Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-05
No. 2It

The solemn procession wound its slow way to the cemetery. The door of the vault moved heavily on it's hinges as it swung
 back to receive its dead. A flood of golden sunlight filled the tomb, dispelling the gloom and revealing strange sight. There, creep ing along the walls and over the cofans, was white vine. Pure and pearly it stood in bold relief against .he dark background and glistened in the sunlight. But what most astonished those who saw it was its urn- shaped windings. There was no mistaking the resemblance. It was almost perfect urn. But the wonder did not stop here. Curling further on 1t formed D., the fam fly initial. Astonishment ceased not here. It was triple mystery, and the climax was the prayer, "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. :" Those who were looking at the white vine saw it tremble, then 1t shook and fell in fragments, scattering over the cofins of the dead.
 FIRST TIME ON A SLEEPER.
 The Amusing Experience of an old Couple on . Pullman Car. [From the Chicago Herald.l
 ''I see some queer things while knocking around the country" said travelling man yesterday, tand one of the funniest eircum-
 stances that can recall happened last Fri day night. was running up the Milwaukee road few hundred miles and when I left Sioux City my only fellow passengers were an old man and his wife, who occupied the lower section across from me. They had their
 berth made up early and soon retired. guess it was the first time they had ever trav- eled on sleeper by the way they acted, for they wore pretty awkward about undressing, and I heard the old lady lecture her husband for not getting larger room. After much mutual grumbling all was quiet and then came deep snore accompanied by one trifie more eubdued. It was evident the old couple were asleep.
 "At Manila Junction large party came | in and taxed the sleeper to it's full capacity. The porter had to remove the baggage of the | couple, which was slowed above them, and | assigned the berth to little inoffensive citi- \ zen weighing about 120 pounds. He re- moved bis shoes and WAS climbing into the | bunk, when the old lady woke up and began screaming. This aroused her husband and he yelled for the porter, who came running ! come into our room,' the old gentleman ! gasped out. The porter tried to explain that ! he would not annoy them, and had right | to be there. But neither would believe this, l and the old man declared that the porter ! had let him in to rob them. He was also in- dignant to think anyone should be allowed to sleep in the same compartment as his
 wife, and finally he and the old lady got up and dressed, and insisted On the porter re-
 moving their bedding from their berth so
 they could use the seats. 'Tpeeped through
 the curtains and saw them both sitting
 there nodding, but every few minutes they
 would suddenly remember and sit bolt up-
 right. pitied the poor, deluded couple,
 and really the situation was not lacking
 in pathos, tor they were thoroughly in
 earnest. When got of the train early
 next morning they were still sitting there
 but both were sound asleep, the old gen tleman with his arms around his 1ifs'a
 waist, and her head pillowed on his shoul- der."