The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-23
AN Atlanta humorist, who has also an eye

AN Atiuutd uuinOTist, WHO has ALSO an eye 10
the main chance, Ia practicing upon the weak
nesses of his kind in a reprehensible manner.
He caused to be inserted in the local papers an
advertisement addressed to the newly married,
which contained an offer to mail them, upon
receipt of fifty cents, and "seeure from
observation" a volume which no nowly
married couple should be without. This
attracted the eagle eye of II virtuOus
reporter, who proceeded to investigate
the matter in the interests of morality. In
stead of sending his fifty cents through the
postOfice, lie hunted up the advertising philan-
thropist and wanted to buy one Of the books.
They were only sent by mail, he was informed;
SO he went home and waited. In two or three
days a neatly-wrapped package came to the re-
porter's address, ana he went up TO his room,
locked the door and slyly opened it. 1t was a
neat little volume. bound In black and with
red edges. Upon the title-page was the follow
ing:
"The New Testament of the Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ, translated out of the original Greek,
and with the former TRANSACTIONS diligently com
pared and revised. New York American Bible
Society"
The reporter Investigated. He thought some
thing else might be concealed between the COW
ers; but no. His perfect familiarity with the
Scriptures showed him at once that this was a
genuine copy of the revised edition and moth
ing else. He unlocked his door and went
thOughtfully out. On a subsequent interview
with the publishers of the paper in which the
advertisement appeared, that gentleman stated
that he had demanded to see the book referred
to and was shown a copy of Luther Benson's
"Fifteen Years in He'll" No harm seems to be
done to the interests of morality, and the in
genious advertiser makes a profit of forty-fve
cents per Testament.
TnE strongest man at Granite Corners, n. Y,
is stearns Carpenter, who Is now eighty years
old. Five years ago he grasped a twenty-four
foot iron rail with each hand and walked off
with them. At an earlier period he shouldered
a cannon that weighed 1,400 pounds, and the
next day lifted a box OF iron that weighed 1000.
He used to go around where the neighbors were
killing hogs, and when a particularly big one
was slaughtered he had a habit of twisting his
fingers into its bris,les, lifting the animal off the
ground and guessing at its weight.
THE citizens of New Orleans are erecting a hand
some marble monument, modelled after that of the
Empress Josephine. which is to be surmounted
by a life-size statue of Margaret Haughery.
1t is claimed that this is the first portrait statue
of u woman ever set upon a public monument in
this country, all the other female figures done in
marble being allegorical characters or angelo.
Margaret Haughery kept a bakery during her
lifetime, and a good one. which circumstance
goes 10 show what sort of woman seems TO the
mind fit to sit with the angels.
A NEW YORK critic claims to have discovered
the fact that Mary Anderson is in love, or has
been In love, which is the same thing, because
her acting is more impassloned than formerly.
He probably holds to the old theory that no ac-
tress or singer can touch the hearts of her
hearers until her own heart has been broken.
According to this theory, then, If Mary's young
man has her theatrical welfare at heart he will
proceed at once to declare that he looks upon
her only as a friend.
A MASSACHUSETTS, farmer is under the con-
domination of his neighbors because he has
driven his daughter to insanity with overwork.
The neighbors saw the mans wife die from the
same cause, and waited until the daughter went
crazy before they awoke to the fact that ''some-
thing Ought to be done about It," They could
not send the father to Jail, but they could send
the girl to the insane asylum, which they did,
and are happy at having done their duty.
SOME very singular marital troubles crop out
In Philadelphia. A wife having complained to a
magistrate that her husband only allowed her
one dollar a week for family expenses, and had
amused himself by knocking her teeth out, that
injured innocent defended himself by Declaring
that she had never had any teeth, ana that she
worried him so that he had been sent to a hos
pital for 'fdisiocation of the brain"
THE poet in the Atlantic Monthly who in
quires so anxiOusly 3D..
"Wherc goes'J thou, keen soul OF heat,
So bright, So light. so fieet2"
fc rnsnaotfultv {nROrnNad that tho .oliaat Of bts
search has not been noticed in this latitude since
Saturday.
THREE women on the American stage, Patti,
Nilsson aud Langtry, are said to be making more
money than any ten men in the profession. Un-
happy actors who cannot sing soprano nor play
'RosaliuG" are consumed with envy.
A RUSSIAN nobleiuan is driving a smallpox
wagon in Chicago; a titled Englishman is hostler
in u Maiue livery-staole. Instances like these
SHOW what INDUCEMENTS America can offer to