The Indianapolis journal., 1884-05-03

Cincinnati Commercial Gazette four,
the Indianapolis Journal two, the Times
Star Cincinnati, two, and so on.
These requests will all be submitted to the
national committee at it's next meeting, and the
committee will, no doubt, do all that it to
accommodate those desiring to make daily re-
ports by telegraph.
1t will probably not be possible to accommodate
all that may apply, and the daily paper that will
not send special telegraphic report each day
should not be entitled to any more consideration
than weekly paper. But all this for the
committee to determine when the applications
are presented, and the journal does not assume
to say what action the committee may take 1t
| has only endeavored to answer the many in
quiries sent it, in accordance with what it sup
poses will be the probable necessary action of
the national committee. The discrimination be-
tween daily and weekly newspapers is a necessity
| and not an arbitrary choice
NEW HAVEN has at least one sensible father,
whose, example might be followed by others.
The other day his daughter. aged eighteen,
wearying Of the humdrum ways of II motherless
home concluded to run off, not to the bad. but
as an escapade tinged with the flavor of ad-
venture and romance. She put on her brother S
clothes-a deal too big for her-pulled his cap
! over her dancing eyes and sallie1 forth to sec
| what would happen. 1t was raining when she
| started. and, girl-like, she took an umbrella.
She walked four miles, to North Haven where
she took the cars for Hartford There
she took the train for Springfield, where
her money gave out Having hazy idea that
! boys frequently "beat" their way trains, and
! jumping at the conclusion that all she had to do
was to get on and cheek it through, she boarded
| the for Boston. Her sex was dis
| covered, and she was put off at Palmer Mass,
where she was held until her father came after
her. When he came he was as she says,
pleasant about the matter" Hello. runaway, ;
said he, ''are you herelr She laughed and said
that she was, and he took her home, having
brought her proper clothes with him. Talking
about her escapade, she said
II enjoyed myself highly. The mistake
made was in putting on boys clothes. / was
afraid to go alone dressed in womans clothes; but
if ever go away again will let the boys clothes
part alone. / wanted to go to Boston, because
| there are so many things to see there. | was
somewhat tired of housekeeping. 1t is too tire
some and monotonous. was sorry when
reached Springfield that was not in my own
clothes, so that could go to work up there in a
|
pleased to be back"
| This will doubtless end her experiments in that
| direction. The father evidently has confidence
| in her, and man as agreeable as he, is not bad
one to stay with. He has not humihated her,
she knows she has his love and respect, and she
will not leave him very long at a time nor go very
far away. St Louis girls, who have a habit of
leaving home every now and then, should study
this incident to their profit,
ANY young person who wishes to become a
copyist or assistant clerk. or other subordinate
employe in the courts of New York, will find it
necessary to first answer long series of ques
| tions He will be required TO define such words
as fork, friable, cotton-gin, segs and palladium
to give a brief but grammatical and analytical
disquisiton on the English language, to name
| ten great nations before the time of the Greeks
to mention what was the nation which first
traded with Britain and why; to give synopsis
of the early history of this country, including
the names of the colonists and dates of their ar.
rival He will also be asked, among other things
to mention the ten Governors of New York, pre-
ceding the present one, besides the former and
present Governors of several other States. To
show what he can do in mathematical way he
will be requested to compute the interest at 1-2
per cent. ON what he believes to be the national
debt of the United States, and to show his
method of working the same. After he has an
| swered these eonundrums and more like them
| the following collection of words will be given
him to analyze and parse
SAT the middle of night very dark, a blind
was walk in the streets with light on the
hand and full jar upon the back. Some one
which ran to meet him, and surprised of that
light simple that you are told him, what serve
you this light9 The night and the day are not
| them the same thing to you!-It is not for me-
was answering the blind, that bring this light it
| is to the and that the gddies which seem to you
do not come to run against me, and make to
break my jar
There is no doubt that the civil service of New
York needs reforming but there seems proba-
bility that the persons who can answer this re-
markable series of questions already en-
gagged in occupations more lucrative than can be
found in county or city offices. Civil-service
reform conducted by men of common sense is
one thing; managed by pedantic simpletons it
is another, and its success not to be expected or
| hoped for.
One woman lives, in New York, who refuses
to talk even at the command of court, and she
knows secret too which all the lawyers are
trying to find out. Now that they can't find it
| out, they say it isn't much Of a secret anyway
and is mmaterial to the case, but the fact re-
mains that the woman has the better of them.