The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-27
We oLDEN TYNE PAPERS.
Queer Notices Found in English
Sheets Over 200 Years Ago.

Sheets Over 200 Years Ago.
New York Telegram.
They get out different kind of newspaper
these days from the kind the printers of eve
queer examples of the work of centuries
ago. A copy of the Nerves. of May r. 1864
shows its front page nearly fully occupied
by q paragraph, which, however, from it's
consequential form of type is evidently OF
Importance. 1t is nothing more or less than
quack advertisement from the Kings own
Palace of Whitehall, and from the old Row
ley himself: His Sacred Majesty having
Declared it to be his Royal Will and Pur-
pose to continue the Healing of his People
Tor the EVIL during the Month of May, and
then to give over till MichaeImas next am
commanded to give notice thereof, that the
People may not come up to the Town in the
Interim, and loose their Labour''--a very Sc
rious announcement, indeed. since touching
for the Evil was the popular craze of the
reign of Charles H. the King having had
more patients than any other doctor of his
time Over ninety thousand were duly reg
istered as having been touched by the royal
quack. But, after ALL we must be charitable
to Charles and his times, and not overlook
the fact that belief in the royal gift of heal
ing existed for some seven hundred years
from Edward the Confessor to Queen Anne
High and low held the faith, and it would
be difficult to find in all the range of history
more striking example of the credulity OF
mankind.
The golden stamp" had doubtless then.
as now, a wonderful way with it of popu-
larizing things. Attempts to obtain sec
BILE woman and Queen. Elizabeth, while
she touched many, at the. same time told
her people that God only could relieve
them from their complaints" and as a
preliminary to the weaving of the people
the size of the golden tokens was reduced.
On one of these tokens was the inscrp-
tion He touched them" while on the
reverse side the by no means unassuming
finalty, And they were cured
Another old prints the Mercurius Politicus
of December 1850 This newspaper was a
sort of literary Vicar of Bray" which
changed its views and it's name even with
the political Kaleidoscope. One number is
published lin defense of the Common
wealth" and it is rather curious to note
that Ireland is mentioned after the dom
inant partner, Scotland coming last.
The fragments of history on the last
page are all of a particularly interesting
period. In 1850 Charles II landed in his
northern realms, and monarchy was be-
stirring itself. The year previous COM
missioners had been sent from Scotland to
Holland Ito treat and bring home our
young King" 1t is very, very doubtful
If our young King found it homeike
when he did come across the water. Com
missioners were again sent the year fol-
lowing and succeeded. From the items of
war news which follow, this newspaper
of 1850 evidently had our own correspond
ent' at the seat OF war. He had some idea.
too of adding piquancy to his dry details
for he tells his editor that 1.-The Scots
prove generally Thieves. stealing anything
from US that they can lay their hands on
to ACCOMPLISH