The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-08-17

A GENTLEMAN Of Athens. Ca. has =
pigeon that - trained 70 do almost any
thing he tells IL. II can play on the piano,
waltz, march and crow like rooster.
TuERE is q man living In Georgia eighty
one years old who has never taken chew
OF tobacco nor smoked . cigar, never was
drunk, never sworc and never married.
"A SWEET girl graduate" in Hcningford.
Seb., lecturcd last season on "Thc Bright
Possibilities OF the Broom" She made .
grand hit Last week she was married 70
Mr.. Bro0me.
Mrs. Boorn, OF Washington County,
Teen. died recently in the log house she
was born IN, ninety-cight years ago. She
had In all that time never been further
than five miles from home.
CArsox, New, reports an aerolte weigh
/ ing ten tons that IL strcaked with horn
silver and fell upon race course, narrow
colt there 1t the time.
PROVIDENCE, X. l., lately advertised that
he \ wanted 70 sell his wife for cash or ex-
change her for good work-horse,' and
further warranted her TO be forty one years
old, land as good as the majority Of church
going geople."
The youngest grcatgrandmother on rec
ord in this country is Mrs. Mary Ann Wall
ace Of Bagdad. Fla, who was mother az
eighteen, grandmother At iairty-four and
now At fifty the mother Of q grandmother
PETER BucKxAS, young lad Of St. Cloud.
MINI, breaks q bone every time he falls.
His bones are so brittle as 10 snap under
the slightest blow, and, although only six
years old, be has sustained sixteen fractures
Of the arms and legs.
In New York City some time since little
girl swallowed an open penkife handle first
II was found necessary to open the chiids
stomach TO remove the knife. which opera
ton was successfully performed and the
giN's life saved.
AxATuRAL soap well has been discovered
near Buffalo Gap, d. T. The soapis skinned
from . boiling spring. and hardcns BY ex-
posture to the air. II is mixture OF boz
rax. alkali and OIL The quality Is excel
lent and the supply Is believed 70 be mex
haustble.
WRITER in the Century tells Of piece
of good fortune coming from the somnam-
bulistic habit A young woman, troubled
and anxious about prize for which she was
to compete, involving the writing Of an
essay, arose from her bed in sleep and
wrote . paper upon subject upon which
she had not intended TO write When awake,
and this essay secured for her the prize.
AwoSDERFrL mechanical figure is the
cork Of citizen Of Bridgeport, Conn. It's
about the size of the average sixteen-year-
old youth. An exhibition Of its ability was
given to . number Of New York gentle
men, which included the removal Of watch
from its pocket, and then, after listening
for the tick, the announcement in an audi
BILE tone that :. it's just $40, gentlemen -
After that the timeplece is returned TO the
| pocket
| DURING rain and thunderstorm al Fort
Valley, Ga, the other night, lightning
| struck . negro house in the edge OF the town,
drove splinter Of wood in . woman's arm,
knocked aboy complete somersault, turned
4 he cradle over containing the baby. knocked
| all the chickens OF the roost, tore the block
loose from the yard dog. and, strange q
! say, there was not any one killed. but nc
doubt everything was badly stunned for Z
| few minutes