The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-07-21
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

--Rustomjee Pcstomjse Jehangir =
xhe mellifuous name of an East lndiaD
who has written q pamphlet advocas'
ing the use of opium as cure Tor varr
Gus ills which flesh Is heir TO- ne
should he engaged as press agent Tor
Door theatrical show
Edgar Scott. of Philadelphia. 500
of the late Thomas Scott. will visit
Sweden and Norway this summer IN
his Yacht. On reaching the age OF
twenty-one in August last he came in
70 m income of 81, 000. 900, and this VIII
be- doubled when he is twenty-five
Thomas Allen, of Tyler county, w.
Va. may be said TO have earned his
title as veteran. lie served under Well
lington in the wars with Napoleon. un-
der Gen. Scott in the Mexican war. and
at the age of seventy two enlisted fos
service in the late civil war lie Is now
one hundred and three years old.
1t is said that Mrs Leland STAN
ford has one of the most remarkable
collections Of jewels in the world
They are valued at 81 .00V. 900. and in
clude a set Of pink, a set OF blue, ses
yellow. and q set Of white diamonds
Some of these gems were owned by the
Empress Eugene and by Queen Isabella
of Spain.
Mrs Mary Ann Rice. who lately
died in California. was the wife of the
late John b. Rice. twice mayor OF Chi
cago and long resident of that city
Mrs Rice was a member of the famous
Warren family of Philadelphia, being
nd
sin of Joseph jefferson She was promi-
nent in all charitable works
Mr.. Dobbins writes to the Pitts
burgh Dispatch that the very oblec-
tiona able bit of slang. 1.-THE wind blew
through his whiskers." Is not Amerf-
can al all. In fact il was first used by
an Englishman, one Dan Chaucer. who
wrote the Canterbury Tales" In the
tale of The Shipman- occurs this re-
markable line: with many tempest
had his beard been shake"
Hillary Hopkins. colored man, re-
siding in Suburha. Tex, is anxious to
find his two brothers, Ike and Harry
Bolden. the sons of Fanny Bolden. who
were raised near Decatur. Ala At .
slave sale on Judge Hammonds farm.
near Huntsville. Ala, they were sold in
different lots. and became separated
Ike and Harry were taken by their
owner. w. Gray Bolden. to Texas, and
have not been heard from since
The late Nelson Sargent. of Denver.
had the distinction of starting the first
stage coach out of that city when IL
was a struggling little frontier village.
Another distinction he had was that Of
literally sinking d 100000 in Chicago
land in 1878. the property proving to
be swamp land of the least desirable
kind. During his later years his vencr'
able figure was known to rybody In
Denver. even to the newly -arrived
"tenderfoot-"
John Tenniel. the old Punch car
toonist, whom the queen has recently
knighted. did more than any othes
!, British comic artist to develop thu
|. typical John Bull as we know him
. pictorially OF course he did not In
. vent the cartoon. but the top-boots, thu
low-crowned hat, the waistccat- and
!, the stout walking stick of the plethori
! Briton as represented in the comi'
{ journals were more strikingly por
. trayed by Tenniel's pencil than by any
i other.
I. - Samuel Smiles says that when TIN
: manuscript of his most popular wor'
: was offered to Messrs- Routlcdge tn
. cook trade was upset by the CrimeaI
war. and the volume was declined
!. Eventually it was brought out by MI
! Murray. and within a year twenty thcu
, sand copies of il were sold Since theI
4 il has been translated into all the Ian
!. guages of Europe Mr. Smiles In
!. had a varied career, having been
II country physician. newspaper editor
Il and secretary Of railway company