The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-11

most exclusively to mercantile occupations. The
newcomers are mostly from Bulgaria, Russia, and
Hungary.
AT Narragansett. R. L. a woman, eighty-fve years
Of age astonished the guests of fashionable hotel by
appearing at breakfast in a white Mother Hubbard
dress
Mr.. HENRY NJ. STANLEY, the explorer of the Congo
country says the guiding motto of his life has BEEN
Whatsoever thy hand 6ndetbt to do, do it with thy
might
DEADLY weapons are taken from who carry
them into of Galvestons gambling and drinking
houses an employee gives checks for them, and they
returned on their owners departure.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the New York Sun makes APP
plication for new pronoun of the singular number
common gender, and suggests the word TWEEN, with $
added for the possessive, and changing into M for
the objective
ONE of the first couples which took advantage of
the French divorce law bore the name of Granville
The lady, who married at sixteen obtained separa-
ton fifteen days after the wedding and had been
awaiting her divorce exactly fifty years.
Miss JOSIE SHEPHERD daughter of Mrs. William
j. Florence who is said to have inherited the talents
of her mother besides pleasing mezzosoprano voice.
has been engaged to support Lolita during the APP
preaching season It will be her first appearance in
public though she has often sung and acted in private
with success.
THERE seems to be good deal Of eternal fitness in
the way things are managed on this mundane sphere
after all Thomas A. Edison the inventor of several
systems Of electrical wonders and Hello! machines, is
stone deaf, and is said to chuck himself under the
chin because the noise and confusion occasoned by
the wheels of progress cannot reach his inner con-
seriousness.
THE manager of a travelling theatrical company has
had printed on his handbils poem telling how the
sunny land, oh, the summer South, is to him ''as
tender as mist at sea- as fruitful the purple vine
He declares that the Southron was faithful when
faith seemed another for suicide, not weakly
shrinking from the field but bravely meeting death
with PRIDE The fact is that he means to venture
South with anti-slavery play of the Uncle Toms
Cabin" kind
THE bastinado is still one of the authorized punish
ments in Egypt and is terrible that the silent
and much-enduring Arabs with pain after the
first few strokes First the victim is laid his face
on stone and held there firmly. Then his legs are
raised until the fat soles Of his feet uppermost
and secured in that position The lash is species of
cat; but with FIVE strands instead of nine and it
stngs and cuts frightfuy. The torture is inflicted
for very slight ofenses and mains the sufferer for
many days.
Mr.. r. w. GIDLER editor of the Century writes to
the Boston Traveller st is untrue that Mrs. Burnett
altered the finale of her story Through One Admins
tration) at his ttbe edtors'sl request. Whatever
criticism he may have made did not apply to the
finale Mrs. Burnett wrote tentrely Of her notion,
two endings of the novel, and asked the editor to
choose between them. This he, in a perfectly
friendly spirit refused to do and Mrs. Burnett used
the ending she herself liked best. Mrs. Burnett ex-
poets to resume her work for the magazine as
her health permits
BUT few of the eminent chemists now in Philadel-
phia with the Association for the Advancement of
Science says the Philadelphia Ledger, ARE more
expert than was Professor Robert E. Rogers whose
death was announced on Sunday. He was one of the
distinguished brotherhood. In his own speciality of
chemistry he equally at home in the literature of
that comprehensive science in the research and DEM
onstration of the laboratory and as teacher in the
college class room and he was withal most genial
and accomplished gentleman, whose decease cannot
be allowed to pass without public expression of re-
greet" ~. er,..ss
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has received proposition
looking to his continuance in politics 1t in the
form of letter, accompanied by the photograph of
notably pretty girl dressed strangely. From neck to
knees the garb may have been in accord with pre-
vailing fashion. but at the lower point mentioned
there distinct departure from the ordinary skirt
IA divergence into trousers. But these termini of
pantaloons scarcely masculine inasmuch they
like drapery in being full of plats and saggings.
The epistle said that the costume illustrated pro-
posed reform in the dress Of Ultimately, the
conventional skirt would be discarded altogether and
the divided one wholly disclosed. And did not Mr..
Arthur feel like becoming the causes championi His
innate gaantry. his early freedom from the of
Office and the obligations of party, his of right
and justice-these and other arguments were set
forth,