The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-09-05
ALONG THE BYWAKS.

alyzed, and a little tin cup on the top OF
the organette received the nickels and
pennies Of the sympathetic passers-by.
He had turned the crank from early
morn, and now his eyes grew heavy and
dim. His head dropped on his partly COW
cred breast and the music stopped. but in
moment he aroused himself, sat erect
again and turned on
The nicl1els still ratified in the tin.
Again the head dropped and slower came
the music. but again he Strengthened up
and went TO work harder than ever. 1t
was hard fight. Gradually the music
grew slower again.
II came in TITS and starts. Slow and
slower moved the old mans arms.
stopped, moved again, stopped and fell
by his side.
The relieved head again rested on his
breast. The arms hung loosely by his
side.
The pennies still dropped into the cup
but he heard them not-he was asleep.
One or two stopped to watch him for a
moment and then passed on. Soon the
old mans features assumed a panied ex-
preston, and tears trickied down the
weather-beaten cheek. Again he was suf-
fering the pangs of a cruel fate Once
more he was passing through that stage
Of grief that altered his life and brought
him to what he row was. His body
quivered, and he sobbed and moaned. but
the dream passed away, and another more
pleasant took its place. The face as
sumed look not worn for years. The
features became softened and a happy
smile illumiRed the face.
He was a boy again-wlld, careless and
\ hQnDN
bright and rosy.
But now he could see his wife. Up
among the fieecy clouds he could see her
and his children who had gone there
while fortune still smiled on him, and
before he took the downward course He
was happy again. He reached toward
them. He raised his bony hand above
his head, moved slightly, slowly opened
his eyes, then started and wildly swung
his arms and shrieked: WHO in -
stole my cup?"-Buffalo Enquirer.
An uptown young man who is fresh
to a degree that surpasses endurance,
and who persists in talking all the time
there is anybody in sight, went out for
the evening one night last week and
met a girl from Boston, says the Buffalo
Express.
Although the young man talks contin-
ually ne occasionally uses some very
bad grammar. One fault is particularly
glaring. He invariably says II done it,
for II did it," and, as he is continually
talking about himself, he makes this
mistake many times in the course of an
hour.
He engaged the Boston girl in CONVEX
satiou and told her some fairy tale about
hing OF that had hp Cd
to him. When he got through she ex-
pressed surprise that such a thing could
happen, and asked him:
Did you really do all that?"
Il done it," replied the young man
proudly.
Then he branched into another TO
nance.
This was even more startling than the
first. The girl from Boston listened pa
tiently, and, when he had finished, po-
Htely said, "can it be possible you did
anything so wonderful?'
That's what 1 DONE" replied the
young man, chucl1ing out his chest as
ne made the remark.
The great success of his two stories
spurred him to other efforts, and he re-
cited another condensed dime novel for
the benefit of the girl from Boston.
When he had finished the girl said
''Oh, do you know you remind me so
strongly of Banquo's ghost?"
you mean the ghost in the Shake
speare play?" inquired the young man,
in a hesitating sort Of way.
Yes"
"And why?"
Don't you remember that Macbeth
said to him, Thou canst not say, 1 did
it?"
And until this day the young man
does not know why everybody laughed
THAT drunkenness and its mischievous
consequences are not peculiar to the hui
man race alone" said Prof. E. B. Sheldon
Of Minneapolis at the Laclede last even
ing, "are, in my mind, established facts.
1 have paid particular attention to the
svidity with which wasps attack certain
fruit when it is overripe, and have noticed
some of the peculiar results of their doing
so. The sugar in some fruits which are
most frequented by wasps has a tendency
to pass into a sort Of alcohol in the pro-
cess Of rotting. On such fruits particu-
larry grapes and plums, you will frequent
" see wasps pushing and fighting with
each other, endeavOring 10 get at the
coveted prize After they have got at il
and filled themselves with the juice you
will see them get very drunk, crawl away
in a sort of dazed condition and repose
in the grass for some time, presumably
until the effect wears off, when they in
variably return and get in the same con-
dition again. 1t is while they are thus
affected that they do their worst sting
ing both in the viTulent nature Of the
stroke and the utterly unprovoked as
saults Of which they are guilty / was
stung last year by a drunken wasp, and
for several days suffered severely from
symptoms of nerve poisoning. Globe
Democrat.
There was quite a crowd around a coal
hole in the sidewalk. and it was soon
learned that a lady who was passing had
stepped into the uncovered hole and they
were getting her out. She was not hurt
in the least, but rather frightened and
dusty. A male relative who accompanied
her was executing a series Of gymnastics
around her.
Sure you're not hurt. Adder he
asked anxiously.
Not a bit Richard
mo sprained or broken bones"
mot one You see I was caught by
a man who was passing and that saved
me from being hurt"
Where is the officious wretch?'
Richard, he is my delivererr'
"Deliver nothingl If you had just
the city and recovered $4,000 damages
Louisville Times.
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