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Then, don't you know, there's the Marquis
6Oyley, also Of Paris He II nephew Of
the American dentist, Evans, whom the de-
fsettvs moisrs of Louis Napoleon's oour,
made rich. He lives ct IS Avenue dc Op
En-. u remsmbsr Alright. aud when ron e
IN % have tooth pulled you address him q
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
The Nickel.Platsd Man.

Bubby stubbed his toe and came crying to
his mother.
"rhere, there, Bubby," she said after she
had ascertained that the injury was trihing.
you are too big boy to cry over little thing
like that"
"B-but what am to do mammal" he
asked sobbingly, II amt b-big enough to
swear"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18

A GREAT AWAKENING

in the fact that those Of Us who preach the
Gospel have so little enthusiasm and zeal
compared with what We ought to have.
Now, you see the gun kicks. | say We who
preach the Gospel have so little zeal and en-
thusiasm for Christ, compared with what We
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18

How Ii Struck Little Johnny.
A little boy asked his father the other day
after some Boston people had left, IF Boston
people were born grown up"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18

Lady Ito q small boy with dog:) "Johny,
does that dog bark at night?" JOHNNY (who
Is q connoisseur in dogs:) mo, mat am; he
barks at cats and other dogs"
why don't you come and kiss me, John.
youthful nephew. Because" said Johnny,
hanging his head, Pm afraid of powder"
Mary" said mother ~ her little girl.
''if l was little girl like you, should pick
a % all these chips" well, mamma" ans
wered Mary, "ain't you glad you are not Q
little girl?'
II say, uncle" says a child. shall L al
ways be your nephew" why, of course
my child; you'd be my nephew even if you
lived to be q hundred" But you wouldn't
be my uncle them" "Oh, yes, | would.
Nav, you wouldn't-you'd be deadi"
Harry and Charlie, aged five and three re
spectively have just been seated at the
nursery table for dinner. harry seee there
- bat one orange on the table, and imme6i
ately sets up wall that brings his mother
to he scene. why. Harry, what are you
crying forP'' Because there amt any or
angs for Charlie"
Johnny was told be might have half the
grapes. When his mother went to the cup
board she found he had taken all, and left
none for his sister. When spoken to by hit
mother. he replied: Mamma, Pll tell you
Just bow 1t was. When had eaten half the
grapes happened to think that I'd eaten uI
Gracie's half instead of my own. was rea
sorry, but then couldn't bell it. I'd eiveI
that they were oil gone before knew II"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18

BRooKIYS, Jan. IA series of revival
istic services is now In progress in the Brook
lyn Tabernacle, and is exciting great inter
est % the public mind. The opening hymn
was.
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"Your Excellency." His uncle assisted at
the escape of the empress from Paris, and
has bored her ever since by intruding on her
retirement ut Chiselhurst. Young Evans
followed his uncle's craft, got richer, aud
married Baltimore girl named Jane Nc
Donald. They spoke simultaneously,
John Jenniel Filthy lucre DOESN'T seem
to go to the spotl'' So agreed, they hied
them Oh to Rome, laid q bag Of shekels at
the feet of the successor of St. Peter,
and that old gentleman handed over
the corresponding bsubles, Hail. Mar
auis and Marquie dOyley Go. be happy,
children
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18

One of the best known figures in New
York society is that Of the Baron de Thomp-
son. He has money, believe, so his absurd
pretentiobs are tolerated, and his decorate d
name of Baron de Thompson" Is allowed
to head charitable balls and lists of honora-
BILE citizens. 1t is, of course, q pure bic of
conceit on his part, without even ancestral
deriv alton or the habit of his country to ex-
cuse it. l am ashamed to say that the holder
seems to be thought better Of because OF
the nffec tati0n.
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There are said to be 534 seams
tressej in New York City, each of whom
earns only one dollar week.
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DANGER OF FRAUDS.


A Word of Caution to the Farmers of the
A t92e West. ="
We have warned the people so long
and so frequently about aiding the pro-
curer of fraudulent notes, that some
begin to think that it is our chronic
hobby. But let us now warn you against
another species of fraud which has been
lately practiced in Boston, New York,
and may be in Chicago. If it has not
yet infested the latter city, it soon viii,
as it has been eminently successful in
the East, especially Boston. The prac-
tice is for band of swindlers to assume
a firm name, differing probably only in
a single letter from legitimate business
house of good credit. They then print
a lot of letter heads and circulars, which
they send out far and wide, wanting to
buy the farmers produce, such as
butter, cheese, eggs, etc., and offering
more than the current prices, or more
than honest men can afford to pay. In
case customer should become inquisi-
tive and want to know their standing,
they are always ready with Dun s or
Bradstreet's Reporter, to which they
refer them as to their standing, always
pointing to the name of the firm, which
they attempt to initiate without being
really it. But both firms are so near
alike that without care they viii deceive
any one. In this way they establish
their credit, and have vast amounts for
warded to them to sell on commission,
or remit the pay if they take it them
selves. The inducement of higher
prices tempt many to be caught in their
trap. But they never pay anything.
When they can not risk business any
longer in one location, they disband
and leave, to appear suddenly in an
other city under another name, but
always as near as possible to that of a
creditable establishment. The Boston
PtouginlGaa says one of these fraudulent
concerns at that city swindled the
farmers of that region out of about
81, 100000. They operated in and about
Boston, under various names, for about
seven years. 1t is understood that they
have come West to grow up with the
country.-Iowa State Register. @
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


The University of Madras has grsdu-
ated S99 persons, none of whom are
Christians.
The Jesuits have recently purchased
the villa in the Island of Elba which
was occupied by Napoleon after his alb
dication, in 1914 1t is to be converted
into college.
During the year 1884 there were
PA new Lutheran churches erected in
the United States, divided in language
as follows: German, 1873; English, SO;
Swedish, %; Norwegian, IA; Norwegian
Danish, z; Danish, 2; Finnish, /; Slow
akian, I.
THE City of Churches as Brook
lyn has been styled for many years, ap-
pears not to be correspondingly a city
of church-goers. as one of her ministers
finds upon investigation that there are
250,000 people there who never go to
church. Transcript.
Wedding fees constitute an impor-
tant item in the revenues of the popular
ministers of New York and Philadel-
phia, their annual receipts sometimes
reaching $1,000. The fees vary from
$10to $500. The average of one min
ister last year was $50.
An eccentric Perthshire Scotchman,
all his life member of the Free Kirk,
has left his entire fortune-about
$130, 900 in our money-for the building
and endowment of Wesleyan chapel
in village where, so far as is known,
there are no Wesleyan inhabitants.
Pastor Dickinson, of Norwich,
Conn, was accused of having said in
PRAYER meeting that the spirit of the
late U. S. Gardner had appeared to him.
What he did say was that a brother OF
Gardner, who had spoken in the meet
ing, brought the dead man so viVidlY to
his memory that he could almost see him
standing by his side. His description
was so striking that the hearers con-
strued it iterally.-N. 7. San.
The new head-master of Eton pro-
poses to return to the old system of adj
mitting boys of eight or nine years Of
age, it being the latter usage to admit
only those of twelve or thirteen. 1t is
urged that the boys are at the school
too short a time to get the full benefit
of its discipline, and, as they cannot be
kept till they are older they should be
gathered in when they are younger.
Donald G. Mitchell, better known
as TX Marvel, is said to be much
pleased with the Professorship of bellies
iettres, which he has held for a year
past at Yale College. The students re-
gard him as an amiable and delightful
instructor, and many Of them have read
his ''DreamLife" and "Reveries OF
Bachelor with an interest approaching
enthusiasm. He, studied law forty
years ago, but never practiced, and
afterwards attempted daily journalism,
but did not find it to his liking.
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puNeENT PARAGRAPHS.

I'm respectable society it is said that
usually one generation in family
makes the wealth, a second spends it,
and the third goes back to the foot to
begin again. a
Bill Nye says: .'Some Of the things
that we know should be saved for our
own use. The man who sheds all his
knowledge and don't leave enough to
keep house with fools himself lan
"A writer in Harper's BGzar says
''the ears should be so placed as not to
be higher than the eyebrows or lower
than the tip of the nose People who
are dressing for party should not for
get this. Philadelphia Call
Some people think it would be nice
if everybody in the world would mind
their own business But it would not.
Over one-half of the people in the world
would be out of employment and not
know what to do with themselves
Pittsburgh fPa.) CbroBieIe- Telegraph.
A forlorn-looking man said: ''I've
tried everything that | could turn my
hand to, but couldn' make anything an
swer; and now i have decided to 90 up
among the hills, where they say there's
a wonderful echo. to see If can make
that answer. n-C Chicago Tribune.
Mrs. De Blank--I am so glad Mrs.
De Bright is going to remain in the city
another month. She isperfectly charm
ing; the most lovely woman ever saw.
All the ladies adore her. Mr.. De Blank
lis she prettyp Mrs. De Blank--0f
course not. philadelphia Call.
A twelye-year-oId boy entered q
newsstand, threw down fifteen cents,
and said: "Gimme The One-Eyed
Demon of the Ditches.' Crimson
Handed Bill, or the King of the High
waymen, and Sal Slumpkjns, the
Queen of the Shoplifters, OF the Half
Dime Series.b And yet an English re-
view once sneeringly asked: who
reads an American Pp-NoTrts-
toW9I Herald. h.
-Patient-"And so you advise the
hot-water cure for my dyspepsiaPn
Doctor-'I am sure it will relieve you
If you take it in the right way" Patient
-''When is the best timer" Doctor
'sJust before meals. Take about q
quart after you sit down to the table. |"
Patient-''.A quart Why, then would
have no room for anything else.
Doctor Certainly, and consequently
no indigestion. ~ y World.
-.Now, them" said the cashier TO
his wife, 'sare you dressed for the jour
new, mysdear?r .All ready, my love.
| SCOT the Doodle safe?" .An safe. y
"What kind Of a dress is that you have
onp' AIt is a pull back. 1s.A pull
back! Good heavens! Theidea of your
thinking we can escape to Canada
while you wear dress like that! Don't
you see I've got on a cutaway coatP Go
and put on q dress with sioping train,
and your hat with fyaway feather.
We must take every precaution setting
out on such journev. "-Bufato CoaT-
Ter.
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Artificial Leeches.


There is an ingenious instrument
known as the artificial leech, occasions
ally used, but now scarcely ever met
with. 1t consists of small sharp steel
cylinder worked by a spring. with which
a circular incision is make, and with an
interior glass cylinder capable of being
exhausted by a piston worked by a
screw. 1t was invented partly to meet
those not uncommon eases when the
patient, usually man, declared he
would die and went off into faint if
touched by the live leech; partly because
the amount of blood abstracted could be
thus precisely measured, and partly be-
cause the leech bites have sometimes
become inAamed through the leeches
employed being unhealthy. 1t is not a
good instrument and is, as we say, not
used now There is o specimen to be
seen in the Museum of the College OF
Surgeons among the Surgical Instru-
ment Series When it was presented,
about 1876, none of the Council could
guess what it was or what it was meant
for until an old country doctor was
found TO explain.-N u. Herald.
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81 afn the resurrection and the life;
whosoever believeth in Me, though he
be dead, yet shall he live again. y
Then came messages of comfort from
the word of God to sorrowing hearts. /
heard the sobs of friends about me, as
the good man spoke. Then he prayed.
A hymn was sung. Then the lid above
my face was lifted, and friends came
about me TO take the last look. | felt
tears falling on my face. / felt that my
last chance had come. Now, if ever. |
must shake myself free from the deairY
lethargy upon me. 1t seemed as if my
frantic efforts to break the bonds that
bound me must avail and set the current
of life in motion. :g., r. r. .g.
My mother came to me last. She
leaned across the coffin and laid her
cheek against my face, and whispered:
20, my boy, you were all | had left
and l loved you sol
Somehow those words seemed to
touch the hidden spring of life. The
stagnant current began to move again,
my will resumed its power over my
body; | opened my eyes and cried out.
'Mother!'
/ can not describe the scene of terror
and excitement that followed. Imagine
how it would be if you saw the dead
come to life. For months after that
many looked at me with frightened
faces, as if they could notrid themselves
of the impression that had really been
dead and that they beheld my ghost.
Do, you wonder my hair is white:
What | wonder at most is that my
mind stood the strain of that terrible
experience. IN. Y. Journal f5
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a TOUCHING SCENE.
Deaf Mutes Repeating the Lords Prayer
in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn.

Deaf Mutes Repeating the Lords Prayer
in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn.
A roguish-looking little fellow, prob
ably twelve years old, stood on the car
peted platform near Mr. Beecher's arm
chair at Plymouth Church the other
night and repeated the Lords Prayer
with such infinite pathos-so touching
because it was wholly unconscious
that fifty people in the large audience
devoutly joined in his s'Amen," and
nearly 200 more wiped the tears from
their eyes. But little more than
year ago the boy was street waif in
Danbury, Conn. People pitied him and
gave him pennies because he was deaf
and dumb. A benevolent gentleman
sent him to an oral school for deaf
mutes in Mystic. He watched the lips
of people in the audience fifty feet
away, and repeated words after them.
maggie, Herman, .Hartford, =
"boy," horse" and several other words
were spoken as plainly as four out of
five school children of his age would
have pronounced them. "Brooklynn
bothered him. He called it Bruglin.
The boy could not hear sound. He
never has since he was born. So keen
was his observation that he repeated
words by watching the shadow on the
white wall of the person who uttered
them. He diH not shirk a syllable of
the Lords Prayer, nor stumble once in
his articulation. His pronunciation of
some words was peculiar, but the whole
was rendered with such plaintive SIM
plicity and peculiar falling infection at
the termination of sentences that many
ladies who heard him sobbed.
Another boy stepped on the platform,
sharp little fellow in short trousers.
He watched peoples lips with eyes like
lynx and shouted the words after them
as vociferousfy as newsboy Some
body tried him with hard words, such
as Nebuchednezzar, but he pronounced
them before the tones of the first speak.
er's voice bad died away. People
pointed to articles of clothing, such as q
cuff, collar, glove or coat, and the boy
told them what they were doing. He
never dreamed Of the applause that
followed him to the seat-N. Y. Times.
There are said TO be 534 seams
tressej in New York City, each of whom
earns only one dollar q week.
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Established July !, 1859
VOLUME XIV.
a LOVE SONG TO a WIFE.

~ - !
sris the beautiful, love-breathing cleaning
hour,
And the breeze is rocking each slumbering
flower, 2
And meath the-clusaerng hawthorn boughs
Lovers are breathing their tender VOWS.
Shy lids are dropping Der radiant eyes,
And the air is full of delightful sigifs;
cheeks glow and dimple and red lips part
And, o, how. fondly heart answers heartl
For very gladness young pnlses sing
All love is q wildering, witching thing;
An exquisite tremulous, heaven born strain,
That fills the soul with delicious pain.
We have been lovers for forty years;
0. dear cheeks faded and worn with tears,
Your roses are dead, yet love We well.
n. pale brow shrined in soft silvery hair!
Crowned with lfes sorrow, and lined with
let mel ne read by the light of the stars above
Those dear, dear records of faithful love. u
All. fond, fond eyes, of my own true wifel
Ye have shone so clear through my
chequered lfe,
Ye have shed such joy on its thorny way,
That can not think ye are dim to-day.
Worn little hands, that have toiled so long,
Patient and loving, and brave and strongi
Ye will never tire ye will never rest,
Until. you are crossed on my darlingss breast.
q. warm heart throbbing so close to mine!
Time only strengthens such love as thine,
And proves that the holiest love doth last
When summer, and beauty, and youth are
past.
-Fannie Forester, in the Qtiuer.
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NO MUSIC FOR HIM.
A Geutieman Who Believed That He
Would Look at the Sick Horse.

g.. WOu1u LOOK AT the SICK hOFSes S
Old Squire Haggleson. who came to
town. t1e other day to urge the petition
asking that young Zeb Sailor might
not be hanged, was induced by friend
to attend rendition of II Trovatore. y,
The old gentleman put on his specta-
cles, expeCstng to see a great caper, but
in disappointment, he turned to his
friend and said:
This is a sort of singin' show, amt
it ?''
80, yes, it is an opera"
Singing, is it P''
a''ves, a grand opera" :. az
Don't they give no p'ints that fell
lar can ketch on? Suthin' that fellar
ken tell the folks when he goes home
A man KANT tell nothin' about song.
He ken ornly say that he heard it and
that's all. Now some time ago went
to a thing that wuz full of pints. Wy
I sot down an talked an hour about it,
an at the log -rollin' | showed the boys
how the whole thing went, but this
thing don't pear to have no place to
hinge ON. Nowslook at that fellar with
the tin clothes, on. He don't say nuthin' !,
don't do nuthin'; all I ken say about
him is that he wore tin clothes. Then
Oscar Piler. viii say, tin clothes P'
Yes, tin Clothes will reply, then he
will say, that's deuce of note. A
fellar KANT jump with tin clothes on
That shuts me up, you see. No, I'm
afeerd that kahn { say nuthin' about
this show. Lawd massy! look at that
woman with the fine duds. My lands!
how she hollers. They call that singin',
don't they ?'
80, yes, that's singing. It is grand
opera. .~.s -
''Yas, but when air we going to have
some music? It's strange thing that
some folks don't know what singin' is.
Now, thar's my daughter Ann. Eff she
was here it would tickle her to death to
hear that gal squeal. | allus did feel
sorry for apusson that amt got no year
for music. Es
Don't talk so loud. This is consid.
cred very fine music by educated
people.''f f
Il reckin so. I'm glad they like it.
Say, did you ever see a tilly r'ar up an
squeal? Wall, that woman puts me in
mind O one. Now o person that pre-.
tends to be interested in this thing
would be annoyed by the squealin' of q
filly, but blamed if ken see much diff
ference an I've stirred round a good
bit, too. We mussah give the filly the
credit o. bein' the most nachul
Now look at them fellers singin' at each
other. Do you call that music?'',
20, yes, it is the music of anger"
''They air mad. reckin?"
"Yes." @
"Then why don't they say SOP Now,
when a man gifts mad. he don't fee
like singin'. Cussin' is more in his
line.n ~
That's all well enough, Squire, but
this is an opera -
$50 see, but l kahn find out the
pin'ts O. the thing. WALL b'leye I'll
co. @
'Hold on, Squire, don't be in 4
hurry.
30, l amt in hurry. I like t.
hear singin'. an | can put up with most
any sort o. noise, but you must excus,
me. / don't like to see people dodg,
music this way. Wall, goodbye. jim
| Anderson's hoss is down with the bott
an 1 b'leVe I'll go round an look a
him while. ."-4gkansGao TrGUeIer.
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OUTBREAK IN AscHooL-HoUsE.
A Party of Young Cowboys Who Wanted
to Go to Texas.


to Go to Texas.
A day or two ago Miss Hoyt, a
teacher in the Second intermediate
School, had occasion to leave the room.
and shortly afterward Miss Harwood, a
teacher in an adjoining room, heard an
uproar coming from it. She went in
to investigate, and was Mortified to find
several of the big boys chasing each
other about the room with revolvers.
As she entered the bloodthirsty lads
pointed the weapons at her. The Prin-
eipal, Mr.. Fillmore, was called, the
boys were disarmed and the father of
the ringleader summoned. He searched
his son and found two long bowie
knives upon him, while in his desk were
two more revolvers. The boys. whose
parents are all well-to-do, finally con-
fessed that they had been planning to
run away in May and 90 to Texas to
fight the Indians on the plains and be-
come cowboys. One of the lads was to
furnish the money for the trip and had
already arranged to sell his bicycle and
one of his fathers cows. Three of his
companions were to accompany INN.
The boys had been reading dime
novels and stories of life among the
cowboys, but are not allowed to even
read their school books now, as they
begin work at seven o'clock and quit
at six Cincinnati Enquirer.
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-"Main street, about half way up
on the left side, in tall building was
the address on letter received recently
in the Buffalo (N. " Post-office and
destined + delivery in that city.
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AS the star fish is the oysters
greatest enemy, it is suggested that
feminine fashion decree that the star
fish shall be stylish ornament. 1t is
believed that this would result in the ex-
termination of the pest, as a similar de-
cree exterminated the song birds in
many localities. 7. Graphic.