The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-02
ANINDIAN ADVENTURE.
Try That WIZ grow with Repetition.

an HNWHAN AhV ENAbhG.
Story That WIFE grow with Repetition.
MBurdette, the funny man, writes to his
paper, the Burlington Hn~keHc:
As | write an old lady in the opposite scat
Interrupts me to ask me If | am going fur"
am ! unblushingy tell her, awful "fur."
Where did come from?
Black Hills.
Mo- Well, I didn't look like It.
| explain that have not been out there
mining or roughing 1t. but went out to get the
body Of my brother. who was miner and had
been shot by the Indians.
Oh.h-hi with a wailing infection Of sym
pathy that makes me ashamed of myself,
But curiosity soon conquers pity, and the old
lady goes on probing my lacerated heart,
''Did git himY
Yes, ma am" very solemnly. 81 havehim
In the baggage car"
long pause. for mornfut reflection, I sup
DO 50, and to give mo a chance To nerve up and
prepare for the next question,
WAS he sCalped"
Yes" / say with a sigh, "scalped, shot
through the body with arrows, all his fingers
chopped off, his eyes gouged out and his ears
The old girls cup Of horrors is full, She
isfaCtion and questioned me no more,
Was it wrong to lie to the old lady In this
heartless manner? Yes, | think 1t was not
In thus innocently stufling my travelling &C
uuaintance with fable about country had
never seen, a brother | never had, and lndi-
ans that never We're wrote for the old lady
thrilling chapter in her quiet life. She
would go to her quiet little home and bright
en- It's hundrum life by telling her people how
she met and talked to a man who was going
home with the body of his brother, mangled
In the manner described.
Then In course Of time, after many rcpeti-
lions of this narrative she would invOun-
tarily and innocently glide into the statement
that she went into the baggage-car with me
and | showed her the mRngled, tortured body,
and she would mangle it more and more rs
the narrative grew upon her. Then she
would, after a little while, declare and In all
innocence and truthfulness and belief In her
own statement, that she was on the train
when it came through the Black Hills, and,
from the car windows, saw the Indians
chasing the doomed man and perfOrating his
body with arrows and dancing around him
In fendish gIee, while she begged the con
ductor to get off and stop them, and how he
declined on the iimSY ground that he had q
wife and nine children to support, and no in
surance either on the top Of his head or
his life. Then, after a few more rehearsals,
arrows would fly right in at the window whore
she was sitting, and one or more passengers
would be killed. One arrow would pass
through her bonnet The train would be
scene of the widest confusion and carnage
And at last after the old lady had been gath
cred to her mothers, her grandchildren would
tell their grandchildren about their noble old
grandmother and their brave, gallant grand
father, who both fell by the hand Of 0utnun-
bering savages, while defending a railway
train from the attack of a band Of Sioux In
dams under the command of Sitting Bull,
whom their grandfather, just before he died,
killed with his own hand. And thus grand
thrilling page of family history will grow out
of my unaffected little romance to the inqus-
tive old lady.
The NicoirF Vestnjk, one Of the leading
papers of Southern Russia, was started four
teen years ago as a daily, and IS sometimes
published every day in the week, including
Sunday At other times 1t Is issued but once
or twice week, and occasionally an entire
week passes without its appearance. The
hour Of publication Is equally uncertain. 1t
has been occasionally published at and e
o'clock In the morning, but generally appears
between in the afternoon and 10 at night.
The publisher considers a regular system Of
publication too m0nOtOnOuS. "BeSides,' he
says, ''we'rc always short of something adj
VertisementS, copy, compositions or cash, ana
whom we have all these were often short of
readers
Two scientific Elm street gentlemen took
smoked glasses apiece and a bottle, the other
day, and went out into the back yard to OBJ
serve the transit of Mercury The most
astonishing thing connected with the matter
was that before evening they had observed
fourteen transits, detected three new planets
and experienced total eclipse. When the
observations were concluded. q kind-hGarted
neighbOr wheeled the scientists home In ~
wheelbarrow, while some mournful notes by
the Elm street buger were heard in the dis
lance Detroit Free Press.
A Florida snake story: Old Ben A., near
town, one night heard one Of his wifes ducks,
which she had set over lot of eggs, making
a noise. He went out. but could see nothing
AHSt morning hn vent out to where the old
duck was sitting upon her eggs, under o
brush-pe and saw large black snake coied
up under the duck, his snakeship having
swallowed twelve eggs. Mr. Williams cut
eggs and placed them under the duck, and
eleven of that dozen eggs Matched. Next!
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Grant is going, or has been, to Dion. We
were going to make a good one out Of that,
but alas, an imperfect classical education
leaves us in such gloomy doubt whether Dion
rs LrnnnI,ncnd ~ rL .mn with niEenn TINT WE