The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-12
MINOR MENTION.

HOWEVER slow elderly foreigners may be in
adapting themselves to the ways of this country,
it does not take long for the daughters of such
parents to become thoroughly Americanized.
Mr.. Obert, German farmer near Scranton, Pa,
who came few years since, took the idea
into his mind that it was time his daughter Lena
should marry A wealthy neighbor of the same
nationality proposed for the girl to her father,
but said nothing to the object of his love herself
The farmer and his wife accepted on behalf of
their daughter and went about making prepare
tions for the wedding. They knew the girl dis
liked the sutton, and though the thought did not
enter their simple minds that she might seri-
ously object to marrying him, they neglected to
inform her of her prospects until the day before
the event was to occur. Invitations were out for
what the young woman thought was to be merely
an ordinary party. New dresses were bought,
but some of the articles were so Enthusiastically
bridal in their character that she naturally in
quired who was to be married. When informed
that it was herself, she said she proposed to be
courted and married on the American plan, or
not at all; that she would not marry the man
they had selected in any case, and that if they
wanted wedding they might have it, but she
bonnet and walked sixteen miles over the hills
to town, and took refuge with relatives leaving
the astonished parents and would be bridegroom
to mourn the demoralizing tendency of neww world
institutions.
PHILADELPHIA has an organization which has
for years supplied coal to poor people at wholesale
rates or even less. 1t is called the Fuel Saving
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industrious and worthy poor to practice habits of
economy and saving. Heads of families who
wish to profit by this society are requested to
put by something during the summer with
which to purchase in the winter. No larger
sum than one dollar is received by agents of the
society at any one time, and no family will be
allowed to deposit more than the price of three
tons in season Deposits are not received
from those whose circumstances will permit
them to purchase fuel outright, nor from those
who keep coal for sale nor from saloon keepers.
Deposits are received from March until Septem-
Der, the entire fund then being used for the
purchasing of coal by wholesale. Many families
are supplied in this way who might otherwise
have needed charitable aid, and the result is al
together beneficial
CERTAIN preachers in Pennsylvania are hav-
ing little trouble with the enemy, who has been
playing his little pranks with their own devout
selves In the Erie Conference, one reverend
brother has been on trial for beating his wife.
He was acquitted by narrow margin of votes,
but got into difficulty later by calling one of the
witnesses, another reverend brother, liar
and horse-thief At Washington, in the same
State Rev. Grant has been suspended from the
conference for year, on account of drunken
ness. He is a colored brother but was Just as
hilariously intoxicated as if he had been white.
In their zeal to save the souls of men of sin,
these good brethren sometimes neglect their
own outposts and Satan creeps in to their uI-
doing
THE literary Englishman WILL if he be wise,
refrain hereafter from writing letters to the wife
of his BOSOM or will conduct such correspond
ence In cipher which no third human being
can read. Through the pernicous habit Of writ
ing to his wife Thomas Carlyle was made to
suffer greatly in reputation, and now the late
Lord Lytton is to meet the same face His wife's
biographer publishes series of letters written
by him. The earliest in date send her millions,
millions and millions of kisses and call himself
''her own idolatrous puppy" etc. The concluding
epistles are a record Of i'll treatment. He tries
to stab her with a carving knife, knocks her
down. kicks her, bites her cheek, and proves
himself a puppy of very bad breed.
A DAY or two ago a twelve year-old Georgia
girl ran away and was married to boy of sew
enteen, thereabouts Now comes a story of
o Philadelphia lad Of twelve, who committed sui