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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-05-27

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-05-27

MEMPHIS, Tenn. May AT this morn
ing's session OF the Southern Presbyterian
General Assembly the report OF the COM
mittee on the assembly's homo ana school
was read by DR.. J. A. Vance. the chairman
An overture from the Presby;ery OF ST. Louis
praying that a certain contract from the
Mayor OF Fredericksburg and others and the
assemby's home and school be annuiled
such gift was in conflict with the civil law
and with the law OF the church: that IL
would commit the church 10 secular educa-
ton and also presented other reasons Why
this alleged gift Of $4,000 from the city Of
Fredericksburg should not he accepted.
The report OF the staadinE committee on
education submitted by the chairman tho
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-23
THE FUNNEL TRICK.
An Interestin. Problem Devised by
Sportive Caiiiornians.

An interesting. Problem Devised by
Sportive Ca!siornians.
Jerry Lynch has finally learned the
tunnel trick. He took it in two doses
one on II evening and the other
the next. The senator sauntered up
to the Bohemian club the other day and
saw two or three Of the younger mem
bers attempting & new feat, and he
watched them with interest. One of
them stuck a funnel in the top of his
trousers, threw his head back. placed
a fifty-cent piece on his forehead and
tried to drop it into the funnel by
slowly lowering his head. After all
had failed Jerry insisted on trying it,
though all had tried to dissuaGe him
from attempting a feat too difficult for
them. The funnel was placed in the
Walstband of his trousers and he
threw back his head to receive the
coin on his expansive brow. At that
Juncture a pitcher of ice water was
emptied into the funnel, and by the
time Jerry got through dancing the
1okers had vanished. The senator's
temper improved with dry raimont,
and the next night al the club he start
ed i'll to show a couple Of friends the
funnel trick.
It's this way" he explained. you
put the funnel in the top Of your pan
falcons, so, then throw your head
back. SO. and-woW!'
Again Jerry was forced to change his
raiment, and he is not showing people
what he knows about. the funnel trick.
San Francisco News Letter.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-23

his attention to . hitherto neglected
branch Of art, and his canvases began
to CLEAN with the pinky flesh Of dark
eyed babies. The little Julien was a fas-
cinating model, and his father proved
himself q genius by the facility with
which he interpreted the baby graces.
All of which would have been very well
had not Carita suddenly grown jealous.
Her temper was never Of the best, and
in her silly little heart she considered
herself highly aggrieved and neglected.
Then they quarreled, and matters grew
worse and worse, until Carita actually
threatened to go back to her villains
Gus husband, who had never ceased
chuckling over the good bargain he had
made with the great artist. Carmichael
was never meek at any time, but yet
the matter might have ended differ
emily had not the old uncle who gave
him his start in life chosen at this time
to introduce himself. But the fateful
letter came and Carmichael went to the
big hotel acros the river, and there
was an interview. 1t was late when he
returned, and Carita met him with a
blaze Of wrath. He had not told her
where he was going, and she was diff
cult to please those days. She thor
oughly understood the art Of making
herself exasperating, and for a moment
Carmichael caught himself envying his
predecessor his biceps and
big stick. What he had to say was
cn01.np j., n fou- yY-rrIc orJ WITH , f,r4
good-by to the little Julien and a mock
ing message to the woman, Carmichael
turned his back upon his threadhare
past, and upon Carita.
He slept at the Commune that night,
and when We opened the door in re-
Spouse to a gentle tap next morning,
we found no one in view except the lit
tie Julien, who beat his tiny fingers
against the door panel and laughed
g~leefully up in his young fathers face.
Little Julien had come to stay.
About Carita? The city is large.
Perhaps she went back to the ruf1ianly
husband, or, if not-wel}, it would not
be the first time that the turbid yellow
river had been intrusted with a secret.
Julien is a fine young fellow. an up
per classman at Tulane, and occasion
ally he pays a short visit to his guar
dams home, although strangely
enough, Mrs. Carmichael is not fond of
him. Whether she suspects what a
few Of us know is uncertain. but some
Of us have wives, and Mrs. Carmichael
possesses more than the usual quota Of
feminine friends. L. NJ. w.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-23
Killings World Tour.

Just before the steamer Lain sailed,
Rudyard Kipling talked with a report
Ell. He said that, leaving the Lain at
Brenerhaven, he and Mrs. Kipling
would spend some time On the con-
tinent, going from there to Eng
land. How long a time he would
spend there he did not know. Event
ually he would 90 to India. he said,
the country Of his birth, and possibly
he would visit Samoa and other of the
islands of the Southern Pacific.
"Will you return to america. an! if
so, when?" Mr.. Kipling was asked.
ooh, yes, I expect to come back
again, when I get ready. + have not
the slightest notion as to when that
will be-
"Do you call America your homer"
"That is my home where I choose to
liye."-New York Advertiser.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-23
Told Once More.

Lord Russell's visit to America re-
minds the London Chronicle of an an
cient story. It says that during Lord
Russell's previous tour in this coun-
try with Lord Coleridge he came in
contact with many members of the bar,
including Mr.. Evarts. 1t was while
walking with Mr.. Evarts n day along
the banks of a stream that his atten-
ton was called to a point at which
Washington, according to a tradition,
had thrown a dollar right across. The
water was wide, and Lord Russell
looked doubtful. you know a dollar
went further in those days than it goes
now" The American lawyer blandly
insinuated. "Ah," said Lord Russell.
quite equal to the occasion, "and it
may have been easy enough to Wash
ington; it is well known that he threw
a sovereign across the Atlantic"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-23
IN. Giraffe.

The giraffe is, In its own country, .
beast Of no inconsiderable value. It's
thick tough skin, which has from time
immemorial provided Africans with
splendid material for shields. bucllers,
whips, and sandals has always com
manded a certain rate of exchange.
Nowadays when the hippopotamus and
rhinoceros are approaching extermin-
alton in habitable Africa, the hide of a
giraffe ranges from four to five pounds
in value, merely to provide the univer-
sal siemhok, or whip, for the South
African rider and ox-driver. An old
bull will furnish a hide of about an
inch to an inch and a quarter in thick.
ness.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-23
AN ARTISTS LOVE.
80 ARMICHIET.,e .,r-

RMICHIEL' sig
nature in n cor
ner causes a can
vas to be a
bled for in these
countries n 0 W
adays, and there
are those who say
t h a t it o k s
equally we'll at the
bottom Of a check.
Carmichael himself
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-23
4 DIFFICULT JEST
u Seemed IN Easy One, but the Qussy
Editor Blundared Over IL.

u Seemed an Easy One, but the query
Editor Blundered Over IL.
From the Chicago Post: "The ques-
ton, sir" said the chairman OF the
delegation, lis an important one, but
more difficult to answer than you would
think when you first hear it. We have
Wagered a matter of three glasses of
beer and two cigars on it, also, 50 there
is a double eason why you should be
very careful in answering it"
Fire away" said the query editor
shortly.
We'll, you see it's this way" ex-
planned the spokesman. "Over in our
ward there were two men named John
Jones, and they We're father and son.
Is that clear?"
Perfectly. Go ahead"
well, last night they were both
burned to death in the same house, and
to-day when we were making up a list
Of those who lost their lives the boys
insisted on putting down John Jones,
Sr.,' and John Jones, Jr.'"
Quite right" asserted the query edi-
tor.
That's what we came to ask you
about" returned the spokesman. "Of
course, we all knew who was meant,
but technically
Technically it was exactly right"
interrupted the query editor.
"Sure?"
Sure! OF course, I'm sure. How
else would you refer to them?"
ooh, if yoa're so dead sure about it
we're not going to dispute you, but you
ought to take all the technicalities into
consideration"
Il have!" Numbered the query editor.
IF you can advance any reason why
they should be referred to in any
other way, fire ahead; if you can't, get
out and let me go on with my work"
Well" said the spokesman slowly
and deferentially. I'D figured it out a
little differently. You see, the old man
lived down stairs and the boy lived on
the floor above, and the fire started In
the basement. Consequently, it stands
to reason that the old man died first"
What of it," demanded the query
editor.
why, when the old man died the
young nan ceased to be junior didn't
hep
"Um-ah-'
And if he did he was not John
Jones, IT., when he died. Consequently
no John Jones, Jr., died at all. That is
the way figured it out, but, of course,
a query editor is always right, and if
you say that
The chairman Of the delegation
lodged and a paper-weight struck the
wall. Then the delegation retired,
while the query editor kicked himself
around the room and declared that the
neXt man who tried to play him for a
sucker would not live to tell of it.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-23
Diplomacy, Thv Name Is Bridget.

Bridget Applying for a s~ituation)-
"Oh, yis, num-, Oh lived in my last
place tree weeks, num- Mrs. Van
Nobbs-"And why did you leave?"
Bridget-"Oi couldn't get along with
her, she was ovid and cranky" Mrs.
Van Nobbs-'But I may be old and
cranky, too" Bridget-"Cranky We
may be, mum, for faces are sometimes
deceiving; but ovid, niver!!" And Bird
get got the place.-Philadelphia Times.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-23
WITH A BLAZE OF WRATH.

"A 4Z11AH W VIVA IL.
theater-it was a sort Of cross between
a low cafe and a ~second-rate concert
hall. We used to go there occasionally
and throw roses to the dancers, though
Carita was the only one that it paid to
look at twice. She was really a beauty
and quite Spanish in her ways. al
though some of us fancied that there
might be just a trace of darker blood.
or her husband there could be no ques-
ton. He was a greasy, low-browed fell
low, and wholly a villain. He used to
beat her when his shop was raided-
or so she told Carmichael. Carmichael
had lever been in love before. and he
lost his head rapidly. So when one
morning Carita came into our common
studio-the Commune we called it
with her forehead bound up, and the
contour of n pretty cheek almost OBJ
'scured by a livid, struggling bruise,
Carmichael upset his colors over the
"peasant's bridal" he was at work up
on-they painted such things in those
days-and declared that Carita was
done with her brute of a husband for
ever.
It really made very little difference
to any of us. Carmichael was the same
jolly comrade as before, and worked
away furiously in the queer little house
which Carita had furnished to suit her
self. She figured in most of his pic
lures that year, and after a time came
tho little Julien rnd Carmichael turned
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-23
THE FAMILY'S MAIN SUPPORT,
The Old Undertaken Depiores tn, Econo-
mics He Had to Practice.

mics He Had to Practice.
From the San Francisco Post: "Now,
now, now; there, there; don't criticise
those white gloves because they've been
darned. Don't jump on these poor old
black rosettes because they're a little
rusty pleaded the country undertaken.
For fifteen years they have been the
mainstay Of a large and interesting
family. Yes, I know those gloves have
been washed and darned and stitched
till they look more like salt sacks than
gloves, but they still sellat the same old
price-$1 per pair. Grape rosettes for
the pa~ll-bearers still go on every bill
at S..
when l first went into business fif-
teen years ago-now this, Of course, is
on the dead quiet--I bought half a
dozen pairs of white cotton gloves for
Is cents, and 1 think the Grape for
those rosettes cost SO cents. Every
funeral brings me ii IS for gloves and
s. for rosattes for the pall-bearers, and
in the last fifteen years l think l have
realized about Sc $500 on them, and I've
still got them almost as good as new.
Some day, when I can afford it, I'll buy
some new ones"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-23

Is brown and bony and a little inclined
10 be bald He is a trifle cynical, too,
and has accumulated a miscellaneous
assortment of strange little ways that
must be awfully annoying to his wife.
In fact, she says as much in her Ian
euid, complaining way.
Carmichiel's work has always been a
puzzle to the critics. Lately they have
decided that he belongs to the impress
slonlst school, and perhaps those big
1olnted, green-eyed women, for which
ne mad occasionally been responsible,
90 indicate a tendency in that direc-
ton. There is nothing of the impress
slonlst about Carmichiel's earlier
paintings, however, and yet you would
know that they We're his; just as you
would know that the Indifferent, bored
looking Carmichael whom you meet in
every place worth going to is identical
with the threadbare but always de-
llghtful fellow who used to paint
studies OF the Creole girls in the winter
of 70.
Perhaps, though. you were not
among the fortunate number who
knew him before he had painted his
way into the very heart of Philistia.
we were only a small %coterie, but our
lack OF even a bowling acquaintance
with fame was a sad trial to most of
us. Carmichael was different, little as
you would think it when you see him
today. He never seemed then to have
the least ambition only to do his work
as we'll as ever he could, and if now
n then a sketch was sold, why, there
were plenty of friends to pat him on
the back and to help him eat and drink
the proceeds.
And the sketches sold we'll after a
time, for that wild artist colony in the
quaint French quarter was a happy
thought for a crowd Of out-at-elbows
boys, to the most of whom Paris re-
NAMED a dream for more years than
we care to think about. There was
plenty OF local color there, and any
number Of saucy girls who were al
ways willing to pose for us, and who
considered themselves we'll paid if they
received the first rough sketch of what
lSAS ooAASu1AC al C4SC AlPdIldUly dSSlIeu
them was sure to prove "the picture of
the year"
Carmichael has several of these glow
ing things in his studio now, and
through them all you can trace a like
ness to the drab-skinned water nymph
that hangs in the drawing-room of
Hastings, the 'porous-plaster man. It's
on0tho ~. m othn1 orI q 1;ffo,o,4 .,l,:o.
but it's the same Carmichael.
We never knew exactly how it was
that he came across Carita. She was
rone Of the dancers at the little French
%theater-Cr at least they called it a
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-23
No Time should be Lost

By those troubled with constipation in seek
ing relief from Hostetter'sStomach Bitters.
The disease Is easily relievadin in its earlier
stage, and as it is utterly subversive of the
general health, postEonement of the remedy
is unwise. The same holds good of delay in
cases of fever and ague, kidney complaints,
nervousness, debility and rheumatism, all
ments to which the Bitters is particularly
adapted.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-23
Students Build Water Works,

The students at Park college, Park
vile, Mo-, are an enterprising lot Of
young men. They are going to build
a water works system for the town,
The college is conducted partly on the
cooperative plan.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-23
DiDlOmacy,

Contributor--Where is that poem
of mine you promised to publish and
didn't Editor = I'm sorry, but
burglars entered the office last week
and took all the valuables they could
lay their hands on. Detroit Tribune.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-23

Mrs. Ni1isio..'s Soothing Syrup
Forchitdrcn %teething, softcns theg ums, reduces in1am-
nation, allsys pain, cures wind collie. % cents q bottle.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-23
DoafTohaeco SPIT and Sm,ke Yam III, An

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ten pounds in ten days. Over 400 COO cured
Buy NosTo-Bac from Your druggist, who
will guarantee a care. Booklet and sample
mailed free. AID. Sterling Remedy Co.
Chicago or New York.
If you want any attention paid to youi
advice put on your best clothes when yov
give it.
The room in which Napoleon died is nov
used as a stable
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-23

A Chicago street band makes its tours
about the city on bicycles.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-23

Spain has but 5000 teachers to train
Its youthful population.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-02-12
To Name springaeld,s Four Hundred.

1t has been seven years since Blue
Book was printed, and i'll that time there
have been many social changes. Some
have dropped out of tho charmed circle,
some of the buds have developed into
matrons, while others are still serving
as bridesmaids. And some of the pie
beians have acquired property or gained
culture and are knocking for admission
at society's gate. All that is needed is
official recognition. We need Blue
Book, the stars to indicate the grade of
patricians. 1t will be well for the COM
piler to remain unidentified until the
book has been published, and then, as
in the previous case, to promptly leave
town-to 80 far away and stay away.
The Price & Lee company, which has
been compiling dry and accurate direc-
tories of Springfield, has the temerity
to announce that it is prepared to CLASH
fly Springfield society. The preliminary
circulars are ont Now is the time to
get into line if you want three star
grade in the armament of the -Four
Hundred. The Blue Book enumerator
has not started ON her rounds yet. En-
terrain and go to entertainments. The
sheep and goats are to be divided, and
it may again be seven years before an
other Blue Book division is made, -
Springfield Mass. Republican.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-02-12
AN ENGLISH JAIL CHAPEL.
A View of the Prisoners at tho Sunday
Morning Service.


After breakfast nothing much happens
until the chapel hour. Now those pris-
oners who have "gone sick" are visited
by the surgeon or his assistant, and if
the cases are urgent are sent across to the
infirmary at once. There is no regular
cell inspection; the governor or his
deputy makes no round; there is no
taking of reports, - no adjudication of
pains and penalties for misconduct. All
this will stand over until Monday; even
those awaiting punishment, unless it is
for outrageous acts of violence or de-
fianee, turn out to go with their fellows
to chapel. About 8 80 the chapel bell
rings for the first service, that of tho
Roman Catholics, who in large prisons
are usually located OF lodged in one
part of the prison, near their own chapel.
The bell for the Church of England serv-
ice follows at about 10 a. m.
Both on marching to chapel and when
seated within it the various classes and
categories of prisoners are kept strictly
separate from each other. Males and fe-
males approach the chapel by different
roads, enter by different doors and &C.
cupy different divisions, pews or places
apart. Among the males, too, the con-
victed are kept from the unconvicted
and the debtors from both. The women
are generally seated first, behind a
screen or within ourtained off, rallied
In Enclosure They are, of course, visi-
BILE to the chaplain, but to no one else
but their own officers. Except for their
treble voices heard in responses and
hymns, their presence at the service
would be unknown. Now and again,
however, an attempt to signal or COM
municate has been tried by individuals
Of opposite sexes; when dry cough,
persistently repeated, in the female pew
finds an answer in another part of the
chapel, 1t affords shrewd suspicion
that friends are trying to use some code
made up outside before Imprisonment.
One other class is unhappily to be
found at times in the Jail chapel--a
very distinct class, but seldom containing
more than one representative. This is
sometimes Condemned man in pris-
on--one ON whom the extreme penalty
has been passed, and who, by the usual
custom, is allowed sthree clear Sun
days" before the awful sentence is ac-
complished. A condemned convict, al
though he is never left alone, being as
ISOLATED day and night with two war
dens as guardians, is never permitted to
see or be seen by other prisoners. LON
don Culver.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-02-12
DOG AND STUFFED Tiger.
"A Little Incident From New York City's
Varied Street Life.

varied street Ltes
In Broadway show window, y said
a stroller, there is particularly big
and handsome tiger, stuffed, that have
often looked at in passing. saw in
front Of this store the other day man
who had with him tremendously big,
shaggy dog. The man looked at the
tiger, and stopped and tried to draw the
dogs attention to it. But the dog didn't
look that way, and, in fact, he didn't
stop. He slowed down, just as one man
might have done for another who had
stopped for moment to look in win
dow or to speak to friend, and when
he had moved ahead few steps in that
way, not finding himself overtaken, he
did just as man might have done again.
He swung round with the same meas
ured tread and came back to the win
dow. Then the master, with a faint
smile, again invited the big dog to look
at the tiger, but instead of doing that
the big dog looked up into his masters
face and wagged his tail, and the mas
ter looked down and smiled at his dog
then the man started on down Broad
way, with the big dog wagging his tail,
walking along beside him.
But while the big dog had shown no
desire to look at the tiger, had, in fact,
shown rather an aversion to looking at
it, it did not appear that this aversion
came in any degree whatever from fear.
The perfect self possession and the deep
and unbroken good humor Of the dog
were unmistakable; apparently he sim
ply didn't care for tigers and didn't
want to look at this one. but it did seem
that if it had been possible for the tiger
to come to life and step down from the
window and around and out through the
door ON to the sidewalk then the big dog
would not have walked away; that there
would then have been there on the side
walk the Hottest scrap that Broadway
ever saw, with the chances-well, the
chances were in favor of the dog. New
York Sun.