Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1893 — AVERSE TO AQUA PURA. [ARTICLE]

AVERSE TO AQUA PURA.

A St, Louis Globe-Democrat special of the sth says: Senator Turpie, of Indiana. Is a very nervous man and does not want anything near him to distract his attention when he is making a speech. Ho was addressing tho Senate yesterday on the question of seating the Senators with appointments frqm the Governors. When In the mldstof his profound constitutional argument one of the page boys carried a glass of water to him and set it down on his desk. “I don’t want that water," he exclaimed, “take it away.” The boy was startled by his abrupt manner and stood irresolute for a moment. The Senator, evidently annoyed, pickedupthe glass,and Sashing the water on the Senate carpet, handed the glass back to the boy.