Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1890 — AN ADVENTUROUS INFANT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AN ADVENTUROUS INFANT.

The railroad men better look out. Hext year there'll lie enough of baseball players out of jobs to stock every road in the country and leave a .surplus on the side tracks. Blue is the Chinese mourning color, "When you see a Chinaman wearing a blue coat or with blue braid plaited in .his que you may take it for granted that some relative or friend is dead. The miracle-working wells of Galgoeze, in the district of Pressburg, Hungary are attracting so many thousands of pilgrims from the surrounding ing country that the authorities have been forced to call ia the military to keep order. A Wisconsin man won $lO in a novel manner. He met a lady, who, in a jest, offered to bet him $lO that he dared not marry her. He took the bet, picked a quarrel with a young lady to whom he was already engaged, and married the fair bettor. Fully three-fourths of the babies of the world go naked until they get to be five or six years old. The Canadian Indians keep their babies naked up to a certain point, and as for the little Coreans, they wear nothing but a short skirt until they are almost grown. Two traveling hypnotizers agreed to hypnotize a Michigan man for fifty cents, and after he had got it good and strong they wanted $5 to “unhip” him. He refused to pay it and they made a skip, and he is still seeing the red eyes of black cats perched on the foot-board of the bedstead. Most of the Indians have got the idea that a new God is coming—one who will help them drive the white man into the sea, and old Indian fighters predict a grand uprising soon. When the red man gets ready for it he should select his burial spot, for the result will be a wipe-out. The army has no sentiment. It is the greatest delusion in the world for a boy to get the idea that his life is of no conseqence and that the character of it will not be noticed. A manly, truthful boy will shine like a star in any community. A boy may possess as much of noble character as a man. He may so live and speak that there shall be no discount on his word. A curious advertisement which appears in one of the English papers states: “Philanthropist—A lady would be pleased to hear from any benevolent persons willing to assist her in procuring the necessary funds for the academical training of an intelligent young man who is compelled against his inclination to earn his living in trade. Please communicate,” etc. ’’ Sam Jones speaks contemptuously of old men and women who have gone to church so long that they have “sacred rheumatism.” “Sacred rheumatism” contracted through chronic churchgoing may be a bad ailment, but it is neither so debilitating to the victims nor so disgusting to the public as Sam’s infirmity, ministerial hysterics, contreated though soul-saving by the job. It is an addition to the great repute of Samuel J. Randall that, after so many years of Congressional service, during which there were many times when his vote or influence would have been worth a fortune to interested lobbyists, he died worth but $5,000. Many persons disagreed with Mr. Randall’s principles and opposed his policy with all strenuousness, but none doubted his honesty. A Mormon elder gives his view that the proclamation of the Mormon-Presi-dent against polygamy will be welcomed in the household of a great majority of the Mormon saints in Utah. “The practice of polygamy in our church,” he says, “has been dying out ever since the death of Brigham Young, from whom it derived its strength.” This Mormon elder’s view agrees with the figures reported by the census taken in Utah. When Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher went out as a bride to her husband’s first parish in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, the young couple began house-keeping in a small domicile of two rooms over a stable, costing them forty dollars a year, and she sold some of her wedding fineries to help to furnish this bare abode. One cold room of a barn-like building served as the church, and on Saturday afternoons it was Mrs. Beecher’s part to sweep and dust it, and fill the lard-oil lamps, while the minister chopped the wood, cut the kindlings, and laid the fires. Among the residents of New York City is a wealthy old lady who has a habit of sending handsome gifts of money to needy persons whom she believes to be doing worthy work in literature, or art, or the pulpit. She does so in the most private way, desiring that only the beneficiaries shall be aware of her deeds, and seeking only to be useful in her life and seclusion. She acts solely upon her own judgment in each case. The banker through whom she sends checks to the recipients of her bounty says he alone keeps account of the depth of the exchequer from which ■he draws. A competition for new designs for United States coins will soon be opened, ■nd every sculptor in America who pos-

sesses both talent and patriotism should certainly enter it. Designs for the standard silver dollar and the five cent nickle piece are to be first adopted, but the Indian head on the 1-cent piece and the figure of Liberty on the dime, quarter and half-dollar will also be changed. Superintendent Bosbyshell, of the Philadelphia mint, points out the fact that the designs must be in very low relief, which is particularly difficult to work with. But the Greek coins were also in low relief, and yet their beauty has been a delight for twenty centuries. A duel was recently fought at a little village on the Belgian frontier in which everything was conducted under strict antiseptic precautions. The sword blades were first placed in boiling -water and then carefully washed in a 5 per cent, solution of carbolic acid. The surgeons were ready with a corrosive sublimate solution of one to a thousand and a number of gauze pledgets which had been rendered asceptic by thorough baking. Unfortunately for the success of the experiment, the duel was of the ordinary French kind, and the only wound received was slight cut on the hand, which healed promptly after the application of a small piece of asceptic court plaster. St. Paul Island is one of the chief resorts of the seals in Behring Sea, For about six hundred feet up from the water the ground slopes gently, and it is along this incline the seals establish themselves, the coast for sixteen miles some seasons being literally black with the animals. The males are very quarrelsome and fight for their positions, making a din almost deafening, which may be heard for miles. Here the young seal are born and nursed for a few days by the mothers, who then desert them to be cared for by the older males until they are big enough to shift for themselves. The antics of the young while learning to swim are highly amusing. They flounder about in the water at first as totally helpless as a kitten. It is soon over, however, the seal being the most graceful of swimmers.

The Child of Three Years Who Survived Three Days and Three Nights in the Forest. Wee little Dayton Weaver, of Hudson, N. Y., is only three years old, but he has gone through an experience that will probably not be forgotten by him in this life. His remarkable survival of three days and nights’ exposure in rain and cold in the forests and mountains adjacent to his home has recently been told in the dispatches to the daily press. The little fellow is now quite content to stay at home, and is not satisfied to be out of sight of his mother. Frank, the young dog which staid with him

so closely, is in better health, but lies on the floor near his companion. Dayton does not know what fear is. and makes friends with strangers on short acquaintance. He is a thorough boy, loving the open air and taking great interest in animals of all kinds. When asked about his recent adventures, he only repeats that he was hungry and cold and that it was very dark. His attachment for the dog seems to have greatly increased, and the dog seems to realize that their love, each for the other, is founded on perils endured together. When Dayton’s mother asked him if he intended to run away any more he clung closely to her and said: “No! no!” Then he looked at Frank. But Frank was wagging his tail and hanging his tongue out, and generally trying to express the idea he didn’t care how’ soon they started. The portrait above is from a photograph taken about a year ago, and since then Davton has lost the curls. Aside from that he has changed little. He is three years old.

Florence E. Kollock, Universallst Minister. One of the most remarkable women in Chicago is Miss Florence E. Kollock, pastor of the handsome Univer-

salist Church at the corner of Sixty-fifth street and Stewart avenue. The church building is a monument to her untiring work and devotion to her faith. Miss Kol- , lock was born in Waukesha, Wis., received an academic education at the State University at Madison, and

subsequently attended the theological department of St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y. On entering the ministry she was sent to . Waverly, la., where she remained two and a half year, when she came to Chicago. The church in which Miss Kollock preaches is a pretty brick edifice, costing $25,000, and holding between 1,000 and 1,200 people. The congregation in regular attendance numbers 400, but the church is filled to the doors every Sunday morning to hear Miss Kollock’s stirring sermons.