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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-10
40 the EDITOR OF the 1-ndianapolis journal:

TO the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Is there a fund in the hands Of General Fred
Kneher, appropriated by the government for
paying the postage on checks and vouchers re-
turned to pensioners OLD SOLDIER.
MARION, June7. ,r
There is no fund specially appropriated, but
since last year the government has been paying
the postage on the checks and vouchers of pen
sioners.
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All for Logan.


National Republican.
The Democratic end Of Illinois will give q
Republican majority this year.
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MOI am Extravagant statement.

New York Evening Post.
The chief reason for Blaine's nomination was
that he was the favorite of a large majority of
the convention. OF that fact there can be no
question.
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oh, No, They Won't.

Springfield Republican.
Somebody will be sure to say that November
4 is a good chlblain day.
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All "Original Blaine Mon"

houston POst,
When the break comes at Chicago, watch the
postmasters slide over to the winning horse.
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Twas Fer Thus.
Philadelphia Press,

Philadelphia Press.
A grapevine despatch from W. 5. Holman
says: II object"
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NATIONAL REPUBLICAN TICKET.

FOR PRESIDENT,
JAMES G.. BLAINE, of Maine.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
JOHN A. LOGAN, of Illinois.
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Gallant to the Last.
Springfield Republican.
Sweet dreams to Gail Hamilton.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
LONDON-American Exchange in Europe, Al
strand.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-30
Logan,s Mannsr of speaking.
CAicago Nelrs.

OHtcNJo Afetos
No man in the United States Senate has
a better voice or better action than Gen.
Logan, but at the same time no man has
more ability to counterfeit the effect of
these gifts by coarse, vulgar, episodical
manners. Hawking is one of LOgan's pc
culiarities; it seriously marred his great
speech on the FitZ John Porter case re-
Gently. AS compared with this extraOr-
binary advertisement his bad grammar.
involved sentences and awkward SMILES
were nowhere. Like the ghost of BanquO
IN the play, the phlegm in Logan's throat
would not down. So Logan made a bOis-
ferrous attempt to get it up. In the mid
die of glowing sentence he would stop
short, reach away down in his system for
that bunch OF phlegm, give monstrous
hawk, and eXpectorate the result in
neighbOring spittOOn, where it fell with a
dull, slckening thud. During his descrip-
ton OF the battle of Syracuse he
made gloomy pause, explored
the innermOst recesses of his
bosom, so to speak, and seemingly
off quarter section of lung. The noise
reminded one of dry goods clerk tearing
a piece Of cotton cloth in two. The first
attempt was not successful, So. with the
persistence characteristic of the man
Logan took in another longer and deeper
breath, and bracing himself herOically
against his chair, rallied a second time 20
the attack. This time his pulmonary
entrail, or whatever it was, yielded, and
after dumping the anonymous expectora-
ton in the much-martyTed spittoon, the
eloquent Senator was enabled to proceed
for at least six minutes without repeating
the exploit with his pect0ral organism.
Meanwhile the ladies in the different
galleries all around turned all sorts of
col0rs and made use Of their smelling
bottles and perfumed handkerchiefs. ii
LOgan's throat were not a marvellous
creation it would certainly require re-
lining every time he made a speech.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-30
THE SPRINGBOKS.
Their Remarkable MigratiOns.
NTdraa-s,,n

Many travellers in South Africa have
mentioned the. ''trek-bOkken," as the
Beers call the pilgrimages of the spring
Dok, but none have painted them more
wildly than the late Captain Gordon
Cumming. One morning, as he had been
lying awake in his wagon for some two
hours before daybreak, he had heard the
continual gruntlng Of male springbOks,
but took no particular notice of the sound.
''On my rising, when it was clear, and
looking about me, beheld the ground to
the nOrthward of my camp actually
covered with a dense living mass of
sDringboks, marching steadily and slowly
along, extending from an opening in a
long range of hills on the west, through
which they continued pouring like the
flood of some great river, to ridge about
halt mile to the east, over which they
dlsannoared, The breadth Of the ground
which they covered might have Seen
somewhere about half mile. | stood
upon the fore-chest Of my wagon for near
ly two hours, lost in wonder at the novel
and beautiful scene which was passing
before me, and had some difficulty in con-
vincing myself that it was a-reality which
l beheld, and not the wild and exagger-
ated picture of hunters dream. During
this time their vast legions continued
steaming through the neck of the hills, in
one unbrOken, compact phalanX." 1t has
sometimes happened that flock of sheep
has strayed into the line OF march. In
such cases the flock has been OYerlapped,
enveloped in the springbOk army, and
forced to JON in the march. A most as
tonishing example of the united power of
the springbok was witnessed by well
known hunter. During the passage of
one of these armies lion was seen in the
midst of the antelOpes, forced to take I'M
willing part in the march. lie had evil
IDENTIFY miscalculated his leap, and sprung
too far, alighting upon the main body.
Those upon whom he alighted must have
recOiled sufficiently to allow him to reach
the ground, and then the pressure from
both TANKS and the rear prevented him
from escaping from his strange captivity.
AS only the front ranks of these armies
can put their heads to the ground, we
very naturally wonder how those in the
middle and rear can iced. The mode
which is adopted is equally simple and
efficaciOus. When the herd arrives at
pasturage, those ANIMALS which ocupy
the front feed greedily until they can eat
no more. Then, being ruminants, they
they need rest in order to enable them to
chew the cud. So taey fall out of the
ranks and quietly chew the cud until the
column has almost passed them, when
they fall in at the rear and gradually
work their way to the front again. As to
water, they do not require it, many of the
South African antelopes possessing the
singular property to being able to exist
for months together without drinking.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-30
A Big Drink aud what Came of it.

ANUWhdttuH .JOF Il pftts
Ono of the principal treasures of the
Rathhaus collection IN Bayarian Kotnen-
burg is an immense pckal or goblet. hold
ing twelve BaYarian SchODDeR, full six
quarts. 1t was intended to be nassed
around the table at grand feasts: but on
one memorable occasion it was drained to
the last drop by single individual, who
was none the worse for his excess.
Perhaps his motive was his prOtec-
ton. 1t happened in this wise:
When, in 1881, Count lilly, with his whole
army, took possession THE city, he called
the council together. informed them that
they were all to be beheaded, and sent the
Mayor to summon the eXecutioner forth
with. As may be supposed, the man did
not hurry to do his errand, and when he
at last arrived at the house the execu-
toner plumply refused to undertake the
task Of cutting off the heads of his re-
spected fellOw-citizens, the Councillors.
During this interval, while the people
were lamenting, the eXecutiOner protest
ing, and the Mayor shaking in his shoes,
the Councillors, in their desperation. hit
upon bright idea. They filled the great
pOkal with their choicest wine, and offered
It to lilly and his attendants. In a few
moments the temper of the naughty con-
QuerOr was softened, be grew more COM
passionate toward his victims, and at last.
becoming jolly over bis frequent draugAts
Of the mellow liquor, he promised to set
his trembling prisoners at liberty if one of
their number would, in his presence,
drink the great pOkal full of wine.
This offer seemed at first only a cruel
aggravatiOn of their misery: but after an
anxious discussion certain Herr Nuscb
a former Mayor, accepted the challenge
and succeeded in the apparently impOssi-
BILE task. lilly kept his word; a servant
was sent in all haste to call back the
Mayor and bid the executlOner cease his
preparations. The street through which
the servant ran on his welcome errand is
called Peace Alley Friedensgasschen to
this day, and the descendants Of the brave
eX-Mayor still enjoy yearly pension from
the public funds, besides remaining own
ers of the famous pOkal.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-30
MelIincton,s Watches.
81. .Lalnes' Ga.efte.


The Duke Of Wellington was extremely
fond of watches and needed to have al
least half a dozen within reach and all
ticking their liveliest at once, and this is
but half the story. Fearing some i'll
might betall those just under his eve,
orders were given whenever the great
man Travelled to have as many more slowed
away in 4 pOrtmanteau made to fit his
carriage. One time-piece was, above ali
others, his acknowledged faVOrite: it was
of Old-fashiOned English construction and
had once been the property of TiDpOo
Sahib. Another of the Dukes treasures
had strange history. Napoleon had
ordered it of Breguet for the fob of his
brother Joseph, and, as an extra courte-
sy, directed miniature map of Spain to be
wrought in niello on one side and the i'm
perial and royal arms on the other. just
as this lovely gift was finished, Joseph was
driven out of his kingdom by the Duke.
and the Emperor, for reasons best known
to himself, refused to take or pay for the
costly bauble. At the peace it was pur-
chased from BregUet and presented by
Sir +. Paget to the Duke of Wellington.
Another watch owned by the Duke was
made for Marshal JunOt. and a great
Theological curiosity it is. There has
never been more than two others like it.
They are constructed to mark both lunar
and weekly movements. The great Duke
gave preference to certain mORtres de
tOuche-and he had several of them a
cOntrivance of Breguets, having sundry
studs or knobs by which one could feel
what hour it was, and this merely by
what seemed 'just fumbling in his
pocket
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-30
ANTLERs FOR ORNAMENTS.
The sorts that are Sold and their Prices
The Fashionable BOar's Head
Netp York SIM

Nel0 York Sun.
Where do you get such big deer ant
lers as thOse?r said a young man to a
black-eyed, curly-banged girl in a taxi
dermist's store in William street.
He referred to pile on the walk. The
girl dropped crow blackbird, which she
was flaying, and said:
Those deer horns grew on elks in Mon
tana. They are nOtvery large if compared
with Others"
The young man was directed to an adj
joining room. A red-mOunted polar bear.
with paws wide apart, greeted him on
one side as he opened the door, and a
[ leopard, with arched back and knOtted
! muscles, seemed to snarl at him on the
/ other. Overhead, hanging from tangled
mass Of whitened horns, and on every
side of the room, there was a throng of
/ monkeys, squirrels, birds, and animals of
hundred varieties, all in attitudes which
looked as il the old babOOn in the corner,
with his finger to his lips, had checked
them in the midst Of a wild carOusal on
the entry Of stranger.
"HOrns are just now very fashionable.
Such things vary from year to wear. Last
December we sold hundred pair of ant
lers.' said the girl.
Chow much did you get pairYD
''krOm So for pair of small Virginia
deer-antlers to $50 for a 5-foot spread of
elk's, and $40 for pair of magnificent
moose shovel hOrns.V
Ibid that include the stuffed head?'
mo. Mounted head and all, moose or elk
horns bring $50 and $50. Those animals are
dying out very rapidly
what is the very latest thing in the
line of wall OrnamentsY
"A wild boar's head. We have Just re-
ceiyed a barrel full of the skins. When
properly mounted they look delightfully."-
vicious, and sell for $780,"
"Keeps the proprietor pretty busy to
supply the trade; doesn't It?' said the
young man, hearing work upstairs.
yes. He employs eighteen hands be-
sides me.''
''And what can you dO?''
Il can fay more than 400 birds day
for use as hat ornaments"
Are the wages highF7
GAS high as the skill of the operator.
The men who can show the muscles of
an animal ana place it in striking and
natural positions get from $50 to $50
month";
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-30
TO THE MEMORY OF SIDNEY La
NIER.


Sullenly falls the rain;
Still hangs the dripping leaf;
And ah. the pain -
The slow dull ache Of my grief,
That thrObs: ''In vain In vain
You have garnered your sheath
GOu have garnered your sheaf with the tares
Therein. and unripe wheat
All that death spares,
Who has come with too swift feet,
Not turning for any prayers
Nor all who entreat.
They entrea ed with tears. But L
All mel All can say
Is only cry.
/ had loved you many a day,
Yet never had fate drawn nigh
My way to your way.
Ny spirit made swift with love
Went forth to you in your place
Far of and above;
Though we met not face to face,
Ny elder brother, yet love
Had pierced through space.
-ChdrlSS g., D, Roberts,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-30
How He Lost His Free Pass.

Some time ago Judge O., of this city,
was pressing a suit before a Stewart
county jury against the railroad in an
action for damages for killing his clients
cow. What is that thing, gentlemen OF
the jury, what is the name of that instru-
ment Of death fastened on in front of the
enSlhes asked the Judge, with we'll
ielgned Ignorance. It's the cow-catcher,''
replied one of the jurors. "Ah; thought
so" continued Judge O.; 81 thought so.
ana yet Judge LurtOn, with more cheek
than any young man / ever knew. tells
you that the railroads do not intend to
destroy your stock, even while they carry
cOw-catcher, put there to run YOUR cows
down and catch 'em and kill 'em, as the
name of the fearful engine of destruction
implies-even while the roads fasten this
cOW-catcher on in front of the train-yes.
gentlemen, it IS fastened on to chase your
cows around and catch the poor things
and crush the very life out of them.v
The Judge got his SO verdict for SIS
COW; and what's more, he got his free
pass stuck up on the way home, and has
been paying the usual per nlUe-em ever
since.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-30
4 Choir Anecdote.

In the April Century, the Rev. DR..
Charles 5. Robinson continues his dis
cUssiOn Of the annOyances and humOrs of
the musical service in churches, and re-
lateS this anecdOte: GLORIOUS Easter was
at hand and great preparations were made
in the rural parish for its celebration;
bOughs We're tWIned in the arches of the
building; flowers swung in wreaths over
head and shOne in beautiful baskets
among the aisles; children had been re-
hearsing carols. All the town came in
on that notable morning. 1t was a scene
never to be forgotten. Tie minister was
radiant; his eyes beamed with delight
But thought struck him; this audience,
so happy, so generous, so enthusiastic
would they not hear him a moment for
stroke Of business? After the invocation
and the first song, he surprised
them with proposition to bring
Easter offerings now at once to
Gods altar, and lift the dear old church
out of debt; oh, then there would be
resurre ction! The congregation would
come up from under its great stone into a
new life, if they would roll it away! Then
the plates went their course, and hearts
were touched, and purses were emptied,
and the heaps Of money Law before the
moistened eyes of the relieved pastor as
he TREMENDOUSLY thanked good God for
his peoples fidelity in response. 'rhe
money is here, l am sure it is he ex-
claimed. If there be q little in arrears,
it can be made up in day, and now we
are ready heartily to go on with the wor-
ship of our risen Lord So the fixed pro-
gramme proceeded. a little German had
been procured from the metropolis for an
annex to the tenor; his solo came in at
this exact crisis of grateful emotion; he
rendered it with fresh aplomb, though
the consonants were awkward: AM de
det sail be raised-de det sail be raised
an de det-an' de det-sall be raised-sall
be raised-in de twinkling of an av-eep
''Now it is quite safe to say that after
the congregation went home, the theme of
the day was disspated, and the two events
uppermOst in eyerybody's mind were the
surprise which the eager minister had
sprung upon the people, and the ridicu-
lous appropriateness of the declamatory
solo which followed it. On general prin-
ciples, we have no objection to the cOllec-
tiOn of money to discharge religious OBJ
legation, even in divine service; but it
does seem pity that humorous episode
should be the chief Renaissance of such
a solemn OCCASION"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-30
CHARITABLE HONOR.
Fifteen or Twenty ways in Which the
DishOnOrable Cheat

saturday hectedc.
The plan of dealing over large, highly
polished silver cigar-case is good. but old.
OF course the cigar-case shows the dealer
in its FURNISHED surface what cards be is
giving the players, and he knows better
whether to stand on his own hand or not.
According to a competent authority,
While there is no game at which one may
not be cheated, at ecdrte one may be
cheated in from fifteen to twenty different
ways. The tale of the old General in a
country town is good. lie cheated
habitually and eXecrably. TWAS thought
good form" to take no notice of his eX-
plOits; but one day a small civilian, a
stranger TO the club, observed: "Why.
General, you are cheatingv' Eyes sir,''
said the General, who stammered dread
fully; Eyes, sir, l know very well Pm
cheating, but l d-d-d-don't like to be
t-t-t-told tia remark to which there
is no very obvious repartee.
A splendid failure to cheat was that of
the French Greek. No one had suspected
him; he usually won some fifty louis every
time he took the bank, and on one Occa-
sion he left the theatre at Nice i'm the
middle Of play and went on TO the club.
There he took the bank, won ON an eight,
and on nine. Then he offered to ''gIve
cards." his opponent accepted. and the
banker laid down a card marked 'eHheatre
Francois de Nice" 1t was the ticket of
readmission in case he had wanted to 20
back to the play. Obviously this could
not have formed part of a normal pack,
and as obviously the banker had taken it
out of his pocket by mistake.
Il don't believe there is a single Offense
that have not committed" said an I'M
dergraduate once, as he awed a whole
wine party with examples of his knowl-
edge Of life. There was a respectful ST.
lence, then a small voice asked: "Did YOU
ever cheat at cards?'' With shame and
bushes the fdHtdrOn of, vice came down
from his bad eminence, and owned that he
had never cheated at cards. This is, in
deed, the very lowest depth to which
civilized man can descend, and he seems
at present tG reach the abyss pretty often.
No one can defend man who has cheated
at cards; the only estimable person who
ever did so was the Chevalier DIES GrieuX,
and he had the one constant excuse for
his conduct admitted by all admirers of
ManOn Leseaut. The case OF the Cheva-
lier must be placed on one side in that
world OfrandOm morality to which Charles
Lamb gOod-humOredly consigned the
cOmedies of the Restoration. No, a man
may do many shady things; his accounts
may be difficult to unravel; he may de-
cline to fight duel in a foreign country;
he may find that urgent private business
calls him to Europe when his regiment is
in the Soudan or Nova Zembla, and people
viii make excuses for him. But he really
must not cheat at cards.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-30
THE GODMoTHER's GIFT.
Beside the baby's cradle
She sat the whole night long,
To lay LD0n his little lips
Yhe kissps six of SONG.

Beside the baby's cradle
She sat the whole night long.
To lay LD0n his little lips
The kisses SIN of Song.
''This is the kiss shall make him long
To drink, - she softly sighed.
''The founJ of Beauty with the thirst
That ne'er Is satisfied
i"Fhis is the kiss shall 0pe the eye
And stimulate the brain
70 see what others never saw
And he can ne'er attain.
This is the kiss shall charm his lips
50 that his whole life long
There hOuey-bees Of thought shall hive
The singing sweets OF song.
And here the kiss OF Wandering
print on feet and breast,
That he may for possession have
Desire and unrest
,sAnd this shall be the kiss Of Love,
His life to Consecrate
20 her that shall be lost too soon.
Or be found out too late.n
These are the kisses five I give
Ny baby in his sleep;
the sixth, and sacredest Of all,
A little while | keep.
And he shall never know. or, known.
1t never shall be told,
Which swecter is-the kiss give.
Or the kiss that I withhold.
Harper's Magazine.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-30
The decrease in the excellence of

The decrease in the excellence of the
horse cannot be shifted from man to time.
One instance alone demonstrates the I'M
fairness of this. The Andalusians are
now mere ponies, yet they are the de-
scendants of those noble beasts ridden to
victory by the Spanish chiyalry in the
days when the ValOr of the horse was as
important as the yalOr of the knightly
rider. Taken from their hills and valleys
to serve in the haunts of men, and to be
subjected to the arts of breeding, they
have sadly degenerated. But the horses
of the Spanish explorers of both North
and South America escaped, and to-day
the descendants of these same Spanish
horses are, under the nurture of nature
and natures ways, the superb wild horses
OF the new world. They are the work of
nature; the Andalusian ponies are the
work Of mans art.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-30
Speakers and Their Ages.


The new Speaker of the House of Com
mons is 81 years Of age. Sir Henry Brand.
1t may be observed, was 81 at the date of
his elevation to the chair; so was Mr..
Evelyn DenisOn. The veteran Lord Ev-
ersly, who last Friday completed his 90Uh
year, had lived but 40 when the Commons
OF Her Majesty's first Parliament chose
him to preside over their debates. His i'm
mediate predecessor, Mr.. AbercrOmby.
had entered on his Goth year at the time of
his election, being thus considerably
older than the gentleman whom he yirtu-
ally, If not theoretically, displaced. Sir
Charles Manners Sutton had been called
10 the char at the age of 81 and retired
into private life at the age Of 55. Mr..
Speaker Abbott was A when he entered
on his high functions; Sir Jonn Milford.
81; AddingtOn, 81. The case of Adding
ton is warth noting, for, though an incom-
petent minister, he was allowed by his Op-
ponents to have proved an excellent
Speaker. Macauly thought that if Ad-
dingtOn had remained in the chair long
enough he would have left q reputation
equal to that of Onslow himself. Gren-
vile, on whose resignation AddingtOn was
elected, was but % when he quilted the
chair. The premier whose cabinet he en-
tered was just 30; one of his colleaees.
the first Lord of the Admiralty, not 80.
Arthur OnslOw held the Speakership from
his 3Sth to his list year. An octogenarian
Speaker it would probably be impossible
to find in the whole list