The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-14

Dulcineas and march with them, though
some there be of the military sort who
seem to feel handsomer standing apart,
jingling swords and spurs In company
with their kind.
A MILITARY SALUTE.
1t is a little alarming at first to see
your amiable lieutenant of the night
before, when you meet him in the park
the next day. suddenly draw himself
up as one ossified. rid his face of all
expression except that of severe rigid
ity, raise one hand, palm outward, with
an automatic jerk. to his cap or he'll
met and remain a moment, which seems
an era to your dazed faculties, thus
transfixed. However, the attack over,
his face resumes a human expression
and he approaches you with a beaming
smile. You realize that the phenome-
non just witnessed was merely milf
tary salute. But if, while you walk
with this warlike friend, you chance
to meet a general, then indeed you shall
see something. You shall understand
that time is needed in country where
such obeisances are to be performed.
AS / was driving through town the
other day on the back seat of the low
sledge, thinking, like the water man,
of nothing at all, l. was suddenly
startled beyond all control by terrific
Shall say SnTl1h. Just DcUiuu lily
head. I jumped around in terror to see
what fate was impending-what beast
had escaped from the circus-what
awful thing had happened. Nothing to
be seen. Only the usual pedestrians
pursuing their quiet way and no one
looking in the least as though anything
out of the ordinary had occurred. What
did it portend? Had / heard Ban
shee's warning in broad daylight on
Carl Johans gado? Was / going daft?
Tuct 7 orb ciu OH IF
face of a truck driver, who sat grinning
down on my evident establishment from
his lofty seat, and / realized what the
horror had been. Nothing more mys-
FERROUS than the man of whom / had so
often heard who affirms that he can
not live unless he emits this hideous.
uncanny sound at regular intervals. He
has done the thing for years, and has
been especially allowed the monopoly of
that doubtful privilege by the police. In
fact, when three or four young medical
students bethought themselves to copy
him late one night in the deserted
streets the instant constable refused to
believe that they had contracted this
worthy's harmless malady and threat
ened to lock them all up unless they
promptly recovered. which they did.
When the shrieker broke his leg and
had to be taken to the hospital some
imagined, most troublesome and SUBJ
versive to the peace OF the ward. 1t
was then that the doctors thought that
they discovered his trouble to be the
creature of his own fancy. But as he
asserts to the contrary and persists in
shrieking as he has shrieked for years,
there seems to be no help for it. His
title appears to be established by VEN
cradle time. But it is hard on the
nerves of the stranger.
Apropos of the immortality of the
average local purveyor and the diff
Guilty of getting well-made clothing, a
teristic .anecdote. 1t happened that he
wanted some new boots suddenly, and
knowing that no shoemaker in town
could from his inner consciousness
evolve an acceptable pair Qor ones
boots are almost always made to order
here), he took the man some that had
been made in Paris and ordered them
accurately copied. To this the shoe
maker agreed, but when the boots were
delivered they were seen to be as good
Norwegian as any in the shop, not even
cousins to the models. But, my good
man, my shoemaker in Picking, China
man, copied my boots thousand times
better than this. Do you call this thing
a boot?" "Oh. / dare say" answered
the man, quite unmoved, but we have
not advanced as far as the Chinese
And with that ended all hope of rous-
eddy he had his goodly store of both
somewhere. but it did MT apply to the
rise and progress of boots. :
So they should bring a stock of good
American footgear who come to this
lovely country, which is always beauti-
full and not the less interesting because
of it's naiyeteS