The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-01-20

DRYDEN married Lady Elizabeth
Howard, q shrew Of marked ability.
She complained that he showed her no
attention, and wished herself a book
thai she might enjoy more OF his So
ciety. "INish yourself m almanac, my
dear; then l could change you every
year"
-ExJudge Noah Davis Of New
York has said Of the proposition to ex'
tend the rights Of suffrage to women Ia
that state: There IL . love Of justice,
virtue. and honor and . discriminating
intelligence In women that will force
corruption out Of politics, and make
men better, purer, and more dt TO take
part in the management of public ~
fairs"
The day after Black Friday. Mr..
Gould's old partner, Henry ~ smith.
shaking his finger in Mr.. Gould's face.
shouted: ''I'll live TO sec the day, sir.
when you nave to earn q living by go
ing around this street with a hand
organ and a monkey" Maybe you
| will. Henry; maybe you WILL" was tho
soothing response; land when l want
a monkey, Henry, I'll send for you"
Sir William Don was the tallest
officer in the English army. When
quartered in Nottingham once, he was
met by two mechanics, one of whom
thus addressed him: ''Sir William, mo
and my mate as got q bet Of . quart OF
ale about yer. and we wants to know
your ight," and Sir William made an.
swer: my height 10 six feet seven.
and yours il the height of impudence."
1t is said that . Spanish firm OF
publishers once produced . work in
which one letter only got misplaced
through accident, and this Is believed
to have been the nearest approach to
perfection that has ever been attained
In a book. It il further stated that an
English house had made q great effort
to the same end, and issued proof
sheets to the universities with an offer
of fifty pounds il any error was dis
covered in them, but in spite OF this
p~recaution, several plumbers remained
undecided till the work issued from
the press.
Eugene Field, the Chicago writer
and humorist, is visiting in Boston, and
the Advertiser of that city prints this
sketch of him: Mr.. Field looks m
where between twenty-five and fifty
eight years old. His face is smooth.
and SO is much Of the rest Of his
Uranium. ne looks the New Highlander
of the Hosea Biglow type, and the only
thing that surprises one when he owns
up to having been born in Massachu-
sets is that it was not New Hamp-
shire. His frame1is tall and osseous
and his hands, complexion. and fur
rowed facial surfaces would do no dis
credit to the worst specimen OF tho
genus horny-handed labor"
The publishers CT Herbert Spcn-
GERS works nave made public the fig
ures Of the total sales of the philoso-
piers works to date. The gross re
!, ceipts from all his works published
during the past forty years r Roo, 600.
IN average of about q, $50 . year for
his LIES work. First Principles" has
realized 6, 400; principles Of Biology"
e, 100; principles Of Psychology" R7.'
125; principles of Sociology" e5&25i
, "Principles of Ethics," 81, $40. The
, smaller books nave run through many
editions. but the price Is 10 low thai
the profits are very small. II Is worth
noting that a translation Of the Thou
+, sand and One Nights" brought to il
late author a net profit OF sic, 800.