St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 2, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 5 July 1890 — Page 4

@I)C 3niicpcn&enL A Local Newspaper, Nox Partisan. Entered at the WalKerton Postollice sit second-class rates. S 3 TLX k> (SB c X-1 13t ioXX s For One Year .... . 81.50 For Six Months 75 For Three Mpnths 40 If paid promptly in advance a discount of 26 cents on the year will be allowed. XA cross marked with a blue pencil on the margin of your paper indicates that your term of subscription to this paper has expired. If you are in arrearages please settle at once, and notify us promptly if you wish the paper continued. WALKERTON. INDIANA, JULY 5. 1890. AN ENTHUSIASTIC ANGLER. His Wife and Mother-in-law, However Considered Him Crazy, An enthusiastic angler on the board of trade, whose young wife is not familiar with the eccentricities of the disciples of Walton, said: “I’ve got a good joke on my wife. She thinks I’m going crazy. I felt a little out of sorts during the recent bad weather, just because 1 coulA not go on a fishing trip I had planned. A few days ago 1 found the -fishing fever taking such a strong hold that I got out my fishing-tackle just for relief. When I got my nice little eight-ounce i - od jointed it stirred up my fishing blood so thoroughly that I could not resist the temptation of going out in the back yard and making a few casts. So I rigged myself out in my fishing suit put on my creel, and with rod, and net, and flies I sallied out to a little puddle in the yard and practiced the art we anglers love so well. 1 was having lots of fun when all of a sudden 1 heard a scream, and looking up I saw my wife with her hands stretched high in the air, screaming as only a scared woman can scream. My good mother-in-law was close by trying to comfort her daughter. •“Humor him,’ she said, quietly. •This spell has been coming on him for over a week, and I guess it’s got to its height, and if we are careful well bring him out all right.’ “When my poor wife became quiet I undertook to explain the situation, for I was pretty badly scarred I can tell you. ‘“l’m all right,’ I said. “I’m just practicing a few casts. Now, see here. This is a wild piece of woodland, and over there,’ pointing to the puddle, ‘is a beautiful, clear, cold brook. Along the edge of the brook there are lots of briars, and vines, and brush.’ “‘Oh. my!’ sighed my mother-in-law. ‘“And in the brook there are a few very nice, shy, old trout. Now, you just watch me sneak up to the bank of the brook through the brush and briars and quietly drop a fly on the opposite side of the stream.’ “My good mother-in-law whispered in her daughter’s ear that it was simply awful, but that it weuld not be wise to cross me. “‘Gracious me!’ said the old lady as I began making a sneak on that imaginary brook. Well, I dropped the fly right on the dot, and when I landed my imaginary fish 1 proceeded to explain the philosophy of the whole performance to my frightened wife. She listened in pity, as a sane woman would to a crazy man and the more I tried to convince her that I was all right the more frightened she became. She couldn’t understand the necessity of practice in the art of angling, and the obstruseness of the propositions I discussed so earnestly increased her alarm. Well, they finally got me into the house, and when I appeared in citizen’s clothes and tried to talk of something else beside iishing, in an off-hand sort of way, just as if nothing bad happened, the old lady left the room muttering as she went: “‘Poor man! he has forgotten all about his pranks in the yard.’ “Well, that made me mad, and I told my wife and her good mother that I believed they were both crazy. “That settled the matter with the old lady. She said a drunken man was always accusing every one of being drunk, and crazy people imagined that every one about them was crazy. “The following morning at breakfast my wife and her mother eyed me suspiciously, and when I said something about the poetry of angling my wife said she could not see any poetry in a nasty.’ little mud-puddle. She thinks I am getting better, but she has not altogether got over the idea that I am a candidate for the insane asylum.” —Chicago Times. Jake’s Diversion Not Well Timed. “Dot boy Shake—dot boy Shake!” he mournfully repeated, as a friend asked him if he was no longer in business in St. Louis. “Jake is your son?” “Yes, my son; my idiot.” “What did Jake do?” “Veil I goes oop to Chicago to see my sister, who vhas dead. Shake vhas left to run der store. Peesness vhas a leedle off, und Shake plans dot he vhill make a diversion. I belief it vhas a diversion, but my bead aches so hard I vhas not sure.” “Yes, it was probably a diversion.” “Vhell, he goes down cellar, und start a leedle lire—not mooch, but shust enough to bring out der engines und a crowd, und smoke up der goods. It vhas for a great fire sale, you know —goods sliglitly damaged—feefteen dollar suits for five—greatest bonanza for working people easer known in St. Louis.” “I see.” “But he gets too much tire, und avway goes der house, der clothing, und der peesness.” “But you were insured?” “So help me gracious, but der policies run oud at noon, und Shake makes dot diversion at 5 o’clock in der afternoon! All vhas gone oep—all except a determination to go to work und build oop anew. I vhas shust starting in a small vhay again. Maybe you like me to sell you a better suit dan you has on for four dollar—all wool, well wade, indigo dye, und computed to stand in any climate?”— N. K Hun.

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S-axa- .. A.Vi’W ~LA PAZ. Extremely hot weather. The Rev. Linville is able to go about on crutches, lie preached at the Rodabaugh church on last Sunday, He seems to be well cared for there, as he has not yet returned home. Mrs. Whte will preach here on next Saturday evening and Sunday. Jonathan Burger has been quite sick for about tert days, but is some better. Jacob Rothenberger was in Kosciusko county, about ten days- He returned from there on Monday afternoon. The coming Fourth will be a quiet day at this place. There will be a display of fireworks at night. David Jamison, our Supervisor, is on the sick list. We hope he may soon recover. He is regarded by many as the best supervisor the district had for many years. There has been more work done this spring than in any two previous years. Ed White’s stable is finished and nicely painted. The masons will finish the stone work for the elevator to-day. Dis. Hamilton and Moore have their offices furnished with the “Clark” and “Acme” Physician’s operating chair. This chair is a nice piece of furniture, and very convenient for the performance of surgical operations. Miss Laura Whiteman, while working in Bremen, was so unfottunale as to run a needle into the palm of her hand, while engaged in washing. The needle broke and left about an inch in her bund- It remained there about a week, causing extreme pain. On last Monday she came to the office of Dr. Hamilton, and had it cut out, while under the influence of chloroform. Our genial barber, Charlie Lonzo, has vacated the property which he occupied during the last four years and moved into the house formerly occupied by Mr. Ringle, and now owned by Cyrus Shafer. Be now does his tonsorial work on the east sido of Michigan street m a small building adjoining Fred Myer's store. It is a pleasant location, much nicer and more convenient than the one he vacated. John Forsyth and George Dick, our butchers, dissolved partnership, Mr. Forsyth now being sole proprietor. A. Shafer went to South Bend to-day in his new buggy. Dr. Hamilton’s prairie dog has escaped. He thinks it is about his barn, and helps itself to corn. Gideon hot Dogan, is clerking for W. L. Johnson. 1 hope I did not make an L lixe a D in writing the name. Seme of our citizens will go to Lakeville on the 4th, to hear the speech of Jerry Hildebrand. It seems our saloon-keepers violate the law with impunity, keeping open on Sundays. selling to minors and persons who are habitual drunkards. It is a shame to see drunken men stagger on Sundays and to hear their vile oaths and blackguardism. We have young men and boys also, who have no respect for themselves, their parents whom they disgrace, nor any one else. In going from meeting they yell like Modoc Indians. They also behave very badly at church. VINEDRESSER' Y’ Something of a Hail Story. Dr. Aug. Mueller, a learned son of Saxony, now rosidingat Mount Healthy, 0., tells of a famous hail-storm in his native country, says the Cincinnati Times, which (but for the doctor's unquestionable veracity) possesses all the ear-marks of a Munchausen tale: “It was on the 15th of May, 1848, about 3 o’clock in the afternoon, that a sharp, black cloud suddenly arose in the heavens over my native village, near Weimer, in Saxony, and the terrible thunder warned of a big storm. Pretty soon it began to hail. The lumps were small at first, but they rapidly increased to the size of lien’s eggs. The people had all fled to places of safety and were watching the awful bombardment. All vegetation was beaten flat into the earth and the crops destroyed. But horror seized the people when they saw that the hail-stones were increasing and the roar of the storm was deafening. The hail-stones became the size of a teacup, then of a largesized glass, and great masses of ice fell that were fully as largo as the globe of that lamp (which was about five inches in diameter). Yes, sir, you may well look amazed, but great lumps of ice fell that weighed six pounds, and these had knuckles upon them two and three inches long; great horned masses of ice they were. Horses and cattle were stricken and mangled in the. fields, the roofs of houses, were beaten in, scarcely a building escaping. And that is not all. These hail-stones, millions of them, fell into the river and were swept down by the current until the stream became choked at the town of Ortang, and the flood rose into the town and a portion of it was submerged. The condition became so serious that an appeal for public succor was made to the country. People who lived under the shadow of the Hartz mountains on that May day in 1848 will never forget that hail-storm, and it is one of the current stories of that people to their children and travelers. That* was a hail-storm! It was a plague!”

MISSING LINKS. A colored hoy of Spudra, Cal., is named Simon Suckeggs. Five thousand earloads of oranges have been shipped from California this season. Julius Stearn, a blind man of New York, can play billiards and make many difficult shots. There are now three foreign-born United States senators —Pasco of Florida, McMillan of Michigan, and Jones of Nevada. Fanny Davenport’s board costs her $3 a week. She lives wholly on toast almost black with carbon and weak green tea. Major Pond says he made a contract with Stanley to lecture in America after lie has finished bis tour of forty-six lectures in England. French scientists have analyzed a quart of water taken from a typhoid infected district, ami found 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 typhoid germs therein. A penniless Scotch immigrant accidentally stumbled upon a rich brother in New York the other day whom he had not seen for thirty-seven years. Mrs. Holland, who died in Virginia recently has been a member of one church for over eighty years. She lacked but one mouth of being a centenarian. A new megaphone has been placed on the market in England, by which the human voice can be so magnified that it may be heard at a distance of several miles. The most successful salon in Paris is that of the comtesse de Kcrsaint, who will receive no gentleman unless he is clothed in as gay colors and as tine stull's as the women. It is said that Mr. Gladstone’s hatter declares that the contour of the old gentleman’s head when transferred to a sheet of paper makes a good outline of the map of Ireland. The popular fad in Washington nowaday -i j Hie study of the laugu ige ind literature of Spain, which was given a great, impetus by the sessions of the Pan-American congress. “My son,” said Senator Brown of Georgia to a reporter who asked him if he was. us reported, worth 81.000.000 — “my son. $1,000,000 is a mighty big lot of money,” und that was all he would say. A rich Italian has purchased the Villa Zirio. nt San Remo, in which the Emperor Frederick was ill so long before he went to Berlin to be crowned, and has closed it rigorously against nil visitors. An official estimate sets down the number of wolves in Russia at 170,000; it is further stated that the loss caused by the destruction of sheep and swine by wolves is so great that it cannot be even approximately estimated. “Big Six,” a Birmingham, Ala., colored man, earned ^5 by butting a three-year-old bull to death. After the animal had been butted live times it fell to the ground and in five minun s was dead. The negro was not injured. The largest greenback extant is wortu SIO,OOO, and there is only one such note in existence. Os $.),000 notes there are seven, and whqn you. come down to the ordinary, every-day §I,OOO note, “there’s millions in it.” In Twiggs County, l’a , ti day or two ago a beardless boy of twenty-one was married to a lady of thirty-seven years old, having seven children. The young man is the lady’s third husband. She is said to be still quite handsome. A colored boy eleven years of age, living in New Orleans, is a musical prodigy. Technically the boy knows no difficulties, and there seems no elfeet, no combination, too intricate or complicated for him to ovt iconic with perfect ease. Caotain Owen J. Sweet, of the Twen-ty-fifth Infantry, ami a special detail of troops have completed the work ol setting headstones over the graves of General Custer's brave band who fell in the battle of the Litt h Big Horn, June 25, 1876. The people of the United States during 1889, smoked 3, 055,‘j55.773,722 cigars, which, at 5 cents each cost the consumers $167,788,686.10. This sum, at §20,000 a mile, would have built 8,686 miles of railroad; and at SB,OOO each would have purchased 20,073 locomotives. The new Russian army rifle of small caliber is two and one-half pounds lighter than the old one. The soldier can carry, therefore, so much more weight in ammunition. The sighting is far more correct and the range is 50 per cent further. Moreover, twenty shots can be fired per minute. Postmaster Sperry, of New Haven, Conn., is the originator of a plan to be introduced at all free delivery offices throughout the country. It consists of having filled out at every house, as a guide to letter carriers, a card giving the mimes in full of all persons residing there, including servants and guests. The most expensive thermometer in this country is in use at the Johns Hopkins University. It is known as Professor Bowland’s thermometer, and is valued at §IO,OOO. it is an absolutely perfect instrument, and the graduations on the glass are so fine that it is necessary to use a microscope to read them. The Japanese government has taken up the matter of public telephone service, and proposes to bring it into universal use throughout the country. A line of telephone has just been constructed between Yokohama and Striznoka. a distance of 100 miles, at the cost of the state, and a large number of other.lines are to be run shortly. W. Blake, who lives ‘near Daunt. Cal., was roused early by a visit from a California lioness and her three cubs. They appropriated a young colt and a line porker, when Mr. Blake turned loose three hounds while he went for his gun. The dogs killed one of the cubs, but they were all killed by the lioness, who retreated in good order before Blake was able to lire a shot.

One of the smaller country towns of Maine that has been greatly changed by time is Fayette, in Kennebec County. Fifty-seven years ago, according to the Augusta Journal, at Fayette Corner there were three churches, four stores, two hotels, a postoflice, and nearly thirty dwellings. Now only one church, the baptist, remains, and the stores and hotels have burned or fallen down. A sensation has been created in England by the discovery that an active slave trade is now being carried on in Madras, India, under the eyes of the government. It appears that in that British province a traffic in girls has been carried on as outrageous as in Constantinople and with just about the same amount of secrecy. It is said that high English officials are implicated in the nefarious trade. Now that the plan of utilizing the water power of the Niagara I alls is to be put into practical execution, in a local distribution of power to begin with, it will not be long before the electrical engineer will be called upon to transmit a considerable portion ol it to districts several miles away. One of the plans already suggested is to lay a cable from Ute Falls to Buffalo on the bottom of the Niagara River. Besides the rabbit pest, New South Wales is troubled by another called the “flying fox pest.” This creature is ii species of bat, the largest of the bat Aribe, sometimes measuring nearly live feet in expanse of wings, and is popularly termed the living fox on account of the red, fox-like color of the fur. and “the very vulpine aspect of the head.” The attacks of these destructive animals an mainly aimed against fruits and other vegetable substances. About Sleep. How many hours’ sleep do you re--3 wire? No rifle can bo laid down, eremy Taylor thrived on three hours, and so does Cardinal Newman. Many centenarians are contented with five hours; but some of them require eight or nine. But there are two rules of sleeping which everybody may adopt without hesitation I Never let yourself be awakened by anybody else, but wait until you have sh pt out your sleep. 2. Get up as so on as you are awake. If you follow these rules, the hours of sleep will very soon regulate themselves. If you read yours.-If to doep.you should read a heavy book, not a light one. A dull look Is good, a stupid one is better. Some persons recom mend a cup of beef-tea juA to amuse the digestion. St. Jan ss Ganttc. EILERT’S DAY LIGHT LIVER FILLS are a boon to sufferers from Sick Headache, Sour Stomach, Torpid Liver and indication. Sugar-coated, pleasant to take and warranted to go through by davlieht. J ohm Cuppnck Tool meet* every SHtur Uy of each : vmlh th ;r llnil over EnJ s ter A Grs-I-r - ' C.minGc are c<>rdiatly in v u I to atU-n ! K I.nHoLE. G ui En McL’anty Ad'J V KOSNHA-I.IS

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Q A VI H ■ -CALL AT THEPHILADELPHIA STORE And see our line of Ladies’, Misses’ and CHILDREN’S SLIPPERS, Cheap, You bet they are! We have more than we want and will sell them cheap. Remmuher. we have as Line a line of Ladies’, Gent’s, Misses’ and Children’s Shoes as yon can find. Don’t fail to give us a call when in town. We will treat you just r ig,ht. Yours truly, L~l HDMMELL ’ DEALER IN CHICKEHIKG, GABLER, COLBY, SCHUBERT AMD SMITH PIANOS. I’innos and Organs sold on small payment until paid for none of this kind better in the market. The Singer Manu/'acturing Company's Sewing Machine, 17 reasons why this machine is superior to all other males. : The Rex Wind Mill. > Manufactured at Morth Manchester, The mdy Miil that has the direct lift, the lightest running Mill in the market > ii up dally in elevated tanks. A ;■ cidty in Sewing Machino supplies etc. No trouble to show goods. Glad t । ri.a . Cull and see im . Headquarters in Independent room, Bender’s ; 22 L. K HUM MELL-

J. R. ABNER, Physician an! Surgeon, GROVERTOwN, IND. Office in residence. TROYER BROS., Z®" A., ' X R■ • $ .. 7 “I ww $ V 7^/ Hi'pairing' of Watches, (’locks, Jewelry, Spectacles and Sewing Machines. — Sixteen years experience and I all work warranted. In McDaniel’s Express Oilice. Wallxcrtou, Ixxci. J N REECE, M.D. J. W. ARLINGTON, M. D. Reece & Arlington, Physicians and Surgeons, Walkertn, Ind. i All calls promptly attended to, day or night. Office over Brubaker & Grider’s store. Florence Hotels MRS. HANNAH SHEATSLEY, Prop’r. WALKERTON, - INDIANA. O One of the finest hotels in Northern Indiana. Newly furnished and re-fit-ted throughout. A haven of rest for the weary traveler. S X.SO I?cr XJ«y. WANTEDm&t^M ses paid, a few good salesmen to sell Trees, Shrubs and Vines. Address, with references, D. H. PATTY, Nurseryman, Geneva, New York.

C. B. TIBBETTS, AUurney-atl.aw, Plymouth, In <ll an ii. Special attention to settlement of estates. Money to Loan At lowest rates—on long or short time Call or write for terms. SILAS GEORGE, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, WALKERTON, IND. Prompt attention given to collection® Office in Rensberger’s blocx, upstairs H. S. Dowell. Dentist. WALKERTON, Ind. Poes every variety of work in u odern dentistry, worn reliable. Prices reasonable. Office in Fry-Dougherty block, upstairs. JOHN W. PARKS, 8. D. PARKS, r. b oglesbek, Bourbon, Ind. Plymouth, Ind. PARKS ^OGLESBEE, rfTTOIWEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAw, AND NOTARIES PUBLIC, Office First Floor Brick Building, Garro Street, Ply ninth,- Indiana. Trustee’s Notice. Samuel F. Ross, Trustee of Lincoln Township, hereby gives notice that ho will c in his office at the store of Ross A Bose on Wednesday of each weeK for th® transaction of township business. vllNo4 1 r Sales mert WANTED. 11 LOCAL OR TRAVELING, to sell our Nursery Stock' Salary, Expenses and Steady Employment guaranteed. CHASE BROTHERS CO., Rochester, N. Y, UNCLE SAM’S NERVE & BONE LINIMENT will relieve Sprains, Bruises, Neuralgia and Rheumatism. Sold by all druggists,