The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-09
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IN 1861 Niagara was spelled Onlagarah.
NEW ORLEANS is wailing for good public
library.
IT is again fashionable for brides to weep at
the altar
THE first grasshopper of this year is reported
n Waitsfeld Vt
A coLoRED cook was imported from Baltimore
20 stew the terrapin for the Astor ball
THE ''curl paper editor is the irreverent title
bestowed on the man who selects the poetry.
THE Louisville Courier journal edits kind
hearted column called ''Waste-basket Rhymes"
THE low-necked dresses soprevaent at parties
have been styled by some reckless scamp 1.-THE
boneyard.'
A CLUB of Vassar graduates is said to be trying
to determine whether it was the Pope who
wrote Had or the Had who wrote Pope
THE latest folly in table decoration was ex-
hibited at the recent cardinals dinner, where
the bread was served cut in tiny shapes of the
cross.
AN italian paper says the American girl is like
champagne-a gratifying admission that, among
the girls of all nations, the American girl goes
to the head
THE London journal, which called Gail Hamil
ton Mr., paid her the most subtle compliment
she ever received-a pure and sincere testimonial
to her powers of writing like man."
KATE SANBoRN lectured recently in Cincin-
natl on the Frivolities of Literature, illustrat
ing her theme by quotations of fiat puns and silly
rhymes perpetrated by poets and prose writer's
of past ages.
IT is concentrated absurdity to assert that
Fred Douglasss marriage is simply his Owncon-
Germ. 1t is everybodys business. There can be
no such thing as perfect independence in a
world where mans bread and butter depend
on what his neighbors think of him.
A DETROIT thief discovered by lady in her
bedroom, tried to persuade her that he was
plumber but she kept on screaming just the
same, for she knew that no plumber ever got
poor enough to have to investigate strange
bureau-drawers for a living.
If there is anything lacking to complete the
prevailing opinion as to Robert Grants assininty.
it may be found in the Average Man" in his
application of Scripture to New York social Gus
toms, of which he is self-elected expounder
six days shalt thou labor and do all that thou
hast to do and on the seventh day thou shalt
make calls" This is an exhibition of bad taste
and irreverence in which Mr. Grants vaulting
ambition to be funny hath sadly o'erleaped
itself.
APRoPos of decollette dresses, an incident is
related which occurred twenty years ago. At
dinner-party gentleman was seated opposite
young lady who was very nude as to her Shout
ders and very unreserved as to her speech. She
kept up a running fire of pert and fiPpant re-
marks, which annoyed the gentleman considera-
bly,; but fate had ordained for him an appropri-
ate revenge When the dessert was brought on
the table, the young lady seized, from a fruit
dish, fig, and tossed it to the gentleman with
the remark, "a fig for you, sir He removed
from another fig a leaf which had fortunately
chung to it, and presented it to her with with the
pithy and suggestive text 'And a fg-leaf for
YOU, madam The enemy withdrew in confu-
sion.
THE volatile Clara Belle, in a recent letter,
offers some interesting items relative to the fine
art of keeping a husband The situation i'm
presses the average maiden as being very
gloomy. If she has to struggle to get husband
and then struggle to keep him, whatever his
merits, she wisely concludes not to enter the
struggle at all. A matron of experience says
that the best way to keep husband is to CON
vince him that woman is a variable and tickle
thing, and he must struggle to retain her affee
tons. If a husband finds that his wife does not
mourn when he is absent, you couldn't drive him
away from home with club. Man is a creature
that develops into tyrant with too tender cher
ishing, and little uncertainty to his own po-
sition will counteract that disposition like
charm.
THE Literary World is. in some opinions I'M
necessarily severe on the Bread winners" The
disgusting features of the story, existent in Sam
Ofitt, Sheeny, and Maud, are no more so, per-
L, 4lo ,-ofI S,rI-o
and Nancy, for which Dickens has never
been condemned, so far is known
The daily records of crime in our newspapers
prove the existence of the low and brutal ele-
ment among working classes and working
classes, but it is not expected that the respect
able representatives of either class will resent
these records as reflections upon their individual,
integrity and virtue. The strong hand of the
artist of the Bread winners" is most perceptible
in his delineaton of Ofitt. 1t requires talent of
no mean degree to so depict a character that
pages which hold his portrait redolent of
hair-oil and cheap cologne We read Ofitt's ad-
ventures, and Maud's disappointments as a part
of the story; not particularly pleasant, perhaps
but necessary as sombre shade to the brighter
lighter parts. Critics all, TRAY, Blanche and
Sweetheart, may bark themselves hoarse, but
there will still exist, in various obscure hooks
and corners sundry readers who will always be
glad to have known Alice Beldng--her pure
maidenly soul and gentle manners; and Arthur
Fa1nham will linger in the memory as a man
who knew how to love with reverence for the
thing beloved1-a rare type of man, in books or
out of books. Hail and farewell, o. Bread
winners
BITS OF WISDOM.