The Reverend Jasper

Rev. John Jasper of Richmond, the most noted of all slave preachers, is now over 80 years old and believes as flrmly as he did in 18? 8, when his famous sermón was preached, that "the sun do move." He recently gave an outline of that celebrated discourse, which, he says, was coxnposed in order to set at rest some doubts which had arisen in the mind of a young member of his flock. - Chicago Herald. A man may float in salt water without moving his hands or feet if he has the presence of mind to throw his head back and allow the body to sink to the position which it will then naturally take. In 1287 a teacher in Florence had his house, burned and built a new reeidenoe by selling two volumes of Cicero.