The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-02


He took her. did hea,
And made love to her there on the shorps.
Boston Courier.
THE latest discovery of English medical sci
ence is that scarlet fever and scarlatina are
transmitted in milk from the cow to the human
subject
THEY tell of a clergyman in Lynn who hired
out to church at the nominal salary of 1000,
agreeing privately to make the church a present
heard OF the 50, 900 preacher thought he must be
extra good, offered him 50, 800. and got him.
Then the Lynx people understood why he pre-
tended his salary was 81, 900.
WHEN the patent granolithic sidewalk pave
ment is first put down it is very sticky, but it
hardens quickly. This is why young couple
of Bridgeport who stood on fresh slab Of COM
position while bidding each other good night had
to be dug out with pickaxe. Their shoes were
ruined, but they very grateful to the night
Waterman who released them and who promised
not to tell
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ANEs, of Massachu.
Sets has given the Memorial Methodist Church
at Plymouth bell cast by Paul Revere which
was used for eighty years on State institutions,
and has hung lately at the Ames place. in North
Easton, where it was rung for Fourth ofJuly
celebrations. 1t once known in Boston as
the Liberty Bell and was rung when pardon
pgoclamations were issued by the Governor
A GRANITE obelisk has just been erected at
Lippehne, in Germany, to commemorate the
fact that on the Oath of June, 1912, Prince Bis
| marck, at that time mere sub-lieutenant in a
cavalry regiment, threw himself into the lake of
Wendelsee. and at the risk OF his own life saved
o drowning soldier Prince Bismarck often re-
marks that he is prouder of the little silver medal
conferred on him for this act of bravery than
of all his seventy six decorations.
j. v. DEXTER of Denver. has pair of ancient
pistols which, he claims, are the ones used by
Burr when he fought the duel with Hamilton
They are flintlocks; the barrels are of laminated
steel. heavily chased; the handles are of
mahogany inlaid with gold and silver The
case in which they rest also contains flask, in
which ia Il little powder, and also bullet-mold.
The pistols were bought of Sypher 81 Co., of
New York, who bought them of an old New
Yorker, who bought them at the Sale of Aaron
Burr's effects after his death
WHEN Squire Carver of Watsrville, Me-,
hurriedly drove on the covered bridge that spans
the Sebasticook, for shelter from a sudden
shower, he found two young men and two young
women taking shelter there also. AS soon as
they saw the Squire they conferred eagerly.
and then one of the men asked him If he
wouldn't marry the other young man and one
OF the young women then and there. They had
the necessary papers, in proper FORM and so,
while the rain battered over their heads and the
Seoasticook gurgied beneath their feet, William
McClintock and Almira Jones were made one
Mr. BOOKER, the British consul-general. on
whom Mr. Gladstone has just requested the
Queen to confer knight commandership of
the Order of ST. Michael and st. George, is one
of the Oldest and most respected members of the
English consular service. The whole of his long
career, covering a period of close upon forty
years, has been passed in the United States
Sir William Booker was the first consul ap-
pointed at San Francisco in its early days, and
remained there uninterruptedly until he was
promoted consul-general at New York on the re-
| tirsnent Of the late Sir f. Archibald, few
years ago.
APATHETIc story is told Of the eldest daughter
of John Brigham Young one of the wealthiest
men in Utah. She was the favorite niece of
Brigham Young, was literally educated, and was
an excellent musician Her father wanted her
to marry Mormon elder, but she eoped with a
young newspaper man, GENTLE They went 60
New York city. where he worked as a reporter
until his eyes failed. He became blind and she
sang in a concert saloon there and supported ner
husband, to whom she was devoted. Then she
lost her voice by sickness, and the two were
likely to starve. They drifted to Chicago and
now the wife, no longer young. grinds a wheezy
kand-organ day after day. rain or shine, and still
supports her siehtless husband.