Decatur Democrat, Volume 1, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 8 April 1899 — Page 4

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Epworth League Anniversary .j bundav 6:oo p. m. Song. - - - Congregation Braver - - - - M. C. Cooper Anthem - - - - Choir Scripture - - Joseph Croaii Song - - Ft. Wayne Dist. Quartet The Epworth League, what is it? E. T. Gregg Do X umbers Count ? - C. Smith Which comes first, the League or the world? - R. J. Wade Song - Ft. Wayne Dist. Quartet Influence of the company you keep E. F. Xaftzger Does the League help to make young people happy? G. H. Myers How they do wav down east R. L. Semans The Epworth League and our heathen brother P. E. Powell Song - Ft. Wayne Dist. Quartet Buv books. Leaguers, buy books W. E. Grose The next International Epworth League convention W. D. Parr Song - ' - - Congregation Yesterday visitors in our fair city were registered at the Park Hotel, as follows: A. May and wife. Markle: M. C. Blue and wife. Tocsin: Clark Landis Markle: S. X. Shively Spring field. O.; Rev. T. S. Stani and wife. Valentine. O.: T. Goke. Ft. Wayne: J. Williams. Rockford. O.: T. Rees. Indianapolis; L. Weidman. Delphos. ().: E. A. Hasbrook, Titusville; J. 1.. Darling. Ft. Wavne: W. J. Lavell. Indianapolis: L. D. Boyle. Toledo:; X. W. Bliss. Chicago; W. K. Bliss. Chicago: S. O. Conner. Geneva: M. Book. Anderson: Jos. Bailey. Muncie: John Cavin ami wife. Ligonier. Ind.: E. A. Foster. Jackson. Mich.: A. S. Harrison. Connersville. Ind. Rev. Henry J. Becker of Dayton. Ol i>. forme: Bishop of the United Brethren church, now manager of the Island Park Assembly. Rome City, i is in th? city, having arrived vesterdav ! morning. He will address an overflow conference meeting at Bosse's opera bouse Sunday morning. Rev. Becker is a pleasant, scholarly gentleman and a cad at this office yesterday was an enjoyable one to us. He savs the Island Park Assembly this year will undoubtedly be thegreatest meeting ever held at that popular resort. Famous orators on all important subjects have been selected and include miny of the m >st prominent lecturers of the dav. His meeting Sunday morning will no doubt be largely attended. Ben Middleton is again having his “troubles" and in consequence is now confined in Dan Erwin's castle, better known as the Adams county jail. Ben seems to be determined on being "the baddest man in town” and if that is his ambition he is succeeding fairly well. He appears to have a sort of feeling against Marshal Hart and on every occasion where an opportunity presents itself he makes some insulting remarks concerning him. Mr. Hart has already taken more of his language than mast people would have taken, and yesterday after Middleton had grown even more abusive, he swore out an affidavit against him for provoke. Ben was arrested and taken Irefore Mayor Beatty, when l he asked for a change of venue to Monroe, which was granted and his case set for next Monday. He was unable to giv? bail and was accordingly ordered to jail.

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The democrats of Geneva meet in convention next Monday evening for the purpose of nominating candidates for town office. C. A. Anderson and wife of Fort Wayne, are in the city attending conference. They are the guests of B. W. Quinn and' wife. A large number of the farmers who contemplated building wire fence this coming season, will no doubt change their mind when they hear how much material has advanced. "For this," says a subscriber, we are indebted to the wire trust." To stop a bleeding nose, keep the patient's head thrown back and his arms raised. Hold a cloth or sponge to receive the blood. Press the fingers i firmly on each side of the nose where it jtins the upper lip. A piece of ice | or a doth wrung out of ice water may be placed at the back of the head. Petrified Water. That beautiful transparent stone called Tabriz marble, much used in the burial places of Persia and in their j grandest edifices, consists of the petri-| tied water of ponds in certain parts of the country This petrification may be j traced from its commencement to its. termination. In one part the water is ! clear, in a second it appears thicker and | stagnant, in a third quite black, and in its last stage it is white like frost When the operation is complete, ai stone thrown on its surface makes no impression, and one may walk over it-j Without wetting one's shoes. The substance thus produced is brittle and transparent, and sometimes richly striped with red. green and copper color. So much is this marble, which may be cit into large slabs, looked upon as a luxury that none but the king, his sons and persons especially privileged are permitted to take it. In Sympathy. "But did not the neighbors send you anything after the firei" inquired the poor commissioner of the widow whose home and belongings bad been totally destroyed three nights before by the relentless flames “Yes. sir." was the reply. "Mrs. | Cleaver, across the street, sent me a j beautiful drawn work doily with her card, and Miss Hushington, !n the next ■ block, a very pretty cut glass knife and fork rest. " —Detroit Free Press — Then George Subsided. "I could never see anything great Is your trip across the Rubicon." said Washington. “Now, when 1 crossed the Delaware I had to contend with d great mass of ice." "Yes," replied Ciesar, “but look at the risk I ran of meeting a frost when I reached the other side. " And even one of the Roman senators I smiled.—Philadelphia North American 1 Bijj Loaves of Bread. The largest loaves of bread baked in : the world are those of France qpd Italy The "pipe" bread of Italy is baked in loaves two or three feet long, while in France the loaves are made in the shape of very long rolls, four or five feet in length and in many cases even six feet. A Burman mile is about equal in length to two English miles. The word for “mile" in Burmese means “to sit," and a mile is the distance that a man goes before he considers it necessary to sit down

The Sensitive Porgy. The porgy, common as it is, is a : beautiful fish when seen in the water in a favorable light, and it is likewise one of the most sensitive of fishes. In captivity it is easily frightened. It will take alarm from something done by a passing visitor, a thoughtless touching of glass, or something of that sort, and go rushing around until it is exhausted Sometimes a porgy in a tank may. when frightened, jumpout of the water and bump its nose against the wire screen over the tank and be seemingly i paralyzed by the shock and rendered unable to swim. In such a condition it will lie upon its back, motionless, except perhaps for a fluttering of its fins, for an hour, and then it may come back all right again and swim about so lively and in such good form that you can t tell then which fish of the lot it was I that had bumped its head. A peculiarity of the porgy is its lia- . bility to blindness. Blindness is not uncommon among fishes, but there are perhaps more blind porgies than there are fish of any other kind. There’s a saying among fishermen. “As blind as a ' porgy. ” —New York Sun A Spanish Street Scene. In nothing is the illiterate condition of Spain shown as in the numerous writing booths which line the streets : of Barcelona. Spain has preserved much i of the picturesque life of past ages, and even at the present day in many of its towns may be seen the watchman, with pike and lantern, going his nightly rounds not far from a fine street bril liantly illuminated by the electric light In the Rambla, the principal street of Barcelcna, may be seen several of these writing booths of the public scribes There for a small consideration the illiterate or any one else may have anything indited from the poetry of a love epistle to the prosaic application for a situation. The front of each booth is placarded with the name of the scribe and the services he is prepared to ren der to his customers. Some scribes combine the art of painting with that of writing, and all add to their activities the business of registry offices for serv ants. “A Female Stranger.'' In St. Paul's churchyard, in Alexandria. Va.. is a marble tombstone bearing this inscription: To the memory of a female stranger: Hew loved, how honored once avails thee not To whom related or by whom begot: A heap of dost alone remains of thee. Tis all thou art. and all the proud shall be. This strange inscription raised much conjecture. The facts, as nearly as known, are that in May. 1816. a man and a beautiful girl, accompanied by a valet, arrived at Alexandria in an Eng lish vessel. They shunned every one Five months afterward the girl died The husband staid long enough to erect a monument, left a sum of money tc repair it and then sailed away and was never heard of again. Several novels ■ have been founded upon this sad and I romantic incident.

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A Wonderfol Appetite. The digestive power of the heron is remarkable, as well as its capacity and ability to swallow large fish, says forest and Stream The neck seems to expand as if made of india rubber—the fish «lips down, and the bird is ready for another In eating beef, large bones are swallowed intact On one or two occasions after feeding beef this way. great alarm was felt, as the birds showed signs of great distress, but the uneasiness was soon calmed when the bird threw up a large bone, clean and white, the meat having been thoroughly digested ... In eating ratfish they instinctively pierce it with their strong beaks, until there is no question in their simple minds but that it is harmless. If in their hurry to swallow their food, it goes down the throat covered with sand or trash, they immediately eject it. carry it to the water and. having rinsed it well, swallow it apiiu The Intelligent Jury. Law court stories were especially attractive tc Hicks, and he told many of them His great story, which was al- | most a dramatic sketch, was of the acquittal of a Cornish doctor who was charged with the murder of his mother-in-law by mixing arsenic with a dish of rabbits and onions, which he gave her for supper The setting of the court, the swearing cf the jury, the speeches of counsel, and the judge's charge were all related by Hicks with marvelous humor The climax to the fun was the confabulation of the jury as to the verdict they should give, and their individual reasons for returning a verdict of acquittal—from the juryman who “didn’t hold with old oman eating rabbits and onions for supper" to the juryman who declared that "it wasn't a ha'po'th of odds to him. and twas but an old om an " —Cornhill Magazine. Siamese Magic. Siamese magicians profess to be able to destroy your enemy for you They first bewitch part of a buffalo till it be comes as small as a pea. When your enemy has been induced to swallow it. they make it return to its original size, and after suffering great agonies he suffocates. Pig s flesh and fish are also used When these people die. the reason can be detected, because at their cremation some part of their body refuses to burn, and when it is cut open it contains fish or meat o/some animal A small boy died recently and was cremated A certain part of the child's chest refused to burn, and they got it examined and found it to be a piece of salt pork I Not Quite Persuaded. “We like the idea of simplified spelling. ” says the editor of the Perkins' Junction Palladium "But we don't think we could ever become used to writing it: 'He wawkt down the ile, | leeving the trax of his laij and muddee shuez on the flore. The marx ar vizzibl yet ' " —Chicago Tribune

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