The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-06-21
Educational Column,
CONDUCTED BY clo. r. WILSON co. srrr

Birmingham, England, makes
. 900 guns weekly.
The University of Chicago has
ylre club oi sixteen women.
To-day il costs tlS1 800, ,OD "A
wear Ia nalntaI.. the peace oi Eu-
rope.
The cost Of supplying water To
the House Of Commons l. . ,OCo
year.
The late Gar Of Russia, giant a
he was, had only II Slx-and seven
eight- head.
A greater number Of secret socl-
etles exist in China than amy other
part oi the world.
At the Odeon thcater, in Paris,
600 manuscript plays are received
and read every year.
A company Is being promoted IN
Bradford, England, Tor the manu-
factur OF artificial silk.
The Atchison Globe man won't
print personals about girls who
spell their names MAE
There are, according to recent es-
Inmates, two thousand women prac-
} ticing medicine in this country.
Ii j. estimated that two years are
required for the gulf water to travel
from Florida to the coast Of Nor
way.
over one-half of the sanl of ev-
ery shore is conf o>ed of minute
shells. each of which was once the
home of living creature
/, When deaf man goes into c 'urt
for "A hearing, a blind man wants to
see that he gets ju-tice.-New Or
leans Picayune.
Tie longest distance letter can
i, be carried within the limits OF the
United States is from Key West
Fla, to Ounalaska. 6,21l miles.
An English society journal esti-
mates the value OF the wedding
presents to Prince Adolphu> Of Tecl
7 and his bride to be close upor
$l5O. 600.
|. The marble belt recently dlscov
cred in Georgia is over sixty mile
:. in length, and the state Geologi-
says that the stone i susceptible .
high polish.
The action Of coffee on the bod
is mainly due to certain acid an,
lE oilv properties contained in the Der
ries, and greatly developed in tn
roasting process.
Charlotte Fowler Wells was tn
=. first woman publisher. She ha
7. been in business since 1914. and /
still at it i'm New York She say
I, she is too busy to think how ol'
she is
nd In Siam each year is named atte
an animal, and people born IN Gel
- tain wears are forbidden to inter
marry. Thus, an elephant bab
cant marry tiger, nor a lion
lamb. And there are heavy penal
ties Tor living about one : age.
- In London, not long ago, invest
CATION proved that the children ,
,aI ,,I laboring people in the metropoll
81 were better nourlshed-that Is
ar. saw. weighed more at the same az
than those belonging to hlght
social strata, the latter being ted 0
- too much confectionery and cak,
The lowest temperature ever r.
~ corded on the earth was taken
Werchoiansk, in the interior OF ;
bcria. Jan. l5, 1885. 1t was 30 d'
md grees and fraction below zer'
There the earth is frozen 10 a dept
II =" OF about 100 feet, and in the warn
est season il never thaws.
" To this day Lapp men and w
\. men dress precisely alike. The
tunics belted loosely at the wais
their tight breechcs and the
wrinkled leathern stockings, the
pointed shoes; the whole appea
ana ance Of them, in short, is identica
" II cannon ball would be mac
500 times larger than the largest Y
known, and if it could be charg'
with 5j5 TINS more low 'r thu
Y. has ever yet been fired at a sing
discharge, the sound could be hea
around the world.
-. -.
and We present below list of lea
ing express companies in Americ
nd This list will be found useful
students:
alls Adams, American, Balls, Ca
! !, ~ ~ den 4 Atlantic, Canadian, DENY
,nry n 4 Rio Grande, Dominion, Earle
and Prev, Great Northern, Long lslar
ing. National, N. Y. 4 Boston, North'