The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-02-07


Tm Office OF coroner Is OF early date
In England. bcing mentioned in char.
ter 81 A. ID. vs5.
''pucr'L KHASAs." or "fool dinners, A Il
what tho native servants In British
India call picnics.
A SET Of false teeth exploded ia a
Newport dentists Office the other day.
smashing things in the Office.
4 BABIES born with teeth are becoming
numerous in Ohio. A New Lisbon
mother has babe which had two front
teeth before II was day old.
/ TIE length Of North America Is near.
I ~ 5000 miles. its greatest breadth about
I 5000 miles, its area about one-sixth OF
the land-surface Of the globe.
FoH keeping in slavery since the wal
black servant who was too ignorant tc
read or communicate with others OF
her race, the family Of the late Joseph
Hickman. OF Cooper County, No., will
pay $500, which sum the court deems
equal to the wages the servant would
have been able to earn during the past
twenty-five years.
TIE most valuable Of all the precious
stones and those which rank the highest
as jewels are the ruby, sapphire, dia-
mond and emerald. The diamond is
generally considered the most valuable,
but this is an error, as q pure ruby and
sapphire OF the same size would be
worth much more. Opal, aquamarinc.
zircon, tourmaiine and garnet follow in
the order named.
ACCORDING to the best statistical au-
thority, the consumption OF sugar in the
world is 100000 tons year, of which
the United States CONSUMES 1900, 900
tons and Great Britain 1.l00,0 900 tons.
This is a quantity about equal to the |
best sugar production OF Europe-that
Is, as much or nearly as much beet
sugar as canc sugar Is produced in the
world.
NEARLY thirty years ago locomotive
on the Erie railway exploded her boiler
near the depot at Almond, Allegheny
County, y. ". killing two men and in
juring another quite severely. Last
week mill-race at that place was
cleaned OUT. and in 1t was found the bell
belonging to the unfortunate locomotive.
which Aust have been hurled distance
OF f2fty rods.
FISH charms have been met with
5fhong many nations. The fish called
the bullhead is used by some Of the
Russian peasants As q charm against
fever. Many kinds OF fish have two
hard bones just within the sides OF the
head; and one species, the maigre, has
these bones larger in proportion than
most others These two bones, called |
collie stones, are regarded TO possess
medicinal virtues They were mounted
in gold and hung round the neck.
TIE London Money-Order Office was
set on foot by three entcrprising post
office clerks in 1922, who hired premises
outside the post-office, the firm being /
known Is Stow & Company. From this |
small beginning main idea at first
being TO afford facilities for the trans
mission Of small sums-has arisen that |
system under which 1t is now possible !
for the Chinese living in New Zealand |
to send money-orders to their mother |
country BY way Of London.
IT IS told in one Of the English paperA |
that woman who had SO many dia~ /
monds she hardly knew what 70 do with |
them had her unset stones fastened to
the stitching OF her evening gloves
The result OF her ingenuity is that
jeweled gloves may now be bought in
tho London shops. 1t seems that they
are set in gold and follow the three
lines OF stitching on the back, and are
SO set that they may be transferred from
one glove TO another. The cost Of :
pair OF iewcled gloves Is forty Ruineas.