The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-08-09
THE WAY OF THE WORLD.

THE WAY OF THE WORLD.
A year ago Lille Johnson was the
tender and true wife of a plate board
promoter, who Travelled over the regu-
lar fakir's circuit from New Orleans
to Coney Island. says the Brooklyn
Eagle. There were certain things about
Mr.. Johnson which made his spouse
weary, and in June last, when she met
Willie Lynn in Jumbo Flynn's restaur-
ant, where she was doing a turn at
shaking the plaster, she, it is alleged,
conceived the idea of doubling up with
Willie.
But this required diplomacy.
Accordingly, on July H. she contrived
that Mr.. Johnson should blacken her
eye.
AT Coney Island a black eye is con-
sidered the choicest present an affection
ate husband can give. All happy wives
wear them continually and point with
pride to the gorgeous blending of orange
and green and blue and yellow with
which the sable badge is bedecked.
But Lille complained to the police
and John had somewhat common
Coney Island adventure. He was sent
away.
While he was away Lille and Willie
met and never parted, and the happy
hours rolled by as heetly as when the
world was young.
But bark! The avenger comesi It is
Aggie Anderson She who once was all
In all to Willie. On Surf-ave. she met
her. Her who had done the supplant-
ing.
Oh. it was hard to bear, so she didn't
bear IL. She struck out and landed on
1f..fe- 4
morning stars sang together and danced
boleros. Lille got her hand twisted in
Aggfe's hair and gave her the change
and Just as matters were at the most
interesting point along came Willie and
he was fool enough to stay and get
mixed up in the festivities
When the polio arrested them all the
young women told their diverse stories
and were Immediately released, but as
for Willie, who tried to make peace, he
was held and the judge will attend to
him on Monday.
''Why what's the matter?" asked
everybody as the car stopped suddenly
and the gripman jingled his bell like
mad.
1t was at the far end of Broadway.
New York. where the car rounds the
curve for its return trip, and where the
stretch of dusty street, besides its OBJ
vious purposes for travel, affords play
ground to the children of the janitors of
those big buildings that scrape the sky
in all directions.
"Git off, yelled the irate gripman.
Cit off. L say or I'll"
mo. We dassn't. Ye dassn't run over
us" ieered bOyish voices, and the pas
sengers. craning out the windows, saw
a couple of curly-headed mites standing
directly in the cars pathway.
The gripman swore great, big, warm
weather oaths and some of the passen-
gers did likewise, while the youngsters
Knocked and laughed and kept their
ground.
Suddenly the gripman leaned well for
ward and grabbed the nearest boy by
the hair. And lo the thick shock of
yellow curls came off in the frightened
gripman's hand like the skin of par
boiled almond. leaving a scared, sand
paper-pated boy in the sunshine.
Don't take his wig, mister! yelled
the other boy. please don't! He's had
the fever an he's been in the hospital
and his father paid S. for that there wig,
and he'll ketch cold eff he has to go
home with nothin' on but a shaved
head"
Please give it back 'whimpered the
owner of the wig, and after some par
ley, during which the boys magnanl-
mously stepped from the track, the yell
low curls We're restored to their wearer,
and the car moved majestically forward
An Englishman writes thus in the Re-
view of Reviews of an incident at the
opening of the worlds fair: The ar
rival of the president and his party
called forth what to my British ears was
most unexpected vocal demonstration.
The people not only cheered as British
crowds are wont to cheer; they INDUCED
in sounds which to us are expressive Of
strong derision. They literally cater
wauled. l was almost as surprised as Mil
ton makes out his fallen hero to be
when, instead of the applause he antici-
pated, he was greeted with one vast
hiss.
1 suppose every nation develops its
own style of plaudit. The Germans
have their short staccato "hoch, the
British their sonorous .'hurrah,' while
the Americans have selected the shrill
feline yell.
Asking a fair Chicagoan the reason
of this strange performance got for an
answer: Il guess they want to make IS
much noise as they can and they find
they can make most noise that way
Making allowances for this popularity
i'm cheering, no royal parsonage could
have been more rapturously received
than was the plain citizen, Grover
Cleveland. In the simple morning dress
of the ordinary civilian, without ribbon
or medal or other decoration on his
breast, with nothing in his garb to dis
tinguish him from other men, this ruler
of more than three score million men
stood out in instructive contrast to the
brilliantly uniformed representatives Of
European royalty behind him. 1t was
an object lesson which could hardly be
lost on the hundreds present from
monarchical states.
George Wiley, son Of a well-known
colored man living in Pearl river swamp,
Jones county, Mississippi, left home last
Monday morning to go on a fishing ex-
cursion, taking with him a long. stout
rope line such as is generally used
among the natives for catching large
catfish. A shepherd dog accompanied
him.
Early the same evening the dog came
back to the house alone and whined
and jumped about the old man in such
an unusual manner as to attract his
attention The old man went out into
the yard and the dog sprang out in front
of him, running off a few yards and
then coming back and pulling at his
clothes Convinced that something was
amiss Wiley followed the dog and was
led to a point on the river about five
miles from the house. where he found
the lifeless body of his boy suspended
nv one leg from an OVerhanging limb