The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-06-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| nanle 10 flne OF from $40 TO 500.
The ginger grown i'm Jamaica com,
mands more than double the price OF
any other Under favorable conditions
an acre will produce as much as 1000
pounds.
Fireproof bricks made of paper. are
coming into use for building purposes.
| They are made with a hollow centre.
TO insure uniformity in hardness, and
the hollow Is afterward filled with ce-
ment.
When the famous tenor. Caruso.
sings the part OF Canio. in Il Pagliac-
H. he earns $l66.66 a minute. lie re-
,eives $4,000 for each performance.
and that part requires just twelve min
utes OF actual singing.
William ii. Harrington, of Clare
mont. n. H.. is a lucky man. At the
age of 81 he is cutting a third set OF
teeth. Toothache has never troubled
him. nor has he ever required the serv-
ices of dentist.
'Limberneck," a new disease. is
playing havoc with the chickens in
Evan, n. j. One farmer has lost near.
ly 500. The fowls lose all control OF
their necks. and their heads droop un-
I'll they almost touch the ground
A recently enacted law in Nevada
provides that applicants for divorce
must be residents of the state two
years instead Of six months, as in the
past. The longer the residence re-
quirement. the smaller the divorce col
ony will be.
horticulturist in Boston has sue
ceeded in producing a new and re-
markable fruit by crossing cucumber
and orange plants. The new fruit.
which is yellow in color and devoid OF
seed. is said to possess a most agree
able flavor.
A huge wedding cake. six feet eight
inches high. five feet in diameter at
its base. and weighing 700 pounds. was
baked recently by Luigi Marabiri, chef
OF the Grand Pacific Hotel. Chicago.
and shipped to Hamilton, Ont. The
fruit used in the. making OF the cake
was soaked in brandy and wine for six
days.
A modest hero is about TO have a
$4,000 monument. In Nacarozi, Mex
leo. year ago, Jesus Garcia. loco
motive engineer. bravely attached his
engine to a burning car OF dynamite
and hauled II out OF the town. He
thus saved the town from disaster. but
was himself blown TO pieces. Now the
Mexican Government has voted him a
monument.
A municipal judge in New York
City. who is noted for his witticisms.
but not hitherto suspected of Irish
blood, recently relieved himself OF the
following amusing torrent of mixed
metaphors: "Ah. well. Mr.. So-and-so,"
counsel. " IL is of no use
your going or your arguments are
quite thrown away on me. They are |
like water rolling of ducks back; |
they go In at one ear and out at the |
other"
A scientist in Berlin cleans away |
NOW by the use OF electricity. His |
apparatus consists OF platform, upon |
which the snow swept off the roadway |
Is shoveled and beneath which is a |
series OF pockets formed OF thin metal
kept hot by electrical radiators. The
snow falls from the platform into the
pockets. and is quickly discharged as
water from the hoppers. The platform
Is mounted on wheels for transport to
various parts OF the town.
In Fall River, Mass, II Is risky to
sell liquor TO a man whose wife is
opposed to his drinking Judge in
that Ally HutQ Tue IAOthdii- |
beau Social Club $500 for selling two
drinks to a member whose wife had
warned the organization not TO let him
have a drop.
In southwestern Arizona a petrifed
forest. hundred square miles in area.
has existed for centuries. Thousands
and thousands of petrificd logs strew
he ground and represent beautiful
.1ss.J - fv.1~ /
Ind yellow. One of the stone trees
spans a gully forty feet wide.
Gervase Ponsier. an electrician OF
Varseilles. says that II will soon be
possible for a man to stand at one
md Of telegraph wire and not only
peak to. but plainly discern, the per-
on at the other end, although hun
lreds OF miles may separate them.
seeing of a person at
distant points not far off.
Taxation is high in Holland. A Hol-
ander pays about IL per cent. of his
early income for taxes. He Is taxed
OF his business income. for the inter-
st he collects, on his house rent, lis
urniture, on six fireplaces and all the
toves in the house he rents or owns.
n his horses, bicycle and servants
III al luIDhAe vi S-stVu year lie pdgs |
bout S2sS. ;
The death OF Lord Burton is an (
ounced in England. His grandfather. !
carman named Bass. founded the ,
rewery at Burton. which now occu- I
les considerably over 16O acres Of I
nd, employs over 5000 men. pays :
yer 1900 900 year duty and 1880 {
70 a year for freight (loading some d
mes 700 cars a day., and has a year
revenue of s25,000.000.
Three highwaymen in Chicago held
/ a pedestrian at the point of pis :,
i and found in his pockets just as !,
ms. Judge Kersten sentenced the =
rec to life Imprisonment. This Sc
re sentence Is legal according to a a
W Dassed two years ago declaring a
at when a pistol is displayed to en- ~
rec the demand of a highwayman
IA Imprisonment is the penalty.
The taxicab is pushing the horse out
business, and the wireless telegraph Is
CROW ding out the carrier pigeon. AS -
Oh C. the important warships OF
'anCe has now wireless apparatus k
ere T. no longer any use for the | tC