The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-05-25

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room
CoxoRKssnAx GAR. o. Louisiana, never
held public once until be was seventy.
PnxsiDxxT DlAx, Of Mexico, y worth
about el.u00O. and lives N modest, IN.
ssuming style.
JAcos snAnr hcwcd and built with his
own hands the log cabin 70 which be took
hi~ young bride when they were first mar
vi<u-
Miss R0sE ELzxAsrru CLkvELASp saws Of
hcr broth>r's wife: "France> loves pets bet
Ter than any onc I ever saw. II docs not
matter what they are. she loves them air.
AfxswOEru r. SPoFYoRD, tho Librarian
Of Congress, who Il noted for his wander
fll memory, 4 nearly sixty-thrcc years old
He i Of slight physique. dark complex
ioncd. with iron-gray whiskers. He has
held bis present position for almost quar-
ter Of century
Axoxo prominent society girls Of Wash
ington who have become nuns within .
comparatively recent period are Miss Febi-
ger, daughter Of Rear Admiral Fcbiger;
Miss Constance Edgar. Colonel Bonaparie's
step-daughtcr; Miss Bertha Gerolt, daugh-
ter Of former German Minister, and Miss
Sands, daughter OF Rear Admiral Sands.
THE illustrious Nine. Alboni says that, in
all her career, she never faced an audience
without being scared half out Of her wits
Even now. having long retired from the
public stage. though with her voice still as
perfect - ever. shc says she can not stand
up 70 sing before dozen friends In her
own parlor without ut Of nervous tren-
bling.
Rrv. A<rofxyrrr Bnowx b. cKwErL now
lives in Elizabeth ~ J. just how old she
u none Of her friends seem 20 know, but
her sweet. motherly face will keep her
young looking for generation yet She
was the first woman In this country to pre-
pare for and regularly enter upon the min
istry. and loves 70 be called the sinother OF
the women preachers"
ALrxAxDKs GRAHAM BELL, Of telephone
fame. was . penniless boy In Edinburg
twenty-five years ago. He ~ now forty
years old. and il described a. handsome
man OF modest dcmeanor. He came 70 this
country in 1872. and has : beautiful home In
Washington His wife il deaf mute, but
she and her husband converse just - well
- other people. for be understands every
movement Of her lips, - she does Of his.
Ex-GovEKxoR SAMUEL 7. HArsER, Of
Montana. 10 said 70 be one Of the jolliest
politicians and milIonaires N Wzshin gton-
His life reads like . romance. Many year
ago he started out poor boy, with nothin
but pluck energy and well-balanced mind
Like Pixarro. be dreamed that there was an
E. Dorado. and he found il in Montana.
There were few IN the Territory that could
throw the lasso. ride and shoot better than
cool-aeadcd- daring young Hauser.
Is $50 Jenny Lind in Edinburgh visited
: music sellers in Prince street. The Ct
sendant. = young man. asked her IL she had
ever heard Jenny Lind Tho singer replied
had heard the Swedish nightingale" He
replied that the very high price Of the tick
cts kept them far beyond his income She
asked him 70 play an accompaniment 70 the
song which she held in he hand He did
20. and ~ the close the singer saying:
q Now You have heard Jenny Lind, walked
1ut
A WASHINGTON correspondent Of : Chi
cago newspaper writes that back or the
Logan house in Washington il ten-acre
iot. lying idle IT Is plated in lots but
only one corner Of il yields any revenue 70
the owner This corner, which b less than
quarter Of IN zero. = directly beck Of
Ms Logzn's yard, where she has dowcr
garden. a gentleman Who visited Mn.
Logan wns invited % walk out among the
00wers A. they slrulIod about chs pointed
over 70 The oehsr plst u ground and sad:
There = my vegetable garden" :. Does
lie Land belcng with this pr0pertyr asked
her companion. NO. she replied, = Trent
H. pay nfteen dollars : year rent for Il TO
Senator John Sherman