Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1879 — Indiscriminate Children-Kissing. [ARTICLE]

Indiscriminate Children-Kissing.

Everybody is expected to kiss the baby. The timid little girl who shrinks from the proffered osculation is ordered by her parents to kiss the visitor. The visitor has a slight or a severe sore throat. The diphtheric germs are conveyed to the lips of the reluctant child, and lodgment in the throat. A violent attack of diptberia results and spreads through the family, usually by the same direct infection. The 1 eart broken mother bows her head to the inscrutable dispensations of Providence, and wonders why her darling should be taken—her darling, whom she had kept at home safely guarded against all exposure. The doctor talks learnedly about sew.r-gas and bad water —and these may be the vehicle, but but never the origin, of the contagion —but the fatal disease was imparted through the lips of that thoutless visitor. Many wise mothers will not permit strangers or friends to kiss their children. Their example should be followed. Under the motto, “God Bless Our Home,” should be suspended another, “Don’t kiss our Children.* If indiscriminate kissing were only nasty it might be tolerated; but, as it may be, and often is, deadly, it should be abolished.—Syracuse Journal !

Hayes saves $40,000 a year out of Tilden’s salary. Old Simon Cameron is' stlil in the grasp of that widow. Kellogg’s is the last senatorial car-pet-bag left rusting alone.—Boston Post. Judge Test, of Indianapolis, is attending court, and dropped into our sactuin Tuesday. For horse and jack bills call at the Sentinel office. We have several • yles of photos. Harp. W. Snyder, Esq., of Remington, was in town Tuesday, in attendnnce uyon court. Next to a seal skin sacque, nothing will please a woman of 30 so much as to be mistaken for her niece of 16. Brookville Democrat. Col. Healey, of Goodland, and W. H. Pierce, Esq., of Remington, attorneys, are looking after the interests of their clients. The report that the South Carolina indictments against Senator Patterson have beeu annulled, is denied by the Attorney-General of the State. A Noble county farmer who would not pay one dollar a yt ar for a weekly newspaper paid five hundred and fifteen dollars for a patent hay-fork. The white of an egg is said to be a specific for fish bones sticking ip the throat. It is to be swallowed raw, and will carry down a bone easily and certainly, Tongue cannot tell the words or express the astonishment of the crippled soldier in Connecticut who awoke to find his wife using his wooden leg to pound the beefsteak for breakfast.—Donnelsville Sentinel.

Subsidy CalkinsIt was with sad eye that the Argus looked over the names of the Congressmen who voted on the John Roach Brazilian Steamship Subsidy Steel and discovered that Maj. Calkins’ name was not Binonp the noble fellows who sat down on the swindle. —Laporte Argus. An Alabama darkey, for a wager, recently exposed his head to the furious assaults of a tame goat. His confidence was rewarded by his winning the money, for, after half an hour’s vigorous butting, the goat drew off utterly discouraged. The New York Sun publishes a complete list of the men Hayes has given office to for being connected with the Louisiana and Florida election frauds. They number nifietvseven, and the fees and salaries thsy draw amount to about two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars a year. Gideon Cook, a Calvin Baptist preacher, well known in this vicinity a quarter of a century ago, was a man very eccentric in speech even to his last earthly moments. A few hours previous to bis death, his brother, also a preacher, tame to his bedside and inquired, “Do you think you are dyi :g, Gideon?” And the reply, sharp ;;nd quick, came, “Don’t know—can’t tell —never died yet!”—Biddeford Quarterly meeting at the M. E. church Saturday and Sunday, March 22, and 23. First service on Satuiday at 2 ;30 p. m. Quarterly conference at 3 ;30 p. m. Rev. C. S. Burgner, of Monticello, will supply ti e place of Rev. Dr. Godfrey.

All Pensioners of the Government (except Jeff Davis) will do well to call on Mordecai F. Cnilcote, Attor-ney-at-Law of Rensselaer, Indiana, and ascertain whether it is SSOO or SI,OOO due them under the provision of the arrears of Pension act approved January 25th, 1879. He can tell.