The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06

though be kept pace with the man for
nearly half square. While walking that
distance he also told him what he Thought
OF I'm. but there was no reply. MS eA-
asperated Mr. Bernhammer. and there was
no telling what he might not have done
bad he not just then thought to look at the
badge worn By each member OF the clno.
This is what he read: The Deaf-mute Re
publican Club" =
There is, at Seymour. Ind. man named
John Reno who has in bis possession
very fine specimen of q bald-eagle. He 10
kept in q large cage and conducts himself
with so much dignity, even in confinement,
that in looking at him q person cannot
doubt the wisdom of our forefathers In
choosing his kind to represent this glori-
ous. free country. Mr.. Reno, beside own
ing the bird, is heart and soul Repub-
lican, and will probably stamp the eagle
at the head of the Republican ticket with
a little more tenderness. though Just as
emphaticalIy, from the fact of his owner
ship. Seymour was billed for big Re-
publican demonstration. and Mr. Reno
evolved q great scheme. Several days be-
fore lt was TO como oil he began to let
down on the birds daily rations. and on
the auspicious day gave him nothing what
ever TO eat. That night Mr.. Eagle. hungry
and mad in his cage. occupied conspIcu-
Gus place on the speakers platform. The
crowd arrived. and while 1t wondered
what John Renos eagle was doing up
there. it cheered the picture IN life of the
device at the head OF their ticket, and
made uncomplimentary remarks about the
Democratic barD-yard fowl. Every min
ute made the bird hungrier and every cheer
madden. Just'before the speaker was an
nounced Mr.. Reno appeared In the hall
with q huge Shanghai rooster under his
arm. and. carrying il to the cage. slipped
it in the door. In exactly fourteen seconds
that eagle was cleaning his bill against the
bars of his cage. and he lacked 80 per cent.
OF being as hungry as he was before that
fourteen seconds began. few feathers
lay on the cage floor. all that was left or
the rooster. and the crowd went into hys-
terics. +
While the Columbian celebration was
going on at Chicago o party was gotten up
il this city which went to the Windy City
on Saturday night In special car. 1t was
composed of the Dorcas Society of the City
Council, three or four newspaper men and
o number of city officials. among whom
was numbered DR.. Frank Morrison. presi-
dent of the City Board of Health. than
whom there is no man who takes more de-
light in q joke, practical or otherwise The
party went up on the Monon, arriving at
Chicago at 8 o'clock Sunday morning and
departing at in the evening. In the after
noon Dr.. Morrison got lost from the rest OF
the party. and, peregrinating to the sta
tion alone, he boarded the Monon
train. 1t did notoccur to him to look
for the other members OF the party until
the train had left Chicago behind. and then
he discovered that he had got on the wrong
train and was RAPIDLY making his way to
Louisville. He loft the train at Monon
junction TO get on the Biaht train. 1t was
then that the party discovered that one of
it's number had been laboring under q tenn
porary alteration. =
They were evidently chums. the two girls
who stood together on downtown corner
one evening recently. and they had been
trying to say goodbye for fully fifteen
minutes before they separated to go to
their respective homes
Good bye" said the one in q sailor hat,
and good. bye" reiterated the one
in Tam OShanter. Then they
would talk for five or six minutes
and soy the parting words again. After
several like efforts they got away. one
starting across the street and other in the
opposite direction. The former had gotten
about half way across the thOroughfare
when she stopped. and, unmindful of pass
ing vehicles and cars, called at the top OF
her voice, while she waved her hand:
Goodbye, Cert; see you tomorrow, If
don't see y on before. If don't go to Haugh-
yille." =
L. w. Tompkins owns a drug store on
Massachusetts avenue, and there, every
evening. a few choice spirits gather. among
them being Billy Allen, chief clerk in the
city engineers Office. Not long ago this
coterie W as presented with prairie chicken
by friend, and the luxury was promptly
submitted to n good cook of the neigh Dor.
| hood, who served IL up in elegant and pala-
table style. The gentlemen who partook
| of the repast pronounced it excellent and
were prone to disbelief when furnished
with indisputable evidence that the
| prairie chicken was, in reality. an able
| bodied crow that had been shot for the oc.
| casiou. Ask Billy Allen or DIR. Tompkint
eff they eat crow" if you want to precipi
| tate large-sized hunk of trouble.