The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-31

carried her down a fire. escape. The woman was
| then frantic because her mother remained in the
| burning building, and Gardner made his way up
the escape again and disappeared in the smoke
that was pouring out the windows. In few
minutes he returned and handed the nearly life
less form of the mother to the firemen, who by
that time had arrived. and she was safely
carried down. Gardner went back into the
building, to look for such as might have been
missed. and desisted only when overcome by
smoke. He was found and carried out insensible,
and it took the doctors an hour to restore him to
| consciousness. Little or no notice appears to
have been taken of him. and no effort has been
made to honor him in some way commensurate
| with the gallant manner in which he has hon
| ored himself
| 1T now turns out that Miss Cleveland is a
writer of verses as well as letters and lectures,
but the former she wisely permitted to appear
in print as anonymous. Her stanEas are de-
| scribed by a Utica paper as thoughtful and sug
gestive of Emersonian verse; which, being in
terpreted, means that they are of the sort whose
meaning no fellow can find out AS this. to some
| minds, constitutes a definition of true poetry,
| there will undoubtedly be demand for col
lection of the fugitive literary gems AS re-
marked on former occasion, the Presidents
| sister could give points on advertising to a
| patent medicine man.
| WORKING women who have been waiting for
champion have found him in the person of the
| Southern evangelist, Sam Jones. Said that
| plain-spoken brother from Memphis pulpit, re-
Gently: II am told that leading business man
| of this city said woman ought to be paid over
| fifty cents per day. l don't care who he is. he
ought to be in hell May God elevate woman,
| and the day come when she can get more pay
| than a man." 1t was a Methodist Church. and
| if any hard-worked woman present omitted
| to utter loud ''amen" after this remark,
| she was not living up to her spiritual priv
| leges.
| DR.. STANTON, who died on shipboard only
one day off Queenstown from New York, was
| we'll known in this locality, as a former presi-
| dent of Miami University, Oxford Ohio He
had been sick with malarial fever since last
| fall, but, being a believer in the faith cure"
| doctrine, refused to take any medicine or to
| have medical attendance. He was elected dele
gate to convention of believers in cure by faith,
| which is about to be held in London, and was
on his way to attend the convention when he
| died. The Doctors death is another instance of
| the faith cure insanity.
| THE admirers of General Gordon have been
accused of being sentmentalists, and ne of being
| impractical and visionary. Since Stanley, the
African explorer, who is certainly not sentiment
| al nor impractical, is found to mourn Gordon's
death as a loss to humanity, the unfavorable opin
| ions may change somewhat. If Gordon had
lived" says Stanley, ''the civilization of the
Soudan, which received its death blow in Cor
don's murder, would have been dawning and we
would have seen the summer of civilization
dawning in the interior of Africa"
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and his Cabinet, after
careful examination of the law and of the ques
| tion have telegraphed to Senator Randall Gibson
opposing the scheme to reopen and continue the
New Orleans exposition. The telegram reads
| ''The question of reopening the exposition has
been considered by the Cabinet, ard they are
unanimously of opinion that there is no warrant
of law for it, and that il would be inexpedent on
| other grounds"
| SAMUEL ]. TILDEN once noted as an expert
| in cryptograms, has come out in Unqualified de-
| Tense of pie. He boldly declares that the use
of rhubarb pie is restoring his youth. Poor
Ponce de Leon! He may have waded waist-deep
through acres of pieplant and never realized
| that he was tramplng down the elixir of life.
DIR. RUGGLEs of New York, involved in a
scandal, admitted having written letter be-
ginning, ISL. Cecile, dearest TIE Te." man
who would write that way may not be villain,
but, if indicted as fool the jury would have no
alternative. 1t must convict
A WOMAN who sued New York city for $4,000
damages was awarded just six cents. This is
small sum, but if New York city were to try to
liqudate all it already owes it could not pay the
amount of this award.
A NEW YORK horse has distinguished himself
by eating dozen bananas. skins and all" at
| one sitting Heretofore the horse had been re-
garded as very intelligent animal.
THE tomb of President Zachary Taylor was
decorated yesterday by the people of Louisville.
The memorial address was delivered by Gen.
James A. Ekin, U. S. A.
LITTLE CROWLEY" the sick chimparzee in
Central Park, is improving, and will get we'll.
His fellow mugwumps were very soiicitous about
him.
BREAKFAST TABLE CHAT.
Dr. c. Fl. HUGHES. the alienist says that cholera
| is essentially disease of the nervous system.
BOB BURDETTE has finished his lecturing for the
season, and says he has hung his chin up on nail
for the summer"
JOHN RUsKIN will issue on June l. the first part of