Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1892 — ABOUT A CORK. [ARTICLE]

ABOUT A CORK.

Its Autobiography Pleasantly Told In Jerky Sentences. I am a cork. Young in years, very young. One day I was taken from u bundle of other corks. Put into a bottle of champagne. Sent to the Hotel Continental, Paris. Thrown on the floor of room 95. Lay there two days. - Was picked np by Leon Gascon. He tried to put nw into a bottle of absinth. 1 wouldn't go in. Was cursed and thrown on the floor again. Kicked by Leon when he reached for his revolver, muttering: “It is false; good-bye, Louise.” ' Next day was picked up by a chambermaid. Thrown out on the street. A ragpicker took me up. Sold me to a cork cutter. Was plated among other corks. Next day wus trimmed, pared, till I was a very ghost of a champagne cork. Was sold to a druggist. Put into a pint bottle of eau de cologne. Bought by a lady. Placed in a dressing case. Confined to a trunk. Shipped to New Aork. Put on a train. Jolted around by an expressman. Taken out of the trunk, placed on the toilet table of u Prairie avenue belle. Carefully taken out and replaced each day for months. Began to grow spongy. Wrinkled in face. Lost my co or. » Grew smaller, narrower, shrunken. Head softened. Lower extremities withered. A prey to microbes. A tremble. A glass stopper will take my place tomorrow. I go—where?--[Chicago Times. There is a good story told of the powers of the Rev. W. H. Gladden, the evangelist. Mr. Gladden wus brought into prominence lust summer by his work at the Tarentum camp meeting. There the religious fervor ran so high that it wus a common occurrence for persons at the meetings to become overpowered und remain insensible for some time. One instance is recalled of a man who, becoming excited, shouted “Gio ” and then fell over unconscious, remaining in that condition for an hour. On coming to he completed the exclamation by saying “ry," showing that his mouth had been set to say “Glory," but at ths first syllable animation was suspended, and when the senses were restored ths lips had to complete the word.