The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-11

hand grasped with vseIike grip, which makes my
back ache. The young Of today wants to show
either his languidness or his muscle
PAMPHLET has been published by gymna stun
superintendent in the East, which gives elaborate
directions for the development Of the human cheek,
Chicago has NO use for the book.
LOOKOUT Mountain has been leased to the liverymen
OF the neghboring cty-Chattanooga. After dozen
years OF Niagara hack fares the people wiz want TO
make the mountain national park.
DECEMBER has been fixed as the date for taking
the census of Germany. The statistical bureau est
mates that 1.966,745 persons born in Germany are
now residents of the United States
WOMAN at Boone Ia, prudently allowed the town
to support her last winter, and cvnces her graft
tude by adding to its improvement Ia the shape OF q
fine residence which she is building for herself.
THE maiden law fee of a young attorney of Syl.
vania Ga, earned few days since, consisted Of SO
in money, sack of fodder, silver watch an old SOW
and yearling steer. He drove his live stock into
town himself.
BUSINESS failures last week we're most numerous
proportionately in the South The great prosperity
of that section to have been only in the glowing
accounts of gushing Southern papers and Eighty
correspondents
HENRY GEORGE, the author and lecturer. has a
pleasant home in Brooklyn and two boys who are
expert bicyclists. He has made considerable money
of late but is said to be often pnched to make both
financial ends meet.
THREE pairs of shoes to fit feet thirteen inches long
and five inches wide on exhibition in q Washing.
ton shoestore. They were ordered, probably, by
three expectant Democrats who found it necessary to
leave the city in hurry after seeing the President
HUNGARY's titled aristocracy is disturbed about
bill recently introduced to restrict the number Of the
upper house to those who can pay certain sum of
yearly taxes The BILL if passed. will exclude twenty
dukes 240 counts and 800 mobiles of the lower rank
AMONG the present English ministers there is only
one ex-journast, Sir William Harcourt. Mr.. Court
ney who only recently retired was leader-writer on
che London Times. Nearly every member Of the
French ministry the other hand, has been jour-
calist. 1850
A FLORIDA letter says the weather there has not
been pleasant for nvads this winter and spring The
cold has been severe and lasting The climate of north
Florida and indeed of all parts of the State in
which there are hotels and means of travelling, ID
very uncertain.
'Goop American preachers are better than those
in England of tie highest class" writes contributor
to the Pail Mall Gazette and the reason of this su-
periority of American preachers is that the institu
tons of the country allow them to be genuine"
English or Irish born
DIPHTHERIA in Europe has beenvery severe during
the last year. In Amsterdam where the deaths were
265 to every 10000 of inhabitants against 1853 in
Philadelphia, 121 in ST. Paul and 81 in New York.
Berlin has had 245 Madrid, 225; Dresden, 1884, Ant
| werp. 1O4; Paris, IS; London and Vienna IA each;
Copenhagen, 40, and Brussels, SO.
Mr.. w. d. HowELLs in forthcoming novel,
declares that it is defect of the literary tempera-
ment to feel that it atones for its wrong doing by
the effect with which it has portrayed it, and mentions
the of hen-pecked New England divine who
used to think how much easier it to make ones
peace with ones Maker than with ones wife.
THE original beam from which Mrs. Surratt was
hung has been found, and it will be placed in the
National Museum. After the execution of Mrs.
Surratt, Payne and Atzerodt July s. 1865, tho
old prison in the arsenal grounds, the rough scaoM
used in the execution torn down, and nearly all
the timbers which composed it were used in the re-
construction of the buildings the grounds most OF
them going into the floor Of the stables The cross
| piece of the execution hid by the MASTER me-
chanic who had charge of the construction of the
scafold. After twenty years 1t found where he
had placed it.