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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-02
GARIRALprs THOUSAND
The Story of Their Embarkation for Sicily
RetoId by a Participant.
London Daily News.

London Daily News.
The departure of Garibaldi's Thousand" from
Quarto, near Genoa, for Sicily, on the night of
May 5, 1860, is described in detail in a newly
published book entitled 'Notarello di uno del
Mile" and edited by G. c. Abba. The author
describes the embarkation by night in little
boats on a rough sea: The boatmen, to make us
keep quiet and not upset the boats, told us to
look at the green and red lights in the harbor of
Genoa, as Il we were little children. Toward
II P. NJ, in one of the most advanced boats, we
heard a clear, beautiful voice call out: LA
Masa"-"Here, General" Then all was silent.
Hours passed. The motion of the waves was
soothing, and 1 fell asleep. At lawn l was
awakened, and saw two great ships lying near
us. l turned to look back. Genoa and the coast
were indistinct, hidden in a vaporCus veil, but
my beautiful mountains rose pure and proud,
dominating the scene. A light wind ruffled
the surface of the waves. A sound of many
voices rose from the ships, calling, cursing, apos-
trophizing and cutting the air like arrows.
There was half an hour of hustle and excite
ment before we were all on board. l had got it
into my head that the captain of the Lombardo
was a Frenchman. His manner. his behavior,
his tone Of command showed him to be a man
who had the strength and spirit of ten. His head
bare, his coat off, irascible and despOtic, he stood
in his place as if about to attack a foe. His eyes
were everywhere at once. 1t was evident that
everything depended upon him.. If he had
been abandoned on the ocean, alone with his
ship, he would have been able to manage il. His
profile was sharply cut. When he frowned one
felt ready to creep into a corner. If he looked
you in the face you were fascinated in immo-
bility. Yet still at times there was a look of the
greatest kindness in his face. What a caprice TO
call him N~ino.-Bixio, that was a name that
suited him. At least it expressed something of
the thunderbolt. . = A corporal let some ugly
word escape, and Bixio was down upon him
at once, throwing a plate into his face.
There was rather a disturbance. But, like
a rocket, Bixio darted to his post of com
mand, crying IAN hands on the poop!" and at
once the poop was crowded, all turning toward
the man, who looked as if there to annihilate
them. He spoke: II am young, | am only
| thirty-seven, and I have been round the world.
/ have been wrecked and a prisoner, but now |
am here. and here | command Here ] am every
thing-Emperor, Sultan, Pope, and Nino Biz
You must all obey me. Woe to him who
to shrug his shoulders! Woe to him who dlv.
of mortinyl / shall come out in my %unllor,.
with my sword and decorations, and Kill yor al.
The General, when he left me, commanded
me to disembark you in Sicily; l shall
do so. Once there you may hang me
on the first tree we see-but'-and he measured
the crowd with a slow look-'in Sicily, |
swear, We wiz disembark!" viva, Nino BiMo!
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done all we could to drive away strang-
ers. We have suppressed the river which
gave air and space by establishing in its middle
the hideous structure which is c~omplimented by
the name of Casino. We have allowed our
theater to be burned down and have not
built it up again. We have submitted, in spite
OF the persistent demands of the press, and
even of foreigners, themselves, to the shameful
and dangerous proximity of Monte Carlo. We
nave allowed spectators to reign as masters,
and to carry off the environs of the town to
construct out of them useless boulevards and
buildings without the light of the sun. Finally,
We have done our best to make Of Nice an un-
heaithy and dull town. in bad odor from q moral
point OF view" Point is given to this gloomy
picture by an account of the suicide of a young
Pole, who,' after sustaining great losses at play,
returned to his apartment ut one of the hotels
and shot himself through the right temple.
Some attempts have been made by the correc-
tional tribunal to suppress the evil by the pun
ishment OF offenders. On Dec. q no fewer than
five persons were convicted of keeping clandes-
tine roulette tables, but they were dealt with
loniently, for-as the journalist already quoted
remarks-'it is impossible to treat an offense
severely at Nice which is authorized at Monaco"
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SELECTS.

Whenever prohibition is established in a town
f1rst-class mon are elected to the positions of
mayor and aldermen.-Rev. j. w. Lee.
1t is no sign that the great truths of God are
not growing in our time because so much skep-
ticlsm. so much Indifference. so much agnosti-
clsm e~Xists.-Henry Ward Beecher, Sermon.
The one lesson, which more than all others, is
beng taught by the progress of sanitary science
and art is that most of the physical evils OF life
are the direct results of breaches of law.-New
York Independent.
Women have studied music, theology and poll
tics as carefully as men, but have originated
nothlngm any of these three departments of
effort, and it is a natural inference that they
Will not, That is no reason why they should be
debarred from trying.-London Spectator.
Devotion to the flag resulted in enormous sac
rlhce of life and treasure during the rebellion,
but the growing evils of divorce are as antago-
nistic to our national life and name as was either
slavery or secession. The serpent is no less
deadly because n~oiseless. Rome is our historical
w~arning.-The Standard.
We leave the poor out Of our calculations until
all others have been provided for. and the result
IS too often, as your case, that they must go
empty-handed What a mockery it is to say,
God pity the poor as | have heard it said,
when my spirit burned within ME to r~etaiate,
go pity them yourselfl"-Julia Thayer.
A reason of the relative increase in the num-
Der of theological students in seminaries of the
Congregational order, coming from the West
rather than from the East, lies in the fact that
the colleges of the West are, one the whole,
more thoroughly provided with Christian inf
ences than the colleges Of the East.-Rev. Charles
Thwing.
The simple truth is that Judge Lynch is not,
after all, a reformer. He is not even a reolutiml-
list, any more than is a house breaker or a high
way robber. He is a lawless murderer, pure
and simple; and he c~onfesses the fact by usual
ly seeking the night season for his crime, and
concealing his identity under a disguise.-Ncw
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Boston Globe.

The barbarian inhabitants of Staten Island
permit their young to go out on the ice these
DAYS and toy with the festive whizzer. A
whizzer is made by planting an upright pole
through a hole in the ice, and attaching two
horizontal bars to the pole. The bars are
about fifteen feet long and on opposite sides Of
is capstan-wisc, and when Il dozen young
Staten Island natives get hold of the bars and
skate around somebody gets hurt. When a
boy loses his grip he whizzes, and
the fun of the game consists in watching those
who have the bad judgment to let go. A Staten
Island whizzer, the other day, skinned one boys
face by hurting him about fifty feet along the
ice, sprained one wrist, broke a knee-pan, and
s sPe of &he nona' This Fie IN n n@enions I aed c sbppPf% f i9y
has not been introduced here yet. but no doubt
the enterprising persons who disseminate toy
pistols will soon have a whizzer on the frog
pond,
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THE FREMONT FAMILY.
Where They Live and How They Enjoy Life
in Their Old Days.

Where They Live and How They Enjoy Life
in Their Old Days.
W. A. Crohut, in Kansas City journal.
The residence of the Fremonts is q modest
white house, perched high on the inside of the
broad road that winds through trees along the
New Brighton beach, and its front windows
command a wide reach of the New York bay
and the estuary of the Kill Won Kull. 1t must
be an agreeable and comfortable house to live in;
1t Is certainly a delightful house to visit in. The
General and Mrs. Fremont are not seen in New
York society as often as they were, even in those
entertainments for charity's sake where they
used to take so much pleasure. Probably they
lind the society of their children and rompiug
grandchildren pleasanter.
There are two sons and a daughter in the
house of Fremont The eldest son, John
Charles, or Jack, as he is Familiarity called at
home, lives with his handsome wife and two
sturdy boys up the Hudson. He is in the navy
and his duties are connected with the arrival and
departure of ships in this harbor. His younger
brother, Frank, is a lieutenant in the army, sta
toned up in Montana Territory, whittier he has
taken the young wife he recently captured in
New York, a daughter of John D. Townsend, the
lawyer. Both of the boys closely resemble their
father. when Frank went west said
s MgD' Fremont aD5 call 4 on suggested sn. si that he he
Minnesota, vino had never seen him. He did it;
called in citizens dress, and said: General
Sibley, who am ~ You're a Fremont, said the
General; there's no mistaking you. How is your
IoUutIE Inc SOuS are DOUn Idl1, DluCk udlfeu,
black eyed and bearded like a pard, and they
both, like their sisters, show strains of their
Gallo blood-the influence of their grandfather,
the poor, scholarly French gentleman who came
to Virginia at the beginning of the century and
found their grandmother in her teens.
Mrs. Fremont-that 'Jessie Benton, the men
ton of whose name in the notable campaign Of
1886 always evoked a cheer-holds her own re
markably well. 1t doesn't seem possible that
she could have made her famous runaway match
nearly forty-three years ago. She was a hand
some blonde when she ran away from the head
quarters of "Old Bullion, in Washington, and
joined the fortunes of the young explorer. Now
her hair is as white as snow, but she shows few
indications of aging, and talks as brilliantly as
ever.
And how much she looks like her father, the
eminent statesman of Missouri. Her face is
very much like mis-, and even her gestures and
manner, when animated byconversation, remind
me much of him as l saw him in Washington
after he had left the Senate. She possesses the
lineaments of her father, somewhat softened, as
she inherits his studious and logical mind and
commanding spirit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-02
French PiII-EIaking.

Pall Mall Gazette.
French Holloways, if they do not become mill
ionaires, at least do a very fiourishing trade.
One of the most curious sights of the kind is
the famous pill mandatory of Dion. founded
many years ago by u Dijonnais chemist, who in
vented. or introduced in that city, pill making by
machinery. A noteworthy feature in this com
merce is that depression of trade. bad seasons
and even national calalnitics, do not affect the
sale Of pills. People-at any rate French peo-
ple,,will not give up these ,delieaeies, however
much economy they are obliged to exer-
else in other matters. The quantity of pills taken
in France must be enormous, Judging from the
activity displayed at the Dion mandatory. We
have known one French lady alone TO spend GAO
a year upon pills, which, it must be admitted,
can be had in great variety. Tar, camphor. cas-
tor oil; these are amongthe family pills, and they
are got up in the neatest and most attractive
manner. The capsules have an envelope Of
slightly sweetened %gelatine, and when bottled
ready for sale look more like sweetmeats than
anything else. Perhaps the agreeableness of
their medicines is the reason why French people
from childhood upward are so good tempered.
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The Gospel Of Evolution.

l. There never was a beginning. The eternal
without us that maketh for righteousness took
no notice whatever of anything.
2, And Cosmos was homogeneous and I'M
differentiated, and somehow or other evolution
began, and molecules appeared.
3. And moleeule evolved protoplasm, and
rhythmic thrills arose, and then there was light.
L. And a spirit of energy was developed and
formed a plastic cell, whence arose the primor-
dial germ.
5 And the primordial germ became proto
gene, aud protogene somehow shaped eocene
then was the dawn of life.
G. And the herb yielding seed, and the fruit
tree yielding friiit after its own kind, whose seed
is in itself, developed according to its own fancy.
And the eternal without us that maketh for
righteousness neither knew nor cared anything
about il.
Z. The cattle after his kind, the beasts of the
earth after his kind, and every creeping thing
became involved by heterogeneous segregation
and c~oncomitant dissipation Of motion.
s. So that by survival Of the iitvest there
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that which the church ought to have done. A
thousand able Observation-Disclosures doing that
which if the church won't do will be done for it;
Spencer and the rest. If you won't help them
they will help themselves, and if our Sunday
schools 90 on printing books that are built on
the plan of 800 years ago, and will not explain
the truth TO our young people, they will grow up
outside of the church and from the outside light
be enabled to see that they have been unin-
structed in the church. Then they will become
infdel
of the young is a wise and judicious instruction
i'll regard to the nature of the Bible-the history
of it, the value of it, and wherein the value con
sists-reverent and helpful, written by men who
are in sympathy with the work-of God. That is
the great need of the day.
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dTDdHy IUWTUdIi
'Frit" Emrnets latest purchase, the four
thousand dollar dog Rector, which was installed
in the elegant villa of the actor, on the Boule-
ward. on Sunday last, made a return trip to New
York to-day. The brute is a powerful animal,
and is seemingly fond Of company, for while he
he played sad havoc with its embellishments
This morning, when the door to the room was
opened to allow the dog to come out, a sight pre-
sented itself which would be hard to describe.
The h~angings were torn from their places, every
thing not stationary was upset, and the room in
general all confusion. The dog had been on top
Of the billiard-table, in the cue-racks, and over
everything within six feet of the floor. The
damage viii amount, Mrs. Emmett thought this
morning, to 81, 500. Mrs. Emmets patience was
sorely tried, and so she concluded to send Rector
to his master on the first train, and carrying out
her resolve, the dog ate his dinner byFritz's side.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-02
KILKENNY CATS.
The Origin of the Phrase Authoritatively
Explained.

Irish Nation.
The story has been so long current that it has
become a proverb-''as quarrelsome as the Kill
kenny cats"-two of the cats in which city are
asserted to have fought so long and so ferocious-
ly that naught was found of them but their tails.
The correct version of this saying is this: Dur
ing the rebellion which occurred in Ireland in
1888, Kilkenny was garrisoned by a regiment of
Hessian soldiers, whose custom it was to tie to-
gether, in one of their barrack-rooms, two cats
by their respective tails and then throw them
face to face across a line generally used for dry
ing clothes. The cats naturally became infuri-
ated and scratched zach other in the abdomen
until death ensued to one or both Il of them.
The officers were made acquainted
and resolved to put an end to them.
For this purpose an officer was ordered to inspect
each barrack-room daily and report its state. The
soldiers, determined not to lose the daily torture
of the cats, generolly employed one of their COM
rades to watch the approach of their officer. On
one occasion he neglected his duty and the off
Ger was heard ascending the stairs while the cats
were undergoing their customary torture. One
Of the troopers seized a sword from the arm
rack and with "a single blow divided the tails Of
the cats. The cats escaped through the open
windows of the room, which was entered instant
ly afterward by the officer, who inquired what
was the cause of the two bleeding cats tails be
ing suspended on the line, and was told in reply
that two cats had been fighting in the room;
that it was found impossible to separate them,
and they fought so desperately that they had de
voured each other up, with the exception of
their two tails"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-02

Proceedings Of Lime-kiln Dub.
A communication from Illinois regarding the
restoration of capital punishment in Michigan in
quired if the club believed that hanging murder
ers diminished the number of murders.
''No, sab, replied Brother Gardner. "De oh
jock in ~restorin' capital punishment am not to
stop murder, fur dat can't DO done, but it am to
properly punish murderers. When a murderer
goes to State prison, he may escape; he may be
pardoned out, at least he ibis we'll an in peace.
if he am hung by de neck till dead dat am one
murderer less fur de public to take car of an
worry about. We know right whar' he am all
de time, an we know dat he has receised his Just
desarts."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-02
A SACRED BEAST.
Ancient Origin of the Sanctity of the Whit
Elephant.

Ancient Origin of the Sanctity of the White
Elephant.
Pail Mall Gazette.
The most recent authority on white elephants
is Mr.. Carl Book, and he tells us that the sancti-
ty of a white elephant dates from the earliest
period of Buddhist history. Indra himself rode
on a three headed elephant. When Gandama
entered the womb of the queen to be born upon
earth for the last time, it was in the form of an
elephant, and as albinos are supposed to have
sovereignty over their race, a white elephant,
however few the pale spots he may have, is
revered through the breadth and length of the
land. One of the proudest titles of the King of
Siam is Lord of the White Elephant" Not
very long ago a real white elephant, who ex-
Bangkok with all the pomp and ceremony of an
emperor. According to Mr.. Carl Book, he
was quite an albino, the whole body being
of a pale reddish brown color.
with a few white hairs on the back. The iris of
the eye, the color of which is held to be a good
test of an albino, was a pale Naples yellow. He
was blessed and baptized in the presence of the
King and the nobility. One of the high priests
presented him with a piece of sugar-cane. on
which was written the elephants name in full,
and which he very readily ate. The following is
a translation of his description, painted on a red
tablet, hung over one of the pillars Of his stall:
elephant of beautiful color; hair, nails and
eyes are white. Perfection in form, with all
signs of regularity of the high family. The color
of the skin is that of lotus. A descendant of the
angels of the Brahmins. Acquired as property
by the power and glory of the King for his serv-
ice. Is equal to the crystal of the highest value.
Is of the highest family of all in existence. A
source of power Of attraction of rain. 1t is as
pure as the purest crystal of the highest value in
the world" The elephant has for a companion a
white monkey.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-02

Pretty toilette sets consisting of five pieces,
viz: a scarf for covering the bureau, a square
cover for a pincushion, and two smaller squares
as mats for bottles, with sometimes a long piece
for covering comb and brush box, are made of
the sheer fine linen batiste, now used for en-
broidery. A pretty all-over design is wrought in
it in Kensington stitches in silk of pale blue or
deep red shades, or else there is a band of the
creckle designs, on which flowers are strewn,
worked across each end. Each piece is then
lined with silk or silesia of a color to suit tho
upholstery of the room, and AN edging of linen
lace is added, such as torchon in the new pat
terms, on the braid like Russian laces.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-02

L acknowledges, with thanks, the receipt
of his prizes.
ERM1NA gives us a good enigma. Next week
she will give a good charade.
OLD KAINTUcK.- Your work is nearly ex-
hausted. We hope you will contribute again
soon.
CHEsTER.-Please keep us well supplied with
good work. We want as much material as you
wish to provide.
FRIENDS, send us all the material You can
manufacture. We do not care how much you
send us, as we can make room for a large lot of
good work every week. Write plainly, define
correctly, and give answers and references in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-02

Ingersoll has excited the amateur thinkers, as
he always does wherever he goes. 1t may be
put down as a broad proposition that man who
believes in I~ngersoll does not know much. His
smartness only appeals to the lowest order of
intellect. No really bright man was ever fooled
by his hotch-potch of almanac jokes about
things he does not understand. He can bur
lesque a poem, but he can not understand il.
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viva, viva, vivalr and a thousand arms were
stretched out to him who stood there a little
proud, but pale. He covered his eyes and turned
away. A small. boat came from the land, carry
wrote on il, cut a loaf open, and inserted the
paper. When the boat passed, almost close to
us, he threw the loaf, which fell into the sea.
Then he made a speaking trumpet with his two
hands and called, Say at Genoa that General
Garibaldi has landed at MARSHA to-day at ! P.
NJ" We heard the clapping of hands in the little
boat, handkerehiefs were waved, and voices
cried, "Evyiva, viva, viva!"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-02
Gambling at Nice.


H"NuOH UNIly NUW5'
Nice is now complaining Of the injury done to
ii ~ the contiguity of Monte Carlo. as we'll as by
the existence Of local facilities for gambling.
The situation, says a local journal, may be sum
med up in a word-"Five thousand apartments
10 let" Then follows a calculation as to the di-
rect loss which this state OF things inficts on the
clearinghouse keepers. to which must DO aided
The impoyerishment of shop-kcepors and work
people. The writer continues: I'VE have
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evolved the -simiads from the jelly fish, and the
simiads differentiated themselves into the an
thropomorphic primordial types.
9. And in due time one lost his tail and be-
came a man, and behold, he was the most Gun
ming of all animals, and lol the fast men killed
the slow men, aud it was ordained to be SO in
every age.
10. And in process of time. by natural selec-
ton and survival of the fttest Matthew Arnold,
Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin appeared,
and behold, it was very good.