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Proved His Case. “Well! You are the first man I ever heard accuse Timmins of being full of energy.” “But he must be. He has been storing it up for years.” — Satiated. Weary Watkins—Well, why didn’t you come back with no bird? Hungry Higgins—They wasn't nothin’ in the henhouse but turkeys. Scientific Discussion. “At an elevation of seven miles above the earth,” said the professor, “a man would be unable to get his breath.” “Pho! said Alkal—Bill, “I've seen lots of fellers that wasn't able to draw their breath only seven feet above the earth.” She Had Her Doubts, She held herself so still to catch what he was muttering in his dreams that she hardly breathed. “Mary ,” as “That's me,” she thought to herself, as there was no occasion for her to think of anyone else. “Mary must have that new wrap, even though I do have to take it out of the bookkeeper’s salary. It is too bad, too. He is the only support of a widowed mother.” All was still again. She lay there and thought some more. “He's just as mean as he can be,” she murmured. “I don’t believe he was asleep at all.” A year or so ago Some good people were alarmed by the announcement that a Mus sulman missionary pway about to establish an Islamic propaganda in this country, with a view to converting it to Moham medanism. The missionary was Moham med Alexander Russell Webb, who, while acting as United States consul somewhere in the East, had been converted to Islam ism. He was represented as a very zealous propagandist, and there was some fear that he might entirely supplant the Christian religion in this country with Mo hammedanism...The stanger is probably past. Mohammed Webb, who has entered the lecture field, has been deporting him self in such a way as to cripple, if not de stroy, his influence as a propagandist. At Cincinnati he was unable to fill his engage ment, and had all the symptoms of a per son with “a jag on.” When pressed for an explanation of his condition he said: “I cannot explain it to you Western people exactly. If you were a Mohammedan ,you might be able to understand it. There is a certain dual relation between the soul and the body. Just at present my soul is out of harmony with my body, and I cannot bring them into the proper relations.” An item in his hotel bill of “bar and cigars, $3, was thought to throw some light on the disturbance in the relation of his soul to his body. At Toledo the disturbance was repeated in a more aggravated form, and the lecturer's soul was so completely out of harmony with his body that he had to be sent to a hospital for repairs. It is probable that the movement for the con version of the Western world to Moham medanism has collapsed. The new voting machine which is com ing into use In New York would seem to be a sure preventive of ballot-box frauds of all kinds. A knob’ represents a candidate; the knobs are in columns like the names on a ballot, and the different parties are rep resented by different colors. When the voter touches a knob representing a can didate it records his vote and locks that and all the knobs for the other candidates for that office. He can touch all the knobs in less than a minute, and, making his exit by a different door from which he entered, unlocks by opening it all of the knobs. It is estimated that 650 of the machines would record the entire vote of New York city, which is now cast ‘im’1,141 precincts. ‘When the hour for the closing of the polls ar rives, the vote is practically counted, and counted correctly. 2. A New Jersey man of advanced years gave diamonds and other valuable adorn ments to a pretty widow, with the expecta tion that she would marry him. She mar ried another man, but declined to return the gifts, and the donor thereupon sued for their recovery. The court decided that as the gifts were voluntary and no contract was proved, no case is made against the defendant and she can keep her diamonds. The several morals to be drawn from this interesting incident for the benefit of fool ishly-enamored swains are so obvious that it is not worthwhile to set them down. The “Authore’ Ri Table,” of New York, is, to have a y of rare stamps. The connection between authors and this sort of an exhibit is very close. Stamps are apt to be rare with members of such an association after they get done paying return postage on their manuscripts. ——————————e eee te bhange, describing the op ner of General Booth of
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Indianapolis Journal
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Sun, Dec 02, 1894
Page 4
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