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National Republican., 1883-10-19
CURRENT GOSSIP.

BALLADE OF THE DECLINING YEAR.
The butterfly has left the lea,
Where golden rods and astors blows
No more the little honey bee
Swings on the lily to and fro.
The leaflets now In scarlet glow,
And from the poets innermost
Reoesscs doth this songlo. flow:
There are no quail on last years toa
No robin carols in the tree,
The garden wears the weeds of woe,
And o'or the cornheld circles free
That pirate of tho air-the crow.
And now the happy schoolboysg
Chestnutting in merry host;
Sad is the hazy nitcrglow:
There are no quail on last years toast.
Upon tho lonely shore the sea
The livelong day is moaning low,
Where meath silken canopy
We once saw soft eyes sof er grow.
Where are they-NIaud, Louise, aud 10
We met upon the Jersey constr
Those days again wen never know
There are no quail on last years toast.
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BREAKFAST CHAT.

PRINCESS LOUISE and Lord Lorne carried home
a rare and beautiful collection of Canadian birds,
Including about 120 varieties
THE Marquis of Lorne has promised to read
papor on Canada and its Resources" Before the
Society of Arts in London on Dec. 10.
THE engagement of Congressman Perry Bel
mont to Miss Langdon has been terminated,
the New York Tribune says, by that young
lady.
FOR the benefit of the embarrassed readers, it
may be well to state that the author. Mr.. Cable,
pronounces the title of his first serial "The
"Grandis-seem, "and that of his story in the cur
rent Century CDR. Savere,"
AN old lady in Portland Me-, who was ac-
quainted with Ralph Waldo Emerson. and knew
him well in later life, says he was SO indolent
that she was not at all surprised when he gave
up preaching and went to live iniConcord simply
to think.
Miss MAUD ELY-GoDDARD, of the rich God
dards who live at Ely, VT, is the latest Ameri-
can miss to be caught by kingling. Her hus-
band is Prince Poniatowslci, aged forty or there
abouts, the wife being "tall, brown-eyed and very
handsome" and twenty-slx.
THE late Dr. Marion Sims left sparkling
sketch, which will appear in the February
Harper. 1t is entitled Lydia Mckay and Col
onel Tarleton," and describes one of the most
romantic episodes Of the Revolution, the rescue
of her imprisoned husband by the fair and clever
Lydia
DAUGHTER of one of the first eounterfeiters
of the green back, man who became famous in
his business, but finally suffered imprisonment,
is now the wife of a well-known Ohio millionaire.
When she was girl her father compelled her to
assist him In preparing notes. Sine is a good
wife and a cultured lady.
Gently on state occasion in an elegan: national
costume. "The skirt and cOrsage, full and flow
ing, were cream colored, with gold embroidery:
a gauze veil OF rosy tint enveloped her head
and neck, and, like a morning cloud, tioated
round her sweet and smiling eountenance, on
which at moments appeared a passing shade of
depressed sadness. Her deep-blue eyes, with
this background have an intense light. her deli
cately-cut lips have frank smile of welcome,
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and her figure, slightly leaning forward reminds
one of Sara Berunardt in the sweet and Doeticai
vision of ROland's daughter" The Queen writes
books and has a talent for painting and illumI
mating.
SoJOURNER TRUTH lived in the outskirts OF
Battle Creek, Mich, in plain story and-a half
house, set we'll back from the street. Two we'll
worn hitching-posts AMI numerous wheel tracks
at the side of the unpaved street showed that
she had many visitors. She was cared for In
her helpless age by her two daughters, Eliza
beth and Diana,
FANNIE B. WARD writes from Saltillo that at
whatever hour person dies in Me xicO, it Is GUS
tonary to appoint the funeral just twenty-four
hours later, and that as the mortality is greatest
all over the world at night, the most of the
funerel ceremonies in Mexico are performed at
night, no women being permitted to attend. Tho
poor hire the collins in which their dead are
borne to the grave
THE remains of DR., William Harvey, who is
credited with having discovered the circulation
of the blood have just been removed from the
vaut in which they have reposed for 200 years.
IN the church at Hampstead, Essex. They have
been placed In a marble sarcophagus in an ad
joining chapel built by the Harvey family. Tho
sareophagus provided by the College of
Physicians. DR.. Harvey appears to have been
a careless man in his business affairs. resi-
dent of New York Of the Doctors prominence
would have built his own mausoleum.
"a FRIEND of mine" says Labouchere in the
London Truth, 'who was recently in st. Peters
burg, and who had, when there, good opporiu.
nifty look behind the scenes, tells me that the
present emperor ia an obstinate, pig-headed fool
incredibly ignorant, and that unless he is pushed
forward by his encourage, he is not likely TO
trouble the peace Of the world by any grandiose
schemes of foreign conquest. will he.' asked
give his subjects some sort of constitution He
is too great fool, my friend replied he will con-
tinue to do one day what he did the previous
day."
AT West Point. once, General Sherman,
companed by the commandant of cadets, was
making an inspection tour of the barracks. He
wasn't looking for contrabaud goods, but while
in one of the rooms he got to talking about his
cadet days, and when was cadet" he said TO
the commandant, 1--WE hid things in the chimneys
do so STILL" lit was then in June) So saying,
he stepped to the fireplace and reached up the
chimney. Rafting down at his touch came
board followed by frying-pan, a bottle emp
tyl, and a suit OF citizens clothes The faces of
the cadets who occupied the room were a study.
But the General only laughed, and turning TO
tine commandant said: "This Is an exceptional
case, Colonel. No need of reporting these young
men"
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THE SOCIAL GRAVE-RORBER,

The ubiquitous employment of that "hon-
est tradesman," Mr. jeremiah Cruncher,
which was SO delicately and humorously
described by him as 'going a-fshing," has a
social correspondent quite as nefarious, even
if it does not necessitate digging ~ the
foul EARTH" and conveying the unpleasant
result down dale and up hill, over brush,
brake and briar to the nearest medical col
lege. The social body-snatcher is a wretch
whom it were almost base fattery to men
ton at all, and then only with the hope
that the publication of his misdeeds
may swiftly bring him to repentance, per-
chance to reformation. He plies his trade
not darkly at dead of night, but in the
open sunshine, around the evening lamp
and by the cheerful Preside. He carries no
pick nor ak, nor spade in token of his
wicked calling. He brings no accomplish
being to his own ends himself sufficient.
He wears not a rueful countenance but
enters with blithesome air, and cheerful
voice; the world takes him cordially by the
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Managers of theaters caunot and should not
be expected to make financial sacrifices for
the public welfare. They look at the matter
from business standpoint; but it certainly
seems that higher class of entertainments
would be equally profitable to them and far
more satisfactory to theater-goers Itrests
with the public to convince them Of the
truth of this fact Great actors are not pro-
duced at command more than great poets or
painters; but if the average player is made
to understand that more is expected of him
be will attempt to conform to the standard,
and in process of time there will at least be
fewer poor actors. AS it is now, the public
would be better satisfied if we could have
Jefferson Modieska, Booth, or Irving each
for week, at least, instead of the one Or two
nights, always the outside limit
The leading artists are not without blame
for the deterioration of the stage, and
this from the character of their plays
Camille" is not a play to which a father
should wish to take his son or daughter, nor
is 'Frou-Frou," nor Article A." nor "Fe-
dora" nor many others which could be men
toned. The greater the ability of the artist
who represents an Objectionable character
the greater effect it has, of course, for good
or i'll, In each of these cases the sinner
comes to grief, but it is grief so surrounded
by the accessories of wealth that vice is not
made odious prohigate woman in a
Worth costume is not beyond sympathy in
the minds of spectators, young or old
When the stage is what it should be we
shall have none of these. but instead drama
which, whether tragedy or comedy, shall be
true to nature and yet devoid of vulgarity
and corrupting influences.
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hand, and children prattle happily on his
knee. With his methods all are familiar,
as he makes no secret of them. You men,
ton man successful in business;
Yes" says this social resurrectonist, Il
know him we'll His father served term in
the penitentiary, and his mother washed for
a living" That was bad start; so you try
again, and speak of a man who has just
gained the judges bench. or some political
emlnence. Gracious" says the grave-rob-
Der, chow things do turn out That fell
lows father kept common grog-shop, and
he was raised in a back alley" Depressed
again, you hastily rush in another appar-
emily safe direction, and refer to a worthy
woman about to marry very rich
man. "Well" is the body-snatcher's
comment, Her husbands welcome to her.
She was dreadfully talked about when
she was girl" and so on, ad infinitum, ad
nauseam. Conversation with the social
grave-robber is like reading a sort of police
gazette, or other criminal calendar. His
memory is profane history of the past mis-
deeds or misfortunes of every one he ever
heard Of and he seems never so happy as
when waxing fluent in narrating such de-
tails. He can point you to every man in
town that sprang from humble, perhaps ig-
noble, sources, as well as to every woman
that ever rested in the shadow of sin,
whether hers by her own fault
or by inheritance His only joy
is to resurrect some corpse OF
crime or scandal which but for him
would rest in peace, and chuckle and laugh
as he losses the hideous thing in the air or
handles it on his knee. 1t is said to extenu-
ate the crimes of this grave-robber that sin
must follow the transgressor, for the Bible
says so. Even so; but we are also therein
taught the beauty of charity. How may
man win spotless heights if the corpses of
his sins and his ancestors sins are continu-
ally heaped up where he strives to
climb? How may woman ''wear
the white flower of a blameless life'' if
the world dooms her to live, like
Sisyphus pushing an eternally rolling stone
up an endless hillP Truth is good and beau
tiful, but superfuous truth is evil and ugly.
When such truth is carelessly or mali
from being silver; but discreet silence is in
such case, indeed golden, jewel-set and price
less,
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Atlanta Constitution.
Field Marshal Murat Halstead of the Gin
cinnati Commercial, is now playing bril-
liant engagement as the stormy petrol of
North American politics. AS he Skins
through the gray dawn of Democratic hope,
the humming of his wings is heard as far
north as Cleveland, o., and as far south as
Covington, KY.
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The Ranks Thinning.


chicago News.
1t is understood that when Miss Clara
Louise kellogg heard OF the death of So
journer Truth, aged 1OS, she threw up her
hands and Historically moaned, Holy
Moses! another one of us gone!'
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PEOPLE of Erie, Pa, who are going to die, are
in luck They can order their remains to be
crematec, as furnace is to be built in the vi
entity; they eau be preserved as natural as
life" by process invented by citizen Of the
place; or they can be buried in the old-fashioned
way. They "pays their money and takes their
ehOiceD
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waylay him and beseoch him to pay her for the
use oft. If the poor creature had taken
fancy TO anyone of Joseph Cooks bombastfc
connections of lore, her insanity would be es-
tabished hey ond question.
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Effect of the blanket Sheets.

PHILADELPHIA Record.
1t takes about day to read one of the
sixteen-page Chicago or st. Louis newspa pers.
and another twenty-four hours to get over
it. They are WEAKNESS to the spirit and
the flesh
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RICHARD TURNKEY, South Carolina youth, has
just finished years work on a tobacco farm,
the consideration being double-barreed shot
gun and the daughter OF his employer. When
the time was up he got the gun, but he failed to
secure the girl. Probably he was looked for
losing day.
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AT the International Arbitration Council
which met in Philadelphia this week, Professor
Hobbs, of Indiana. read paper, in which he
stated that Indications show the approach of
universal peace. Has friend Barnabas heard of
the False Prophet
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All Bosh.



The story that Frank James is dying of
consumption is all bosh. He could doubt
less rob a train, steal horse, or even shoot
an unarmed man in the back as readily as in
the old days. Put him at work in the peni-
Tertiary and he will soon show his strength.
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DURING the year ending with thanksgiving
there were granted in Chicago just 729 divorces
Had there been but one more. the average would
have been TWO daily, Sundays and holidays in
eluded. They have a nice time in Chicago
married folks do
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IT is a wise child who knows his own father.
saith the proverb. In China, however, they have
a satisfactory, II not certain, method for deter
mining the paternity, which would not seem to
require proverDial wisdom. basin or cup of
clean water is obtained; the supposed fathers
finger is cut, and then put into the water until
some blood trickes; then the child's finger is cut
and placed in the water, and if the blood of each
Immediately unites the proof is complete.
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THE Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, running
according to old time, declares that "the posi-
bility that Mr.. Jewell may not be eligible be-
cause he is a foreigner, does not detract from
the distinction that has been conferred upon
him
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IF Governor Butler wants a soft position, let
him join the army of authors who have written
"The Bread winners" There are many of
them that the work will be light Money no OBJ
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The Impression the Croakers Mako.

Milwaukee Sentinel.
indianapolis wants the national Republic
can convention to meet there. indianapolis
is an eating-house station on an Indiana
railroad
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TWELVE PAGES:
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places
L0NDON-American Exchaueein Europe, 449 Strand.
PARIS-American Exchange in Paris, s5 Boulevard
ues Capucnes.
NEW YORK-Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotels,
WASHINGTON. D. C.-Brentauo's l,0Ij Peunsylva-
MIA avenue,
CHICAGO-Palmer House.
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Third and jefferson streets
ST LoUIS-UnioD News Company, Union Depot
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IT may be humiliating to degree for Amer-
cans to reflect that the money necessary
for the erection of the Bartholdi pedestal must
be raised by divers ways, some of which are not
in exact accord with ideas of spontaneous pat
rotism A negative comfort may be found in
the fact that the money required to build the
colossal statue was raised in much the same
manner now proposed to secure the pedestal
funds. The French are responsive and patriotic
but it generally requires lottery in France to
fill out the gap in public subscriptions between
necessities and actual receipts subscribed.
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NEW YORK has crazy woman who, among
other vaearies, cherishes the hallueination that
Theodore Tilton had been delivering a lecture
written by and belonging to her She is said to
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Not Going to Ruin.

Now York Tribune.
This country is not going to ruin. Its
people have too much common sense.
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Chicago Inter Ocean.
All right. indianapolis is a good place to
hold q national convention.
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THE Vandersliee heirs met in Philadelphia on
Thursday and contributed $21 towards seeuring
a Holland estate of fifty millions. They will
probably realize a very small slice.
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THE saddest thought to Democracy now is that
but one-third OF its candidates for the speaker
ship can hope to be elected.
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THE affection borne by Washington people for

THE affection borne by Washington people for
their remote relatives and the expressions of
grief at their loss quite touching. Accord
ing to a correspondent several prominent fami-
lies are In "bereavement' this season, and on
that account will enter into no social festivities.
Among these thus afflicted is Justice Field,
whose wife has lost her sisters hus-
band, the Rev. Hornblower. Mrs. Field will
not receive this winter. Philadelphia paper
gives the sad intelligence that Mr.. Randall has,
this week, been called upon to mourn the death
of venerable aunt. The country extends its
sympathy to Mr. Randall, and sit so be" that he
should go into retirement, people will know
that lie is weeping for his aunt. 1t seems prob
able, however, that Mr.. Randall will keep open
house in spite of this crushing blow.
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IN the Brighton Beach races on Thanksgiving
day, the horse p. ID. @. came out second best.
he was not quite P. d. @ enough.
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EFT everybody, be he saint or siuner.

Who "filled up" on Thanksgiving,
Be thankful still, that after such a dinner,
He yet may find some poor excuse for living
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IMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING.

AK TGEATER-Boston Athenwum Speciality
Company.
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T i hI9-N mHTIoah IAOIaHse IN IaTIs' % DOuI7V17
Capucines
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-05-05
The Daily Bulletin.
False Perc ptios.

The simplest forms Of insanity Hre
those which consist merely Of false per-
ccpt0ns, and they are not OF such q
character a. 20 lessen the responsibility
of the individual There arr two forms
of false perceptions Illusions and hallu-
cinutions. Uncomplicaiod Illusions are
rare; still there is no doubt that there
are illusions not the results OF disease in
the organs of sen,e or circumstances UNI
favorable 10 exact perception but which
arc due 10 morbid condition Of the
perceptional ganglia. and the unreal
nature Of which is clearly recognized by
the individual.
Illusions Of sight often relate merely
to the size otobiects. Thus, n young
lady vino had oyertasked herself AT
school saw everything ofenormous size
a, which she looked. The head Of a
person seemed to be several feet in di.
ametcr, and little children looked like
giants. SO far as her own person was
concerned there were no illusions Her
own hands appeared Of the natural size,
but those of other people seemed to be
OF enormous proportions. Sauvages re-
fcrs to case in which a young woman.
suffering from epilepsy, bad the illusion
of seeing objects greatly magniiied. 4
fly seemed to her 10 be Us large as
chicken In the case which came under
my observation, the unreal character OF
the perception was fully recognized and
hence the intellect was not involved,
Morbid illusions of hearing. unaceom-
panied by other evidences OF mental de-
rangement, are not very common One
case only has come under my observa
ton. 1t was that Of gentleman &c
whom the ticking Of clock was resolv-
ed into articulate words. Generally the
expressions were in form of commands.
For instance, if at dinner they would
be, Eat your soup" Drink no winer'
and so on. One day he made the dis
covery that, If he closed the right ear
firmly. the illusion Disappeared but, il
the left ear were closed, the words were
still distinctly heard. 1t was hence
clear that the center for hearing on the
right side wa. the one affected, and that
that on the left side was normal. For
long time this gentleman resisted &C.
cepting any Of these illusions as facts,
but after time he began TO be influ-
enced by them TO the extent OF regard
ing them rs guides. Eventually he put
clocks in every room In his house. and
protested to be governed altogether BY
the directions they gave hm.-Dr. Vim.
A. Hammond, in Popular Science
lfonthly.
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Remember This.


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