The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-09-20
w. c. 7. U. COLUMN Educational Column.


speaks six languages.
The Himalaya mountains have
/ been seen pa miles away.
, The sunstone, n variety Of fields
; par, has been found in the Dak ota
: and Montana.
Recent surveys show that IL
OF the state OF Oregon, somethin.
, over ten million acres, is covered
with dense forests.
This country possesses half the
railway mileage of the world, and
half of the 81 ,O0O, 600, 900 invested
in electrical iudu>tries.
Eastern Man-"You Kentuck
ians don't use taste. Colonel Jag
holder-"No, if the color is right ",
chance it,
The hull Of the old ship Usage
that was burned by the British in
1914, and now imbedded in the
mud near Essex, Conn, is being
carried away piece by piece by relic
hunters.
Gen. o. O. Howard, who has
been a resident Of Burlington, VT,
since his retirement from the United
States army, has been elected presi
dent Of the Norwich University at
Northfield, VT.
1t is said that heat holidays have
been established by law in the pub
lie schools If Switzerland. Recog-
niziny the well known fact that the
brain can not work properly when
the heat is excessive, the children
are dismissed from their their tasks
whenever the thermometer goes
above a certain point.
In Arabia their grows a ''laugh-
ing plant" 1t takes its name from
the effect produced by eating its
seeds. The natives dry these seeds
and reduce them to powder. A
small dose of the powder has SINH
lar effects to those arising from the
excessive use of intoxicants. II
causes the most sober persons to
dance, shout and laugh with the
boisterous excitement of a madman.
II seems almost paradox that
hard times have greatly affected the
temperance societies, whose object
is perhaps oftenest achieved i'm in
abStainers through en-
forced lack Of funds. But the Ohio
Of the Sons of Temperance
reports loss of $500 members
during the past year, because Of
hard times. The seeming paradox
is, Of course easily explainable.
But another which seems to need
calculating is the statement that
otherwise the order is growing and
broadening in all its branches" 4
Capt. Paul Webb, who broke his
back recently in trying to shoot
big log chute into Coeur d'Alene
AXE in a barrel, and who was report
ID killed, was still living week ago,
.hough his back was broken in two
places. The physicians attending
him said he then had a good chance
If living an indefinite period, al
hough how far he might recover
rom his terrible injuries could not
De predicted. He appeared to have
! wonderful tenacity Of life. was en-
irely rational, and believed there
.ould be no doubt of his entire re-
,overy. II
The Steam Caliiope.-The Wor- :
ester Gazette says that the steam !
,alliope was the invention OF a Wor- :
ester man named Denny. After he I,
lad got the instrument perfected he i
and sold number Of =
hem to different steamboat COM
,anies, one Of the first Of them be- ]
ng purchased by the proprietors Of
In excursion bost which ran from
lew York city to various points up
he Hudson. a number of Mississ-
ppi and Ohio river steamers were o
llso equipped with the same device,
md later the device was adopted as
! feature for circus parades.
On a cage containing handsome !
,air Of young golden eagles, which
! storekeeper in Brooklyn has put
outside his store to attract attention
o his business, is big sign bear 4
ng this inscription. Hands off.
Beware. You remember England's
ate; then take warning and don't
monkey with the Bird of Freedom.
rhc sign is principally intended to
persuade inquisitive people not to
'tir up the birds with lead pencils
md umbrella sticks, bnt not few
nave refused to heed the warning, a
and are now nursing lacerated fin. h
gers, which they got in connection |
with an object lesson on the events /,
u IS. The birds were caught in