The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-05
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And dreaded as thou art
I crown thee king of intiinate delights.
Fireside enjoyments home-born happiness
And all the comforts, that the lowy roof
OF undisturbed retirement and the hours
OF long-uninterrupted evening know"
KENTUCKY girls go hunting 'Brer Coon"
THERE are French women among the Nor
mons. No French woman would accept vulgar
fraction of a man.
IT is delightful to sit bya warm fire and read
that the palace for the Montreal carnival this
year will cost $4,000
IT is all nonsense to dispute Baron Tennyson,s
decline as poet If it continues the world
will h ave a series of Father Closes melodies.
IF there is any moral to the honorable
BREAD Winners, it must be that heart winning
''pans out" better than dishonorable bread win
ming.
Mr.. GEORGE CABLE is remarkable man. He
returned to New Orleans from Boston for the
simple pleasure of spending Christmas with his
own family, under his own holly -bough.
ANTHONY CoMsToCK goes to lengths which
threaten the liberty of the. press. Some of these
days he will arrest some newspaper man for tell
ing the naked truth or referring to bare possibii
ties
A DOMESTIC investigating committee have de-
cided that the red sunsets are occasioned by re-
Election from the vast amount of red flannel UNI
derwear which waves on the clothes line this
time of year
THE nation is dumb with admiration of the
beautiful unammity with which the press Of
the country have decided that Mormonism must
60 Now let every editor run down a Moriaon
and convert him.
LAW ord t>afor am 7 r.
blame because flowers are dear in cold weather.
You should find fault with the climate and not
with me. For my part, I'm sure, wish it was
spring all the year round and that roses grew
Under our feet.
t'MAHLsTIcK," in the Courier Journal, pre-
diets a sad future for New England. He says:
'It is comfort to know that a hundred years
from now the New England people will be ak
Irish and wear green breeches, when Goldfish will
be reduced to forgotten odor and baked beans
be referred to as an unfounded report"
In London, sensible custom prevails of
throwing all the New Years gifts of money to
letter-carriers into a common fund. which is then
equally divided anon all of them. tn, il
justly done to provide for the eaffi9fs in tbs
poor portions of the city, who otherwise would
receive almost nothing although equally faith
full and deserving.
MoDJEsKA has been reused to anger because
a newspaper correspondent-horrid thing!-dis-
covered her age to be forty four 1t is one of the
unsolvable mysteries why woman of forty,
who looks thirty should fly into passion when
the truth is known 1t is the woman who looks
and is reported forty when she is only thirty who
is justified in Singing the furniture around
rTrrI / 7
hghtenment on current literature. 1t copied
from our columns an excerpt from ''Winter Sum
shine" which was headed John Burroughs on.
the Apple and attributed it to AN Indianapolis
Genius. y There are plenty of men in Indiana
talented enough to know good apple on sight,
but none of them have ever so felicitously ex-
pressed their appreciation of the fruit as Mr.
Burroughs has done. The Peoria man is advised
to read winter Sunshine" by snug fire these
stormy nights
A PORTRAIT which reminds us of some one we
know:
New York World: It cannot be said that the
''best' society of New York is very prominent in
patriotic, political, or public work of any kind.
1t has no thrill for national celebrations; it has
flags for evacuation day, no flowers for Decora-
ton Day. 1t could build the Bartholdi pedestal
with Of its jeweled fingers, but it doesn't
care Tor that sort OF thing and 1t lnclnes to the
notion that monument to Peter Cooper is a
tedious bore. If this good society manages to
dance through one night in the year at the Char
ity Ball, go to, it has been philanthropic.
1t is question fits sympathy for art or science
is any more marked AS rule, it does not throw
its mahogany doors open to struggling talent. It
has no recognition for those geniuses whose ideas
or labors command the respect of princes in other
countries, and whose title as poet, actor painter,
preacher or inventor breaks down all barriers of
caste.
Take it altogether, some of our good society,
when measured by the demands of the commu-
nifty in which it lives, is very selfish and barren
society.