The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-25

standpoint / am an infdel." He thought the
church imposed too much upon the people, and
that the inevitable reaction was infdelity. The
subject of eternal damnation has been argued
to so fine a point that the scenes amidst the
birthstone and fire have been described graphic
ally and particularly. The thinking mans mind
not only revolts against the tale because it is
horribly unreasonable. bat he casts it off because
it is false upon its FACET disproves itself. Yer
lily. the religious world is growing more liberal,
and will soon leave the unbelieving without ex-
cuse.
INDIANA cannot equal the record of Illinois,
Pennsylvania and some other States in the mat
ter of divorces, but there is no reason for undue
humility on this account, when two Hoosiers
can marry each other for the third time, after
having sampled life with three other matrimonial
partners during the periods of separation from
each other. Unlike Mormondom this State
allows women equal privileges with men. and if
a citizen, male or female, desires to be married
six times, as in the case of the Wabash couple,
there is no one to say them nay so long as the
periods of married life succeed each other, and
are not simultaneous.
PRINCE WALDEMAR, who hiss married the
Princess Marie of Orleans. is unfatteringly de-
scribed as an effeminate youth who will be a good
man to wind silk for embroidery purposes and to
carry sketching materials about country lanes
for his more energetic wife. Inasmuch as there
is a large number of princes in existence and
little work in their proper line to do it is a mat
ter for congratulation that Waldmar can make
himself useful in any fashion. With the pro-
fession overcrowded as it is, the scions of royalty
are too prone to employ themselves in far less
commendable pursuits than holding sksins of
silk.
THE influence of woman is gradually extend
ing, especially in regions where she is largely in
the majority. A Connecticut man is so i'm
pressed with the superiority of feminine head
gear that he has requested a large millinery
firm of New Haven to engage in the manu-
facture of bonnets for men. He wants them
plain and untrimmed, though of artistic shapes;
but the trimmings and furbelows will come in
time. Once let the bonnet be adopted as an ar
ticle of masculine apparel and nothing can check
its development.
IT was not altogether the high price of tickets
which kept so many of the lovers of classical
music away from the Thomas concert yesterday
afternoon-so they say. The day itself was a
symphony, and they could not consent to shut
themselves away from the golden October
weather even for the privilege of hearing the
perfect music of the orchestra. Most of them
preferred the Bunch of Keys" instead.
A CENSUS of Boston was taken last summer,
when the residents Of the Back Bay district
were out of town. There is great dissatisfac-
ton in consequence, and an effort is being made
to have the work done over again. If it were
only the Boston mind, now, whose measurement
was to be taken, according to the estimates of
the owners, the city which holds them could not
be contained on any ordinary map.
A RESOLUTION expressing condemnation Of the
publication and reading of Sunday newspapers
was presented to the New York Presbyterian
Synod, now in in session, and disposed of by be-
ing held for future action. The individual mem
bers of the synod will act upon the matter when
they peruse their favorite Sunday journals in
the peaceful after-dinner hour between sermons.
IT is a pleasing thought, and creditable to HUI
mainly in general. that the Grant fund has been
so ably and conscientiously managed. The
money 1920, 00O) was nearly all invested in Wa
bash railway bonds. The interest has been paid
regularly on the day that it fell due. though the
road has often defaulted. The guarantors of the
interest have kept their word to the letter.
JAY GOULD has been sued for So, 500, by John
S.. Goldsmith, who claims to have informed Mr..
Gould, in 1882, about the Knights of the Golden
Garter. 1t is not stated whether Gould cot the
since he did not pay Goldsmith for putting him
on to the swag. Gould is an active member of
the knights of the Golden Water-bucket.
THE war is over, and in setting a new State
monument on the battlefield Of Gettysburg it
was placed in a field in the midst of growing
wheat. The harebell blows at the lannon's
mouth and the coney brings forth her young in
it's quiet muzzle. May a century of peace bloom
out of the results of the terrible fight on the
Round Top.
DURING the earliest lull in the proceedings at
the first meeting of the heretical Mangasarian's
new congregation, in Philadelphia. an ex-Meth-
odist brother rose and proposed to take up a col
lection. No doubt remains that the new society
contains within it the first elements of success
and prosperity.
PLUSH HEADED nails TOR decorative purposes
are now advertised. The effect is ornamental.
but there is no change in the effect produced by
the hammer on the thumb.
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