The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-06-23

suit Of compromise. The ordinary
surtout coat being found on occasions
inconvenicnt, IL was the practice tc
fastsn back the lapels to two buttons
on the back, with the result that ir
time the same were cut away altogether
and the coat eventually made without
them.
Pour $1,000, 00o bank notes have
been struck at the Bank of England.
Samuel Rogers, the banker poet, pos-
sessed one OF them; one went To George
Nv. and is in the Windsor castle librarys
another belongs to n. NJ. Rothschild.
while the fourth remains at the Bank
Of England, where it may now be seen
by visitors
"A poor oyster fisher who plies his
trade in Biloxi bay, an arm of the Gulf
of Mexico which indents the state Of
Mississippi. recently discovered the
sunken wreck of an old French man-of-
war, which he is now trying to dispose
Of to the government The vessel was
one of fleet of Iberville. which was
used to colonize Louisiana some two
centuries ago. and many curious relics
were found within her hull.
There are two words in the English
language which contain the vowels in
their regular order. viz: "Abstemi-
Gus" and "facetious." The following
words each have them in irregular or
der: Mendacious, authoritative, disad-
vantageous, encouraging. efficacious,
instantaneous, importunate, nefarious,
Objectionable, precarious, pertinacious,
sacrilegious, simultaneous. tenacious,
unintentional, unequivocal, undiscov-
cradle and vexatious.
"A miller ninety-four years old Is
living near Versailles, KY, in an old
water mill that he has been running
continuously for upward of eighty
years. He started it before the war of
1872. and remained by it all through
the civil war. scarce knowing a war
was in progress about him. the place is
SO secluded. lie is hale and hearty, can
shoulder sack of grain or -four with
ease, and his mind is clear and his life
smooth running as the creek he has
lived by and listened to for four score
years
John Hansen Craig. of Danville.
Ind, is undoubtedly the largest man in
the world. He is thirty-seven years
old and weighs nine hundred and seven
pounds. He is six feet and five inches
high, measures eight feet and four
inches around the hips, eighteen inches
around the ankle, twenty-nine inches
around the knee and sixty-six inches
around the thigh next to the body. He
requires forty-one yards for a suit Of
clothes, and three pounds of yarn for
stockings Mrs. Craig is cookbook
ing blonde and weighs one hundred and
thirty poundA
Congressman Thomas J. Geary, Of
California, the author of the Chinese
registration law. has always employed
Chinese servants in his California home,
because they are practically the only
good ones to be obtained in that part
Of the country. Since the law bearing
his name was enacted it is said that his
wife has been unable to keep her Chi
nese servants or to hire others, rs .
boycott has been declared against tho
Gcary household. The peddlers of fruit
and other articles, who are principally
Chinese, also refuse to sell any Of their
goods there.
A fire occurred recently in q show
window at Boston caused by the sun.
which focused through a mammoth
magnifying glass and set fire to pho
tograph. This is only one instance Of
the frequent recurrence of unexpected
fires BY concentration of the sua's rays
Ivy magnifying glasses or by concave
mirrors A few years ago bright tin
dish concentrated the rays Of the sun
in store window at Lynn. and caused
u sufficient fire to call out the fire de-
partment. There have been many fires
in physical laboratories Of colleges
from lenses, and il is the rule in all
properly ordered physical laboratories
to keep lenses covered with black cloth
caps, hangman's caps. as it were
1t Is strange indeed. IL true, that
one of the most popular Of humorous
entertainments is modelled on the oddi-
ties Of q people who are deficient in the
sense of humor. Yet manager who
has been associated with a minstrel
troupe Of real negroes says that the
greatest trouble experienced by him
was in trying to get them TO be funny.
All the songs and jokes and comic act
ing that really made the audience
laugh were the inventions of white
men. The acting of the negroes was
full Of purposcless antics that indicat-
ed high spirits, but they were not
amusing, and, while they were always
ready TO laugh at jokes, they did not
make any of their own. They cxcclled
IS singers, however, for their voices
were rich and melodious and the basses
especially deep.
because the work viking has como
TO be pronounced with long II" in the
first syllable, and the *" has in conse-
quencc been transferred TO the second
syllable, the popular impression is that
the ancient viking was monarch Of
the sea. As matter Of fact, tho word
means something very like pirate.
"vik" is almost equivalent to wick"
meaning creek. bay, or inlet, and ling"
Is only sufiix Of origin, a patronymic
in some instances. as in the name Buck
ipgham. The vikings. then, were sons
Of the creek, or creekers. unpleasant