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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
Literary Notes.

John Adams is the subject of the next volum,
in the American Statesmen series" Mr.
Morse, the editor of the series, is the writer O
the volume.
The Sultan, "in testimony of high ~satisfac
ton" with Mr.. Edwin rnold's "Pearls Of Faith
as a poetical exposition of the religion of Islam
has conferred on him the order Of the Osmanl
Of the third degree.
The article on Sir Robert Peel for the forth
coming volume of the Encyclopaedia Britain
nicao has been written by Mr.. Goodwin Smith
and Mr.. Parker, member of Parliament, has
undertaken to revise it.
Lieutenant John Bigelow, U. S. A, has in
press a volume of military studies on some lead
ing battles of the last French war. The princi
pal feature of this work will be original maps OF
special use to military students.
About's wealth is estimated at 81 ,000, 900, and
his novels, essays, newspapers and good invest
ments are credited with the production of it.
His wife's dowry was only $40, 900. With this
he purchased the house in the Rue de Douai in
which he lives.
Mr.. Robert Browning will issue q new volume.
consisting Of twelve poems in blank verse, in the
course of the spring. Each poem will be indie
pendent, and yet a connecting thread of thought
will run through the whole book, making it form
one poem, with a lyrical prologue and epilogue.
1t is stated in Literary Life that an author in
Cleveland recently received the following note
from a female writer living in another city:
Will you kindly inform me whether you are go
ing to avow the authorship of The Bread Win
nersP If not, let me know, as l desire to inform
the public that | am the author"
Mr., Julian Hawthorne writes pointedly and
we'll on Literature for Children in the last
number of the North American Review. His
plea is for more child life and more children
!. e., fewer manikins, homunculi, grown-up
babies that discuss the transcendental philoso-
ply in slips and trundle syllogisms instead of
hoops.
An exceedingly interesting article on Kairwan
tho sacred city of Tunis, only recently opened
to Christian Internationally A. F. Jackassy,
with fifteen illustrations from drawings of the
author, will appear in Harper's for May. In
Colonel Higginson's THE Era of Good Feel
ing in the same number, there will be full
page portraits of James Monroe and Henry Clay.
OF f. D. Maurices novel it is said that one of
his friends, whose habit it was to speak in
superlatives, declared that, "If it had not had
the most villainous plot that had ever been con
structed, it would have been the best novel that
had ever been written" Another: why,
Maurice, how on earth did you ever come to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
NITRO-GLYCERINE
Something About the Explosive Compound
Which Causes So Many Accidents.

Philadelphia Press.
Nitro glycerine, which caused the disaster on
Saturday, is believed to be the most powerful
explosive known. vt ordinary temperature it is
an oily liquid, with a specific gravity of l.6, 1t
does not mix with water and is unaffected by it.
1t has a sweet taste and produces a violent head
ache when its fumes are inhaled or it is placed
upon the tongue. The chemical theory of its
explosion is simple. 1t is formed from glycer-
inc, which is composed of carbon, hydrogen and
oxygen, by the use of nitric acid, which intro.
duces into it a number of atoms of nitrogen and
oxygen, in feeble combination, in place of part
of the original hydrogen. The nitrogen holds
the oxygen but feebly, so that a slight shock
destroys the equilibrium. The resulting com
bustion and sudden formation of expansive
gases produces the explosion.
To nitro glycerine, freely exposed, flame can
be applied, when it will burn slowly, without ex-
plos;On. That is. it has done so, but the expert
ment is not frequent. The nitro-glycerine while
IN process of manufacture in the miXing-kettle
at the RepaunO works, had twice before ignited,
and had both times burned harmlessly away.
This fact doubtless made the men who were en-
gagged in the experiment on Saturday reckless,
and when the mixture in the kettle began to
give off fumes-the y~ellowish fumes which pre-
cede combustion-they did not hurry the re
treat from the nitro glycerine house.
The transportation of nitro glycerine, unlike
dynamite, is dangerous. 1t can be conveniently
stored in earthen jars, with a layer of water on
top. For transportation it is usually put into
strong tin cans, holding about forty or fifty
pounds, and, when possible, frozen. 1t has
been largely used in the oil regions, for ''shoot-.
ing wells, and in early years of the petroleum
excitement its Transports lion was reckless. 1t
was usually carried through the wilderness IL
spring buggies, driven by men who cared little
for their own lives or those of others. The
drivers of these nitro-glycerine wagons were
forbidden to carry the dangerous stuff. through
towns, and it is an old story that on one oe-
casion an attempt was made in one of the mush-
room cities in the oil region to stop and arrest
one of these men. The driver raised a can in
his hand and shouted to the men who had
seized his horses head: 'Let go, or I'll blow
you and your town off the earth" He was al
lowed to proceed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
A Bit of Theatrical Scandal.
From Olive Logan's London Letter.

From OIIVe LOgan's London Letter,
There is an actor and actress now travelling in
the United States, in separate companies, and
whose lives are now, l believe, divided, who
were installed in a charming residence together
in London a year or two ago. Both these crea-
lures were young and beautiful, and we're sup
posed to be much in love with each other; but
their love was of that sound, practical kind
which did not allow sentiment to stand in the
way of profit. On receipt of information from
certain high quarters, it is said, the woman was
wont to telegraph her actor-lover at his theater:
Dear Georgy, don't come home to-day. Ton is
coming Ton was the nickname of Il name
less admirer of great weight in royal and politi-
cal circles. And .Georgy9 kept away.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
The --latest Form of Gambling.


Brooklyn Eagle.
Matching is in vogue for everything magma
BILE, from IA peanut to a billiard table. 1t IS partic-
larly rampant in Wall street. / know n broker
who matches his boot-black every afternoon
whether he shall pay him 10 cents or nothing,
and it is no unusual sight to see men of un-
questioned wealth matching with each other at
the elevated railroad station TO see who shall
pay the fares uptown. Fully one-half the men
yell something about head or tail" when they
approach the bar at Delmonico's, and it is Il
common sight uptown at night to see three or
four men in the Brunswick or Hoffman House
matching phlegmatically for a dollar a clip for
an hour at a time. | know an Office clerk in a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09

nTIHVTV NFVVIdT,
The Hon. Will Cumback, of Indiana, deliver
ed ON Saturday evening, at Helm Hall, his great
lecture Invisible Some People" in which he
fairly illustrated that we have not gotten far
away from the days Of witches as is commonly
supposed. His lecture was full of pith and was
pointed with satire, and was gracefully warmed
with humor that held his audience closely at
%tentive. On Sunday morning at the Christian
to Inherit Eternal LITER This lecture was
wholly different from the first, and produced an
admirable effect. The people here will be glad
to greet Mr.. Cumback again when opportunity
may occur.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
A valuable sheet-Iron Hen.
Chicago Inter Ocean.

VHINHkV IHNVT VNVNus
Charlie Kugle, an ingenious fellow in Barnes
vile, o., has constructed a sheet-iron hen which
promises to lay him a golden egg. 1t is finished
up to life, full size, cackles, clucks, and looks
with one eye at a time so naturally that it will
deceive the Oldest hen-hawk in the country. 1t is
so arranged that when a hawk, mink or polecat
pounces on it the back springs open and the
wings fly up and force the assailant onto u
ravenous buzz-saw, which makes !, 700 revolu-
tions per minute. After moving half a minute
the saw stops, the hen closes up, folds its wings,
and begins to cackle as though it had just laid
an egg. One winding-up will answer for three
massacres. providing the rather delicate ma
blood bones and feathers. He set a y frnshIW
painted one out in the sun to dry. which attracted
the attention of a fine old cat belonging to a
doctor who had been poking a great deal Of fun
at the fool thing. The hen is there, but the cat
is hence,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
Restrictive Temperance Legislation.

Rev. Theo- L. Cuyler, in Harper's Weekly.
One significant fact must not be lost sight of:
The re %strictiye legislation against dram-shops
has seldom or never been gained by the creation
of a third party" The Legislatures that have
passed prohibitory enactments general or local.
have either been decidedly Democratic, as in
Maine, Georgia and South Carolina, or else de-
cidedly Republican, as in Vermont and in Kan
sas. A third party, founded on this single idea,
has never attained to the control of a majority.
1t is not even a make weight in legislation, for
it 50 seldom succeeds in electing members of
legislative bodies. The temperance idea is exert
ing an increasingly powerful influence within
both the great parties; but it is not likely to Gre
ate a permanent and dominant third party in
any State of our Union.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
The French Investigation.
Michigan City Enterprise.

WIVHIgHH OIIJ IHltIV II51'
The white-washing process through which Su-
perintendent French, of the railway mail service,
was recently put by the five postmasters APP
pointed to investigate his pusillanimous conduct
was a most miserable piece of work. In the at
tempt of the commission to cover over the dirty
tricks of the man, their solution of Stacked lime
and water was altogether too thin, and even then
was only put on in spots. As a result the ap-
pearance of the petty tyrant' is worse than be
fore, as the white3 spots only tend to make more
investigation, as conducted and in its results, is
an insult to the service.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
Alleged Bribery in Boston.

Boston, April S.-Wm. r.. Simmonds, chair
man Of the water board, having accused D.
Brainerd Spooner, among others, with having
attempted to bride certain officials Of the old
water meter by the city, Spooner denied that he
attempted. directly or indirectly, to induce any
person to favor that meter, and asked that Sim
monds produce the documentary evidence which
the latter threatened Simmonds produced
three documents, bearing among other sigma
lures, that of Spooner, SpOoner says the trans
action does not bear the complexion of bribery
and that he can explain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
Killed by a Street Gamin.

LOUISVILLE, April S.-Robert Johnston. a
well known horse trainer, died carly this morn
ing from the effect of a blow with a stone thrown
at him, yesterday, by a negro boy named Jeety.
The boy had held Johnston's horse, and,
not receiving compensation, picked up a rock
and struck him. Johnston is a brother-in-law of
Barney McAulcy, the actor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
Still at Work.


Our versatile friend, Col. S. Romeo Reed, has
contributed to the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette during the past week able editorials on
the following topics: l, The Moral of the
Riot; II, The Lesson of the Hour; III, All
Honor to the Mob; ", AnHonor to the Militia;
V, Cincinnati and Socialism; VI, Is a Revolu-
ton Imminent; VII, A New Court House. We
are reliably informed that Col. Reed will not re-
sumo his reminiscences of the var of the re-
bellion until he has exhausted the entire sub
ject of the Cincinnati riots, which will not be
much before the middle of next December.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
After Twenty Years.


Mr.. James Morpheus, well known in Clarke
county, has been absent for twenty years, and
long since believed to be dead, arrived here
Saturday, well and hearty, surprising his rela-
tives and friends. He claims he was kidnapped
in Louisville a short time after General Nc
Pherson was killed and taken to Baltimore,
where he was tried and convicted of the charge
of shooting Mcpherson, and sentenced to prison.
Having served out his long sentence, he has
returned after twenty years to live out the re-
mainder of his days among his relatives.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
General Lees Daughters.

Washington Letter in st. LOuis SPECTATOR.
The daughters were Mary, Annie, Mildred and
Agnes. Annie died during the war, and is buried
at White Sulphur Springs, in North Carolina, and
Agnes died after the war. and sleeps beside her
father and mother at Lexington, Va. Mary and
Mildred are living, and make their home with
their brother Gusts, who succeeded his father as
president of the Washington University, at Lex
ington. Miss Mary has travelled ali over the
world since the war, and both are most intelli-
gent ladies, Neither of the daughters ever mar
lin6
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
Relieves MIR. Matterson.


81, IVUIs NIUDt- UtWOCIdI.
1t is announced that Mr.. Joseph Medill has
succeeded that fiery Tybalt, Watterson, as agent
in Washington for the purpose of bracing up
and otherwise caring for the ''star-eyed goddess
of reform" Mr.. Medill is an improvement ON
his predecessor in the fact that he is less emo
tional and blue grassy; but he is not a humorist
as Watterson is, and therefore his bulletins will
not be read with the general avidity that is de
sirable in a case where the fate of a FACILITATING
goddess with astronomical organs of sight is in
the hands of a lot of Democratic politicians.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
DIR. De La Martyrs Conversion.

Philadelphia Press.
Rev, De La Matyr, the whilom Greenback
congressman, now has charge of a fashionable
Methodist church in Denver. and has run all of
the old time nasal psalm singers out of it by in
PRODUCING a new orchestra, composed of two
violins, bass VOL and three brass pieces. Rev.
Gilbert evidently thinks that David meant what
he wrote about praising the Lord with trum-
pets and upon an instrument of two strings.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
John FaIstafl's Question.


Detroit Times.
In Chicago there is one saloon to every thirty
FIVE families and one bakery to every 40 fami-
lies. In the language of the immortal Zscariah
Chandler, What in the world do they want of
all that breadlr
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
Our Diplomacy a Failure.


Pittsburg Dispatch.
When Mr.. Lowell discovers that he has been
betrayed into presenting an improper person to
the Queen, and Bismarck refuses to shake
hands with Sargent, the gloomy suspicion arises
in the American mind that our diplomacy is a
failure.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
The Village Postmaster.
Veedersburg Reporter

1 am an extensive patron of this Office, have
known it in its infancy and the postmaster in the
prime of his manhood. l have seen how pleas
antly and courteously he would wait on the patrons
of the Office, after taking off his leather apron,
laying down the shoe, pegging-awl and hammer,
and all this for about ST. per year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09

Hardly anything is more depraving than strong
drink. Its victim goes down, down, down tc
the very depths of depravity. He islost to every
feeling of honor, ambition and manhood. In a
word, he is a wreck. Yet, he can be saved by
DR.. DUnger's Cinchona Rubra. DR.. DUnger,
243 State street, Chicago, will promptly respond
to any inquiries by mail IN this subject.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
ono OF the Tew Great Mem.

Philadelphia Chronicle-Telegrap
General U. 5. Grant is one of the few men
whose reputation does not tarnish with age.
He has failings' enough to be a mortal's brother
and virtues enough to place his memory in the
Pantheon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
An Easy Lesson.


FHIlNUtTVnTW FTtss.
Senator Lamar, of Mississippi, is going to pre-
sent the reasons why negroes at the South don't
vote the Republican ticket. The picture of a
shotgun would be the most graphic way the Sen
atnr could put it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
MARRIED.

ELSTER-AYRES-At the residence Of D. G..
Ayres. 491 Ash street, April 7, 1891, Mr.. Albert c.
Elster, of Columbus, Ohio, aud Miss Mary O.. Ayres.
of indianapolis, Rev. r. +. Neighbor, pastor of the
North Baptist Church, officiating.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
Magazines.


The American Antiquarian contains papers
on WHO Were the Mound Builders9" Lectures
on Polytheism, y Monaghan Ruins, " etc.
The Bay State Monthly republishes in fac
smile Webster's noted Fourth of July grafton,
pronounced at Hanover, N. H., July 4, 1900.
The Sanitarian for April, among other con
tents, has papers on: art and Science of San
itation, T Typhoid Fever i'll Cities, " 'Milk Food, ="
House Sanitation" Prevention of Puerperal
Fever etc.
The Art Union is invaluable alike to amateurs
and professionals in a~ffOrding not only fine illus
t~rations, but excellent suggestions from sources
of acknowledged authority. The sketches pre-
scented in the April number are good.
The Musical Herald BOSTON, gives an illus
trated history of the origin of the dulcimer. In
addition to this, it has articles on the structure
of the orchestra, the @olian harp, musical cul-
ture, technique and its relation to piano play
ing, etc. The Musical Herald is one of the best
and most helpful of publications of its kind.
The English Illustrated Magazine contains a
series of engravings illustrating the region of
Charing Cross, London, copies of many early
prints being reproduced. one of 1919, showing
the nearness of cultivated fields and country
hedges. The illustrated sketch, 'An Unsenti
mental Journey Through Cornwall" is con
tinued, and an illustrated sketch entitled THE
Belfry of Bruges," is also given.
The Presbyterian Review for April has the
following contents: "Rev. DR.. James Richards
and His Theology, by Prof. Ransom B. WEIGH,
D. D., LII. D.; 9TH Ontological Argument for
the Divine Existence Prof William G. T..
Shedd, d. D, Ii. D.; '"The Unity of the Apoca-
lypse, with especial reference to DR.. VOTERS
structures, Prof Benjamin B. Warfeld, D. D.;
''The Consensus of the Reformed Confessions
Prof. A. A. Hodge, D.. D., Lii. D.; CDR. Stan
ton on Healing Through Faith, Rev. Marvin r.
Vincent, D.. d.. The last-named paper is of pc
culiar interest, discussing as it does the merits
of the question: Is there such a thing as Divine
interposition in earthly affairs in answer to
inraVer2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
When He Would Have to Swear.

MITWaukte btHtIntI.
They say the Postmaster general is an "emo-
tional" man. 1t is fortunate he is not a st.
Paul business man receiving his letters after
business hours. This isa thing calculated to
make an emotional man swear.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09

well-known brokers' firm, who returned from
England a month ago, has, by matching dollars,
cleared over 5000 in three weeks. Men match
for luucheons, hats, canes and theater tickets.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09

DURKEEs Salad Dressing is composed Of the
freshest. purest and choicest condiments money
will buy. 1t surpasses any that can be made at
home, is cheaper, saves labor and all anxiety.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
W ards Cream of Chalk,

Aromatic Rose Flavor, will give you pearly teeth,
rosy gums and sweet breath. Price, 3 cents.
Druggists. Browning s. Sloan, agents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09

To-NGGHT the IL. /. boys present the Fan En-
march, a burlesque on the Phantom march. A
novel sight is looked for. Ladies will be charged
10 cents admission.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
THE CEHTAUR COMPANY

To the science of medicine the world is indebted
overmuch. What Hippocrates rudely commenced
400 years B. c. has been steadily improved upon, un.
til mortality among children has decreased one-half,
and the average life of man has been nearly doubled.
When about thirty years ago@Dr. Pitcher, warning
against dangerous narcotic medicines, discovered the
formula of vegetable Castoria he recorded a scientific
advance, which has been adopted by millions of moth
ers, and by liberal physicians everywhere. Castoria
is not, as some supposed, a secret remedy. It's for.
mula is published with each bottle. 1t contains no
morphine or other injurious ingredient and is now as
regularly prescribed as p~aregoric and Castor oil once
were. If Csstoria We're removed from use, no other
known prescription could fill its place. Mothers will
be pleased to know that a part of the money they this
year pay for this invaluable remedy will be loaned to
the Goddess of Liberty to enlarge the patriotism of
their children.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
Liberty Enlightening the World

Is to be of bronze, and, when mounted in.
80 80 - On It's base
and pedestal, Will eaten me breeze at the height of
three hundred and twenty-nine feet. The head meas
ures 14l2 feet; the index finger 8 feet, and the nose
33f feet. Twelve persons can sit within the torch,
and forty persons within the head.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09

This commanding figure is to stand upon one of the
small islands in the beautiful bay Of New York. Its
electric torch will rise above the surrounding spires,
towers and hills, and cast its beacon light sixty miles
upon the sea, and distil its e~nnobling influence
throughout the homes Of fifty million people. Our
citizens have been asked for two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars to erect a fitting foundation and
pedestal on which the statue shall stand. Only one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars have yet been
raised. 1t was to stimulate subscriptions for this in.
ternational work that we made the following PROPOSE
ton;