The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-06-07


Lieut.. Nicholas Savln died at
Saratov in Russia at the aye, it is
asserted, of 125. He must have
been considerably over 100, for he
entered the French army in 1898.
A hundred years ago Mrs. Han
nah North, of Augusta, Me, began
sending mince pies to the prisoners
in the county Jail on Thanksgiving
Dav. The custom was followed by
her through lite, then by her daugh-
ter, and now her granddaughter is
observing il.
Uniertakers are using cheap cof-
fins pressed out of paper pulp.
When polished and stained, such
collins are almost a. handsome a
wood. They last longer in the
ground than collins of wood or
metal, and they can be hermetical-
ly sealed bttl,r than heavy metal.
-Plttsburg Dispatch.
4 Vermont. !. maple syrup has come
to have high reputation sine" the
State enacted law to punish coun-
terfeiters OF sugar. The passage Of
the law is said To have been pro
cured by firm of dealers in the
. pure sugar to circumvent rivals who
dealt i'm the counterfeit, substance
into which beet sugar largely entered
In the sixteenth century there
! was curious enactment IN Eng
land whereby street hawkers Were
forbidden to sell plums and apples,
; for the reason that servants and ap-
prentices were unable to resist the
= sight Of them, and were conSe
quently tempted to steal their EN-
ployers' money in order to enio,
the costly delicacies.
. The widest canal in the world il
said to be the Chenab irrigation ca
nal i'm the northwest province cf In
, dia. 1t is 10 feet broad, and vii
be 200 feet broal when tini he'd
!, The main canal will be $50 mile
4 long; the principal branches vii
!. have an average length of 2,oo'
miles, and the village branches o
200 miles; 250,0OO acres are al
ready irrigated.
In Manchester, England, the tow
, council is about to put 1850 ON
into clearing the slums. An over
4 crowded and unhealthy space o
. five acres i'm the center OF the cit,
. will be taken. the buildings tori
down, and new model workmen'
dwellings erected in their stead
: with large areas for Fairgrounds
and trees and flowers planted in th
= open spaces.
A well known Washington horse
man has discovered a fact in nat
q ural history which may not be gen
;" erally known. 1t is that all four
q footed beasts, in making the firs
movement in walking, running, o
anv sort Of forward motion, alway
employ the left hind leg a. starter
Even child, if put down on a
fours and hidden to advance in tha
position, will make the first mov
with his lett leg, his hands at tina
time occupying the place Of an an
: mails fore-lePs. s.--Philadelphia Rec
r. ord.
- Great interest is taken in the COZ
struction Of the Blackwell tunn'
under the Thames. Never ha,
y more difficulties in boring been m,
= with, and at the present stage II
work is proceeding with the utmo'
caution. The workmen are no
under the bed Of the river, and il
" stead Of driving the Greathea
\. shield through clay, have to force
~ through a stratum Of gravel an
!, sand. The danger * flooding
~ ~ increased by the fact that the top
,ar the tunnel will be only about q
nv feet from the bottom Of the rive
nd II r.qui,es all the pressure po~sib
~ to keep out the water from u
spongy sand, but so far the ens
neering experiment has been su
cessiul.