The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-30

family. On being asked whether he did not
wish to go home and see the baby brother, the
small boy replied: mo. ] would rather stay
here. | would like to see him while he is in the
bloom of youth, but / am not ready to 60 home. y
ACCOUNTS from various parts of the country
relate how ice a foot or more in thickness is
broken to accommodate devout and enthusiastic
converts who wish to be immersed in the
streams beneath. The shivering reporters who
chronicle the events evidently measure the
intensity of the religious fervor by the thickness
of the frozen covering, on the supposition that
water under ice an inch in thickness is much
warmer than that under twelve inches.
Mrs. ELLA WHEELER Wilcox announces
that she has a new volume of religious verse in
press entitled Songs of Faith and Reason" the
most of which has been written since her mar
riage. The echo of pain and gloom which has
walled through Elias latest poems has alarmed
her friends who did not know she was getting
religion, but who will now be relieved by her
announcement. Marriage has evidently proved
a discipline to the sweet singer.
HOTELS and saloons in a number of villages in
southern Pennsylvania are said to have ''invol-
unfairly stopped selling liquor, not, as might be
supposed, from an enforcement of the laws, but
on account of a religious wave which has con-
verified the drinkers, and ouenched their thirst
for rewater. It may be remarked that this
wave shows no indications of spreading over the
wide territory covered by the late Manitoba
wave.
A ST. LOUIS genius has invented an automatic
fre-kindler, which only needs to be wound up
and ''set' for any chosen hour, when a fuse at
tached to the machine and the stove will do the
work. The description tallies too closely with
that of a dynamite machine to become popular
with a suspicious public. Most housekeepers
will prefer to rout out the old man or the hired
girl, as usual
The mayor of New York prides himself on the
celebrity with which he performs the marriage
ceremony, practice and attention to business
having enabled him to make two hearts beat as
one in three minutes and forty-fve seconds,
standard time. This is only equaled by the dis
patch with which the couple can be disunited
when they reach Chicago on their wedding tour.
THE terrible tragedy at Newport, KY. on Sun
day last, in which an insane mother killed a lit
tie son, attempted to kill a daughter and then
committed suicide, has been duplicated at
Winterset, Ia, save that instead of using a razor
the insane mother in this instance employed
poison. The daughter, aged ten, survived by
reason of having been given an overdose.
ON WadYacdor pi0ht lost n p;ano cto1ap
from a hotel at Shepardsville, KY, and hauled.
it is thought, to Louisville. The landlord says
be heard o wagon pass the house about II
o'clock, and thinks the instrument must have
been carried away in that. That landlord would
do well to chain his smoke house. The thieves
may return for that.
sssOF all the, Offices Of indianapolis, In the News
alone thessexes are absolutely equal. The same
price is paid for composition, whether done by
man or woman. -kokomo Dispatch.
Not wishing to rob the News of a single laurel
it justly wears, it is proper to say that that rule
has always obtained in the JOURNAL Office for all
kinds of work.
Don't Leave Your Mother, is the title of a
new and popular song. 1t was probably written
as a companion piece to the one with the re-
frain: She's three times six, four times seven.
twenty-eight and eleven; she's a young thing
and can't leave her mother"
FHoCIoN HOWARD, correspondent at large
for certain Chicago dailies, has been offended by
certain senatorial a~spirants at Springfield, and
has gone back to his rural home, refusing longer
to hold the State up by the tail. This is a very
severe blow to Illinois.
DURING Lord Dufferin's voyage to India. a
portable stage was erected on ship-board and
amateur theatricals were had. Something Of
that kind would greatly mitigate the horrors Of
seasickness and drowning. Either would be a
relief from the first named.
LOUISVILLE people are so given over to the
tolu habit that no less than 700 chewersin action
were counted at a theatre recently. The authori-
ties distribute tolu instead of bread among the
destitute.
To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal
When and where was Ferdinand Ward, of the
firm of Grant & Ward, discovered; who is he and
where is he now and what for2 DAILY READER.
MUNCIE, Ind.
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