The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-06-14

ii' bu''n iiii sNI'diild'u~ are tii'
J. people of Europe presenting tn
greatest contrast IN national charac
ter.
The japanese toe is very pre-
i. hensile. Carpenters hold plank
with their toes and draw their ilane
toward them.
: 1t can be stated with almost lit
eral exactncss that not "A squar,
yard of Holland is neglected by tn,
sturdy people
: The pupil Of the eye contracts ol
expands in order To admit a greater
or less quantity Of light, that object,
may be clearly seen.
Severe injuries to the body are
seldom very painful at first. The
severity oi the nervous shock seem.
To par;ilvNc the nerve center.
I'm 1865 not single town in In
, dia had a supply Of pure water
. now nearly all the large cities and
cantonments have water-works.
Probably the most extraordinary
journal in the world is published
weekly at Athens. 1t is written en-
tirely in verse, even to the adver-
tisements.
Capt. l. ID. Blundell, the cham
ion long-diStance swimmer Of
America, is Of the opinion that
swimming is almost lost art with
Americans.
The raspberry was introduced in
to England from Virginia in 1896.
The cherry was introduced from the
eastern shores Of the Black sea at a
very early date.
Dead bodies, when taken as car
90 on ship. are always described
as either statuarv or natural history
specimens, owing chiefly to the
superstition Of sailors.
William Edling, a farmer near
Eldora, Iowa, while fishing in the
south Fork, picked up a clam in
which he found a pearl Of remark
able size and purity.
Anatomists, to separate the bones
Of a skull, frequently fill it with
small beans and place the whole in
a basin Of water. The beans swell
and slowly split the skull.
The New York town of Bolivar
has streets lighted free of expense
bv "A company which furnishes the
illumnant IA a payment for the
privilege Of doing business in the
corporation.
The hay barges on the Swiss
lakes, row,d by women standing,
and the small sail boats, with tall
brown sails standing very high to
catch fckle winds, are among the
most picturesque Of craft.
Experiments recently made show
that on an ordinary road fifteen
pounds of power applied to car
riage with pneumatic tires will haul
it as far as forty pounds applied to
the same carriage with steel tires.
In dissecting his mule which had
died of some unaccountable i'll that
did not yield to treatment, Richard
Doran, Of Norristown, Pa, found in
his muleship's stomach a beer or
porter bottle unbroken and empty.
Rats must have access to water,
or they die. A trapped rat may
easily be tanned by allowing no wa
ter, but that offered in spoon, n
the crea ure soon learns to recognize
the hand which supplies this all-im-
portant necessity.
Japants Sc houses are not particu-
larly warm, and the Japanese make
up for external chilliness i'm winters,
which are sometimes severe, by
wearing very many outer wraps,
even in the house, which gives
them rather huddled appearance.
At Portland, Ore, recently a dis
play OF japanese war pictures drew
out quite crowd, among whom
were some two hundred enthusiastic
subjects of the Mikado. The pic
lures were cast upon canvas
screen by an electric stereopticon.
Each one was greeted with applause
by the happy Japanese. in which
the large number Of American spec
tators frequently joined.
Thirty-three fatalities have been
reported for the last season in the
Alps, which is less than the average.
Four persons met their deaths by
avalanches or falling stones, six by
exposure to the weather, fou. u.teen
missed their footing and fell down
p ecipices, three were killed by
lightning. one fell into a glacier fs-
sure, one was lost while seeking
edelweiss, and four cases are unex-
planned.