The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-08-22

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into operation on the lst Of October
next, German will be the only language
which can be used before the tribunals
or the Empire
Nearly half ireland Il now under
pasture. The size of farms has, for the
past 25 years, been steadily increasing.
Since 1878 there has been decrease Of
3, 100 holdings under 30 acres. and an
increase Of $50 in holdings above that
limit.
An Arctic Committee has been
formed in London, with subcommittee
throughout the country, for the purpose
Of inaugurating an English expedition
TO the Pole, to start next spring. TO CO.
operate with those sent out by other
countries. Commander Cheyne Is the
chief promoter Of the enterprise.
The Car has just issued orders for
the construction Of six new State-pris !
ons, TO accommodate $500 convicts,
and has decreed thirty millions Of rou-
bes for their building and fitting up.
Two other huge State-prisons are be-
ing erected, one in Siberia and one in
trans Caucasia, to accommodate some
10000 offenders.
Prince Jerome Napoleon's nick
name of "Plon-Plon was, it is said,
obtained in his childhood at Stuttgart,
where he was great fayorite with the
late King William of Wurtemberg. The
King used TO amuse himself by asking
the little Prince his name, and the child,
who could not then speak plainly, al
ways answered, Pion-Plon" instead
of Napoleon 1t was in this way
that he became known by this name a.
the Wurtemberg Court, and he has never
lost 1t since.
The wreath Of gold leaves which
Queen Victoria placed on the coffin OF
the Prince Imperial bore card upon
which she had written: /" Soureniv de
cire affection, d'estinie. 81 de profonds re-
grets de Ia part dc Victoria Reg" A
similar wreath was presented by the
Princess Of Wales, and upon the accom-
panying card she had written: "A token
Of affection and regard for him who
lived the most spotless Of lives, and died
soldiers death, fighting for our cause
in Zlluland. From Albert Edward and
Alexandria, July II, 1879"
Mr.. Kitsuma Yamasaki, director Of
the Imperial Paper Mills in Japan, has
Just been married TO a young German
lady, whose acquaintance he made and
TO whom he became engaged while
studying his profession in Germany a
few wears ago. As soon as he obtained
his lucrative Government post he sent
for his betrothed to come out to Japan
to be married. The Japanese gentle
men are deeply struck by the graces Of
Europeans. The Japanese Minister At
Berlin is married to q German lady, and
the wife Of his first Secretary is an En-
glish woman.
"A short time ago, BY order Of Prince
D0lgorukoff, Governor General OF Mos
COW, all the usurers and pawnbrokers
resident there, TO the number Of 27S,
were summarily expelled the city's
bounds. On the following day the
Prince in personvisited the dwellings Of
these outcast ssfriends of humanity" in
order to convince himself that none Of
4 them remained behind. The greater
part of these elected persons are de
scribed as Russians OF Importance, pos
sessing their own dwelling and banking
houses, and they were accompanied
forth out Of the city by the military ant
an immense mob Of spectators.
odds and Ends.
Motto for the keeper Of hay-scaIe
-" Learn to labor and to weight"
No bald headed man was ever con
verted by . sermon during the ny sea
son.
Railways are aristocratic. The.
teach every man to know his own station
and to stop there.
1t doesn't take q school boy long y
evince love for division, provided an
other boy owns the apple.
Young man, il every other way 0
making yourself conspicuous fails, ca
peanuts in q railroad car Yopkers Ga
zeftc.
Bret Harte is to bring out 1t ono
in England q new story OF Californi
life, entitled " The Twins of Table Noun
tains.n
Collie, according to the Boston Pos
Is the result Of too much self-esteem-
at least people over-ate themselves wit
such results.
There is man in Cambridge, gay
! the Boston Commercial Bulletin, VIII
: calls his dog Ralph Waldo Emerson
/. because he is great thin cur.
: -" One kind OF ship always stee
clear Of" said an old bachelor sea-CaE
! tain, "and that's courtship; cause Q
that ship there's always two mates an
, no cap'n."
, When some women get to be ange
they'll spend half their time In compal
| ing the feathers on their wings, and IN
= other half flying around and looking
: their neighbour sccond-story window