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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

VAssAR girls get away with 2,4oo pancakes at
one breakfast. rh
THE fourteen -yearold daughter of George Wilhelm,
of Lima, o., jumped the rope 256 times and fell I'M
conscious. She lay in that condition for twenty days
before she died.
PRETTY little baskets for sending flowers by post
are the latest novelty i'll English fashionable circles.
They fasten with a paddock, and the sender ana re-
ceiver each keep a key. ~ i
In the Philadelphia directory the name of Carrie
Kilgore, lawyer" is given in large letters, and under
meath it the name of 'Damou Y. Kilgore," her
husband, in small type.
A MAN in Kansas has started five papers, each of
which died within a short time. He has just started
another and calls 1t Kind Words, because, he says,
kind words can never die.
EDWARD SIMMs, organist fSt. Michael's, Coventry,
England, has held his position seventy-four years, and
still continues to oficiate, though 1t seems to some
that Simms must be nearly through.
IT can be shown, says the Boston Post, that aside
from the aggregate of mental and bodily suffering
arising therefrom, the annual pecuniary loss in our
country on account of preventable sickness is over
800, 0o0, 900.
A.. BRONSON ALooTT is now well enough to ride out
the coming session of the Concord School of Philos-
ephy, whore Alcott will be welcome, though tho work
is all cut out without him.
For Logan true, who wore theblue.
I'll shout both long and latel
He is my c%hoice-my hero true.
He is my candidate.
He is my can, he is my can, he is my candidate.
THE Bishop of Lincoln has lately explained the
meaning Of the late series of bad harvests in England
by saying that they are intended by Providence.
among other things, as a warning against the pro-
posed law TO legalize q marriage with a deeeased wife's
sister.
THE death, recently, of Mrs. Kile, of Richmond, Pa,
at the age of 90, left Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Kile,
triplets, orphans at the age of ~. The triplets havo
nine brothers and sisters living. Their father died
about four years ago, after seventy-fve years. of mar.
ried life.
AT the sale in Paris, a few weeks ago, of the Baron
d'Ivry's collections of rare furniture, the following
prices were brought by the articles named: A suit of
Louis XVI furniture Fifteen pieces), covered with
Gobelins, 93,440; tapestry screen, $500; a writing.
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meetings.

THE Springfield Republican, which is
sometimes quite unhappy in its efforts to re-
form something or somebody, says of the
nominee for the vice-presidency that he sis
an honest man, coarse, materially minded,
believing in letting the civil service run poll
tics, but very much lacking the clear head
and well-informed judgment requisite in the
President of the United States" and adds
that This name will be a repellent element in
the ticket throughout the East" The Re
publican can hardly mean that a dishonest
man would please the people of the East bet
ter; but there is no doubt that it would like to
affirm dishonesty as one Ct General Logan's
characteristics, if it only dared.
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mortal, as he is, with their next breath de-
nouncing James G. Blaine, who was the
trusted friend and counselor of Garfield, who
was the chief of his administra-
ton, upon whom he leaned, and
with whom he was the very day he
was shot. To refuse to support James G.
Blaine is to cast obloquy upon the memory of
Gen. Garfield. There could be no stronger
mark Of disrespect to Garfeld's memory than
to declare that the man whom he most con-
spicuously trusted, and to whom he commit
ted, in the largest degree, the destinies of his
administration, is unworthy of confidence.
Yet such is the attitude of the so-called Sin
dependents"
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PhiIadeIphIa Times.
Its an admirable thing" said Postmaster
Huidekoper, yesterday, this determination to
give newspapers cheaper postage, and I'm glad
they made it four ounces. because three is not a
good multiple. But they have not gone far
enough. 1t is ridiculous that any objection
should be made to the proposition to extend the
1t is almost absurd to think that so many years
have elapsed since they gave up carrying mail
bags on horses and coaches and by footmen and
that they should still retain the half-ounce meas
ure of forty years ago. We are behind England
in this respect, which has long since adopted the
ounce measure, and most Of the progressive
countries have surpassed US. Statistics show
that only five letters in a hundred weigh over an
ounce, and / if the new measure is adopted allcw.
ing an ounce letter for two cents, the number of
letters will instantly increase and soon be
doubled. 1t will, in addition, be a great public
convenience. and Congress could do nothing bet
ter than pass the bill"
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THE NEXT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

The suspicious beginning of the Republican
campaign in the nomination Of Blaine and
Logan suggests the easy practicability of re-
deeming the House of Representatives from
Democratic incompetency and misrule. For
six months the nation has witnessed the mac
ton that has characterized that body, the
confusion that has prevailed and the evident
lack of ability to grasp and to handle any of
the many issues that have been before it.
In one direction only did it essay to do some
thing toward accomplishing the passage of a
measure of national Importance. But even in
attempting tariff reform, the hostility of the
Democratic majority to the American idea of
protection was so evident, and the reform pro-
posed was so crude, that numbers of the lead
ing men of the party FASTENED to combine
with the Republican minority to defeat the
battle-ax onslaught. Six months have been
f~rittered away by the present Democratic
House, and absolutely nothing has been done
to justify the great expense attending a pro
lOuBeu StSSlOH u OOHSTtSo E1uu SOI1 Ii "a
body does not adjourn, though there is no
possible excuse for not rushing through
the necessary business and going home,
to the great relief of the people. The whole
country is heartily sick Of the imbecility and
ineficiency manifested by the Democratic ma
jority, a majority of magnitude to make easy
any legislation the party might favor. Dis
gusted with all this, it will be an easy matter
in districts in which a narrow adverse majority
was polled to overcome it, and return Re
publican representatives to take the places of
those men who have SO signally proved their
unftness for the serious duties that devolve
upon a national legislator.
The nomination of Blaine and Logan was
peculiarly fortunate at this ~juncture in Amer
lean politics. The man from Maineis the peo-
pies favorite everywhere. His choice as the
standard bearer of the party is the work of
the masses, who would consent to hear of no
other man. The spontaneity of the Blaine
sentiment admits of no question. The affec-
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THE annual report of Mr.. Burchard, Di
rector of the Mint, shows a falling-off of over
So, 900, 900 in the last past years production
of precious metals in the United States,
So, 500, 900 of which was in gold. During the
year $14, 900, 900 in gold and So O9, 900 in
silver were used in manufactures. At this
rate the worlds supply of gold will some day
be cut off, when some other medium of ex-
change will nave to be devised to take its
n1aca
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A CAMPAIGN FOR YOUNG MEN.

The campaign of 1860 was peculiarly a young
mems campaign. Thu men who voted for
the first time in the fall of that ever-memora-
BILE year were the men who sent Abraham
Lincoln to the White House. The contagious
patriotism Of the times filled every youthful
heart, and the grandest man of his age was
lifted by the people from among the people
to that high station which he so signally
filed, and filling which left one of the great
est names hat adorn the pageso of history. The
"wide-awakes" of 1860 were the veterans of
1865, and young men still, after four
years in the army of freedom. Subsequent
campaigns have been conducted by older men,
until now another man of the masses calls for
young voters to fall in line, and assist in add
ing another illustrious name to history, and a
new glory to Americas fame. This magnif-
cent republic of ours, with its ffty-fve
millions of people, deserves a great man to
stand at its head, a man the peerof the worlds
most noted and best. Our national welfare
and honor demand a man adequate to
the needs of the times, not to
involve the country in foreign complications,
but by a courageous and wise policy to COM
mand that respect at home and abroad that is
a nations best guaranty against the necessity
of war. The English press and people are in
terested in our election to an extent not mani
tested in a quarter of q century. They rec
ognize in Blaine a man of ability, a typical
American, imbued with the American idea that
this republic is one of the mightiest on earth,
and that it is entitled to all the consideration
due a frst-class power.
Blaine, like Lincoln, is the peoples candi-
date, and like Lincoln he will be elected
largely through the votes of young men.
From the hour his name was placed before the
people the character of the campaign was set
tied. 1t will be aggressive and enthusiastic to
the very end, when the ballots are counted
that shall send him to the head of public
affairs as the nations President. Actuated By
the patriotism common to young Americans,
it will be a grand thing to again
be prominent in the nations poll
tics. Clubs and organizations should be
formed at once and be energetically set in
motion to do the work now before the people.
The Republican party has ever been open to
young men. Its methods and ambitions,
while bearing the impress of craftsmanship,
are full of vigor. Its record commends itself
to young voters, and its future is full of as
surance of all that is excellent in public
affairs. There is a place in the ranks and in the
lead for the fresh, young battalions. Let
them muster and rally, and go into the fight
at once. The glory of victory will crown
them in November next, and the record will
be perpetuated that for the second time in
American politics the young men Of the
country stood the brunt of battle, and proudly
bore off the laurels of the fight.
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Mr.. TTLDEN will be nominated, and he will
accept. Don't let anybody be troubled about
this. Ex-Speaker Randall says he knows Mr..
Tilden will accept, and so says Congressman
Holman, and a half dozen others who are on
terms with the Sage of Gramercy Park. The
repeated and double-leaded assertions of Mr..
Dana, of the New York Sun, and Mr.. Waiter
son, of the Courier-Journal, are points in the
confidence game the sly old cipher statesman
has been playing on his party and the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-10

THE latest report of the doings of Mr..
Lodge, of Massachusetts, represent hat gen.
tleman as being in a meditative and uncom-
municative mood, and not happy. By way OF
bracing himself up, he might read a few re-
marks addressed to himself and other s~o-called
independent gentlemen by the New York Com
mercial Advertiser, from the pen of Mr.. Parke
Goodwin. The remarks are of a nature calcu-
lated to hasten the circulation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-10

IT is again rumored that the government at
Madrid is considering the expediency of selling
Cuba, as the only solution of the never-ending
Democratic party to buy a little patch of ter
ritory, the presidency of which could be made
perpetually Democratic. The mountain pop
ulation of Cuba have been acting like Demo
Gratis for wears
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Tattoo,

CNOO
The warning tattoo sounds within
The Democratic camps,
Its notice, that must cease thedin
And be put out the lamps.
Each scowls in dread, for well he knows
What darkness e'er enwraps
Their hungry camp, when sound the blows,
That voice the hateful ''taps.''
They dread the haunting nightmare dreams,
Born of a hopeless quest,
That come with CHASTITY, golden dreams
Throughout a four years rest,
In which they lie, and toss and fret,
Dreaming they often see
The vaults wide open, but forget
The open sesame"
Between tattoo" and coming 'taps."
Not all their bowling cheers
Can drown the sound of warning raps
Now echoing in their ears,
Though they should jingle all the coin
With which for mules they pay,
And seven times seven with them should join
In one harmonious bray.
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studies hat Had Better Be Discontinued

Louisville CourIer-Journai.
The cartoon in Puck last week representing
Mr.. Blaine as a tattooed Phryne has created
much comment. Phryne was the woman who
offered to rebuild Thebes provided she should be
permitted to write on the walls the inscription,
1.-THE courtesan Phryne restored Thebes." Some
of Mr.. Blaine's friends are very indignant at the
cartoon, and Puck had better discontinue its
Phryne studies. Next time, instead of unvail-
ing a tattooed Phryne, it might disclose a
Painted Harlot of Protection. The ladies seem
to be all in the family.
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brane is as thin and delicate as the lining of an
egg-shell, and death has always ensued from
any meddling with it. Nevertheless the sug-
gestion was followed as a last resort. The pro-
truding portion of the brain was carefully
pushed back and the membrane drawn together
and fastened with several stitches of catgut,
which will soon be absorbed. The wound was
then dressed in the ordinary way, and there he
has lain, with a t%repanned hole in his head as
large as ones hand, as conscious and intelligent
as any one and with every chance of being per
fectly well in a few weeks. The Democratic
party should make a memorandum of this, for
reference next November.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-10

In 1872 some of the strongest men and news
papers Of the Republican party stepped outside
the ranks. There were Charles Sumner, Carl
Schurz, Lyman Trumbull, and the New York
Tribune, the Chicago Tribune and the Spring
field Republican. aided by the Cincinnati Com
mercial and other papers. But the people
wanted Grant, and they elected him to the
presidency by a majority that taught these
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-10

THE wonderful electromagnetic girl from
Georgia. whose inexplieable feats of strength as
tonished the savans of Louisville and Cincin-
natl, has petered out, SO to speak. Some
scientist a little smarter than his fellows, has
demonstrated that the lady simply took advan-
tage of well-known principles of the lever, by
which she was enabled to fling strong men
about the stage like so many puppets. The fact
that the man who exposed the 'trick'' is simply
a writing-school teacher, is and gall
to the Louisville doctors who examined" her,
rolled up their eyes and said it was unfathom-
able. The climate at Louisville is very frigid,
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boilers how weak they were when they at
tempted to reverse the theory of the American
government, and to set up a little oligarchy to
dominate the sovereign power of the majority.
In the light of the history of 1872, the trifing
ebullition in the East and the detection of the
New York Times and the Boston Advertiser
amount to but very little.
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CONGRESSMAN WoLFoRD, of Kentucky,
says Blaine was born in that State, two years
before his father removed to Pennsylvania.
Even if this be true, we greatly fear that
kentucky will not 60 for her Ifavorite son. -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-10

BLAINE, of Maine, seems to stand we'll at
home. When a man is well thought of by his
~neighbors, among whom he has lived for
years, it is a pretty good sign that he is made
Of the right sort of stuff.
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To tho Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
Who was the man who gave the casting vote
in the impeachment of Andy Johnson?
GosPoRT, June 8. J. S. SNoDGRAss.
Nobody. The impeachment failed by one vote,
and each of the minority of nineteen gave a cast
ing vote.
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GENERAL HANCOCK serves notice that when
the Democratic party is looking for old tickets
be can be still found at the old stand on Gov
errors Island; but, like Mr.. Tilden, he objects
20 being tied up with his former second. The
Hancock "boom" is on.
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To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:

To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal:
To decide a dispute, will you please give the
correct pronunciation OF the name of Victor
Hugo, the French poetl A SUBSCRIBER.
SOMERSET, Ind.
The Journals professor of the French language
and literature says that it must be pronoudced
Victor Ugo, with the stress on the ultimate syl-
liable, the ''h' being silent.
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JAPHET's search for his father is no more
thrilling than is the search of the mourning
band of half IA dozen independents" for a
candidate. 1t is an instructive spectacle to
'ec men whose mouths are filled with eulogies
If President Garfield, declaring him to be i'm
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THE New York Sun informs the Democratic
party that its candidates must be strong men
barrels of money, or faction leaders, but men
with some title to craftsmanship, if there is
to be the slightest chance of their election
against Blaine and Logan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-10

THE Lafayette Times, Independent Demo
crat, says it 'is free to say that the ticket
nominated by the Chicago convention is in
many respects a strong one, and will rally to
its support the great body of the Republican
nortv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-10

DIR. WILSON, an English physician with little
else to do, has counted the hairs on a square
inch of human scalp, and announces to an ex-
pectant world that the total is LOGS, or about
l27, 92O hairs to the head. Naught's a naught and
one to carry; seven from two you can't. There
are enough hairs here to impair the reputation of
not less than 127, 92O pounds of butter and four
wagon loads of hash.
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Be Kind to the Umpire.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
Be kind to the base ball umpire. In Phila-
delphia the other day the audience Kissed q
decision, when the umpire picked up a bat and
hurled it into the crowd with all the vehemence
of a man clubbing chestnuts. An umpire has
his feelings, it seems, and they must be re-
spected.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-10

THOSE Democratic newspapers which are
edited honestly, by men of sense, are free to
say that Blaine and Logan is a ticket not
easily to be defeated. They warn their party
against the folly of thinking they have a walk
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-10

IT probably has not yet occurred to the Courier
Journal that Gen. Logan's bad grammar is the
outcome of a course at the University Of Louis
vile. The General graduated there.
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Mrs. LOGAN says she is the happiest woman
in the world, now that John" has been nom
mated. The Republican party will see to it
that this superlative condition of bliss is en-
phasized in November.
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A TRAVELLING salesman for a Philadelphia
shoe house, who can neither read nor write, re-
ceives a salary of 81, 300 a year. This is really
discouraging to young men who have spent sew
eral years in acquiring an education. Eighteen
hundred dollars is about as much as a college
graduate can earn at base ball.
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THE new two-cent paper, which has been
started by Mr.. John R. Mclean, of the Cincin-
natl Enquirer, on the grave of the News Journal
will, 1t is said, have little or no politics. In this
respect it will not be unlike its financial master
and his parent paper. 1t may also be added
that if the politics partakes of the same nature,
the little the b%antling has will be a damage to it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-10

New YORK physicians have performed a very
delicate and very dangerous operation on the
brain of Michael Hoffman. Last week this man
got caught In an elevator, and had four square
inches of skull so broken as to compel its re-
moval. This was bad enough, but the mem
brane covering the brain was ruptured, and the
gray matter of the brain protruded u distance of
half an inch. There seemed to be do earthly
means of saving the mans life after this discov-
cry was made, until DR.. Larkin, of the hospital,
suggested that the membrane be sewed up. This
has never before been attempted, as the mem
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Honor to Mrs. LOga

New YORK Mail and EXpress.
He would be a very mean man who would re-
fuse to congratulate Mrs. John A. Logan on the
last success of the husband for whose honor and
interests she has worked with such unfaillng
pluck, devotion and energy and with such Won
derful resources.
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Mr.. THEODORE ROOSEVELT has got his
second wind, and talks like a man Of common
sense. Others of the independents" might
well follow his example.
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To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Can a general, who has been placed on the re-
tired list, fill any government Office and at the
same time continue to draw the retired salary}
WHITEsTowN, Ind, June Z.
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Once More to the Front.

philadelphia Record.
For a brief hour or two the interest in the
political game at Chicago caused the American
public to forget the serious business of life. But
we are glad to say the base ball mines are again
The objects of consideration.
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OSCAR WILDE, lately married, feels called
upon to write an open letter to the effect
that he has not been disappointed in married
life. Mrs. Wilde has not seen fit to relate her
experience.
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Decorating the Cows.
New York Mails Society Coli

Now York Mails Society Column.
Gushing ladies whose parents country place
includes a cow. now put wide ribbon around the
neck of the animal, which looks inexpressibly
silly.
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Washington Y

Washington Post
Now that a Cleveland judge has declared the
Salvation Army a nuisance, to be abated like
any other nuisance, what shall we do to be
sayedf