The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-11-16

Every Friday the Duchess DIzeA.
the wealthiest woman in France. puts
on the ordinary dress Of nurse. and,
going To the cancer hospital. acts as
one Of the regular attendants, placing
herself entirely under the orders OF the
SUPERINTENDENT.
Since the death OF Holmes there
are only four surviving members OF the
class Of 1929 Of Harvard namely, DIR.
Edward =. Cunningham, Of Newport,
X. L.; Rev. samuel May Chc class Sec
rctary), Of Leicester. Rev. Samuel r.
smith, Of Newton, the author OF
America and Charles ;. >torrow. OF
Boston.
1t appears from statement In the
Century Magazine that this periodical
receives an average Of 1900 articles a
wear from those who desire to appear
in its pages As the most that the
magazine can possibly find room for,
on the basis on which IL is conducted,
| il about 400. it follows that there must
b. 5000 Of these articles rejected.
Mr.. Maxim is having curious con
| troversy with the United states patent
Office. which declines 10 allow "A patent
for his flying machine on the sole
ground. a. he claims, that 1T l. n.y.
| ing machine. lie can patent the separ'
ate inventions of which IL IL made. but
! that would cost two thousand dollars
and would give indifferent protection
M. Dupuy. as minister OF the int
rior, has just forbidden bull fights In
France at which either bulls or horses
may be killed. At Mines. where prep
arations had been made for series oil
fights on large scale, the prohibition
caused great excitement Crowds pa
raded the streets demanding the fights
and a public meeting was called To pro
test. The court Of cessation will be
called upon 10 decide on the validity o.
the prohibition.
Rev. DIR. Arbuthnot. vicar OF STRAIT
ford-on-Avon. says that his old churci
Is in much the same state as 1t was II
Shakespeare time. OF the few genu
Inc relics Of the dramatist preserved II
his native town the most interesting
: are his signet ring. with the initial
: wv. s." on il. and the desk at which
: he sat in the grammar school of Stra'
E ford. The average number of visitor
n TO the poets home and church Is 23,T
: a year. of whom about 5000 are Amer
, cans
lanes Pawn says that there was
y uueer resemblance between himse
{ and another Trinity man. mot onl
u was | often addressed by persons WI
l. took me for him, but people used
ask. apropos of nothing. whether
n knew So-and-So. ! remember makir
l. considerable impression upon
l. chance passenger in railway train
II the Cambridge line. who was staring
me rather hard, by suddenly observin
r. No. sir: do not know Mr.. So-and-s
~ II had been the very question he W
as going to ask me. but my anticipatil
IN il seemed to him SO canny that he
ne out at the next station.
u During the years that John New
eel was president of the Lake Shore roo
at IL was well understood that 1t was
by difficult matter TO get pass over "
n line. lie carried this pet idea TO ST
IS an extent that when making up his
rk change passes he wrote across the {
Of the packet addressed 10 Preside
~ Caldwell Of the Nickel Plate III
ct words: Not good on limited or !
re- trains" by return mail came Pr
lte dent Caldwell's annual pass on
he Nickel plate for President New
1t Across its face in flaring red ink an'
he the bold handwriting of Presid
'ch Caldwell were written the words: =.
so- good on passenger trains
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