Daily globe., 1882-07-16
''roasted" in the pit of the rether world at
this moment, it is none of.their business.


"roasted" in the pit of the rether world at
this moment, it is none of.their business.
TIE sad recital of De Long, depicting the
fearful Glow starvation of himself and his
gallant band, ought to put damper on Arc
tic explorations. What good has resulted or
is likely to result from these perilous expedi-
tons? Nothing of practical use has been dis
covered, and, yet, how vast the expenditure OF
treasure and life has been encountered? The
expedition of the Jeanette was fool
hardy one, originated by James
Gordon Bennett, as matter of personal
vanity, and to advertise his New York Herald,
and. yet, our government gave it its counte-
nance and support. And it is even now pro-
posed that the government fit out additional
Arctic exploration armaments. It is time for
congress to interpose and put stop to the in
sane folly of lending countenance TO
these useless expenditures. There is
no hope of good from them,
in comparison with the loss of life and treas
ure. The Newark On. J.) Advertiser, in speak
ing of DE Longs fate, asks: "What has the
fro zen North ever given 10 the world that
would compensate for such lives as these
Life is never so sacred that it may not be offer
ed up for cause; but where is the cause here,
where the glory, where the crown that well
comes even death? There is no response that
comes to this from the frozen shores of
Siberia"
PERHAPS it is not very material how the
fash named ''Hoosier," became applied to the
people Of Indiana, but the Rev. DR.. Aaron
Wood, the Oldest Methodist in Indiana, deems
it of sufficient importance to explain the origin
of the term, which he thus accounts
for: "A learned foreigner by the name of
Leminouski, formerly a soldier under Ma
poleons during the years intervening between
1928 and 1880, lectured extensively on the wars
of Europe to the pioneers OF this state. In his
discourses the valor of the hussars was con-
spicuous, but his accent was not English, and
he pronounced that body Hoosiers. During
the excavation of the canal at the falls of the
Ohio through Kentucky, "a young man
grounds one day, fought and whipped three
Kentuckians. Highly elated at the conclu-
sion, amid torrent of backwoods profanity,
he exclaimed, Pm a Hoesier,' from Lemin-
ouski's pronunciation of hussar. From
that day to the present the term has b:en ap-
piled to all citizens of Indiana" The writer
hereof well remembers the Rev. Col.
Leminouski' who used to har-
rangue from various Christian pulpits
on the Sabbath giving thrilling mar
rations OF ''the wars OF Napoleon" He was
generally the hero of his own story, but most
unfortunately for the gallannt "Rev. Colonel"
his veracity came to be questioned, and he
was generally voted frand, and "the truth
of history" as it came from his lips was not
much regarded.
THERE is sort Of summer madness preva-
lent nowadays, solstitial rabies that sezes
upon fashionable people, saints and sinners,
that causes them to rush away from
comfortable homes and all their enjoyments, to
join in the follies of fast and frivolous society
The excuse, the paramount alleged considera-
tion is rest, recreation, recuperation from o
long winters iaborious confinement to exact
ing duties. The comforts and safety
Of home are exchanged for the
discomforts and perils of travel-for life in
tents at the lake side or watering place cot
tages, or circumscribed apartments in hotels;
for the damps and chills of rainy weather; for
the execrable cuisine of high style, high
priced French cookery; for the giddy dances
in late hours; all of which bring an
amount of misery and disgust, never known
at home, and which would not be endured
were it not fashionable. The perils of land
and water travel; the crammed, jammed, and
seethipg railroad car with its uuwholesome
perspiring crowd Of humanity, with the ther-
mometer in the nineties; the steamboat with its
human freight seeking pleasure, but finding
none, bounding on the high and restless
waves, producing rocking, retching, sea-sick-
ness, the too frequent horrors of explosions
and collisions, go to make up bill of fare to
which fashionable tourists are invited
And when the season is over the
pleassure-seeker returns from sum-
mer travel and ssjourn, unrefreshed and
tagged out, languid and weary, only too glad
to gain, once more, the restful and refreshing
comforts of home and home-life. But they
have enjoyed hilarious blow out, high-toned
society-life, the giddy round of watering
place pleasures and follies; spent ''heaps of
money" aud in two many instances
have only WEAKNESS and disgust to show for
all these, unless it may be the reputation of
"fcreign travel" or "high life at the
springs" at the ''watering places" or the
''lake Sides
A Shooting Match at white Bear.
The Centeryille and White Bear shooting