People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1895 — WHAT OTHERS SAY. [ARTICLE]

WHAT OTHERS SAY.

A funny man who asked “What is the state of matrimony?" received this explanatory answer: It is bounded by hugging and kissing on one side and babies on the other. Its products are the population, broomsticks and staying-out-nights. It was discovered by Adam and Eve while trying to find the northwest passage out of paradise. The climate is rather sultry until you pass the tropics of house-keeping, when squallv weather sets in with sufficent power to keep ali hands as cool as cucumbers. For the principal roads leading to Biis interesting state, consult the first pair of blue eyes or black (as you perfer) you run against. The saloons of Indiana seem to be on the move. Nearly every place in the state where applications were made before the present term of commissioners court they have been knocked out by petitions prepared under the Nicholson law. Morocco, Mt. Ayr and Brook have no saloons where liquor is sold by the drink. Applications were made by the Mt. Ayr and Brook saloon keepers and on refusal of the Mt. Ayr petition, the Brook men sought, to withdraw theirs and were allowed to do so by consent of the managers of the remonstrance.-Goodland Herald. Prof. Wiggins, the weather prophet who predicted the great storm of March, 1»83, predicts a storm of equal violence between Sept. 17 and 21 of this year. He says: “On the 18th of the present month the moon will pass over the sun's disk a few degrees west of San Francisco, causing a solar eclipse, the moon herself being in perigee and two hours later on the celestial equator. Mars and Venus will both be in conjunction.with her on that day. A great storm will therefore sweep the shores of all continents from the equator to the poles as early as the 17th inst.. but on the east coast of North America will reach its climax with high tides by the afternoon of Satur day, Sept. 21.” A brother editor gets off the following; “Ten cents per line will be charged for obituary notices to all business men who did not advertise while living. Delinquent subscribers will be charged fifteen cents per line for obitary notices. Advertisers and cash subscribers will receive as good a send off as we are capable of writing, without any charge whatever. Better send in your subscription as cholera is adroad in the land.

The county officers have all removed to their elegant quarters in our brand new $75,000 court house (built for $52,000) and are now ready for business.—Winamac Journal. Au absent-minded young preacher in New England’ wish ing to advance the young ladies of his congregation after the morning services, remarked from the pulpit that he would be yery glad “if the female brethren of the congregation would remain after they had gone home.” He was almost as badly mixed as another preacher, who, after describing a pathetic scene he had witnessed, added, huskily:“l tell you, brothers, there was hardly a dry tear in the house.”—Lake County News. The bulk of the tomato crop has just begun to ripen. The long continued drought had much to do with holding them back and affecting the size and yield of the crop. The Canning Com’ny has not begun to have as much any one day as it coild handle but hopes to have steady work from this week until the end of the season. If ever a new enterprise has had obstacles to meet and overcome these gentlemen surely have. Late frosts and long dry spells has affected the crop in everything but the season has demonstrated that Pulaski county soil is the thing for vegetable growers.— Winamac Republican. One pretty woman with no other knowledge than how to use a pair of saucy eyes can control more men than a score of the greatest female orators of the world —Lowell Tribune. A bashful yonng man while at-

tending a revival meeting was approached by an earnest young lady who said to him; “My dear young man, it would do my heart good to lead you to the alter.” The young fellow hesitatingly replied that he appreciated the honor, but he was already engaged to two girls and he could not accomodate her.—Lowell Tribune. People who took in the Boston excursion are telling their friends of a Boston breakfast. They were always made up of baked beans, codfish balls and brown bread—an ideal Boston breakfast. A few of the/ pleasure seekers were not up to Bostonian ways sufficient to endure this every day and requested that they be given a western mealsomething like they enjoy out here in Indiana.—Delphi Citizen. Winamac has no jail. Whenever an arrest is made the town marshal locks up the victim in a convenient box car on the Pennsylvania line. The other night he corraled half a dozen young sports. They were put in the improvised jail for safe keeping until morning. At midnignt a freight crew coupled onto the car. The prisoners were last heard from in Pittsburg.—Hammond Tribune.