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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-11-17

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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-11-17

G1rThe Baiubridge Up. Institute had
4 pleasant session IN Jasper last Satur-
day.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-11-17

~ The indianapolis Journal says th'
Railroad viii soon Dc extended merit
from Jasper.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-11-17

Judge a. 4. Robinson, OF Evans
vile. died on Wednesday.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-11-17

Wheat u worth only IS cts : bushe|
IL Jasper now.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-11-17

Monday nights freeze killed al out.
door vegetation.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-11-17

rrShell bark hickory nuts wanted Al
The store OF I>eh, burger, Kahn y To-, q
che highest market price.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-11-17

Capt. Fisher has l.s79 majority 70
Representative from Dubois and Pike.
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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-11-17

-. B.-A large stock Or the be@t t1n-Ware,
hollou-ware. hardware. cutlery. &C.. Hi~0 :
|<r<al variety % goods ~ all kinds ~ her
q buslnees. which VII - sold - The
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-11-17
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Sign Of the Eagle,
South Side Of the Court House,
Jasper, Indiana.

invite al IN need or Heating and
Cook Stoves 70 call and examine ny
stock. 4 have All sizes. kinds and styles
Of the very latest patterns, q the
Lowest Priceey
Also, Rubber Chain, Force and Crown
Pumps, School House and Fam Bella,
|Croes-cut Saws, ETC., ctc.
Evsporators and Cano Mills furnished
|on short notice.
Tin Roofing and Catering done cheap
and promptly. dec-l6-el-iy.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-14
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


1t is said that more new cb1robo.
have been built in Washington Territor11
since January l, 1881, than the preyionJs
five years.
California has school population
of 215, 522, and has Just distribnto3
among her counties an apportionment of
1884 ,059.10.
The interest in teachers institute,
in the South is daily increasing. Teyos
is holding eighteen of these institntas
this year, greatly to the advantage Of
ner teachers.
No text books in arithmetic and
geography are put into the hands Of
pupils during their first three Years in
primary schools of New Haven. Tho
oral method is chiefly used. The result
is said to be encouraging.
According to Missionary Butler of
China, as Buddhism has no Heaven for
women, the Chinese damSels labor with
might and main to lay up merits that
they may prevail with the Judges of the
lower world to let them be born aoain
as men, SO that they may have chance
to get there.
The Southern Methodist Church in
Illinois has been extended into nearly
half the cOu2tes of the State. If has
four districts lying in the central and
southern parts, extending all the way
across the State east and west. The
southern part of the State is mostly
settled by people from the South.-Tfe
Interior.
All the teachers in the public schools
of Pittsburgh are in arms against what
they consider an outrageous imposition.
The Educational ReUicW, of that city.
has heretofore been published by the
Teachers Institute, and the teachers
were assessed a certain sum each for its
support. At present the publication is
issued by private concern and an at
tempt is made to still inforce the assess
ment. The teachers object. PittS6urqh
Post
The Vermont State authorities have
recently received from the executor of
the will of the late Aroonah Huntington.
of Brantford, Canada, an approximate
statement of the amount and nature of
the personal estate of the deceased bene-
factor, who bequeathed his entire prop
ertyvalued at sos, 900 to his native State
of Vermont for educational purposes.
The will was contested by the heirs of
Mr.. Huntington.
At one time the beloved pastor in
the Congregational church in a sea-coast
town in Massachusetts, to exc out his
salary, had his people give him dona-
ton party, among the presents being a
fine new dress coat for the pastor, and a
tasty bonnet for his better-half. On the
following Sunday, as they walked up the
aisle in their new habiliaments, the choir
inadvertently struck out with the volun-
tary, much to the discontinue of the SEN
sitive clergyman and his wife, ''Who are
these in bright arrav.n
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-14
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

do you buy your music by the
roll?" inquired a young lady of the
Deacon's daughter. 80, no." she re-
piled; " l always wait until Sunday and
then | get it by the choir"
"A New Jersey fortune teller prophe-
sled that something terrible would hap
pen to a man on his thirtieth birthday.
And sure enough, on the day specified a
fife and drum corps rented room di-
rectly opposite the mans residence, and
practiced three hours in one inning.
On the crowded sidewalk: Indig-
nant Female-''Sir, | would feel obliged
TO you if you would keep that umbrella
of yours to yourself and not poke me
with it againr' Insolent Wrctch-''O
ma am! Yes, ma am! | didn't mean to
do it! l ant the prod-a-gal son, ma amr'
-Chicago Tribunc.
Extract from letter written by one
of the pupils at young ladies' board
ing school in Massachusetts to her father:
"And lastly, dear pa, | must tell you
that the young fellows in this neigh
borhood use bears grease on their hair
to such an extent that all the girls wear
oil silk capes. | wish you would tell
ma to buy me one as soon as she can"
-BroohlWa Eagle.
Waiter at a hotel table to Alderman
O Houlihan-''What will you have for
dessert, sir--pie or floating island?"
Wife of his defeated rival for alder
manic honors, who is seated at an ad-
jacent table, soto UOce-"H umph, float
in oisland,' indade! Faith, thin, it's
Blackwell's he'd be at this blessid day,
iv he got his roight disarts. "-The
Judge.
Oscar Wilde says the people all over
the South sang in his ears the old melan-
choly refrain: you ought to have seen
it before the war" Il was once sitting
on the portico of a country house," he
said, with a young lady, admiring the
beauty of limpid stream under the rays
of the moon, and | said to the young
lady: How beautiful is the moonlight
falling on the watern 1T is beautiful,
indeed she replied, but an! Mr.. Wilde.
you ought to have seen it before the
war. ~ Christian at Work.
Twill you please pass the ShemP"
asked quiet man, at the lunch counter.
Haven't any, squealed the girl in at
tendance. "Some Japhet?" queried the
quiet man again. Don't keep it!
squeaked the damsel Il say" Clipped
in curious passenger: what do you
mean by Shem and Japhet?" Moth
ing" responded the little man, dole
fully, ''Only the Ham is so old and musty
that | thought the rest of the tribe might
be around here somewhere, and I'd like
to see 'em."-M Y Graphic.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-14
Homely and Fat Women at Saratoga.

An hour of silence at a morning con-
cert drew forth the statement that eff
they had gone round and offered prizes
they could not have gotten more homelv
women together" and happier man
would be forced TO the same conclusion.
One may reason it around that the pro-
portion of the ill-favored is not 50 much
greater here than elsewhere, but the
homely women dress so strikingly, and
make such a parade of themselves that
it is impossible for them to escape no.
tice, An ugly girl in a cheap and ill
fitting frock goes by without notice on q
city street, but an ugly girl at Saratoga
is dressed to kill" rs the maids say,
and accents all her deficiencies. A pale
terra cOrta satin dress is thing of beauty
in itself, and if covered with rullles of
snowy Oriental lace, is dream in dry
the eye when worn by a girl with faded
eyes, freckled face and hair "the color
OF the sun in fog" The homely woman
here surpasses all outside rivals by the
dead weight of their ugliness, and each
hundred pounds of them make the sight
so much more aggravating. In no other
place can one see so many shapeesS
and shaking mountains of flesh girded in
to a caricature outline of a Paris dress,
and these fat women parade the porches
and sweep through the parlors as com
plaCently as any of their bony rivals.
They come ostensibly to drink of the
waters, which are supposed to reduce
the bulk and relieve what the handbooks
of the Springs call "engorged circula-
tion;" but the uncharitable might sup
pose that they came here solely to show
themselves. The observing male critic
above quoted has divided off the three
great hotels by their specalties-the
United States as the home of the million
aires, Congress Hall as the camp of the
Israelites, and the Grand Union as the
great three-ringed side show of fat wom-
en-. The vast hotel built by A. T. Stew
art and controlled now by Judge Hilton,
cast out the Jews but keeps the Gentle
mammoths, and there are women here
whose mountainous figures Guido any
thing that Snowman ever got hold of.
They make their way down the crimson
drawing room with a rolling, midship-
mans gait their cheeks and their double
and quadruple chinS trembling as they
go, and so great is their number, and SO
common the sight, that only the newly
arrived wonder at or take note of them.
The humorous bubble comes up as to
whether man who married fragile
creature of ninety pounds avoirdupois is
legally bound to the other 200 pounds of
a woman that he may now find claiming
his name. A matron weighing $50
pounds is Sarah Bernhardt among her
companions here, and even figure POO
is not much regarded; while 300 and 400
pounds are not an unusual sight.-Cor.
81. LousS GLoJe,DemQcrat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-14
Partial to Surgeons.

For the second time during the reign
of William L., German Emperor and
King of Prussia, the highest honor to
which Prussian state official can aspire
has been conferred upon a medical
man. BY the venerable monarch's spe-
cial decree DIR. Won Langenbeck, the
eminent pathologist and surgeon, has
been raised to the rank of actual Privy
Councillor, with the title of Excellency.
The Emperor's body doctor, Laucr, is
the ONLY other disciple of Galen in Prus-
STA possessed of this supreme distinction,
which, by the way, was bestowed upon
him bv his Majesty on the sovereign's
eightieth birthday, in fultillment of n
testing promise made ten years pre-
viousiy During the customary birth
day reception of the court and household
on the 22d of March, 1867, William l.,
who had that morning completed his tale
of threescore years and ten, singled out
Dr. Lauer from the circle Of state Off
Gals gathered round him, and shook
hands with him, observing, jocularly:
"Well. Lauer, if you manage to get me
as far as eighty, this day ten years I'll
make YOU an excellent PRESENT. Sure
enough. decade later, on the Emperor $
natal day, DR.. Lauer received his diploma
as Privy Councillor and "EXcellcncy,"
ACCOMPANIED by n draft on his Majesty's
private bankers for the Prussian equiva-
lent of 1000 guineas, his valedictory fee
as ''body surgeon to the Emperor and
King. "-London Telegraph.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-14
THE OLD FRONT DOOR.

1remember the time when used to sit,
A happy and thoughtless boy,
When father came home from his work at last
And was tired of my toy
remember the time, and none more sweet
Shall know forevermore,
When sat at eve by my mothers side
On the sill OF the old front door.
I remember I'd sit till fell asleep,
And list to their loving talk,
While the crickets chirped, and the treflies
bright
Flew over the garden walk.
And often would father tell the tale
OF the time long years before,
When he led his bride to happy home
Der the sill of the old front door.
| remember when grandfather failed and died,
And eighty years old was he,
And well | knew that never again
He would ride me upon his knee;
And though but gay and thOughtleSs boy,
| wept and my heart was sore,
When saw them bearing him slowly out
Ger the sill of the OLD front door.
1t is many weary day since then,
And |, too, am old and gray;
But the tears come crowding into my eyes
When think of that long-past day.
And only hope that whatever end
Fate may have for me in store,
] shall step once more, ere pass away,
Der the sill of the old front door.
E. r. MuHEttrich, in Youths Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-14
A Husbands Christmas Present.

A gentleman sauntered into large
dry-goods store in the city of l. a few
days before Christmas, and remarked
casually to the ate tive clerk: 81 want
something for a Christmas present for
my wife. What have you got?"
The clerk suggested various things,
but the customer seemed not quite sat
isiied.
At last he asked, "Have you cotton
cloth?''
Certainly, sir.
81 need some new shirts. How much
cloth does it take for shirt?"
about four yards"
"Well. let's see. | want eight new
shirts. Eight times four are thirty-two.
III Jake thirty-two yards.
The gratitude of the wife at receiving
as Christmas present the cloth for eight
new shirts for her husband can be bet
ter imagined than described. -Hqrper'S
MdgGzine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-14

English courts have lately been
turned into singing exhibitions. In a
trial for disturbance of religious meet
ing by bad singing, the witnesses were
called upon to give examples of the vo-
calization; and in case relating to an
alleged infringement of copyright of
a song the two airs were sung to the
jury.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-01-30
THE SKY IN 1882.


If 1881 was pereminently the as
trologers' year, owing to the great
conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn,
upon which SO many frightful proph-
ecies were based, 1882 will be in
similar sense, the astronomers year
on account of the transit of Venus.
The transit does not occur until De-
cember, but the astronomers are al
ready preparing for their observations
of it. In fact, they began their
preparations for it twenty-five years
ago, so important is this event to as
Economical science. By the transit
of Venus is meant the passage of
that between the earth and the sun.
so that the planet is seen against the
disc of the sun like black dot. 1t
owes its Importance to the fact that
it furnishes, perhaps. the best means
of measuring the distance between
the earth and the sun, and this dis
tance is the astronomers yard stick,
without which he cannot get along.
The more accurately the suns dis
tapce is known the more correct be-
come other astronomical measure
ments. Modern estimates of this
distance have varied between 80. .600.-
900 miles and 81 100000 miles.
Since the transit Of 1874 it has been
put at about 92,S00,000 miles. but
the astronomers think they are yet
one or two hundred thousand miles
out of the way, and this year they
hope to cut these limits of error down
very much. The results they achieve
must stand for more than a century,
since there will not be another transit
of Venus until 2004.
The expected comet of 1912 has
not yet put in an appearance. As
some astronomers think that the last
comet discovered in 1881 may be the
long lost Lexell's comet, which no.
body expected to see again after Ju-
piter kicked it out as an intruder i'll
his family of moons, it may not be
too much to hope the stupendous COM
ct of 1864, which is now more than
twenty years overdue, will also pay
the sun another visit and make the
night again brilliant with the glories
| of its train.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-01-30
GEO. III. BLAKE, Publisher.

versy that has lately been waged on
this high theme, and it is not too
much to say that Prof. Fisher justifies
every expectation by the vigor and
clearness with which he handles the
subject. He disclaims. however, the
position of debater. and makes no
direct reference to Col Ingersoll's
assaults, although he necessarily deals
with the objections so brilliantly and
audaciously presented by that dough-
ty combatant. He proceeds in a
very orderly manner to maintain a Sc
ries of positions in regard to the ori-
gin, essential character and benefi-
cent effect of the Christian faith,
which are intended in themselves to
furnish the answer to all objections
and cavils. In the views in what
may be regarded as an authoritative
form. Taking it as such, not the
least part of its value will be found
III the evidence it affords of The pro-
gressive character of the most strictly
orthodox thought Of the day.
Other articles in the February num-
Der of the RerieU are Do the Spoils
Belong to the Victor?" by President
Andrew D. White; ga Remedy for
Railway abuses % by Isaac L. Rice !;
''Repudiation in Virginia, by Sena-
tor John w. Johnston; and "The
Lancet and the Law by Henry
| Reroh.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-01-30

1t is the lady with the diamond ring on
her index finger who ''points with pride"
The ladies wear the poke bonnet be-
cause it is easier to ''scoop" in the young
gentlemen.
''Another lie Nailed" as the wag re-
marked when the merchant tackled up
sign, 'At COST"
The late king of Sweden used to prance
around nights in disguise, and that he
had black eye about half the time was
proof that he enjoyed himself.
A western editor, in response to SUBJ
scriber who grumbles that his morning
paper was intolerably damp, says, THAT
is because there is so much due on it,
II have divided my subject" began the
parson, ''into two heads" sTwo heads
with a single thought" whispered Mr..
F., and then he closed his eyes for his
usual nap.
either give up her lover or her gum, and
after one day spent in reflection she
pressed his hand good-by, and said she
would always be sister to him.
"When I was an infant" said Fogg,
''the women were forever kissing me-.
| And," he added, II have done what l
| could to get square with them since I
have grown to years of discretion"
Schoolmistress Gust beginning hice,
| improving lesson upon mineral to the
juniors)-"Now, what are the principal
| things we get out of the earth?" Youth
full angler, aged 4, confidently "Worms. -
"There," said Miss Dashie, as she
sealed letter addressed to her lover,
''that isn't very bright, but it will do for
| him. Lovers are all alike. If you only
| write to them they don't care snap what
you say"
'Do you know, Mr.. Smith, asked Mrs.
S., in reproving way, "that that pipe is
hurting you; that it is your enemy?'
eyes," replied Smith calmly ejecting a
feecy cloud; ''yes, l know it, and I'm
| trying to smoke the rascal OUT
A Colorado photographer recently
started in to be a desperate, but he lost
his life the first time he tried to kill a
man, as after covering the intended vic
tim, he gave the victim time to draw and
fire first, by pausing to remark ere he
| fired: ''Now look natural
A country editor received the following
sDear Sir-I have looked carefully and
patiently over your paper for six months
for the deaths of some individual am
acquainted with, but as yet not a single
soul cared anything about has dropped
off. You will please have my name
erased"
''Papa," remarked the enfant terrible
who was mounted on the back of the ole
gentleman's chair engaged in making
crayon sketches on his bald head. s'i
wouldn't do for you to fall asleep on tn,
desert, would it," ssWhy not, my dar
ling?" ''Oh, the ostriches might sit dowl
on your head and hatch it out"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-01-30
A SADLY AFFECTED SCENE.

We thought everybody in the state
knew that we were deaf, but once in a
while we find one who is not aware of
the fact. A female book peddler
came to the office the other day. She
wished to dispose of book. She
was alone in this world, and had no
one to whom she could turn for symp-
athy or assistance, hence we should
buy her book. She was unmarried
and had no manly heart into which
she could pour her sufferings, there
fore we ought to invest in her book.
She had received liberal education,
and could talk French like a native;
we could not, in consequence, pay
her less than two dollars for book.
We had listened attentively and here
brake in with ''What did you say?
We're deaf: She started in q loud
voice and went through with her rig
marole. We went and got Il role OF
paper and made it into q speaking
trumpet, and placed one end to our
ear and told her to proceed. She
nearly broke a blood vessel in her
efforts to make herself heard. She
began Il am alone in this world
1T doesn't make the slightest differ
ence to US. We are a husband and
a father Bigamy is not allowed in
this state. We are not eligible to
proposals. - ''Oh, what fool the
man is,' she said in low tone F.;
then, at the top of her voice. Il
don't want to marry you; / want to
sell book This last sentence
was howled. 1--WE don't want a
cook we remarked blandly; ''Our
wife does the cooking, and she
wouldn't allow as good looking a
woman as you to stay in the house
five minutes. She is very jealous.
She looked at us in despair. Gather
ing her robes about her, giving us a
glance of contempt, she exclaimed:
Il do believe that if a three-hundred-
FOUNDER were let off alongside that
deaf fools head he'd think somebody
was knocking at the door" You
should have heard her slam that door
when she went out. We heard that.
1t is easier to build two chimneys
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-01-30
WHAT THE WIRES SAID.

''Baby is dead y Three little
words passed along the line; copied
somewhere and soon forgotten. But
after all was quiet again l leaned
my head upon my hand and fell into
a deep reverie over all those words
mean.
Somewhere-a dainty form, still
and cold, unclasped by mothers arms
tonight; eyes that yesterday were
bright and blue as skies of June
dropped tonight beneath white lids
that no voice can ever raise again.
Two soft hands, whose roseleaf
fingers were wont to wander lovingly
around mother neck and face, loose
ly holding white buds, quietly folded
in confined rest.
Soft lips, yesterday ripping with
laughter sweet as woodland brook
falls, gay as trill of forest birds; to-
night unresponsiye to kiss or call of
love.
A silent home-the patter of baby
feet forever hushed-a cradle bed
unpressed-li little shoes half worn
dainty garments, shoulder-knots of
blue to match those eyes of yesterday
folded with aching heart away.
A tiny mound, snow-covered, in
some quiet graveyard.
A mothers cropping touch in uneasy
slumber for the fair head that shall
never again rest upon her bosom.
The low sob, the bitter tear, as broken
dreams awake to sad reality. The
hopes of future years wrecked, like
fair ships that suddenly 90 down in
sight of land.
The watching of other babies, dim
pied, laughing, strong-and this one
gone. The present agony of grief,
the future emptiness of heart, all held
in those three little words: ''Baby is
dead Telegraph Operator.