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Sharp County record., 1888-05-10
r1E RECORD.
HENDERSON,
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GFENING SHADE, May 8.

Philips county on the 2Sr y
&sructed in her grot rgSrny; s1riHg
GrorheS for gcely every day.
Before b we're green, or half
The blue eggs hatched, one sunay morning
We found that we were made to laugh,
You at my love, at your scornng
Then Summer, with her rose ablaze,
Passed over all the tranced earth,
We found the sumptuous burning days
Too stately for such trivial mirth;
And ere July had well passed by
We fell in love with melancholy,
And dreamed that we were made to sigh,
at my woe, you at my folly
We walked where woods were red and brown,
When Autumn crowned the hills with gold;
And while the leaves came rustling down,
Loves story, once again. was told
September's sun was gold above
The full earth's fruitful, golden dover;
We knew that we were made to love-
to love you-and you, your power.
But when, through paths made dead with snow,
By gray-brown lchen-covered trees,
One happy day we CHANGED to go
Under blue sky and biting breeze,
You slpped-I turned-a hand to give
hand to Rss-the play was over!
We vowed that we were made to live,
for my Love-you for your lover
E. NeS6it, in Mu,Tdy's Magazine.
Sharp County record., 1888-05-10
"A LITTLE NONSENSE"


"A rule that works both WAYS.
When fleet goes out on cruise, the
crews 60 out on the fleet Golden
Days.
bobby, 60 out and tell Johnny to
quit filing that saw" "He amt fling
the saw, papa. It's sister Lie singing
to Mr.. De Smack. "-Arcola Record.
Ugly Dame-"Yes, my life has been
one long illness. Often | have looked
on death face to face" Pretty Dame
"No wonder you are alive. ."-TId- Bits.
-Artist-"Where are you going to
take dinner?' Authorize, I'm not
particular. Wherever you do" Artist
-"Well, l was going to take it with
you. ."-Judgc.
Yes he said, 81 used to be
troubled with cold feet at night, too;
but that was some years ago" "Then
you never are now?" mo, not since
I've been widower IN Y. Sun.
Late Arrival Whispering to stran-
ger at a concerD-"Is that the violin
vrtuoSo just leaving the stage?"
Stranger-"Durned if know whether
ne is virtuous or not, but he can plav
the fiddle like thunder. ~ Washington
Critic.
Little boy" said country min
lister, who was on his way to church,
what do you suppose your father
would say if he should find you here
fishing on the Sabbath day?" He'd
ask me wot luck was havin', - replied
the boy.
When Spriggins jumped out of
bed the other night to find out for his
wife what that noise" was, he Fit on =
parlor match, and now is mean enopob
to say that Mrs. Spriggins prearrapped
the combination for use as BURGLAR
alarm.-New Hauen Ne,os.
lou say Mr.. Fraudine, that Won
have some experience in dynamite
blasting What were your special i'm.
pressions at the time?" "Ouite clio
waiting, | assure.you, sir! felt, indeed.
as II Twas having what could be termed
a 'bang-up time. ~ Y. Gossip,
Mr. JinkS Ito landlady)-"Wbat
Kind OF a duck did you say this was
MIS- Dinkley?" Landlady-"I didn't
say. l simply ordered a duck from
the butchers" Mr.. Jinks (strugplino
with second joinO-"I think he has
sent you decoy duck" ."-1eras Sif-
ingS. 9'-
Hostess -, to young Mr. Sissy-"You
Will kindly favor us with some music
will you not, Mr.. SissyP" Young Mr.
sissy-"Well-aw, Tn not quite NV
usual self tonight, Mrs. Hobson: hnt
wlll-aw, sing little if you like. =
Hostess (graciously)-"O, thanks, v
are so kind. Even little of your 81
ing Mr.. Sissy, goes great WAYS.
know. "'-lAs Epoch, -
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Modern Definitions.

An Innovation-A Hotel Serenade.
The Social Whirled-A Hop.
A Fowl Tip-A Rooster's Comb.
The Last Thing in Shoes-The
Wearer's Heel.
Cold Daze-A Frigid Stare.
A Still Hunt-An Internal Revenue
Raid.
A Full Hand-A Drunken Employe
A Hard Lot-A Marble Quarry.
A Dark Secret-A Colored Woman's
Age.
Your Rumble Servant-Thunder.
Out of Tune-The Average Tenor.
Gait Recelpts-Horse-Race Winnings
A Clothes Friend-The Tailor.
Lo Lands Indian Reservations.
A Bridal Reign-Henry Wills.
A Speaking Silence-Conversation
between Deaf-Mutes.
A Cheap Garment-A Coat of White
wash.
Much Adleu About Nothing-A Wo-
mans Farewell.
A Shady Set-A Group of Trees
W. II. SiUiter, IN Puck.
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7Typiece of worg-ZT 9
'H' realized int l I :
III and it is art.
nerfect in detail thaA 81 III

-- Cg perfect in detail tha> 81 al
ognize any of that group MOURN
ers if YOU met them in the street.
'i Over another tomb, where husband
md wife lie buried together, this old
,uple sit in two arm chairs, holding
l1 i others hand. On another IL man
Die Lead on his bed, and his young
be everently raises the sheet and
nd ,s for the last time upon his face.
e Over another tomb is the statue OF a
man who lies within. On the steps OF
the tomb stands his wife, and she holds
their little girl in her arms and lifts
her up as though to kiss the dead papa.
The door of another vault is repre-
sented as half open. The husband lies
dead inside. The wife knocks at the
door and listens for her dear one S
voice to call her in.
There are hundreds and hundreds OF
these beautiful groups in the Campo
Santo. What makes them the more
extraordinary to the English traveller
is that the living and the dead are all
habited in modern everyday costume,
and no detail is spared to make the
groups and single figures triumphs OF
realism. One remarkable piece OF
sculpture l have omitted to mention.
1t is over the tomb of beautiful
Italian lady who died a short time ago.
Her bed is represented with perfec-
ton of detail. The lace on the pillow
is perfect. The lady is dead, but the
angel has come to fetch her. The angel
takes the dead lady's hand and the
lady gets out of bed to 90 with the
angel to Heaven. This. is the moment
depicted by the sculptor. The lady
sits on the edge of the bed and the
angel points upwards in the direction
they are to travel together.
All this is very beautiful, but its in
tense realism may jar on some. 1t did
on me after time. felt that some
thing of the sublimitE of death was
taken away in the process, and |
turned with little sigh of relief to
some of the humber graves which
dotted the sunny garden of fragrant
roses that lay so bright and beautiful
under the blue Italian sky Genoa Cor.
London Referee.
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CJNa2
!: s.. s.: 4 /: !: e; i; e Z ! d

Gently. =
Mr. Ruskin says he English |.
ceased tt, be English. Some !,
American dudes are trying hard !.
their places.
One thousand pairs of three-dol..
opera glasses offered for sale in ".
York City were found to have cost II,
seventeen cents pair. '~@
AN organization of all the Norm.
poets in Utah is i'll process of form,ti"a
at Salt Lake City. is proiecteI ~.
encourage the poetic talent that ey;,,'
among Zion's people,"
The registration in PhiIadelnL,
generally largely exceeds that Of NJ"
York, although at the last Presidents
election New York polled 23O,OOO yots,
to Philadelphia's $4,000.
Mrs. Mart Holcomber, of Bpa,
Island, Neb., cleaned out a den !
snakes on her farm recently, kilHps
forty of the reptiles. The onlywcaOS
she used was a stout club.
A Denver man has II collection Il
over seven hundred pens, no two alik,
Some are shovel-shaped, Others looI
like a miniature Stove-pipe and other
are delicate and diminutive.
The Bank of New York has a cheeI
yellowed by fire which was drawn r
Aaron Burr August IA, 1884, and als
another check drawn by Talleyrand and
Gulian Verplanck. 1t is nearly ON
hundred and four years since the bank
was established.
In Liberty County, Fla, a yOss
and maiden had been engaged, but
their parents objected to their union
The other day they happened to mce
at the grist mill, and as the miller i
the county judge the marriage cere
mony was performed then and there,
Land in many parts of Califoni
is becoming too valuable for whea
| growing, and large tracts are passin,
into orchards and vineyards. 1t is eN
pected that before many years hay
passed the bulk of the wheat GROWN
lands of to-day will be more proftabl
used.
A man died at Fairview, Fla, r.
Gently at the age of twenty-seven, wh
for fourteen years, according to h
dying statement, had never RENAME
a whole month in one place. On h
death-bcd he stated that he had killt
his cousin in u quarrel, when a bo
and had since been u wandercr.
"A peculiar deposit which resemble
clay in pliability, but which when e
posed to the air becomes as hard
granite, has been discovered at ii
base of Bear mountain, near Taylo
vile, n. G. Blocks of it have bee
dug out and used for vi the purpos
of stone with success, and it is, pr
posed to b. '''--.--,.--
Sharp County record., 1888-05-10
y French Judges Fro Il.
and Anger PrisA

II anu anger IrISN ILN LtCn-lN
A judge presiding ov} this or else
Paris courts was recsater than il
from his office for two vSbo men that
fenses. 1t appears that al working {
ing witness for several liomr r>ers9n
court, he invited that witness fmr.g
with him at neighboringi differ #
Plying him there with wine, ,, uadm;,.
put a number of questions to hui /.
and, having drawn out of him eel f.,
damaging facts, forthwith causedf A
to be arrested. !,
His other offense was still inore
.fagrant He talked through Wtele-
phone with a witness, pretending That
he (the jidge) was one of the persons
accused in court, and 50 led the wit
ness to betrat himself and his accused
friend. 1t is no wonder that, Tter
conduct so unbecoming a Judge bC
was deemed unfit any longer To- sold
the even scales of justice.
Although this Judge was thus right
fully punished, his conduct suggrrts to
us the wide contrast which exist be-
tween the French courts of justicFo nd
method of legal procedure, and ts'se
of the United States and Englannlstrat
whole system, indeed, is diffei ca, in
the two cases.
Our judges have distinct and gli-
fled duty to perform, and, as IA fule,
they maintain, as do the English
judges, lofty and impartial attiNde
in presiding over trials. They ron lin,
for the most part, silent until ,ney
have to decide points of law, or until
one of the counsel requires corrP"t'ipp,
After the arguments have closed, IL is
their duty to address the jury, explain
the points at issue, call for the verdict,
and deliver the judgment or sentence.
The French judge, on the other hand,
takes constant and active part in the
trial itself. He questions not onlE #
nesses, but the prisoner himself, ard
often subjects the prisoner to a severe
and searching cross-examination, tiie
ing to trap him into aamagino oofees-
slons, contradicting him, an ndlyen
sometimes cracking jokes at the r'i,s-
oner's expense. !
When q witness has made a certain
statement, the French Judge will turn
to the prisoner, and tartly ask him
what he has to say to that? A prisoner
on trial in q French court, in short, is
badgered and worried from the begin
ming to the end of the case, by beth
Judge and procurear. The procureur
is an official who acts in France as
public prosecutor, grand jury and ad-
wiser of judge in one.
The fact that in the French courts
The judge is one of the active partici-
pants in the trials, gives dramatic
color to the proceedings which is
usually absent from our own courts.
The dialogues between indoe and pri>
)ner are watched with " HeI IeS 20
md often with -'~""h+"1AC luglCHanul
=, ,r,,gnop I.1,., mad ..,.- l.,. ..
Sharp County record., 1888-05-10
CLEVER COUNTERFElTS.

Something About the Most Cleverly Ex-
eeuted Raised Note Ever Made.
The United States Secret-Service
sleuth-hounds have captured and run
in" raised silver certificate that has
been inaccurately described in the pa
pers. At the headquarters of the Sc
cret service in the Treasury building
the correspondent was shown the spu-
rious curiosity and the true inwardness
was told by an official, who said:
This, which, by the way, is the
most cleverly executed raised note ever
seen in the denartmnnt was. seized in
Sharp County record., 1888-05-10
i .iisu...,.,.,,-..zsHfRAsI= is ! y, y,

SO intense is :"' ;s',r ,rsSAHssEllssslF rrsSAGHssE llssslFE
which Gladstone inspires, and which
has greatly increased in the last five
years, that excursion parties are
formed, not only in England, but in
Scotland, TO visit Hawardcn for the
sole purpose of sending up volleys Of
cheers from the lawn around the sim.
pie but stately country house.
"A county official at Akron, Ohio,
has beaten the record for absent-mind-
edness. He went with an attorney to
restaurant for dinner, and, finishing
his meal hastily, returned to his work
The lawyer ate most leisurely, and
when he was about to return to the
court house he discovered that his rub
bers were missing. Later he called on
the county officer, who acknowledged
that he had discovered on reaching the
office that he had two pairs of rubbeTS
on.
"A new industry at Auburndale'
Fla, is gopher farming. Two resi-
dents are equal partners in large
farm, embracing over one thousand
acres. They will 90 into the raising
of gophers on large scale at once
having ordered u number of coops 70
feed the young ones in. They will try
the market next week with a carloaa
shipment to Washington. 1t is sala
the most fastidious epicure can nov
tell the flesh of a Florida gopher from
the famous Maryland terrapin.
Thomas A. Edison has sent Prob
James Ricalton, of Maplewood, NJ >,
on a long hunt for a species o.
vegetable growth which will enaoic
him to make great improvements III
electrical appliances. Mr.. Edison Is
sure that the vegetable has an eF
istence, because he has it in his pos,
session; but as to whcye it grows anu
how to secure it in quantity IS lns nc
problem which Prof. Ricalton VIII
try to solve in two years tour OF tns
globe. He will 90 to India first. r
Every man when he takes up ni'
cards at a game of whist holds one ou'
of 635, O19, $50, 600 possible hands A'
for the total number of variations pos
sible among all the players, it IS ~
enormous as almost to exceed belief
1t has been calculated that if a mllllon
OF men were to be engaged deallns
cards at the rate of one deal eaOn aOn
minute, day and night, for 100, ,ooV'U'
of years, they would not then have eN
hausted all the possible variations u
the cards, but only one-hundred thoU
sandth part of them. ....
AN old Lake Superior sea captain
says that nothing is ever done when
man falls overheard on that body u
water. The reason, he alleges, is tl"'
the water of the lake is so cold that
man can not live in it during the 'iiiY
1t takes to stop a rapidly moving Vesi0'
and lower boat. In twenty years III
never knew but one man who ien
overheard who escaped death. Othel'
We're apparently ~ the shocs
1uced by fal such cola
p. 1t is sai the laRs
gives. up Ind sailors
that no ever seen
inx an the ~
Sharp County record., 1888-05-10

, i've or SiTs9lI lat . hUuI -. applause,
uy the crowd of spectators; for some
times judge and prisoner engage in a
duel of wit and banter. But, from the
American point of view, this method
of seeking to find out the truth, and to
dispense justice, seems far less effectual
to say nothing of its surprising lack
of dignity-than that which prevails in
our own courts.
The French judge often browbeats
or angers the prisoner into making
rash answers, which increase the
chance of his conviction, even though
he may be really innocent. With us,
the prisoner is amply protected in
every right of defense. He is sup
posed to be innocent until he is fully
proved by proper and legal evidence,
which he is unable to overthrow, to be
guilty; whereas in France, the Judge
often seems to set out with his ques-
tioning of the prisoner as if the pris-
oner were presumed to be guilty, and
as if the burden of proof were on him
to prove himself innocent - Youth'S
Companion.
Sharp County record., 1888-05-10

"A travelling man-the fond father
with a restless heir who declines to
sleep at nights, Merchant Tracelef.
Sharp County record., 1888-05-10
I'1I1,',s,l,o' AZ, lo1o 5l!dLI IS, morning. DR..

~. "a, a n.NSM. .I5ly of all the swell
weddings. Brides who desire to be in
the fashion insist upon being married
by the millionaire clergyman.
Sharp County record., 1888-05-10

Mabel-"Lovely day, girls. Where
have you beenP" Clara and Maud
We've just come from the matinee.
Been to see the new society actress 5"
Mabel-"Was she good? What did
she playP' Clara-"O, she played in the
worst lot of old dresses you ever saw.
And, do you know, she actually wore
the same dress through a whole act"
Mabel-"Why, how positively scandal
Gus! What was the play?" Maude-
go, l didn't notice. Repertoire |
think the bill said. "-BoSton Beacon.
Sharp County record., 1888-05-10

n'iif.c Tie money may haSev ia prov
trouble to get the order cashed. This
is because the regulations established
by the Government are rather
strict. The payee has to be identified
not an easy matter if he be in g
strange city,, and he has to answer &
lot of questions propounded by the
man in the post-office. He must be
able to tell who sent the order, and he
must sign his name to the receipt
exactly as it was written in the appli,
cation for the original order. This
often causes trouble and confusion. So
postal-order does not exactly fill the
bill. Express orders many people
fancy better than postal orders, be-
cause it is easier to procure them and
easier to get them cashed. The reg
istered letter, however, affords the
best plan of all. 1t is delivered at its
destination by the postal-carriers, and
is quite as safe as any other method.
In addition, you get receipt showing
that your remittance has been re-
Nseived. .,.
II would like to have this letter reg
istered, please.
''Well."
The clerk in the registry department
takes thesetter, finds that there is only
a two-cent stamp affixed, and that it is
not sealed. The polite clerk hands it
back to the woman who gave it to him
and tells her 10 buy and affix ten-cent
stamp, securely seal the letter and then
bring it back.
Don't you want to see the money
before it is sealed upP"
mo, madam" he replies; 1--WE are
not permitted to know the contents of
letters Is every thing in that letter
you want to sendP"
s"Yes, SIR" ...
x "Then seal it."
The woman then goes away, and re-
turns after time with the letter prop
erly sealed. She may have affixed the
required ten-cent stamp (or ten cents
in stamps of a smaller denomination,
which are just as valid for the purpose);
but often the letter is offered to the
clerk with the stamp unaffixed. In
that case the clerk hands it back and
requests the person to stick it on her.
ser
to pay you ten cents
letter." the woman
Ie fee when you put
lamps on the envel-
more handed to
satisfies himself
e been affixed.
The same as on
ocents for each
an ounce. Then
.stterr'
AhIilaf
our name and ad-
dcr on the back"
idrssse" with sur '
Sharp County record., 1888-05-10

When electricity becomes the agent
of punishment for crime, the judges
charge will have more significance
than it does now,
Sharp County record., 1888-05-10
REGISTERING LETTERS.
a Process With Which Many-Peo-
pie Are Not Familiar.
Tho Best Way to Send MOney-GettIng
dentified-ProvIsions for safety-The
Government VIII Not Make
Losses Good.

A good many people have at some
time or other occasion to send money to
some other city, and the best means of
doing it is often n puzzling question.
Business men, of course, transact their
business by means of bank drafts, but
that is means not always open to the
general public, especially when it is
desired to send money in small sums.
When your friend has found himself
"broke" in distant city you can send
him n remittance by telegraph; but
that is an expensive method and will
not be resorted to except when the case
be an urgent one. You want to send
him ten-dollar bill. You are man
If small means, having no acquaintance
at the bank, so you can not send him
draft. Therefore you have either to
inclose the bill in registered letter,
get q postal money order, use an ex-
press money order, or run the risk of
sending the cash by ordinary post.
Postal money orders are safe enough
method, but the objection to them is
that it is matter of considerable
trouble to get one, for you may have to
wait at the post-office half an hour for
your turn, s and the qfriaep IN tn gb86sid sustain
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-29
SPORTING MATTERS.

Glasses and Purses for the Spring Meeting of
the Louisville Driving Association.
LoUIsvI LILLE, Feb. 28.-The following the
classes and purses for the spring meeting of the
new Louisville Driving park Association. The
meeting begins May s. The course of the asso-
citation is one of the finest in the country. The
stable facilities are exceptionally fine. and the
grand-stand and other buildings on the ground
are very handsome and commodious:
First Day-Purse $500, for three.minute class
Stake for oyearolds $25 entrance n. Sharpe adds
500. Purse, $500. for 2:2S class trotters
Second Day-Purse. $500 for 2:2O class trotters.
Stake for ODDS S25 entrance; J. E. Green
adds 800. Purse, $500, for 2:2O racers.
Third Day-Purse, $500 for 2:2O trotters. Stake
for four-year- olds, $25 entrance; Mr.. Veach adds
800. Purse, $500 for 2:45
Fourth Dav-Purse, $500 for 2:25 class. PURSE
$500 for 2:33 class Purse, $500 for 1882 PAGERS
Conditions-Partes entering March 25 to pay 5
per cent; parties entering April % to pay 10 per
cent. No entries will be published made known
until after April IS 1883. Parties entering March
25 for per cent will be charged entrance.
Purses and classes will be divided follows: To
first 60 per cent; second 25 per cent? third, per
Mr.. John E. Green is president of the course
and Mr. George Lindenberger secretary and mana
ger
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-29
General Notes.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON. Feb 28.-The First National
Bank of Chicago was to-day approved by the
Comptroller of the Currency as the reserve
agent for the Howard National Bank Of Ko-
komo also, the Kentucky National Bank Of
Louisville as the reserve agent for the New AL
bany National Bank.
Mr. Fletcher, of Fletcher. Coffin & Green
street, Indianapolis pork packers, is at the
Riggs House.
Senator Sherman introduced a bill to-day au-
thorizine the Comptroller of the Currency to
issue to national banks circulating notes to the
amount of 100 per cent of par value of the
bonds deposited with the Treasurer Of the
United States to secure their payment of crcu-
latine notes upon the bank making proper APP
pication therefor; but at no time shall the total
amount exceed the amount actually paid in Of
its capital stock.
Representatives Hovey, of Indiana, and
Anderson and Weaver, OF Iowa. to-day ad-
dressed the House committee on military af-
fairs in favor of the bill to pay soldiers of the
late war the difference between the paper
money in which they were paid and the gold
coin represented by il.
The President has directed that the military
post at Highwood, near Chicago, be known and
designated as Fort Sheridan, in honor Of Lieu
tenant general Sheridan.
The Senate committee on postofices and post
roads has had it's attention called to the newly
promulgated postal convention with Canada. by
firm of American seedsmen in the United
States. The point MADE is that under the con-
vention Canadian seedsmen m all their wares,
seede, plants, scions, etc. for cents pound to
any point in the country, while the American
seedsmen compelled to pay 16 cents to the
same points. The writer declares that the diff
fe:ence of IL cents pound will drive the entire
business to Canadians, and other branches of
mercantile business are likely to be similarly
affected. He urges speedy action in the direc-
iion of reducing postage. Members of the COM
mittee who have examined the matter say the
complaint appears to- be well grounded.
The House committee on military affairs, this
morning agreed to favorable report the
bill which grants an honorable discharge to the
telegraph operators who served in the late
the bill was amended in many particulars, and
among the amendments 10 which provides
that no further compensation shall be granted
the operators, shall they receive any pen
sion.