich black hair, tall but
slight In figure, and quite good looking.
Sne has been In the habit Of devoting
three months every year to fox and boar
hunting She j. linguist, fine anna
teur musician and painter, and gives
much Of her time to self-improvement
Her chamber Is carpeted with the skins
OF lions, tigers, and foxes, and on the
walls are collections Of arms, medals.
engrayings, cases Of brilliant insects,
and other objects Of fancy.
The Berlin Exhibition of manufac-
lures IS 70 De opened on May 1, and will
remain open for FIVE months. The
buildings, which cover superticies Of
25,uOO square meters, were 10 have been
completed BY the 1st Of March. but cw-
ing 10 the severity Of the winter the con-
tractors were allowed an extension Of
time. AL the space is allotted. Dur
ing the summer evenings bands will
play IN the grounds. The price Of adj
mission u said 10 be fixed al 80 pfennig
tabcut 10 cents), but on certain days
mark will be charged.
Odds and Ends
A small boy aud gun are harm
less when apart, but they make terri
bic combination.-Pnck
Awoman's love. who knows it, strength
Now don't tell who told YOU
II u wOman's Will
-EimirG Gd1cffs.
An old Granger, who came into
town TO purchase piano for his daugh-
ter, asked the agent If he hadn't one
with handle on the end, $50 we can
Al give i turn once in a while. ~
Novistoicn Herald.
49," want one Of those long felt hats,
papa" said Toledo girl to her father.
The inculgent father forked over the
money. and her head now fills the long
'elf want - Toledo Commercial.
A Sixth Street grocer found an egg :
IN lot just received from the country I.
With landscape photographed on the ,
nell; Dut ne doesn't know where the ,
Gene was laid.-Cincinnati Saturday ,
Wight.
That was CHASTITY joke that sin 4
nj townsman PLAYED on stranger |
whom he promised to introduce Is a
ich planter, and then took him around :
md introduced him 10 the leading I'm
lcrtaker- Tonters Gazette.
Nurse. Did you put that nasty
mud on the doorstep, Master Charles?- \
little Master Charles No, NURSE 4
Nurse (artfully) -" But saw you from i
he window" Charles (more artfullyl !
-" That you didn't, for | looked 10 AZ
II the windows before did il. ~ Jildy.
If Patrick Henry were now alive.
nd should he exclaim with alleged
ratorical grandeur: .No, never. ncrcr.
EVER" some small boy in the gallery
Fould ask him, "What, ncetYS'' and \
milingly await Pats reply.--Canton 4
o. Repository. :
A Mr.. Isaac v. Green Of MICHIGAN \
an away with his wife's aunt reccntly. I
n other words: n
lie ran .~ay with his spousc's aunt. 9
And never again was seen.
TINS proving anew what a rare old plant \
= the Michigan J y. Green !,
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HUMAN NATURE. d
itnin dell With piercing shrek =
ntre coW-ltrs dwell The maiden meek
IONc-lorn frog Ieaped from her log q
a. ona log. Into the bog I,
ith signing croak Ills murderer bore /,
~ love me- spoke To distant shore !.
81 Polly Augg Her lover dead
iady frog With riyen head.
m VII. y
&c swore that she And skinning him. j
Quiz fhlfhfui be-- He served each limb II
nd never wed All bruiied on toast :
Y sht ciscs she said. To hungry host
~. win. y
M as she spoke But al THAT bou n
crnorped herfrog Anolher frog !. I
rom On nj iogi Loved Polly Mogg. !.
MORAL. X
And such A. life b
Come death. come strife, y
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