The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-28

was witnessed Sunday. The disease attacked
her knee Saturday night and she suffered
the most excruciating agony. Sunday
morning her knee was very much swollen
and the least weight upon the affected parts
nearly threw her into SPANS. As soon as
possible the blue-glass bath was taken, and
in less than three quarters of an hour the
pain had left, the swelling and soreness had
disappeared and the limb was to all appear
ances as healthy as il ever was Yesterday
she walked about the house as lively as a
girl of sixteen. Another remarkable feature
in this case is that for over year The toes of
the left foot have been entirely useless. being
benumbed; but the blue glass sun-baths have
restored to her the full use of those mem
bers.
THE MARRIAGE OF GREAT MEN.
Byron married Miss Millbank to get
money to pay his debts. 1t turned out bad
shift
Robert Burns married a farm-girl with
whom he fell in love while they worked to-
gether in plowed field. He was irregular
in his life and committed the most serious
mistakes in conducting his domestic affairs,
but at heart he was one of the nOblest of
men.
Milton married the daughter of a country
squire, and lived with her but a short time.
He was an auStere literary recluse, while she
was rosy, romping country lass that could
not endure the restraint imposed upon her;
so they separated. Subsequently. however
she returned and they lived tolerably happy
together.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were
cousins, and about the only example in the
long line of English monarchs wherein the
marital VOWS were sacredly observed and
sincere affection existed.
Shakespeare loved and welded farmers
daughter good deal older than himself
She faithful N her vuS hnt UQ cOnlA
hardly say the same of the bard himself.
Like most of the great poets he Showed too
little discrimination in bestowing his affec-
tons on the other sex.
Washington married woman with two
children. 1t is enough to say that she
was worthy of him. and they lived together
as married people should live-in perfect
harmony with each other, but having no
children born to them.
John Adams married the daughter of a
Presbyterian clergy man. Her father OBJ
jected on account of John being a lawyer
He had bad opinion of the morals of the
profession.
married his nurse. She was altogether be-
meath him in social life and intellectual ca
pacity, and, besides this 50 while he was but
% years of age. He would not take mo-
for ali answer. and they were married and
lived happily until she died, which occurred
two years afterward
Peter the Great, of Russia. married peas
ant. She made an excellent wife and
sagacious empress.
Humboldt married a poor girl because he
loved her. OF course they were very happy.
1t is not generally known that Andrew
Jackson married lady whose husband was
still living. She was an uneducated but
amiable woman. and was most devoteuly at
tached to the old warrior and statesman.
Inhn oil io1 in
Their children do not evince the talent of
the great states rights advocate.
THE wAILING-PLACE AT JERUSALEM.
A correspondent of the San Francisco
Chronicle writes as follows from Jerusalem:
Let us get hence under the deep wall of the
temple and witness the one solitary specta-
Gle in all the city that is really and truly af-
fecting. 1t is Friday at the Jews wailing-
place. Narrow, crooked and filthy streets
lead down under the hill of the temple. As
you approach the open space against the
huge blocks of stone that are imbedded in
the foundations of the wall, your ear is
startled by chorus of agonizing cries. Such
wall might have assembled from the streets
after that night of the death of the first
born. Turning out of the slippery and ill
smelling passage into the place of wailing,
1 beheld a multitude OF men, women and
children apparently stricken with common
sorrow that could only find expression or
relief in tears and piercing cries. There
might have been 200 Dourners very small
company of strangers stood apart and looked
on in amazement. Old men with snowy
boards, old women withered and weather
beaten, sat against the wall opposite
the sacred stones of the temple, read
ing their prayer books and nOddihg
their heads quickly and violently backward
and forward as if they would thus impress
upon the very air the earnestness of their
muttered prayers Young lads stood against
the temple wall and read their litanies, kiss
ing the stones from time to time with affec-
tionate reverence. The women were more
demonstrative, aud as they threw their arms
above their heads, wruDg their hands and
wept bitterly. Their cries and sobs were
echoed by the chorus of mourners and a
hysterical wave of emotion passed through
the entire assembly, that swayed to and fro
like the corn in the wind. Some OF these
mourners knelt apart. and with their fore
heads pressed against the wall, worn smooth
with kisses, their eyes pouring rivers of tears
all the while, they talked to those huge
blocks passionately, as If they meant the
very stones should hear them and reply.
Small wicks floating in oil were lit from time
to time by those who had just come to wall.
An attendant kept a supply on hand, and
those who gave him a trifiing fee were at
once served with light, which was how
ever, left burning in his charge A few of
the mourners knelt in meditation; few
gave way to violent grief-a< grief that
seemed to verge upon despair. All were evil
IDENTIFY thoroughly in earnest as they repeat
| ed over and over this litany:
For the place that lies desolate:
We sit in solitude and mourn.
For the place that is destroyed;
We sit in solitude and mourn.
For the walls that are overthrown;
For our majesty that is departed,
For our great men who lie dead;
For the precious stones that are burned
| For the priests who have stumbled;
For the Kings who have despised Him;
We sit in solitude and mourn.
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