The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-24

THE DAILY JOURNAL.
BY JNO. c. NEW & SON.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY "a, 1883.
A CINc1SNArG man proposes to eat four
quails a day for thirty days successfully.
There are thousands ready for such a job.
THE Toronto World is authority for the
statement that the British government has
decided to send out Lord Wolseley as Cover
nor-general of Canada and successor of the
Marquis of Lorne, How would it do to send
.Lorne to Egypt?
JOHN r. MCPHERsoN was yesterday elected
United States senator from New Jersey, Pres
ton B.. Plumb from Kansas, and John e.
Kenna from West Virginia. In Nebraska no
choice was made, but Hon. A. H. Conner re-
ceived twenty-five votes-next to the highest
of all the candidates.
TUE faculty of Vanderbilt University, Ten
nessee, has memorialized Congress for the
enactment of a law requiring that in future
no person but an experienced practical as
tronomer of well-established reputation shall
be appointed superintendent of the United
States Naval Observatory at Washington.
ANOTHER New York woman has distiu-
guished herself by capturing burglar. She
discovered two coming down stairs. One
rushed past her and escaped, but the other
was caught by her and held until assistance
came, when he was turned over to the police.
Other women will envy her. Men are not
caught every day.
A GIRL essayist at Little Rock, Ark, de-
clares that she was educated in a mixed
school, and "never saw a colored schola"
whose standing was in the lower half of the
class If this be true, it is greatly to the
credit of the race, and is evidence OF the
earnestness with which they seize opportu-
mites to obtain an education.
THE chief of the Bureau of Statistics at
Washington, has issued from the Govern
ment Printing Office a circular exhibiting the
commercial, industrial and transportation
interests of the city of Indianapolis. it being
a part OF the annua report of that bureau.
The data we're furnished by L. c.. Hopkins,
of this city, and the showing is very credit
able to our growing interests.
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THE London World, giving an account Of
the arrival of Oscar Wilde in England, says
his voyage home was unusually tempestu-
Gus, and Oscar is inclined to regard the At
lantic as quite a quantity of water, entitled
to even an esthet's consideration. In con-
clusion the World says: HE goes back to
America in the fall, then to Australia, and
ultimately to heaven" The last clause is
calculated to lower rents in the better land.
GusoNE, the young Swede who fought a
prize fight with a German named Reisen-
hansen, in Pennsylvania. the prize being a
young lady whom both loved, is reported
dying. They fought twice; the first time was
declared a draw, after both were frightfully
punished. In the second encounter both
fought until they were exhausted, and Gill
some was carried from the field in a dying
condition. 1t might have been wise to haYe
called in the lady as an Arbitrator.
THIS seems to be a hard year on ''mashers"
generally. One was horse-whipped in Chi
cago by the indignant father of the girl ap-
preached, another in ST. Louis was treated
the same way by the chief of police, who was
q witness to the fellows operations. One of
the same class met with disaster in New
Orleans, and now a Philadelphia hotel clerk
has been discharged for indulging in the
pastime of flirting with lady guests. This
seems to be an era of genuine reform.
SOMEBODY is responsible for the Cimbria dis
aster, Somebody was criminally negligent.
and as a consequence some 400 persons are
drowned. and a fine steamer lies at a depth
of ninety feet under the water. The German
government is determined to examine the
matter, and as a preliminary measure has
caused the officers of the Sultan to be i'm
pr;soned. A healthy example in the way of
impartial justice in this case may have a
parts of the world.
THE death of Paul Gustave Dore removes
from the world of art one of its finest and
strongest representatives. Dore was in his
style of art what Mast is in caricature-with-
out a peer. His school was his own, and a
glance is sufficient to unerring,y single out
his works from all Others. Original in con-
%ception, powerful in concentrated strength
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