The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-07

is aboutt to blossom forth, or fifth, orzsixth, with
its corps of able professors. Nearly every ply
stefan in the city will then have a professorship.
But, as / said, their influence has been good.
Medical research a Vs been stimulated, and ] do
not believe there is a city of anything near the
size of indianapolis, onthe face Of the earth, where
the doctors of all the schools are as we'll
equipped. This is becoming a center formedical
work which formerly went ewh This is
particularly true of surgical cases. a properly
fitted hospital and trained nurses are great helps.
Both of these we now have, and there is no rea-
son why Indianapolis should not rank with any
city in the West in medical and surgical affairs.
1t has an excellent hospital, and the ~newwing will
make it in every respect what it should be-"
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Representative Cabbage will not be here this
winter. He will be remembered, however, in
Indiana annals for all time to come for his owl
bill, a brave but Intellectual effort to protect the
barnyard bird from the savage bird of night.
Years ago Uncle Jimmy Frazier, of Pike town
ship, this county, was, like Representative Cab
baee, the unrelenting foe of the owl. He both
cred not with statutory amendments. He pom
dered, and as he pondered his chickens di-
minished and the owls increased. One day a
happy thought came to him. He took down his
scythe, and all one long summer afternoon
played symphony upon it with an old-fash-
toned blue MILESTONE. When he finished it was
Of raZor-edged .keenness. Placing a ladder
against the schicken-house, he nailed the .scythe
high aloft, its keen edge skyward-a most in
viting resting place. The old gentleman
had calculated rightly, and half a hatful of
owls toes were found next morning
under the .scythe. This continued for several
days, afresh' crop rewarding the early riser each
morning. After a while some owl, ,wiserithan the
rest must have discovered the practical joke.
At any rate their visits ceased, though to this
day all the elderly Pike township owls are dis
tinguished by their stump toes.
when a man gets mashed on faro" said
an old sport, there's no curing him. It's
worsethan the opium habit. used to have a
partner who was ~faromaniac. We travelled to-
gether for eight years. We were dead broke a
great deal 'Gf the time-nearly, all the time, in
fact. WhenI would happen to come nome with
money, he would get up any timei in the night,
rob me and go and blow it in at
faro. He never win anything. / couldn't hide
it where he wouldn't be able to find thunder
the carpet, under the soap box, in my boet--it
was Nowhere safe. He had q nose like q bird
dog and found it every time. One night 1 came
in at 1 O'Clock forty dollars ahead. / was in great
luck, but where in the world could hide the
money. Johnny was in bed asleep. [ tip-toed
over to where his clothes lay and put the money
in his pocket. In half an hour | heard that mis-
cradle man. going through my wardrobe, diving
under the mattress, hunting everywhere. He
came back to bed again beaten but not discour-
aged. In an hour or so he tried again and just
before daybreak he made aithird exhaustive eff
fort. Nc. 90. AT last / had found a safe depos-
tory for my wealth"