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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-07
A QUESTION OF NAMES.

There is something in a name after all.
More in it now than there was ten years ago.
About that time craze for authorizations in
names swept the country, and was quite
popular among the young of both sexes. A
reference to college catalogues and to profess
sional announcements of that period will
show instances without number. ]. Peter
Out for John Peter Out as now. The females
choose P. Ann Smith instead of Pauline
Ann Smith, and SO on through the list The
contagion reached up into official ranks, and
many politicians were charmed with it, so
that the folly cost number of men their
elections at the polls The name in full in
one locality and abbreviated in another was
a fatal mistake. Election boards could not
presume that J. Ross Dobbins was identical
with jeremiah Ross Dobbins Prior to these
flexible pranks with names the Christian
name was frequently noted by the initials
only Some varied the style by inserting
the first name in full, while Others added
only part after the first letter, as in the
case of Washington, who is said generally to
have witten SEQ" Washington. These fire.
quent changes and constructions are avoided
by some, who allow their children to name
themselves using any convenient appella-
make his own selection. This seems to be a
right belonging to man, and if generally
recognized many poor boy would be saved
from total wreck on account of his name
Can boy be expected to live and prosper
carrying about such a load as Jeroboam
Lazarus Jones? 1t would make him stoop-
shouidered, and compel him to sneak through
the back alleys to avoid the jeers of the gam
ins upon the street.
But even such name as this is brevity
itself compared with the titles and appella-
tons of royalty. Among the signatures
upon the treaty of peace between America
and Great Britain at the close of the reyolu-
ton, there is a single signature on the part
of England that occupies fully two squares in
print They continue the best oval of titles
in the old world so long as man lives,
provided his exploits are noteworthy, or that
he belongs to the ruling household. This is
carried to such an extent that the real name
of the person is lost and buried under this
stack of stuff. In early times the abuse
ran the other.way. In the case of Adam, he
had no first name at all until the family
made the correction, when they settled in
Massachusetts. But, to speak seriously a
world of confusion could be avoided by SIM
plicity and uniformity in signatures, espe-
cially so in legal matters. Martha Jane
Mink, mentioned in her grandfather's will,
would have trouble in proving her heirship,
should she persist in signing herself NJ
Jennie Mink. This is a republic, and the
very idea calls for simplicity in all things,
even in names.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-07

APPEARANCES indicate that Mr.. Mulhatton, tho
recognized successor to the Munchausen bust
ness for the Western States and Territories, is
now operating in Iowa. The story is told of
Simon Snyder tbrother of Jake, probably,) who
in May of last year was working in a planning
mill at Portsmouth, o. There his hand was so
badly lacerated that iu had to be amputated.
The dismembered portion was buried in the gar
den. Two weeks after, upon tho mound which the
little twelveyear-old daughter of the injured
man had made ever the severed hand, grew
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-07

A BILL has been introduced in the Georgia
Legislature to prevent the marriage of whites
and Chinese. In view of the fact that there ara
no Chinese in that State it may reasonably be
expected that bill will soon be drawn to the
same effect against Esquimaux and Sandwich
Islanders
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-07

IRISH q ENGLISH is the name of a Buffalo firm
engaged III the auction business. This is the
only instance known in which such partner>
ship is carried on tremendously.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-07

THE fourth of July list at Chicago shows two
killed, four fatally wounded, eleven seriously
shot, seventeen severely injured by toy-pstols
and firecrackers, and eleven fires resulting from
fireworks 1t appears the they had a real nice
time at Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-07

1T is estimated by the various railway officials
that not less than 100000 people left Philadel.
phia on the Fourth to spend the day at various
neighboring resorts. Philadelphia is where the
fourth of July was born.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-07

THE laying of a fourfoot gas main in London
gives color to the rumor that Greenback party
is about to be started in England.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-07

IF there is any scarcity of pupils in the school
for nurses to be established here, the following
true story may have an effect in bringing candi-
dates forward: Miss Rogers. young woman OF
Connecticut, raised in affluence, but reduced to
poverty by the death of her father, became a
professional nurse in a Hartford hospital. While
there she was engaged by Mr.. Christopher spen-
Ger, inventor of the Spencer rifle, and million
aire, to attend his wife, who was i'll with con-
sumption. Mrs. Spencer died last September.
Miss Rogers went back to the hospital, but Mr..
Spencer. who perhaps expects TO be sick himself
some day, did not lose sight of her. He thought
il would be pity TO keep such a nurse out of the
family, and so has secured her services by mar
ryingher. The bride is twenty five years Of age
and the groom fifty. They have gone to Europe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-07
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
LONDON-American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand
PARIS-American Exchange in Paris, IS Boulevard
des Capucines.
NEW YoRK-Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotels,
WASHINGTON. D. C.-Brentanos l,ol5 Pennsylva-
mia avenue.
CHICAGo-Palmer House.
CINCiNNATI-J. Q. HawIey & Co, I54 Vine street.
LoUIsvILLE-C. t. bearing, northwest corner
Third and Jefferson streets.
ST. LoUIs-Union News Company, Union Depot
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-07

THOMAS JEFFERSON as the typical Democrat
still lives, but Thomas as a dead corpus is an
unknown quantity. The monument to be placed
over his grave, at Monticello is unfinished, and
the ceremony Of unvailing will probably DO
postponed until next year. At that time Democ-
racy will have Its hands full that it will likely
go over again by default.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-07

1T can be none other than our old acquaintance
MADAME Marie Durand" who, with a change OF
name and occupation, has been looking success
fully Tor something green In Springfield, Mass
madame Pauline Dudley, principal of tho
famous Brooklyn Academy of Art, the Ioveliest
roseate orb beaming in the celestial DOME" Wis
tied Springfield and opened a room which she
called an academy, sent out circulars containing
the following beautiful language:
"With sentiments of kindness and courtesy,
we entwine at our door cherry welcome TO our
institute, upon whose portals fame has already
inscribed eloquent encomiums for many worthy
achievement, ere it had developed FOR universal
marvel and admiration, the latest artistic phe-
nomenOn, celebrated as the ideal formula, pro-
cess for adorning and imparting to paintings.
engravings. etc, that soft and ineffable grace OF
classic astheticism and idealistic beauty, to
seemingly covet the original canvas into glo-
rlous transparency, revealing nature in won
drous verify"
twenty young women entered themselves as
students, paying their fee in advance. Numer-
GUS merchants, Deguiled by the aesthetic appear.
ance of the Madame sold her goods on credit.
She reaped a comfortable harvest in very few
days and departed without formal adieux, leav-
ing many behind to mourn their losses, which
were the Madame's gain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-07

AsH1NGToN. D. C.-Brentano's LOIS Pennsylva-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-07

SMALL fungus-like plant, in the exact shape of a
human hand Mr., Snyder afterward removed to
Iowa. taking the fungus preserved in alcohol.
with him. The fingers are of a dark-brown
color the thumb and fingers approach nearly
the exact form, and perhaps the queerest part Of
It ls that the forefnger is shorter than it should
be. Mr. Snyder lost the forefnger of that hand
two years before the amputation. The little
finger was broken off by accident and shows
that the inside of the fingers is white. With
this kind of stories in circulation the Republic
an outlook in that State is very dark indeed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-07

NEW YoRK-Fifth Avenue and windsor Hotels.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-07
SUNDAY RAILWAY WORK.

sr LouIs-Union New. Company. Union Depot.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-07-13
Temperance in Schools.


Natures way of bringing beauty ana
order out of chaos is to flood darkness
with light. We shall never get beyond
this method by any spasmodic pyrotech-
MICS, which, no matter how popular for
time, only serve to make the darkness
more visible when their artificial corus-
cations are withdrawn. The work among
the children yields much larger divi-
dend on our investment of time and toll
than is afforded by our work among the
drinking-class. We may as well face that
fact and learn its lesson thoroughly.
WhenI see our school-boys stunting their
growth and drying up their brains with
smoke; when discover that their very
cigars are soaked in alcoholic liquors,
and they are baited with beer and en-
ticed into saloons by music and by
games; when | am told of their degen-
eracy in scholarship, so that the per-
centage of girls who graduate and take
honors is steadily gaining on that of
boys-it seems to me that toward the
children we have been strangely, if not
culpably, negligent as Temperance
workers. 1t is a glorious thing, as has
been said, to go out with the Gospel
life-boat and strive to save wrecked
manhood; but it is just as much in ac-
cordance with Christ plan, and for us
far wiser economy of effort to build
lighthouse on the sunken reef, warning
the unskilled yoyagerupon life's treach-
erous sea.--FTG11ceS b. Ballard.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-07-13
Honor to the Brave.

We felt like singing the DoxolOgy
when we heard how certain brave wom-
en- of Dakota upheld the Temperance
standard. The Superintendent of the
Dakota Central Railroad, with party,
went by special train to Frankfort,
where they were met with liberal hos
pitality by the citizens, and shown ''the
very best spot in creation for that fa-
nous capital building, which is seeking
a place to lay its weary head After
due inspection of real estate, all repaired
to a large hall where a splendid dinner
had been prepared, with generosity and
skill, by the ladies of Frankfort. Now
comes the test! Some men determined
the guests should have wine for dinner,
and it should be set on the table. The
ladies decided it should not be DONE
That was on Monday. just as dinner
was ready to-day, these men brought in
bottles of wine and set them on the Ia
BILE. A feminine rebellion ensued. The
ladies met and voted unanimously that
they would not wait on the table if the
wine remained, when the men said to
them: "'Let it alone, we'll wait on the
table ourselves" The ladies told them
to do it, and the men saw they could
not menace their own wives and daugh-
tiers, so they removed the wine. The
brave women returned and served din
ner in the best of style. The names of
these ladies are Mrs Jacoby, Mrs.
Hemingway, Mrs. Durham, Mrs. Smith,
Mrs. Kaull, Mrs. Milford, Mrs. Harv-
mand, Mrs. Fisher, Mrs Skinner, Mrs.
Foster, Mrs. Walbridge and Miss Eos
ter. Honor these brave, true-hearted,
noble women, who know the danger of
looking upon the cup, and putting it to
another's lips, and will not do it.
Would to God that all women looked
upon this danger as these ladies do
Union Siqaa0L.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-07-13
wADpIy Here Before Ordering Elsewhere.

He has infatuated very many of the
offiee-seekers and office-holders with the
belief that it is far more important to
promote his interests than to labor for
the welfare OF the people at large.
He has changed, in many places, the
Holy Sabbath, with its hours of peace
full quiet, a day devoted to religious OBJ
servances and the worship of Almighty
God, to day of revelry, drunkenness
and debauchery.
In every stage of these expressions
we have petitioned for redress in the
most humble terms; our repeated pc
titions have been answered only by re-
peated injury. Aruler whose character
is thus marked by every act which may
define a tyrant is unfit to be the sover-
eign of a free people.
| Nor have we been wanting in our at
tentions to those engaged in making
and selling alcoholic drinks. We have
implored them to have pity upon the
suffering wife and the ragged, starving
children; we have appealed to every
sentiment of our common nature to in
duce them to withhold the deadly
draught from our boys and young men,
and the habitual drunkard, but all in
vain. They. too, have been deaf to the
voice of justice and humanity, and have
| laughed us to scorn.
We have exhausted all our resources
in our endeavors to obtain relief from
those engaged in the traffic in distilled
and fermented liquors, and have utterly
failed. The only course left us to pur-
sue is to dissolve completely our con
nection with so unjust, SO tyrannical,
so oppressive power. t
We, therefore, appealing to the SUI
preme Judge of the Universe for the
rectitude of our intentions, do solemnlr
publish and declare that the people of
this land are, and of right ought to be,
free and independent; that we are alb
solved from all allegiance to King Alco-
hol, and to all his adherents; that, as
free and independent citizens of these
United States, we have the right to
break away from his control and to
Danish the tyrant from our land.
And for the support of this declara-
ton and the accomplishment of our
arduous undertaking, we earnestly in
yoke the aid and sympathy of the civil
lied world, the fervent prayers of all
Christian people and the help and
guidance of Almighty God. And we
mutually pledge to each other our lives,
our fortunes and OUR sacred honor.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-07-13

vile, Conn, trains recently collided, kill
ing an engineer and passenger, and an ex-
press messenger was fatally injured. The
accident was due to the carelessness of a
telegraph operator.
THREE men were killed recently by the
caving in of an embankment on the land
of the New Market Manufacturing Com
pany at Exeter, n. H.
In Lancaster County, Pa, recent storm
beat growing corn and oats to the ground
and washed out tobacco fields, necessitat-
ing replanting.
ABOUT five hundred children, accompa-
MED by teachers and missionaries, left New
York by steamer on the 9th for the Lake
Champlain region, and would be received
at different places along the lake. The ex-
penses were betrayed by the New York
Tribune fresh-air fund.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-07-13
Temperance Items.

q GOVERNOR BLACKBURN, of Kentucky,
says that not a drop of liquor of any
kind has passed his lips since he has
been Governor.
A LITTLE INSTRUMENTATION GIRL
was recently found so enslaved by her
appetite for lager beer that it was i'm
possible to trust her alone on the street.
Cincinnati NesOS
WILL SOME ONE inform us what there
is in alcohol that will nourish or build
up any part of the body? IF it is good
for man in any way it ought to be capa-
Die of demonstration ETchG7gge.
'.WERE / TO COMMENCE my admin
istration over again, with the knowledge
which, from experience, / have ac-
qu1red, the first question would ask
with regard to every candidate for pub
lie Office should be: Is he addicted to
the use of ardent spirits?" Thomas
Jefferson.
A sALooN-KEEPER in Massachusetts
was forbidden by the wife of drunkard
to sell him liquor; the saloon man
laughed her to seorn, and said he would
sell him whisky as long as he could pay
for it. But one day the drinker fell
under the wheels of a locomotive, lost
his legs, was. disabled for life, and then
the wife sued the saloon keeper and
made him pay her 81, 800 to make good
her husbands disability
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-07-13
Coming Leap Year.

A correspondent writes to inquire if
1900is leap-year. In Catholic and
Protestant countries, the year 1900 will
not be q leap7year, they all having
adopted the Gregorian calendar. In
countries where the Greek Church is
established PRUSSIA and Greece), the
old Julian calendar still holds, and those
countries will count it leap-year. Aft
er February, 1900. therefore, the differ
ence between She two calendars, which
is now twelve days, will become thir-
teen days. and will remain so until 21OO,
the year 1000 being leap-year in both
Che Julian and Gregorian calendars.
The rule for leap-year may be thus
stated, according to the Gregorian cal
endar, which differs from the Julian
only in a special treatment of the cent
ury years. All years whose index
number (1883 is the index number of
the present year, is diyisible by four are
leap-years; unless % their index num-
Der is divisible by 100 Century years)
In that case they are not leap-years, I'M
less (2) their index number is divisible
\ by 400; in which case they are leap
years. Thus, 100, 1900, 1900 and 210O
are not leap-years, while 1900, 20O0 and
B2400 Te.--Zhe Critic.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-07-13
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mary Anderson has refused the new
drama written for her by Oscar Wilde.
Miss Helen Barry, the actress, is
the tallest womaA on the American
stage. She is six feet one.
7-Rev. Edward Everett Hale is think
ing of writing q history of the Pacific
Ocean and its shores. 1t is reported
that he has been collecting material for
the work for forty years past.
Anthony Comstock says that the
societies for the suppression of vice
have destroyed during the past ten
years more than twenty-five tons Of
villainous literature. N T. Tribune.
Miss Stone, the daughter of Stone
lPasha, who was formerly an American
General and recently in the service of
the Khedive, is said to be one of the
most accomplished lingrists in the
world, and the best Arabic scholar OF
her. sex. .* ..s.s .r.5.
Miss Aver, whose father advertised
shimself into colossal fortune, refused
ia European Prince, who followed her to
this country in the hope Of marrying
her. The constant, judicious advertiser
occupies a seat several tiers higher than
mere royalty Chicago Herald.
President Arthur has been present
ed with a history of the London Ancient
and Honorable Artillery Company, in
two sumptuous volumes, bound in green
Turkey morocco, richly gilded and il
Illuminated, and illustrated with hand
paintings. Chicago Inter Ocean.
--"Be careful, wrote Mr.. Whittier
to a young author about to publish his
first book of verse, ''not. to make the
book too large. Don't put everything
into it, let who will advise it. Sit like
Rhadamanthus in stern Judgment upon
all that claims admission. / speak out
Of the depths of bitter experience. .
OF the late Rev. Charles T. Brooks,
of Newport, R. l., the Boston Advertiser
says: THE two noblest literatures of
modern times are indebted to Mr..
Brooks for his perfect itranslations of
German poetry and prose into idiomatic
and pure English. In this work Mr..
Brooks has had but very few equals,
and probably no superior. Thousands
have attempted the same work, but only
a few choice spirits have succeeded in
making Faust, Margaret, Ruekert and
INLAND speakpure English. Mr.. Brooks
was one of these few.
Colonel Cilley, who once represent
ed New Hampshire in the United States
Senate, is living, at the age of ninety
two years. He. is a grandson and
.namesake of General 10 Cilley, who
fought against Gage and Burgoyne in
the Revolutions, and the elder broth
er of Hawthorne friend, Jonathan
Cilley, who was killed in duel by
Graves, of Kentucky, while serving in
Congress from Maine, forty-five years
ago. Colonel Cilley was a Lieutenant
at the battle of Lundy's Lane, in Cana
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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-07-13
HUMOROUS.

81 -"IfI thought [ was going to be-
come gray, | should de-" exclaimed
Miss f'foudfit, And when her hair
turned gray, she did dye, sure enough
Days.
--Said father to his son, who had
just handed him the teachers report for
the last month: "My boy, this report is
very unsatisfactory. I'm not at all
pleased with it, Little son-'I told
the teacher. that [ thought you wouldn't
be; but he wouldn't change it,"
Wife: ''Why, George, I do believe
you've been taking too much wine!"
George (who lives in Brooklyn and has
just returned home after a lively even.
ing): ''Wine! Nonsense, dear! I've
just -hic-come home over the Bridge,
and it's made me dizzyLthat's ais
help me Bob. IN Z. Tribune. s.
b While gentleman was visiting at
the house of friend he gave a silver
piece to the son of the host What do
you say, GeorgeP' asked the lads
father. g What does your heart prompt
you to say in return for the gentleman's
kindness?n "Please give me another;
that's what it prompts me to say sir. y
Very rare, indeed: Antiquary-
"Here is something very rare; the
identical Colts pistols worn by the
great Roland, who was slain at Ronces-
wales by the Turks" Customer
"But there were no pistols in tha
day.'' Antiquary-~ know that, M
dear sir; that's what makes them SO
rare. "-Harper's Bazaar.
-"Come, Samivel, put oop dose
shutters already. We moost close our
store chust like odder peoples on Sat
urday afternoon, to give our vorkmen
a little fresh air, ehP But, Samivel,
when you gets.oop de shutters, lock the
doors and exercise the poys until after
the sunset goes down. We moost not
let the poor fellows get sunstrike, Sam
ivel. "-Boston Transcript.
Quits
l}of "Who is that fiirt you ask,
In the crushed banana dress?
IT'S my wife you take to task
With such emphatic stress!
That stupid antique cad
Will talk her into fits.
Your husband? That's not badl
at least it makes us quits.''c
N. 7. Tribune.
"A college student, writing home to
his father, told how his class and an
other class got hold of q rope at oppo-
site ends, and how his class beat the
other class pulling. The old man
unused over the letter a while and re-
piled as follows: I'm mighty glad to
heer that you ken pull SO strong. I was
Altered that you couldn't STAN the tug
when you went thar, an i'm mighty
much pleased. I've got ole mule
that's got such tuff mouth that never
could pillow him. i want you to buck
agin him, an i'm willin' to bet you ken
output him. Come home immegitly. "
IL AyICqls0sC Traveller.