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The Indianapolis journal., 1884-11-09

bit of scarlet silk. With "wickedlooking knife he
sliced off this little pimple he had raised The wound
was quickly bound up and inverted silver cone was
placed over it to press down exactly into thu
center of it. The fair patient to have it dressed
on five successive days, and then the wound was
found to be completely healed, and the silver conc
was removed and there, enough, was the pretti
est little dImple in the world
Mrs. GARFIELD was swindled out of $40 by a con
fdence man in Cleveland Tuesday. The rascal
called at the Garfield residence and after little de-
lay, admitted as Y. NJ. C. A young man He
sought contribution to the fund of that institution
Mrs. Garfield said she had intended doing something
for the association, and might well do it then al
later. The young man continued to talk while she
wrote the check, and she bowed him out he was
still talking. When he had gone, suspicion took the
place of confidence and she teephoned to the rooms
of the Y NJ G A. She received the response that ne
one who could have called at that time had any
authority to collect money for the association She
at once notified the bank refuse to cash the check
but it was too late 1t had been cashed.
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ducing its great debt at the rate of 800, O0O,-
900 annually, while the annual interest ac-
count has been cut down from $3.50, 900, 900
to less than one third of that sum. The only
complaint has been that 1--WE are paying the
debt too fast" and the surplus in the national
treasury is too large-a circumstance never
known in former times. Well situated as in
dividuals, and rich as nation, the American
people are peculiarly blessed. If pub
lie affairs be as well managed in the future
as in the recent past, there is no reason to
fear that we shall not soon find ourselves free
from debt, and with taxes reduced to a very
low rate. With the incubus of human slavery
lifted off and the energy of free and enlight-
ened labor substituted in the South, that por-
ton of the Nation is steadily rising in wealth
and manufacture, and North and South must
inevitably grow into closer fellowship as the
business interests of each mingle. 1t is but
proper that spirit Of gratitude should pre-
vail for the excellent things entailed by the
government since the stormy days of 1861.
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A Remarkable Mirage.

Los Angeles Herald.
just before the rain on Sunday, Oct. u when
the clouds hung low on the Sierra Madre, and
the air was heavily charged with vapor there
was a rare sight in Crescent Canada The
Sierra was hidden from view and the upper side
of La Canada, by the refraction of light seemed
lifted up about six thousand feet occupying the
topmost height of the mountains. The ranch of
Colonel T. S. Hall was most conspicuously
exalted. His eucalyptus trees appeared to be
in the very skies. while his neighbors
along the upper mesa were also elevated to a
strange, weird, and fantastic height The spec
tacle continued for nearly two hours, when it
slowly faded away, and the landscape settled
down again apparently about 5000 feet, to Its
normal condition. The sight was rare and OF
absorbing interest to all who beheld it 1t is
not often that the refraction of light is so in
tense in its manifestation as in this case, and
the occasion is deserving of more than passing
notice. In horizontal distance of two and one
half miles there was q manifested elevation OF
more than ~ mile. To familiar with the
features of the country the sight WIS especially
interesting
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bright as any that ever swathed the earth in
sunshine. The trade that is dull this week
may be better next. Enjoy the satisfaction
of hoping so, at any rate Put your trust in
humanity, and ask its confidence in return.
As rule, it will pay. You may be
disappointed occasionally, and you may
be inclined to be cynical but don't
give way to it. The genial man is
the flower in the garden of life. 1t is
admired and songht after; its presence is a
benison, its absence loss to all concerned
Good feelings bring good looks A contented
mind and happy disposition build up and de-
velop the body. Physical beauty is almost
certain to follow moral and mental excellence.
Try it. Live some for others, for those who
know and love you, and for all the world. A
smile is better than frown, laugh better
than a sigh. Heaven bless the wholesome
man, for he blesses all.
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The Premier and the Queen.

Correspondence with Queen Victoria by letter
is one of the Prime Minister'S regular and
almost daily duties When there has been an
important division or debate in Parliament, and
members are fastening home tired, to bed, the
Premier alone can take no rest until he has
written to the Queen his official report of the
proceedings. These letters are ccuched in the
third person: Mr. Gladstone presents his duty
to your Majesty, etc." and her Majesty's re-
plies, usually dictated to secretary, also run in
the third person. Though never discussive,
but often enter succinctly into the question at
ISSUE The Queen devOtes several hours every
morning to the study of state business, and her
time is no longer wasted now as it was during
the first twenty-fv years of her reign by hav-
ing to sign all commissions for the army and
navy. In 1862 an act relieved her of this
tedious task. She was in that year still en-
gagged in signing the commissions of the year
1870
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Rev. w. H. H. Murray in His Cafe.

Montreal Letter.
[ visited Rev. w. Fl. H Murray's cafe yester-
day, The ex parson was cooking oysters, and
the blonde haired, voluptuous woman who is his
right bower stood behind the bar. called heI
to me and told her was an American who would
like to speak to Mr. Murray.
Murray came up smiling, and at re-
marked to me and my companions: Gentle
men, | guess nobody will eat these oysters un
less you do. am glad to see you" He served
the oysters.
Il don't know as you remember me- but once
had the privilege of paying you $3.50 for lecture
in Lewiston" said I.
'Oh, yes; I remember speaking there" said
he
And, by the way, those oysters were scrump-
tious. never ate anything like them. They
were cooked IN eggs some way. After while /
SAID to the famous man who cooked them:
Pardon me, Mr.. Murray, but want to tell
you how feel at seeing you here. 1 know that
you once had the power of standing before an
audience of 5000 or 1000 people, and actually
making better men and women of them. II
seems to me that when you recall what you have
been you must feel pretty blue. 1 would if l
were IN your place"
'Oh! I'm coming out all right. You'll hear Of
me again" said he, without the least symptom Of
remorse, or of an uncomfortable sensation. I'm
as good as any of them, he added ''There isn't
an honest minister in the country"
He keeps temperance ranch, and is making
money, they say.
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two salutes made her accessory to the act and
on the fourth kiss, the parson should have had
her arrested for assault and battery
Louisville street cars are inscribed with the
anomalstic injunction: Gentlemen are re-
quested not to spit on the loor" This should be
amended to read: Doors are forbidden TO" etc
English tricycle. riders are fined if they ride
their machines on the sidewalks 1t is only in
the land of the free and the home of the brave
that timid people have to climb fences and lamp
posts to get out Of the way of this noble inven-
ton.
1t is not so much Cleveland's lack of ideas to
which intelligent people object as his lack of
ability to keep the public from discovering his
mental poverty Intellect is not so manifest in
showing how much you know, as in keeping a
dead secret how much you don't know.
A magnetic BOY has been discovered in Vir-
gnia. He is only twelve years old, and it is sol
emnly asserted thathe kept heavy table suspend
ed in the air for an hour. That's mere trife to
US in Indiana, who have seen lots of boys not
twelve days old keep whole house up all night.
1t aronses strange sensations to read that
a telegraph Office has been opened at
Bethlehem. What wondrously beautiful
picture would be missing from sacred history if
the wise men could have telegraphed M to
Bethlehem, instead of riding their patient cam
els over the silver sand in the wake of a shining
star.
The dignity of political warfare is well under
stood in St Louis. Dr. MCLEAN, the famous
pill man, aspired to Congress from that district,
and in so doing, pulled whole drug store over
on himself, the opposition journals referring to
him daily as "Old Souills" "Old Opodedoc, I"
"Old Paregoric," cold Bolus," "Old Vermifuge, "
"Old Assafotida" 'Old EPSON, and so on.
An idiotc girl who died recently in an asylum
at Hamburg possessed the singular gift of
changing the color of her hair according to the
state Of her mind. In periods of composure her
hair was of dull color; when excited it became
reddish, and her i1iotic fits were indicated by it
assuming blonde tint A mean man says that
if this prophetic variability of color could be ac-
quired by sane women everywhere, what a
wealth of valuable danger signals the average
married man would enjoy2
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Ice Worms.



Not content with discovering many species of
ugly auimalcuB in our drinking wafer, the sci-
entists propose to fan the opposition against ST.
John to a fercer heat by asserting that even the
ice with which the Schuylkill water is cooled foE
drinking swarms with disagreeable worms. AZ
the last meeting of the Academy of Natural
Sciences the president, DR.. Joseph Leidy, stated
that member had recently given to him for ex
animation a vial of water obtained by melting
ice used for cooling drinking water. The MEM
Der who submitted the vial had noticed living
worms in the sediment of water cooler, but
had supposed that they were contained in the
water. Upon melting soma of the ice, however,
the worms were still observed. These worms,
which were from four to six milimetres long
and coorless. belong to the same family as the
common earth worms-the lumbricidse. Their
bodies have thirty segments bearing spines. Be
sides this cheerful discovery, Prof. Leidy found
in the vial several dead worms with large ciliated
infusorians. vegetable hairs and other debris.
1t has been supposed that ice was free from the
impurities of the water upon whose surface it
was frozen, but this discovery is, against that
theory.
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LOVE-LETTERS.

In the light of the recent public exposition
of Lord Lytton's infamed and unreserved
epistles to his Gown dearest fondest, darling
est, angelest poodle" the apprehensive mind
forecasts melancholy future which may re-
suit in the possible decadence, and perhaps
total disappearance from the civilized world Of
that noble and ancient institution, the love
letter. There is, fortunately, no law to pre-
prehensible affection which we call love from
lavishing on the beloved one, through the me-
dium of written epistles, the most ardent and
unlimited endearments which can be wrested
from the English language. Indeed, the more
wild and rapturous the epistolary ejacula-
tions of the stricken parties, the stronger the
evidence that their afhicton is genuine and
not simulated; but there should be a law, and
that stringent one, forbidding, under pen
statute, the publication of such letters,
even under the most aggravating or
extenuating circumstances. "Tis love
that makes the world go round; and
since the expression of any intense feeling is
almost as irrepressble as that feeling itself, it
is an ungrateful world which will not throw
its most sacred protection around every detail
of an institution upon whose welfare its own
existence necessarily depends. Fancy the
Il D,,1..
the stately, the elegant, would experience if
he could see himself appearing to q scoffing
world as the author of letters signed 100 own
puppy" and representing himself as wagging
his imaginary tail with joy at the prospective
meeting with the mistress of his affection.
If such ignomny could be meted out to
genius, the thought of what the fate of
ordinary individuals might be must give us
pause But if prose writing prove hazardous,
the poet we have always with us, and in this
critical period of impending danger his mis-
sion finds its truest Interpretation. If there
footstool, it is the poet. He can soar
outside Of all civic and national limits
any time he takes notion, and nobody
watches him to see where he comes down. or
questions his right to reappear, at however a
distant date, and assume the full rights of cit
izenship. He alone can express his souls
deepest emotions without fear of ridicule, or
any danger of being held for damages. To
him, therefore. in this hour of peril, must the
world look. On his facie pen and winged i'm
agination hangs the future of the love-letter
what we dare not say in prose he shall weave
for us in wondrous verse, and without the in
currence, near or remote, of modification or
disaster. He can voice for us the most init
mate experiences of our souls, and no living
court or public tribunal have anything to tie
to in case of prosecution. Halcyon days are
ahead. Poetical love-letters, written to range
from the first alarming futterings of the mys-
tical messenger to his final triumphant estab-
lishment on the throne of the loved ones
heart, will be for sale in every book mart and
on every corner The world shall still go
round and the old, old fashion of the love-
letter shall not become obsolete until old
Time himself has passed over into eternity.
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There is no change in the situation Both
committees claim New York State. The Re-
publican committee assert they have evidence
of frauds and miscounts that will show that
the State is for Blaine. Nothing def
mite and determinate can be known until
the official canvass is promulgated. In the
meantime, it is useless and productive of
trouble for people to stand about the streets in
crowds yelling and hooting. Business and
quiet should be at once resumed and allow the
orderly processes of the law to work out the
final result.
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A Puzzle for sanitarians.

Howdon. dirty, desolate, unsavory village on
the river Tyne is setting at defiance all the the
ories of sanitation Its inhabitants live and
thrive with open cutters running through tine
center of some of the streets with an nade-
quate water supply. and with houses condemned
at wholesale as unfit for human habitation. AS
an illustration of the longevity of its people
under adverse conditions, the fact is noted that
a boy was born the other day who had four
great grandparents and five great tgreat-grand
parents alive. each OF whom was in active work.
earning his or her own livelihood.
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Nntes and Queries.

Notes aud Queries.
There are in many languages proverbs relating
to the sad fact that it is not always the laborer
that reaps the fruits of his work. This is often
enough the case with literary research. One
man does the work. but another steps in at the
last moment and appropriates its most precious
results. ~ labor runs the Tamudc proverb,
''4nd thou fndest the pearl"
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SPECIAL BARGAINS
THIS WEEK.

One lot of Children's Suits,
ages 4 to 10, marked down
to $1.90.
One line (about 75) Children's
Gray Melton Kilt Overcoats,
worth So, for $1,50.
Boys extra heavy lined Jeans
Pants, cheap at 81, we offer
at rs cents.
Our 81 Mems Jeans Pants
equal anything sold else
where for $1.50.
Men and Boys Underwear, at
%, 80 and so cents, that as
tonishes everyone at the supe-
rior qualities we offer at such
low prices.
Mems Everyday Suits, medium
heavy-weights, $685..
Mems All-Wool Suits at $40
and S12.
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All Danger Over.

Pittsburgh Dispatch.
us it all overt" auxioHsly inquired Belva,
sticking her head ont from between the two
mattresses. "Yes" was the reply. ''rhen IN
come cut"
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~ Cents
Expense of being collected. d.......-........I 10
Salary of President of Home of the Hun CRY. y... 20
Rent of Home of the hungry y.......--.......s1O
Salary of Hungry secretary .....--...-.. 5
Yearly report Home of the Hungry .---........ 5
Yearly banquet celebrating Home of the Hungry. 5
Current expenses Home of the Hungry -....-.--. Is
Table bill for officers of Hungry ............. 10
Polishing knocker big front Hungry door 8
Insurance on Home of the Hungry y.-.-.-...--....
Total expense Observation-Disclosures. 80
Balance in treasury Home of the Hungry ..-...-. 10
Which may fill the Hungry if not otherwise
called for.
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was once ST. Subscribed by barber for the
Home of the Hungry. But in getting to the
hungry have got very lean myself, thus:
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For one, Belva Lockwood will not sulk be-
cause she is not elected, but declares that she
will be on hand to see that the man who has re-
ceived the most votes is properly inaugurated.
Neither Butler nor st John has said as much
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-11-09

GENERAL BUTLER is in Washington to prepare
his case against the United States for damages
on account of the extension of the dam at Great
Falls If they were at all touchy the people of
the United States might have case against
Butler for damns extended on account of his own
great fall
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-11-09

OSCAR WILDE makes the startling announce
ment that he always writes his poems on an
empty stomach but, like the physician who or
dered his patient to take daily walk on SINH
lar vacant organ, he neglects to mention whose
empty stomach.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-11-09

READERS of the newspapers will receive a
great access of general information if they
peruse their journals carefully these days
Powerful articles upon Evolution as an Arti
Gle of Religious Faith" ''The Situation in the
Soudan" THE Prevention of Asiatic Cholera"
The Use of the Revolver by Sunday school
Scholars" hll the columns of many useful ex-
changes, to the exclusion Of more exciting
topics. Of politics they have had enough for a
season.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-11-09

NEXT thing the scientific cranks will insist
upon having railroad employees examined for
moon blindness" An Englishman volunteers
the theory through the newspapers that the re-
cent loss of certain vessel was caused by de-
fective vision on part of the officer on watch,
which prevented him from seeing light shining
in darkness or through the semi -obscurity of
moonlight.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-11-09

"DEcAYED Southern gentlemen" are finding
out that it is quite respectable to work, and
large number who have hitherto considered 1t
disgraceful to openly earn money are seeking
leans Exposition. Many are already engaged in
doing the preliminary clerical work incident to
the great show, and regard themselves as rather
heroic creatures in thus venturing into new
paths. The exposition seems likely to prove a
liberal education in an unexpected way.
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


MARK TWAIN and his wife said to have jointly.
more than 81, 900 900,
Miss MAUD HOWE writes from New Orleans thai
men, and children all about her, at the exhbi
ton cred real tears when the band struck up vita
the Star Spangled Banner"
MRS. FIELDE, of Swatop, China, cross-examined tea
Chinese women belonging to Bible class. They had
been heathens and recently converted, and they adj
mitted that among them they had made away with
seventy children.
VICTOR HUGO went to see the completed statue o.
Liberty Enfghtenng the World, by NJ Bartholdi, ane
smiled with qualification when bystander, seeing
the poet and the facing each other exclaimed
Behold Two giants regarding each otherl''
THERE are SO, 900 widows in India from three TO
five years of age who will again be married. In
that country child is born match Is
made by the parents. If the boy dies the girl be-
comes widow and must wear mourning for her inc
tended as long she lives.
A GENTLEMAN was day relating Quaker Q
tale of deep distress, and concluded by saying: Il
could not but feel for him." Verify, friend replied
the Quaker thou ddst right in that thou didst feel
for thy neighbor; but didst thou feel in the right
place-didst thou feel in thy pocketq'
THE Queen of Holland walks daily on the publio
streets She dresses in sombre garments and is 40
companied by only attendant, lady. 1t is TO be
hoped that her Majesty and the lady do not occul
both the crossings in getting from side to the
other is done by royal American females when they
go out.
MARY ANDERSON is to make a tour of America
year from this winter. Contracts with the theaters
are now being made. curious feature of the project
is that her agent demands loan of $500 to IS 900
from each local manager, to be paid out of the re-
ceipts but partially secured against the breaking OF
the engagement by an insurance policy the actresses
life.
JUST now it seems TO be fancy among fashionable
people to use owls-stufed owls-as ornaments to set
on the top of bookcases or other suitable places Com
mon owls stuffed sell from So to SO each white owls
at Sis to $50. A dealer in Hudson street SAYS II
have been cleaned out of owls entirely, the demand
has been so large of late, and have several untitled
| orders from Chicago still on hand"
| WELLER is dead the intimate friend whose name
Dickens immortalized in 1.-THE Pickwick Papers"
Fully styled he was Captain Charles Weller, and he
reached the age of eighty five "His daughter, Mrs.
Thorn pson" says the World Qondon), sis an artist
repute but the celebrity of his granddaughter.
Mrs. Butler Miss Elizabeth Thompson), was source
of great and legitimate pride to the old gentleman"
| TRAVELLERS out on the red hills, says California
paper have often shuddered at the sight Of horned
toads which are numerous as blackbrds. The
ugly creatures are as much dreaded rattesnakes.
but Chinaman spent all summer and fall gathering
them Recently he made shipment of 1000 of the
toads to San Francisco from which place they will 90
sent to China The toads there converted into va
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THE New York Times is moved to object to
the way negroes are Disseminated against in
the South. At Raleigh N. c., three negroes
were lynched recently because they burglar
lied store about the same time that two young
white men were caught in the act of commit
ting exactly the same kind of crime
They were discharged without examination
and no record was made of their arrest. The
favoritism shown was infamous. But it is
absurdly inconsistent for the Times to pre-
tend such consuming interest in the black
man of the South. 1t has but finished cam
paign in which it did its utmost to put him
into the hands of that party that has whipped
and strangled, beaten and shot black men for
a hundred years. The Times in common
with other goody -goody mugwump papers, has
helped put back the hands on the clock Of
Southern civilization.
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Mr. HENDRIcKs's letter, in which he de-
clares himself the great original friend and
emancipation of the colored race, has evoked
the contemptuous criticism of the press of the
country, which knows his record, as presented
in the journal yesterday. The New York
Tribune closes an editorial by saying:
'.Mr. Hendricks himself is on record as hav-
ing used the most violent and unreasonable
language in regard to these same amendments,
and if It is possible for man like him to blush
for anything, it must make him blush at pres
ent to be compelled to refer to these same
amendments, which he denounced beyond all
reason and decency, as the only reliable guar
antee for the rights of six millions of Ameri-
can citizens"