The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-04
ODDS AND ENDS.

zen to half dozen listeners, Sheriff Garter
purnt up Harry Adamss Cradle"
| Burnt up Harry Adams's cradlel' questioned
| listener
Eyes, purnt it up
why Harry Adams had no cradle in the
courthouse"
Eyes he hat Harry Adams, you know, vas
porn in der courthouse"
| II think day of trouble is coming for Police
| Commissioners Frenzel and Murphy" said a
| gentleman yesterday. "They are in the condi-
| ton of the boy who attempted to carry lot of
/ mixed groceries He was sent with dollar and
a half to buy gunpowder and coffee--one dollar
for the powder and fifty cents for the coffee, and
was given a carpet-sack to put the powder in.
| He thought he could safely take five cents of
| the money for cigar. In making the appropri
alton he lost his head and put the coffee instead
! OF the powder into the sack. Then he lighted
the cigar and that was the last of
| that boy"
| Gen R. S. Foster: 81 think Frenzel and Muir
| ply, if they violating the law ought to be
impeached. If people submit to known viola
tons, when there is a remedy, they should not
| complain"
The English language is being rapidly and
successfully knocked out in our public schools.
Nearly ali the teachers say ''closses" for
| classes"
The executive committee of the convention of
the building and loan associations has held a
4 meeting, and appointed subcommittee, con-
sisting of Adolph Seidensticker, Albert Baker
and W. F. A. Bernhamer to draft amendments
| to the several sections of the building and loan
association law and present them to the Legis-
lature. 1t is the sense of the committee that
the shares in these associations should be put
/ upon the same basis as money deposited In saw
| ings banks; that is, that every one list his own
] shares to the assessor. Another important
/ amendment will be to reduce the interest on
| shares that withdrawn to the rate
/ that borrowers pay to the associations on loans.
The statute now provides for per cent.
Withdrawals, and the associations charge but
| per cent. on loans.
'Ive just returned from the South, the sunny
| South, said d. M. Ransdell. '"The South is
very beautiful now. Mild as summer; balmy,
! very balmy. Flowers in full bloom, creoles and
all the tropical plants Delightful, very delight
| full, indeed"
How about the waterl'
Rain! Great guns how it rained Never
saw anything like it in the North; far superior
to the North, and awful1y wet"
II alluded to the drinking water"
drinking waterg Drinking water, did you say2
Il Come to think about it, l can't remember
that saw any"
few weeks ago a New York judge delivered
the opinion that policeman is not omnipotent
and infallible, and that citizen may even refuse
to obey policeman. This heterodox opinion
lays the ak to the root of belief instilled into
us in our earliest childhood 1t will be some
time, however, judging from the OHara case,
before citizens will be able to shake it out of
tn 2 heads that it is heinouS offense to refuse
to obey the most preposterous commands of de-
tectives and policemen
x*x
One of our city bakers, perhaps more than one,
has begun to do the right thing by fixing his
price FOR bread according to the rules which gov
ern prices in other commodities. 1t is to be
hoped that all bakers will follow this example,
1t is little short of piracy to keep the size of the
five cent loaf with -four at its present low price
the same as when that staple sold for nearly
twice as much by the barrel.
Rev. DR.. Mcleod was in a company the other
day when the subject of Irish bulls came up.
II can give you," said the Doctor San Irish
mans recipe of how to tell one. AS we CO. said
he, past Wildly Maioney's pasture We will see
four cows lying down. Well, the one that's
standing up is a bull"
~
''Who is that TALL rather handsome gentle
man over therep inquired a stranger, indicating
passer-by
"He9 Why that's the Hon. Will e. English
He is called honorable because he wasn't elected
to the House of Representatives.
*"x
1t is the skating rink more than any other one
thing that is running the business of the thea
ters. For some years the theaters have been
preparing themselves for slaughter The per-
formances on highly chromoed card board in the
barbershop and saloon windows have been get
ting more and more attractive, while the per-
Torrance after you pass the box-office has been
getting thinner and thinner. All the truly laugh
able situations in the dramas carefully ltho-
graphed and placed in the show windows and af-
terward are carefully eliminated from the
play. What a few years ago would have made
a twenty-five or thirty minute farce, is now
heightened and enfeebled into so-called fve-act
comedy. Theatrical companies are going to
pieces all over the country. Let them co. it
cannot be possible but something better will
come to replace the frivolous mind weakening
trash that is now lettering toward bankruptcy
The skating rink entertainment is not highly
intellectual, but it is preferable to the drama
and doesn't cost half the money. In this citv
| it is said, the skating Kinks attract many young
men who otherwise would spend their evenings
| in drinking and billiard saloons.
Nv
81 remember" said disbanded journalist, ga
fine stroke OF enterprise by the st. Louis Demo
crat, years ago, when was on that paper. The
second prize-fght between Mike McCoole and
Tom Allen was about to be fought. A place had
been selected by the pugilists up the river, on
the Illinois side, and a reporter named Hobbs
had devised a plan by which the news was to be
scooped for that journal The place where the
fight was to take place was six miles from the
river This the reporter would have to ride on
horseback, after the fight then cross the river
in skiff, and get to the nearest telegraph sta
ton. from which to St Louis there was but one