The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-09-18


Mrs Campbell. the wife Of Ohio's
ro~ernor. j. q tall. handsome brunette.
and is credited with much tact
A hired girl In Maine invariably
puts . pin in her mouth when she Is
going 70 peel onions She saws that Il
prevents her eyes from watering.
-Ex-Secretary Bayard Is growing
fat. His face has become set ia severe
lines. and his hair has whitened rapidly
since death robbed him OF his wife and
: his favorite daughter.
Rev. Phillips Brooks Is said 70 be
the fastest speaker in the world Yer
batim reporters who timed him found
that he speaks ON an average two hum
dred and twelve words minute. Stam-
mering in his youth is accountable for
his remarkable haste in speech
Mrs Josie Armstrong died in Chi
cago recently at the age Of 10 years
Mrs Armstrong is said to be the colored
woman who nursed Abraham Lincoln's
wife and il Is alleged her son played
with "Iiltle Abe" before the latter had
learned the art Of splitting rails
Philip George d'Epinois is perhaps
the most remarkable Waterloo survivor.
He was born in 1894. and still discharges
the duties of burgomaster in his native
village OF Epinois les Binche The
Chevalier d Epinois was one OF the civic
guards who welcomed Leopold I. to
Belgium sixty years aga
AT Wichita, Kan, two brothers
who had been separated for twelve
years met in the county jail Both
were going under assumed names, but
one day while comparing notes they
found that they were from the same
town in Pennsylvania One Of them
finally told his own namn and the
other at once recognized him Is :
brother
A young woman ut Cincinnati
though. she would commit suicide and
gave a friend some money TO defray her
funeral charges She changed her mind
about the suicide and then demanded
her money back. The friend declined
70 refund and insisted in keeping the
money for the purpose intended. but
the court has decided that she must
give IL up
Xavier Jouvin. the once famous
glove-maker Of Grenoble. France, has
been honored by q statue in his native
town lie invented machine for cut
ting out leather gloves, and perfected a
method by which only one seam was
necessary in the thumb Attic Maison
Jouvin thousands Of men and women
are now employed NJ Jouvin's widow
has recently died 1T Grenoble
"A young man in Berlin, Germany.
stepped upon q cherry. slipped. fell |
against a window and had his nose al
most severed from his face. A young
lady came forward and acknowledged |
that she had carclessly throw n the acces-
serial fruit upon the sidewalks: and her
parents promptly betrayed the bill Of |
the surgeon who stitched on the young
mans nose. amountingto four hundred |
and fifty marks
MIR. Humphrey Moore, = well known
artist IN Paris, Is a deaf mute. but 50
bright and cordial Is his manner thar /
one scarcely realizes the terrible AZ
Fiction which Is his inheritance. Hi
wife is beautiful. intelligent Spanish
girl who interprets conversation 70 her
husband. and keeps him in touch with
the social life Of the city. Mr.. Moore's
speciality IS ia panese scenery and life.
which ne reproduces with charming
ndelity 70 nature. He has exhibited az
the ROYAL academy OF London, the In
fine arts exhibition Of Der.
liz and the Paris salon.