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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-20

WARSISG.-It is said some fami.
lies are using the river water fur
nished by the water works for drink
ing purposes. At this time of year,
when the river is full of decaying
vegetation, it will be very unhealth-
full unless boiled before using, and
would be likely to produce typhoid
fever. In addition to its contami-
nation by vegetation the veneer
company's privy, used by about
40 hands, is located about so feet
from the intake, over the dead wa
ter backed up by the dam, and Of
itself would render the water un-
wholesome. Citizens who value
their own, or the public health,
should be careful about the water
they use. Health-officers say four
fifths Of the cases Of typhoid are
caused by impure water.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-20

- Hon. T. E. Nicholson, author
of the famous liquor bill, is q can
didate for Speaker, Of the House Of
the Indiana Legislature, and ex-
poets to push through some amend
ments making the law more strict
on saloon keepers. The majority
Of the saloonists danced to Republi-
can music, and voted the Republi-
can ticket at the late election, and
those who did so can't grumble if
they are made to pay the fiddler.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-20
~The electric power from the

~The electric power from the
Niagara Falls power plant was
turned on the Buffalo street railway
wire, last Monday morning at mid
night. The company delayed turn
ing it on for II hours so as to avoid
beginning the work on Sunday.
Buffalo is twenty-seven miles dis
tant, and the Niagara company is
under contract to furnish that city
$4,000 horse power. The street
railway takes 900 Of it.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-20

~A pleasant social affair &C.
CURED at the residence OF Esq.
Zoeller on Monday night, when a
number OF the neighbours gathered
there to congratulate Mrs. Zoeller's
father, Mr.. Michael Steinmetz, on
the occasion of his 18th birthday.
Quite a numbe- of presents were
made him, anu the old gentleman
was greatly pleased. Vocal and
intrumental music enlivened the
evening, and suitable refreshments
were served.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-20
~The Republican iubilation in

~The Republican iubilation in
Jasper last Saturday night was q
complete failure. So few we're en-
Unused by the prospect Of harder
times, consequent on Hanna's mon
ey contraction policy, that no at
tempt was made to form a process.
sion. Louis Seng exploded few
pounds Of powder near his saloon,
from a swivel, F. Green, and few
others shot of some Roman candles,
q wagon load of men from Hog
Heaven bowed on tin horns, q
small boy on horseback yelled in a
squeaking voice "Hurra for McKin'
ley" number of others shouted
for Bryan in 1900. a few Disguised
ones slipped into the saloons ant
got drunk, the moon shone brightly
on Republicans and Democrats
alike, all wondered where the pro
cession and torches were, not |
voter appeared from Huntingburl
or Ireland, and the leaders in Jaspe
kept OF the streets.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-20

~And now the Republican
members of the Indiana Legislature
are preparing to deprive several
Democrats who were elected OF their
rightful seats, in order that there
may be a larger Republican ma
iority on joint ballot in the Legis-
lature, and more power to pass a
partisan apporticnment bill.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-20
ex-senator Voorhees, is very sick,
and il is fesred will never recover.

~The electric light company
have been bracing the poles this
week, and stringing wires between
them for street lighting. About the
first Of December they expect to be
ready 10 turn on the current.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-20
LICENSE NOTICE.

NOTICR 10 hereby given to the citizens o. Portsrs.
N vile. and Boone township. Dubois county
Ind that the undersigned. . male Citizen OF ths
United State will apply 10 the County Commission
OF Dubois county st their next regular session
IN December lsSs. for license 10 retail intoxi-
eating liquors, beer and wine, and permit the sam,
TO be drank on the premises. under the prov ision,
% the Laws Of Indiana governing such licenses.
The precise location where said liquors are TO b.
sold IL in . one story frame building fronting OF
Main street, being on the west half o. lot No A.
shown the origina, plat Of the town Of Por
JOHN L. KRODRL.
yov .oG-3vs
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-21
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Variety is the best culinary spice.
A good cleanser for paint is weak
lye OF saleratus water.
Always buy rye in small quantities
and keep it well covered. :
Butter should be kept in stone IL
possible and never in tin.
Lard and drippings should be kept
in earthern ware and should not DO
sailed.
Sugar is just as cheap in small
quantities as in large, and it is better,
to keep only little on hand at q.
time
Provide on Saturday for Monday
so as not to take up the fire with cook
ing or time in running errands on
washing day.
Arrowroot, tapioca, sage and &IE
such articles should be bought IN
small quantities and kept in glass jars
or covered boxes.
Battle your eyes frequently in weak
alum water if they are weakened by;
CAO5o WOAA3 6uOA 10 p@AAVAASg SAAS4 CAAA
cry or reading.
Buckwheat, rice and hominy shoRld,
be kept in small tightly covered boxes
or in tin cans, and should be sS-'
amined often as vermin is apt to infest
them.
Cook q peeled white onion in the
same pot with your mushrooms, and
if they do not turn black you may eat
them with a feeling of tolerablo Sc
curity.
Never put away clean clothes with
out examining every piece to see il il
is in any way out of order. Stock
ings, especially should be carefully
darned.
Vinegar is best purchased by tho
half barrel or the keg, end should be
made of wine or cider. 1t should
never be put in glazed ware, as the
glazing is eaten off and forms with it.
a poisonous compound.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-21

he came upon two Virginia deer
bucks locked in a mortal tangle.
How long they had been thus
he could not say, but it must have
been some time, because they had
plowed up about two acres of ground
in their struggle. They could not
run away and Mr.. Brown ended their
struggle by shooting them. He cut
off the heads and sent them to this
city to have them mounted as he
found them. N. Slotkin, the taxider-
mist who prepared them, say the
horns could only be untangled by
breaking them or loosining them from
the skull, and this was never done, 50
they remain as the hunter found
them.
The deer were young bucks OF about
the same age, probably two years old.
The taxidermist said if they had been
mounted full figure they would have
been worth more than $4,000. AS they
are now, he says, the pair of heads
is worth $500. They belong to the
man who killed them, aud who will
keep them as a trophy Of his rare good
luck as a sportsman. Chicago Chron-
iala.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-21

Whitton's tremendous girth is not
so apparent when he stands, but when
he sits he is startling. His measure
ments are: Height, 5 feet 10 inches (;
neck, % inches; biceps, % inches /;
chest, 6 feet; waist, feet; thigh, 40
inches; calf, 26 inches. He comes Of
a stock noted for feshiness. He was
born in Northumberland County, On
tario, Canada, of English parents. Up
till the age of twenty-one years he
worked on the farm at home. Then
he went into the butcher business at
Brighton, Ont, which he attended to
up to three years ago, when his extra
ordinary girth rendered it impossible
for him to handle the chopper.
When asked If he had endeavored to
avoid growing so fat Mr.. Whitton re.
piled that he had tried all remedies.
He has never tasted alcoholic drinks
in his life. He loses from ten to fif-
teen pounds during the summer, but
does not feel much reliei from the
loss. In winter he regains the amount
that was missing. He is married to an
agerage.sized woman, and has five
children, the eldest of whom is seven
teen years old. None of them shows
any signs of abnormal stoutness. -
New York Recorder.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-21
RICE FOR GARNIsHIEG.

A rice border makes an attractive
looking dish of any warmed-over meat
fowl or fish. Wash a cup OF rice and
put it in q double boiler with three
cups Of white stock; place over the
fire and cook thirty minutes. Add
half q teaspoonful of salt and two
tablespoonfuls Of butter and let II.
simmer twenty minutes longer Bent
the yolk of two eggs with three table,
spoonfuls of cream and one OF chopped
parsley, and add to the rice five.
minutes before it is ready to take from
the fire. Butter a border mould and
pack the rice into it. Let the mould
stand in the heated oven ten minutes
and then turn it out on hot platter
Fill the centre with the prepared meak
New York World.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-21
IYTERLOCKED ANTLERS.
Curious and Valuable Trophy of a
Michigan Hunter.

Curious and Valuable Trophy of
Michigan Hunter.
In taxidermist's window in Madi-
son street pair of antlerel deer heads
are displayed. The taxidermist says
they form the greatest curiosity ever
seen in that line. The antlers are in
terlocked, aud, he says, it is the only
pair in existence with the heads we'll
preserved. Other pairs of antlers
have been found tangled together but
he says it was after the animals to
which they belonged had long been
dead and nothing but the whitened
skeletons remained. The theory has
always been that the animals had died
thus fighting. The deers of which
this exhibit originally formed part
were discovered in combat, and with
their hons inseparably tangled.
H. L. Brown, of Albion, Mich,
was hunting near Bismarck, North
Dakota, November Is last, when
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-21

A Winter Nights Game That WIN AZ.
- ford Amusement.

ford Amusement
Good games, Tho Warrington Path.
finder thinks, arc always worth know
ing about, pecially those innocent
winter.night games that, with their
funny consequences, offer such real
relief from the days cares. No one
wants to make a business Of playing
games, but tho greatest minds are not
above simple diversions, nay, they must
have them. One Of the best pastimes
Of tho kind is tho old English game Of
"Head, Body and Legs" the origin OF
which is lost in the past.
Get a slip Of brown paper about two
inches wide and four inches long, say.
Lot the first player draw at the top Of
the slip a head, using only the upper
third of the paper. This head may DO
that OF any imaginable or unimaginable
creature. If its something mongrel
and absurd it's all tho funnier. The
FIRST player then folds the paper down
so as 10 cover up what no has drawn,
but leaving the neck extending just
below the fold. He then passes the
slip on 10 the next player, who in turn
draws body on the middle third OF
the paper, joining il to the neck and
then folding the paper just 80 as to
leave enough OF the body showing to
indicate where the legs should join on.
A third player then adds legs and feet
to the strange being, to suit his fancy.
IL will add to the fun to have a fourth
player name the portrait.
Finally the paper is unfolded. To
say the least the company will be sur
prised at the queer composite. It may
be that the head and the legs will dis
agree over the direction the creature
is supposed to be fronting. Often
times one of the members will be so
out of proportion with the rest as to
make the whole effect very ludicrous.
The best way to see the possibilities of
the game is to try it. You needn't be
an artist TO make a success of it, since
the most awkward hand will frequent.
ly produce the most laughable results.
The combinations may not always be
so comical, but out of half a dozen
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-21
Moving a House by Water.

A remarkable feat of engineering
has Just been successfully accomplished
by Pacific coast firm. An attorney
named Ernest Sewer is the owner of a
two-story house at Arcata, twelve
miles from Eureka. Owing to a de-
cline in the value of property at Ar
cata Sewer determined to have the
house moved to Eureka, where he in
tended having it set up on some land
that he owned.
A firm of contractors undertook to
remove the house intact and set it up,
uninjured, for the sum of $1,000. In
case it was unfit for occupancy upon
its arrival they were to receive the
dwelling as their compensation.
The trip was made principally by
water. To remove the house to the
edge of the bay was the first difficulty
to be overcome, as it necessltated tax
ing the building over large dyke
and o marsh. This was accomplished
satisfactorily and the house was trans
ferred to two railroad lighters that
had been dashed together IN readiness
for the trip.
The journey by water was com
pleted with the aid of a tug without
accident, and an immense crowd
assembled at Eureka to welcome the
strange craft.
Amid the cheers of the spectators
and the footing of steam whistles the
lighters we're made fast and the house
transferred to land once more, I
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-21
SPONGE FISHING.
a THRIVING INDUSTRY OFF THE
FLORIDA COAsT.l
hundreds Of Men at Work Search
Ing for the sponges In a Sailing
Vessei-Mothods Employed
Ia Other Places.

l0HM sCANLAN. with his baol.
5 Sa the he .2 2s. 9 N , Sf5'9' K:
3 group Of lake sailors how he
bad fshed for sponges of the Florida
Keys "You see, boys" said he, "you
stick your head in q bucket over the
side Of the dingy, and you can sec the
sponges hard fast to tho bottom. Then
you put down your hook and haul
away, ID get beauty"
How can you see through bucket,
limp asked one OF his friends.
because, dye see, the bucket has
n glass bottom TO il, and that's no lie.
When the light is on the water you
can't see below the top, can you, be-
cause the water is a sort Of looking
glass, but you can SEQ under water,
unless you are blind, if you keep your
eyes, pen. So what do those chaps do
but clap piece of glass in the bottom
of a bucket after knocking out the
wood, and then they stick their heads
in the buckets, with the balls around
their necks, and shove tho buckets I'm.
til the glass is under water, and they
can see down ten fathoms or more"
81 mind the time when l was sail
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-21
SPONGE FIsHING OFF THE FLORIDA COAST.

DDS used in the Florida and Cuban
fishing grounds are useless when the
sponges lie in deep water.
In some parts of the Mediterranean
Sea, where very fine sponges are
used The diver fastens a stone to his
feet and with long rope in his hand
goes down feet first. Some divers can
remain under water for three minutes
at a time. They snatch the sponges
from the bottom, working rapidly as
possible. If lucky the diver fills the
little basket he carries, tugs hard at
the rope and is drawn to the surface.
Another method employed in sponge
fishing is dredging. The dredge is a
strong, heavy net, from six to eight
yards long and about one yard ligh.
1t is made of hair cords, with the
meshes about four inches square.
This is dragged along the bottom by q
rope attached to the bowsprit of a
small sailing vessel. AS it passes over
the bottom it tears the sponges from
their anchorage and they fall into the
net.
OF late years divers clad in armor
have become common off the Greek
coast. They descend in thirty and
forty fathoms and bring up the finest
surgeon, nursery and toilet sponges
and rare cup sponges. After the
sponges are brought to the land they
are buried in sand and kept there I'M
til they are decomposed. Then they
are washed in a running stream of
fresh water, carefully dried and
packed in bales for the market. If the
sponges are not perfectly dry when
packed they are liable to catch the
"cholera," which means that they be-
come heated and are discolored with
orange colored blotches.
The demand for fine sponges always
exceeds the supply, and some particu-
larly fine cup sponges have brought
500 dozen. The prices of Florida
sponges have doubled in the last TWEEN
| ty years, and sponge experts declare
that they will be still more expensive,
AS sponges are sold by weight, dis
honest dealers frequently fill the
sponges with sand to increase the
weight, but this practice is dying out
The practical value of the sponge lieI
in its great absorbing capacity ant
also is due to the fact that water soft
ems the tissues until they become sof
and pliable. Although sponges are
found in all tropical or semi-tropica
waters, the commercial sponges are
confined almost exclusively to thu
waters of the southern and western
coast of Florida, the Bahaman archi
pelago and to the Mediterranean an(
Red Seas. The, sponges, as they ar
found in their native waters, vary il
form; some are cup or vase shaped
others half round, others globular
some are fan-shaped and some cylin
, drical.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-21

ing on a fruiter in the Mediterranean,
seeing some Greeks diving for
sponges, said another sailor, "But
they dfved, they did, and did not fish
With hooks. They carried full divers
outfit with them, pump and all, and
the diver was let down over the side
and filed his basket with the nasty
things"
Then Tim, who had been a sponge
fisher for more than year, spun his
yarn. Said he:
owe worked the fishing grounds
just off Anclote Keys, moving from
there to Cedar Keys, and we worked in
fElfn three to six fathoms. Some of
the finest sponges in the world come
from that coast and hundreds of men
are worked there. We coasted up and
down in thirty-ton schooner-rigged
craft, with a broad beam and drawing
but little water. We carried ten men,
including the cook, and four dingles,
which, you know, are small yawls.
Two men TO dingy was the way we
were told of, one to skull and one to
hook. The dingies were eighteen feet
Tong and five feet beam, light and
strong. They are made light because
two men handle them, and they must
be strong and seaworthy because we
worked sometimes in heavy sea.
'The sculling notch was to one side
OF the centre of the stern, and it was
cut in the end of short bit of plank
which could be taken off if it was in
the way. The sponge hooks are made
) of iron, have three prongs and are
curved. They are about six inches
wide, and long pole fits into the
socket. One man, as said, sculled
the boat slowly along, and the other
hunted for the sponges. he used the
sponge glass and motioned to the man
in the stern to go this or that way.
When he saw good sponge he showed
the hook down over it and fastening
the prongs of the hook in it pulled il
from the bottom and into the boat.
y "When we got boat load we
sculled to the schooner, and the
sponges were piled up on the deck I'M
til the curry ran out of them. The
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-21
oJsrARD soUFFLE.

A really dainty dessert is custard
soufle, which is made by melting one
ounce Of fresh butter, sprinkling into
it half ounce Of -four and stirring -
till smooth and we'll blended. PuUF
over it full gill Of boiling milk and
stir it over the fire for seven or eight
minutes. Beat the yolk Of an egg very
fresh with one ounce of caster sugaE-
add this to the milk and turn it all CUT
to cool. When cold, add to it ths
white of the egg beaten very stiff and
bake in a well buttered pie dish IN .
very sharp oven. Serve at once, either
plain or accompanied by cream OK
boiled custard sauce. New York
Times.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-21

In smell which Il worse than any
down at the stock yards win noyes be
able 10 mako q living fishing for
apongos.
"But you get used TO II IN time, and
you get 30 you can tell just when The
spongea should be taken 20 the sponge
crawlG A sponge crawl IL made by
stalking out a space about twelve feet
square In shallow water. The partly
cured sponges are put to soak IN the
crawl and are beaton with clubs and
thus washed out. The water Of the
crawl is only two or three feet deep,
found, tho old method Of diving is
and the men who wash them uso fat
clubs. Then they are taken out. strung
on strings, packed in bales and sold.
Sometimes sponges are bleached.
That makes them white, but hurts the
sponge.
''lhe sheep wool sponge is tho best
sponge. 1t is soft, just like velvet,
and strong. Sheep wool sponges are
sold for bath sponges, but most Of
them are used for washing carriages.
The yellow sponge is a good sponge,
but 1t is not 30 soft and strong as the
sheep wool, and the grass sponge is
poorest and cheapest
The sponge belongs to one Of the
lowest orders Of animal life. It's skele-
ton is a strong fbrous substance, and
the animal part Of It is q gelatinous
matter which fills the pores and COW
ers the entire surface. II this matter
is not removed within few hours Of
ter the sponge has been torn from the
rock or stones 70 whish it was fns
tened it is almost impossible to purify
it. The hooking or happening meth
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-21

trials there are sure to be several roar
ing successes.
When there is quite q company as
sembled each may be given a piece of
paper and a pencil; each draw a head
fold the paper; pass to the next; then
each draw a body; fold; pass then
each draw legs; fold: pass, and the
next name it. In this way all those
present will be occupied in the sport,
and the larger variety of portraits will
increase the entertainment.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-21

dried-up sponges that are sold in the
drug stores are the skeletons of
the sponges. When they are pulled
from the water they are covered with
q elue-like stuff and filed with Shiny
matter. This Shiny matter is the
curry and the sponges are kept on the
deck until this curry runs away.
Sometimes they are kept aboard two
DAYS. and the man who cannot work
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-21
WEIGHS 7t5 POUSBs.

Leo Wilton, with n seven-Boot
Waist. Claims 10 De the Fattest Man.
''The fattost man In America" is tho
way in which Leo Whitton announces
himself. Up 10 year ago Leo had
been growing broader, rounder and
moro uncomfortable for the past thir-
ty-sovon years. He weighs no pounds.
Daniel Lambert, tho Norfolk giant,
tipped the beam al 100 pounds, scor'
ing the worlds record.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-21
An Odd Situation.

The conscience and pride of good
citizenship of G.. Green, of McCune,
Kan, got to working together re-
Gently and produced an odd situation
Mr.. Green got intoxicated, boisterous
and disagreeable during visit to tine
neighboring town of Pittsburg, and
created considerable disturbance en-
the streets. He was not arrested. A
few days later he appeared before the
county attorney at Pittsburg and
swore out warrant against himself
for disturbing the peace. He was ar
rested, arraigned, pleaded guilty, paid
his fine and went home with a shriven
conscience York Sun.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-21
peat and Dumb Couple Converted.

1t seems to be q striking compliment
to fervent eloquence, or some othel
peculiar power Of srsuasion, thai
among the converts made by a revival
ist at Tekonsah, Mich, recently, were
two deaf and damb persons, man and
his wife, New York Sun.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-02-21
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS,
lnELInIoua aWETIlmAr.

Ginger pears are a delicious gvoot-
meat. Use q hard pear, peel, ooro and
cut tho fruit into very thin slioea Per
eight pounds OF fruit after il has bonn
sliced uao the aamo quantity Of guWEs
tho juice of four lemons, one pint aG
water, and half a pound Of ginger
root, sliced thin. Cut the lemon rinsiE
into as long and thin strips as poazi-
bic. Place al together 10 q prosGrs-
ing kettle and boil slowly for an houE
New York Advertiser.