Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1890 — Page 4

®i)cj9tmocrattcsentinel RENSSELAER. INDIANA. f. W. McBWEN, - - - POBLgM* ,

A YorNA man walked in his sleep one night last week, at Slaterville, Ga., and when he awoke he found himself at a grindstone sharpening his knife. The women of Anam wear a hat that is like a large barrel cover, being twen-ty-seven inches in diameter. Six or seven silk cords as thick as a quill are suspended on each side. Farmer Camp employs 250 Piute Indians in picking hops near Folsom, Sacramento County. Their time is to be kept by a young woman of the tribe, who is a graduate of the Reno High School. Ismael Pasha, the ex-Khedive of Egypt, is practically a prisoner at his residence on the Bosphorus. The Turkish government recently refused him permission to go to Carlsbad to take the waters for his health. A German from Boston recently died while on a visit to Germany. While living his weight was 350 pounds. His body was cremated and the ashes, weighing six ounces, were mailed to his friends in the Hub City. There is a negro woman who lives near Athens who prepares herself for death every night, and who is always terribly surprised to And herself alive mornings She wishes to die in a blue gown, in which she arrays herself before lying down every night. Rev. Dr. Meredith, who, next to Dr. Talmage, preaches to the largest audiences in Brooklyn, was a sailor boy. It was in that capacity that he first arrived in San Francisco, where he remained for some time and then went to Boston to study for the ministry. The big crowd at a county fair in West Virginia had it in their minds that a balloonist went up inside a balloon, and, therefore, when the aeronaut undertook to go up in a car attached they sassed him with bitter tongues and pelted him with the fruit of the hen. A novel idea in connection with the national encampment of the Grand Army in Detroit next year already is broached. It provides, instead of the customary parade, for all the veterans present to be grouped upon a huge raft upon the river to be viewed from passing boats. An officer in the navv has invented a method of removing stranded vessels, which is highly commended by naval authorities. As a device of this kind has always been one of the greatest necessities of the navy, it seems proper to remark again that necessity is the mother of invention.

The Czar's personal body-guard of private police consists of fifteen specially picked Corsicans, mature and tried men, chosen and trained by M. Celertin Pietri, nephew of Napoleon lll.’s Minister of Police. These men have to keep watch in the kitchens and private apartments, -while some of them act as assistant cooks. It is intended gradually to increase the corps as suitable men can be found. A short courtship is reported from Maine. Deacon Marvin, one of the early settlers of Buckfield, one day mounted his horse with only a sheepskin for a saddle, rode in front of the house where Betty Lee lived, and without dismounting, requested Betty to come to him. On her coming he told her that the Lord had sent him there to marry her. Betty, without much hesitation, replied: “The Lord’s will be done.” The Memphis Avalanche tells the story of James Miller, who left a fortune to his early sweetheart, Jennie James, of James’ Switch, Ind., and describes the woman as the “slanderbearer” of the chief Sunday-school of the place. The Avalanche may have meant to say “standard-bearer,” but if it doesn’t hurry up and apologize for the work of its depraved compositors it may have a libel suit on its hands in no time. A log cutter found a bottle containing SI,OOO in gold dust near Sly Park, El Dorado County, Cal. He was sawing a tree down when he struck something. He could not imagine what the saw could be striking in the middle of a tree three feet thick! After the tree was down and an examination made a bottle containing SI,OOO in gold dust was found in the center of the tree. It was probably put in there many years ago by some old miner. Some of the bravest girls in our large cities today are making homes for themselves in but one good-sized room, and how they manage would make an interesting contribution to household lore. They eat the food which they have prepared and honestly earned at the counter or in the office, and the time which they count their own is largely occupied in the necessary and pleasant work of keeping their house in order, and they thoroughly appreciate t2>e privilege of possessing and caring wmetbiDg of their own. ' APottstown, Pa., pastor has been re«gS£sted to resign his charge because it fcs* been found by the church authority* that he used undue influence to sebis position by electioneering at a ekrsreh picnic. “Electioneering” at a efatfxb picnic must necessarily consist is> doing the agreeable to the sisters «n 4 itm children, and if a shepherd is

not to bo allowed to frisk about with the lambs on such festive occasions pastoral life will hardly be worth living for some of ’em, that’s all. The race problem was on the wav to a solution in Reading, Pa., when an untoward event checked its progress. A young white girl of that place was beloved of two gentlemen of color and would have undoubtedly married one of them—as soon as he could have gotten a divorce from his wife. Unfortunately a fierce quarrel broke out between the two rivals and in the conflict one of them was slain. As the other one goes to prison the girl is disconsolate and the settlement of the race difficulty is indefinitely postponed. In a town not a thousand miles from this city, recently, an Englishman at a public reception was making himself an ass generally by his vanity and arrogance, says the New York Tribune. In conversation with a bright American lady there was a reference made to some families of America. “Do yon know,” remarked the Briton, with his most supercilious drawl, “that it always amuses me when any one speaks of old families in the States, because it is so utterly absurd, you know. Of oourse in England it is different. For instance, I cr.n traoe my family back to William the Conqueror without the slightest trouble.” “Indeed,” replied the lady with a merrv twinkle, “I ana surprised at. that; I had an idea that yon could go back at least as far Baalam’s ass.”

The new military law of Frence has considerably increased her fighting material. According to the figures of the War Minister, recently published, the French army on a war footing number* at present four million five hundred thousand traiued soldiers. The German army is now numerically inferioi to that of France; and the French say that, although the German population is considerably greater than that ot France, the male population of the twc countries is about the same. In othei words, the emigration from Germany has left an excess of female population at home, and has drained off an immense number of fighting men. This state of affairs is probably the real cause of the pacific protestations of the young Emperor and of the cessation of war cries in the German press. And Crispi, too, is begining to be more civil than he used to be. The fact is, the armies of Russia and France are amply able to make the triple alliance behave itself.

A LADY BOBOLINK.

Mr*. Albert Barker, the Wonderful Kngliftli Whistler. Mrs. Alliert Barker, who has pnzzled London audiences with her wonderful “bird-notes,” has just been engaged for a long tour in Ireland, Scotland, and the north of England. Mrs. Barker is a daughter of one of the old English families, and, oddly enough, the subject of one of Tennyson’s best poems, which she recites; and on the maternal side she is closely allied to a noble Scotch family. When

MRS. ALBERT BARKER.

quite a little girl she showed extraordinary dramatic talent, which, however, was promptly suppressed by her relatives, lest she might commit the fearful social sin of “going on the stage,” which twenty years ago was not quite so much in the fashion as now. After her marriage she determined to put her powers to practical use, and, by way of a compromise, studied reciting. determined, as she herself has said, “to climb to the top of the ladder.” In this she has unquestionably succeeded, as she can hardly be said to have a rival among her own sex in the branch of the profession she shines in.

The Poison of the Goldenrod.

The poison of the goldenrod arises from a fluffy or powder-like substance, which the flower produces as it begins to decay, which increases day by day, and sends forth its poison around, entirely imperceptible, and the peaceful sleeper inhales it to such an extent as to lay him up for several days, says a writer in the New York Star. In some respects the symptoms are not unlike “La Grippe.” It irritates the throat, !>roduces violent sneezing, makes the imbs feel as though burdened by a heavy weight, and depresses the patient to such a degree that he hardly cares whether school keeps or not.

Not for the People.

A Mississippi postmaster shut his office up and went off on a fishing trip for three days, and when the public complained he replied: "Dura your valler ears, but do you reckon this ’ere thing is ran lor your convenience! Whar’ do I come in ? What in blank is the use of letters, anyway ?”— Detroit Free Press. Educating the boy is the parent’s endeavor to get him to choose right.

SMILES OF CONTENTMENT

ISSUED FROM THE PENS OP • VARIOUS HUMORISTS. Pletunl Incident* Or-rurrtn* Ik* W*rM Over— Say loss that Are Cheecrni he the Old or Young—Joke* that Everybody Will Enjoy Reading. Aunt Mina was the colored nurse. She had brought in the baby, who could sit alone, intending it to be praised and admired, as alt babies are. Seating it on a cushion, she hang over it with solicitous care and pride, while the lambkin, not having the hinges of its unpracticed back in complete control, pitched north, south, east, and west, after a fashion of citizens of its age. “The baby has not lost its center of gravity,” said a gentleman at a dinner of unnsnal merit. “Wha’s dat?” said Aunt Mina, resentfully; and then quickly picking the baby up, she carried it from the room. Au hour after Aunt Miua came in. “Wha’ dot gemmen say dia baby lose, Miss Sallie ?” she inquired. “He said it lost its center of gravity,” was the reply. “Well, it di’n’t lose nuffin’ of de kine. I don’t want you b’lieve, Miss Sallie, I lose dem chiJlen close. I jes’ done took dat chile right out an’ zamined him, an’ dar was de center ob grav’ta right whar I pin it.”

Dressed Tor the Occasion.

Summer shore-dweller (as the buckboard goes through the bridge)—Hang on, Billy! It isn’t as bad as it might be. Billy—l know it, Sam. We’ve got our yachting caps on. — Puck.

Ability. Stranger (to citizen) —"Who is that man riding along yonder? Citizen—Col. Baggies, one of our most prominent citizens. “Mustbo rich.” “Extremely so.” “Made his money by speculating, I suppose.” “No, sir, he made it in the smartest possible way. His money is the product of a fertile brain.” “Make it by literary work ?* “Oh, no. I’ll tell you how he made it. Some time ago he stole two hundred thousand dollars. He was sent to the penitentiary for live years.” But where loes the fertility of brain come in V” “Why, my dear sir, he had the ability to hide that money where no oue could find it. Oh, he’s a great man.”—Arkansan: Traveler.

He Got Po»t“«l. “What on earth is that vehicle galloping in that fashion for?” he asked of a pedestrian on Clifford street. “That is the ambulance.” “Oh! something connected with the doctors ?” “Yes.” “Well, they are in an awful hurry to collect their bills to drive that way.” “Some one has been hurt and the ambulance will take him to the hospital for treatment.” "Oh, that’s it! Well, that’s more sensible. I thought it queer if they galloped around after a debtor in that fashion.” —Detroit Free Press. A Uhil Ulto. Mrp. Reel—You have been drinking, Mr. R. Look at your nose. Mr. Reel--I—l’ve been fishing, you know, my dear, and—and fishermen always have to take something along for snake bites, you know, my dear. Mrs. R—But you haven’t been following a mountaiu stream; you were out on the ocean, after bluefish. Mr. R.—Y—e—s, my dear. I—l was bitten by a sea-serpent, my dear —New York Weekly. He Was Only Rehearsing. Daughter—Papa, don’t you know it is bad manners to put your hands in your pockets? Papa—No, my dear; I was only practicing.” Daughter —Practicing what? Papa—To put my hands in my pockets, for I shall have to keep them there all the time after you have married that dude you are engaged to. Old and New Schools.

Small Boy—l’m too sick to go to school to-day. Mamma—Then lie down and I’ll send for a doctor. “Dr. Pellet?” “No. He’s a homeopath. I shall send for Dr. Castor, the allopath.” “Never mind, mamma; I feel better. "Where’s my books?”— Street & Smith's Good News.

Ihe Touchstone of Female Beauty. A company of ladies and gentlemen were playing at forfeits when a wag proposed that all the rest should do as he did. He thereupon took a handkerchief. dipped it in water, and began rubbing his face. “Now, all of you do the same,please!” At this the ladies, in a body, got up and fled from the room.— Fai'is Figaro. A Desperete Remedy. Tom—l hear your engagement with Miss lioseleaf is off. What was the trouble? Hnrrv—Ob, I got dead broke and had to break the contract so I could pawn the ling I gave her. No Doubt About It. “So Jack is married, eh? Do vou think he'll get along , well with 'bis wife?” “I’m quite sure he will. They sang in the same choir for two years without quarreling.”— Chatter,

WUh Calf (Uatflag. •I am going to writ* hn article on b*U*t girla," he said, “and I, wish to oooault some authorities and references." "All right," aaid the librarian. "Can you recommend any reference**" "Well," said the librarian, slowly, “I should recommend ‘Locke on the Understanding.’ "—Cape Cod Item.

After llw School Commcßccmcnt “So you have got two prizes?" “Yea, papa." “What are they for?" “Well, I got the prize for haring the West memory." “Well, what was the other?” “I can't think at the moment what that was for.”— Courrier dta EtatsUnis. A Hard Life. BeneTolent lady (to tramp)—Here, my poor man, is all we have left this morning. I suppose you have a hard time of it ? Tramp—Yes, mum. It's awful hard, mum, to leave a nice soft hav-mow so early in the mornin’, or else git around too late for breakfas’.”— Hew York Weekly, He Wasn’t Superstit our. Teacher (in grammar school)—Tour lesson to-day is on nouns. Nouns are names of things. Small Boy—ls ghost a noun? Teacher—Yes. Small Boy—How can it be? There ain’t no such a thing as a ghost.—Harper's Bazar. The Elements Against Th^tn. Assistant (looking out at the window) —General, it’s still raining, with no apparent idea of stopping. Gen. Greely (desperately)—That so? Well, we can’t do anything else but prophesy wet weather, then.”—Lawrence American.

.Satisfaction Guaranteed. Stage Manager—Mr. Heavy, you will take the part of Alonzo. Mr. Heavy—l have never seen this play. Do you think I can please tlie audience in that viart? “Immensely. You die in the first act.” —New York Weekly. Tile True Test. “W hat kind of a time did you have at the picnic?” “No picnic about it!” “That so? Why not?” “Why not? See here! They didn’t even sing ‘Home Again’ on the wav back !”—Lowell Citizen. Measuring; by tile Eye. Young Lady—l want a pair of shoes, large and comfortable. Two will do. New Boy (glancing at her foot)—Mr. Leather, the lady wants two shoes, large and comfortables. Where’s that box of sixes. —Street & Smith's Good News. A Long Good-Night. Travers—Did you know that Simkins stutters ? Jagway—Stutters! I should say so. He started to say good-night to me the other evening and before he got through I had to invite him to breakfast. Didn’t Need It. "WM Stage Manager (to proprietor of the theater) —Our scene shifter w’ants a vacation. He says he hasn’t been away for five years. Proprietor—Well, tell him he cannot have one. He gets chunge of scenery enough for anybody.

A Gemle Hint.

Editor—ls you didn’t drink so much Mr. Soqne, you could make a great deal of money. How in the world did you ever form the habit? So/^ue —Well, I began by taking a nip every time I had a poem rejected, and it’s kept me pretty full lately; but I'd really like a chance to reform. — Puck. The Wicked. Little Boy—Papa, when the preacher talked about wicked people he didn’t look at the congregation, he looked up in the air. Why was that? Papa—He was probably looking at the choir. —New l ork Weekly. He Could Change It. “Wliat a queer name yon have, Miss Booglespeele!” he said,* after he had asked her once or twice to pronounce it for him. “Well,” she responded, with just the sweetest smile, “you know what you can do with that name, Mr. Smith.” On His Knees Frequently. He—How would you like to spend the honeymoon in Lapland? She—l wouldn’t care to. That’s where we passed the most of our courtship, you know. Har«l On Itald-Headed Men. A scientist declares that “the soul is the oil of the hair.” This is pretty hard on the bald-headed men.—Somci'ville Journal. Kove Is Cnough. He —I love you so, my darling, can’t you love me a little bit? She —Yes—I—l do love you, but we are too poor to marry. He —I didn’t ask you to marry me.— Terre Haute Express. . Brown’s Pleasant Way. Brown—Helloa, Smith, have you change for a V? Smith —Yes; here you are. Brown—“-Thanks. I’ll 'bring the $5 bill next week.

ADMIRED HIS HORSEMANSHIP.

Hon George W. Campbell Won an English Girl tor a Wife.

R. GEORGE W. Campbell, of Chi- , ) cago. owes the I success of his loveJ making to his exF pert horsemanship. When ridL ing a spirited aniw mal at a “Wild * West” show in England in 1887 he excited the admiration of Miss Helen Dodd, daughter .of Sir

Thomas Dodd, and the acquaintanceship that followed led to the marriage cf the young people. Mr. Campbell, after winning his bride, was unable, on account of business engagements, to cross the water to wed her, and she came to America in care of Capt. John R. Dewar, the Superintendent of the Guion, Steamship Line, an old friend of her father’s family, to meet her future husband. The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., of the Twenty-third Street Baptist

Church, at Association Hall in New York. The young couple are now living in a palatial mansion on Chicago’s most aristocratic thoroughfare. George W. Campbell is the . son of James H.| Campbell, the mill-] ionaiie cattleman * and head of the J. H. Campbell Com-

pany of Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Omaha. He now occupies the place of chief salesman for the company. He is 25 years old. When but 15 years of age he ran away from home and went to Texas, where he followed the wild life of a cowboy, during which he acquired that marvelous expertness in horsemanship which secured him his bride. While in Liverpool, a little more than a year ago, in a spirit of fun be took part in a “Wild West” show which

MRS. G. W. CAMPBELL.

private boxes. While waving her kerchief to the gallant rider a gust of wind snatched it from her hand and carried it out to the center of the track, where it fell in the dirt. Campbell was coming down the raceway on the full run and saw the bit of lace fall. Without checking his horse he bent low in the saddle, and as he swept by picked it up. He was cheered to the echo as he turned his pony, and riding up to the box returned the handkerchief to its fair owner. Introductions followed through the medium of a mutual friend. The occupants of the box proved to bo Sir Thomas Dodd, of West Derby, near Liverpool, and his eighteen-year-old daughter Helen. Between the young people it was a case of love at first sight. Objections to the marriage were raised on both sides, but it was finally decided that if Campbell did not change his mind in a year no further objections would be made. The sequel has been told. Mrs. Campbell L a beautiful brunette, with hair and eyes that verge on black in color. She is medium in height and has a graceful curriage.

AUSTIN CORBIN'S BOAR COLONY

The Sort of Animals Brought from the Black Forest to Mew Hampshire. Austin Corbin, ex-President of the Reading Railroad Company, has imported a number of young wild boars and sows from the Black Forest of Germany and turned them out to pasture in his own forest of 21,000 acres in New Hampshire, where he has had such wild game to hunt as caribou, elk, moose and deer, but nothing to

BLACK FOREST WILD BOAR.

test the mettle of the hunter. The member of Mr. Corbin’s boar colony that is depicted herewith is not full grown. He stands two feet high in front and eighteen inches in the rear. He is three feet long. His bristles stand out on his body like quills. Their color is a mixture of dirty yellow and dark-brown. The eyes are large and dark-brown, and the snout is as black as coal. This is the first attempt to introduce the wild lioars of Germany into this country, and is undertaken in the spirit of a sportsman w r ho, no.w that the panther has become scarce and the hear almost extinct in the American forests, thirsts for game that will be worth the hunting.

An Old Subscriber.

“Johnny,” asked Mr. Mene, “what is the address of the Weekly Banner ?” “I don’t know, sir,” said Johnny. “Well, run over to Mr. Brown’s and borrow a copy of this week’s paper, and we’ll soon find out. I want to write a note to the editor.” And he signed himself Old Subscriber. Barber Does the razor cut all right? Victim—lt seems to. That’s the third mole you’ve chipped off. - J

G. W. CAMPBELL.

was exhibiting there. One day during a performance he picked a silver dollar out of the mud by reaching down from the back of his horse while it was going at full speed. Every one in the audience ap.plauded, but none so vigorously as a young girl who, with her father, occupied one of the

A NOTED FEMALE ATHLETE.

An Exp.it in Bicycling, Rowing, Canoe* ing, Swimming and Other Pastime*. In the person of Mrs. H. E. Buermeyer New York has a woman whocomes as near being an all-round athlete as any of her sex. She is the wife of the ex-champion amateur heavyweight boxer, Harry Buermeyer. Shorn but five feet tall, but of so compact frame that she weighs 135 pounds. As President of the ladies’ division of the Fresh Air Club, Mrs. Buermeyer oftem accompanies the members of the clubon their pedestrian tours, and can turn off thirty miles over the rough roads ata gait with as littlediscomfort as the average city woman can climb three flights of stairs. Shecan, and has done so when occasion arose, increased the pace to four miles au hour for several hours, performances that would break up ninety outof every 100 men, who glow fatigued if, perchance, they walk to and from, their offices. At mountain climbingMrs, Buermeyer is as spry as an Alpine*

MRS. H. E. BUERMEYER.

fraulein. She is a long distance skater,, and on her “safety” bicycle a day’sjourney on rough roads, up and down hill, is but of small moment to her. When she rides or drives, the horse knows his master is holding the reins. She handles a pair of sculls with such; skill, power and masculine action that, but for her dress she would be taken for one of the sterner sex when in a boat. She is as adept in a canoe as a. Canadian Indian, and although Mr. Buermeyer’s abilites as a swimmer are well knowfl he yields the palm to hiswife. She is a powerful swimmer, with an easy, graceful style. She has quite a record at lifting weights, and! has negotiated 625 pounds on several occasions, something remarkable for a* woman of her physique. As might be expected, Mrs. Buermeyer is fall of animal spirits and is one of the jolliest little women under the sun. She does not know what illness is, brings home an appetite that would be creditable to a hod carrier, has cheeks that would put a rose toblush and is one of nature’s mostbeautiful productions—a healthy, happy woman.

FRIENDS OF THE LEPERS.

The Work ot Sinter Rose Gertrude and Dr. Lutz at Kalihi, Hawaii. Sister Rose Gertrude, whose quarrel with the Board of Health of Honolulu, has shaken up the sleepy islands, is an

Englishwoman wh ojwent to Hawaii something like four monthsago, after a careful course of study, to do* ;w li a t one woman !could to ameliorate the misery of theilepers of Molokai. Her worldly name iaAmv Fowler and shejis 27 years of age. Her 'first attempt in theworld was the post oF Secretary to an art critic in London. Shethen went to Paris* and learned typewrit-

SISTER ROSE GERTRUDE.

ing. A few years after this she joined! the Roman Catholic Church, and when only twenty years of age resolved todevote her life to suffering humanity,, to which end she now began to purßUeher medical studies—first, by learning everything connected with the duties - of sick nurse, for whioh she has been given several certificates. Leprosy was the disease that interested her most and of which there can always befound several cases in the hospitals of ’ Paris. She studied with Pasteur and* 'relieves in his theory of micro-organ-ism. It was a severe disappointment: to Sister Rose Gertrude that, instead* of being sent to Molokai, she was detailed for service at Kalihi, the receiving station. Dr. Lutz, whose Dame has been mentioned in the dispatches regarding Sister Rose Gertrude’s controversy with*

the Board of Health, is an eminent dermatologist, who has studied the disease of 1 leprosy in Brazil for ten years. He has already effected some wonderful im-f provements in patients under his] care at Kalihi, the 1 leper-receiving station, and the Government has re-

ceived numerous petitions to nominate him as President of the Hawaiian Board of Health, to give him thecharge and control of all the lepers or • suspects. Dr. Lutz is also an enthusiastic bacteriologist, and it may be hoped that ere long a prophylaxis and therapeutics of leprosy may be madeknown to the world by him which will: prove more efficacious than the meanshitherto employed by either scientists or soi-disant doctors or leper-curers.

The electrically deposited copperwhich is now being manufactured by am. English company has its particles rubbed into each other by an agate burnisher, the result being a metal with a tensile strength of twenty-five tons per square inch, twenty per cent, of elongation, and of Buch purity that when drawn into wire the electrical conductivity: is four per cent, better than the standard. This copper is so ductile that it can be drawn into wire of which, forty miles will weigh only one pound. It will be used for steam pipes, conducting wires, eto.

DR. LUTZ.