The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1882-05-06
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| TIM MODERN. HIGHNA1MAN.
The ancient highwayman was stout and brave
And robbed the lonely traveller OF. his pelf;
The modern highwayman's a sneaking knave,
Who tries to steal the great highway itself.
The Courier Journal knows of forty-four
cases where people who smoked after going
to bed awOke in a brighter land.
A man gathering mushrooms was told that
they were poisonous. Thank you" he re-
replied, II am not going to eat them myself;
L sell them at the hotel"
Misses Fanny Marston and Sally Marston.
sisters, of North Hampton, n H., one aged
seventy-nine years and the other eighty
two, died on the 18th inst. within five hours
of each other.
In arresting citizen of that State If he
isn't the one they're after. there's sure to be
some charge against him on which they can
hold him. This is very convenient.
A lecturer who had just one listener was
hattered to discover that he came in 10 get
out of the wet. Umbrella would have cost
a dollar; lecture, twenty-five cents; seventy
five cents saved.
"Yes," said the Indiana legislator, "our
laws on divorce are rather easy, but we must
encourage immigration somehow, and il
takes good deal to do that with fever and
ague in the air to buck against"
San Francisco has bureau for exchang-
ing bric-a-brac. When housewives get tired
of the ornaments in their parlors, they swap
them off with other housewives and thus
get change without increasing the original
investment.
Snooks went home the other right afflicted
with double vision. He sat for some time
with his sleepy gaze riyeted on Mrs Snooks,
and then complacently remarked: well, /
declare t you two gals don't look 'nough
alike to be twins" I
1t was deemed singular that eight en-
ployes of the New York Central Railroad at
Buffalo should come out simultaneously
with Sunday suits of like material. The ex-
planation was found in the fact that they
had plundered a freight car
Ocean steamers can not be run safely
when empty, and to get ballast steamship
Company has agreed to pay bonus of ] =
cents per bushel for 1900 bushels of grain
for Liverpool delivery. If prices MAINTAIN
their high figure the vessel can carry the
grain back and forth all summer without
much loss.
1t is not the drunken husband, father, son
or brother that feels AL the keen toI Iments
of the drunkard's home. Mol 1t is the
wife, the mother, the sister and the dsugh
daughter. The Incorporate man drinks the
cup, but the dregs at the bottom are LETT for
the woman.-Rev. Hosea Ballou.
According to the Florence Vedetta the
Prince of Monaco, in a recent conference
with President Grevy and NJ de Freycinet,
said he had determined, if France joined in
the attempt to suppress the Monte Cairo
Casino to sell his principality to the United
States, whose Government, in his opinion,
would be only too glad to get seaport on
the Mediterranean.
Ruskin has given expression to the eopinion
that each child with other necessary knowl
edge should imperatively be taught, with
the best skill of teaching that the country
could produce, the following three things:
(A) The laws of health and the exercises en-
Joined by them; (bl habits of gentleness and
justice; and icy the calling by which he is TO
live. What q revolution would be effected
| in our practical social life were this to be
done.
The curious enterprise is being conducted
in New Jersey of grinding up worn out In
dia rubber overshoes to make what is called
stock This material is brought here in
barrels and is pressed by the manufacturers
into new India rubber goods A thin coat
ing of fresh rubber varnish makes them look
quite equal to articles of the best quality,
but they are said TO have outrageous
| lack of durability.
Queen Victoria is going TO make state
| visit to Epping Forest BY the exertions of
q few publIc-spirited men and the corpora
ton Of London, this beautiful tract of 5000
acres, within half an hour of the metropolis,
has been rescued from the filching and en-
| croaching landlords in its vicinage, and Sc
cured forever as a playground for the people
| OF London whose toiling East End popala-
| ton can reach it by rail in half an hour for
few cents. 1t is full of green glades and
| fine timber.
Lawyer Goodhue is of high standing and
| considerable property in Montreal. He
went on tour of Europe a few months
| ago. Then he returned on a mission from
| the Bishop of Tourney, in Belgium, to re-
| cover $289, 600 in bonds that had been stolen
| from the prelate and brought to America
| He traced the thief to Chicago, secured the
| property, and sailed again for Europe. The
| news has now reached Montreal that he is
under arrest in Brussels on charge of mis-
| appropriating the bonds, but no particulars
are given.
| How to prevent the adulteration of food
is engrossing the attention of the MaSSachu-
setts Legislature: A Committee has re-
| ported long bill designed to preserve the
purity of both food and drugs, giving a
broad definition to the term adulteration,
| and putting ample powers into the hands OF
the State Board of Health. That body is to
make all necessary inquiries, fix the limits
| of permissible variation from the stand
ard, and establish regulations for examining
articles, in order to determine their quality.
| Twenty-four young women of Nevada
City, CAL, mocking the military boys of the
place, organized a broom brigade. Their
| uniform consisted of muslin gowns trimmed
with red calico, jaunty jackets of similar
fabrics and blue caps. Each carried an or
dinary broom, made fantastic with bits of
| red ribbon. The drill is described as de-
lightfully entertaining. On the 18th inst.
one of their number was married, and the
broom brigade escorted the bride from her
fathers house to the railway station, the
BRIDES broom. trimmed in mourning goods,
being carried reversed at the head of the
procession.