The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-03-29
Educational Column
CONDUCTED BY GEO. R. WILSON CO. surr


failed to attend school regularly Is
published in the newspapers.
Sachs, the great German poet,
scribbed rhymes when boy. His
father once chastised him for max.
ing out a customers bill in poetry.
The Turks believe amber to be
an infallible guard against the inlu-
rious effects of nicotine; hence its
extensive use for the mouthpieces
of pipes.
We got blizzard from the West,
"kuklux' from the South, "boom
from the ambitious cities, "crank
from the eccentric mind. in every
part of the country, "pantata' from
Italy, and "chalitza' from Russia
The mechanical nature of much
teaching is illustrated by boy who
is a pretty fair speller at school,
. but who evolved kan condcs
: milk when left to his own devices
sIin spelling ga can of condensed
milk by sound.
The Chinese Empire is divided
into eighteen grand provinces, rep
resenting an average area each o.
/ 24s, 900 square miles. The home
German Empire contains I'll. l.OOt
souare miles, the French Republic
10000 square miles and the Brit
'lish Isles III 600.
Names oldest fisherman, Uncle
Tim Dyer, died at Portland lev
days ago at the age OF ninety-twt
wears. He worked at the nets al
most up to the day Of his death
and less than a year ago captured
: single-handed, a halibut weighing
332 pounds.
The Salt Lake City police recent
'Ily arrested two young highwaymel
who had upon two occasions com
PEELED the crews upon the line 9
1.-The Salt Lake City railway to stan
land deliver. The highwayme
- were only eighteen and twenty yeal
o old respectively.
st. Trudon, a Christian villae
4. lon the banks of the Congo, color
Y lied by negroes educated by II
$. missionaries, is the product OF pos
Iage stamps. Over 40, ,0OO, 900 use
stamps we're collected in Brussel
.from the sales of which the none
needed was obtained. The Cons
,glState gave the land.
In a recent address at Queen
!" Hall, London, Mr.. Asquith saic
E s.The overcrowding in London
y. terrible. There are about 1000
' persons living in homes OF ol
room, and 100000 living two
4, or more in a single room.
Clerkenwell and Whitechapel ov
Of the population Ii
y more than two in room.
re. Charley Leannards, age six,
Hyattsviile, Md, hid in a chest
play, and the lid fastened with
spring lock. Other children yelle
?. A servant came, and, thinking fro
their gestures that the chest was
; ,Ifire, was Just about throwing it 9
wi wi of third story window when I
Of bows father interfered. The b
are was nearly suffoCated.
- A curious instance Of how phra'
.rz. are spread by school books Is sho'
in the last number of DR.. Murra,
dictionary. No earlier author
" authority could be found for
: term "Black DEATH" descrIbI
the plague that devastated Euro
nnn 'lnn in the fourteenth century, than NJ
:, Markham's celebrated histories
y young persons, which first appe
in 1886.
Migration from the colder reglt
/, Ito the sunny South continu
Twenty-Five families from the Nor
west have recently settled in q
around Handsboro, Miss. Thi'
the advance guard, as it We
and twenty-five other families be
ank. scheduled to arrive at the sa
place on April 1, 1895, and 4
more families few months la'
, They will engage in agrlcult'
and manufacturing pursuits.
- The electric village OF Mag
Falls is rejoicing these days beca
/. the tunnel power project is nov
!, reality, the greatest pulp and pa
%. "a making plant in the world DC
actually operated by the water
lnd Niagara river flowing through ca
!, wheel-pit, and tunnel, and q,
,ai,s !, y emplo, ment to over 300 men.
,,her n m old year has seen the completio
very the power house, the arrangen
and Of a vast amount parapherr
,,mg, ~ g the completion Of the canal,
Q instruction Of transformer o,
ling, and Of half mileuelect
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