The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-02-03

1T M said Of william Morris. the
MT that he never clothes hrs burly
limbs in anything but blue serge -
which he looks for all the world IKE :
blum sea captain. II he be asked 20
dinner the first thing he ssipuiates V
for the serge garusnts and - swallow
tail.
When Abrahgn Lincoln. while
studying Isw in Petersburg, Ill. was
having Mr.. Alfred Gordon for his board
~ splitting rails, he had the same envi-
able reputa ton for doing thoroughly
rood work In that occnpotion - in the
moro exalted work he performed N ATT
er years. Some of these rails are stall
in use. forming part of the fencing on
the Alfred Gordon farm
French novelists are forming
powerful association for the protection
Of their interests against the publish
ers. The society il being promoted oy
one OF the most eminent living French
writers of fiction. The authors CHIEF
grievances are that the publishers sell
their books at any price they can get
| for them. and that they print and sell
a larger number of volumes than they
account for.
| The duchess Of Lauragunis. who
was somewhat given TO making poetry,
could not think Of word to rhyme with
coiffe Turning to Talleyrand, VINO
CHANGED to be by her side, she said:
prince. give me . rhyme to come.
.Impossible. duchess" replied Taliey'
rand. without q moments delay, ~fof
that which pertains to the head OF
woman has neither rhyme nor reason
An enraged Partisan poet lately
brought an action for damages against
his publisher because some OF MS
RHYMES were spoiled by printers blum
ders. He lost his suit, the court hold
ing that in withdrawing the book n
soou rs the error was discovered and in
correcting the of ending line the pub
Usher had done all that could reascn'
ably be expected OF him.
Noted writer's are to be sent on a
VOYAGE around the world to Discovers
literar, material for descriptive stories
and romantic fiction based on the lives
and scenes Of foreign lands visited
Julian Hawthorne is to lead the expedi
ton. and he will take an artist. geoio
! eist. a naturalist and q conchologist-
schooner. to he named the SarYasso
, will he chartered, and will sail from
) New York.
Julia Ward Howe began the sind.
5 Of ancient Greek in her old age, bu
? probably with no greater interest thai
that with which Queen Victoria too
' mn Hindustani at seventy That wa
: three wears ago. and her majesty issti
! bending her energies to acquire pei
i feet command of the language Of ne
+ oriental subjects She has added
. staff of Hindoo servants TO her hous'
+ hold, to whom she gives orders in IiiH
a dustani, and whenever n rajah fro'
= her far eastern dominions visits hs
s palace. as in the case Of the gaikwar {
+ Raroda. she converses with him in h
y native tongue.
le Joel Chandler Harris. the ''Cnc
,. Remus" Of current literature. lives ne'
It Atlanta, on . small estate thick
l. grown with trees, vines. and Mower
y among which magnolias and Cape ja
lie mines predominant. There Is hapI
a family OF six children in the house. ~
IT the author leads nm existence that Is .
ID agreeable combina ton of city ~
country life. Mrs Harris raises b
e. own poultry and attends to her p
III Jersey cows with maternal solicitud
ne while her husband. who was reared
IL n plantation. drinks a glass OF butte
u milk with his noontime dinner with |
w. the gusto Of youth