The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-03-01
Column.
BY GEO. r.. WILSON co. sufr

The Salvation Army was born
January, 1877. !.
The United States contains 49, |
600, 600 land owners. I
Victoria, Australia, will tax un-
land values. !
In cubic meter OF limestone :
Orbigny found 5000, 100000 sea /,
shells.
The sea is estimated to contain
2 ,25O, ,OOO, 600 cubic miles OF water.
Tie Polar currents contain less
salt than those from the equator.
One thousand novels are publish
ed every year in London-that Is
two and a half day.
II is said that more than $l4,-
IOOO. 900 is added each year to the
capital invested in missions IN In
dia.
Soldiers in the United States
army are said to lose on an average
2l days year flom illness.
December 25, Christmas Day, is
a legal holiday in all the states, and
in South Carolina the two following
days are also holidays.
!, In building nests, birds invarla-
/, bly avoid the use of bright-colored
materials, which would add to the
lchances Of the enemy in Locating
them.
y A woman who wants to play
LADY Macbeth in a Topeka amateur
show refused to 20 on because she
couldn't have big sleeves for mel
sleep-walking gown.
Long fingers give love OF detail II
everything-in the decoration OF
G. room. in the treatment OF servants
4 in the management of nations, o
in the painting Of picture.
:" Statistics have been gathered Eas
and West showing the proportion
women to men in the churches.
averages about two to one.
Nicholas IL. who became Car
ns the age OF twenty-six, is the youn
to. est sovereign in Europe, with Il
exception Of Alexander OF Servi
~ -. who is only eighteen years old.
- A Kansas youth threw an oni'
rs into the hot air pipes Of big scho
J, house, with consequent general q
Y fusion of tears.
When petroleum was first al
covered in this country it was call
ns lees rock oil. and was sold in small VII
ri, as a specific for rheumatism.
y. Baggage-cars running out OF
Grand Central Station, New iol
'EY' whether across the continent or
~, short local runs, usually have stro
I;ronclad doors to guard against
- still possible train robber.
The Japanese are now gettl
s,Y and used to glass. AT first the glass
- IN railway car windows had to
''e'' he smeared with streaks OF wi
paint to keep passengers from p'
ing their heads through it.
In a paper read before the SCI
", ti6c Congress at Paris, M. de l.
\, parent says $500, 900 years
,lcial slip around before the mounts
z, clvi, !, Of the earth, which are decreas
" in size, entirely disappear.
''"' Over 10000 persons have b
set free from Russian prisons
RErz. have had their sentences lighte
7 by the action Of the new Cz
J" proclamation Of last November,
lW many more will be dealt with
soon as their cases can be examil
i and The railways in the state OF I
rnsion have carried S5, 600, 900 passen
:a.s Of during the last two years wltho'
m-'y fatal accident to one OF then
-. creditable fact which appears
confirm the assertion that q sea
III, a railway train is one OF the $
places in the world.-Railway
', An inquest has been hel
Birmingham, England, on the
ii. and lof a girl Of seventeen, whose {
was attributed to drinking VII
: Hank' and other compounds for the
- pose Of making herself thinner
,R paler. The evidence showed
Irritating substances OF this en-
wv. ter had caused death.
japanese shoes vary for the
Mud stills four inches high
IA them up in sloppy weather. /,
po. and en- clogs are ordinarily used
y 1884 big straw sandals, costing 0
nIand cent or so a pair, are used in
ing or mountain climbing.
Q halls wear out rapidly, but can be
a lots in almost anywhere.
y every every Scores Of Quaker famili
hes and southern Pennsylvania have
served the marriage certlfici
on easy :. -. f,~~ -, a nv Uono r