The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-04-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The highest spire in the world Is
tina OF the Cathedral OF Cologne-5ll
feet
Two ounces OF altar OF roses rep.
resent the refined product of ton Of
rosebuds.
Very few children who have been
brought up on goats milk ever have
tuberculosis
Some OF the best sausages exported
from Germany 10 the United States
are made OF horses.
The average weight Of a Greenland
whale is 100 tons, which is equal TO
that OF SIS elephants.
Barking Is an acquired habit with
dogs. Wild dogs never bark. they
merely howl or whine
Plates made OF compressed paper
are used in some OF the cheap res
taurants in German cities.
The Pacific ocean covers $4,000 900
square miles. the Atlantic 25000 900
and the Mediterranean sea 100000.
When gambling is suspected in a
private house in Melbourne. Australia.
the police are empowered TO enter IL
In quest of proof.
The most nutritious and strength
giving food is beef II can be eaten
continuously longer than any other
kind OF meat.
Paris is TO erect a public monument
to the memory of the carrier-pigeons
that rendered such signal service dur
ing the siege of Paris.
OF all the people in Europe the
Danes seem most addicted to suicide
Their average is 256 self-murders per
100000 persons per year.
A man does not fully attain his
growth until after the age of %. and
athletic exercise extends the period OF
growth to 30 years.
A recognized humorist runs hotel
in Montana. over his clerks desk is
a sign which reads: "Boarders taken
by the day, week or month. Those
who do not pay promptly will be taken
by the neck"
Steel ties for street railroad tracks
in Cleveland. o., have been intro
duced in connection with an extensive
reconstruction on thoroughfares where
wooden ties imbedded in concrete had
been used. Many Of the latter had
become decayed.
A teething ring which emits music
is the invention OF A. w. Anderson. OF
Seldovia, Alaska. When the child
bites on It pleasing sounds are emit
ted, so delightiag the youngster that
il acquires taste for harmony and
cuts its gums at the same time.
An invoice of whalebone. just sold
at Dundee Scotland, realized only
$4,000 a ton. which is considerably
below last seasons average. The de-
cline IN the industry is shown by the
fact that the American whaling fleet,
which once numbered 1876 vessels, has
now fallen TO thirty-three.
Governor Harris, of Ohio. proposes
that convicts who are not professional
criminals be put at work on the State
farm. He says: The conditions Of
our cities breed crime Most OF IL can
be traced TO idleness and drink, and
idleness is frequently the cause OF
drink"
An excellent bill for improvident
working people has been introduced
in the Austrian Chamber of Deputies.
II makes insurance against Illness and
the inability attending old age com
pulsory on all workmen and domestic
servants whose annual income does
not exceed $500
A model park Is in course OF con
struction in one OF the worst slum
districts on the North Side of Chi
cago To make room for IL, six acres
of tenements have been razed In
place of the tumble-down structures
there will be, in the course Of a few
months, a playground, a swimming
pool. a clubhouse. a library, lunch
room and baseball field.
The White Plains Daily Record as
sures us that the following is YER
batim copy OF a local real estate
agents letter from a tenant in the
Fourth war: Dear Sir: | wat them
seller steps fgsd right of-my wife
fel down last mite and like to brake
her dam nee-Please send a Blum
Der and figs our bath tub it soon be
time now for us to use agen."
The University of Breslau, Ger
many. has made a contract with an &C
cident insurance company to insure its
students. All students of mathematics.
astronomy, physics, chemistry or phar-
macy, botany, zoology, mineralogy
and geology must pay fee OF 36 cents
each term and be insured against acct
dent occurring in the line of duty. The
policy lapses as soon as the holders
connection with the university is sew
cred.
The ease with which divorces are
obtained works much evil, in the
opinion OF Chief Justice Emery, OF
Maine. lie suggests that the divorce
laws can be perfected in three ways
first, by granting no divorce until
husband and wife have lived apart for
year; second. by publishing the suits
in the daily papers; third. by giving
the court authority to delay hearings,
If necessary, so that they cannot be
rushed through, as is sometimes the
case now.
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