Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1884 — The Elephant and the Buddhist Priest. [ARTICLE]

The Elephant and the Buddhist Priest.

Two young ladies were gazing at the white elephant as it stood enthroned in all its sacred splendor and surrounded by the mystic emblems of its holy character and the adoring priests who were kneeling devoutly ou every side. “How curious it is,” remarked one, “that any race of people should be so deluded as to worship an elephant.” “It is, indeed,” replied the other sadly. “When I look upon this worshiping throng of ignorant, superstitious creatures, and realize how earnest and sincere they are, I cannot but feel that there should be no rest until the missionary message is borne to the last one of these misguided heathen. ” “True,” asserted the first speaker; “it is a grand and solemn duty ” Just at this juncture the animal flicked his tail and struck one of the Buddhist priest i in ths mouth. “Howly Moses!” he exclaimed, interrupting his devotions, “ye hathen baßte ” and then the young ladies strolled on to the monkeys’ cage—Philadelphia Call. Dr. Dudgeo , the famous homeopathist physician of London, recalls the l'act—apropos of Koch’s investigations into the nature of the cholera germ—that Hahnemann in D3l suggested that the contagious matter of < holera consisted of “excessively minute, invisible living creatures,” and accordingly advised the free use of cam hor, which he held to be a po'ent cholera bacillicide —to the effic- cy of which treatment, adds Dr. Dudgeon, the statistics of every epidemio in Europe testify.