The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-08
MINOR MENTION.

A SUIT in Boston court. in which some must
clans are involved, has raised the issue as to
what constitutes an orchestra. wide difference
of opinion on the point seeming to exist among
those who may be considered authorities. Some
maintain that three different instruments may
be considered an orchestra while others as stout
ly aver that the name is improperly applied to an
organization which does not include frst>violin,
second violin, VIOLA violoncello, contra basso,
flute, clarinet cornet, trombone horn and drum.
AS the dispute hinges on the question, it may
be supposed that a judicial decision will be rem
dered and the important matter legally settled.
PANGs of envy must fill the breasts of Jesse
James and other retired Missouri brethren, when
they read about Italian bandits who can board
train without stopping it, rob the passengers,
and safely decamp, with the train still going at
full speed. OF course the question may arise
to what constitutes full speed in Italy; but what
ever rate per minute it may be, the story sounds
just as we'll in a cable dispatch and no Kansas
robbers ever did the like
THE giving out Of the natural gas wells in
Illinois will send a chill down the spines of
thousands of Pittsburgers. who have built fond
hopes of wealth on the possibilities of the nat
ural gas resources of that city. Having tapped
the earth it has evidently never occurred to
them that the supply might cease. and a new
gas company is organized every few days with
millions in tiff the stockholders will wait
long enough.
TALK about splitting hairs south by sout h.
west, they have a postmaster at Hydesville,
CAL, who returned paper to its Office Of publ
cation, with the request that the address,
'Hidesville," be corrected to "Hydesville." In
that same State, at Modesto. the officers com
PEELED young man to return hat that he had
worn on an election bet. When the millennium
comes it will start at Modesto
The smallpox is not disease that any tender
sentiment would attach to or spring from, but
even in the progress of an epidemic such as has
prevailed at Montreal, love affairs have been de-
veloped The plague has been introduced at the
neighboring town of Waterloo by an clipping
couple that escaped the vigilance of the authori
ties at Montreal They were flying from their
respective conjugal mates.
He was Sunday school superintendent and
deacon in the church. but he didn't run off with
money nor elope with some other mans wife.
He shot himself through the heart, and was
resident of Humboldt, Tenn. His name was
John L. MCGEE, and he was a dentist Some
customers probably paid him without grumbling,
and he shot himself out of chagrin that he did
not charge more
cit nix
of 1.-THE National Crazy quilt and Needle Art
Exhibition. Over three hundred entries have
already been made. The appearance of the dis
play will be like rainbow struck by lightning.
The committee of public safety should arrange
for excursion rates all roads leading out Of
the city.
BOSTON is in conniptiors over the appointment
to its police force of genuine bold Texan
ranger, fresh from the frontier, where,
according to his tell" he has fought
all kinds of law breakers with rifles, re-
volvers, bowie-knives and things. Outsiders
will unanimously approve the appointment.
Boston needs just such man now.
IT is reported that base ball players are greatly
dspleased over the agreement between base
ball managers not to pay more than So, 900
son. AS this is at the rate of about 81, 900
year. and the average first baseman could easily
realize $25, 900 in any other line of business, the
complaint is natural.
WE regret to read of the death Of John Frost,
Of Dubuque, Ia. 1t will give malicious punsters
such chance to work off old chestnuts. He
seemed to be an old one himself, as he died aged
eighty