The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-12
H0CHEP0T.
ms motto is TODAY"

RUsKIN's motto is To-day"
In about two weeks the comet may be seen
with the naked eye.
THE present Congress is reported as very
temperate body, compared with its predecessors
of earlier years.
OCULIsTs report that the dotted mask veil, so
popular among the ladies' is their most valuable
travelling agent.
BosToN has sensible law which requires all
horses driven in sleighs to have ''sweet bells
jangling" attached to their harness.
IT does not cost anything to read that straw
berries at ten dollars per quart, recently
FURNISHED forth at New York dinner party.
SURELY the public is not expected to credit
the report that Sarah Bernhardt is coming to
America to travel for a patent clothes wringer.
She is better adapted to travel as a model for
clothes-horse.
THE long list of illustlious personages quoted
as constituting the noble ancestry of Baron Ten
nyson, is strongly suggestive of Josh Billngs's
pithy saying, that oftentimes an individuals
''grate descent is just what's the matter ov
him."
IT is gratifying to learn that red hair is about
to be recognized as an intellectual factor. Joel
Chandler Harris is quoted as having red hair;
also, Ella Wheeler This last, however, is
superfuous piece of information; any one could
predict Elias hair from her infamed poetry.
WOMEN who have fought, bled, and died to
acquire sealskin cloak do not now feebly sit
down and groan over the announcement that
sealskin is questionable. Of course the report
was set afoat by some envious creature who
could afford only plush coat with sealskin
buttons. s.ef
For literary center, the city of Boston pays
too much attention to high-iving January is
is almost half gone, and the Boston papers are
still Dragging of the good Christmas dinners en-
joyed at the various private houses and hotels of
the city. Has the day of ''plain living and high
thinking passed away in that localityl
IT is announced that the oyster must be
chewed in order to promote its perfect diges-
ton. Those to whom this idea does not appeal
favorably may continue to swallow their oysters
whole in imitation of that reckless but admila-
BILE old man who "ate what he was mind to,
and let EN- fight it out among themselves
BUTLER may decide that the Massachusetts
woman is not a person, but when she puts her
mind to it she can rapidly demonstrate the con-
trary. A school-ma'am in Mortified, Mass, is
said to have told her scholars last fall that all
who vote for Butler belong to the low, degraded,
and drinking classes This angered the Butler
heads of families, and they demanded the re-
moval of the schoolma'm, but the school com
mittee said nay and, a result, an opposition
school of twenty-four Butler children has been
set up on private account
MILE. CLIFFORD, young Englishwoman only
twenty three years of age is said to be the most
beautiful and brightest woman correspondent
connected with the Partisan journals She re-
sides in Paris, and was recently an object of
envy to the whole Partisan journalistic world,
on account Of being invited to dine with Victor
Hugo who is fsmous for detesting and declining
to receive all Journalists.
SINCE the Don't" book was perpetrated fas-
tidious persons seal their letters exclusively with
wax or the old-faslioned waters. ''Don't says
"a Frenchman, it is said, once challenged an
Englishman for sending him a letter fastened
by wafer What right, exclaimed the pune