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$(}lt; Dof farTHE ORIGIN OP ERIN.[The following verses are said to have beenreel tod by a young Irish lawyer at a dinner Y(in New York city many years ago, In re sponse to the toast “Ireland.1’Wld all condeeclifslon. I’d call your attintlonEiTo what I’d v*ow mintlon of Erin so green; And wld’out hfsltation, i’ll tell how that nationBeklm of creation the gim and the queen.It happoned one mornln’ wldout any war-That Vay nus was bom in the beautiful say; An* by that same token-an’sure ’twaa pro-vokin’—Her pinions was dhroopin* and wouldn’t gi ve play.Thin Niptune, who knew her, In order to woo her,Began to pursue her, the wicked ould Jew! An’ very, nigh caught her, on top o’ the watber,Great Jupiter’s daughter, who roared “phil-Jlloo I”Thin Jupiter, that Jaynius, looked down and seen Vay nus _ ,An’ Niptune the haynius pursoon’ her wild,An’ he roared out like thunder (an’ sure ’tw8 no wonder).He’d tare him asuodher for taysin’ hischild.that round him wasThin a son-starlyin*He saysed wldout sighin’ and hurled itbelow!Whicli wint out -like winkin’, bnt aa it was sinkin’,Struck Niptune, I’m thinkin’, a broth of a blow.Now this sun-star made dryland, both lowland and highland,And formed that sweet island, the place of me birth;Hinee, strange is the story, the Erin so hoary, Was sint down from glory, a heaven upon earth.Thin Vaynus stippid natcly on Erin so fitfttolyAn’ bease she so lately was bothered and prest,it did her much bewilder, but ere it had kill-ed ]ierHer father distilled her a drop of the best.This glass so victorious, it made her feel glorious,A little uproarious I fear it did prove;Er;So how can ye blame us, that Erin’s so famousFor whisky—an' flghtin*—an’ murthexv-an’ love ?A HORRIBLE DEATH.»Indr:sEYE.I5id.t»-to»•/A Body-Suatclier, Polsoued by a Corpse, Roto lo Death.South Bend Special to Chicago Times.Several months ago the grave ofSarab Platte, a yoong lady who diedof consumption, was found disturbed and an examination showed that the head of the corpse was missing. Wbat led to the discovery was the finding o( a human jawbone by Fred Auer, a farmer who lived near the county graveyard, some eight miles from the city, where the body was buried. The fact that only the bead was taken threw suspicion on an amateur phrenologist named Gordon Troesdale. Truesdale occupied a small term in the vicinity, with bis wife and a family of four girls, tbo oldest not more than eight years old. He was a handsome, broad-shouldered fellow, with a fair education, but lazy and shiftless. His great hobby was phrenology, and he occasionally lectured on that subject in country school-houses. His ambition to possess a collection of skulls was well known in the neighborhood, and thedesecration of the Platts girl’s grave was laid^t his door, although be was never openly charged with it. *About three weeks ago Truesdale went to a physician and asked if a person could become poisoned io handling a dead body. He received an affirmative reply, and appeared to be much troubled. He complained to bis wife that bis nose pained him terribly, and he believed ho was taking the erysipelas. He began doctoring himself with bread and milk poult ices, but without success. His face began to swell rapidly, and in less than three days it and his head became twice their natural size, and lost all semblance of human shape. A physician was called in, against the wishes of Truesdale. He found the man suffering terribly. His lips were drawn by the tension of the skin, and writhed themselves away from the teeth in unceasing pain. The cuticle across the bridge of the nose and over the forehead was so distended with the mattery substance underneath that it seemed as if it must burst every moment. The eyes were swol len almost to bursting from their sockets, and were turned with pain until hardly anything but the whites could be seen. It was evident that a terrible poison was slowly, but surely, permeating the man's wholesystem.The physician, after a careful examination of the unwilling patient, cut open his skin from about the center of the nose almost to the roots of the hair, and then made another cat across the forehead almost from temple to temple. From these incisionsthere oozed a mass of loathsome, detestable putrescence, so terrible in its stench that the attendants, save one, ran from the house. Other iocisions were made io different parts of the scalp, from which the hair had been shaved, and from these this terribly offensive matter oosed constantly, until the swelling was reduced and the bead and face assumed nearly theirnormal size. Attempts were then made to free the incisions of matter by injecting water into them. It was noticed that wbeo water was forced into the cut in the forehead it poured out of the holes io the scalp. .As one of the attendants said, “It seemed as if all the flesh between the skin and bone had turned to corruption and ran out.”When Truesdale was told that be could not possibly recover, he called his wife into the room and confessed to her that he robbed the Platts girl's grave, and referred to a certain night when he left the bouse and refused to tell her where he went at the time, when he committed the erime.found there and giwao to the Platte family.The last throe days of Troesdale’s existence were terrible, not only to himself but to those wbo watched him. The poison from some corpse (for it is believed lie had recentlyopened several graves), which was communicated to his system by prickiuga raw spot on the inside of bis nose, appeared to course through every vein in his body. Not only was his person offensive to the eye, but the odor apd heat of bis breath was so offensive that it wus impossible for the attendants to wait on bim properly. The breath was so poisonous that when one of the attendants held his hand six inches from the dying man's mouth it stung the flesh like hundreds of nettles., Those who waited upon him were compelled to woar gloves, as it was impossible to wash the odor from their hands. The day he died bis flesh was so rotten that it seemed as if it would drop from the bones if touched, and his eyes actually decayed until they became sightless.For two days before his death acoffin had been in readiness, and the orders of the physician were to place bim in it as soon as the breath left bis body, and get him underground immediately. After his death none of the attendants had the (temerity to touch the corpse, for tearlof being poisoned,so they gathered pesheets on which the body lay at each end, and thus lifted him into tpe coffin.The lid was quickly screwed down, but before a wagon could bi procured the body swelled and burst it off. It was then strapped on, but when the coffin was taken from tae wagon at the graveyard just at daylight, it again flew off, and the body, appeared to swell visibly before thejhorrified attendants' eyes. The fetid, noisome steocb from the putrid mass within was such that no one could attempt to replace the cover, and the coffin was covered from sight as hurriedly as possible.Tfronlottfreadmotger.* « thatanytesthergirlmotoredblutTell and a ri Themotso iwerdoDgoowaaIf texpproisagamolbldirebiareent,whiYoimistbiibavinThe Way “Plain People”Illiuolft Talk.Peoria Transcript.Our country friends, “plain people,” as Mr. Lincoln called them, have a way of putting this four years' experience of General Grant in another and very striking light “What has Grant learned during the past four years?” they ask. “The ways of kings and courts, the splendors attending European and Asiatic sovereigns—pomp, parade and show ( He knows very little about tbe common people of bis own land, the bone and sinew, the ‘plain people,* on whom ho is to depend for his electron. He has not been in their society. The little time he has spent in this country since he landed in San Francisco has been in tbe company of courtiers, flatterers and parasites. He has not mixed with the people. He knows nothing of their wants, or their desires, or their feelings. His sympathies are not in their direojon, or if they are he has taken precious good care not to reveal that fact.” That is the way lots of “plain people in this section of Illinois are talking, and they are quite as much entitled to consideration as some others—not even excepting “old soldiers.A 4Cvi 11, aroa VgerHtOIsc hbarthe1eraitonofscb bit i the ]zleshecotrecrsofafic i mo kmingb\ywhha'tel!thrumplabejtermehoCorn in Illinois.American Agriculturist.The corn crop for the single State of Illinois, for the year 1879, is reported to be 305,813,377 bushels, and estimated to be worth $97,483,052, or about 31 £ cents per bushel. It is difficult for tbe mind to take in the full magnitude of these figures. Here are some calculations that will help the conception : Load this corn upon wagons, 40 bushels to the load, and start them off on the road so near together that there shall be 100 teams to every mile. The line of wagons carrying this one crop of Illinois corn would stretch away 76,453‘miles, or more than three times around the world! Again : Load this crop upon railway freight cars, 285£ bushels,or about eight tons to the car, and make up these cars into a continuous freight train, allowing 30 feet of track to each car. The train would extend 6,080 miles, or nearly twice across the continent, from the Atlan-jtic to the Pacific oceans! Again : Suppose we put this corn crop into a square bin 20 feet deep. Let tbe arithmetical young readors of the American Agriculturist reckon how large tbe bio would be each way. Also, how many acres it would cover. Also bow many pounds of pork it would make if given to pigs weighing 100 pounds each when they begin feeding upon the corn, and 250 pounds when killed for pork.foeasitecatDewlhethianyothiAiprhelassitbeucenthbearIo’toHeeaid he dog down to the head of the coffin, broxe it open, and taking oa roar u lo d tohit knife cot around the neok of the oorpee through the flesh to the bone. He then placed one of hie feet on the breast of the oorpee, and taking the head in his bands polled and Jerked and twitted it until it came off by mere force. He afterwards disjoint* e4 the tower jaw and threw it where Fred. Auer found ft. He etoeed hieconfession by telling wbere the skullindiwould be found under the straw to anirtiin mmms tci tit* sUhls T*A Man With Iron Feet.Baltimore American.Brooks’ blast-furnace in Oanton boasts of a “man with the iron feet.” John Lemuel, a colored man who works around the cupola When the iron-ore is melted down, is enabled from the exceeding callousness of the soles of bis feet to walk around over the pigs of almost red-hot iron, as they are run out from the furnace in the sand, and left to cool. He moves about without his shoes freely, and never seems to fgpl any sensation or pain in stepping oo a piece of iron at a heat that would frizzle up a feather. He is considered a great curiosity, and is boasted of by the furnace bands extensively.12UFyetClbrantbktanoftilt;IA Good Housewife.A good housewife, «wheu sbe is glv-Uilog her house its spring renovating, should bear in mind that the dear iu-mates of her house are more precioustheir eyeterns need cleansing by purifying thethan many houses, and that their aye*blood, regulating the stomach and bowels to prevent and curs tbe diseases , arising from spring malaria and mi*s~ a^and she must know that there lathe purest and Gonoord N. H. Pushwdecaatblt;titecrcocuiofnouiing that sorely as Ho best of med!trtfli-idv.tuHViFOB liiB-LWHlKikl•tir
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Greencastle Dollar Press
Greencastle, Indiana, US
Wed, Mar 31, 1880
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