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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

Two students in Pennsylvania college quar-
relied the other day. One challenged the other
to fight duel. The challenge was accepted,
and bare fists chosen weapons, much to the
disgust of the challenger, who preferred fire.
arms. The duel was fought after the most scien-
titic rules, and in manner TO have delighted a
Boston audience. After several rounds, the
challenger had black eye, bloody nose, and
was unable to come to time, the other was
declared victor Whether wounded honor was
healed by this plepeian method or constituting the
code may be doubted, and the matter should at
once be looked into.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

the purpose of the trainers of the
constitution was, and that the prohibition
was against the Legislature and the Govern
prerogative" of the Governor, to be waived at
his pleasure. A fine state of affairs it would
be if the Governor could waive his preroga-
tive in favor of bill in which his friend
Jones was interested, but assert it against
measure advocated by Smith, whom he dis
liked. That is not the sort of "a personal
prerogative" established for the Governor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

FRANCIS MURPHY the noted blue-rbbon
apostle and leader of the Murphyites in this
country, and who has been lost sight of for
some time, seems to have been busy in the
there has gone on apace until the Queen has
said, well done" Millions of the people
have signed the pledge, and so great has been
the reduction in the consumption of intoxi-
cants that the revenue therefrom has fallen
off f2500,O0O, or about So, 900. Mr..
Murphy coniemplates an early return, and
will probably soon be heard urging forM ard
the tagging lines in this country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04
The Doctors Bills of Chicago.

stumbled this week upon some figures
sidered that so many people and so much
money are required to relieve pain and to
make the attempt to save life in great city
like Chicago. find that there are ], 300 reg
ular physicians in this city, 400 drug stores,
200 professional nurses and $50 surgeons. 1t
is but fair estimate, l am told, that each
one of these persons receives, on an average.
for his services or profits on his business,
$1,000 annually. 1t will be seen from this
that this class of attendance and service
alone costs every year in Chicago the enor-
nous sum of ST., 800 900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

THERE is nothing discouraging in the re-
suits of the municipal elections AS a rule
they were fought upon local issues and
outside of anything like party lines The
election of Democratic mayor in Cleveland
was brought about because of an unwse and
unpopular nomination made by the Repub-
licans. The candidate was bitterly opposed
by the Cleveland Leader and large portion
of his own party. The results generally en-
phasize the fact that the people are doing
their own thinking, and voting for what is to
their best interests. With that feeling in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

IT is said that of the ass men who have
participated in the annual boat races be-
tween oxford and Cambridge between 1929
and 1881, five became bishops, 16S clergy
men, seventy-ive lawyers three eminent
jurists, one head master of Eton, one pres-
dent of the Royal Society, and NJ. Wadding-
ton ex-Premer of France. This is very
creditable showing, butt will please be noted
honor of becoming journalist.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

THE Rev. Dr. Parker, of the Sixty-first
Street Methodist Episcopal Church. New
York, has resigned to enter the Episcopalan
church, giving as his reason that the itineracy
does not please him. He says that in three
years he comes to love congregation so
much that the pain caused by giving them
up is so great that he prefers to sever his
connection with the church which requires q
change every three years,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

In answer to the following inquiry-from lions
Vile
Did law pass the last Legislature abolishing
the corporation school trustees, placing their
duties in the hands of the corporation trustees2
II so when does 1t go into effectl
"member of the Legislature" answers as fol
lows:
ave refer you to House bill No 247, "a bill for
an act for the incorporation of towns, defining
their powers. providing for the elsction of the
officers thereof, declaring their duties, repeating
all laws in conflict herewith, and declaring an
emergency Sec. 81 provides that such board of
town trustees SHALL ex-otiicio, be the board of
school trustees for said town, and the president
and treasurer of said board of town trustees
shall be the president and the treasurer, respect
lively, of said board of school trustees, and the
other member of said board of town trustees
shall be the secretary of said school board, and
the bonds given by said town trustees, respect
lively, as required by this act, shall be 10 sums
sufficient to cover their liability such school
trustees"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

full and healthy operation there is little
danger of a national triumph of the present
Democratic party. 1t is the Republican
party which most quickly responds to the
public conscience, and so long as it does it
will be kept In power when its national SUI
premacy is involved. The lesson for Repub-
licans, taught all the time, is, that the party
must be for the people and then it will be
the party of the people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04
property.

THERE are seven men in the City Council
who voted against the passage Of an ordi-
nance embodying provisions which the presi-
dent of the Street Railway Company stated
would be readily accepted by him. Will
who they represented by their votes? Why
did they vote against that ordinance?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

1T may be prudish, but admiration is compelled
by Mrs. F. A. Cover, nee Norton, who has
Gently been quite popular as prirna donna at the
Paris Grand Opera-house She has just forfeited
superb situation principle, her objection
being that she did not wish to be Rugged and
kissed in too realistic manner on the stage,
and by another man than her husband. She was
willing that the ''make believe should be gone
through with, but that the tenor should actu-
ally kiss her and bear down hard, and that he
should hug as only a husband should she would
not submit to. This offended the audience; and
Mr.. Gounod, in whose Faust" she was singing,
insisted that the oscillations and embraces
should be genuine, or that she give way to one
less scrupulous. She chose the latter, and her
husband is the happiest man In Paris She must
be worth kissing, or the tenor would not insist
on performing the service, and if she is pretty
and sweet, it is altogether probable that Mr..
Cover would prefer to attend to that pleasing
duty in person and in private He is to be con-
graduated over the possession of his true-heart-
ed Yankee wife.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

AT the funeral of young man in Washington,
on Sunday, the minister in mis- sermon took COCA
sion TO denounce secret societies, AS the funeral
was being conducted by three secret societies, of
whom the deceased was msmber, these re-
marks created so much ofiense That the reverend
gentleman was asked TO stand aside. Another
minister was called In to otficiate, and the SER
vices were concluded with no further trouble
The societies evidently forgot that it was April
fool dav
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

shrewd was she in escaping detection that
capture. Her success was doubtless due to
her marvellous personal influence, and it is
by no means certain that the same influence
will not now serve her to such good purpose
that she may escape from the clutches of the
eYer-vigilant Russian bear.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

LIE lnVeSIlSaIlOn OF Ine management OF
the Massachusetts, State Almshouse has re-
vealed shocking barbarities, well calculated
to provoke the question whether similar
outrages are not perpetrated elsewhere in
such institutions. 1t is humiliating char
acteristic of humanity in general that man.
kind is quick to forget the sufferings of the
poor. Through their representatives
the people tax themselves to build
houses for those unable to take care of them
| selves, to furnish them with the necessities,
if not the comforts of life. 1t then remains
institutions. The principle that actuates
this noble charity is all right, but that great
abuse is practiced under it there
can be no doubt. This, of course,
to dispense the charity. Herein lies the
great trouble. Superintendent of aims
houses are too often appointed on account
of political rather than personal qualifca-
tions. A man does certain work for the
party, is a wireworker in one of the wards,
or sets up pins in caucuses and he at
once establishes claim on the party that
can be satisfied only by the gift OF some Of
flee, which he makes sinecure, or worse.
The management of a hospital, an asylum,
or any institution established for the care of
the unfortunate or helpless, demands some
thing more than mere brute force or me-
chanical attention. He who would meet all
the requirements must be possessed of pa
tience, intelligence and a proper apprecia-
ton of his position. These qualities are
almost as much in need at
an almshouse as in blind
asylum or hospital for the insane. Pow
erty long continued is almost as much
disease as is any physical disorder. The en-
ergies Frustrated by deprivation and lack of
proper sustenance, the entire system becomes
! abnormelly sensitive to disease, and fret
full unrest drives away the virtue of patience.
To deal with such people requires tact and
forbearance. The fact that they are the re-
cipients of public charity ought not to work
to their prejudice. The scheme has been
devised as the result of experiment. and as
the best means of relieving ever-present dis
tress 1t is not for superntendents to pass
on the wisdom of the thing, nor to visit per-
sonal spite on the inmates of charity
institutions 1t is theirs simply to
administer the means. provided The
almost inevitable result of APP
pointing a ward partisan superintendent
of an almhouse is 10 put over it an unsym-
pathetic, brutalzed bully, whose instincts
are so low that he fails to appreciate the
purpose of such an institution or to compre-
bend the distress he must always encounter
there. The reason why more abuses are
are not unearthed is that so few investiga-
tons are made, ard when made are always
prepared for, and only too often the testi-
mony of the wretched inmates is wholly dis
credited if unfavorable to the officials in
charge. 1t is not unfrequent, too, that such
testimony is valueless because "doctored'
by those in charge, who by threats which
they have the means of enforcing compel in
mates to tell favorable stories.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

IT is fully time indianapolis was entirely
out of its swadding clothes. 1t wants no
street railway or any other kind of railway
monopoly, and its Board of Trade should be
located near the focal point of business and
not on the outskirts of the city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

HELLRoARING creek is the euphonious name
of the noisiest tributary of the Upper Vel
lowstone. Its location is within the boun-
daries of the National Park, and it tumbles
from rocky declivities into the river above
the Third canyon
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

The Salvation Army In England has estab
lished religious savings banks and promises II
high rate of interest. II might be thought that
none would be found SO foolish to deposit
money there till one remembers the trust com
panes and the Isabella mines which beguile
both the cody and the ungodly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

Mr. W. W, THORNTON, ex-deputy Attorney
general, in letter to the Journal published
elsewhere, effectually demolshes the claim
that the constitution means nothing when it
says that no bill shall be presented to the Gov
Mr.. Thornton shows by the proceedings
in the constitutional convention what
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

HAS the Sentinel read the opinion of
Judge Taylor upon the proposition that a bill
can be made into law on the sixty-frst day
of a legislative session? 1t will find it
mighty interesting reading in its present
feeble state of mind
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

THE Dayton Journal says it "knows that
ex-President Hayes would not accept a NOM
nation for Governor under any circum-
stances." Now, does the Journal know of
to be nominated?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04
Democratic Opinion of Carter.

New York World.
Though Mr.. Harrison is a Democrat, we do
not regard him as by any means faultless
candidate, and unless the whole newspaper
press of Chicago has for some years past been
making common cause to discredit the city,
his administration has been characterized BY
a vast deal of crime and disorder.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

The celebrated Jumel estate case has been
practically settled, after a half century of
litigation. By an arrangement between the
disputants, Mrs. Eliza Jumel Cary, who,
with her husband and father, occupies the
Jumel mansion at Washington Heights will
be continued in peaceable possession of the
lnronertY
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04
An Attack Upon Gas.
New York Special.

4NcW
Clafin, Arnold, Constable & Co., and many
other merchants have combined against the
gas companies to get legislative assistance
against swindling bills and bringing down
the rate from 50 % a thousand feet to ST. 80.
The price in London is only IS cents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

THE last OF the British troops in Canada
the Dominion and the United States, the
former that she can take care of herself, and
that the latter will let her alone
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1883.

WILL the Sentinel name any law passed on
the sixty-first day of a legislative session,
and signed by Governor Morton or Governor
Baker? Name the law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

THE strikers in the Virginia tobacco manufac-
tories have introduced new feature in their
mode of warfare. Instead of indulging in riots
and violent threats they engage in prayer-meet-
ings and petition an overruling providence to
soften the hearts aud open the purses OF their
employers,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04
Another Legislature Adjourned.

st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
With the adjournment of the Legislature
we feel like repeating the beautiful tribute
which John A, Logan inscribed in the auto
graph album of Senator Tabor:
Fare thee WE'LL and if forever,
Good enouPhin
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

EVERYBODY knows that the great department
buildings at Washington very vast in ex
tent, but few have anything like an adequate
conception Of their real SIZE Take, for instance,
the National Museum. A glance 1T it's equip
ment will suffice to give some conception of it's
extent. Twenty-six telephones in the building
are connected by telephone exchange in a room
near the main entrance, and this local exchange
is connected with the main telephone office of
the city, so that each employe can talk with
every other employe and also with every tele-
phone subscriber IL the city. Owing to this
telephone service only three messengers are
used Electricity supplies the light which is
used In the Photographic laboratory, so
that the work does not depend upon
a tickle sun. If one of the $50 win
dows or one of the 230 doors is opened,
u bell rings, and electric annunciator shows
to the attendants in the main office just which
window or door has been touched. This system
is TO be extended to each of the many cases in
which specimens are exhibited, that the at
tendant in the main office will know when one
of these is disturbed. The watchmen on duty in
the night are governed by electricity. There are
stations which each Waterman must visit every
hour, and he must by slight motion release an
electric current which pierces paper dial and
records the hour and minute of his visit. The
time of day is shown by the action of an electric
current upon the hour and minute hands of six
teen cock-dials distributed through the building.
The parts of the museum open to the public are
Illuminated by electric light. The Currents used
in the building are conveyed by $4,000 feet of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journai
Is j. r. Mclean editor Cincinnati Enquirer7 Is
ne Republican or Democrat A READER,
BLAIR, Ind.
Demoerat
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04
1t Ought to Have Been Her.

Louisville Courier-Journal.
Vermont hanged lady last week. 1t is
supposed to have been one of those ladies
cupy both crossings on a muddy day, and
forces everybody else to step out into the
filth.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04
The ..Best Elementn on Hand.

Washington Post (Dem)
When there is an important Office to-
filled it is noticeable that 'the best elemen
has as keen scent and as sharp an appeti
as the hungry stalwarts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04
Piety But No Boom.
Philadelphia Press.


Governor Pattison isn't having as much
gymnastc exercise as his fellow tidal-wave
Governors, but his administration is great
deal more pious than theirs. And after all
it's piety that counts with the Democratic
masses.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04
Has All the Requirements.

Louisville Courier-Journal
For studying the new arrears law" Wi l..
liam NJ. Evars charges the city of Brookly'
81, 600 Mr.. Evarts will doubtless be adde
to the star-route prosecution at once.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

THE Maryland oyster is about to take his sum.
mer vacation. The season for taking them from
the waters of that State closes on the 10th inst,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

OF course it would not 10 to say that any of
the costumes worn by ladies at the great Van
derbllt ball were anything but quite proper,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

HALLS JOURNAL OF HEALTH protests against
the use of hot drinks, and says the little finger
should be inserted into tea and coffee to If it
is OF the proper lukewarmness. Whether your
own finger is meant, or that of some other fel-
low is not stated, nor the reason given for
preferring the little finger such occasions. If
there is any virtue in the little finger over the
thumb which the hygenic waiter commonly in
serts in soup and other beverages, it should be
made public.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

A YOUNG woman teaching apubic school in
Pennsylvania found the schoolnouse filled with
tramps the other morning when she went early
to build the fire. Section hands were working
on a railroad few rods off, and to them she ap-
pealed for protection. They responded gallantly,
and the school-maam from the seclusion of a
safe fence-corner, witnessed pitched battle
waged on her account. The tramps were finally
put to high and the young lady put in trium-
phant possession of the schoOlroom. She will
bear witness that the age of chivalry is not past
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-04

but it is said that one of the servants ran and
got the bath ready upon seeing one of the ladies
who was made up as a nymph.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-06-09
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

OLE Ireland +asoS Hg2e He.
There is an Island in the sea--ita name Iced
not be spoken,
For men and women everywhere lnay know
il BY this token:
II Ia q land thai wheresoe'er nef wand, ring
sons address her,
Brings from the bottom Of their hearts sais
1and appesl-tiOd bless her
IT'S where the stately Shannon flows besi0e
a low thFtthed cot age.
Where first I saw the light Of day and ate Of
poortith' 8 pOttege;
And By tie spot my mother sleeps tha sleep
TO virtue given,
Beneath St. PatFitk's symbol Of the Biaseed
Three In heaYen.
lis there the Kerry hills hang ole he waters
of Tough Leane
Aud seq themselves against the skv r acc. ed
Where, looking into X a4leens eyes wnen
We were forced 70 part.
l cav myself TRANSPORTED iIztna uaaTGn OF
her heart
- theFc the bounfeous Cove Of Cork ex-
paILds iuLO Lac ocean
" beFe parting wi l. the Bless { lie. ] w"pt
with wild emotion
Ny 'rembhng lips with e9vy pie a ms Old
braganp' bliss
tFer shoald give the ga.7ed 7otl u-y tayt, my
farewell L.os
Is tyerc be ..airaat ger IS u ea.eh rv
fancy iaHdI- n.inl.
! 0" land love nc, HID, be I-..nd o. lie
sam:
May heavens IigntnInc hla7 Inc aru o INN
paa would opple..5 nrr
MAY uraveD's sunbursj cheer jbp hear IF
LIl} thai pra, tod bless her
san Eraus' 20 ABui.ur
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-06-09

Eu0sertbf for Il, naGkf1aa youT remittance bg
cheek OF dTan, Or postal HSoBsg soTLisT, or by
TsgistsrsC letter, at RISK Of oBloe For all g1T.
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NslD Orleans, LG.