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The Increase of Profanity.

1t seems as if this increase were cor
respondent with the general spread of
intelligence, the distribution of wealth,
the increase in the number of grad
yates of the public schools, the oener-
al expansion and activity of the people.
1t Is certainly i'll many individual
cases the inevitable concomitant of the
imperious instinct of expression and
selt-assertion. This instinct is becom-
ing more and more developed in an
entire class of our people, who are be-
ginning to feel the effec is of c~iviliza-
ton, OF increased population, and of
social propinquity. Whereas once
they were few IN number, under the
necessity of hard work and wholly
~unoccupied with the thought ofamuse-
ment, they are now numerous, we'll
to-do, more or less gay, and they
accordingly feel in its fullest measure
the workings of the great instincts of
expansion. Accordingly they have
begun to curse and to swear like
Peter when he felt himself an imper-
lous desire 80 say a great deal and
really had nothing to say. With a
great many, perhaps with most swear
ers profanity simply means the arti-
culate expression of thought or emo
ton. For people whose powers of
expression are slight, who have only
recently come to feel the need of amy,
profanity has the attraction of seeming
to he very expressive. We shall
never as a nation, swear any less un-
til II society in general insists more
on adequacy and accuracy of express
sion and definitely makes up it's mind
what IS mere in~teriee5ionaI exuber-
ance and what is grossly indecent
P~ittGdei2Aiu Press.
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Rich Actors and Actresses.

Little Lolita is declared to be the
richest m on the stage. l heard
her fortune put day or two ago at
81, 900, 900. This is, OF course, *
travagant. She is, however, worth
all OF S250,O0o. and | dare say, some
where near 100000. In her earlier
years on the stage Lolita experienced
no end of trouble keeping her money.
Somehow or other it all went. But
rs time wore on Lolita contracted
business habits, until she Is now as ca
pable a business person as anybody.
She has money invested in about every
way-stocks, bonds, real estate, and
| know not what. She lsnow 3Syears
old: | believe, but she is full OF anima-
ton and always a wonderfully happy
little body. She succeeded on the
stage Because she could not help it.
1t Is perfectly natural for her to cut
the capers that She'does, for she cuts
them off the stage as well as on.
The richest man on the stage is
doubtless Joe Murphy. He is wortha
cold $4,000 0O if he is worth a dollar.
He vas n poor Irish boy, and started
u" 81 tii1ty silISGl anu iullCSE- his
one ambition has been to make mon
ey, rather than fame as q distin-
guished artist. He has stuck to
Irish dramas, and he has always
played to big-paying business, while
other shows have languished and
died on all sides. He has sung
Only q handful of Earth from My
Dead Mothers Grave until it wrings
tears from even him-tears OF agony.
AHale song, however, touches the hearts
OF his audienceevery time without fail.
The women boo-hoo and the mel de-
mand Il repetition. Players who are
satisfied with modest positions in the
profession like to 90 with Murphy.
He expects them to do all that their
contracts call for. but he treats them
faily and pays them fairly. Nobody
~begrudges Murphy his prosperity, for
the eason that he is known every
where as II square and upright man.
The poorest person in the profession
aggregates in the total nine-tenths of
the whole. Lillian Russell is, perhaps,
as badly off as amy OF the conspicuous
ones. She has received II great deal
OF money. but never has kept any OF
1t, and it is said she has debts without
end. Fanny Davenport, | hear, has
invested some money IN II of the
dramaticpapers. Shehasaccumulated
a fortune, and n very substantial one,
too. Sheis probably worth $4,000
to 500, ooO.--Brooklyh Union.
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Grants Cadet.o

"Another case in point" said an old
Vest Pointer, sis that Of Sergeant
Griffith OF the old Twenty-second Iowa.
In the assault on Nicksburg it will be
remembered that aparto of theTwenty-
second Iowa Regiment crossed the
ditch and parapet OF a rebel outwork.
In the hand-to-hand fight that follow
ed every man except one was shot
down. This oneman was Griffith, and
he went down withthe others, stunned
but not seriously hurt. On his re.
covery he found a rebel lieutenant and
sixteen mel lying in the outwork still
'unwounded, but exposed to the fire
from both ~Confederates and Unionists.
Griffith roseand asked the rebelsto
follow him out OF the place. They
signiiied their willingness to obey, and
calling to the troops outside to cease
firing Griffith took his prisoners over
the parapet under n storm of rebel
shot. As soon as he heard OF this ex-
plot Grant promoted Griliithto a first
~lieutenancy and afterward sent hint o
the Military Academy at West Point;
where he was known as Grants cadet.
He graduated in 1867 the fifth in his
class, and happen to know that.
Grant never lost sight Of him, and in
every mention Of that battle of Vicks-
burg written by Grant, Grifiithreceives
as many lines asdo someof tliegeneral
officers"
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A Rebuke for Silly Girls and
Their Parents,
From the Boston Daily Advertiser.

From the Boston Daily Advertiser.
Nearly fifty young women received
the bachelors degree-to admit a
slight contradiction in terms-atS Smith
college On Wednesday.
No doubt each one had properly
qualified herself for this distinction.
But when one finds among the anne
OF these graduates Nellies and Carries
and Jennies. and even a Virgie and an
Annie, it does not seem as if the grave
letters A. B. will well become their
owners.
One does not see Georges and Fred
dies in the list of those who graduated
at Harvard College.
1t may be hoped that sometime be-
fore the ere when we havewomen tor
governors and senators the mothers
of the land will overcome their fond
ness for having their daughters bap-
TIED with nicknames, or that tie
daughters will have dignity enough to
discard such manners when they es.
capefrom girlhocd.
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Cheeky Reporters.
Chicago Herald.

Chicago Herald.
Talking about cheeky reporters"
said Gen. Logan one day last spring
at Springfield, ~ think the Chicago
reporter is OF the head Of his class.
One night Mrs. Logan and myself had
retired to our roomin a Chicago hotel,
when a reporter sent up his card. OF
course would not see him. He sent
oack a note, saying it was an urgent
case, and begging me to see him.
Again ! refused. Ten minutes later /
was Just doing off to sleep, when Mrs.
Logan heard a rapping at the door,
and called me. Icalled, 'Who'sthere?:'
and heard in response, "A telegram
As was expecting an important mes
sage, | went to the door, and there,
with the messenger boy, stood the re-
porter. Now, General he said,
since this resky telegram has called
you out OF bed, won't you oblise me
with a little talk9 And at that he
pushed his way into my room and sat.
down. | admired the mans cheek,
and sat down and talked with him.
The gas was burning low, and, as he
wanted to take some notes, he reach.
ed up and TUNED it on. Then he dis
covered that Mrs. Logan was in the
room. Startle him? Not q bit.
Nothing could startle a man like that.
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Bees in a Church.
Fairfield (Conn.l Special.

Fairfield Comm Special.
For more than a year bees have APP
peared within the Episcopal church
mere in large numbers. During the
winter, whenever the janitor started
;he fires, hundreds OF the busy hum
mers would creep out OF their hiding
places and fly about the editice. Ear.
~ this spring steps We're taken to dis
cover their habitation. Twelve pounds
OF honey and q quantity of honey
comb were taken out between the raj
tiers supporting the roof. 1t was
thought then that the Industrious in.
sects were driven off. Recently, the
first warm Sunday, during service,
thousands OF bees were crawling and
hummingabout the chancel. TheRev.
Mr.. Lombard conducted the service,
and when the organ and choir rolled
out the morning hymn the insects
poured IN millions from the roof.
Evidently the bees were preparing to
live and mistook the organ for the
conventional copper kettle which the
knowing farmer whacks with custo
when the bees hive" The Rev. Mr..
Lombard, after a few short remarks.
mtersperscd with Shaping his head,
said he would have to dismiss the con
gresation and dispense with the COM.
milnion service, "as the scason was
obvious The good people left the
church, but even the straightest faced
could not help laughing.
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The latest device for evading the law
IN the districts of Georgia where the
sale of whisky is prohibited, is to fill.
,ocoanut shells with spirits and sell
hem at fancy prices, This is u Balti-
mor trick, and beats old-fashioned
striped pig all hollow.
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Bishop Hurst, Of the Methodist
Church, says: eff from all the lands
where our people are now singing cen-
tennial psalms our Church were sud-
denly blotted out, there is aggressive
force in India Methodism alone to sail
to allthe continents and islands and
plant it over again"
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occasion slaughtered forty-five in one
hour in the basement of a X stree,
establishment Sacramento Record.
TJ.;ou
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'fesiat on of the disease. to the case
with well marked general and local
symptoms, such as high fever. gener-
al + gors. quickenng pulse and respi-
rat on, loss of appetite. cessation of
ruminatioa. together with extremely
hot and painful adder, with m TX flow
stopped or cont nu ng only as a much
changed. thin yellowish flu d.. or as a
half solid and blood-tinged mass.-Dr.
I. +. Rice. Hartford. CT.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-22
The Dangers of Banting.
Philadelnhia Record


Banting, the man who invented the system
for reducing the flesh of the corpulent, has a
great deal to answer for. 1t is quite likely that
a person who is too stout to be comfortable may
reduce his weight by judicious exercise and alb.
stinence from certain articles of food; but that
he should undergo such course as that known
as Banting is more than any ones health can
stand He may reduce his weight, but he in
lures himself at the same time. Look at Fanny
dueed her weight fifty pounds; but, instead of
enjoying the high health that was formerly hers
she has hardly the strength to continue IN her
profession. She barely eats enough to
keep body and soul together, and rain
or shine, she walks her three or four
miles day. ] thoroughly believe in walk
ing as an exercise, but think that people
to keep up their strength for walking should eat
proper and sufficient food. No one can look at
Fanny Davenport and believe that she is well.
You see her come in from the theater of an even
ing and instead of oeing bright and ready for
her midnight supper, she throws herself ex-
hausted on chair, and only takes sufficient
neurishment to keep her from actually fainting
away. For all this she has smaller arms and a
simmer waist. But it seems to me she buys
them with too heavy price,
Another case in point is that of well-known
young lady of society, who felt that she was
growing too fat for the prevailing fashion in fig
ures, and undertook course of Banting to re-
duce herself to sylph-lke proporto MS The
treatment was unnatural, and she got thin faster
than she anticipated. She is now in bed. Her
friends hope she is recovering from an illness
which was so severe that it was given out she
was dying Perhaps if she pulls through this
self-inflicted illness. she will be satfel to let
Bantings system alone, and, if her good health
lakes the form of stoutness, not to interfere with
the course of nature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-22

American author, either in amount or in quality.
They are likely to retain permanent place in
American literature, and even to he held much
higher in the future than they now are.
In 1860 Whipple resigned his business posi-
tion and since that time he has devoted himself
wholly to literary work In 1872 he was for one
year, the literary editor of the Boston Globe;
but the greater part of his work has been done
In the magazines and reviews. He has lived for
many years In Chestnut street. in the neighbor-
hood of the State-house. 1t is one Of the most
quiet streets in Boston; but near by are DR..
Holmes, Howells and other literary men of note.
In mis- habits and tastes Whipple is dstinctively
man of letters. He is a lover of books and he
He may be seen at the Boston Antheneum in
search of the best among the new publications. or
hunting out some old author for the purposes
of his critical work Going into society
but little. and taking little part in
the gatherings of literary men, many
of the Boston authors find their way TO his door
and pay tribute to his critical genius. A grave,
thoughtful man. with broad forehead and a
scholarly look about his face, Whipple, in his
old age, is still pursuing his literary work with
his usual skill and ability. He now writes but
little, but it is excellent in quality and in the
trammeled clearness of his critical opinions
Such work as Whipple's can never become
popular but no library is fully equipped from
velopment of a literary taste, and an apprecia-
ton of the best which literature contains, his
books are invaluable The best literary culture
OF the past fifty years is in them; and they are
worthy of the most careful and studious reading,
by whoever would know what is contained In the
literature of the English language G. w. G.
BosToN, Mass, March, 1883.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-22
A PLUMBERS NOTEBOOK.
Possible Explanation of Some Things Not
Heretofore Fully Understood.

Possible Explanation of Some Things Not
Heretofore Fully Understood.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The following is from q stray leaf from a note
book picked up on Fifth avenue few days ago.
It's general tenor would Indicate that it was
from plumbers diary
Mem.-Send two men and boy to Smith. Lin
coin avenue Rich Third time pipes burst;
hours job must not be done in less than O. day.
Charge $25
Mem.-Stop i'll and pay Gold g. Gewgaw 81,
900; wifes diamonds.
Mem.-Inclose So to Becky Sharp domestic at
Biggins's, Third street Has let water pipes
freeze up five times this winter; thinks she can
work it once more. Have mortgage on bis
house for ST., 500.
Mem.--Old Curmuddy, Penn avenue, lets
water run through pipes all the time to keep
them from freezing. Send man to make inspec-
ton and see if small boy cannot be put through
the kitchen window first cold night and turn
water off.
Mem-Deposited $4,000 in Merchants and
Mechanics Bank
Mem. discharge Smith tonight; was only
one day fixing pipes at H J. Jones's; a good
weeks work. Loss fully $175.
Mem.-Send man up to make estimate on job
at "a Frigid street Have learned that occupant
owns house. job will take two men three days.
Estimate, however, not less than $175
Mem.-Offered Sletterly 81, 900 for team coach
horses He will take it if hold out.
Mem.-See attorney about foreclosing mort
gage on Scroggs's house. Have waited month
now. Can't afford to lose three months work,
whether it leaves him homeless or not.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-22
A Plea for Football.

Eugene L. Richards, jr. the captain of the
Yale football team, has in the Outing Maya
zine for April an eloquent defense of the game
from recent attacks. He says
while it may be said, in illustration of the
head-work required in football, that before the
recent match with Princeton, the line of march
for the Yale team from the kickoff, with the
requisite plays, was accurately traced out on
paper, the Yale team, with one slight error,
carried out that plan of tactics, and in three
minutes and half they had crossed Princeton's
goal-line. This is the game which is pictured as
won by brute force. 1t is really won by the
greater GOODNESS and the quicker thinking.
"No one but veteran can describe the fascina-
ton, and even the romance, which foot ball
possesses for it's players. There is nothing like
their loyalty to the sport either in the faithful
ness of base ball player or of a boating man.
Their hearts are in the game, and they never
forget it. The old player never watches game
without being seized with mad desire to join
it, he lives his important matches over and over
again in his dreams and before his FIRE; and he
will see football come to harm with feelings
akin to those of lover at the loss of his mistress
and those of q patriot at the betrayal Of his
country
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-22
TRUTHS TO BE IMPRESSED.
SHE WAS NOT MRS. LOGAN.
The Heroine of q Novel and the Story Of
Typographical Error.

Washington Letter.
The death of T. S. Arthur, q once celebrated
writer of temperance novels, in Philadelphia, on
Saturday last, recalls an incident in his careeN
in which General and Mrs. Logan bore prom
inent part About five years ago Mr.. Arthur
published novel, the scene of which was laid
in Washington City. 1t pictured the downfall
of a talented and brilliant young man, who had
gone to the bad through his fondness for drink.
The author then proceeded, with great exactness,
to picture the fascinating hostess, lady
prominent in the social circles Of the
capital city, at whose wine-table the Young
man first developed his fondness for drink. He
called this lady Mrs. Logan, and went still fur
Their in fixing her personality by describing her
as the wife of gallant Union officer When
the matter was first brought to General Logans
attention he addressed q sharp note to Mr.. Ar
thur, asking him how he dared to take fuch lib
critics with lady's name, and assuring him that
his wife was teetotaler of the most advanced
type.
The explanation which General Logan de-
manded was forwarded Immediately upon the
receipt Of his letter. Mr.. Arthur explained
that he was very prolific writer, and literally
OF late years he he'd left even the cor
rection of his proof to his publishers,
and seldom glanced over the books after they
were offered for sale. His characters were all
fictitious, and he felt sure there must be some
mistake, as nothing could be further from his
desires than to offend either Gen. or Mrs Logan,
whom he esteemed highly. In subsequent
letter he explained that he had hunted up the
manuscript of the story and found that the
lady to whom reference was made was dubbed
''EagouH
The name was purely imaginary. The typos,
thinking the proper reading of the word was
Logan had so printed it through the entire
work. 1t was in this way that the mistake had
occurred. Mr.. Arthur offered to make any rep
aration within his power, but as it was too late
to undo the HARM the matter was finally
dropped and forgotten entirely until recalled by
Mr.. Arthur's death, few days ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-22
AMONG THE MAGAZINES.
Farms on the Baltic.

r. d. Millet. in Harper's Monthly.
A more beautiful farming country does not ex
ist than that along the southern shore of the
Baltic. No fences mark the boundaries of the
fertile farms which stretch away over the rolling
hills to the distant horizon all aglow with yellow
grain. At intervals clump of trees, often seen
intensely dark against the ripe grain, shows
where farm house stands, and giant wind mills
swing their sails on the highest hill-tops The
highway, finely built chaussee leads straight
across the country, only curving to pass through
some village Mountain ash, birch, and cherry
trees border the road in an unbroken rank. In
the bitches and by the roadside grow countless
varieties of wild fowers-a perfect paradise for
the botanist From the highest hill the eye
meets to the south succession OF grain-felds.
To the north, beyond the soft fluctuations of the
cultivated hills, the Baltic shimmers in the
strong sunlight, narrow line, sharp at the hori-
zon. The dimensions of the brick barns prove
the accustomed magnitude of the harvest the
luxury of the farmers houses tells of inherited
success.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-22

with snow on the ground, the worse is orr CON.
dition. And yet 1t is in vain to argue this with
people. They are welded to traditional ideas
and full of prejudice and it seems impossible Ia
convince them that snow in this region 10 HARM
full 1t does no good to demonstrate to tkem
that but for snow we should have royal winter
climate. On a small scale we see occa,
sionally what it might be. There were
such days in January last. The snow had
disappeared, the sun shone with the light
but not the heat like an electric lamP) OF May
and the air was pure, exhilafaung, bat not
damp and gravelike. 1t would have been per-
feet but for the chill that came down from the
vast snow fields of Canada, where cold and snow
are worshiped and feted all winter. And yet,
after such experience, people, convinced, go
back TO snow The ignorance OF this scientific
age is discouraging.
The other, vulgar notion is that hand to-
nand struggle with extreme cold for monthg
does person good-braces him up 1t must ba
admitted that up TO a certain point any struggle
or trial Is invigorating to the moral and intel
leetual nature. But we see what too much in
diligence In this leads to. The Eskimo is
but little raised above the polar bear and tho
SEAL His whole existence Is just an effort to
keep alive, to get blubber and skins enough to.
generate and keep in his body vital heat.
He can think of nothing else; he has
room for no other mental effort. We see the
same thing in the diaries and accounts of thas
polar exploration fanatics 1t would be theR
most painful reading in the world if it were not
SO HOMOGENEOUS. Each one tells exactly the Same
story-the story of his physical struggle to keen
alive with the thermometer 50o below zero.
Soon the mind has no other occupation than thia
struggle. 1t almost ceases TO work in any other
direction. This is interesting to us at first as a
study of the capacity of the human organism t0
resist the unrestraned attacks OF nature The
experience of person who should in this lati-
tude. in winter, retire to an ce-house, with O.
Ratchet and supply of frozen hash, a whale
oil lamp, and a fur overcoat and body bag, and
sit on the ice in the darkness, and record his
feelings, the gradual lowering of the vital pow
numbness of his legs, would doubtless have q
physiological interest But the second expert
menter would not interest his readers so much
as the first with his narrative