Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 29, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 June 1881 — Page 6

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THE STRANDED STALWART.

' ttong'ht to leave the town before, jet here I star, and star ; -. Tor paases are so tamal scarce, I can not get away ; And so against my strong desire, I still am dead- " ' locked here. Depending on penurious friends to buy my bread and beer. I came here bright and early, and I hoped to rule the roast. 'To help the stalwart cause, and give myself a splendid boost; But life has soured upon me, I hare sorter run ashore. And now the whole thing has got toj&e a wretchdd t ore, t They tell me tVre will "be a change; but really, I don't.arnow: That things will brighten up when Grant gets bad from Mexico; m , That then our stout and stubborn crowd will buck - againjt the game. And win or lose a pile as they investigate the tame. ' I hain't got much to ose myself, snould I be so ' inclined: But if I had, that sort of game would scarcely suit my mind. It Isn't us that's dealin now, to give ourselves a a show, r And how can things improve when Grant gets back from Mexico? To tell the solid truth, I wish I hadn't started In. And wish some kind and liberal friend would coax me on t again. I'm sure that I would slip away as slyly as a mouse. Could be coaxed with a bit of cheese inside tne Custom House. New York Sun. A LOVE CIIASE. I will not begin at the beginning and describe how, in my boji3h Bays, 1 sported with Miss Cilly Busse. I will not describe how we used to romp together, go to danc-Jng-8chool,.together and reciprocate all those little innocent endearments usual between children of nearly the same age and opposite sexes. ' "When I had just left College, and not yet recovered my pitying dismay at the small regard which the world in general paid to classic, moral philosophy and metaphysics, when the first faint visions of a mustache came over my mind, and I daily examined with solicitude the soft down of my upper lip; when I enjoyed the novel excitement, and knew not of the agoniei of shaving; when my watch chain did not hang in aublime independence far in front ot my legs; in these happy days I renewed my intimacy with Miss Cilly 13 assy. Iler mother and elder sister kept a small girl's school, in which Miss Cilly wa3 a sort of supernumerary, that in, she attended to the wardrobes, general department, and oo- - c&sionally the moral principles of the pupils, i and took any class which happened tobe without regular instruction. v . By degrees, I began to regard the grimlooking house in which the Busses lived with very friendly feelings. To those who approached it in the morning with boDKs in hand, and a fearful weight of unlearned lessons fen' their minds, it seemed to cause a chill, like the first asfect of a dungeon; but to me the dull rick walls appeared to inclose a garden of Academus. 2so wonder that I went there often. There I would find Miss Harmonia Busse engaged in the porusal of some formidable treatise on education. Of course I never disturbed her. There would be Mrs. Busse reading some fearful religious work, by whose means shd could satisfactorily disturb the minds of all her friends and relatives. I never tried to distract her mind from eo agreeable an occupation. But there would be Cilly, sitting in a deep windowseat that would just hold two, and looking sweetly with her little feet tucked under her, and her soft little hands engaged in some inscrutable piece of feminine employment It was but natural that I should take the other half of the window, and that, eo cut off from everybody else, we should grow extremely confidential. We used to talk about everything about poetry, about our neighbors, about the flowers, and the last piece of scandal; about the stars, and about ourselves. I enjoyed the conversations extremely. Sometimes we were left alone in the room, but that used to make no difference, until one evening, when the colloquy took a turn which startled, dismayed and confounded me. I believe we were talking about the stars; Miss Cilly was speaking as she generally did. She pointed out to my admiring gaze the evening star the star of love, i'rom thence we digressed to the affections. Miss Cilly' ideas of love were of the loftiest character. She could surrender all, endure all, accomplish all things,' for the object of her love. If loved, .. she desired no other bliss; if .scorned, she 'signed vt i that she would Ciürfaber love jjinto the grive. .She kne)f- that 'she could fnver loyatnore than we her first love would be her last. She could not believe in the possibility of any other marriage than one of affection money poor dross, what '. was it that it should take the place of the only thing which could render existence happy? These ideas were not precisely original, but being very earnestly and tenderly expressed, they .touched me extremely. Then Miss Cilly began to be inquisitive as to my experience in the tender passion. She insisted that I had been in love, and was determined to know the object ot my affections. Being a nervous and bashful man, the state to which a quarter of an hour's cross-examination reduced me can, perhaps, be inagined I know of no writer who could deuict it. After having obtained thorough and complete information as to the substance of every conversation I had with any young woman in tho town during the last month. Miss Cilly began to draw de- . ductiona. This was the climax to my agony. : and I burst forth in self-vindication. I assured Miss Cilly that I had been nowhere a tithe of the times that I had been to see her; that I liked nobody else as well as I ' liked her; and that if she was determined to ' declare me in love with somebody, it must be with herself. 1 can not be certain that these were the words of speech, but they were certainly the intention. Judge, then, of my horror and confusion when 1 beheld ' Miss Cilly first blush, then draw forth her pocket-hankerchief, and then in a voice broken with emotion, reply: That she had lone thought I cared for her a little, but that the shock of so full an announcement of my feelings was very trying; that she reciprocated my affection, and that she was ready to do for me all that " ehe had stated before, of which she now gave ar enlarged and improved edition. That m) own heart must tell me what hers felt at that moment, and must pardon all inaccuracies in expression; whereupon she ubsided ink) her pocket-handkerchief. I believe I did the correct thing I. believe I kissed her hand I have heard her say that I appeared enraptured. It may be; I can not say anything about it. I remember nothing between the conclusion of her speech and my finding myself leaning exhausted againt a fence a quarter of a mile ft Then the whole horrid truth burst upon m. "With no intention of doing so, with o idea but of single blessedness a.id peace, I had become an engaged man, another person's property and that other person a . young woman. I went to bed and dreamed that I had successfully emigrated to the Sandwich Islands. There 1 had just woed and won a dusky bride, when her features changed into Miss Cilly Busse, who, grasping me by the hair, and bearing a parchment inscribed "breach of promise," harried me again into . -wakefulness and misery. When öne has been particularly happy iha night before, the probability is that the

next morning will bring with it -a vague sense of misery; but there is the conclusion that if you go to bed particularly wretched, you are pretty certain to wake in tolerablv good spirits the morning after. "When! nnotiorf mir VP and looked HIT SrrOWS

full in the face, I did not feel so thoroaphlyJ dismayed as before, and was runner encour aged by receiving summons to leave-' Lily vllle at once on important business. I would be out of the way at any rate, aridwho could tell what might turn up? At any rate, I oucht to go and bid good-bye to Cilly Busse. ' Miss Cilly opened th door for me herself: She looked very fresh and blooming, and, though her nose did turn up, her eye were pretty, and I stopped at them and did not examine further. Iler lips were round and soft so were-(3fer cheeks. So strongly was I impressed with her beauty that I involuntarily kksed Miss Cilly Busse, and after I had done so, 1 found that I liked It. Miss Cilly did iiOt struggle very hard, io I did it again. Mi3s Cilly said that was enough ; so we went in and sat side by side on the parlor sofa. .If a gentleman does not want to make immediate and desperate love to a voung woman, do not let him sit on a sofa beside her, particularly a small sofa crede experto. I had not been in that position five minutes, and had not told half nry future intentions, when I discovered that my arms were around Miss Cilly'a vaist, and her head on my shoulder. Consequently I began to feel very bitterly at the necessity of parting, and to express myself to enthusiastically that Miss Cilly was absolutely moved to tears. Yet. ohl the fickleness of youth. No sooner had I got out of the house, where I had just been swearing eternal constancy, than I fervecJy ; hoped never to enter it again. Once out öf sight of Miss Cilly, my feeling toward her began to cool, and by the time that I waj seated In the stage that was to bear me away I was as impatient of the chain that bound me to her as I had ever been before. I sat in the stage, unmindful of my fellow passengers, and weighed down by gloomy reflections on my destiny. After a time I became nervously aware of the fact that my opposite neighbor was looking at me. Being naturally aroused by this to return the same, a sudden elevation of my eyes brought them jn contact with the glance of two soft, dark orbs, gleaming timidly from the recess of a traveling hat. From that instant I felt that I was gone that I was madly in love that naught on earth should separate mc from the proprietress of those heavenly eyes. I cast Miss Cilly Busse from my recollection. I was soon in easy conversation with Rose Mayland such, she informed me, was her name. I found out that we were both going to remain some time, and that I might call and see her if I liked. I did not find the least difficulty in visiting Miss Rose Mayland. After repeated calls I became convinced that Kose reciprocated my sentiments; for she did not appear bored by my visits, and I thought that no humanity could stand two visits a day, ot indefinite length each, without either being bored or in love with the visitor. I would have cast myself at Rose's feet and declared my affection; but there was that horrid engagement with Cilly Busse how to get released from iL Reduced to despair, I tried the last resort left to me. I unbosomed myself to Harry Sinclair. Ilarry Sinclair was a very handsome fellow and perfectly at home everywhere and in every emergency, lie used to imt Ms Mayland in company with me pretty often, though Rose and he did not seem to talk a great deal to each other. "When I told him my unhappy redicament, he puffed his cigar very vioently; so much so that the smoke made him wink and cough violently. He had quite recovered by tho time I had got through, however, and he gavo me the result of his meditations. 'My dear Greene" my name is Adonis Greene "I must admit that you are in a fix. It is not so Etrange to be in love with one girl and marry an other that occurs rather oftener than you imagine. But to get engaged without meaning to, on one evening, fall in love with somebody else the next day, and get out of the first engagement the next week that last will require a generalship. "We will see, however. I am going down to Lilyville to-morrow, and will examine the state of the premises. You hold yourself ready to come down when I write for you; that's all. By the way, Greene, you had better not commit yourself with Miss Mayland until you are clear of this scrape. If I were you I wouldn't call there just now.'' As Harry was going to act fur me so disinterestedly, of course I could do nothing less than take his advice in this respect, as well as other things, though it went sorely against my inclination. The impatience with which I awaited a dispatch from Ilarry was much augumented by my usual daily occupation being taken away. A week passed with no news; two more days of anxiety dragged their lengthened hours along, but, on the 10th, I received a note which aroused me at once. It said: Dili Gmm Com down at once, and quietly; all ia right ao far. When you arrive I will give yon yonr interactions. Tours, 11.8. Harry waa waiting for me and carried me straightway to his lodgings, where he gave me an insight to the state of affairs. That evening Harry went again to the Busses. I gave him half an hour to get the eldest out of the room and to get fairly under way, and then followed. The hall door was open; I passed silently into the parlor and there, in that very window where Miss Cilly had owned herself mine, I discovered her in the arms of Harry Sinclair. Though this was exactly what I wished and expected, yet for the moment my indignation at Cilly's faithlessness overcame every other felling. I groaned out her name. Cilly started for a moment seemed inclined to rush out of the room; but apparently doubting the advisability of leaving her two lovers together, she remained. Mr. Greene" said she "this intrusion " 'Yes, sir," said Sinclair, "allow mo to ask when it became customary for acquaintances to walk into houses without ringing at the door?" u Acquaintances, sir? Ask that lady if I have not a little better right than acquaintai Y ra VAS dip a Kfif rnp i rKf tkon vsia Ka fiuvva i J VOf oaa ta wva a agav a 4 j vi hv tete-a-tete with that lady, to say nothing of more intimate terms. ' Cecilia," said Harry, with a most admirably acted horror, 4,is it true? Are you betrothed to Mr. Greene?" "No need to question, sir. Here I renounce all claim upon her hand; her heart seems to have departed from me already. Farewell Cecilia false one forever." "With these words, spoken in anguish ot manner which, for the moment, was almost real, I rushed frantically from the room. Harry joined me. Then we were both so överpowered by the recollection of our dramatic efforts that we leaned against the fence and shook it with laugher. It was the same place where I had formerly carried my despair. -Well," said Ilarry, "I think that that young woman has had a lesson against flirting with two people at once. As soon as you went I delivered to her a small sermon on the deceit of which she had been guilty; but the words which I had been about to utter when you entered have been driven from my heart In short. I back out in the same frantic style with which you nriade your exit. You did very well, Greene very well would have a fine effect upon the stage. Are there any fried oysters to be

obtained ia tfeis quiet little place?. Emotion makes me hungry." Next morning I awoke with a frantic headache and a vague feeling of remorse. Every other sensation however, was swallowed up in. the horrible agony produced by the following epistle: - i "Dear Gvene I hope you appreciate the disinterestedness of my devotion to you. 1 have freed ybu of your disagreeable engagement, and left you a free man once more. I hope your love for Rose Mayland is a merely imaginary sensation, as that young lady is, and has been for some time engaged to yours very sincerely. ' Harrt Sinclair. "Rose wants to know if yod would like to be groomsman next week.". ' TABLE GOSS It.

The story about Sarah Bernhardt' marrying was a hoax. . - The Cadets at West Point are prohibited from using tobacco. ,' The crowd of office-seekers at Washington is unprecedentedly large. A law student of Cincinnati, named Fred Swarz, has been rendered deaf by smoking cigarettes. Charles O'Conor, though eirhty years of a?e. is building a $10,000 cottage at Nantucket, Mass. Several National Banks have been found delinquent in large sums for taxes upon certain deposits. It is suggested in New York to cremate its dirt not by burning the town down, but by erecting great furnaces in the suburbs. There are now fifteen Mormon settlements in Northern Arizona, with an aggregate population of 7,0U0, and they are growing rapidly. There is more eloquence in the gift of a dollar to a starving family than in jjie most charming sermon that was ever preached on the subject of charity. One evidence of our total depravity is to be found in the fact that it is extremely Sleasant to run over bead andQauira into ebt, and that we are sorry to have to pay, even when we have the money. AVhen they tried to force Miss Gay, of Independence, Mo., into a marriage against her will, she kicked the minister's hat off. knocked the young man down, and rode otT on a mule, with one loot on eacu side of him. Never iron a calico dress on the right side. If ironed smoothly on the wrong side there will be no danger of white spots and gloss, which give a. new dress ,-done up" for the first time the appearance of a time-worn garment, A lady who, in consequence of great reverse of fortune, has been working for a fashionable milliner, says she is absolutely amazed to lind to what an extent in the days of her wealth she was swindled in her bonnets and dresses. A Russian named Kebelkow was born without legs or arms; yet he eats, drinks, fires pistols, threads needles and can write so well that for a year and a half he acted as copyist All this he acquired the ability to do with his mouth, aided by a stump dependent from his right shoulder. He is happily married and the father of two children. He lives in Hamburg. A wealthy Chicago widower is to marry the wife of Mike Weaver, a notorious burglar, as soon as she can get a divorce. He luade her acquaintance when she returned $4,000 worth of plate and jewelry, stolen by Weaver, after the latter was sent to Frison. The woman is pretty and winsome, and, though she herself came from a a family of thieves, she has none ot their characteristics. The Mayor of Philadelphia has thrown all the small boys of the city into a profound state of gloom by issuing a proclamation forbidding the making or selling of fireworks in that city at any time in the future, and announcing that he means to enforce the prohibition to the letter. That this outrage is to be perpetrated on the very spot which witnessed the birth of the Fourth of July is sufficient to make every true patriot shudder! A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, writing from Topeka, in Kansas, in regard to the temperance law, says: "At present there seems to be a general disposition to fully abide by the letter of the law to the extent of giving it a fair trial, and there are good people in each community who have banded together, and resolved to see it enforced in every particular, so far as it is pos sible to do so." The way to test the law is rigidly to enforce it, and this is just what the people of Kansas should and must do, if they mean to gain its ends. Mr. Cook, from the country, fell asleep in his chair on the veranda of the St. James Hotel, St. Louis, and did not wake until 4 o'clock a. m. His watch and $500 In money had in the mean time been stolen. He was very angry, and resolved to catch the thief at any cost of time and trouble. On four successive nights he feigned sleep in the same chair, with the brass chain of a brass watch hanging out temptingly, but nobody touched it. On the fifth night, however, the pickpocket returned. He had scarcely pulled out the watch when Cook opened tire with a revolver, and when a surgeon looked the thief over critically, four bullets were found in his body. One of the sturdiest feats in swimming ever performed in St. Louis was by William Barr, who when he plunged in from the great bridge, desired to commit suicide, but changed his mind on striking the water. The suicide of Clive Ilersee, a brother of Kose Hersee, the prima donna, recontly reported from Colorado, was marked by a similar change of purpose, but in his case he could not save himself. The Soldene Opera Company, to which he belonged, were on a train which was delayed on a high bridge over Clear Creek. As though suddenly conceiving the idea, he cried, "Good-by all," and jumped from the platform of the car. once in the water he tried with all his might to reach the shore, aud his companions sought to assist him; but a swift current swept him away. Twenty-two young women, eleven of them English and eleven Öcotch, played an International game of football in England. The teams appeared in a costume essentially Similar to that worn by aiale football play ers, consisting of jerseys, knickerbockeis stockings, boots, and a "cowl," with a sort of sash depending from the waist the Scotch teams wearing blue Jerseys and red sashes, and the English red jerseys and blue shashes. Most of the players were well built, athletic looking .girls, and the teams looked exceedingly picturesque in their bright and tastefully arranged costumes. Some retained such feminine ornaments as frilling, bracelets, etc., but others, with arms bare to the shoulder, entered into the game with all the enthusiasm of boys. The Scotch lassies won. The Hindoo girls are graceful and ex' quisitely formed. From their earliest childhood they are accustomed to carry ' burdens on their heads. The water for the family use is always brought by -the girls in earthen jars, carefully poised in this way. The exercise is said to strengthen the muscles of the back, while the chest is thrown forward. No crooked backs are seen in llindostan. Dr. II. Spry says this exercise of carrying small vessels of water on the head might be advantageously introduced into boarding schools and private families, and that it might entirely supersede the present machinery of dumb bells, backboard, skipping rope, etc The young ladies ought to be taught to carry the jar as the Hindoo women do, without ever touching it with their hands. The same practice of carrying water leads precisely to the same results in the south of Italy as in India. A Neapolitan female peasant will carry on her head a vessel full of water to the very brim over a rough road and not spill a drop of it, and the acquisition of this art or knack gires her the same erect and elastic gait.

JIÜMOßS OF THE JI0RGUE.

The Jovial Keeper Rivals Hamlet's Grave-Digger. Jests On Ghastly Subject AH About tbe New York Dead House. Nw York IIer:a.l The morgue is probably of all tho institutions of New York the one which ha the ghastliest associations. And yet it has its humors, too, and the keeper has as keen an instinct of that side of his uninviting business as ever did the grave-digger in "Hamlet." It is not exactly a place for one of delicate nostrils and fond of eau de cologne, for a peculiar odor lingers round it which recalls but too vividly in spite of all carbolized clay and carbolic clay the fact that this is the abode of the grim enemy of man kind. "And how do you stand this continuous odor?" the keeper, who is a fat, rosy, jollylooking man, was asked yesterday. "Oh, I get fat on it, I do," he replied, with a grin and a complacent glance which appeared to say, ''Just look at me and con vince yoursen." And surely, in surveying hi comfortable, well-fed figure, there was no'.hing to indicate that his occupation was ose exception ally distressing or disagreeable, and perhaps it wasn't. You dont mind this work very much, do you. In spite of the odor of the pi tee?" "Well, the odor dees get pretty high sometimes," he replied, with an unctuous sniff as he pronounced the word ''high," ar tbwgh he were speaking of canvas-back duc,ks instead of corpses; "but then wa have to crin and bear it, that's all." Thrair forty -one bodies in the morgue yesterday, which, the keeper said, was not an unusuilly great number. There are about 6,000 in the course of a year. Nearly all of these are contributed by the various city institutions JJellevue Hospital, Charity Hospital, Hart's Island, etc. The keeper said that nearly all the inmates ot the morgue were recruited from the laboring classes. Of these 5,000 bodies only about 200 come unidentified, and of these 200 about GO per cent, or 120 are generally recognized, while the others are buried in Potter's Field without any recognition whatever. It will thus be seen that the prevalent idea of the morgue as a place entirely for the unknown dead rests more on the romance of horror which has been woven round it by sensaticr.al description than on fact, for out of the 5,000 bodies only about eighty go unreccognized to their graves. ''And is this ratio of recognized bodies among those that come here unidentified the same every year?" the keeper was asked. "It is 6trange to say, pretty much the same every year." Showing that the numbers of deaths, births, suicides, murders, etc., are not the only ones which seem to follow regular, numerical rule. It is also an error to suppose that mst of the bodies are picked up in the rivers. Only five a week, or 250 in all, belong to this class, and about three a week, or 150 in all, are found casually in the streets. The great feeder of the morgue iä not disappointed love, broken ambition, dire want, cruel neg lect, but drunkenness. "Eight cases out of ten," said the keeper, "can be attributed to that as the indirect cause." The most frequent diseases producing death in- the morgue cases are Bright's disease of tho kidneys and consumption. KXrENSK OF TUE MORGUE. It appears from the figures obtained yesterday that the disposition of these 5,0000 bodies which annually come to the morgue cost the tax payers about 10,000, or 'l apiece. ""Well, ain't that cheap enough?" the keeper queried, after having reckoned up the various items. Of these 5,000 bodies, about 2,000 are claimed by the relatives and friends of the deceased, and the rough pine board coffins of the remaining 3,000 average about J 1.115, big and little making $3,750 for this item alone. Tho cost of. the coal consumed on the boat which conveys the bodies to Totter's Field is tho next largest item. Three tons per day are used, costing about $7, or $2,200 per annum. The pilot of the boat is paid $1,400 per annum, the engineer $1,000, the fireman $450; the repairing of the boat costs about $700, while the keeper and his assistant of the morgue, in spite of their powerful nostrils, are paid together only $600 per annum for all tbdr disagreeable work at least so the keeper says. "I'll bet you they give the smallest salary in this institution (pointing at Bells vue Hospital! to the place that wants the smartest man." And how long do you keep the bodies awaiting identification?" the keeper was asked. "It just depend upon the weather," the keeper replied breezily: "If the weather is cool and nice" that was said with great gusto and evident enjoyment of the very idea ol coolness "we may keep them a longtime, filteen or twenty days. Nine years ago wo kept one body nearly all winter. But if the weather is warm forty-eight hours does the business. In such weather as thU a body will last four or five days before it becomes high flavored as it were." ""What sort of bodies stand the test Ingest?" "Well, the thin and emaciated ones you know they say its the lean horse that's good for the long road. Tho less blood there is in the body the longer will it roe ist decay. Fat people get musty awfully quick. When I see one of those fat, full-blooded bodies come in I know what I have to expect." 'Do you ever see women who remain beautiful in death?'' "Yes, sometimes. There was a woman who died in the Madison Square Garden accident when tho root fell in who was as pretty as a picture for several days after she was brought here. But generally speaking, it seems to me, the best looking go first. And then death makes funny changes. I go and see a very pretty woman laid out, and she loo'iS perfectly horrible, aad then a very ugly one is brought in and her tkin cheeks are puffed out, and she sometimes becomes quite good-looking in her coffin isn't that queer? But then," and here the keeper heaved a sigh and became evidently philosophically inclined, "decomposition comes very much alike to the rich and the poor, the beautiful and the ugly, the old and the young we all have to go." HOW IT AFTECTS THE KEEPERS. "Doesn't this occupation make you think of death?" The jolly keeper smiled in derision of the idea, but his young assistant confessed the charge. 'Of course, it does," says he, "when one is sick and sees nothing but dead bodies round one can't help thinking of it; we ain't got down yet to Bob Ingersoll, not believing in hell or damnation or nothing, you know I" It affects your spirits, then?"' Yes, across the way," the . young assistant replied, turning the question off with a jesting allusion to a saloon on tho other

side cf the street. But is -was not difficult to perceive from his manner that he did not

regard the occupation as a specially exhilarating one. "How ia it that undertakers, morgue keepers and grave diggers are always fat aud jolly? ' the head keeper was asked. He laughed heartily as though the idea tickled his fancy. "I don't know about us morgue keepers, but I see some pretty lean undertakers in thii business, I can tell you. It ain't everybody who can afford $l,00o for a funeral at the Cathedral, you know, ana business ain't always as brisk as it might be." 3 "Not since the Police Commissioners have been on trial?" , "Oh, I didn't mean that," the keeper replied, in evident alarm at the possibility of bringing that powerful triumvirate do vn upon his poor head. "Have you much trouble with the people who come here t look at the bodies?" "Only this, which is a great injustice to us. We are thought to be hard-hearted. A woman comes innd because I am laughing at a joke she says, 'What a hard-hearted man this is; isn't he now?' and yet I have as good and soft a heart as anybody else. But gracious Heavens I if I were to cry for everybody who comes here I should be fit only for the Lunatic Asylum in about four wet ks. It's bad enough to have to cry for one's own, I say, instead of having to cry for everybody ehe," Have you . much trouble about the post-mortem examination ot the bodies?" "Yes; some object and others don't mind it in the least. They'd just as soon have their father or mother cut up as anybody else." What sort of people are they?" "Well " the keeper said, turning round to his junior and evidently looking for an adjective under which to classify this peculiar breed of mankind; "well, what shall I say? Ihey re kind of selfish. Would you call it that? Yes, kind o selfish. But fully 50 per cent, of tbe bodies are examined." "Which are your worst cases?'' The drowned men. Oh, they're awful ! They come hero in a terrible condition. Ju?t come and look at them." So often have these horrible sights been described that a further picture will be spared the reader who is perusing this account of a visit to the morgue at his breakfast table. QUEER AFFAIRS. A Swiss firm keeps hundreds of carrier pigeons which smuggle small watches into Italy. A convict in the Kentucky State Frison gave a man twenty cents to cut off his (the convict's) hand so as to save him from working. The fellow did it at the first stroke with an ax. ' The strange spectacle of a Church floating dorn a river was seen in the course of the recent floods in Dakota. The bell in the steeple could be heard above the roar of the flood and the crashing of the ice. A negro of Sylvania County, Georgia, was bitten by a rattlesnake a few day3 ago and one of the fangs of the snake broke oil" in the darky's foot, where it remains. The snake died, but the negro recovered. A swarm of bees in the Sweetwater Valley, CaL, settled on a rattlesnake that was six feet in length, twelve inches in girth and had twenty-two rattles. They stung him violently so that lie was blinded and he was easily killed with a spade. Mrs. Nettie Cloniger. of Daingerfield, Texas, while fishing on Hughes Lake one day recently, was attacted by a coon in a most savage manner. She threw it into the lake, but it came back and fought her for an hour belore she killed it. J. W. Slaughter, who lives near I-ineville, Georgia, was having a well dug on his farm, and when about twenty feet deep a well-preserved oak leaf was found firmly imbedded in the chalk. - When about fifty feet deep a live snake of the black species was found. "A miner coming home to his cabin in Navajo gulch last evening," sa)s the Tuscaro (CaL) Times, "found a porcupine in pf session. It made sad havoc among the dishes on the table in its attempt to get its snoot into the sugar bowl. The owner of the premises dispatched the intruder with an ax." Twelve years ago a young couple fell in love as they journeyed on shipboard from Sweden to America. They were ioor and resolved to geta little start in the world before ruarrjing. She went into service in Chicago and he sought his fortune in the far West. During all these years of struggle they remained true to each other, though fortune has frowned upon the man. Recently he has been successful, and the girl has just gone to the home he has built for her at Denver. Among the events of the present week will be the opening in Boston of an ironbound chest, which was closed, locked and riveted fifty sears aso, with the injunction that it was to be opened by the survivors of the family in June, hat the chest contains is unknown to the owners, and as there are but two heirs a division of the spoils will be readily adjusted. It is supposed to contain coin, and it is hoped that a missing title deed will be found which will settle or rather unsettle several titles. - A Merited Reward Shelby Democrat. The Board of Commissioners did a wise and just thing Tuesday when they awarded the public printing to the Sentinel Company. Had merit been properly rewarded in the past this piinting would long since have been given to the Sentinel. We are friendly toward the Sentinel, and we rejoice at anything that has a tendency to enhance its progress and usefulness. It is one of the best Democratic papers in the Uni'iH, and unlike the Cincinnati Enquirer it is not found abusing prominent Democrats and flying off the handle with every change of the moon. It is solicMy and unwaveringly Democratic at all times and under all circumstances, and as such the paper should receive the indorsement and support of every Democrat in the State. The paper has, or rather in the past has had a hard road to travel, but we are pleased to know that under the management of Hon. John C. Shoemaker, it is almost out of debt and has first-class credit. It still needs encouragement, and it is entitled to the printing in every Democratic Connty in the State where they offer to do it as low as any other house. What's In a Käme? Texas Slftings.J Jim Webster and wife presented themselves at the Austin Blue Light Colored Tabernacle last Sunday, with a dusky pledge of affection that required baptism cried for it in fact "What am ter be de name of dh infant?" asked Rev. Aminidab Bledsoe, leninly. "Damfino. I 'lowed you'd fixed up eberyting. Yer might call him Jumpin' Toofache, because he makes me walk about and lose so much sleep at nights." "What am yer own name?" . "Jcems Webster." - Den I will gib dis heah infant your name in baptism." 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