The Greencastle Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 21 July 1887 — Page 8

Tl.JL (t'fcKNCASTLE TIMES. JULY 21, iS87.

■nib coir coNVEsnoy. [ Written for the Times.] At higli noon Inst Sunday on n principal stroot A convention of cows was announced to meet. To hold an indignation pow-wow. because. The Greencastle Council had made some laws To have brick or etone pavements quickly laid On the very streets which custom had made The boi ton cows’ choicest stamping ground.— .Silence reignod when it was cheiced around That Squire Bumpkins’ cow would take the chair. In lieu of which she straddled a tree, and there She bellowed forth a most mighty bawl. The very same bawl that startles us all From our innocent dreams in the dead of night, | Till we jump out of bed in feverish fright. If Gabriel ever gets sleepy, or loses his horn He can trust a Greencastle cow to sound his alarm. A reporter was near and heard the charge. It whs that the council, who were still at j large. Had ordered the walks, which the cows under-j stood Were their exclusive property, as far as they [ could To be torn up and relaid with brick or stone. Without considering what harm would be done To them: for bricks are too hot, and hard, and red And stone is a very poor thing for u bed. And worse, when they walked the brick would crumble, The rock get slick, and give them a tumble.— n short, they believed it a personal matter Between themselves and the council. The latter Had in their boyhood annoyed them with stones And lire.crackers, and clubs, and brick-bats and bones. The girls ami women kept “in de middle of de road” And left them in peace in the shade where they stood, Bnt the boys would always deal them some rouse rs; And now that they wear different cut trowsere They keep up their pestering and call it Law, But it is after all only the self same saw.— <>no cow was there that belonged to a “city dad,’ And when she heard it, she was furiously mail She said she’d give him sour milk the rest of his ! life And she’d hook his children, and kick his wife. Then she spied a fly on the tip of her ear. And whirled her tail, a loop in the air, To lasso him—and he’d a bin busted But it caught on a limb, and hung there disgusted. Another one said that when she was little She butted one of them into a ‘‘kittle,” ‘ And,” she added mournfully, “if 1 had known He’d ever done this, I’d a broke every bone.” Said the doctor’s cow with n frown most dense, As she humped a board from the college fence “I’m bound to do ’em all the dirt I can.” Then she chewed her cud like a little man;— Why, you can’t believe until you’ve stepped in it What a muss she can make in less than a minute! Then all agreed and signed it and sealed. That they’ll never “give down” till the law’s repealed. “For the people,” they granted, “brick walks are all right*. But for us to stand on all day and all night Really its barbarous, a r*ean little trick, And that is why we’re making this ‘‘kick.” LOCAL m:\vs notes. Gathered by Our Iteportcrg Throughout the County. MAPLE GROVE. Farmers stacking wheat. Kain medecl badly. Mr. John Hillis, of Greencastle, visited friends hero this week. James Hillis, of Di.l'as, Tex. visited .here this week. John McFarlau is working for the Greencastle Water Works Company. Wm. Ferrard is building a new house.

SEW MAYSVIl.l.E. Hot ? Well I should remark! Wheat threshing going on. Bowen iV Son’s new running separator is a capital machine. Frank Hall ond Mat Stowart sold some fat cattle last week at $3.80 per hundred. Low enough. „ Hogs H to 5 cts per hundred. Harvesting of all kinds is about done except threshing. Mr. George Hendricks is quite ill. Mrs. Charley Taylor is better. David Whitted’s 10 months old child died last week of cholera infantum. Ed Wendling was sick last week. Eat too much.

FINCASTLE. Hot and dry. Some sickness in oar neighbor Jiood. Mrs. Alma Bridges is quite sick. Frank Scott’s little boy is getting better. This week will about finish the threshing in this immediate neigh borhood. Five machines near here Monday. Some of our merchants aud hucksters were in Indianapolis this week buying goods. Dr. Stanley has commenced work on his new house. Uiemas Walsh has sold his dwelling house and lot to J . W. Morris aud will build soon L1UEDALE. Miss Lizzie Walls is sick. Miss Della I’inuoll is convalescent. The rain o? Monday was much needed. Mr. Albert Bast, of Lafayette, is now night mau ou the Vandalia, he

having succeeded Mr. Mcluery, who | is now working days. Louis Stoeg and family are at his ! mother’s. Mr. Ed. Walls, who has been visit- | ing his wife and children for a few days, has returned to Michigan City. Mr. Henry Finnell has returned from a tw’o months’ vacation and is now at his old position, baggage man for the L. & N. A. road. FLOYD TOWNSHIP. The trustees of the Wesley Chapel cemetery meet at that place on Saturday at 1 o’clock ]). m. and request the presence of all of the subscribers to the funds being raised for the erection of the fence contemplated by the trustees. Toledo** Croat Win© ‘Tun. Work was la-gun in 1883 cn the great v.inc tun of Toledo, O.. but the solid American oak of which it v. us built was drying in a kiln for six years prior to that. lt$ oaken staves are twenty-one feet long and six inches square. In the rough, six of them formed a load • for a two horse team. Withtho utmost nicety they were put in place until, as a whole, they measures! over sixty feet in circumference. Through the center of the tun, where it curves outward in a huge swell, it measures twenty-one feet; thediameter at the ends is eighteen feet. It contains 30,000 gallons of dry wine. To withstand the enormous pressure of this bulk, three iron rods are carried from end to end, where they are riveted in oaken beams of great size and strength. The hoops are of iron. There are fourteen of them and they weigh three tons. Each hoop is six inches broad and aliout a third of an inch in thickness. They are well groomed hoops, and shine ns if in constant contact with an emery wheel. But everything about the great tun betokens the great care that is taken of it. Its oaken surface is polished to such n degree that the sun loves to creep in through the prison like windows and dance upon its shining bulk. The huge brass spigot glitters like gold fresh from the coiner's hand. The oaken platform that faces its tremendous head, and the oaken stairway that winds around the base amt enables the visitor to look down upon the mammoth, glisten under frequent coats of varnish. A blow upon this iron ribbed body makes no impression unless the ear be placed close to the wood; then the sound is like the lost gasp of a thunder clap. Days and days were occupied in filling it with catawba made from grajies that grow on islands in Put in Bay, where Commodore Perry taught John Bull a lesson some years ago. And when the tun was full, when 30,000 gallons of wine had been poured into the vast interior, there was much rejoicing in the immediate vicinity, and all who witnessed the completion of the process felt in duty bound to drink to the health of the Toledo tun, and to do so in such unstinted measure that the occasion is likely never to be forgotten by those who participated.—Cor. New York Times.

Qiircr liirtfft of Yest«*r<luv. A number of large and interesting birds have become extinct within recent times. Of these the epiomis, of Madagascar, was probably the largest. Fossil j fragments indicate that this creature was | at least twelve feet in height, with a 1 weight five or six times as great as that i of the ostrich. Specimens of its eggs have r been found and measure nearly thirteen [ and a half inches in largest diameter by I nine inches in smallest diameter, with a , capacity of nearly eight quarts, 'the moa. or dinomis, of New Zealand, was also larger than any bird now living, its height having been ten or tw< Ivo feet. Its “drumstick’’ was thirty to thirty-two inches long and its eggs so largo that a hat would make a good i gg cup for them. The famous dodo, a fifty pound bird of Mauritius, was once well know n to tlio Dutch, but has not been reported as a n during the last 200 years. The solitaire is another exterminated bird of the same like id. The great auk, of the North sea, ii supposed to have become extinct since 18-1-1. These are a few of the latest disappearances of the bird world; other large species are fast diminishing in numbers, and soon the Australian emuo and New Zealand apteryx, for example, will liavo passed away also. — Arkansaw Traveler.

AN ESSAY ON MAN. Written from the Standpoint of Student of VasRar College. Men are peculiar; they wear No. 10 1 loots and snore. This is what makes it easy to recognize a man when you seo one. Men wear hats they are careful of and carry umbrellas they are not careful of; when not losing them they are always poking them into somebody’s eyes. Men don’t gossip, but they go to their clubs and talk over the “news.” Men don’t paint or jiowder (often), but they raise whiskers that make them look like Scotch terrier.!, and coax little hair moles to grow on their chins. Men are not vain, but they never like the young lady who * says they are not handsome. Men are consistent. They like to seo tho d ress of a lady plain and sensible, “hate furbelows and flummery,” but let a lady in a “plain, sensible” dress enter near where these men are seated and she may stand an hour and not ono of them oiler her a seat, but when a lady enters arrayed in the height of fashion every one of them will spring to his feet and glory in tho honor of standing for her sake, or rather for the sake of her clothes. Men never find fault with themselves, not if they can help it. Adam showed them how they could help it, and they have profited by bis instruction. Men lake cold and think tin y are going to die, and when you carry them a bowl of herb tea they turn falo and ask you if it is bitter and if you don’t suppi o it would do just as well to take it next week. Men don’t lead around a poodle dog with blue ribbon, but they chew tobacco and perfume their clothes with a pipe. Men are always wanting a clean shirt, and when they get one they are always ready to swear that there is not a button on it, when all the time tho buttons will lie there, only they can’t find them. Men can never find anything. They pull off their boots and forget where they put them, and pretend they remember just all about it, and after they have rummaged around and turned everything upside down, and looked on all tho shelves in tho pantry, in the sewing machine drawer, and upset your work I sket, sit down and remark that this is ;; deuce of a house, a fellow never knows when ho gets out of a thing when he is going to set eyes on it again; and when you bring his hoots, that yon have fo.. id right where ho left t!:er.i, he hr’idj you his slippers and wants to know if you “can’t jab (hem into some out of the way corner where the old Scratch would never look for ’em.” Men think they know a lot, anil they do sometime.’.. Men are a trouble, but they are handy to have in tho house in a thunder shower, or when the wind blows, and they are not afraid of mice. I know this is true, because I once saw two men chase a mouse around a room for an hour (more or les i, and neither appeared to Lx- in the least alarmed. Toward the close of the chase one of the men stooped to wipe his brow and remarked that it was warm an exceedingly cold observation, in my opinion, as it was cold and comfortable iqS on the head of tho lounge where I was.—Vaasar Student in Home Journal. Iloterioratlon of tho ^I**:»tal Faculties. There is as much danger of hurting tho brain by idleness jus by overwork. Dr. Farquharson argue that intellectual power is lessened by the listlessness in which tho well to do classes generally spend their lives. Undersuch conditions the brain gradually loses its health, and, although equal to tho demands of a routine existence, is unable to withstand tho strain of sudden emergency. So, when a load of work is unexpectedly thrown on it in its unprepared state, the worst consequences of what may be called overwork chow themselves. Similarly, a man accustomed to sedentary pursuits is liable to be physically injured by taking suddenly too violent exercise. As to the amount of mental work thni may safely be done. Dr. Farquharson rays: “So long es e, brain worker is e.blo to sleep well, to eat well, and to take a fair proportion of outdoor exercise, it may safely to raid that it i ■ not necessary to impose any special limit.! on tho actual number of hours which ho devotes to his labors. But when what is generally known ns worry steps in to complieato in."tiers, when cares connected with family arrangements, or with those n.i.uerous |iersoual details which we can seldom escape, intervene, or when the daily «iceupation of life is in itself a fertilo source of anxiety, then we find ono or other of these three safeguards broken down.”— Faith and Work.

Klchc* mid Folly.

Napoleon'* Xcrvtftis 8ensltlvone§§* “My nerves are very sensitive,” ho said of himself, “and when in this state, were my pulse' not always regular, I should risk going crazy.” Tho tension of accumulated impressions is often bio great, and it ends in a physical breakdown. Strangely enough in so great a warrior and with such a statesman, “it is rot infrequent, when excited, to see him shed tears.” Ho who has looked upon thousands of dying men, sind who lias bad thousands of men slaughtered “solis after Wagratn and after Bautzen, at the couch of a dying companion in arms. ” “I saw him,” says bis u.luf, "weep while eating his breakfast, after coming from Marshal Lanne’s bedside; big tears rolled down bis cheeks and fell on his plate.” U is not alone tho physical sensation, the sight of a bleeding, shattered body, which thus moves him acutely and deeply: for a word, :i simple idea, stings and penetrates almost as far. Before the emotion of Dandolo, who pleads for Venice, his country, which is sold to Austria, he is agitated and his eyes moisten .‘'peaking of the capitulation < f Bay! . * i fall meeting of the conn. 3 of ji! h: voice trembles, and "he gives wa v b- lii grief, his eyes even filling with t i». ' -H. Tjiino m New Princeton Beview. Tim Oc»n*l^l^tor•. Kcply. The (ram bands on the Boston and Maine, .vlien a train is cm. ring the Boston depot. call. ‘Boston: t’ni no further. ’ Tib is a ful | !mvision that prove:. passe;.; i r.i I cing Carrie 1 by Boston. TlOU ’* is not uncjilled for is shown by an incident that happened the other day, when an elderly traveler asked of tho conductor, in apparent good faith: “Does this train stop at Boston?” The conductor said it did when they had passengers for that station. —Boston Transcript.

Tho “gilded youth” of our groat cities grow weary of balls, of steam yachts, of even the theatres, gambling and drink. Their jaded apjietites crave stronger diet. 1 n the great centers of riches and folly some of them crowd in tho small hours of the morning to dens unknown to tho police, to see brutal combats between prize fighters. At a recent light between a woman and a dog, tho ring was surrounded by men worth millions. “The only real nensation I have enjoyed for years, ” said one of this class lately, “was in China last July, when I saw tho executioner chop olf five heads in an hour.” At heart, these lads are made of as good, manly stuff as others. They are victims to the popular idea that tho solo use of money is amusement. Even when weighted by huge fortune ns Napoleon Bonaparte once wrote to his marshal, “Surely, we should endeavor to do something: to say that we have lived; to leave some impress of our lives upon the sands of time.”—Youth’s Companion. Human Aslie*. “Di 1 you ever s?*e any human allies?” was the rather s'- . tliiig qui iion put to a reporter byPr .-nt Cob.., of the l uked States Crcmi n society. Producing a square glass eight ounc • bottle. l!)!vcfonrths full of almost white e.she-:, ho said: “Thcv-. j, r ,. tlio aslvM of a child about 0 or 7 years old. They were left in charge of the iety by the parent ’., who were going out of the city, and bad no safe placet' liestow them. Here t bowing a round tin Ihix about eight inches high nr:i! - ix i:i diameter, half full of ashes of th - : ame color) are tho remains of a man, coffin and all. They are delivered to the relatives in this form.”—New York Mail. If you would not have uflliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.

Itrratlilni; Tlii'oui;li thn Mouth. Those people who breathe through tho mouth draw dust constantly into their lungs, where it remains permanently; for Professor Tyndall has shown (hat the exhaled air is absolutely free from dust pjirtioles. Professor Iteelam asserts that city jicoplo at the age of 30 usually have in their lungs a whole gramme of calcareous dust, which they can never again get rid of, and which may engender dangerous disease. Pew people know that their skin.; as well as their lungs need a constant supply of oxygen. The skin, as well as the lungs, breathes and purifies the blood, ns is shown by the fact that the arterial blood which goes to the skin does not turn venous and dark elsewhere, but remains red and pure.—The Epoch.

Water - Water! The undersigned are prepared to furnish and fit up DWELLINGS, STORES, OFFICES and SALOONS with tho most approved SANITARY PLUMBING DEVICES at reasonable prices. Sanitary Closets, Bath Tubs, Garden Hose and Reels, Lawn

Fmlcr Difficultipa* In a narrative of Lord McCartney’s embassy to China, it is related that his lordship's attendants, in passing through a part of that empire, saw n man cultivating the side of a precipice, and on examination they found bo bail a rope fastened around bi.i waist, which was secured at the top of the mountain, and by which he let himself down to any part of the precipice where a few yards of available ground gave him encouragement, to plant his vegetables and his com. Tho whole of the cultivated spots, which were at some distance from each other, appeared to I e not more than half an acre, and near the bottom of a precipice, on a hillock, be had a little but.—American Agriculturist,

An eastern Ilespot’s I’lensuro. Murad IV took pleasure in cutting off tho head of a slave every morning, in order to give him an appetite; and the most moderate historians place the number of murders that ho ordered or committed with his own hand at more th:m a hundred thousand. Ono of his favorite distractions was to have men and women, whom [ho caused to be stripped before him, thrown iqion iron hooks fastened in a high wall. These unfortunates remained hanging by the flesh, suffered frightfully for a long time in this horrible position, and were delivered only by death. One day he hail a dozen children disemboweled in order to find in their stomachs an apple that had just been stolen in his garden.—The Cosmopolitan. Itch, prarie mange, anil scratches of every kind cured in 30 minutes by Wool ford 8 Sanitary Lot ion. Use no other. This never fails. Sold by Albert Allen, druggist, Greencastle. 1

Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is a peculiar incilieine, ami Is carefully prepared by competent pharmacists. The combination and proportion of Sarsaparilla, Dandelion, Mandrake, Yellow Dock, and other remedial agents is exclusively peculiar to Hood’s Sarsaparilla, giving it strength and curative power superior to oilier preparations. A trial will convince you of its great medicinal value. Hood's Sarsaparilla Purifies tho Blood creates and sharpens the appetite, stimulates the digestion, and gives strength to every organ of the body. It cures the most severe cases of Scrofula, Sait Kheum, Boils, Pimples, and all other .b ctiims caused by impure blood. Dyspepsia. Biliousness, Headache, Kidney and Llvi r C i plaints, Catarrh, Rheumatism, and that < a. mo lired^celing. “ Hood's Sarsaparilla has helped me more for catarrh and impure blood than anything else I ever used.’’ A. Ball, Syracuse, N. Crcatcc an Appetite “ I used Bond's Sarsaparilla to cleanse my blood and tone tip my system. It gave me jv good appetite and seemed to build mo over.” E. M. Hale, Lima, Ohio. “I took Hood's Sarsaparilla for cancerous humor, and it began to act unlike anything else. It cured the humor, and seemed to tone up the whole body and give me new life.” .T. F. Nixon, Cambridgeport, Mass. Send for book giving statements of cures. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for £5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD A: CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar

FITS: All Pitn 8t«Tpt*l freo by I)r. Kline’s Gieat Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first d -y’s ust*. Marvelous cim-h. Treatise and ic.uo trial botth* fn*e to Fit east's. Solid to /'; . KKne. Hill Arch St. I’hi la.. Pa.

jin: rorri.Arm* of r,in.i'.\c.\STi.K !h uV-nt 7,000, ami we would say at loj.Ht one half ar" troubled with some affection of the Throat and Buhk*. us those eeo plaints are according to statistics, more numerous than others. Wa wo lid :.ti vise all not ‘ o neglect the opportunity to call ou us und get h bottle of Kemp’s Balsam for the I'broat and Lungs. Brice ThJ cents and >1. Trial sUr free. Respecially. J. F. Allen A Co. e. o. w. lyr.

CONSUMPTION CUUMD. An ol<j physician, retire 1 from prnoliee, haying had placed in bis hands by an Last India missionary tlie formula of a simple vegetable remedy for I he speedy und permanent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis. Catarrh. Asthma ami all throat and Lung Affections, a's'' -i positive and radical cure for Nervous debility and all Nervous (’omplsitits. after l aving tested its wonder: ul curative powers in thousands of estes. hi* felt it hi©dot/1«» niftk© •’ known : ’' his sufb ring f. llows. Actuated by this motive and a desire to relieve human buffering 1 will send fr»M* «if charge, to all who desire it. this recipe m German. French or Kngjish. with full directions for preparing and using S#»nt by matt by address ng with stamp, namim* this psper. W ’. *'Oyf.-. U0 Power’s Block. RochObter, N. V. 8 e. o. w.lyr.

f / ARK 'S FLAX SALVl. C!uifs |>i]<*.s bait rboum, tottcT, burns, scahU. snipH, wonruls, infant's sores and ehnfTinjr, som nipples, and eruptions < f tip* skir.. Sufferers with rat ' arrii \si!i find this an invaluable rein 1 edy aiid certain cure. Pleasant to use and perfect satisfaction guaranteed. Price, lioets per box. For Btilo by till ’ • Wool! Wool is now coining in freely. Wo mo ]»H>itio; at our mill for good and ni<*M‘lninL'ibie wool ‘^7 <*» nts per pound, cithh. Birch i v . Bro- ! y;/K WiUY.UiuST MAX IX fiPFrXCASTLE As well us the hnndsouvst. »nd others are IHVi tt'*l t'* I'Jlll Ml .1. I'.. AI til A ( ' Itli'i gat fi < 1 ii trial botileof Koiup’h Ibiii-ii'n rni tho Thrnnt ami Lung a, a romoily that ii» Hollma ' , atii''*ly u]ion it i n.i’ritH ami is guarantn'd *'• ouro ar.il relievo all b'lirouio ami Acuto Cough i. Asthma, Bronchtli* nM ('onsamptimi. I’rioo SO cent» undtl. e. o. w. lyr.

Sprinklers, Fountains, etc., Iu stock and open for inspection. GAS ami STEAM FITTING ;i Specialty. —FINE CHANDELIERS.— WATSON & GLENN, <i. L. COLLINS, Manager. Next to Postoffice.

GrEC). HICK N E EG, ——DEALER IN Hardware, Wagons, Buggies, And FARMING MACHINERY GENERALLY, also GRASS SEEDS. Northeast Corner of Indiana and Columbia Streets. GREENCASTLE, INI). ^^-Headquarters for binder twine and Lawn Mowers.

The GAS COMPANY will furnish GAS : STOVES

To ennsiimere in this city only at Manufacturers' prices, from to Refer to the following persona using this stove: Dr. G. W. BENCE. II. C. LEWIS. F. G. GILMORE, W.«'. TALBURT, W, E. 8FEVENSON. Call at the Comi'anj’s office in Putnam County Bank Building.

When I Say Wholesale Prices, Mean

I will sell at wholesale cost until all summer goods are closed out, till of my men’s Dongola and low-cu Shoes; all of my children’s and misses’ Walking Shoes and slippers,

and also till of my

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All othe’ goods at extremely low prices to reduce stock, to make room

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July G, 1H87.

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