The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-01

down the regulation number to nine can deceive
none but the most credulous. 1t simply reveals
him as a very dangerous f~alsifer. No man of
integrity will attempt a lie, and then descend to
modifying it in order to command belief. A real
sturdy, fourply. Atwood. snake-den story is not
a bad thing. A failure to give it body can but
recoil upon the inventor.
The one great drawback to concerts is that
the female singers do not have, as in opera, an
opportunity to change their costumes frequent
ly. At least they have not been accustomed to
do so, and audiences often feel, without realiz-
ing why, that their aesthetic ~longings have not
been fully ~gratiied. Madame Nevada is the
first prima donna to recognize this lack of the
concert stage, and will remedy it by appearing
in a different dress after each song. In the last
number of the programme she will wear the
white velvet wedding dress so minutely de-
scribed in cable dispatches. With this thorough
appreciation of the wants of the musical public
and the determination and ability to satisfy it,
there is no doubt that the Madame'st tour will be
a success.
FIRST it was a beautiful Beacon-street heiress
whose life was plotted against by some mystic
rious person known only to the Boston police.
Next it was a young married woman whose hus-
band wanted to get rid of her. Later it was the
Irish wife of a Baltimore youth, against whom
her wealthy father-in-law had murderous de-
signs. AT last accounts the horrible affair has
resolved itself into a transparent attempt at
black-mail OF the part of a dissipated advent
uress and a bungling male accomplish. Boston,
proud of its Downes sensation, tried hard to get
up another, even more thrilling, but failed dis.
mally in the attempt.
A has been discovered in South Amer
lea which possesses strong electrical properties.
On breaking a twig a shock is felt, and a COM
pass is affected at a distance of some feet from
it. Birds and insects carefully avoid it.-Ex-
change.
There is a plant long familiar to the older gen.
Grafton in this country, the shock of contact
with it being very great. Schoolmasters of the
old regime frequently demonstrated this re-
markable property. Schoolboys carefully
avoided it. The generic name of it was CAD,
though there were several species. among them
hickory and birch.
If you are under the impression that you are,
by right of descent, entitled to sport a family
crest and coat of-arms, a young man of Phila-
delphia will, for a fee of $500, study up your
genealogy, run down your noble ancestors and
find the insignia which you should wear. Some
of his customers, the young man says, desire
the investigation merely as a matter of curiosity
about their ancestors, but he is forced to admit
that they display more interest in the coat-of-
arms which is their very own than in their dead
| and gone forefathers.
THE Philadelphia Record says: Evangelist
| Sam Jones claims to have converted $500 peo-
pie at ST. Joseph, Mo-, and 2, 500 at Stone Noun
tain. Ga, and 10, 900 in his Tennessee campaign.
and so on. Mr.. Harrison, who has been a boy
preacher for some thirty years, is scarcely less
successful. and the time would fail us to tell of Mr..
Moody and Mrs. Van Colt and all the other re-
~vilists, who labor year after year. What be-
comes of all these converts9 The church stats
tics record little trace of them. What becomes
of themq"
THE American students who left the st. Lau-
rent College, of Montreal, in a body, did so be-
cause they suspected smallpox, and because
they knew they did hot have enough to eat.
The first charge turns out to be unfounded, but
the other stands undisputed. A religious insti-
tuition which fails to keep its fried chicken up to
the proper theological standpoint of abundance
and juiciness need not expect the continued pat
ronage of Americas future pastors.
THE Louisville Courier-Journa describes
Mary Anderson as a down
girl" This stab at her figure is partially atoned
for in the same paragraph by the remark that
''her personality diffusesa a constant radiance and
perfume" 1t will require a great deal of charity
on the part of Mary to condone the observation
that she has no waist.
THE manufacturers of carbon points are form
ing a pool for the purpose of putting up the
price. Electric-light companies have made light
of the products of these companies, but now they
will have to come down with a little more hard
cash.
IRISH fr;eze is thick, soft, warm and not so
heavy.-Exchange.
Ordinary North-American Dakota freeze may
be thick. and generally is, but it is as hard as a
grindstone apple and cold as > woman's foot.
THE annual fire tax paid by the United States
is estimated at $3.50, 900, 900. We believe this
does not include the contributions for keeping
up the churches and other devices against future
condagrations.
IT is said that General Mcclellan first met his
wife at church. The account says he sat in the
same pew with her, and fell in love at sight. He
probably reflected that she was not a membe of
the choir.
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
PoULTICEs of tar applied to the soles of the feet
are commended in Georgia as a cure for rheumatism.
LORD TENNYSON has been elected president of the