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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-26
Alabastine.

Alabastine.
We are headquarters for Alabastine the only
durable walt finish 1t is rapidly superseding
kalsOmines. 1t not only gives better finish,
but is more durable, gets harder with age and
will not rub or peel oft Put up in five-pound
packages or b1lk-twelye different tints and
pure white. Any one can apply it. We are also
agents for Enamel Paint, made at Cleveland.
HILDEBRAND e FUGATE,
No. IS South Meridian street.
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INDIANAPOLIS CLASSICAL SCHOOL.

Prepares bows for Harvard. Yale, and all other
Colleges and Scientific Schools School for girls
(separate) prepares for all colleges that admit
women. Eighth year opens Sept. IL. For csta-
logues. call upon or address FLETCHER IL
SHARPE, Bankers. The Principal may be con-
suited at his residence after Sept l.
Il. L. SEWALI. Principal,
4O5 N Pennsylvania street.
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the young New York millionaire. Within
| and without the SCENE was brilliant one.
Streams of many-colored lights shone from
the mansion, and the long serpentine car
riage drive was brilliantly illuminated. The
veranqa was enclosed in walls of canvas and
offered cool retreat, with its inviting di-
vans placed amid clustering plants and flow
ers for the wearied dancers. A ruby-colored
light stree med out from the large oak-pan-
neled ball, which was used for the ballroom.
On either side of the massive oak portal were
recesses filled with palms and exotics, whose
exquisitely shaded foliage was continued to
the broad staircase that curved upward to
the balcony overhead and to the left of the
entrance to the billiard-room. Near the
staircase was an antique raised dais of oak,
with divans covered with Yalu-
able ferns, contrasting with the
spreading foliage. The drawing
room had ruby-colored hangings and furni-
ture, with plants in the hooks, corners and
fireplaces, and the mantlepece was covered
with bank of cut flowers. The broad win
dow in the tower was filled with variegated
flowers and palladium plants, and the balco-
ny was loaded with rare plants and vines.
On the second floor waving mass of ferns,
palms and eXotics concealed the musicians
on the balcony. From the oak-paneled cell
ings hung Eastern draperies whose silver and
gold embroidery glittered and sparkled in
the gaslght. The blliard-room was decorated
red, the mantel being one blaze of ruby
colored flowers and plants, and palms were
placed about the apartment In the studio
was cluster of palms in the center of the
room. The mantel was one mass of white
gladioluses, and the fireplace was lied with
plants. Choplins Night and Morning
hung amid Eastern hangings and richly en-
broidered draperies. 1t was a work of art
in every respect. Some of the bouquets held
by the ladies were unusually large, and were
composed principally of the choicest roses
and lilies OF the valley. Mrs. Goelet held
magnificent bouquet of pink hybrid roses, a
rare variety. The favors consisted chiefly OF
large floral fans, the roses being the rarest
to be found
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-25
A QUEER STORY.
A Stern Parent Who Married OFF His Daugh-
ter Without Her knowledge.

Stern Parent Who Married OFF His Daugh-
ter Without Her knowledge.
st. Louis Post-Dispatch Lawyer.
l heard a queer story the other day in
which a gentleman who at one time adorned
the bench, charming young lady, his daugh-
ter, and handsome widower figured. The
two former are well known in society circles
here, and the last is a New York gentleman
For some reason the Judge was anxious that
his daughter should be comfortably settled
in life by good match, but the young lady
persisted in remaining single. This summer
they went East and made the round of the
fashionable resorts. While on their trip they
met wealthy widower from New York, who
travelled with them for a while, and to whom
the old gentleman took fancy. They be-
came very intimate with each other and
were almost inseparable. One lovely night,
| together with party of pleasure seekers,
the trio were taking trip up the Hudson.
When the mirth began to wane, the Judge
proposed mock marriage just for the fun OF
the thing, and nothing would do but that the
widcwer and the young lady should act as
principals to the affair. They agreed, to
amuse the party, and the Judge volunteered
to find some one to perform the ceremony.
In a short time he brought up gentleman
who tied the knot in remarkably good STYLE
so every one thought. When most of the
party had dispersed, the Judge turned to his
daughter and widower friend and remarked
tnat uney were leSaiiy married, as the gem
tleman who had performed the ceremony
was clergyman. They protested strongly,
but the Judge insisted that they had better
make the best OF it, The gentleman refused
to listen to any such proposition, and on his
return to New York quietly instituted pro-
ceedings to have the marriage formally an
nulled. He said he had no objections to the
lady, but he preferred to do his counting and
marrying in his own way and with his own
consent. The lady, who, of course is placed
in very embarrassing position, has gone on
trip to the Pacific coast until the whole
thing blows over 1t is strictly on the quiet
at present
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Relic from Palestine.

An interesting and, as it promises to be,
important relic, has just been brought under
the notice of the English exploration fund.
1t consists Of pieces of skin, having written
upon them in Phencan characters portions
of the Book of Deuteronomy and the COM
mandmen is. 1t was recovered from a
Bedouin tribe on the eastern side of the Jor-
dan. 1t is supposed to be the same date as
the famous Moabitish stone-S01 B. C. The
documents are in slips, the skin is dark and
discolored, and the writing has 20 be brought
out with spirits of wine. They have been
examined by some of the most famous ex-
perts Mr. Bond, of the British museum;
Dr. Gensberg, Mr.. Adds Wright, of Cam
bridge; DIR. Horning, Van Starland and
others) and if their genuineness be estab-
lished they will probably lead to some i'm
portant notifications of several passages of
Deuteronomy.
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The Defeat of the Approximation Bi1

Indianapolis Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer.
When the last Legislature was near its
close it passed the general appropriation bill;
and then, in fit of folly, reconsidered its
vote and refused to pass the bill. John ].
Cooper sat beside Speaker Bynum during the
last hour of the session, and though Hon.
Charles Jewett and Hon. Horace Heffren, the
leaders of the House, insisted on passing the
bill the Speaker refused to recognize them.
Senator Mcdonald sent an urgent request
by Secretary of State Myers to the Speaker
and members on their side of the House to
pass the bill, and every senator of any prom.
inence visited the House and urged the pass
age of the bill; but Cooper sat beside Bynum
and the bill failed. Then it was freely
charged that Cooper wanted to defeat the bill
that he might have the entire revenues of
State to lend for interest Only few DAYS
before that Mr.. Shoemaker, who was fight
ing Cooper on the Brown bill Tor the reor4
ganizaton of the asylums, called my atten-
ton to the felony embezzlement clause of
the treasury law, which Cooper was then VIC.
lating.
But am not passing on Mr.. Cooper's ac-
ton with the Legislature, what he did or did
not do, but upon the fact that the failure of
the Legislature to pass the appropriation
bills left the entire revenues OF the State
amounting to over 49, 100000 annually, in
the hands of the State Treasurer, who gives a
bond of only $150,O00 Before his term Of
office expires he will have over 81 SOC, 600 in
his hands,
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The Moabjte Decaloeue.

The following translation has been made
by DIR. Gensburg OF portion of the writ
ings OH the Moabite stone in the posses
sion of Mr. Shapiro, of Jerusalem, and Of
fered by him to the British Museum for So
000,0
am God, thy God, which liberated thee from
the land OF Egypt, from the house OF bondage
e shall have other gods
4e shall not make to yourselves any craven
image, Dor any likeness that is in heaven above,
or that is in the earth beneath, that is in the
waters under the earth. Ye shall not bow down
to them nor serve them.
l am God, your God, sanctify. In six days l
have made the heaven and the eartn and all that
there is therein, and rested on the seventh day
Therefore rest thou ALSO thou and thy cattle and
all that thou hast
am God, thy God. Honor thy father and thy
mother.
am God, thy God. Thou shall not kill the per
son of thy brother.
am God, thy God. Thou shalt not commit
iniquity with the wife OF thy neighbour.
am God, thy God. Thou shalt not steal the
property of thy brother
am God, thy God. Thou shalt not swear by
my name falsely, for visit the iniquity of the
fathers upon tue children unto the third and
fourth generation of those who take my name
in vain.
1 am God, thy God Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy brother.
am God, thy God Thou shalt not covet his
wife, or his man servant, or his maid servant, or
anything that is his.
l am God thy God Thou shalt not hate thy
broker in thy heart.
am God, thy God These ten words God
SDaKe,
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A Rival to the sea-Serpent.
Minneapolis Tribune.

MlnntApOIlB ITIDUlu.
The story of a terrible fight between two
monsters comes from Fargo. Old Joe Baker,
who lives near Long Lake "a few miles from
Fargo claims to have seen the ARRAY Ac-
cording to his story, be was going home the
other night and on crossing a railroad bridge
over a small stream he was startled by a
sudden commotion in the water, and on
looking in the the direction from whence
the noise came he beheld, 10 his amazement
two huge animals that resembled Lizards in
shape, lashing each other in a terrific en-
counter He describes the animals as meas
uring twenty feet from head to tail, with
heads like an alligator and eyes as red as fire.
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Demoralized by Marriage.


New York world.
Everybody in Brooklyn knows Judge
TON" Kenna, the Adonis of the Brooklyn
bench He has Just returned from his we'd
ming tour, having married a Williamsburg
belle we'll known in society circles. Natur-
nervous since his return. Yesterday he APP
peared on the bench to attend to few delin-
quents.
Edward Price clerk of the common coun-
Gil sat beside his Honor.
Pass me that pen, my DEAR" said his
Honor to Clerk Price, and then turned the
color of his blond moustache as he noticed
his mistake.
Later on be asked Mr.. Price what he
should bring home for dinner, and still later
informed him that he would oblige him by
playing, when you and l were young, Mag
gle"
As be consigned female prisoner to Ray
mond street his Honor told her to hurry up
and put on her things. as the carriage was
waiting"
A clerical-looking gentleman, who had got
intoxicated, asked the mercy of the cout.
His Honor looked at the clerical gentle
man. Then he fumbled in his pockets and
said:
Il believe have forgotten the ring''
The court officers smiled and the abashed
judge was finally compelled to adjourn
court amid the smiles of the spectators As
he left he placed Clerk Prices arm within
his own. Suddenly remembering himself he
said:
"By Jinksl this marriage business has com=
pletely fiabergasted me- Come around to the
house and have bottle OF wine. But for
heavens sake don't tell her how I've acted
to-day
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READING FOR THE SABBATH
In the Last Pew.


She sits. bent DER, with wrinkled face,
Poor and forlornly old; no grace
Smoothes the sharp angles OF her form,
Long buffeted by life's slow storm.
All else around is fine and fair;
The stained light falls, golden glare,
In seeming mockery on her loose gray hair.
The preacher, faultlessly arrayed,
Tells how our hearts afar have strayed,
And how all souls should be content
With these geOd blessings God has sent,
And one-Of all that self-pQised thTong
Hangs on his words nor deems them long,
And huInby thinks only her heart is wrong.
She meekly mumbles DER the hymn,
Her eyes with age and teardrOps DIM;
What can their gay world hold for her
This worn and weary worshperY
Now, rustlng down the aisles i'll pride,
They toss bright smiles on every side;
Nor does she know the hearts such fair looks
hide.
And still she sits with tear-wet face,
AS loath to leave that sacred place;
The organ, with quick thunders rlven,
Lifts her sad. trembling soul TO heaven.
She feels sense of blIssful rest,
Her bOly hands across her breast
She clasps, and slowly signs: "God knoweth
best"
One day, within some grander gate
Where kinss and ministers must walt,
While she hopes humbly for low place
Far from the dear Lords shining face,
Above the chant of heavenly choir
These words may sound, with gracious fire:
''Well done, good, faithful servant, come up
hgherl'
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AN IneIdent at Chautauqua.
correspondence Buffalo Express.

UUrTespohdence BuhaIo EXpress.
There is without doubt good deal of red
tape in this ticket system, apropos of which
q good story is told A lady bought a 81
ticket, laboring under the delusion that it
would admit her to everything on the
ground, including the school of languages
She soon discovered her mistake, and went
$l2 one. Naturally, she was not just at that
moment in a serene and peaceful Chautau-
qua frame OF mind. While she stood wait
ing for the exchange to be made a man came
up to enter and partake of the feast of reason
flowing within. Upon learning that he had
to pay an admission fee, he began to curse
The lady turned to him and said, sweetiy,
Thank you, SIR"
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The Wealth of the Bonanza Kings.

Chicago News.
Senator Tom Bowen, of Colorado. has
made neat little raise by selling his San
Juan mine to New York syndicate for
trife less than 100000 He has been hardt
up for long time, although, for the past
three years, prospectively rich man. Only
a month ago Denver citizen was mildly
complaining because he had to pay pote Of
$1,000 which he had Endorsed for Bowen.
There is good deal of rot and poppycock in
all the talk about the wealth of the Colorado
bonanza kings. During the senatorial strug-
gle last winter the four candidates-Tabor,
Bowen, Hamill, and Pitkin-were compelled
to borrow money of the First National Bank
in order to make their canvasses. And the
sums borrowed did not altogether exceed
$15, 200. Yet Tabor alone alleged that his
preliminary maneuvers had cost hian close
on to $250,OOO
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Two Interesting Houses.

London Land.
Two of the most interesting houses in Eng
land, from literary point of view, are about
to be sold. Every visitor to Broadstairs
knows BLEAK House." which stands so con-
spicuously on the cliffat one extremity of
the Bonded bow forming the sea-front of that
charming little seaside place In that house
Dickens spent many summer holiday, and
within its walls much of his early work was
written. 1t has become known as Bleak
House by association only, for its real name
Is Fort House. Lawn House. hard by, is
also to be sold by Messrs. Friend, Vinton &
Co. This was another of Dickens's holiday
residences which he occupied on several oc-
casions before he took Fort House. A con-
siderable portion OF 1.-The Old Curiosity
Shop was written at Lawn House. BLEAK
House" is the more famous of the two sea-
side villas, and is one OF the few Sights" of
Broadstairs -worshiping Americans
are very fond of taking stealthy walk by
night up to its gates and plucking memen-
toes from the pretty Towering trees in the
garden which overhang the path outside.
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Leo XIII and the Jesuits.

A strange rumor has found its way into
print to the effect that the present Pope Leo
purchased his election by an agreement en-
tered into with the Jesuits before the con-
clave. The rumor may be true or false, but
in the story itself these is nothing improba-
bic Wire-pulling, if not..so common, is at
least as well understood in ecclesiastical as
in political affairs. 1t is admitted on all
hands that with the accession to power of
the new Pope the influence of the Jesuit
congregation began to increase, and it is no.
torious that they are no longer strangers to
the Vatican. The staff of the famous order,
so long banished from the Holy City, is once
more to be domiciled in Rome. Pope Leo so
far has shown himself quite equal to all the
many difficulties of his position. 1t remains
to be seen whether he shall be able to give
full liberty to the Jesuits and at the same
time preserve his own liberty and independ-
ence. He is not likely to become the mere
instrument, as the Cologne Gazette suggests,
in the hands of this most ambitious and dar-
ing of all the orders of the Roman Church.
The reoccupatlon of the Convent of the Gesu
will command very general attention.
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Conveniently.

Boston Congregationalist.
A lady went into one of the large stores in
Boston, where there are a number of young
girls who act as saleswomen, and asked to
look at boys hat. Not being quite sure
what size she needed, she said, after looking
at several II will look at a number six and
five-eighths, if you can find one convenient
ly," thinking the girl might have to search
through large pile Of them, and regretting
the trouble it was causing
The face of the young girl frightened, as
she said with real gratitude, but with a pa
thetic tone, mo one ever says TO US, If you
can find one conveniently
Alas that we forget to be polite We say
he or she is hired to wait on customers, and
we do not say Thank YOU" or act as
though we appreciated anything done for
us. That person makes many friends who
goes through life with a smile and kind
word.
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RUNNING THE RAPIDS.
A Trip from Cape Vincent to Montreal in a
Seventeen-Foot SkifE

Seveuteen-Foot Skif.
Montreal Star.
w. ]. Ballard principal of public scho oil
in jamaica Long Island, arrived in Montreal
on Saturday evening, having run all the
rapids of the st. Lawrence in a skiff sew
enteen feet long, three feet nine inches in
the beam. In conversati on with Star re-
porter he said: II left Cape Vincent week
ago last Thursday with three friends. The
Gallops didn't amount to anything; child
could run them, but when we struck the
Long Sault we had our hands full, can as
sure you. We took the south side, where the
current flows with lightning-like rapdity, so
we Just steered our boat and let the current
carry us along. When we got pretty we'll
down in the worst part of the rapids we ran
ashore aud saw glorious sight The north
and south currents of the Sault met Just be-
low, and the waves were piling on top of one
another rolling in corkscrew manner and
boiling in way to make the bravest heart
quake. But we got into our boat and had
an exciting time for few minutes. We had
first to dodge a whirlpool and then keep
clear of the 'corEscrew waves but we did it
and came into Cornwall safe and sound.
when we struck the cedars l saw my COM
panion looked a little anxious. Every few
seconds he let a Hi hi out of him, which
interpreted Pull your best and l bent to
my oar, while he threw all his strength into
his paddle strokes, and we swept with light
boiling swells. My boat is one of the best OF
the kind in existence, and went over the
sweils in beautiful manner One moment
l was on the brink of wave looking down
perpendicularly on the white face of my
pilot. next moment our positions were re-
versed and l was in the trough of the boil
ing waters. We had some pretty close shaves
but muscle and skill triumphed, and we
came out of the rapids safely. We then ran
the Cascades, swept through st. Louis, and
ran the Lachine. The latter rapids don't
amount to much however, and l would I'M
dertake to run them with boat-load of peo-
pie without any pilot. Well, here l am safe
and sound in Montreal, and can look back
with pleasure to my adventurous trip down
the rapids.
Last year ran the entire length of the Sus-
quehanna, 500 miles, coasted down the Chesa-
peake bay, assembled the Delaware river and
thence home by canals, having travelled
about 1900 miles A pretty good way to
spend a vacation, think"
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GIRLS AT THE BAT.
They Catch the Ball in Their Aprons and
Step on the "Grounders."

They Catch the Ball in Their Aprons and
Step the "Grouuders."
Philadelphia Press.
The eighteen damsels composing Freeman
and Towards Young Ladies' Athletic Base
Ball Club" entertained about fifty spectators
yesterday afternoon at Pastime Park with a
practice game. There were only sixteen of
the players present. They were attired in
blouses tights and cotton sunshades shaped
like Japanese umbrellas. The blouses, hose
and hats of one club were edged and striped
with blue calico; those of the other with red.
Miss Williams, the captain of the "Reds,"
wore a suit of cardinal colored material, and
Miss Jennings, the leader of the other club,
was attired in azure blue. The fifty specta-
tors hung upon the fence to the right of the
stand containing the bats and water-cooler,
and INDUCED in such interesting
reflections as, Hi, there, you'll
show your carriers, Miss" "Hoope!
look at her skip" Owing to the fact that
both clubs were composed mainly of girls
under eighteen years old, and to the further
fact that they had begun to practice only ten
days ago, the game was devoid of either in
terest or amusement The girls threw the
ball over the shoulder and held the bat as
though il were fan. They caught high flies
with the apron-attachments to their blouses,
and stepped on such of the "grounders'' as
came within their reach. None of the young
women were pretty. Two were as tall and
thin as pike-staffs; when they ran they looked
like giratfes The rest were short, and graded
all the way up from plump to fat. Toward
the end of the exercises one of the pitchers
became so exhausted that she rolled the ball
to the batter and the latter walked to the
bases on strikes. Disinterested spectators
think the clubs will become fairly proficient
in the game some time within the next ten
wears
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declaring positively that during the ten
years of their association Mr. Sankey has
not acted as agent for any organ company
nor has he sold any organs on commission.
The apnual fete in honor of the Rev.
Charles H. Spurgeon's birthday (forty-ninth)
was celebrated recently at Stockwell Or
phanage, England. Two corner-stones were
laid in the afternoon, one for house for the
superintendent, and one for a board room,
all the present rooms being needed for the
children, of whom there are at present 365.
When these buildings are erected the or
phanage will be completed
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PERSONAL AND SOCIETY.
A Russian Generals Blunder.

London Truth.
1t appears that General Orjevsky was so Of
Tended with a young officer in drosky for
overtaking his caleche, and passing with a
rather off-hand salute, that he stopped him
and ordered him to follow his superior officer
to the guardhouse. The lieutenant obeyed,
after apologizing, and was locked up A few
moments later the officer in command
rushed after the General and told him he had
incarcerated the Grand Duke Michael, the
Emperor's first cousin. General Orjevsky
collapsed, of course, and spent bad quarter
OF an hour at Peterhof next day.