Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1881 — Marrow Escape. [ARTICLE]

Marrow Escape.

The lives of several ladies narrowly’ escaped destruction last Monday afternoon. At that time a number of persons had congregated near the ice house above the dam to see the great ice gor e. Ju an unexpected moment the latter broke loose and moved down the river, suddenly overflowing the banks with water and ice. The startled spectators at once inaugerated a stampede, but were not in time to escape the fast rising tide. The ladies engulfed wsre Mrs. John Roach, Mrs. Sam Rothrock, Mrs. J. C. Smith, Miss Lee Brearly Miss Mamie Lynch and a sister cf Mrs. M, Goodman, and to rescue them from drowning required the heroic efforts of Ed. Loughry, Capt Snyder. Fred Linderman, Eli Cowger and H. Murray, who chanced to be present, and right biavely did they perform their task. Aside from a complete drenching and a few bruises the ladies were all landed on terra firma. The floating ice did much to prevent the parties from getting out, and at times it seemed as if all hops of saving them must be abandoned. It was indeed a difficult work and the men deserve great credit for their determined and sue cessful efforts. —Monticello Herald. “How are you and your wife com ingon?" asked a Galveston man of a colared man. “She has run ’em off, boss.” “What is the matter?” “I is 1Q blame, boss. I gave her a splendid White silk dress, and den she got so proud she had no use for me. She ’lowed I was too dark to match de dress.”

“I should blush to simper” is the latest slang. The fellow who rang the bell for a false alarm of fire toiled a lie, England has a town in which the inhabitants depend solely upon the manufacture of neenles and fish hooks for a living. “Wnata blessing it is,” saida hardworking Irisnman, “that night niyer comes on till late in the day, when a man is tired and ean’t work auy more at all, at all. ' A great number of whales have lately made their appearance off the the south coast of Long Island, and a Connecticut steamer has been fitted up for capturing them. Mrs. Barnwell Rhett, widow of Senator Rhett, of South Carolina, and the widow of a former Mayor of New Orleans will both become inmates of the Louise Home, at Washington, established and kept by Mr. Corcoran, the Washington banker, for the benefit of Southern gentlewomen who have been unfortunate. A bashful young man escorted an equally bashful young lady to her i home. As they approached the 1 dwelling of the damsel, she said enfestingly: **Zekil, don’t tell anybody you saw me home.” “Sary,” said he, emphatically, “don’t you mind; I am as, much ashamed of it as you be.“ Dammit and Ripshin are postoffices in Tennessee, Cut Shin and "Peckerwood in Kentucky and Alabama. Some Tennesseans get their letters from Sweet Lips, and there is a Buss postoffice in Michigan. Pee Pee, Wetmore, Round Bottom and Span ker are postoffices in Ohio. In all the United States there is but one Sodom. It is ieported that the famous “Horse-Shoe Bend” on the line of the Pennsylvania railroad wil be abandoned in a few years. During this winter a survey of a new route has been made. It will be by the way of the old Portage railroad and the Pennsylvania canal, thus shortening the route between Johnstown and Harrisburgh about thirteen miles and avoiding the Bit? Mountain tunnel. Estray Notice: —Taken up by William Meyers, of Walker townshio, Jasper county, Indiana, two yearling heifers. 1 of a roan color, with white spot in forehead. The other of a roan color, with line back and white spot in forhead. No other marks or brands perceivable. Taken from the docket of Lorenzo Tinkham, J, P. of Walker township, Jasper county Indiana. CHARLES il. PRICE, Clerk of Jasper Circuit Court-

The truth oi the following from the Lock Maven (Pu.,> Journal is always clearly demonstrated on a ,-tormy Sunday: It is all a mistake to think that the female sex is less robust and less courageous than the male. Just look over almost any of our church congregations on a cold, ugly Sunday, when it requires nerve to brave the weather, and notice what a preponderance of the congregation is composed of what is wrongfully called the “weaker sex.” A man’s tender constitution and careful regard for his health forbid his risking his life for the enjoyment of a church service I Whole meal Bread.—Dr. B. W. Richardson, the eminent English physician presided a few weeks ago at a large meeting held to advocate the use of what is technically known in England as “whole-meal bread,” and in America as brown or Graham bread. One of the speakers maintained that the bread in common use was “forty-per cent, deficient in sustaining qualities. An entire grain of wheat contained everything that was lequired for nourishing purposes, and yet the better halt of it was wasted, and this half was a much healthier food. Children fed on white bread were very liable to suffer from rickety bones, consumption and bad teeth, because their food did not nourish them properly.

The “Star of Bsthlehem.”—Prof. C. A. Grimmer, of Kingston, Jamaica, who is a scientist of fame, recently made some wonderful prophecies in oonnection with the action of the planets and other heavenly bodies.— He says of the “Star of Bethlehem:” In 1887 the “Star of Bethlehem” will be accompanied oy a total eclipse of the sun and moon. The star only makes its appearance every 315 years. It will appear and illuminate the heavens, and exceed in brilliancy Jupiter when in opposition to the sun. and therefore nearest to the sun and brightest. The marvelous brilliancy of the “Star of Bethlehem” in 1887 will surpass any of its previous visitations. It will be seen|by noonday, shining with a quick flashing light the entire year, after which it will gradually decrease in brightness and finally disappear, not to return to our lieavens until 2202, or 315 years after 1887. This star first attracted the attention of modern astronomers in the year 1575. It was then called a new star. It was no new star, however, for this was the star which shone so brightly 48. C., end was the starlight that illuminated the heavens at the nativity of Christ.