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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-29
Two Kickers.

Detroit Free Press.
Just my luck" he groaned, as he came down
stairs.
Lost anything9'
Everything! | wanted Brown, on the third
the second landing met q dog coming down"
Sand you raised your hatl"
"Alas! No! / raised my foot"
"And it was Browns dogW
ut was, and he was looking over the railing"
why didn't you plead ignorance2"
81 did, and so did Brown Hanged if he
didn't kick me three times, and then fpretend to
find out who was. Under the circumstances, L
couldn't ask him to sign you see."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-29
The Sort of Husbands to Have.

Detroit Post and Tribune.
couple of Hudson men and their wives,
few evenings ago, drove in a cutter to the house
of an acquaintance mile away unhitched the
horse and tied him. Late in the evening it was
found that the horse had broken the halter and
gone home. But the plucky husbands bundled
their wives into the cutter and getting outside
the shafts played horse and pulled the women
home.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-29
"A Very Economical Man.

Lewiston (Me.l Journal.
A Maine merchant who always had the repu
tation of being close-fsted failed and offered to
settle for fifty cents on dollar. His creditors sent
a man to represent them all and make arrange
ments with him. This happened forty years
ago, when what is now city was village with
two narrow planks for sidewalks. The credit
or noticed that the failed merchant instead of
taking the planks, walked by his side on the
grass
What are you walking down in tho grass
there forl' he asked.
''Oh I'm too poor to walk on the sidewalk"
said his debtor, in the humble tone of Uriah
Heep
well" responded the creditor, ''if you are as
economical as that, guess you will be able to
pay us in full, one of those days, and we won't
settle for fifty cents on dollar"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-29

Of wonderful nerve and self possession. When he
got home his wife met him with scared face at
the door. Be calm he said you mustbe calm.
l shall be dead in an hour. and you must know
all about my affairs by that time Then he sat
down and told her all about his money matters
kissed her and was dead
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-29
How Judge Ballard Died.
New York Tribune.

New YOrk TtIbuno.
Talking about the sudden death of Inspector
Thorne the other day, Kentuckian said: lit
is remarkable how quick men know when death
seizes them. / remember the case of Judge
Ballard, of Louisville, who was caught much
like Thorne He was standing In the bank
when he was seized with twinge in his side
that nearly bent him double I'm done for
boys, he said, order me carriage, quick.
shall be dead man in an hour He was q man
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-29

Lincoln (Ga.) News.
There is an old blind negro named Dave Muir
ray, living in Lincoln county who gains liveli:
hood by making baskets He can go into the
woods, and, by the sheer sense of touch, tell q
White oak tree from any other kind
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-29
A Severe Law in France.

Omaha Republican,.
The courts of France hold that it is libel to
overestimate lady's age and that's why
Frenchman bows, aud kicks, and smiles, and asks
a woman of fifty if she won't be glad when her
school days are over.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-29
Arthur and Gresham.
National Republican.

National Republican.
DO you know why Secretary Gresham left
the Treasury Department so quickly after he
was placed at its headr asked prominent Of
fetal yesterday ''Well, will tell you. Gresham
was very reluctant to leave the department. He
wanted to stay until the 4th Of March, and he
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-29
WHIMSICALITIES.
A Leafiet In Lententide.

Chicago Rambler.
Augustus-How are you keeping lent, Miss
Gwendo, -n2
Miss Gwendolen--Oh. / have h.tupon charm.
ing idea-so original When man calls whom
[ particularly want to see, send word that am
indisposed, while | see and make myself agree
able to all the bores.
Augustus-Ah, yes, quite an original fancy.
By the way, hope to have the pleasure of call
ing upon you before Easter.
Miss Gwendolen-Yes. do come, you will always
find me at home.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-29
Forgive as We Forgive.

Forgiveness comes from above,
To practice it ,meaneth we'll;
But the fullest measure of love
Forgives where it cannot excel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-29

anyhow Sherman, admire your taste Eyes
remarked General Sherman, with a twinkle In
his eye. ''she was fine, certainly. Did you notice
how we'll she stood upon her fetlock jointsl She
was fine woman
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-29
He Didn't Want the Boots Amy Way.

He D1dnt Want the BOOtS Any way.
Our Society Journal.
What are you doing with my bootsW asked a
high State official of colored gentleman.
rs desc here yer boots, bossr
'Of course they are"
That's mighty cuis."
''Not curious at all, you scoundrel You found
them in my room when you cleaned up"
Wall, dat's mighty cuis Yer kin hab de
boots, sab, eff da's yersefs"
Il wouldn't have them now"
Den what yer wanter make all dis great mi
ration about2 White folks gittin wuss cherry day.
De blame boots too little fur me nohow"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-29
A RECOMMENDATION to the Engllsh.

Philadelphia Press.
Phelps, the new minister to England, made
himself locally notorious, twenty years ago. by
his infamous abuse Of Abraham Lincoln. That,
however will not compromise his status at tia
court of ST James.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-29
She Was Solicitous.

st. Paul Herald.
''Do you think the cholera will reach here next
summer, Mr.. Boothbyl" she murmured, as she
brushed rnicrohe of dandruff off his shoulder
where her head had lately rested
II don't know, I'm sure; doctors seem to think
So"
''Its awful, amt it9"
Terrible"
ga great many die with it2'
$50 I've heard"
"Don't you feel alarmed~
s'Why should IL"
II read somewhere the other day that married
men seldom take it, whereas single men are
almost sure to-"
''Is that sol" said Mr. Boothby
Eyes and it's almost certainly fatal"
Horrible, amt it," said Boothby with shud-
der.
81 do so hope you won't catch it, Mr.. Booth
by she whispered, tears starting from her eyes,
He popped
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-29
A Distinguished Resident.

W al! Street News.
A few weeks ago the cashier of a Milwaukee
bank wrote to distinguished resident of Canada
as follows: Dear SRI have asplended oppor-
tunity to gohble up $50, 900 and join you in Can
ada. Can have fun enough to offset the sacri-
flee of reputation, home and large circle of
friends9" The distinguished resident replied by
next mail as follows, and wrote 'n haste" on the
envelope: Don't you do it, / got away with a
heap more swag than that, and can't find
Canuck who'll even drink beer with me-" 1t is
said that the D. Il. misses his dear Bible class
more than all else
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-29
A Fancy.

The moonlight strikes across the floor;
It's. creeping pallor nears my bed
All, were it only Death instead,
How swiftly this vigil DER!
Will o. Bates, in The Current.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-20

The equal-suffragists in various parts of the
country are meeting and Indignantly denounc-
ing Governor Pierce, of Dakota, for having
vetoed the suffrage bill passed by the Legis-
lature of the Territory. The New York soci-
ETY. has gone so far as to ask Mr.. Cleveland
for Pierces removal. The most exasperating
feature of the matter is that the Governor has
had every opportunity to be thoroughly inn
bued with the most advanced of suffrage prin-
ciples. In his own Chicago newspaper for
years has been department in which the
rights Of women and their demands have been
set forth in the most uncsnpromising terms.
The advocates of the cause are now Of the
opinion that he did not read his own paper;
but to the minds of others there is reason to
suspect that he did read it, thoroughly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-20

THE New York World, in its efforts to raise
money to complete the Bartholdi pedestal,
rather overdoes the matter when it says:
from President Cleveland should send sub
scription for the Bartholdi monument pedes-
tai to the World The publication of the
name and the donation will make favorable
impression upon the administration. If this
suggestion should be complied with, Liberty
Enlightening the World would have her choice
Of pedestals.
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THE SATURDAY JOURNAL.

The Saturday edition Of the Journal to-mor
row viii contain the second and concluding part
of ''Mrs. Thorndykes Conscience, the deeply in
teresting story of Mr.. Edgar F'awcett, which we
print by special arrangement with the distin-
guished author. In addition TO this we shall print
an elaborate review Of the Indiana display at the
New Orleans exposition from the pen of Mrs.
Emma Carleton, who is now in New Orleans in
the interests os the Journal. Besides these
special features there will be the usual features
Of literature and miscellany which have made
the Saturday Journal the favorite issue Of the
week with its large constituency. The extra
ordinary arrangements entered into to make the
Sunday Journal unparalleled as newspaper for
Sunday reading in no way interfere with the
full mainten ance of the high character Of the
Saturday edition. The only result is that we
now print two editions in the week-both Satur-
day and Sunday--which we think cannot be ex-
celled, and which are equaled by few, if by any
newspaper in the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-20

AN enterprisinS agent Of lecture bureau
has already asked appointment Clerk Higgins
to become one of his platform attractions.
Dir. Higgins declined on account of previous
engagements, and in doing so was wise. When
he is discharged by MIR. Manning, as the
mugwumps expect, on account of his past
history, he will be the greatest curiosity of
the age, and can command lucrative position
in dime museum. In the meantime, bad
and his resignation has not been asked.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-20

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has not failed to re-
ward his friends in the recent appointments
he has made. Mr.. Hay, the First Assistant
Postmaster general, was an active worker for
Mr.. Clevelend at Chicago, and it was through
his influence that Pennsylvania went almost
solid for the New Yorker after the withdrawal
of Mr.. Randall. The new Commissioner of
Patents, Mr.. Montgomery, of Michigan, was
also warm advocate Of Mr.. Cleveland. Mr..
Montgomery is lawyer of Lansing, and a
representative of what is known there as the
young Democracy. He served one term in
the State Legislature, and was offered nomi
nations as judge and congressman, which he
declined. He is favorably known in Wash
ington, where lie spent last winter in the in
terest Of some clients, who had bill for the
forfeiture Of land grants in Michigan before
Congress. In age, bodily vigor and legal at
tainments, he is we'll equipped for the ardu-
Gus duties of l. s new office.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-20

oftenest in periods running 666 years apart,
and beginning in 1914 This is the period
which elapses from the time the magnetic
needle occupies its greatest westing, until it
oscillates to the east, and returns again to its
greatest westing, corresponding, it is believed,
with great sun-spot periods, and modifying
the earths meteorology.
This second period will not come around
until 2eSO, but ct the present rate of progress
in legislative business in Indiana it will be
necessary to get the matter under way at
once. We recommend to Speaker Jewett,
who seems the only man determined to get
through the work on hand before late onion
planting time, to proceed at once. Five hun
dred and ninety-six years will be little time
enough to get the internal and plutonic COM
mittees together, and make such arrange
ments as are yet possible, to have the com
monwealth escape this dire evil with which
science, through Professor Owen, has threat
ened us
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-20

the presence Of physicians. and without any "yaos-
mersr, !" this was prodded with needless bk ned
with lighted cigars, and had cayenne pepper throssp
In his eyes. He swallowed the bitterest drugs and
submitted to all sorts of torture without the siehsost
perceptibe treor and allowed needles to be inserted
under the finger nails through the tongue without
wincing.
Dr. BURTON, In recent lecture at the Marquand
Chapel Yale, on "1H.stheticism and It's Relation 10
Religion said Tho arcients carried on Irritation
with art, and their descendants have the Same tsn
dency 1t is mistake to naiagle aesthetics with re-
ligion. Art must give way to religion in every con.
test for religion is superior. We can live without
art but cannot live without religion But art should
DO the handmade to religion and, If adverse to II t
IL the work of pervertng men and Satan
The monarchy of Greek art was the best Of the kind
but the kind is secondary. Christian art is queen Of
all others in wealth of ideas and as factor in modern
civilization. If it is not it is because people strive
against il who fail to sec all the sides of lfe."
THIS is what the London Truth says of the COM
tents of the Thirestane Castle cellars which are to
be sold by order Of the trustees of the late Earl OF
Lauderdae: There 600 dozen of old w;iies
all of the highest class. The great specially is soma
sixty dozen Of 1920 MADEIRA. bottled in 1874, with
the following seductive label in book This
wine went out to India and China .sith Captain Sir
Thomas Maitland. There also six dozen MADEIRA
OF fabulous age, labeled Brought homo by Sir AL
Maitland froI. West Indies in the Pique frgate'
There are some very fine old ports and carets betweep
thirty and forty years in bottles and splendid collec
ton of sherries. beginning with thirty bottles re-
moved to Thirlessene Castle from Dunbar. having
been boted in 1910 in london also ten dozen of old
khenish, which came home from Malta, having been
purchased by Lord Sydney Osborne at Frankfort for
Sir Thomas Maitland"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-20

GOVERNOR GRAY has nominated Mr.. Maui
rice Thompson to be State Geologist, to sue
coed Prof. Collett. Under the administration
of the latter gentleman the Office of Geologist
has been elevated, until the reports sent out
under his name have become recognized as
standard in the scientific world, and have
done much to give the country and the world
a correct and valuable idea of the resources of
Indiana. His displacement is a positive loss,
the extent of which cannot be at once
measured. Mr.. Thompson is clever writer
of romance and verse, and knows something
of archery eis in no sense identified with
the useful anu practical sciences, and his in
cumbency Of the Office will be in the nature
of an elegant farce, unless he develops unex-
pectedly There are many places in the pub
lio service that Mr.. Thompson would fill
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-20

indianapolis News.

This Legislature it worse than disgrace to
the State, or nuisance; it is positive shame.
Draining the public purse of the Sc per diem and
dawdling time away for that simple purpose, it
the new State-house go by default so that there
can be no tax levy to raise funds for necessary
expenditure. A result of this will be the stop
page Of the work and possibly the release of the
contractors from the liability OF their bond. IL
it is rot rrevocaby too late, superlative effort
should be made to change this outrageous aud
most expensive result At the present rate Of
progress this Assembly will deserve hostility
OF public opinion which shall brand the majority
of the majority as a notwithstanding, spoil
mongering, money-grabbing lot of nal admins
traitors who are porverting their authority to the
harm Of public interests.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-20
EARTHQUAKES AND THE DEMOCRATIC LEG
IHLATIJRE

Prof Richard Owen, of New Harmony, and
for many years teacher of geology in the State
University, although advanced in years, is
still leading life of scientific activity, as in
Dictated by all extended article in the Popular
Science Monthly for March on ''American
Earthquakes The paper is review and
summary of series of contributions made
within the last thirty years by the author.
The fact that the continental outlines of the
three pairs Of continents-Europe-A Africa,
Asia-Australia and the two Americas
form an angle of twenty-three and
one-half degrees with meridians now
admitted by Professors Dana, Dawson and
others, was stated by the writer twenty years
ago in his "Key to the Geology of the State =
This relation Of continental outline to the axis
Of rotation and also Of revolution, Professor
Owen believes due to the earths derivation
from the sun. The wide and well known gen
eralization, that light, heat, electricity, mag
netism, chemical{ affinity, and even muscular
and nervous energy, are all convertible modes
of molecular motion, and are related
to the suns heat and light as
cause and effect is extended by Pro-
fessor Owen to include the archaeological
impulses, as volcanoes and earthquakes
These, also, are forms Of motion, derived from
the earth's solar parent, and propagated along
great circles, which are approximately one
fifth the circumference of the globe apart.
These theories and speculations are very in
geniously maintained by Prof. Owen, and at
considerable length The seismic belts of
North America occur along five great circles.
These are carefully detailed and the relations
Of them shown to the continental features
mountains, plains, lakes etc., of the
continent Tie article closes with
the cheering assurance that the chief seismic
movements Of North America may be ex-
pected along the line of the Allegheny mount
aims or centrally through the valley of the
Mississippi We had hoped that they might
be diverted from this immediate region, and
would suggest to the present Democratic Leg
islature to appoint commission to confer
with Professors Owen, Pluto Neptune. Pat
ten, Voorhees,, John 3. Lamb, ct al, and see
if the country cannot be re-dissricted
and the State of Indiana ''gerryman-
dered" out There is, however, some
consolation in the statement Of Professor
Owen. that in the Americas earthquakes ocou,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-20
THE MISUNDERSTANDING FROM SULLIVAN.

THE MISREPRESENTATION FROM SULLIVAN.
The Journal yesterday morning very prop
erly, and with no more warmth than was
justified, criticised the remarks of Mr. Patten,
member of the House of Representatives from
Sullivan county, in his reference to General
Grant and General Garfield in speech deliv-
cred in the House the day before. The one
dead, and the other dying, were, in terms or
by inference, accused of cowardice and incom-
potency as soldiers, and Of dishonesty in their
private lives and in their careers as civil Off
GERS. The manner and the method, as we'll
as the words spoken, fully justified every
criticism made by the Journal, and for them
neither the Journal, its editors nor proprietors
have word Of apology to make That the
Journal correctly interpreted what the mem
Der said is confirmed by the explanation Mr..
Patten sought to make in his remarks on the
subject in his speech yesterday morning The
public acts and speeches of member of the
Legislature are proper subjects for criticism
by. the press. That the member did
Extensively, unjustifably and cruelty abuse
and accuse General Grant and General
Garfield, one or both, Of dishonesty, cowaraice
and incompetency in the places they held,
will be borne out By the testimony of every
impartial and fair minded man who heard his
speech. While it might be said that nothing
that the obscure and insignificant member did
say could in any way affect the world wide
reputation of either Grant or Garfield, yet the
fact that Mr.. Patten represents in the General
Assembly Of the State an integral part of the
people of Indiana was cause sufficient for the
Journal to enter It's protest, that his state
ments did not reflect even the sentiments of
the constituency whom it is their misfortune
Journal thought due even to the former
friends and present constituency Of the
member from Sullivan county. That
they would justify him in the
remarks he then made the Journal
does not believe. That the people sometimes,
by mistake, inadyertenoe or ignorance elect
an unfit and unworthy man to represent them
in the General Assembly is true, and we have
no doubt the good people of Sullivan county
repent in sackcloth and ashes the election of
Mr.. Patten.
In so far as Mr.. Patten personally maligned
and abused the editors and proprietors Of the
Journal from his seat in the House on yester-
day, the Journal has only to say that the man
who seeks the immunity guaranteed him as
member Of the Legislature to abuse them is
poltroon and coward, and unworthy of fur
ther comment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-20
The News saws, very properly:

The present extra session is the first ever
forced by deliberate contrivance and unscrupu-
lous disregard of public duties and interests.
That it was the work of continuance is mani
fest-frst by the repeated refusals of the
Democratic majority to take up the appropria-
ton bills. What the Republicans did or
didn't do does not in the least affect the case
They were in q minority so small that they
were helpless if the majority chose to act.
The Democrats could DO as they pleased.
They didn't please to take up the appropria-
ton bills. The second proof of this con-
trivance was seen recently in an adjournment
for three days. followed by one day of waste
and idleness The State has to pay little
over 81, 900 a day for that legislative frolic.v
We have never seen anything quite so pitia-
BILE as the effort to saddle the responsibility
for the extra session upon the Republican mi
nority--a minority which the insolent and
infamous Democratic majority has bucked
and gagged without mercy. With vote
nearly equal to two-thirds in each branch, the
Democracy is peculiarly responsible for what
is done and for what is not done. They can
do what they please, and have; they can re-
frain from doing anything, and have. Among
other things they have failed to do is to make
a levy for the completion of the State-house,
and it is possible that the contractors can
evade their contract because of this neglect of
an important duty. By the way, the News is
too moderate in its estimate.of the cost of the
Legislature. It's drain upon the Treasury is
equal to about 81, 500 a day-one dollar min
ute, day and night, Sundays included.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-20

A WASHINGTON paper, in somewhat con-
fused account of the indianapolis postoffice
muddle, represents Casabianca Byfeld as calm
in the confidence that he will be the success
full compromise candidate Nbetween Mr.
Creedon and one Aquilla Jones'" People
about here had forgotten that Casabianca was
on deck; but if he has the staying qualities of
his celebrated namesake he will remain when
all but he have fed, and as likely as not take
the postoffice cake