The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-23
MINOR MENTION.

years ago, while SEEMING in pond near the
town Of Moorefeld. that State, he lost gold
ring belonging to his sister, Edna. There is
nothing remarkable in that He further says
that in the course of time his sister, Edna, got
married to a certain ticket agent, Foster A.
Clary by name: Neither the marriage nor the
fact that the groom was ticket agent seem to
have anything to do with the story, but they are
mentioned because Mr.. Howe seems to think
that these details give the "verisimilitude of
truth to what would otherwise be q
bald and uninteresting narration" Last
Friday this same William Howe returned on a
visit to the village of Moorefeld, and in time
concluded to go in search of frogs. BY chance
he repaired to the very pond in which he had
lost the gold ring Eve years ago. He shot
large frog, and it may be that he shot several
large frogs, in fact. While dressing one he no.
ticed protuberance in the stomach of the ami
NAL, and his astonishment may be imagined
when he cut it open and found the identical ring
that he had dropped into the pond five years
ago. 1t was equal, perhaps to the incredulity
of those who read this story.
THOSE impulsive creatures down in Texas
have remarkable ways of displaying their affec
ton. When young man becomes enamored
OF maiden he thinks of nonsense but at
once sets about getting her into his possession,
and unless she is pretty prompt she is married
and settled down, almost before she has had
time TO realize it. 1t was even so with Miss
Dora Lacy who had the ineffabe satisfaction of
having two youths hopelessly in love with her.
She seemed to favor the suit of George Engle.
h;ob ;rf will fha Foot hat
Moses Prince loved her so we'll that he had
idea of giving her up He hied himself to the
proper official and secured the necessary legal
document to make her mis- wife and this without
SO much consulting her. He then swore out
writ, stating that the young lady was restrained
against Der will or she would be only too glad
to become his wife. The writ was duly served,
and the miss was forthcoming but instead of fly
ing like dove to his loving arms, she refused to
have anything to do with the ardent wooer. Her
evidence was so damaging to Prince that she
was at once released, when, like the sensible
girl she is, she made haste to marry the man of
her choice the same being George Engle In
truth, then, she was married almost before she
knew it.
GEORGE D. MINToN, the coachman who
off with and married Miss Morse, the daughter
of his employer, has set up housekeeping in two
rooms over jewelry store. 1t is said that there
is no water on the floor, and that the young lady
will greatly miss it, as she has been accustomed
to home of luxury. If water is the only thing
that she will miss in the long days that follow
the alleged honeymoon, she may consider her.
self quite lucky. She can live on wine. 1t was
French queen who. when it announced
TO her that the canae was riotng for bread, art
lessly asked why they did not eat cake
DOMESTIC economy is carried on to alb
surd degree in some localities, and nowhere
more than in Huron. D. T., where, Sunday
last man named Archie Reid committed su-
eide with pistol that he had bought for that
purpose in one of the stores of the place. The
wound not proving Immediately fatal he
walked back to the store and said he thought he
would not take it, as it did not suit He was
paid back the purchase price. aud went home to
die. 1t is just such undue advantages taken of
trade that makes it improbable and causes so
many bankruptcies.
THERE was sensational expose suppressed in
Boston this last week in the divorce case of Rob
ert B. Bingham, against his wife. whom he mar
ried in 1870, at the muzzle of a revolver. The
divorce is granted on the ground of the woman's
infdeity. the name of the correspondent hav-
ing been kept secret, though it is known that
he is well-known New York millionaire This
compelling mar to marry the woman he is sup
posed to have wronged does not change the char
acter of the woman. does it help her honor
particle.
THERE is every indication that there will yet
be war between this country and Great Britain
over the question of the rights of Maine fisher
men in Canadian waters. The latest outrage
upon these honest men is caused by the refusal
of the authorities of Digby, n S., to sell fish to
our men. This simply means that the fishery is
destroyed, so far American are con-
cerned. When fisherman can't buy fish when
he goes excursion of that kind, what is he
to tell his wife and neighbors when he gets
back?
AN Ohio veteran, aged seventy-six, comes to
the front with an II told you sor and claims
that ne predicted the cyclone of May IL two
weeks before it came. and that, too, to the very
day. He is not content with his accidental
success as a weather prophet, and declares that
there will be similar storms the 18th and
18th of June, on which days he recommends
that the people prepare to crawl under the barn.
1t is pretty safe to arrange for picnic on those
days.
CHICAGO gasconsumers pay ST per thousand
feet for that commodity, and have prospect of
getting it for Go cents. The Indianapolis rate is
$1.6O per thousand. but, by some system of
mathematics none but expert understand,
the bills are trife higher than when the price
was So When the natural gas hunters make
strike. perhaps the mysterious system of fgur-
ing now in use will be revised and brought with
in the average comprehension.