The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-18

papers to give them good space in the city col
umns But now the game is as wholly pro
fessi matter-except where it is played by
BOYS ON the commons-as performance on the
trapeze or the spring board in circus. It may
be worth the price of admission to those who
care for it, but it has no title to fill up as much
space in local news as session of the City Coun-
Gil or an anniversary of charitable association.
1t is no matter of general or local interest
cept as any display of professional dexterity
may be. Hardly man in any club claiming the
nanne of city belongs to the city by birth or
residence One year he belongs to Detroit, an
| other to Indianapolis, another to Buffalo or
Cleveland. The whole body of professionals, !"
and that includes every player of any consider
able skill, is exactly like the condottiere' of the
middle ages" who hired themselves as soldiers
to one state or another as they were best paid,
and changed sides on any adequate inducement.
and fought as we'll for the second party as they
had previously fought against it. city car
feel no local pride or interest a club thus APP
propriated to it, and there is no sense in making
stir about the formation of local club or fill
ing columns with its circus feats
| THE home of Lulu Hurst produces not only
wonderful women, but men beyond the ordinary
run of mortals No less than three citizens of
], Georgia proclaim their royalty, with the rights
and privileges thereunto belonging. Lemuel
Howard, of jackson county, could have given
| Myra Clark Gaines points on claiming things.
| He has figured out that he is the only Simon
pure Jacob Townsend Sarsaparilla heir to the
| British throne, and maintains that he
has the sum of 100000 on depos-
it in the Bank of England with
which to set up housekeeping when he takes
possession of st. James's, Buckingham and Bal
moral castle. He has assumed the title Earl of
Baltimore, or Kalamazoo, or something Of the
kind. The second royal parsonage of that State
is prominent lawyer of Noonan, who claims to
be able to trace his descent from the Scottish
kings for sixteen centuries prior to the Christian
era. Having no title, suggest that of Duke of
Louisville The third man is Robert Shaw, who
| is quite persuaded that Queen Victoria is unlaw
fully keeping him from his own as ruler of the
British empire. The Marquis of East st. Louis
would be becoming title until he comes into his
own
WHEN woman wants money. she wants it as
bad as a Texan occasionally wants a revolver.
And when the woman is married, her husband
might as we'll go and get'it, even though he has
to pawn his overcoat. The wife of Charles Will
son, of Brooklyn, wanted money. Charles knew
she wanted it, for she probably told him So It
| so happened that he had been out of work for
three months, unknown to Mrs. Wilson, he hav
ing, in a moment of weakness, told her he was
working right along, but that pay day came
but once a month Last Tuesday was
payday, he said and he started off to draw his
wages Not having any wages to draw he re-
sorted to ruse He soaked his clothes in tub
of water, and then came home with wonderful
story of how ne had been tackled by highway
man, robbed of his hard-earned money and
thrown over bridge. Strangely enough, his
wife believed the apoeryphal story. But a de-
tective did not, and in few days proved it to-.
Wilson that he had lied from beginning to end.
The expose out duly in the dailies of the
town. The subsequent interview between Will
son and his wife has not yet been reported by
the war correspondent.
AFTER all, money will not buy happiness any
more than it will buy health or long life. Mime.
Janish starring the country, is represented
as tired of life, and constantly talks of death as
being contamination devoutly to be wished for.
Every night, when the curtain falls at the close
of the play, she exclaims, in the most devout
manner: ''Tank Gott eff coot only die as easy
as dot curtain rolls quick down." One would
judge from Madam's conversation that her mar
ried life had not been happy. The other day she
said: "Some beebles say dot you can buy lofe
with monee, und dot monee will bring habbiness
If / had married for lofe would now be peas
ants wife, buttering bread for mine children,
und would haf peen habby Instead of dot
married count und am an actress, und I hat
no hab5iness-only wanting lot l may die"
TT will be great loss to the ministry, for be
/ would have been a. strong in the pulpit, but
Duncan c. Ross, the athlete. will not become a
preacher, nor will he give up rum which means
whisky He will, however, retire from the
saloon business for the present at least and go
on an athletic tour under the management of
| Richard K. Fox. Since the story was made
| public that Ross was about to enter the ministry
he has received hundreds of letters and tele-
grams from minister's ladies and his former
sporting associates, including one from King
| Kalakaua, of the Sandwich Islands, urging him
to persevere in his intention
| IT is pleasing 20 note that James Keene denies
the charge that he acted ungentlemanly toward
the Long Island conductors and he declares that
he did not swear one word, while the conductor
/ conversed like pirate
THE latest atrocty in Indianapolis hotel
French Isl ''Soup-Potato la pome de tare!
We challenge the world to enter sweepstakes
competition.
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.
Quill. pens the correct thing just at present
| A NEW JERSEY girl traded her engagement ring for