The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-04-05
Educational Column. w. I. G. y. COLUMN
CONDUCTED BY GEO. r. WILSON co. surr


The cost Of soda water is not over
2 cents a gallon and the product
sells for 10 cents pint.
An electrical appliance has been
invented for detecting the presence
OF oil and gas in the ground.
France holds the exclusive fish
ing privilege on 800 miles Of New
foundland's 1900 mile coast.
4 The King James edition Of the
bible contains 81, ,173 verses, 49,
TAG words and 1866, ,4S0 letters.
The winter of 1912 and 1913 was
one the coldest ever known in Rus
sia, which partially explains the
terrors of the retreat from Moscow.
Students of Stanford University
have subscribed $500 for a "noise-
making machine" to use at athl Atic
meets. 1t is steam horn blower.
The wettest place in the world is
Cherrapingi in Assam, where the
average rainfall for fifteen years has
been 493 inches. In 1861 it was
905.
From twelve to seventeen tons of
ice can now be produced per ton Of
coal by some of the ammonia and
other chemical refrigerating sys-
tens.
Dressmaking and millinery are
taught in the public night schools
,of Philadelphia. Some gray-haired
women have enrolled themselves as
as pupils.
The government of New South
Wales proposes to put an end to
the absolute sale of public lands,
and to introduce system OF long
leases instead.
!. Notice boards have been put up
in some European railroad stations
! on which kilograms to passengers,
or to persons waiting to meet pass
engers, are posted.
Clocks are said by some to have
been invented by Pacificus, priest
Of Verona, in the ninth century,
By Others the invention is credited
to Boetius, in the sixth century.
The father Of the piano was the
harpsichord, and its grandfather
the spinet. The piano was first
used in a public concert on May 16,
1857, in the Covent Garden The
} ater, London.
A party of Canadian boundary
3 commissioners arrived at juneau,
Alaska, a week or so ago, to begin
c survey of trail 2,30s miles long,
from Taku inlet to the headwaters
OF the Yukon river.
A Home of Rest for Horses has
been started in England. Its OBJ
} ject is to take care of horses suffer
ering from lameness, sores or over
4 work until they are fit to work
< again, the owner being supplied
i. with sound horse in the interval.
An English hunter after 'curios'
has been trying to secure the car
riage in which M. Carnot was sit
ting when Caserio stabbed him
To induce the town council o.
Lyons to let him have it he offered
\ f2 600, to be devoted to the pool
4 Of the hospitals, but the offer was
e refused.
1t appears that Behanzin, the de
throned King of Dahomey, who il
still with restricted number o.
wives and children at Fl. Tartenson
= in Martinique, was l. tor despair
when he heard of the death of M
Carnot, and for some time refused
q to be comforted. The French au
: thorities could not explain tn,
u cause Of his afiliction until one day
\ it leaked out that Behanzin wa.
under the firm conviction that thu
new President would send orders
for his head to be chopped off, thi
being the traditional way of treat
ing prisoners at the Inauguration 0
new reign in the dominions 0
!, the dusky monarch.
John T. johnson, formerly 0
: Delaware, still claims to be Della
y warean, and defies all the state o
Pennsylvania and her authorities t
prove otherwise. When the new
survey was made, Johnson's hous
Z was placed in Pennsylvania, as tn
line was moved farther south. II
lives on what is known as the Flat
/, iron, a piece Of land between tn
Maryland, Delaware and Pennsyl
!, vania lines, and which was latel
" decided to be in the latter state
Johnson has gone to Wilmingto
= = several times to pay his taxes, bu
pr his money has been refused. II
y says as long as he lives he will nc
"a pay cent of taxes or tribute to an
u .tato - r,oyorpvnapt evcept Della