Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 12, Number 28, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 January 1882 — Page 1

12.—No.

PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Town Talk.

THE SMALLPOX SCARE. »never lias been a time when the of this country have been more 5hly frightened over anything iey are at present over the steady of the smallpox at the present It even announced that the lent is going.to seqd communica-

Congress on t\e subject, and if ly undertakes the adoption of jure calculated to benefit the health, some enterprising indiwill be sure to sot up a howl centralization and the interference in matters which pertain to lual states"alone. The National

Health says that the presence Upox in the country at this time immigration alone. Among the joiners during the last six months large number of Poles and Bo18, of the kind noted for tlieir id abhorence of everything which prevont df of such p6op

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AlrflWy about 8,000 have subto the operation, and the good jc sHJftid g-i on until, ail danger of a tbn hasisappoared. Now is the [whon thlboard of health can make useful aft veil as ornamental, and f\ hopes thft in all its endeavors to hi otl' tho $*oaae it will have the support^' every citizen, 1M PORT A'T I'KRHONAOK8. Po pernon n^Pi peruse the daily pail many coiitfculive days without t)veriug that,iiore are a number of mluaAsln oaeicotmnunlty jhoconthemselveslRid their movements fctich importn?e that the public lid hav® dueltotice of everything do. Sometime* it will be a notice

Dr. Soandso performed a very tyult and compleated operation of i\ kind or otheA* a manner which over excelled W4 seldom equalled. Fort time ago TSj". heard of a case ire the learned iHysiclan actually 'te a puff of a wcfcerful cure which 1 •performed, 1^ a friend take it flairs to a nowspdjfcr, and remained

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tan steamSnips^ an escape from almost miraculous, and the that tho disease has not been ialent. The time consumed in jiean voyages in these days is i.—too short to allow a case of to develop between the two aid where cases have broken out tpfe ard the officers have done all irjwer to conceal them upon arini larantine, lest it should injure )u| ess of the company. With

I culty thrown in their way the officers have found it a very latter to discharge.their duties, li he foul disease has succeeded a' firm"foothold on the counfj the ina migrants lanJ they at tor in all directions. The as been discovered on the [i in different localities, but ie vicinity of Chicago than in locality. That city is the loint for the Northwest, and those who brought the dislound for that section of the 6 1 ihocehtly, been the means of the diseaso in all directions. fn cases have been reported in dty.| Daring other seasons when Jieeasewas prevalent it had its full bulk is to be hoped that the ex ice of aat fall will not be followed l^int^by the dread scourge. The itive^! simple, harmless and with|he re4& of all, conseqaently all advantage of it and be only as a means of proto tinmselves, but as a protecthe%anmunity in whieh thfey

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rn that the result^s far fr5m sattory. In fact it nothing more less than the infoi could only go in [ertising columns at few men who bloi

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of their brethren. I* men who least are those w| accomplish ji, and T. T. could rely* many acts lority and kindnes| hich have irred among the med% fraternity although those who &hem never their acts in public But tl ipion case which has

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jboervation lately, was fo^ished by profession. Withlni|v week* me of a dally paper co*Ungd fivt Inct notices of the health i, past and prospective, of the cloth. The local »ose notices must haw ia strong admiration for

Although T. T. has of his sermons ever appear people may consider it an Ability to have their names coi jrint, but the great majority jinnother light, far from favo f-im porta rv.fgentleua en

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PRACTICAL JOKES.

Last summer T. T. wrote an account of the attempt of a few practical jokers 4o sober a companion by taking him, when in a state of unconscious mebrity, to the cemetery in a coffin and leaving him there. It had the effect of mending his ways for a time, but the disease has broken out again. About a week ago he went into a saloon and asked for a drink of water, which was given him after a small turtle had been placed in it. It

him think a case of "snakes" was on hand, but it failed to to stop his potations. The next night when he retired his room mate paid a dollar to the largest colored man he could find to ge upstairs and go to bed with the inebriate, while a crowd stood on chairs in the adjoinidg room and watched the proceedings through a transom. The colored man walked in, turned up the gas *nd commenced to disrobe. Charles ey rJ'f 'm for a moment and then asked what was wanted. He received the information that he wanted to go to bed. It was in vain that Charles tried to persnade him that the floor was good enough for him, and when persuasion was found to be useless he finally concluded to vacate the premises and leave the colored man in posession, and would have done so had he not discovered the amused countenances on tho other side of the transom, which revived his courage, and the colored gent was compelled to decamp. The next night when he wakod up a huge owl was perched on the foot of the bed staring him out of countenance, but even that did not convince him that ho "had them," and the spree is still in progress. Another new triple will probably bo played on him soon.*?

A CORRECTION.

Tho other day T. T. saw an account in one of the papers ot a raid on one of the south Second street dens, which resulted in the capture of about fifteen men and women, among whom was a policeman

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a neighboring town, all of whom were marchod to the jail, arrived at which all gavo bail and were released. There was nothing unusual in the proceeding, but it appears that a name crept into the list which out to have been omitted. Probably no one thought anything of it, and certainly no one ever gave it a second thought. The owner of the name, however, wanted to be set right. It was true be was in jail, bat not loir associating with that kiud of cat* tie. Pfta was ortly a csafrUl so he had the sheriff write a certificate to that effect, and had it inserted in the paper. He is probably happy, and people who never thought of him tfcfore are wondering who the fool la. There are many of his kind who are always wanting oorrectlens made, and nine times out of ten the correction places them in a worse light than that in which they before stood,

TUB list of old and prominent citizens who have died during the past year, is unusually long. It contains such names as Judge Patterson, Mrs. Dr. Cunningham, Xavier Hahn, Miss Betsy floss, Col. John P. Baird, J. F. Soule, Ludwig Baganz, Mrs. Sophia W. Cook, Mrs. Ann C. Early, Rev. Samuel K. Sparks, Jerry Voris, Mrs. Martha J. Brittlobank, Wal W. Sibley, James Kelly, Mrs. R. S. Cox, Mrs. Sarah East, JamGS Iiurgan. Mrs. Penelope Sparks, Jarne* II. Hudson, Lawrence Hudson, Mrs. W. R. McKeen, Squire Sherburne, Mrs. Sarah Shnler, Eliza M. Flannigan, Thomas Wade, Mrs. D. D. Condit, Timothy Oilman, Linus B. Denehie, Joel Kester, Lucius Booth, Lucius Ryce, and others whoso names we do not recall at this moment.

S. R. Henderson, of the Peoria Saturday Evening Call, was here over Sunday with his family, on the way home from a visit to his relatives in the southern part of the State. His many friends here who did not have opportunity to see him, will be glad to know that he is prospering in his new home. He has taken a now partner this week—Wm. Hawley Smith—widely known as a talented magazine writer, elocutionist and lecturer, an Indefatigable worker, who will, if such Is possible, make the Call better than over. Mr. Henderson has been making an excellent paper, and well deserves his succees.

"That must be a false rale," says the Interior, "requiring virtue, cleanliness, and good temper, and conduct in worns*^ while men may go on to any length ffioet, and society, one and all, wink, If oot blink, at our faults. Whatever deice a wwnan, also degrades a man. fake some of the vices and habits of the day. A man smokes a filthy dgar, or es about half an ounce of tobacco in is cheek, and yet expects his wife to reserve a clean month and a sweet

Again, a young man starts oat spend the evening with his adored Evelina. Should he And her not at home, bat in the neighboring saloon, however genteel it might be, that would be his last visit. In his estimation she would have sank below his level, and yet that young man hlmseif is a daily visitor in all its

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Susan Perkins' Letter.

DEAR JOSEPHINE We have been having some days and nights—especially nights—of most glorious times. At last the snow has come and the sound of the Sleighbell is heard in the land. If any one person in the whole world is utterly and completely happy when there is snow and sleighing, I am that fa,vored individual. I love the snow, whether it be falling in masses of feathery flakes and making beautiful every onject upon which it rests, or lying cold and white and still under the gleam of a Winter moon on the sleeping grass and trees. I love to walk while the snow is falling I lave to plunge through the light drifts even at the risk of wetting my skirts I love to sit at my window and watch the firelight as it battles with the darkness and reddens the falling flakes. All this I love but more, oh infinitely more, do I love the exhilaration that comes with the ride through the frosty moonlight in a sleigh!

Did I have any sleigh rides*Yes, indeed I did, and delightful ones too. True, Uncle Ezra and I had a little trouble about one of them but Uncle and I frequently do have trouble and I am learning to bear that. I will tell you about it, howeve*

One of the descendants of the house of Bigblow, fired v:ith an ambition to be generous and do good to his fellowcreatures less fortunate than himself, {don't get angry, please, James,) asked me to take a little sleigh ride with him. That I consented to go, I need hardly say, and I did not keep him waiting when he came. Well, we had a lovely little ride and after about half an hour Mr. Bigblow politely said, "I would enjoy riding with you so all evening, I have been so well entertained but I promised my mother a little ride to-night, and, if you will excuse me, I will take you home and go for her."

Of course I excused him, thinking how few of our young men are so careful of the happiness of their mothers as to give up a ride with a young lady in order to go with them. 'lf-

Before I could g6t off my WT&ps Uncle's voice floated up from the front hall: "Susan, If yo# want another ride, come down. I have the sleigh here, yoar aunt is tired, and the horse is not*"

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ing over the snow behind a fery Tjood horse, for Uncle is fond of a good roadster and drives well. With my usual desire to be entertaining and to show the good qualities of my friends in my best way, I told Uncle about my ride with Mr. Bigblow and his lovely filial affection for his mother, as shown a few minutes before.

Uncle, to my great surprise, only said, "Hnmj^i 1"—that most exasperating grunt of noncommittal understanding,

I said, indignantly: "What do you mean Don't you think that was lovely?" I "Humph!" again said the old torment. "What do you mean I asked again. "I wouldn't be so disagreeable f^-jiny money." "1 am not disagreeable," granted Un cle. "I am only shewing my appreciation of the devotion of young men to their mothers—or of the gullibility of girls you may decide which later on."

I had a nice ride ytith Uncle Ezra, though, and as we were skimmiug along in the outskirts of the town he called my attention to a sleigh just stopping in front of a large house of which I have heard some strange stories. "Do you recognise Uiat rig, Susan?" he asked.

I did recognise it as the one I had left but a short time before, and I wondered, silently:

A few seconds brought us in front of the house just as the door opened and a flood of light fell upon Mr. Bigblow and a woman as they entered. J", "Isn't that rather a queer place to take one's mother I asked Uncle Ezra. "One's mother! Yes, rather. Has Mr. Bigblow's mother been taking AnUPat?" .I"I don't know."

"Well, the last time 1 saw 1ber, sSe looked a good hundred and sixty pounds and that one woold pall aboat a hundred and twenty. And, Sasan, you nted not go riding with that young nan again." [. "Why not T" was my innocent question st whieh my ancle gased at me, granted another "Humph I" and remained speechless until we reach home.

When I went upstairs to take oil my hat and smooth my raffled plamage, I ooad I bad lost a feather Up. As it was a line one, I felt particularly sorry. I was fortunate enough to find it, however. The next morning rgoing into the dining room after breakfast I found Mary the cook trying the eflbet of a feather tip upon bet winter hat*

I reoogniaed the tip. "Where did you get ft, lfiuyf* I asked. "I found it in a sleigh last night, Miss font ita pretty one?" were youridSagf

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STERKE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING. JANUARY 7, 1882. Twelfth Year

Mary blushed a trifle. •f "With the same gentleman you were, Miss," said she.

Curtain Oh, yes! I have entirely gotten over New Years. I was not the young lady wko got "tight" on champagne, and so I had no headache to contend with.

Terre Haute has been unusually gay during the past week, and any number of innocent flirtations have been chronicled. A. uniform on a good-looking Terre Hautean of other days has helped along the games wonderfully, and other less-uniformed but formerly-petted beaux are now enjoying the pleasant sensation so often felt by the unlusky girl who isa wall-flower.

The way they do glare is a caution, when they see certain fair friends whirling in the arms of the other fellow!

No, I didn't "receive" this year. I couldn't. Witt spent the day here, and came to see me. Wasn't that odd

Yours, i^S.P.

Our Breakfast iTable.

This is"'Twelfth Day,' the holidays are over and we must settla down to work!" said Miss Laura, of a Friday morning. "I have eaten the last scrap of candy, and packed away the presents for which I've tried so hard to be grateful. The idea! What am I going to do with a plush box, painted with a pink swan eating bullrushes? I can't use the brush and comb and put them back in their satin nest without oiling it— Oh, the sawdust in my doll—ungrateful, am 1 not I must go to church and observe the Epiphany festival. It is 'Christmas Past' now Its music is like Shakespeare's gem in the 'Twelfth Night.'

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O. it came o'er my ear like the sweet South, That breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odor. Enough, no more Tls not Nf sweet now as it was before."— Hatha! 1*11 take an everyday buck wheat Cake now and those molasses! Mr. Vtrmlcelle asked Mrs. Comfort, when the said molaases ^o hirn, 'how many, Mrs. C?" t^ f# ''How did you survive New Years, Jack f" "Miaerably, thank you! had to work in the office ail day. Got three fellows though to leave my antograph all over towgtrI2ttMs$yrthey left it wth May and Jo%»nie Regan, too. But you should fceej) |erby unload cigars, favors,

S) ccnft, antttlsarknoiva vfc&t all, and he was perfumed thro* with champagne, egg nog, St. Jacobs Oil and smoke, t-% "Tub-tut. nevlr'saw'sueh an orderly—*•* "Dry, you mean." "No, but such an orderly, delightful, beautifully dressed and elegantly arranged aerim of receptions as oft tbia last New Year's, but, oh! wasn't I thankful there were but a dozen tables instead of fifty. Sly old fellow Colsnel is. 1 had only eaten seven or tfght dishes of oysters, weighted down a few flakes of 'angels' food' with a slab of fruit cake to keep it from going up, imbibed some coffee and chocolate, sam pled French candies and froze myself with three plates of ice cream (I was try ina to find fhe most compact article) when he handed me a Japanese hari-kari knife with a shark-skin handle, sttth as the Japs disembowel them selves with. Did he moau that I was about ready to be cut open I believe I lid feel so. However, to change the sijbject, is'it not well to have a friend to place such a trophy on one's bier as that efiogy of Thompson's on Mr. Ryce. It otuld not well be happier or more approbate and Is as carefully written and gleefully worded as anything he oould have ever said. It is well worth reprintiig.» 11,

The Professor ibought the services'of the whole day were unique, and at least marked a new era in church music. "Hope not," said McEwan, "never have such music as when the old precenter with a pitch pipe led the 'psawms.' "That day is gone. People who criti cize the finest music elsewhere will want good in their churches and they do not want excellent one day and poor the next—and if they have forty leaders, what of it. I don't sing, nor half of my neighbors. Last Sunday morning when I dropped into the old church, redivivus, I hugged myself in silent enjoyment as I listened to that delightful quartette— and I said to myself I hope that to the salary Is added something more with this choir—a healthy ambition to dignify their position, to elevate the music in every church by conscientious and faithful work—H is a fine opportunity

SaldJqek: "Dare say—and I gaees this is 'the lay of the last minstrel'" softy, aa lie passed out of sight an eggcup—"But'what is the matter with the Majcr—hapnt pdd a word 1"

Th« M*jor lowered his paper to say "I can to qaiet oooHtonally!"

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cannot there we differ."

"YiU, we do diflbr. Why haveat we had« few eqaibe from Goodwin or* battri-cork Joke from yoa,Master Jack* Hav^roa deserted the Open House?"

I am still faithfnl to firat love, and- swear that Hat Qoodwin is

the dullest wag living."

Mo-'1™*

"Yes, to strut a brief hour on the stage and vanish. He will ruin himself in five years or go out of styje." "Do you know," said McEwan "that a dozen years ago he was a porter in a Boston dry-goods house, and now he makes $30,000 for the year Yes then he carried bundles and opened boxes, except when he was making the boys laugh with a jig or a fanny story. At a little variety show one night, he ridiculed a performer and said he could do better. The manager invited him to try it next night. He did, and was engaged at something better than porter's wages, and so on up till he became a star

ABOUT WOMEN. Irii:. -i.

A Syracuse girl paid a man f*25 te teach her how to play draw poker Poor Baroness Coutts now only has an income of #875,009 per year, and upon this meager sum has to support a husband.

Ladies who come in fine carriages, dressed in the latest styles, with diaj monds and furs, are said to support the majority of New York fortune tellers.

A Boston lady, who has a gymnasium for girls, cures curvature of the spine by piling bean-bags on the heads of the patients and having the latter walk around the room so straight as not to drop them. T,

A woman caused a commotion at Wadena, Mich., by wildly chasing a big dog and crying: "Stop him! he has swallowed a twenty-dollar bill." An obliging butcher caught the beast, killed him, and recovered money.

Miss Ada Cary Sturgis, of Bath, Me., a sister of Annie Louise Cary, married quite young, and has only recently discovered that she has a very rich and powerful voice, which has been neglected. She will now cultivate it and take the concertstoge.'

Minnie Brooks, a Chicafe^whitts V^man, drew public attention to'&efrself a year ago by turning'her.betfr-gVclen into a religious meeting-house, an'd taking the load in revival meetings.held, therein. She has now become conspicuous anew by marrying a negro.*

Mrs. Raohel Coriklin, 6f New Yorl», who recently died at the age of a hyi dred years, attribui&i'l&ef longevity to the faet that she had always minded her ownbastoeas. There was a good deal of quiet philosophy in that remark. Many a woman, anCP many a man, as well, have—but you can draw your own moral.

Miss "Cress" Hobbins, the New STork correspondent of the Chicago InterOcean, says she is "afraid the reader will take her for a man," and then, in the same letter, she describes a little parlor stand by saying it is "as large as a man oould embrace with both arms." As if there could be any mistake about the gender of that remark!

Victoria Stinson has just received $60, in Toronto, because sVe happened to be born in a military barrack at Aldershot, England, while Queen Victoria was visiting the building.. Her Majesty named the baby after herself, and deposited $25 in a bank, to be paid to her at the age of twenty-one. The principal and interest have now been paid,

The Utica Observer gives this pleasant inoident: "A young lady was observed passing down the aisles of the Utica Opera House wearing a very stylish and attractive, but large, mushroom hat. As she glided toward the front the ladies and gentlemen in the row behind her commenced moving about uneasily, as if they feared a total eclipse of the stage for the remainder of the evening. They were not annoyed long, for after sitting comfortably in her chair, the lady coolly removed her large hat and hung it on the back of the seat In front of her. Then she extracted a worsted "fascinator" from the pocket of her sacqae and arranged it in a very fascinating manner upon her head, making her look "too sweet for anything," as an old bachelor expressed it. All of her neighbors ex changed approving smiles.

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A young woman of Seneca county, Ohio, clearly deserves the wedding cake in the matter of marrying. Her maiden name was Melissa J. Remsburg, but exactly what her name is at present, it is difficult to determine. Last Monday, she told Mr. Cbauncy L. Wyant that she would marry him at Tiffin, fifteen miles distant, at 3 o'clock that afternoon. She also teld Mr. W. M. Kline that she would marry him at Tiffin, at 3:30 that afternoon. She kept both promises, for she married Wyant at one end of the. town at the time designated, and exactly twenty-foar minutes later married Mr. Kline at the other. Immediately after the close of the firat ceremony, ahe excased hetaelf for a moment, "to ran •crass the street to sees friend," and in this manner gained enough time to many

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for the Weston the next train. Miss Bemsbarg*s matrimonial methods have not yet been accounted for, and there is a deep mystery overhanging the entire transaction. ...

THE BETTER WORLD.?"7,^'

CHURCHES, PASTOR AND PEOPLE*

The Rev. James E. Smith, of Abi ngton, Mass., who has been pastor of the Universalist church there for about a year, has renounced the faith and embraced Congregationalism

Mr. Beecher in last Sunday's sermon ^. said the time is past for ill-health to be a??^ necessity with the clergyman. A cough and a sepulchral air are disassociated" with him now. Raps, mendicancy, and1 asceticism are things we are learning tos V-= .j, dislike. 1 am glad to see the ministers dress well and look well.,,

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Among the Presbyterian churches of Chicago, a system of visiting has been set on foot. On appointed evenings two clergymen aud two elders from different churches visit a certain church, the congregation of which has previous notification. The visiting brethren offer prayers and deliver addresses. The meetings are edifying or otherwise, according to the men who do the visiting and praying and speaking. While the plan is a new thing, some of the most popular ministers are willing to do their share of the visiting and the work consequent on it. But these are tho very men \fcho are generally so busy that they cannot devote their time to this sort of thing. So they gradually drop out and leave the work to the dull men whom nobody cjiros to hear. The dull men are the ones who have plenty of time on their hands, and some of them are much more glad to have the opportunity to speak than the church people are to listen to them. This plan of special visitation has been tried in most of the large cities, but in a majority of instances with uniform result. It is not likely to be attended with great or permanent success.

LITTLE SERMONSi

A cheerful face is the sunlight of the* household. ^*r You are not perfect yourself: don't-: look for perfection in others.

No habit is more easily acquired than that of snapping and snarling. To put a falsehood in the mouth of a* little child must be a heinous crime in the sight of Him to whom children are dear.

Don't let the duties of to-day He ever to be fulilled to-morrow. A life, like a., business transaction, carried on su«h, principles will result in utter Ikilure^^

Don't be afraid of loving people ioof much, or of throwing away too mach kindness. It is just such things the' world stand in need of, and they havethe advantage of enriching the giver.

There are often many ways of doing a thing, and if yon happen to think that yoar way is the best, wmember that, other people have as goods right to their opinions ss yoa have to yoaiSh.

What sanshine Is to flowers smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure, but Mattered slong life's pathway. the good they do Is inconceivable-

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A leading Methodist paper mournful-' ly says that "it still remains true that^ the majority of Methodist families take*' no religious paper.

Rey. Mr. Qreen Is to be frfed by al:# tribunal in St. Joseph, Mo., on a charge of letting a young woman sit in his lap while teaching her a Sunday school les-

•on. V'f Do you go to church to show your

There is another Jay Gould in embryo down in Maine. He is a young man, and, having bought up all the pews inthe church at a low price, got up a religious excitement in the village, and. when it was at its height closed out his^ purchase at a profit of |500.

The proper way to picture an angel has mnever been a subject of a unanimous? jSffi agreement among artists, even in the de-^t i' signing of Christmas cards and illustra-^ tions for religious books. The great bother is as to the wings, which are genally made to grow from the shoulder blades of the apgej§. Most artists agree in making tho.yrfq£s like those of geese* and in, covering .}hein witli feathers, which aro gelj^rally white. Why thereshould hpvft be&n so much preferencefor the goqi&tfwing pattern and the whitefeathers is difficult to ascertain. Thereis nati}ing*.in the Bible setting forth what'an'angel ought to look tij3e. The•Metliodi&t throng new light op1'angelic anatomy by presenting on. the cover of

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prominent figure in which is a ttfar view of a barefoot angel in a flowing gown, and with her hair gracefully fulling on her neck. The left wing of this •Angel growB out of her spine, while the right wing seems to proceed from a point near her shoulder joint. How an angel with wings rigged in this eccentric style could fly is one of those things with which the,, artlpt has no concern.

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