The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-01-02

"A sistcr-in-law o. ono OF the best
known and distinguished members OF
Parliament keeps fashionable lodging
house in London. where IA the season
majority ~ the patrons are Americans.
Among the unpublished Thackeray
manuscri pts now offered for sale in
London are . notebook containing
l.2oO fragments OF unpublished verses. q
scrap-hook with 400 tracings and sketch
ings, and an album OF sketches
Lady Martin Miss Helen Faucit)
n whose pew browning used TO sit
when visiting tho little church At
Llanbysiiio. Wales. when no spent tho
autumn OF 1855 at that place. has had
memorial tablet put on the church with
tho inscription: I'm memory OF Robert
browning. roet. born 1879. died 1850.
who worshipcd in this church ten weeks
in autumn. 1880. BY his friend Helen
Fauclt Martin"
10 Howard saws OF Henry Ward
l.eecher: II lave seen him hundreds OF
times take BIS letters from the post-of
fee. open them a he walked along tho
street. continue opening them in houses
where he called. and. in other words.
attend TO his own business That Mrs.
Ieechcr opened some OF his letters Is
quite likely. hut 10 say that il was the
regular procedure. she determining what
20 answer and what to throw away, is
simply silly"
A selection from tho correspondence
81 the late Queen Elizabeth OF Prussia,
wife Of King Frederick William W.. Is
70 be published toward the end OF next
year. II will be edited by Empress
Frederick. A large collection OF the &C.
romplishcd Queens letters was made by
Emperor Frederick. who intended to
publish number Of them. lie had also
proposed to write short biography OF
his aunt for whose intellectual quail.
ties he had the greatest admiration.
Tho London Literary World says
that during one OF his recent sailing
trips fire broke out in MI. X. l. Stev-
enson's cabin. and the burning things
were hurriedly carried on deck or flung
into the sea. Suddenly Mrs. Stevenson
saw two OF the crew with burning box
which they were about to cast over
board Fortunately she was in time to
"a 70 ~ VI AtA NAls ELtttnrOH xlteEATY
notes for many months past. including
the greater part OF q story being writ
ten under contract for "a. 900. and much
OF the history Of the island which is for
the future to be his home. would have
been irrccoverably lost
While Evangelist Moody was fhun-
dering strong truths into the hearts Of
his hearers at Buffalo. n. ". recently,
an aged deacon who sat near him on the
platform kept inter ec ling audible and
fervent "Amens" and Goods" "A man
with principle is a man to be admired
above many others" roared out Mr..
Moody. That's true. mumbled out the
deacon in tones Of rapture. The evan
gelist turned around instanter and
in his mellow voice: True. OF
course it's truc. What do you suppose
I'm telling here tonight lies?" Tho
poor little deacon subsidized.
DR.. Holmes tells in the Atlantic
that he has Just cleared the eight.
barred gate" and taken a step into
field which few come within sight OF
md still fewer enter Tho genial doc
tor says women grow old easier than
men. and this Is strain from his de
20. IL we could all 20 out
u flower as gracefully. as pleasingly.
i we come into blossom. always
hink Of the morning glory as the love-
lest example OF graceful yielding to
no inevitable. 1t Is beautiful before
: twisted corolla opens; 1t is comely
5 il folds its petals inward. when its
'ricf hours Of perfection are over"