The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-10
THE MONDAY MAUNDERER

The Indianapolis Light Infantry went out to
the Scheutzen Park yesterday afternoon, where
the entire company and drum corps had their
photographs taken in a group, in fatigue dress.
The drill team were also photographed in u
separate picture III full uniform.
The Lyra Singing Society is preparing to put a
long feather in its cap. Governor Porter and
Hon. Joseph E. Mcdonald have applied for MEM
bershlp, and VIII be voted for in a few days, The
society numbers 304 members, and President
kasch1g Is negotiating with the owners OF the
building TO have the hall extended To Il depth of
100 feet.
Alexander Heron. Secretary of the State Board
of Agriculture, has had better success than that
young agrlcuiturist (wrltten of by Mark TwaiD)
who broke his heart trying to make the turnip a
climbing vine. Mr.. Heron has trained up a
potato plant by cutting off all but one stem OF
the top until that single stem is now nearly as
thick as ones wrist and rises to IA height OF nine
feet and five inches.
That variety of spiritual phenomena known as
the dark circle was being INDUCED in the other
evening. The communication from spirit land
came through a tin horn about four feet in
length. There We're two unDelievers present.
Every body in the circle was favored with a COM
Inunlcatlon: FINALLY one of the unDeilevers
The ghost that just spoke to me has been eating
onions"
The summer nights festival at Charles Mayors
beautiful grove on North Meridian street, on
Saturday night, was not as hilarious as it was
expected to have been. There were long lines
OF Chinese lanterns, there were q number of
flaming locomotive headlights, there were blaz.
ing rockets, fiery req roman candles and a band
oil music, but all failed To take the chill of, ana
the Jolllesb of jolly Germans were forced TO adj
init that a summer nights festival in overcoats
is not a success. And the beer went a-begging.
"That's Judge Fabius NJ. Finch" said an old
settler at the recent Broad Ripple meeting,
pointing out the Judge, who was certainly the
straightest and most whOlesOmelooklng old
man on the ground. "My father used to mold
him up to me nearly sixty years ago as a boy
who would come 10 no good end. 'Fabe doesn't
like to work. he would say, shaking his head;
he's TOO %shittless, always trapesing up ana down
the river with u bow and arrer in his hands
a-shOOtin' fish," But somehow "Fabe" has
managed to disappoint the prediction of the
pioneer.
indianapolis is better advertised than any
city Of double its population in the United
States. This is largely due to the national repu-
tation of a number of her organizations. The
M9nnerchor Society stands well to the front in
the national S4ugerbund. The Light Infantry,
by re tsOn of their recent achievement, probably
have no superiors in drill and rapidly of move
ment, and Raper Conmandery, which has re-
turned from San Francisco with the second
prize, has won a prize at each Knight Tempiar
cunclave held within the past niue years. AT one
time the city was noted for the excellence Of
The State benevolent institutions located here -
out not lately.
Letters" an old pOstotfice clerk informed the
Maunderer, care never lost, though sometimes
stolen. No one outside the office can have an
idea of the quantity of badly directed matter
that passes through the indianapolis office.
Here is a sample" and he handed it over for in
sUectiOn. II read. SJOhn Miller. JacksnnviilH-
Walls P. o." 'Now," he continued. There is no
Jacksonville in Indiana, and you might think it
ought TO go to Illinois. But there is IA Wallace
pOstOffice,' and we take it that walls is a pno-
netic spelling for it, aid will send the letter
there. Here is another that has been sent to
this office from New York. Everything for In
diana That can't he made out there is cent to In
dianaDolls," The direction on the letter, which
bore IA foreign postmark. read: mister SchOiem
Fremsel, Indesin, Indiana, America" The clerk
had interpreted "Indesin" 10 mean anderson"
and it will be sent there. All the large offices
now have as an ana in distributing faulty direct
ed letters the official street directory OF the
Principal Cities of the United States" This is
furnished by the government for use In perfect
ing the address Of such letters and parcels as
may reach an office although manitestly intend
ed for delivery elsewhere. Tue names of the
streets OF most frequent occurrence in the cities
of the United States are Main, Washington,
State, Franklin and Walnut.
81 can't believe there is anything in phreuol-
ogy," said a medical man the other day. 81
think the so-ca!led science has seen its best days.
1t is no longer profitable. We no more see the
professors travelling about the country feeling
bumps and selling charts at from 80 to $40 to
the credulous, as we did "a few years ago. II is
strange that so bunglingly contrived IA scheme
should have ever had among it's believers any
one of average intelligence. AS a science it Will
not bear even the most superficial investigation,
The attempt to sort out and arrange the various
faculties of the mind and locate their special
orzans in the brain, and then again locate them
on the skull of a living human being is about as
ineXact "a science as hunting for water with a
take INTO consideration THAT the skull is covered
vii h flesh and that there are = number of mus
Giles that have their attachments where some of
their most important organs are located. One
day | stepped into u side-snOw where the Man
with the iron jaw, | don't know his other name,
was lifting between 900 and 1000 pounds with
his teeth. | put my hand on the side OF his
head and asked him to close his jaws. The place
above the temples where The muscles attached
was rounded out as large as u hens egg, that is,
half of an egg cur lengthwlse, and spread all
over the organs of ailmentiveneSs and c%Onstrnc-
tiveness, and made considerable inrJad on his
acquisitiveuess | Thought of the Irishman
who, as "a phr, nolOgist feit the top of his head
and calculated his wonder over the Hibernian's
wonderfully developed organ of veneratiOn,
murmurrd: Filth, an it was Nike Mulcahy's
shiIlela that gave me that same bump"
PERSONAL.