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nr. r r i no court rmmer. "A movement was on foot for the alliance of King Charles of Württemberg and the Grand Duch ess Olga of .Russia," said an artist. "An emissary of the liussian court enme to the young king, laid certain proposals beforo him and submitted a portrait in oils of tho royal lady. King Charles, after a close scrutiny, said: i " 'This portrait flatters over much. The eyes are too large and i brilliant, tho hair too abundant, tho complexion too fioworlikc and tho ( neck and arms too beautiful alto gether.' , "'But, your majesty,' said the as , tonished Russian, 'you do not know the grand duchess.' " 'Xo said the king, but I know court painters.' " MaKes tne imest ag est,best flavored biscuit, hot -breads, cake and pastry Renders the iood more digestible and wholesome x ABSOUHELY PURE V Spoke Well of Her. A preacher in the reign of Charles TL was to receive 10 if in his sermon nt the funeral of Mine. Creswell he said nothing but well of her. She was rather a bad char acter and herself had dictated the clause in her will. So, after a gen eral address on mortality, he thus concluded "By the will of a de ceased sister it is expected that I should mention her and say noth ing but what was well of her. All that I shall say of her, therefore, is this: She was born well, she lived well, and the died well, for she wan born with the name Creswell, she lived in C!erkenwell, and she died in Bridewell." Minneapolis Journal. Foozle Again. ROYAL BAKINO POWDER CO.. MEW YORK. E If i If W i&ü sl ili I 3' 6H P. WB0K SS5-. WHO 5Ä? MAKÜFACTTJRERS CI. SN WAGONS and ARE JAG SS, 0 And Dealer In o; Agricultural Implementi and Fertilizer. General Repairing & Horse Shot ing j 1 M North Main Street. Ü Jasper, Ind. S8S AT ENTO I Prize Offers from. Leading Manufacturers Book on patents. "Hints to inventors." "Inventions needed." "Why some inveritors fail." Send rough sketch or model, for search of Patent Office records. Our Mr. Greeley was formerly Acting Commissioner of Patents, and as such had full.charge.of the U. S. Patent Office. GREELEY & MANURE Patent Attorneys Washington, T. C. THE ONLY WAY. To conduct successfully any business enter prise is to have adequate telephone facilities furnished by the Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Company. Service unexcelled; long distance connections to every important city and town in the United States, prompt, courte ous, efficient service. Call our manager for information, ect. Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co. Incoiporated. Fair, Frank, Fearless and Free. Jasper Courier An Independent Democratic Newspaper Hint envB wlio It ....I.: . . f r nuoi M mccic miuuiii. uPKiug your pcriniPEion. .V"- . . . . ino uen Jul üoane Jcb rrintorlutn is jTjJ neacellfd fci fine C n rn-iclnl plinth g. Caddie to Foozle (who has slowly backed his way to the first hole) Willi re be gon' the whole round? Foozle Yes. of course. Wy? Caddie Only they'll be wantln the Ua tomorrow. It's medal day. Tat- Cause For Suipicion. - - JASPEE, IND "Oh. no; I can never trust my bus oati'l npalu. I feel convinced be U virrylnß on with the cook." "What makes you think that'" "Iast ulpht he kissed me In tot lark."-11 lecende Blatter. Exasperating. From tho dark kitchen there em anated a series of thumps and angry exclamations. Jone3 was looking for the cat. "Pa!" called the son from the Btainvay. "Go to hed and let me alone 1" blurted Jones. "I've just barked ray ßhins." 'Ta!" insisted Tommy after a moment's silence. "Well, what is it? Didn't I tell you to keep quiet ?" "I I didn't hear yow shins bark." And the next moment Tommy was being pursued by an angry sire with a hard hairbrush. Chicago N"ewa. A Tabloid Fable. A man once collided with an op portunity. "Why" don't you look where you are going ?" growled the man. "Don't you recognize me?" asked the opportunity pleasantly. "No, and I don't care to. You have trodden on my corns," replied the man as he limped away. Moral. Don't believe the people who say they have never had a :hance. New York Times. Buckwheat Cakes. There is nothing on the dining room table and nothing that could be placed there tliut is so great and formidable an enemy to the human faco na buckwheat cakes. " They are sure to make the complexion yellow and covered with eruptions. Don't Insult your face by putting buck wheat cakes into it. They head the entire list of complexion destroyers. Exchange. DISTANCE OF THE STARS. How Attrsr.orners Set About the T' cf Measuring It. With tho exception of a hundred itars at m.st, we know nothing of the (lis tn nee of the individual star?. What is tho cniifo of this state of things? Jt is owfng to the fact that we have two eyes that are an nbled not only to perceive tho di rection in which external objects are situated, hut to get an idea of their distance, to localize them in pace. Hut this power is ra-thcr lim ited. For distances exceeding somo hundreds of yards it utterly fails. The reason is that the distance be tween the eyes as compared with the distance to bo evaluated be comes too small. Instruments have been devised by which the distance between the eyes is, as it were, arti ficially increased. With a good in strument of this sort distances of several miles may be evaluated. For still greater distances wo may im agine each eye replaced by a photo graphic plate. Even this would bo quite sufficient for one of the heav enly bodies viz, for the moon. At one and the same moment let a photograph of tho mooij and the surrounding stars be taken both at the Cane observatory and at the Iioval observatory at Greenwich. Placing the two photographs side by side in the stereoscope, we shall clearly see the moon "lianging in space" and may evaluate its dis tance. But for tho sun and the nearest planets, our' next neighbors in the universe after the moon, tho diffi culty recommences. The reason is that any available distance on the earth, taken as eye distance, is rather small for the purpose. However, owing to in credible perseverance and skill of several observers and by Substitut Ing the most refined measurement for stereoscopic examination, as tronomers have succeeded in over coining the difficulty for the sun. I think we may say that at present we know its distance to within a thousandth part of its amount. Knowing the un's distance, we get that of all the planets by a well known relation existing between the planetary distances. But now for the fixed stars, which must be hundreds of thou sands of times farther removed than the sun. There evidently can be no question of any sufficient eye dis tance on our earth. Meanwhile our success with the sun has provided us with a new one distance, 24,000 times greater than any possible eye distance on the earth, for now that we know the distance at which the earth travels in its orbit around the sun we can take the diameter of it? orbit as our eye distance. Photo graphs taken at periods six month? apart will represent the stellar world as een from points the dis tance between which is alrcadv be?t expressed in the time it would take light to traverse it. The time would be about sixteen minutes. However, even this distance, im mense as it is, is, on the', whole, in adequate for obtaining a stereo scopic view of the stars. It is only in quite exceptional cases that pho tographs on a large, scale that iä, obtained by "the aid of big tele? scopes show any stereoscopic ef fect for fixed tars. By accurate measurement of the photos we may perhaps get somewhat beyond what we can attain by simple stereoscopic inspection; but, as we said a mo ment ago, astronomers have not suc ceeded in this way in determining the distanre of more than a hun dred stars in all. Scientific Ameri can. When Ohio Failed. In the midst of C. B. Galbrcath'i lecture on "Lafayette" the other night at the Young Men's Christian association he spent quite a little time on the incident of the princely sum of $140,000 which he brought with him to this country and gave to congress. "When Lafayette returned to the United States about forty-two years later congress voted him $200,000 in return for the $140,000 which he gave to us in that time of great need. When tho vote was takn ev ery state in the Union voted for it with let us mention it soft'-.' the exception of Ohio." Columbui Dispatch. ""Betting What's Coming to Him. Innkeeper That cbroulc kicker Bel ter Is sitting over there. Walter-Yes, sir. 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