The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10

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The Feast Of Lanterns is CHI
nese holiday. 1t is celebrated b
an unusual and very splendid di.
Iplay Of lanterns, fireworks and i
lumlnations of all kinds.
Over l 900 yards of linen clot
have been unrolled from one mum
my. The cloth in texture resemble
the cheese cloth Of the present some
what; it is finer in quality.
| Through increased postal facili
ties a letter posted in Paris ut mid
day can be delivered in London at
O'Clock p. m, by means of an al
"express messenger arrangement
The Periophtalmus, a native Q
the Malayan mangrove swamps,
the only fish which breathes with it
tail. If the tail be painted ove
with oil or varnish the fish dies 0
sutiocatlon.
All the coins of Greece are cop
Iper.
There are fifty-six different part
or more to a tricycle..
A child born in an English prison
is christened by the chaplain.
The crypt in old st. Paul's il
London is now used as a wine eel
lar.
Greenland was so called becaus,
in summer its hills were covered
with a beautiful green moss.
The use Of Roman numerals or
the dials of clocks dates from thu
introduction Of French and Swis.
watches into England.
Drawings executed in London
were recently successfully transmit
ted by telegraph to Paris by mean.
of the Gray telautograph.
An English physician calls attcn-
tion TO means OF keeping pneu-
monia, colds, chills, and all the all
ments that cold weather brings on,
at distance. Deep and forced res
pirations, he says, will keep the en-
tire body in glow in the coldes
weather, no matter how thinly on,
may be clad. He was himself hal
frozen to death one night, ard be
gan taking deep breaths and keep
ing the air in the lungs as long a
possible. The result was that hs
was thoroughly comfortable in Q
few minutes. The deep respira-
tions, he says, stimulate the blood
current by direct muscular exertion,
and cause the entire system to be-
come pervaded with the rapidly
generated heat.
According to the Photographic
Times, the most successful OF recent
attempts at Photographic color-print-
ing by the chormo-gelatine process
requires three negatives. One OF
these is a photograph Of all the red,
another of all the yellow, and third
of all the blue-violet in the colored
plate or object to be photographed
Plates are made from these photo
graphs, and they are printed 50 as
to re-combine the colors, and form
a fac-simile of the original.
The Confederate silver half dollar
is reckoned as one 0. the rarest of
American coins. Only four such
coins were struck. The Confed-
crate silver half dollar bears the
date Of 1861, and was struck at the
mint at New Orleans Just before that
institution was closed by the Fed
eral troops. 1t has the Goddess of
Liberty on one side, and a stalk of
cane, one of cotton, and the stars
and bars of the Confcderacy in a
coat of arms, on the other side.
From the stamp duties paid by
patent medicine makers it has been
that at least 1000, 600
pills are taken by the inhabitants Of
the United Kingdom every week.
In France the quantity is about half.
Only about 100000 pills are ta-
ken weekly by the people Of Russia.
The largest pill takers in the world
are the Australians.
Box mailing contests for women
are the newest entertainment at
Massachusetts, church fairs.
Foreign newspapers in New York
advertise day, evening, and Sunday
schools for instruction in the Eng
lish language, and there are alluring
promises held out to possible pu-
pills Of mastering English in few
lessons. The number of books con-
tanning lessons in English is very
great, and many Of them have curl
Gus little blundcrs in English idioms
that show the limitations Of the
writer's.
The early Egyptian lamps were
Of granite, alabaster and terra
Gotta.