The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-12

below brought out the brightness of the planet
perfectly, and for some minutes it shone like "a
jewel in an Ethiops ear 1t sat down
seemingly On the cloud, its lower radiance
cut off, as it, in seating itself. its lower
| rays had doubled up under it, and only the up
per half dashed its dazzling spikes and sparks
about. Never was so brilliant display of a
heavenly gem made before within the notice of
the reporter The dark, dense cloud all over
the lower sky the upper sky still too light to show
the smaller stars plainly and just over the rim
of this cloud the evening star shining with ra-
dance that shamed the Circle lights, with not
another star il sight worth noting, made a sight
that poet could easily give small change for
in fourteen lines of a sonnet or half dozen
verses Of an ode.
BISHOP STEVENS, of the Episcopal Church,
has decided that women are eligible to election
as members of the vestry, the question having
come up through the choosing Of two ladies
to the vestry Of church in the
Philadelphia diocese. The first deci-
sion Of the bishop was unfavorable,
but after reconsidering and laying the matter
before persons we'll versed in ecclesiastical and
secular law, he reversed his opinion The ques-
ton was considered as legal one entirely, the
charter of the church requiring that vestryman
must be a citizen of the Commonwealth and the
point being whether or not women were
citizens in the meaning Of the law. After
due consideration the lawyers decided that the
female members of congregation were part
Of the corporation and, therefore, entitled to be
elected vestry women. The decision is a new
departure and is regarded as of unusual interest
from the fact that it is the irs4 instance in
which women have been elected to the vestry in
the history Of the Episcopal Church, either in
this country or in England, and have been
accepted as eligible to such membership
IN the way of ready-made, three-plv obituary
poetry, Pittsburg bids fair to rival Cincinnati
Here's a sample, produced on the death of an in
fant
Hang the Grape upon the knob
A written notice on the door,
Another angel gone to God
Our little darling is
Mamma, wipe away that falling tear,
And weep no more for me;
With my God way up here,
Sitting my Makers knee.
The meter, while not as smooth as it might be,
is even better than the thought 1t was an
oversight in the child to be contended with a
written notice on the door, twosquare ad.
in the paper. e. o. d., top COL, n. r. NJ, would
have been much better.
THE grand master of Masonry in Canada has
lately decided that Quaker who does not take
an oath or administer one cannot be made a
Mason. Also, that an Indian not en-
franchised can be made a Mason. 1t
| hQ afnd hot tha
benighted wretches who have never enjoyed the
felicity of lodge membership will be able to
understand the principles involved in these and
similar rulings, but it may not be impertnent to
inquire if the decision in favor of Indians in
cludes the cigar store tribel
ARKANsAw Traveller: A fierce subscriber
'Sir, cusS your paper Send it to -" Ed
itOr-'Thomas, change the gentleynans address.
If Uncle Sam makes connections you'll find
your paper there"
John G. SAKE used up this joke many year
ago. In one couplet he tells how dissatisfied
subscriber "bid him send the thing to -" and
adds:
Vel send it now: if Charons mail will let it.
Where the subscriber will surely get it,
LIGHTNING is uncommon!y reckless in it's
behavior this season, the number of times in
which it has insisted upon reaching the ground
through the human system rather than by the
rods set apart for its exclusive use being alarm
ingly frequent. At the present rate it promises
to make higher record than cholera.
SCARCELY is it learned that Editor Grady, of
the Atlanta Constitution, has been talked of for
Governor of his State when news comes that he
has been elected president of base ball asso-
ciation Facis decensus averni, and also
sometimes very rapid.