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

Foreign Notes
A collected estimate OF the personal
estate Of the late Baron Lionel de Roths-
child is S65, 100000
The Empress Of Germany, at the
celebration Of her golden wedding, wore
dress and train Of gold color, with a
tiara and necklace of brilliants. Queen
Victoria sent TO the imperial pair gift
Of magnificent majolica plateau, about
"a inches in diameter.
Last years conscripts of the Ger
man Army, taken from all ranks and
classes of the community, furnish inter-
esting evidence Of the spread OF educa-
tion in the German Empire. The con-
scripts numbered 140,197, and it was
found that Of this whole body 1870, 939
had received elementary education, and
that 6, 263 had gone beyond the element
airy stage into the higher branches. No
country in the world but Germany, and
no State Of the American Union, could
make such showing in the educational
line.
The way in which fool and his
money are soon parted was shown at a
recent sale Of the contents of Gunner
gate Hall, near Marlborough, Eng
land, where Thomas Vaughn had run
through q fortune Of p, SOC, 900 in eight
years. The furnishing Of the billiard
room alone cost between $4,000 and
S200,0OO; in the smoking-room the
spittoons cost 500 each in some of
the rooms the leather covers of the seats
cost $50 a yard; single fireplace cost
$4,000, and the owners bedstead 81
500.
The Associations OF Housekeep-
ers" in Vienna now numbers 1,543
members, among whom are ladies Of
the best houses in the city. Nineteen
officials, women, look after the store
houses, the bookkeeping and the sales.
The supervision Of the whole is done
voluntarily by the ladies whom the as
sociation appoints. In the shops all is
activity and order; the work in the
register Office is no less brisk; every
where there Is evidence Of women learn
ing to live honestly and independently
by their own labor, whether as servants,
artists, work-women or teachers.
A youth, even though he be titled
ruler, finds il hard TO resist "good
clothes" and especially regimentals.
When Prince Alexander, newly Of Eul-
garia, called upon the Emperor at Ber-
lin, he naturally wore the uniform of his
-second-lieutenan in the Prussian
Army. 1t was, of course, unreasonable
that mere second-lieutenant should be
cordially received by an Emperor, so
that potentate dubbed the young man
"Major- on the spot The Prince hal
guessed what the Emperor might do,
and accordingly had majors uniform
ready at his hotel. He dashed out Of
the palace and TO the hotel, changed his
lieutenant's for his majors uniform, and
dashed out again, to finish his round Of
state and official calls.
Odds and Ends.
There i no circus tent, nowe'er much
watched and tended,
But needs some greater care;
There Il no hole. however well defended,
But has a small boy there
-Saie~s Sunbeam.
A smoothly polished hoe-handle
possesses three times the blisteriHg
qualities Of knotty fish-pole in the es-
timation Of every American youth
Elmira Gazette.
SIN the bright complexion OF my
youth Ill have no such word as pale"
and she reached for the rouge box with
the clutch Of N angel.-Ne'0 Karen
Register.
The Yonkers Gazette says that in
tellectual men are rarely handsome.
Now we know why we are 50 often mis-
taken for Ralph Waldo Emerson
Utica Observer.
Canned strawberries are like Fourth
Of July orations held over till spring.
You cant tell what you are eating I'M
less you look at the label on the can
Detroit Free Press.
Who was it asked what il rarer than
day ia June? We want to tell him
to salt down the observation that the
goth of February is.--Fond du Lac Re-
porter.
The sale OF striped stockings, it is
said, Is twice as large in prairie coun-
tries as il Is in less breezy localities.
The reason II obvious--so are the stock
ings- Ota,ca Republican.
The philosopher says: Life Is but
span" But at the rate some of the
fellows are going through 1t we should
remark that they must have seven or
eight horses hitched 10 them.--Elmira
Gazette.
A Marathan boy came home with
his hair dripping wet, having just come
out Of the swimming hole. He was
equal TO the emergency, and escaped
busy time with his mother and birch
sprout BY wearily wiping his forehead
and remarking, ats awful hot work,
hoeing down there in the garden. -
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