The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-08-30

CITY OF Eycrt Tie, thc iaTscst N'SS'i
of the type ever built. which was
recently launched from a state OF
Washington shipyard, has been
put on the route between san fran
cisco and Panama as an experiment
To determine the value Of the whale
back type Of steamship in the ocean
carryingtlade 'front.' C st n lpolnt"i
economy and speed, a well as sea
worthiness. II this boat proves a
success another whaleback OF equal
or greater size will be built, and "A
regularline established 0 this route.
The company backing the experI
ment believes that better time and
quicker disaptch can be had 10y the
whaleback than by the ordinary
type of steam ship The first experl
ments with tn, whaleblck a
ocean going vessels were MT sue
cessful, but they We're made some
years ago, and it i believed that tht
defects then discovered have all
been remedied. New York sun.
There are eighty-thrce national
cemeteries in all, containing 3d.
200 honorcd dead, and upon these
cemeteries the Government has ex-
/, pended up to the present time the
sum of 81. 600. 900.
What is LETT Of potato pulp alter
the starch Is extracted Is used,
among other things, in the manu-
facturc of boxes.
About the close of the seven
teenth century the local auth ,rtles
at Eastman, in Massa .hu-ett-, voted
, that every unmarried man should
kill six blackbirdS or three crows
: yearly as long aS he remained sin
. gle, pr ,ducing the scalps in proof
AMI asa penalty Tor not bayin-
!. the order, he was forbidden L
marry until he made up all arrears
: The Puget sound region .
Washington is preparing To ente
into active competion with southern
California in supplying the Ea-
!, with fruit. Successful experiment
: were made in shipping strawberric
4 to Eastern markets early this season
A week ago several trial shipment
of cherries were made, and plum
I aud pruncs are to be sent later.
At arccent examination in Engll~l
at neighboring college, one OF th
young hopefuls wrote that "Byrum
Shelly and Keeps Were the mo-
. celebrated English poets, and tina
Byrum swan across Hell Gate.
" Another student at the same collrs
in describing the salubrity OF Italy
stated that, ''ln spite OF the choler
the Immortality reached only 2
Der 900. boston Budget.
, A thousand and eighty-one wolve
and coyotes killed in one medium
Al sized county would appear to be
Of fair record. but the farmers Z
70 Yellowstone county, Montana, VII
have collected bounties on that nun
Der thu. far this seasons, complain
about the mcager results. Neigh
boring counties have done muc
better. Still the sheep and poultr
should rest "A tritle easier ,vsn |
Yellowstone county.
A telegram from New York
10 Australia has to 90 nearly 2u,W
X. miles. l5, 600 Of which are by sui
marine cable. and it is handled b
fifteen operators.
A bright boy in the wholcsa
:. dry goods district Of New York h'
= a long list of customers whose pei
ellis he keeps sharpcned, and wi
also patronize him for pencils. II
!, has a patent sEarpener and go'
from store To store, and Office
n Office, and makes between ~ an
q 81 week, working fouror five hou
day.
,s The belief that the shalIow'
he parts Of the bottom of the easter
10 Atlantic are part Of a submrrge
: continent once joined to the Amer
he can mainland seems to he CROWN
to A writer in the Westminster Rcvle
saws that the scientific evidence
- - support of Platos story OF a lo
Atlantis has recently multiplied
b hundred fold.
:" Some notion of the amount
n lumber being cut in the Mlnneso
. forest j had from the Tact that q
dav last week there was a jam
logs in the Upper Mississippi, abo
st. Cloud. which was estimated
IN contain 80 900 900 feet OF lumbc
err and little further up the rly
30, was another jam, which extend
or for almost twenty miles.
bic Queen Elizabeth had red no
de- and was very much ashamed Of
:, always taking pains to have i ca
sor fully powdered before making
public appearance on state
caci,n