The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-01

at cost of nearly a hundred dollars, When
that child grows up and becomes a corpse his
fathers money will have vanished long before,
and he may consider himself lucky to get half as
good layout as the pet black-snd-tan.
AARON GoLDsTEIN, "a veteran who fought
with Napoleon at Waterloo" died at Paterson,
N j., on Thursday. On an average, there are
428 deaths annually among the Waterloo vet
Grams in the United States. Rpt the old guard
dies, but never dimnshes. 1t is a curious fact
| in this connection that while it is an exception
to find an American city without one or more OF
the frat Napoleons soldiers, :here was but one
among the 1900 veterans in the Hotel des In
valides at Paris In $50.
MRS BAYLEss, of Ceburne, Tex, has been ex-
communicated from the Adventist Church on
account o; an unpleasant habit she had of going
into frances, and while in that condition telling
of the naughty things her fellow church MEM
bers had been doing. Nothing could be better
calculated to break up church than such dis
closures, and self-preservation, as we'll as the
prosperity of the society, required that the Sis
ter be cut off in the midst of her talkativeness.
| THE "faith-cure" craze is having its inevitable
result in the appearance of numerous doctors of
that school of medicine in various parts of the
country. Boston paper reports that school is
talked of In of the suburbs of that city,
| where young ladies' can be educated in the mys-
| teries of the new system Christian churches
inculcate faith, more less successfully, but
these doctors seem TO require different variety
Of the article.
| MoNsIGNOR CAPEL says in his lecture on nuns
| that of his three sisters, one who was married,
one who died young, and the third, a nun.
the latter takes the palm for that joy and peace
which is in store for US, and foretaste of which
| s given some of us in this life AS the MOnsig-
nor has never been wife, much less an angel,
it may, with all due respect, be safely asserted
that he is not qualified a witness in this mat
| ter.
TWO years ago the city solicitor of Reading,
Pa, had his $3.50 watch stolen from him in a
crowd, and on Wednesday found the timepiece
| lying on his desk. The owner charitaby believes
that the thief merely stole it ''to make loan to
| bridge over a temporary financial difficulty
That is what watches are usually stolen for, but
this is the first bridge of the kind on record
which the taker ever got across.
WILLIAM HICKMAN, chief of the Danites under
Brigham Young, died on the Goth ult. In 1872,
| Hickman-then under arrest for completely in
the murder of man named Sprague-contessed
to George G. Bates, United States District Attor
uey for Utah, that he was guilty of murder not
only in the case of sprague, but that he mad muir
dered nineteen other men!
| E. A. FREEMAN is described as Outlying
dyspeptic, vituperative, grabbed, harsh, sour,
| effeminately hysterical and conceitedly envious
! of Mr.. Froude" This elegant biography was
written by Edmund Yates, which will naturally
lead the average reader to imagine that Ed
mund received his education a Missouri
weekly.
E. BAKER, Boston engineer, claims to have
invented an eignteen-foor wheel, on the pro
peler principle, by which he proposes TO utilize
| the curl ent of Niagara river. He says 1t will
produce power equal to 100000 horses The
undertaking will require $25O,000. The idea
| has been very favoraby received.
| AMAN was elected from Baptist church In
| Pittsted, Mass, the other day, for playing on a
harmonica 81 want to be an angel" When
such wish is regarded incendiary in a
| church it is time for the President TO come home
and look after the Country before it goes to the
bow-wows.
| THE Boston Herald is responsible for the
| statement that God cannot be cheated by trade
dollars, and that if man wishes to pnt eighty
five cents in the con tribution-bOx in that shape
| it is his privilege, matter what the deacons
| who try TO collect face value on the coins, may
| think.
THE New York Times understands that Mr..
| Shapiro, the discoverer of the new Deuteronomy.
| has purchased piece of Egyptian granite, a
! pot of paint, and book of hieroglyphics, with
the view of discovering the original letters writ
| ten by Mrs. Potiphar to Joseph.
| AND now Ouida tn reatens to 'use the law
against all the American newspapers which
have criticised, or, she harshly terms 1t, have
vilitied her. II Ouida thought she would take
| it to heart so Ouida never, never mentioned her.
| SWITZERLAND is crowded with tourists this
season. Chamois are numerous also. but, owing
| to the unusual amount of snow and ice, sports
men find difficulty in hunting them. Hunters
cannot climb where the channels kin.
| ENTIRE suits are advertised for sale in Indi-
annapolis for 81 With mackerel at five cents
each and water free, there is no excuse for any
| one going naked or hungry.
BREAKFAST CHAT
| MISS MAUDE HOWE denies that she is the au-
thor of "a Newport Aqusrelle."
THE census shows the odd fact that the MAORI.
| ty of peoples ages are at even numbers.
MRS. BONANZA MACKEY Is supposed to be the
| American lady who appeared at recent Paris
ball in costume OF white kid fitting like glove.
| ONE of the most horrifying bits of news that
! has come from Newport this season is shat at a
| dinner party there last week fashionable lady