The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-04-30


RmopA BRoucnrox has two-yolumc
ssvel in press.
MARX TwAIS has given up the lecture
field on account ~ his health.
Ms. Edison. il Is reported. il going
10 California 70 try new process Of ex-
tracing gold.
CHARLES q. LELAND (Hans Brett
man) i lecturing in Philadelphia on the
decorative arts.
G. w. CABLE. the author az sThe
Grandissimes." in ScribngrS is a cot
ton broker nj New Orleans.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE. Governor
Of New Mexico. Is writing novel, the
scene Of which is laid in Damascus.
SENArok-ELEcT MALONE. Of Virginia,
weighs only ninety pounds. beating
Hon. Alexander stephens by few
ounces.
JUDGE JERE. BLACK is noted for his
wonderful memory. He wears a sandy
colored wig. and has fashion. in talk
ing. OF twisting silver tobacco box in
his hand.
PRoF. JoHN FIsKE, the critic and lee
turer. j. from Connecticut. large. tall
man. with dark curling hair and thick
red beard. with pale face and gold
trimmed spectacles.
REV. DR. PEABODY. OF Harvard Uni
yersity. now at the full age Of three
score years and ten. was such Samson
in his youth that a farmer once offered
him extra wages il he would enter the
harvest-field.
GEORGE PUScHARD. author of His
tory Of Congregationalism." in his
earlier years a minister, and for ten
years one of the editors and publishers
Of the Trarelicr. died recently in the
seventy-fourth year Of his age
Miss ELLA SHERMAN. the pretty
young third daughter of the General. Is
10 be married early in May 10 Lieuten-
ant Thackara. Of the navy. The we'd
ding Is to be celebrated at General
Sherman's house in Washington.
THE Scandinavians in Paris gave a
grand banquet in honor Of Norlensk-
| iold. Arctic explorer. and his Lieuts-l-
ant. Pollander. Two hundred and
twenty persons were Isrcserit. including
Prince Oscar and Christine Nilsson.
Joaquin MiLLER's real name Is Gin
cinnatus Heine Miller. His father was
:. Westward ho-er." always moving
west. and he kept following Greeley
famous advice until he got 10 Oregon
and could 20 no further unless he
swan.
DAVID DAVIS is great reader. and
As a Circuit Judge in his early DAYS
used 70 carry his saddle-bags full of
historical and biographical works. His
favoriie novel is :. David Copperiicid. \
though he has fOndness for Thackeray
and Walter Scott.
A BOOKSTORE salesman hears some
laughable mistakes Cine day lady
comes in and asks for Dickens " David
Copperhead.r another for the ''Schon-
berg Cotton Factory" third asks for
some history Of the French Revolution
which will tell her about !" Robert Speer
guillofining the grid-irons. while a
fourth wants Madam Ramcat's Me-
moirs" Of Napoleon.
MIR. JAMES PARTON. who has written
some Of the best and most successful 81
American biographies. says that an in
dustrious and capable writer can. dur
Ing his best years. earn $1,000 or So
00p year. but that no man should
adopt literature as a profession unless
he has fortune, or can live comfort
ably on $4,000 year. Mr.. Parton's
first book was the life Of Horace Gree.
iey." Of which 10000 copies were sod.
Since then he has published dozen
other works. all Of which have been
very popular. Several Of his shorter
biographical sketches first appeared il
Harper's M19azine. commencing about
fifteen years ago.