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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-04-30

Jake Sharp paid out over e375. 900
% lawyers in building bis Broadway
railroad. IN y. Ners.
Allan Arthur. the son OF the ex-
| President. Is SAID 10 be the most skilled
amateur banjo player in the United
| States.
Madame Grevlle defines good
book TO be one which In color. detail.
word and action will not rcdden the
cheek Of modest girl.
Governor Ames, OF Mas
sachusetts. gives $1,000 year 70 the
town Of Easton. in that State, TO b.
used in setting out shade trees.
Countess Elise de Edla, widow Of
King Ferdinand. Of Portugal, who was
formerly Miss Lizzie Hensler. OF Bos-
ton. VIII return to that city and make
| II her permanent residence Boston
society Is naturally excited.
-"When ! was last in England"
says Elizabeth Cady Stanton. II wanted
very much to pay my respects to the
Queen. but on learning that court
dress involved bare neck and arms.
abandoned the idea 81 shivering in .
cold ante-room for one hour and losing
my self-respect to enjoy that honor"
Fred Kenzle, who has been host
Ter for twenty-five years ut hotel at
Litiz. Pa, has received from his moth
er in Germany draft for 800 and .
letter advising him to prepare at once
to leave America for Germany. where
fortune of $1,000 waits him BY the
death Of an uncle Philadelphia Press.
Rev. DR.. T. Dewitt Talmage does
most Of his work on railroad trains.
and the entire series of his recent SER
mons on 1.-The Marriage Ring" was
composed on the cars on a weeks trip
last September. When he loses sleep
he keeps an account Of it and balances
the account in summer time by sleep
ing right straight ahead. - Brooklyn
Eagle.
The book Of memoirs OF the late
General George b. Mcclellan will be
published next fall. 1t will be vol
ume of six hundred pages. The
greater part Of the book was written
BY the General himself, and ii has been
edited by his literary executor, Hon.
William G. Prime. Its general charac-
ter Is that Of personal recollections and
memoirs, chiefly regarding his military
life.-N. Y Sun.
It'll recently" says the London
Literary World. 1--WE in England have
had but a poor opinion Of American
newspapers, but now that our papers
have sunk to their level. and till their
columns with sensational news and the
results of wholesale interviewing, it 10
10 be questioned whether we are in .
position to pride ourselves on our in
tcllcctual superiority. Americans are
great readers of newspapers. and
there. more than here, do they inform
and guide the general public
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When Indians paint their faces Il
means war. When women paint their
faces it means war, too-against bach
elors- Somerrille Journal.
"A paper has been started called
the Indian. 1t is safe to remark thai
the editor will soon be Lo in finances
Probably without ''rcd. "-G German
torn Independent.
Son-.Oh, nominee. here's a great
big knot-hole in de floor. Come an
lookec." Mother (abstractly) '.Oh,
honey doan bodder nominee when
she's busy. Bring it heah, an l look
at it,
80 Mother. how did II come that
they fixed on foot bein' twelve
inches?" II don't know. johnny"
I'm bet YOU ] do .Well. how ?''
"'Cause ii was Chicago girls foot
they measured. - Kentucky State Jour.
nal
Father" said Rollo, '.what ID
meant BY the intoxication Of wealth.
means that money is light" replied
Rollo's father. who has been shining
around all the afternoon with piece
Of paper. looking for al autograph. -
Burdeffe.
Physicians may inveigh against
violent exercise till the crack Of doom.
but 50 long rs gardens will raise cu-
cumbcrs. fences will have holes and
neighbors will raise hens. woman ISM
going through this life without an occa-
sional yearning to transform herself
into blizzard. -- lid Bits.
Justice Madam, what have YOU
against this mani" Complainant
well. sir, he tore my dress of"
'How did he do it, madam" stepped
on my trail. sir. and" MADAM.
that is impossible. This man is a city
detective. lie never got on anybody ;
trail in his life. The prisoner Is dis
missed. - Chicago Nccs.
First Dude-"Yas, Chawley Il !
good enough fellow. but he Is so feah-
fully dcfawmcd. you know" Second
Dude ..Dcfawmed? No. l didn't know
it. In what way is Chawley de-
fawmed?" why, Gawge. you see he
has hawid great cowlick wight on
his forehead. SO he cant part his hair
in the middle. It's too duccd bad.
you knaw. for aside from his dcfawmity
Chawley j. DANCED good fcllah, you
knaw. - Ddnriiic Breeze.
A shiny new hat Is not an infallible
indication that the wearer Is the lucky
winner Of bet. A young man bought
. hat, and upon exhibiting 1t to his
wife said that he had won it. He did
this to prevent her asking for bonnet.
rs she always does when he buys hat.
Il didn't have the effect desired. for she
at once said: That's good; you won't
have to buy one now. and can havo
the money for . bonnet. - Pittsburgh
Post.
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New she saved ner Masters LIFE when
Ne Was shut Up In London Tower TO
Starve 20 Death.
You have all heard Of Wilmington
and his cat, and am sure you enjoyed
the story Of the poor prentice boy and
his one pet. So now l will tell you Of
another good old English puss. There
are many stories Of faithful, noble
hearted dogs saving their master
lives; but We do not expect . cat to
help US, because she Is so much weaker
than . dog. Therefore, want you to
admire this dear pussy the more; and
! want You to see the ennobling power
Of love. For Il was the great love for
her master which taught her how to
save him.. and it's = joy TO think how
well her unwearied efforts succeeded.
She was 4 city cat, used to climbing
high walls, and taking her walks over
the roofs, for she was born In London.
and lived somewhere near the Tower,
perhaps In Il. Her matters name was
Sir Henry Wyatt. He lived in
''troublous times. days 80 dark that
e makes one shudder 20 look back
upon them
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ssa Fl Ems England ss s anas s' sse isxs our a'
as the country people said. when they
turned against Richard III. In their
horror and indignation at the murder
Of the little princes in the Tower. In
this feeling Sir Henry Wyatt fully
shared. He longed % overturn the
cruel tyrant. and bring back the red
rose Of Lancaster. Many Of the great
men In England were Of the same
mind. But their first attempt failed;
Buckingham. their leader. was defeat
ed at Shrewsbury. while Sir Henry
Wyatt was imprisoned In the Tower
and left to starve.
Now think what that means. Think
what il must have been to find himself
shut up in that grim old fortress. be-
hind stone walls, eleven feet thick.
When he looked through the iron
barred window Of his prison 1t the
battlemented wall beyond. and heard
the clang Of the heavy portcullis. even
his brave heart must have sunk like
lead. For who would reach him there?
As the dull. dark wintry days closed
in. the pains Of hunger grew sharper.
and he knew that the cruel Richard.
the ''hog" as the country people called
him in their hatred and contempt, in
tended TO starye him to death. But
that lofty wall Of stone could not keep
out the dark-ringed tabby cat, who
loved him so well.
Now. You must fancy here in the
frosty winter nights, when cats love to
roam, creeping. unnoticed. over those
drcary roofs. watching the iron barred
windows, until she caught sight of her
masters face. Well, cats at least can
climb. She got upon his window-sill,
and how she must have purred in the
delight 81 finding him again! Sir Hem
~ was so thin and changed, that even
his cat knew that he was starving. So
she went to the nearest dovecote and
caught a pigeon, which she brought in
her mouth and dropped through the
iron bars Of the window.
With what gratitude the poor fam
ishing prisoner must have devoured IL!
And then puss returned the next day
with another pigeon in her mouth, and
so she kept him alive.
Think Of her unwcaried love, for she
visited him every day. bringing the
birds she had caught, until he was set
free. when Richard was slain on Bos-
worth field.
Perhaps you wonder how cat could
find Sir Henry in his prison. But At
that time the Kings Of England lived
in the keep Of the Tower, and held
their court there. The keep is the
strong old tower in the middle Of the
inclosure, where the prisoners we're kept.
So that the palace and the prison were
under the same guard. Most likely
Sir Henry Wyatt had been a gentle
man Of the court, and had left his cat
in some part Of the vast Notifications.
gateways. walls and towers, which
make up what we call the great Tower
Of London. So il came to pass that
the cruel purpose of this wicked King
in the heart Of his strongest fortress.
in the midst Of his bravest guards, was
defeated by the love and perseverance
Of q pussy.
Among the small things, and the
things which are despised. but with
which God so often chooses to con-
found the mighty, remember Wyatt
cat. Eleanor Stredder.in Lite Folks.
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FoRcETFULNEss.


An Amusing Incident Illustrative Of DR..
Lyman Bescher's Character.
It would seem that the trait Of for
getfulness is hereditary. and can be
cultivated like toy pigeons. Mr..
Beechers father. the venerable DIR. Ly-
man Bcecher was, rs is well known,
often absent-minded and forgetful, as
men who think very earnestly are apt
to be. When he was the president Of
Lane Seminary It was very poor. and
found difficulty in adequately support
ing its faculty. SO that Mrs. Beecher
was often sadly straitened pecuniarily.
TIE old story goes that at one time.
when she received sum Of money, it
was the occasion Of great rejoicing. as
IL would enable them to pay bill tor q
carpet which had been too long stand
ing. So she committed the money to
her husband. charging him to attend
to the payment immediately. In the
evening the doctor returned from the
city in high spirits and described mis-
sionary meeting he had attended, in
which was much enthusiasm. very elo-
quently reporting the addresses which
had been made. Doctor" interrupted
Mrs. Beecher. did you 60 and pay for
that carpet to-dayr' Carpet! what
carpet?" responded the doctor. s'Why.
the one ! gave you the money to pay
for this morning" "There!' said the
doctor. feeling feebly in his vest pock-
ct; ''that accounts for Il AT the mis-
sionary meeting they took up contri-
button. When they came to me said
! had no money to give them-wished
| had-at the same time feeling in my
pocket, where, to my surprise. ! found
. roll Of bills; 50 l pulled it out and
put II in the box, wondering where il
had come from. but thinking the Lord
had somehow provided. - Christian al
Work.
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FOR OUR YOUNG READERS.


Three little boys talked together
One sunny summer dar.
And leaned out OF the window
To hear what they had 70 SAY.
~The prcttiest thing ever saw"
DLt Of the little boys said:
WAS bird in 2randpa'- garden.
All black and white and red"
" The prctticst thing ever saw
Said the second little lad.
WAS pony ~ the circus
wanted him awful bad"
~ think" said the third little fellow.
With = grave and gentle grace.
That fhe pretticet thing In Ill the world
10 Just my mothers face"
-Eben n. hexford, IN Good Cheer.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-04-30

Pctrificd wood i susceptible Of a
inc polish As marble or Mexican
onyx, and il taking the place Of the
latter on the Pacific coast for mantcl-
pieces. tablets and other architectural
parts for which marble. slate and tiles
are commonly used. The raw material
employed comes mostly from the
forests Of petrified wood In the Terri.
tories Of Arizona, Wyoming and the
Rocky mountains, along the line Of the
Atlantic \ Pacific railway. Biologists
will regret the destruction Of such in
tercsting primcval remains. and some
steps ought 10 be taken TO preserve
certain tracts IN their original stats. ~
Scientific American.
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why Mrs. Clamwhooper's Green Parrot
Refused 20 Talk.
Mrs. Clamwhooper. an elegantly
dressed lady. followed by servant in
livery, bearing cage in which there
was green parrot, entered the estab-
lishment Of New York bird dealer.
II bought this bird Of you six
months ago, and he hasn't spoken .
word yet. When l bought him you
told me that he would repeat every
word he heard" said the lady. indig-
nantly.
.Well. l say 50 yet. He will repeat
every word he hears. I" replied the bird
dealer. calmly.
but he doesn't repeat 4 single
word"
That's because he cant hear .
single word. He i as deaf a. post.
You forgot to ask II he could hear. and
! forgot to mention It. Ny motto Is
Honesty l. the best policy Morning.
ma'am. "
Mrs. Clamwhooper left the place
suffering from rage. 49, Tsxds Siffings.
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A little maid WALKED smIlIng on hcr way,
bearing white lilies on an Easter Day:
Herself lily. pure and fair ~ they.
hut as she passed they bore along the mart
little child whom death had Get apart.
He small hands lying empty on his heart
Close 70 the bier the lIttlc maiden pressed.
And laid her lilies on the pilsricss breast.
saying; take thcsc 70 light thee 20 thy rest
III 20 my Lord br ne no lily bell.
Ne 10 - near my heart lie knows full well
love Him more than any tongue can tell. =
Altar and chanccl shonc with radiant bloom.
breathing sweet odors through the ministers
Type o. me life that sriu'nphsd o'sr tho
She in heard the organs solemn voice that
A II Heaven to seek the risen Lord
Crowned By His angels, BY His SAINTS adored.
while. out OF sight. woman sang alone.
With such a wondrous rapture In her tone.
She seemed . scrnpn singing by the throne.
The little maid knclt down with rcvcrent
grace,
And great light lei! on her upturned face,
bringing vision Of the Heavenly place;
herein she saw her Lord. with smiling eyes,
Amid the countless hosts Of Pnrad Sc.
Bearing the little Child. by death made wise.
Her very heart ran Ger with joy TO see
Her lilies blooming by the Masters knee.
Grown fair as any dcathless flowers might be.
while from the blessed child this message
fell.
Dear Lord, Thy little maid. who loves Thee
well.
sends these. by me. her faithful love to tell
Blessed are they whose prayers in deeds
find wing.
whose hands the gifts Of humble service
bring.
Blessed are they who hear the Master plead
In every cry Of human woe or need.
Lo. la their hearts the Lord Is sen indeed
-Emtiy Huntington lNilkT.
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Our happiness and our longevity
much depend on the weakness or the
soundncss Of our stomachs. IL Il the
stomach, a. rule. that both gauges our
happiness and determines the span &
our life. ~ CA0rosss.
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In room furnished in a haphazard.
elegant fashion. with windows looking
out on Fifth avenue. a portly man Of
middle age was brushing his luxuriant
whiskers, when someone tapped on
the door OF the adjoining parlor.
"Come in" cried out the portly
man, and dropping his oval brusher he
turned TO greet his caller. ''Well.
White. what brings you here 80 early?"
And the caller, who had been Gray
in Pillowvillc and was White in New
York. answered straightway:
The moneyyou owcto dead man.
Tom Hallow."
Mr.. HaIlow's heavy jaw fell. ITS
come NJ last" he exclaimed. ~ al
ways knew you would end in lunatic
asylum"
;'Hcnry Brown y siead.' Mr.. Gray
White continued, taking no notice Of
this. ..and his daughter Is pcnniless.
II you want me to think that you arc
q gentleman you will send her = check
tomorrow for the $1,000 and
the interest on it-that her father lent
you when you we're poor"
"Whcw! and are you her counselorP
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reporter on the Morning Cal. With hb
subsequent career as lecturer, and tie
author OF ''The lnnOcens Abroad" and
Othef booAs the public IL better acquant-
ed. After be had acquired fame at tome
ne went to England to ecture, because,
as he explained In one of his lectures
there, lin view OF the Ilerality Of Eng
land, who had sent TO America all the
lecturers she could spare be had cit it no
more than right that the United States
should reciprocate the compliment" In
introducing himself TO his first London
audience he said he sDuld ash permis-
sion 70 introduce to hem mr.. Marx
Twain, asgentleman wDse varied learn
ing, Rhetorical accuracy, veDeratiOn for
the truth and, deyotioI to silence were
only eq4 aled by his perstnal loneliness,
his gPaee4uk gTandeuH o, character and
native sweetness OF Ciisbosition." Mr..
Clemens is 8 labOrious writer, and pro-
duces book after book witt acceptance by
readers on both sides Of the Atlantic.
His home, an elegant de. is at Hart
ford, Conn. Mr.. Clemeu is in demand
as an after-dinner speake, upon which
occasions he is invariably happy in his
efforts.
Eugene Field and stBob'' Burdette are
both well known TO newspaper readers of
the time. The former b$ earned fame
both as humorist and pet while en-
Ployed on the daily pres of Chicago,
st. Louis, Kansas City, Dever and other
parts Of the West. In eccentric and
grotesque verse he has fey equals. The
peculiar genius Of Bob Eirdette, which
touches every key Of tho human heart,
from jolity to pathOs. cane into vogue ten
or twelve years ago. His lecture on
'Fhe Rise and Fall of tn Mustache," has
also furnished amusemeits for audiences
In various parts Of the Ountry. Most OF
the writings of Geo. VI. Peck, another
fun-maker OF the preset day, have ORR
ginally appeared in his iwn newspaper,
Peck's San, and from item several pop
ulaF books have been compiled. OF these
volumes ''Peck's Bad Bly, is at once the
best and worst known. Its comic situa-
tions formed material fG play that met
with great success. F'Om the village of
Henderson, Jefferson Cqlnty, N. Y, when
ne was only two yeaD old, George W.
Peek followed his parents to Cold Spring,
Wisconsin. At the later place he out
grew his roundabOuts and bOyish FRANKS.
When he was sixteen years old (some-
where about 1866 or 1856, he became
country printer at Whitewater, WiscOn-
sin. The year 1868 found Sergeant Peck
In cavalry boots and army clothes on q
horse branded ~. So His patriotic SER
vice, mainly in Louisiana, is the history
1t many thousands, ernest and brave,
ike himself After his term of enlist
nent had run through and out he return
I'd to newspaper toll in Wisconsin. He is
ready writer in exagteratiVe, facetious
rein, and has made considerable money.
At home they call him rich man. HIS
equation as grOtesQue writer is no
,arnaele on our national literature, al
hough the critics have severely handled
hose books which were most profitable to
he author.
Col. ''Pap DOMAIN whose name is 80
ften seen in the newspapers these days
8 a native of Mississippi and is not an
rlshman as the cognOmen would indicate.
lis real front name is said to be Peter
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mOrs evoked have doubtless been OF incat
Culable benefit. Among the best known
and most widely appreciated Of these &C.
centric writers at the present time is Bill
Nye, whose Christian name is Edgar Will
son Nye. A neat sketch Of him by Yeno-
wine, of Chicago, lately appeared in the
Journalist. Nye is but 80 years Of age
and six years would cover the time actu-
ally spent in the field of journalism. He
was born in Shirley. Piscataquis county,
Me-, Aug. %, 1850, but at the age OF two
years, according to his own story. took
his parents by the hand, and telling them
that Maine was no place for him, he
started West with them He received an
academical ed at River Falls.
Wis.,, and 10 IS , went to Wyoming Ter
Titory, where he was admitted to the bar.
and, as he says, practiced law in a quiet
kind of way, though frequently warned
by the authorities not to do so. He had a
great deal of leisure time, as be tells it.
So he got to writing a Sunday letter tothe
Cheyenne DAILY Sun at $1peT column. He
saws that ''this sum, which aggregated as
much as 500 per year, so completely
dwarted the returns from nay law prae-
tice that ] abandoned the latter, giving
my revised statutes to a new Notary Pub
lie at Last Chance, who had just made
his debut, and my 'Bouvier's Law Die
tiOnary' to a personal friend. Having
thus disposed of my law library, l nailed
my tin sign on the floor of the pest
house and abandoned the profession to its
fate.c
From the Cheyenne San Nye drifted to
the Denver Tribune, for which he wrote
regularly, as well as for the Salt Lake
Tribune. Later on new paper was start
ed In Laramie City, and named the Boom
erdfq, from a favOrite mule owned by
Nye, and which he called Boomerang be-
cause he never knew where it would
strike. At the time Bill Nye edited the
Boomerang it was published in the second
story OF brick livery stable in Laramie
City, Wyoming. In his prospectus or
card he gave the following directions for
reaching the Office: ENTER stairway
from G street, or pass through the livery
stable, twist the tail of the iron gray mule
and take the elevator" The Boomerang
was Immediately quoted all over Amerf-
ca and abroad. Though not q financial
success, owing largely to the fact that it
was a daily, and published in town OF
less than 5000 people, while two rival pa
pers we're running in the same place, yet
Bill Nye made reputation at that time
which has been worth many thousands of
dollars to him since. As postmaster he
was a dead failure, and resigned in dis
gust. He was married in 1877 to Miss
Fannie Smith, Of Chicago, and two little
girls rOmp through his sunny home at
Hudson, Wis, on the banks of the st.
Croix, an hours ride from Minnehaha.
falls. Though Mr.. Nye has lectured very
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sAM'LL. CLEMENS. GEO. W. PECK.
little, his hearers say that the effect OF his
odd aud original remarks is much height
ened by his peculiar manner. Nye writes
rapidly, dong his days work between s
and 10 a. M, after which he forgets the
whole thing by taking his horse and car
rlage and driving out for most of the day.
His lecture is an oddly, for it has no sub
yect. " hen asked by lecture commit
tee what be was going 10 talk about, he
telegraphs back that he "will talk about
an hour
In the early days Of his career Mark
Twain, whose real name, as nearlY every
body knows, is Samuel LanghOrne Glenn
ems, was Only known TO fame through his
newspaper humor. Mark Twain was
born IN Missouri some fifty years ago. At
10 years Of age he was apprentlced to
printer at Hannibal, and In due time he
worked at bis trade In 81. Louis, Cincin-
natl, Philadelphia and New York CITY.
In 1850 he became pilot on a Mississippi
steamboat. Six years later he acted as
private secretary 10 his brother, secreta-
~ OF the Territory of Nevada. Amer this
he tried mining for awhile, and. in 1862
became city editor OF a newspaper pub
Iished In Virginia City, Nevada. While
thus engaged his sharp pen put man
named Willis, connected with another
paper IN tho town, 90 hunting uD his Mis-.
eisslppl river record, aud the publication
OF some unpleasant facts pertaining 70 the
war. For this Mark challenged Willis TO
mortal combat, which was declined, and
from the complications that followed, two
other challenges ensued. The three chal-
lenges all passed the same day. and for a
time Il looked as though Six-Mile canon
was to be delueed with blood, but no
meeting occurred. Soon after thie Mark
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For Observation-Disclosures.

NOR RENT. about twenty acres Of land.
II partly within the extended city limits,
extending from the Waters road 70 South
Vile, with entrance from that road and also
by way OF the White Blur road. There ~ a
small dwelling house aud a large stable and
well OF go q water on tho premises. Several
acres adjoining the house - fenced and under
cultivation. and a hne lot OF fruit trees plant
ed. The place ia conveniently located for
small farming or a dairy There ID good
range for cattle, which can DO fenced at u
small For particulars apply 10 e. II.