The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-19


filing cellar of the old structure with frag-
ments of stone. Instead of throwing the pieces
from the pile to the hole, az man could easily
have done, or wheeling barrow loads of them
and dumping them in, or better STILL dumping
the loads brought by the carts directly into the
hole. there were eleven men in a line of about
thirty feet, passing the stone chunks from hand
to hand till the last man took them at the edge
of the excavation and dropped them in. One
ordinary American workman could have done all
that the eleven werSsdoing, and done it in a
tenth of the time. That was the way the city
provided work for the necesstous.
THE writers of ifth-r rate stories, or, at any
rate, of the sort of fiction which is found in the
weekly story papers, likely TO have their
field widened IN curious way, though the pro-
portionate benefit to the community may be con-
sidered doubtful. The National Association of
Newsdealers, in session last week at Philadel-
phia, on Wednesday, were unanimously agreed
that the greatest source of trouble and loss to
the members is the extortionate wholesale rates
demanded from them by the company which
handles the so-caled six cent story papers, the
profits of the latter dealers being nearly double
fore, offered and adopted recommending the es
Enlistment Of frst-class weekly story paper
to be sold everywhere at FIVE cents retail and
three cents wholesale, unsold copies returnable
to the entire trade. Just what sort of literature
the assembled newsdealers regard as 'frstclass'
was not disclosed, but there is reason to hope
that their standard is at least lower than that
of theqresent publishers of the class of papers
referred to. If the cause Of letters is not bene-
fitted by the new venture it will, probably, not
suffer serious injury.
1T is rather unfortunate for "regular physi-
clans that they are Gebarred by the code from
taking certificates of cure from their patients as
they are thus deprived of one remedy against
the faith curists who step in at the hour Of con-
valescence and claim that the recovery is in an
swer to their prayers. A Georgia physician,
with no fear of professional rules, took the pre-
caution to secure a certificate from lady whom
he had treated, stating that it was his services
which had given her relief. When the
praying visitors announced that their
petitions to heaven had brought
about the result, the doctor triumphantly
shook the document in their faces and they re-
tired from the scene discounted If the collec
ton of doctors bills should turn on the question
as to who performed the cure. it may come to
pass that no physician will be safe who neglects
to have the patient or, at least the nurse certi-
fy that he is the man. This is an uncertain
world, and the risks increase from day to day.
CORRESPONDENCE between susceptible maidens
and verdant young men through advertisements
is not always barren of results, and not always
without good in some form. An Iowa miss
answered an advertisement for correspondent
and discovered by accident the murderer of her
father the crime being committed twenty years
before. A Texas young man advertised through
matrimonial bureau organ for wife, and
correspondence succeeded with young lady in
Cleveland, resulting in longrange betrothal
Upon going to Cleveland to marry he was
astounded to learn that the lady by that
name was about to marry another. and ne dis
covered that it was her misehievous sister who
had been writing to him. Instead of shining up
to the sister, he lost his grip on happiness and
tried to kill himself with arsenic. He seemed to
be in love with the name Of the girl he i'm
agined hi mself betrothed to. The moral of
these instances is double barreled. The reader
can take choice.
IT is about time that the anglers affec tation,
fish killing" be laid aside. 1t is senseless and
coarse. The verb "to kill" is brutal and harsh
Men who's" sport is actual killing of game have
long since discarded the term, except in connec-
ton with game of the largest kind. such as deer
bear and buffalo. Quail, pheasants, prairie chick
ems, ducks, and such are bagged. In connection
with fish, skill" is Unpardonaby coarse, and is
inexcusable while such words as netted, shared
hooked and took are in use, either of which is
incomparably preferable. A fish is gamey, but
not to that degree that calls for 'kll" in connec
ton with his capture. To talk OF killing fish
suggests the rifle and bludgeon.
AS the mon thly magazines assume to publish
the very highest class of literature obtainable, it
must be supposed that the verses by Austin
Dobson in the August Harper, entitled GA Love
Song were the best specimens of the poetic art
that could be secured The editors of Harper
are entitled to the commiseration of their news
paper bret hren any one of whom rejects waste
basketful of better poetry every week, and has
plenty of excellent verses left.
THE highest price ever paid for work of art
was $l23 OOO which was given, in 1852, for
picture of the Virgin from the hand of Murillo
The official catalogue of the great Louvre gallery
says the French government paid the estate of
the Due Dalmatia-Marshal Soult-G66, 900
francs for that picture, or over $50, OO0
The Pope has been offered million for
Raphaels TRANSPORTATION" or Domenichenos
"St. Jerome
IT is reported that the tea train on the Union
Pacific last week made the fastest freight time
on record. or 1,O32 miles in forty-fve hours
and half. This tea will be drawn" before it
gets to the consumers
BREAKFAST TABLE CHAT.