Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1882 — Living Witnesses. [ARTICLE]

Living Witnesses.

The hundreds of hearty, asd healthy I looking men, women and children, that have been rescued from beds of pain, sickness and well nigh death by Par ker’s Ginger Tonic are the beat evidences in the world of its sterling merit and worth. You will find such iu almost every community.

“Tommy, hear yonr moth er eall you?" “Corse I did!’ “Then why dou’t you go to her at onoe?” “Well, ysr see, she’s nervous and It’d shock her awful *f I should go too suddent.” When a farmer used the word ‘curosit? very frequently instead of the more legitimate word “curiosity " a wug said that if he didn’t actually raurd* r the Eugiiah language, he certainly did knock an i out. Pinchback! Pinchlack! It seems that we have heard that name before iu connection with carpet-bag frauds in Louisiana. He has just been ap pointed Smveyor of New Orleans. The Stalwart flag is beginning to slut: ter.

“What your daughter wants.” said an overeandid music teacher to a millionaire whose education was not equal to his fortune, “is capacity.” “In ecd!" was the astonished reply, “well, then. I’ll order one immdiately. no matter what it costs.”

A colored preacher, In translating to his hearers the sentence; “The harvest is'past, summer is over, and w.e are not saved,” put it: “I>e corn has been cribbed, dere ain’t any more work, and old Satan is still foolin’ wid dis community.• In a trial before a Justice nt Dodge City. Kausas, a witness who was being bullyragged by a cross examination lawyer called on* the Court for protection. The Justice banded him a pistol. “I have no further ques tions,” said the lawyer.

“I say ma’am,” said a man on a eeuntry road, “did you see a bicycle pass here just now?” “No, I didn’t see any kind of a side, mister, but just now I seed a wagon wneel ruuuing away with a pair of egs and a linen collar. You kin believe it or not. I wouldn’t if I hadn’t seed it myself.”

A young man who came forward at a revival meeting in New Carlisle, gave his name as Arthur Thomas, a Chicago burglar, and stated that ho had selected two safes »o be robbed that night, and had strayed into church to kill time. He surrendered his tool*, and aocompauied the sheriff of Whitley county to Ormas to be tried for burglary committed in that place.

A young maß pale, and visibly agitated, hurriedly entered a drug store late one nisrht last week and accost ing the clerk, said: “Give me an ounce of chlorate of potash, will yeu, as quick as you can?” Observing his perturbation, the clerk ventured to ask; “What’s your hurry?” Why, I’ve been kissing our Sundy sohool teach tr since 9 o’clock, and she didn’t tell me till ten miuutes ago that she was afraid she hud the diphtheria.”

/h-re is still living in Prussia a lady in bet youth was on terms of friendly and intimate relationship with Goethe. She Is now the Baroness Ulrike von Lewitzoff, her age is nearly ninety, and her home is at tne Castle of Teziblitz, in Lobositz, where she in great retirement. Her correspondence with the poet is said still to be in existence, and, along with her reminiscences of him, will some day see the light. Its interest is believed to be large. Tho Baroness is iu excellent health and shows a warm interest in modern literature.,

Charles Howard, believed to be an American, aud haring a dozen alia ses has just been sentenced by a London Judge to five years penal servitude. Howard has been engaged in a long series of swindling operations in England, and was wellknown as the “count Hoevardo," “Yon Howard,” “Colonel Steward,” “Colonel Erskine,” “Colonel Stanhope” and “Lieutenant Maur.” The enterprise which finally brought him to grief was an attempt which he made to obtain a sum of money from the Duke of Montrose by fraudulent pretenses.

The ladies an 1 gentleman who call ed to congratulate Mr. Blaine on his oration thought the description of the new style of murdeier the “smooth faced” type, was original aud an admirable protrait of jthe Piesident’s murderer. Whereupon the Sentinel is impelled toexplain In its most pathetic tone, ”Sich .is famel” Every pupil who learned to read thirty years ago remember that passage as one Jthe boys used to learn for declamations, taken from the exordium of Webster’s speech on th* trial of Joseph F. Knapp, for the murder of an old man named White in Salem Mass., in 1880. But even the God like Daniel’s (speeches are iforgotten, and the glory given to Blaine. “So runs the the world away.”

The nineteenth century has witnessed many and very great discoveries and changes: In 1809 Fulton took out his first patent for th* Invention of a steamboat. The first eteamships wbioh made regular trips across the “Atlantis ocean were th* Sirius end Great Western In 1830. The first public applisstioa te practical use of gas for illumination was made in 1103. In 1813 the streets of London wev* for the first time lighted with gas. Ia 1813 there was built in Waltham, Mass., a mill, believed to have been the first in th* world which combined all the requirements for making finished cloth from the raw cotton. In 1790 there were only twentyfive post-offices in the whole country, nnd up to 1837 the rate of pontage was 25 oenta for a letter sent oyer 400 miles. In 180 T wooden oloeks began to be made by maebinery. This ushered in the era of cheap clocks. About ths year 1833 the first railroad of any considerable length in the United States was constructed. In 1840 tbe first experiments fa photography were made by Daguerre. About 1840 tbe first express business wat established. Tbe authracite coal business may be said to have begun In 1(20. In 1836 tbe patent for tbe invention of matches was granted. Steel pens were introduced for use in 1803. The first successful trial of a reaper took place in 1881. In 1846 Ellas Howe obtained a pat ent for his first sewing maoUoe