The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-05-30

1T Is d curious coincidence that the
representative sons Of Bismarck and
Gladstone should bear the name He
bert"
When p. T. Barnum was introduced
10 Sir Arthur sullivan he remarked: X
am glad to have the opportunity Of meet
ing you. You are celebra ted. ! I'm mo-
t~orious."
Ben Butler Is reported to be worth
$1,000. 900. lie has law Offices In several
cities and . practice worth 800, 900 .
year. Lowell Is tho place he calls his
home, and his residence there Is :
palace.
The largest landowner In the world
Is said 10 be Mrs. Emma II. Forsyth.
the daughter OF q former American Con-
sui at Samoa. She has q plantation o.
one hundred and fifty thousand acres on
an island near New Guinea, and en-
ploys over five hundred people on II
1t was a popularity Of the late Sam
uel j. Randall that he left the handling
Of his own financial matters TO his wife,
II was a common occurrence for those
who were frequently 1T his homo TO
hear him call 70 his young son Sammy
70 ask mother for 80 cents or 81 where
with to buy postage stamps.
This is how General Sherman ex-
presses himself about the telephone:
It's one OF the biggest Of modern null
sances. I've tried the telephone ten
thousand times and w knew It 70
work right. III want to send a mes
sage l believe in putting a man on .
horse and letting him deliver 1t.
The secret Of q long life Is said, BY
George Bancroft, TO be nothing moro
thar the power, either natural or ac-
quired, OF controlling the temper. III
you will never get angry" he says you
will live to be ninety" The venerable
historian has probably applied his own
theory with good practical results, as he
has already reached his ninetieth year.
Although General John G. Fremont
is eighty years old he has always been
an active business man. lie kept an
Office in an old-fashioned building on
lower Broadway. New York, where he
rave his attention to mining schemes
and other speculative enterprises. The
Generals mind is clear. and he takes as
keen an interest in public events as he
did when in the prime Of life.
-Chauncey NJ. Depew is quoted as
making the interesting statement that
about a hundred men whom he can re-
call as having been famous in Wall
street during the wal for fortunes mad
suddenly in speculative deals. and who
have since dropped out OF sight are now
life insurance agents. lie said he at
tended an insurance banquet recently
and se~yenty-fve per cent. Of the agents
present had formerly been famous a.
successful Wall street traders.
/ There are now living in Washington
. married couple. Paul and Albina He'll
, muth, who we're born at Baden, Ger
| many. February !, 1s47, within foul
, miles ofeach other. Even through theil
/ childhood. playing in the streets Of thu
r same town. they were strangers to eacl
other. In the course Of events the,
came across the ocean TO the land o
promise, and at different times and b,
different paths they drifted to Washing
: ton. where they met, and loved AM
welded. Upon comparing notes to TAX
out their marriage license they dis
, covered, to their mutual surprise AMI
qualification, that they were not onl.
natives Of the same place but rejoiced Il
exactly the same ages to . day.