The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-17
Educational Column
By cEo. r. WILSON co. suPr

The army and navy of the Argen-
inc Confederation are kept up at an
annual cost Of $l3, 10000
The proportion Of salt in sea wa |
ter is largest where the water is
deepest, bat does not in' rease with
The depth.
The banks Of Newfoundland are
formed by the sanl, earth and
stones brought from the North by
the icebergs.
st. Louis is gravely considering
whether her public schools are re-
auired to educate married women.
4 High School senior girl, recently
married, wants to continue her
course. She is Of legal age-be-
tween six and twenty-but she ls a
"youth" in the meaning Of the
school law.
The city Of Charleston, $. c., has
concluded the purchase Of 500 acres
Of land on the Cooper river, five
miles from the city, for public
park. Ii has a vigorous natural
growth of pine and oaks. An av-
enue 100 feet wide will be construct
ed leading from the city to the
gates.
i In 1890 sailing car was tired
on the South Carolina railroad
Its trial trip was made with tiueen
gentlemen on board. When going
! at the rate of twelve miles an houl
the mast went overheard with sew
eral Of the crew, and the result was
general discouragement.
"Lay off your overcoat, or yo'
won't feel it when you 60 out, sal'
the landlord of Texas hotel to
: newly arrived guest. That's wha
! i am afraid Of" replied the stran
ger; ".he last time ! was here
- laid off my overcoat AMI l didn
feel it when | came out, and
havn't felt it since. Texas Sit
ings.
A peculiar substitute for windo
,e glass. known as ''tectorium,
O. stated to have been for some tin
j, employed in Austria, Italy, Ge
=. many. Switzerland and Russia as
. covering for hot-houses, marquee
5. yerandas, windows of factories, roc
, Of stores, etc. 1t is special, i
' soluble, bichromated gelatine, trar
'lucent as opal glass and inc'
porated in wire gauze.
&C II is common belief amo
lie women that the moth will not
tack any green material, and ma
of them make it a point to b
kY' stuffs of green dye whenever
y. color is not incompatible with
; purpose for which the material
- intended. Green dyes often c.
tain arsenic, and that may acco'
and for the antipathy Of the moth to
;" color.-New York sun.
In 1855 Bath county, kentuc
issued a lot Of thirty-year rallr'
bonds. bearing per cent. inter
The road was never built.
~, bonds amounting with interest
!. s3OO 600. were compromised
iclai Maid off, with the exception OF
civi, id, III 900 fellow. A few days 81
this one, which had been hell
0"'e Europe, turned up for collect
- With interest, il now amount:
'AIL- nearly $500.
The fattening Of live stock on
- ton-seed hulls and meal is bee
- ing quite an important featur'
- Southern business affairs. ltpI
and ises to add materially to the I
nsion peritv of the South, and to en-
As. OF that section not only to suppl.
4g own wants for good beef, but to
-. fattened beeves North in com
ton with the West. The cattle
IL, be fattened on cotton-seed meal
hulls at total cost Of about lO'
;, a day, while it is estimated to
At least 20 cents a day in the
and Northwest, where hay, corr
Is and other food-stuffs are used IN
Bank. facturers Record.
- The city Of London is the pa
r. the great metropolis where the
chants do their business. Ar
wilt is a vastly greater territory,
don by name, but county an
a municipality. The old ba
A, that separated the city from
outer territory have long sine
|. isss. appeared. The wall is down
-, the seven gates are no more.
IAN" old city contains 67l acres,
~. acres more than a square mile
,n,s nam - population at night is 81 ,7O5.
otherarea Of the whole 0! London !
every 442 acres, and its population
es and232 .1lS. The local governm'
lnulnR. ,oeS established the c