People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1893 — Wonders of Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Wonders of Indiana.

. A citizen of Mezeppa, Ga., tells the following story: A. man with a drove of mules, the man claiming to be from Indiana, stopped for the night with the citizen’s father. The family had an idea that Indiana was near the North Pole, and asked a great many questions about the country. In answer to questions the Indiana man said: “Yes, there the nights are shorter and they have a d d sight more of them and they are darker.”. He had seen them so dark there that you couldn’t see the headlight of a locomotive thirty feet away. He also said it was a great fish country; that you could not ride a horse across a creek without knocking out a two-horse wagon load of fish; but that he had gone a-fishing once, and he only caught one fish, and when he pulled the fish out of the Mississippi the river fell six inches from its mouth to Cairo. He also said it was a fine timber country. A few days before he left home he cut dow n a tree that measured exactly one hundred yards long. He drove a wedge in the big end, and it burst entirely open and split a thicket of three hundred yards that was so thick that you couldn’t run a fishing pole into it endways. The place opened by splitting the log was then being used for a wagon road; He also said it was a very healthy country; that only one man had died in twenty years, and they had to pull his last breath with a cork screw.

A young clock peddler was also spending the night with his father, and he asked if it would be a good country to sell clocks. had no use for clocks; that they kept time by the growth of pumpkin vines, which grew five feet each hour. He said it was the best vegetable country in the world. Every Lind grew well except beets, anti they grew so long that they stuck through into China and the Chinamen pulled them through. In answer to a question whether it was a cold country or not, he said it was awful cold; he had seen a blaze of fire freeze to the back of the chimney and they had to knock it loose with a pole-axe.— Atlanta Constitution.