The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-22
FOLLY SHOTS.

THE red polka-dot collar is said to be raging
among the New York cergymen, and an era of
crushed strawberry SUPPLIES is apprehended.
WILL. CARLETON has written a poem on mort
gage which strikes the general public as a most
superfuous performance. mortgage is itself
the soul of poetry, for it is always owed. fright
of translation reserved)
| MoNsIGNoR CAPEL with a vcnity which out
shines the only Oscar, claims to be able to con.
vert any woman to Catholicism in three CONVEX
satiOns. 1t is suspected that this is sly way
his Emnenee has of inauguratIng protracted
meetings.
] EASTERN men Of business do not sink the shop
even amid the social whirl AT the recent Have
meyer ball at Newport, most of the dishes
were served on white-sugar pedestals, carved
from huge loaves Of sugar at Mr.. Havemeyer's
refinery in Brooklyn.
| LONDON papers advertise domestic Felicity
Insurance Company" If the English have re-
ally invented some scheme by which domestic
felicity can be insured for any desirable length of
time the American fever for English institutions
has at least found an excuse for being
| UNCLE REMUs is philosopher who is posted
on the nowness of the is, If he does not know all
'De wlmmen, dey does de taIkn' en- de flynn,
| en- de mems, dey does de walkin' and de pryin',
en- betwixt an betweenst um dey amt much dat
| don't come out"
| THE theory that a natural antagonism exists
! between the French nation and water has re-
ceived confirmation strong proofs of holy
! writ in the death of Mile. Petit, French ac-
tress, who persisted from being nightly showered
with cold soapsuds in "LAssomoir." She passed
away purified martyr to the realistic drama.
| MISS PHOEBE CoUZINss successful encounter
with the Minnesota Cyclone has been, by the I'M
rejecting. attributed to her suffrage-shrieking
! abilities To those who remember that Phoebe
! Couzins is also a lawyer, the victory wears an
other aspect. A cyclone or a suffrage orator oc-
casionaly gets out of wind. but a lawyer
| never!
! WOMEN are pronounced l-adapted to many
branches of business because they are deficient
! in "staying qualities" This is fault which
should be laid at the door where it belongs. The
! reason woman does not stay in business circles
! longer is because some rasoally man comes
| along and begs her, in melting tones, to become
mistress Of his heart, home, and dishpar. Very
| few women have ever married without invita-
ton.
THEY have ways of doing things in Boston
which the ntutored western mind cannot un-
derstand much less initiate. recent Boston
Gazette, among other local happenings, enron
icles the mysterious performance of "John
| Crowley, an inmate of the Old Mans Home,
aged seventy, who was thrown from Il horse he
was leading" What John might have accom-
! plished If he had been young man the mind
dare not attempt to imagine.
A NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW of recent date
devotes ten twelve pages to Matilda JOsyn
! Cages views on."womaI as an inventor" The
| inven tive genius OF woman is no fable to those
who know the ingenious to which "the sex"
have been seen to put that simple article. the
! Dair-pin. In the hands of talented woman it
acts in the manifold capacity of shOe-buttoner,
| gove-buttoner, nut-plck, hair crimper, cork
screw. shawl-9n, hat-pin, paper-cntter, book
mark. boquetholder and many oUher things too
numerous TO mention. A man can never hang a
picture without long yellow stepladder, but