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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-23
A KINGDOM FOR a TOWEL.
The Trouble an English Traveller Had in a
%Japanese Hotel.

@'ANC N1NN'
At d~aybreak I was awakened by an unmistak-
able British voice crying aloud for a towel
Looking out at the court yard 1 saw Il gentleman
whom we had passed on the road, standing bare
thrOated and dripping wet 10y Il bucket Of water,
i'll which he had been washing. He had only at
this critical moment discovered that the JAPAN
csc do not regard the towel as an absolutely
necessary appendagc to a toilet set. ''Towelt'
roard the wet and angry BritOn to the trembling
japanese who stood there ready and willing t.,
60 anywhere and DO anything. if he only knew
what. "Heich!" the japanese said, aimlessly
lowering about. Towel towel!' the Britisher
roared, trying all possible forms Of ac-
tentuation in the hope that one might
strike u chord of intelligence in the mind
of this ineaably stupid man. The japanese
evidently began to think that whatever might
he wanted, it would be safer for him to go and
look for it inside and not be in a hurry coming
back. Towel" the Englishman roared again.
''Helch! SAID the Japanese. and ran uimbly into
the house. But he did not come back again, and
the Englishman, after stamping around. disap-
pcGred in his own room, partially dried in the
wind. / learned from him later that he had had
a good deal Of trouble from the objectionable
and UnaccOuntable ignorance Of the English
language among the japanese in the interior.
scenery, heading for Nfkko-thc only word he
could pronounce in the japanese tongue was
Nikko-and by dint Of repeating this he got
along moderately well. His chief difficulty was
the matter of food. He lived chiefly on rice and
tea, and had arrived at the tea house on the nre-
vious night half famished. | fancy that in the
best of circumstances he was naturally Of an
irascible temperament. But after living on rice
and tea for two days. to reach Nikko and find
self was, he admitted, more than he could bear
without uTOtast.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-23

sieur?"I asked, after thanking him for his offer.
MADAME, to RE Janeiro," was his answer.
Truly, it has been well said by some foreign
mustache and knows no geography. My young
friends answer reminded me of a letter once re-
ceived at the United States consulate in Paris
from a merchant in Bordeaux, praying the
American consul-general to cause search to be
made for the writer's brother in the United
States. as he had gone to America to reside, and
they had had no tidings from him for some
years. When he first left France he had gone to
Mexico, but when last heard from he was in
Monteyideo.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-23
MARY rA.
HIS Development Into ii Dude Of magnificent
Proportions.

New York Letter.
DR.. Ham Griffin. who abandoned medicine
some years ago to adopt the more lucrative pro-
fession of stepfather to Mary Anderson. has been
in town for several days. He came over partly
to bring a part Of Mary's London Doodle"
amounting to $50. coo. and partly to see his wife
and baby. Ham Griffin is a godseud to the sat
urnine newspaper man. He has Il merely dis
tant acquaintance with the English language,
he chews tobacco with a voracious industry that
is amazing, and he fondly believes that Mary's
greatness also makes him a big frog in the pud-
die. His English experiences have made a dude
of him. and if you can imagine anything funnier
than thatl should like to know what it is. Ham
Griffin in Il short coat, with the tails of
his claw-hammer hanging down below it,
is Il thing to be seen and then told
about for the rest of your life. Until he went
to England he never put on Il swallow tail in his
life. But somebody told HIM ii was the proper
thing TO wear over there, and Mary had u hard
time Of it trying to keep him from coming down
to breakfast in full dress. ''Blawst my bloomin'
heyes," said he. looking out into the fog yester-
day, but this here's Il regular Lunnon day. 1t
do remind a cove of hold times at One to see %
fog like this ere. Strange 'ow we gets hattlched
to these things. There's the Prince of Whales,
now. The night | came away. e says to me.
'Amilton.' e says, dear boy says e. 'hif it
wasn't for the blawsted clear hatmosphcre OF
Hameriky. e says, 'ang me. ,Amilton. me boy.
hif [ wouldn't run hover with you, Just for %
flyer says e. O. the Prime and me is very
chummy. Barkeeper, give me tupperworth o
arffn-arf,'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-23
The Douglass Case in the Lime-Kiln Club

DelFOlI Free lTess.
Let me say in reply answered the presi-
dent, dat l did not attend de marriage men
stunned, neither has l cher remarked de remarks
imputed to me. Nevertheless, if Fred Doug,
wife, an kin secure one in de regular way dat
brides am secured, it am muffin to anybody out
side de family relashuns. De white woman who
kin drap down to de lebel of Il black husband
orter to be able to find one, an, If dar am any
fault found. it shouldn't be wild de man.
$50 far as d club am consumed we take de
color straight, and We mean to c~ontiner dat way.
If it should be known heah dat Whalebone
Howker, who am a widower an lookin' fur a
second wife, had become de husband of a white
society belle, he would probably be axed to va
cate de red stool on which he has so long re
posed; but we shouldn't blame him mo- dan de
woman. When | git ready to trade my ole wom-
tar, fur de slickest white woman dat cher run a
man in debt, I'll gin de Lime kiln Club a months
notice."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-23
a Novelists Clownish Ways RebuAed.
New York Tribune.

Z YIN APN
Apropos of dinners and diners, that we'll
known novelist, Mr.. James Payn. has peculiar
ways of his own, He is quite one of the early
to-bed division, absolutely refusing to sit up
after 10. Nevertheless there are people who in
vite him to dinner, probably because he talks
much better than he writes. His latter work,
for instance, is almost contemptih!e, and he has
destroyed the character of the Cornhin Magazine
since it has been under his editorship. But he
is a CHEEKY gossip. lie has a popularity winch
might have been endured in Dickens or Thaek
cray, Balzac or Carlyle, but is rather alarge Or
der for one of his %calibre. He refuses to dress
for dinner like other gentlemen, and viii so out
if his host will accept him in morning dress, his
idea of the same being a suit which would be
come Il scarecrow. Not long ago he was H. 7T'''sI
by a very considerable man Who asked some dis
tinguished people 10 meet him. One of these
proposed to take the conceit out of the novelist
by outdoing him in his own line. And il was
done. They dressed in flannel shirts, corduroy
brooches, v%clvetoen coats, scarlet neckties. thuu-
der nd-lightniug hunting waistcoats with brass
buttons, thick boots and leggiugs The novelist
was completely beaten at his own game, for he
looked like a nonconformist Parson among a lot
OF gamekeepers, not to say poacheIs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-23

New York Girls Give 1t a Benefit which Is
satisfactory ia More Ways EIian one.
Ipaudpr Richardson in Da+roi Tir,.s

New York Girls Give 1t a Benefit which Is
satisfactory ia More Ways E8lan one.
Leander Richardson, in Detroit Times.
Mrs. Langtry went the other afternoon TO the
big society affair that was given at the Madison
Square Theater. | saw her there. dressed to
kill in sealskin, brocades and diamonds. The
occasion was an amateur dramatic entertainment
got up for the benefit of the Bartholdi ped
estal fund. That pedestal is slowly but surely
becoming an Internal nuisance. We New York
ers are not much struck after the Bartholdi
statue anyway. We can't pawn it TO pay ON,
summer expenses, and we are not hunting for
that class OF iuXuries as II general thing. How
ever, the amateur affair was worth taking in.
All the blue blood of Gotham was there. We
are rather proud of our blue blood. There isn't
50 very much of it, but what there is has the
true ceruleau tint. and would do for II sky
background in a chrome at any time. The
theater was fun and the street was packed
with carriages for a solid block. The entertain
ment took the form Of a little tw0-act play and q
lot of tableaIlX. The play was rather tart. But
you ought to have seen those tableaUX. The
wealthy young girls of New York, clothed in
Greek. Roman and Egyptian costumes are worth
short sleeves-well, l don't think anything like
this spectacle has been witnessed on the profess
Slonal stage for some little time. 1t was
worth the mere trte OF - asked for a ticket.
One girl wore a shoulder strap to keep her belt
from falling off. which was so very slender that
at the last rehearsal it riDned off entirely.
Young Belasco, who has had full charge of all
these rehearsGs, says it makes his eyes ache to
speak of a lCN-necked dress nowadays. He had
to take hold OF the young ladies and fix them in
just the right shapes, and there are those in
New York who would have given up u months
income to have stood i'll his shoes. The enter
tainment has enriched the pedestal fund by sew
eral thousand dollars, and it has also given some
of us a very clear idea of what the New York
belle looks like in the least clothing that custom
allows. So 1t was not given in vain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-23
French Ignorance of Geography.
? Hooper. in Philadelphia Telegraph.

lucy HOopeT, II THIIdUUIPHIH IVIUBIdpH'
met the other day, at a reception, a young
French gentleman, attached to the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, who is an old acquaintance, and
who inquired very politely after my daughter.
On being told that She was in America, he re-
marked that he might possibly see her, as he was
shortly to leave for America himself. Could he
take any message or parcel to her from me? And
70 what part Of America are you going, Mon
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-17
a Blu3 Grass Belle.

Our Kentucky belle is handsome and.
attired in 4 modest white gown, pre-
Sents no meretricious attractions. She
IS accompanied by n companion, whom
she is heard to address by the title of
mother and who is only slightly older
and slightly less attractive than herself,
but who is more conspicuous in the
general brilliant makeup of her face
and personal paraphernalia. She hands
her money to Il mongrel type of mascu-
line nature, the off-pring of combined
dude and jockey, who is soon in the
whirling current of quarter-stretch and
drifting straight to the pool section.
While be is taking stock for her in the
fast flyers of the turf, she has turned
her attention to another market, where
speculation is equally Intoxicating and
hazardous. She has allowed a noted
beau to perceive her langushing dark
eyes resting interestedlv upon him. Her
gaze has been purposely fastened upon
him, until he, by well known physi-
cal and psychological law, turns as
naturally toward her as the sunfower
to the sun, or the willow to the water;
her soft, velvety lids drop as uncon-
sclOusly conscious as if the fascinating
artitice had not been practiced hun
dreds of times and has been brought to
the present state of artificial perfection
through courses of carefully attended
CESSATION. Accustomed to success in
the adrOit movement she continues to
repeat it until she is satisfied it is eff
fective. She rises and with swift
glance toward him she ascends tier by
tier of the grand stand until she has
reached the topmost rail, over which
she leans, looking down on the great
dusty entrance park to the course. If
the gentleman does not follow immedi-
ately there are evidences of impatience
in her frequent nervous backward
glauces. He approaches her locality
and assuming a similar attitude, is also
deeply interested in the arid, dusty
stretch beneath. Several covert and
deeting looks are exchanged as he
draws nearer, and without alteration of
position they fall into conversation and
talk about-the weather, the inadvisa-
bility of sowing marketable crops where
only tares will grow and topics of equal
interest. She returns to her seat in
time to receive her winnings from her
specializing envoy and soon the wooing
satyr is at her side with the bold and
confidential bearing of a lifelong coun-
selOr.-COr. Philadelphia Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-17
How Clothes Pins Are Made.

Clothes-pins, not the kind with
springs, but the ordinary bifurcated
wooden ones, are made in the large fac
tories of Maine where the machinery is
ingeniously arranged to save processes,
and above all TO save handling. The
wood used is mainly white birch and
beech. The LOGS are cut and hauled to
the water and fioated down to the mill.
Each log rs required is raised with
chain by steam power up IN inclined
plane and carr ed to the first saw which
cuts it into sixteen inch lengths. These
pieces pass on to single machine
where they are made into boards three
quarters Of an inch thick Thence they
60 to gang of twelve circular saws
where every board finds itself divided
into slender sticks. The sticks are fed
to little gang of three saws which
cuts out of the sixteen inch stick three
neat little sticks of precisely five inches
IN length, making the rough shape OF
the clothes-pin that is to be. The saw
ing is now all done. An elevator belt
takes the pieces up to several turning
machines, each of which rounds out
eighty clOthes-plnS i'll minute. Final
ly q slotting machine cuts out the long
slit in the pins, and another elevator
belt carried them to new department
OF the factory, where they are seasoned
from hot air by steam pipes, in bins that
hold, say, seventy-two thousand clothes
pins each. Polishing is the next pro-
cess. and for this the pins are treated
like small CaSt-iron articles, being put
into great cylinders and revolved by
steam, till the friction of the clothes
pins upon each other smooths the sur
faces and gives them some polish, but
not enough, for little Ia low is thrown
into each cylinder before the rolling
ceases, which finishes them to perfec-
ton. The polishing drums are filled
through scuttles from the drying bins
above, and are emptied directly below
to a counter where the pins are sorted
into first and second grades, by girls,
who pack them into boxes of five gross
each, which are shipped to England
and Australia, as we'll as to points in
the states.-BOStOn Courier.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-17
Edison's Patent Non-Existing Shirt.

Undergoing general circulation is 8
story that Edison. the inventor, mas
produced an electrical toy baby that
can arrange the letters of any name
from among spelling blocks; that can
say: Come in, " Mamma, Use sleepy
and two or three other sentences, and
that can cry, laugh, sing and play the
piano.
''Is that fact? l hadn't heard of
that story yet" said Mr.. Edison's pri-
vate secretary; that must be the latest
out about Mr.. Edison. Is that an Euro
pean or an American tale?"
That's of Waterbury Conn. manu-
facture-that is if it is manufactured. >
well, it certainly has no truth in it.
Most of the clever stories about Mr..
Edison, however, are European. The
latest was published in the Vienna
Tageblatt. That was about the 365
shirt-a garment that Mr.. Edison was
said to have succeeded in manufacture
ing of 365 delicately thin sheets OF
paper in layers, one layer for every day
in the year. You tore off the outer
sheet every morning, and started each
day with spick and span clean shirt.
For leap year you bought 500 shirt.
A man in Paris went to an exchange
office, bought five dollar bill, and
mailed it to Mr.. Edison for sample of
the garment, and chap in Berlin
tried to buy the agency for it in Prus-
STA. "-NeW York San.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-17
a Legend Of Coloyne.

1t seems that in 1857 the plague was
raging in Cologne, and among its many
hundreds of other victims was the wife
OF certain noble knight. The wife
was buried with all the ceremony OBJ
tainable under such conditions and the
dlsconsolate husband went home to his
vacant house to mourn the loss of his
faithful and beloved wife. But the said
wife, instead of being actually dead,
had only fallen into death-like swoon.
Awakening from this and finding her.
self buried, she, by some unexplained
means, succeeded in getting herself IN
buried, and Immediately SET off home to
to comfort husband. Naturally enough
the husband was greatly surprised to
see the wife, whom he had seen dead
and securely buried only few hours
before, walk into the open door; and
he was so sure about the authenticity of
the death and ''for-keeps" burial of his
spouse that he refused to credit either
his own ewes or the assertions of the
resurrected one. Deaf to all that his
once dead, but now living, wife could
urge in behalf of her identity, the
knight at last, SO he thought, terminal
ed the discussion by exclaiming: mo!
it is impossible that you can be my dear
wife whose loved remains | but few
hours ago saw deposited IN the cold
grave. Sooner will believe that my
horses can ascend the stairs to the gar
ret of my house" Rash knight! No
sooner had he made this assertion than
a curious, four-footed trampling re-
sounds through the house. At first in
the courtyard, then in the hall, these
strange noises sound, reverberating
from wall to wall. Tramp, tramp,
tramp-they have reached the stairs
and go, stumbling and gathering, to
the regions above.
The knight, astonished and frighten-
ed at this invasion of his quiet home,
hastens into the street and casts IN
anxious glance toward his garnet Win
dows. Wonderful! From every open
window projects 4 horses head and
neck, the ears pricked forward. and
each equine eye beaming down on the
astOnished knight with almost q human
intelligence. What knight, ancient or
modern, could see himself taken at his
word in this miraculous manner and re-
main unconyinced? This particular
ancient hnlghC, at any rate, could not
resist the evidence of his own eyes.
Convinced by the prodigy, he ''clasped
his living wife to his. breast and lived
happily ever after" Legend does not
say what became of the horses which
played such a prominent part in this
pathetic reunion of man and wife.
Whether they returned to their stable
in the same miraculous way in which
they gained the garrett much more
difficult and miraculous feat, one would
imagine, than ascending the stairs;
whether they remained in the garnet,
their heads and necks projecting from
the windows, and their eyes beaming
inteligently down on all passers-by I'M
til death and decay removed them
piecemeal-on all these points the le-
gend is silent as the graye.-Sa1a Fran
cisco Cbronicc.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-17
Pensees.

Love among young people IS so &C.
static and religious that it wishes to OBJ
tain everything by moral conviction. and
this makes it sublime.
Beauty is without doubt the signature
of the master upon the work where he
has imprinted his soul; it is the divinity
which manifests itself. To see it when
it is not, to create it by the force of an
enchanted gaze, is this not the last
word of love?
First love is 81 sacred childhood
thrown across our days of sorrow and
toll.
Fear inspired by love is an infallible
instrument for guiding a woman's mind
Who loves fears, and who fears is near
CT to affection than to hate.
1t is rare that Il man passes without
remOrse from the condition of confidant
to the condition of rival.
With a woman who possesses the
genius of her sex love is never a habit;
her admirable tenderness knows how
to take on new and varied forms, it is
so intelligent and loving at the same
time, it is natural in its articles, that
she makes herself as powerful by the
souvenir as by her presence.
The most rapid revolutions trouble
only the interests of men, while pas
sion overturns their sentiments. For
those who have more soul and blood
than intelligence and lymph, real
love produces a complete change of
existence.
Independently of q repulsive move
ment there exists in the soul of all wo-
men sentiment which tends to pre-
scribe sooner or later pleasures devoid
of passion.
Men in order to get married play as
many roles rs mothers make their
daughters play to get rid of them.
No woman is forsaken without rea-
son. This axiom is written at the bot
tom of every woman's heart; hence the
fury of every one of them who is aban-
doned. Translated by Boston Courier.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-17
Invited Ont.

A Hendersonville On. CD correspon.
dent OF the Galveston NctCs WI ties.
Court has been in session here the last
two weeks, and | have several times
dropped in 10 see how Justice is iispens-
ed in the old North State. am struck
with the difference apparent in the
court here from that in our own state.
Inc Judge wears no gown or any out
ward Insignia of office. and appears
only rs a common citizen, seated for
the time being on the bench. The law
vers sit in n sort Of huddle before him.
gathered around one common large
table instead of being strung out in an
orderly group behind line of small
tables just inside the bar as with Us.
They retain their seats while examining
witnesses. and do not stand up even
when addressing the Judge. They
seem to be very democratic" in dress
and manners too. | observed one on q
hot day sauntering about within the
bar in long linen buster. l saw also
some one come into the courtroom and
beckon to him. the lawyer who was
conducting the defense in case while
the solicitor was examining witness
on the stand; and telling the solicitor
that he would be back in few mo-
ments, he walked out with his friend.
and the whole court stopped short,
without explanation or apology, and
waited some five or ten minutes until
he returned. The jury also exhibited
the same free and easy" appearance,
some sitting with coats off. and all look
ing as if court was mighty common
place affair. And this easy-going man
ner seemed to pervade the whole court.
L do not say that in the trial of offend
erS or the enforcement of the law they
are any less thorough and efficient here
than in South Carolina. But the absence
of much of that dignity and propriety
which characterize the court in our
state is very apparent, and one familiar
with the customs in South Carolina can
hardly fail to be impressed with the diff
ference.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-17
An Even Thing.

care you sure that this is q gentle
horse?" asked man of Il colored gen
tleman, from whom he wished to pur-
chase buggy horse.
''Gentlest boss in dis town. A child
ken driDe him. My wife is q mighty
skeery oman, but she amt afeerd oh
dis boss"
''Sorry to hear it." said the white
man. "a gentleman who was running
against me for Office gave me money
to buy horse for him. / don't want
you to say anything about it, but /
want to get horse that will run away
with him and kill him.
''Den dis is de boss, sab. Tore a
'spress wagin all ter pieces day afore
yestidy, an killed cullud gentleman.
Jes' suit yer, sab, fur he will kill de OF
fortunate white man lessen q week"
"You trifing liar, wanted the horse
for my wife, and merely tested your
honesty. l don't want him."
who's trifin' liar?'
You are"
81 amt no wuss den yerse'f, boss;
case yerse'f tole lie jes' ter see eff I'd
tell one. White mans got ter git out n
de bed mighty soon in de mawnin' ter
beat me tellin' OBJ lie, femme tell
yer. '-ArkanSGaU ITaUeler.