The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-03-28
BITS AND

SIXTEEN States forbid the sale Of 70
hacco 70 minors.
IHEEE arc fve New Works. min.
Philadelphias and twelve Bostons IL
the United States.
IT. IS estimated that no. 600. 900 Euro
pean eggs were eaten In the United
States last year
IT Is getting fashionable for ladies' u
both shoot and fence. At this rate
dueling among the fair sex Is sure "a
have q trial.
A''oHpi>o 70 a chewing gum manu-
facturcr, the Chicagoans consumed more
gum than the inhabitants OF any other
American city.
TIT cheapest place in Missouri TO
i've y AZ the penitentiary. Tho daily
cost ~ maintaining convicts at thatinsfi-
tuition Is only seven and one-half cents
per capita.
a WHITE oak tee cut in Kalamazoo
township. Mich, furnished $50 fence
posts, each 81 feet long, and 10 cords
Of stove wood, 4 cords being 20 inches
IN length, and Is cords 10 inches.
RAILWAY marriages are SO common in
Georgia. an exchange reports, that
many parents deposit injunctions With
the licensing officials. forbidding the
Issuing Of marriage licenses to their
children.
a LOCOMOTIVE on the Atlantic & Pa
cine railroad was run q long distance a
ie" days ago without q smokc-stack, a
barrel being substituted. The engineer
says all he needs to pull q train is a
steam chest q pair Of driving wheels
and a fireman.
a cumors fact Is that OF the seven
teen clerks In the Senate Of the new
State Of Washington a majority (ninc)
are women. and there IS but one who
carries Mrs before her name. Tho
same rule holds good with tho House. a
majority Of tho clerks being ladies'.
TEE last venture thar we read Of in
the use q human hair is a fan valued at
500 says Harper's Hazar. Deft fingers
must have fashioned this unique c~uriosi-
~, Tor what appears to be costly lace
ringing the sticks is really human hair:
baby curls. like unto fairy thistle-down.
we doubt not, yielding TO the gentle
wooing OF m softcst breezcs.
SOME Boston capitalists. who are
anxious 10 make a handsome thing out
OF the ice famine, have formed a novel
plan for gaining a crop. They propose
70 catch some icebcrgs near Newfound-
land and tow them by steamer to some
point on the New England coast. where
the bcrgs will be cut up and brought to
the distributing points in lighters.
A MAN just arrived from England was
arrested in Philadc lphia for being in
boxicatcd, who gave his occupation a.
nat OF q "worm-cater." The maris-
rate on demanding an explanation Of
he term, was informed that the man
employed by a firm of London an
iquc manufacturers 10 fire shot at the
urnitLrc 70 give 1t . worm-eaten appear
nee.
I'm Sturgis tDalx.) Record reports
lovcl lawsuit. A man from Bare Butte
lost his pocketbook containing
30 which was found by a man OF Elk
'reck. A month later, upon learning
vho was the oxncr he returned tho
ame' and the owner wa very thankful I
b U demanded interest for the use OF I
money for that time. Judgment
'as given for 81. IS and costs. :
A WASHINGTON electrician Is at worl. Z
? some important Improvements in tho {
i~rcction Of electric cooking. There 81 :
very reason TO believe that invcstira-
ons In this field will well repay ii. L
Electricity when laid in the Q
ouse has only 70 be tapped to be i'm
ediatcly useful. The great advantage
the gas fire over the coal or coke is is 9
most instantaneou applicability 4