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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-06
Dainty UnderWAar.

new IOrK evening Post.
Ladies of fastidious tastes have long regarded
finest white fabrics as the only suitable and
sanitary materials for underwear and held to
prejudices against colored fabrics, however
rich. Most houses in this city have for several
years imported surah underwear, both white
and colored. in sets and single pieces.
These lace trimmed garments are elegantly
made and exquisite to look at, as are most
specimens of French handiwork, but one
visit to the laundry would forever ruin their
look of pristine beauty, although warranted to
wash" An improvement upon these is now
shown in pale blue and pale cambria undergar-
ments, trimmed with linen lace. strong but ex-
ceedingly fine in texture. Novelty is their only
recommendation. 1t may be well to state thu
en- suite with the cambria night-dresses are
dainty night-caps-copies greatly improved upon
of the caps of other days, dear to our grand
mothers. Their becomingness may or may not
have entered into the calculation of the makers
of these new caps, but the voluble French
woman who enthusiastically twirled a dainty
lace edged affair upon thumb and finger inform
ed the writer that they were suggested both as
cure and as preventives against neuralgia.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-06
An Eccentric Englishwoman,

chicago Herald.
A queer old lady, the Baroness Role. has lust
died in England at the age of ninety years. She
was married at twenty-eight to a gentleman
who was seventy-tour years old, and if he were
living now he would be 135 years of age. At his
death he settled an income of $50, 600 per year
upon her, and she has devoted more than fifty
years of her long life to charity. A great adj
mirer of the old nobility, and an imperious
stickler for all the old-time forms and ceremo-
MES, she was as eccentric in her benevolence as
she was generous. On one occasion she com
PEELED the removal of some cushions which had
been placed in a chapel built by her because they
had been put there without her leave, but on the
proper request she had the entire edifce up
holstered. 1t will not be many years before all
the nobility will have to amuse themselves as
this old lady did or emigrate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-06
UNNECESSARILY Deem Grief.
indianapolis independent.

IHUIdIdp 0TTs FHuVP
Postmaster Jones fully realized that he had
lost a true and tried friend in the death of Mr..
Hendricks, and his grief was that of a most sim
cere lifelong friend. The very heavy drapery
of the Postofice Building no doubt indicated his
true feeling and genuine sorrow, but his private
grief should not have been permitted to
interfere with the so-serious o matter as the
distribution of and sending off of the daily mail,
which we understand was the case. 1t was
proper and right to suspend the delivery depart.
ment. but the stoppage of AL business in the
postoffce was altogether unlocked for, unde-
sired, and was a most serious Inconvenience to
the general public.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-06

New York Commercial Advertiser.
Canon Farrar will, i. is estimated, clear about
$25, 900 from his lectures in this country, which
is very good, considering that, before coming
over, he had made up his mind not to speak in
public for money. He has drawn remarkably
well, particularly in this city, where lectures in
general have very little power of attraction. II
he had been an American and delivered the
same discourses he would have had very differ
emit audiences. The East has long been suffering
from an acute-perhaps it is chronic-form OF
Anglomania, and Boston 10 the most afflicted OF
the Atlantic cities.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-06
She Disagrees with Him.

Pittsburg Chronicle.
MA" said the high-school girl. Yesterday.
'you take a great interest in educational mat
tiers, do you notl"
Eyes, indeed l do. Mildred" replied the old
lady.
We'll, what do you think of the idea advanced
by President Eliot, of Harvard College2'
What idea was that, Mildredl"
He advocates making the curriculum op-
tional.n
''Well, I think he is too severe with the boys.
| believe in letting them study what they please
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-06
Evidently In Disguise.

boston COurIer.
Smith, never was more surprised in my
life than | was last night"
Jones-"lndeed! What was the eause"
S.-"As [ was passing along the street two
ladies came to the dooro of a house-one evidently
the hostess, as she had only a shawn wrapped
around her head the other a visitor. AS they
reached the bottom of the steps the visitor said.
Well, I've had a very pleasant time. Good
night. Mary and the other said: Good night,
Mehitable,' and they parted.
J.-"What, without another word?'
S.-"Without another word"
J.-"H'm! | guess they were men in women's
Clothes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-06
A Glorious Victory.

Begorra! twas a lovely fight
"Twixt Nolanite an Callanitel
1t ragged from morning into night;
An Callanite an Nolanite
Whit into it wild great delight
An thumped away wild appetite.
Whoosh! twas divarsion to invite
The byes. 1t was the swatest sight;
The Nolanite an Callanite
A plyin' shticks vid all their might!
An whin the fray was at its height,
An Callanite an Nolanite
Were aich a strivin' for the right,
Begobs. 'twould take a poet quite
The glory of it to %recite;
For nothing can liver alright
A Nolanite or Callanite,
Or make the hayro take to fight
An may there fall the diyil's blight
On any one would spake too light
Of Callanite or Nolanite!
Chicago TT
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-06
A Mans Right to His Face.
Pittsburg Chronicle.

IILCBDuTg HTUHICIC
1t would seem that a man has as much right
to have his physiognomy respected as his char
acter, and when a newspaper places before the
public a picture of a man with cross-eyes, and
his nose twisted around under his chin, with
other facial peculiarities emanating from the
vivid Imagination of some artist, and labels it
with the name of some prominent individual,
the latter should be as much entitled to collect
damages as though the paper had called him a
congressman, or some other bad name.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-06
Prohibitionists In the South.
Philadelphia Press.

] HIIdutIpHId Q
II is evident that the Southern Prohibitionists
are in earnest, and that they will probably give
the Southern Democracy more trouble than the
Northern Republicans have suffered from the
same cause. II they are destined to be the
instrument for rending the solid South and aid
in that section, every fair minded man will bid
them Godspeed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-06
Burmese Divorce Law.

D1TTTUH VucCEs
The Burman marries early, and, though polye-
amy is permitted, has only one wife, whom, with
the other females of the family, he compels to
do all the work. Divorces by either party are
easily arranged. and are very common occur
rences. If two persons are tired of each Others
society they dissolve partnership in the following
simple but conclusive manner: They respect
ivelv liRht two camden and. shnttine IN their
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-06
Post Nubila Jubila.

One sunny day l lost a hope;
1t few into the shining air
Far, tar beyond my Visions scope
And vanished-I know not where.
One cloudy day I-woeful shame.-
For light and cheer made dismal moan,
When 10! thro' lifting shadows came
A radiant, golden hope-my own!
Emma Carleton, in The Herald
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-06
Don't Do Things by Halves.

Saturday People.
The Journal has gone earnestly and energet-
ically into the society" business. 1t never does
anything by halves, and the new feature WAS in
augurated on Wednesday week with over q col
umn and a half of bright and crisp items. Mrs.
Leon Bailey is the presiding divinity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-06
How to Keep a Church Warm.

Boston Record.
The English recipe for preventing a railroad
accident, namely, tie a director to the cows
catcher-can be paralleled by a suggestion from
an experience in a city church last Sunday.
The temperature in the audience room grew
cooler and cooler. until at last a deacon sadly re-
tired, then a dozen ordinary laymen. then an
other deacon, till about forty, including threa
deacons, broke ranks and left.
Tie a deacon 70 a post twenty feet from q
church furnace register and the sexton will ha
sure to get the church warm.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-06
WHIMSICALITIES.


"Jim-Jams" Is an Objectionable Phrase
Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph
Amy" remarked the ~high-school girl, YOU
saw Fritz Emmett when he played here, did you
Yes" assented Amy.
well he has had another attack of James
preserves"
James preserves!" exclaimed Amy; "what on
earth are James preserves, Mildredfr
We'll. the papers said 'jim-jams,' but I think
that a very Questionable phrase"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-06

hut, sit down and wait quietly until they are
burned out. The one whose candle burns out
arst leaves the house at once and forever, taking
nothing but the clothes he or she may have on
at the time, all else becoming the property of the
other party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-06

A Binghampton commercial agent wore ceiin-
loid collars. The train on which he was ridine
slackened its speed, when he thrust his read out
of the window to learn the cause. AT that sn-
slant a shark from the engine struck his colfar
and ignited it. His whiskers were scorched, oss
fortunately he escaped serious injury.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-06

these days of luxury, do not allow the coachmau
tenderly, and from it you may have a fashion,
able bonnet next winter. London has gone az
far as s sepskin; buffalo seems to DO the next
step.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-06
A Logical Conclusion.
Boston Transcript.

Boston Transcript.
1t is said that it costs $40, 900 to stage a first
class melodrama- It would therefore appear
that the common everyday melodrama can be
put on the stage for about five cents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-06
A Hint to Young Women.
Boston Transcript.

boston TrAnscr1pt.
Young lady, If there be an old buffalo robe
lying anywhere about the stable, one of the gen.
uine old-fashioned curly bison skins, used before
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-06
Guarding Against Error.

Boston Record.
There is so much said in the papers about tina
Metaphysical Club that it may be necessary new
to correct. by anticipation, a report that ths
Boston police force is to be armed with it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-06
Rising Profession.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
Base ball is coming to be almost as honorable
a profession as politics, and its present history
seems to be equally full of deals and inter
viewa.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21
Planting by Signs.

Editor Of The RecOrd-Some weeks
ago there appeared in The Record an
inquiry as to the proper signs in
which to plant seeds. Without eX-
pressing my personal belief or disbe-
lief in the efficacy of signs l will give
some as observed by the most sue
ceSsful and devout believers:
Cabbage seed should be sown when
the sign is in the head. Plant pota-
toes in down sign, toward the feet.
Plant beet and radish seed when the
sign is in the leg, and onions when
the sign is in the heart. Plant beans
in the light of the moon, and peas
when the moon is full. Plant melon
and cucumber seed when the sign is
in the arms, but not in the blossom.
Plant corn and SOW wheat in the
light of the moon, Sow clover seed
in down sign.
Make soap in the light Of the March
moon. Kill hogs on the increase of
the moon; if on the decrease the meat
cooks away. Many say that light
feed before butchering will prevent
this. There is always frost when the
moon changes with the sign in the
head.
This is called superstition, but that
charge will not refute the arguments
of astrologers. They ask, if the moon
has an influence on inorganic bodies,
who not on organic? If on the tides
why not on vegetable growth?
The fact that most vegetables that
grow down should be planted in a
down sign, and those that grow up in
an up sign, looks as if the time for
planting were made to correspond
with the signs. If your correspon-
dent will carefully experiment he
will better reach a satisfactory con-
CluSiOn.
A good rule is, if ready and season
favorable, plant and not wait for the
proper sign. Some of our very best
farmers are strict observers of signs,
and some are not,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21
Bits of Humor.

The man who swears is not good
talker.
When the weather is under discus
sion he who speaks last lies most. =
Ne,0 York JOre01al.
According to a correspondent. sam
itary improvements on a large scale
are to be undertaken at Naples.
Some one must have sent a cake of
soap to that city. Boston Post.
LET 90 my earl" yelled passen-
ger on West Side street car yester-
day. 81 beg your PARDON" said the
other man, IL thought had hold of
the strap" Chicago Herald.
When a poet dashes off a poem and
puts it on the EDITORS desk, the edi-
tor usually dashes it off and puts it
in the waste basket, N. B.-Poets
please observe this carefully.-B Boston
Post.
DR.. Mary Walker, it is rumored I,
is awfuIly mad at a Washington pho,
tographer because he wanted her
hold to hold scythe and an hour
glass and pose AS Father TIme.-&.
Paul Globe.
Lafayette had a great mind, and he
knew what he was doing when heas-
sisted the United States. Eraece is
now getting large supplies Of canned
frogs from this country Courier
Journal.
y new boon is entitled "How
Made Money at Home" We advise
our readers TO have nothing to do
with it. Three men were arrested a
few days ago for making money at
home.-NOrriStOWR Herald.
"Blinkins," said Jones, this is
the highest time for money | ever
saw. Why, there don't appear to be
any in circulation. How do you ac-
count for it ?' "Oh! that's easy
enough, Jones. You see, my wife has
been laid up with the rheumatism
the past month and hasn't been able
to go out shopping. When she gets
on her feet again it'll be all right"
cart PretzeES Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21
A Marvellous Medical Case.

A recent issue of the st. LOuiS
Globe Democrat contained the follow
ing remarkable story:
a lady patient in the West Penn
sylvania hospital Of Pittsburgh, aged
33 years and the mother of four chill
dren, was operated upon for abdomi-
nal tumor. When the abnormal
growth was removed it was found to
be the fully developed body of fe-
male, foot or more in length, with a
full set of teeth, hair six or eight
inches long and the age of the lady
herself, implying, of course, that it
sprung into existence at the time of
the birth of the lady and had been
nurtured by her up to the time of its
removal with a knife-in other words
it was twin sister which had be
come an unknown part of herself.
A hospital physician, who has the
"demOid cist,, in his possession,
claims that there is but one similar
case Oh record. The lady is in ia r
way to recover.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21
Physiology in Brief.

The average number of teeth is 81.
The average weight of an adult is
140 pounds, 6 ounces.
The weight of the circulating blood
is % pounds.
The brain of man exceeds twice
that of any other animal.
A man annually contributes to veg
citation f2i pounds of carbon.
One thousand ounces of blood pass
through the kidneys in one hour.
A man bleaths about 20 times
minute, or 200 times an hour.
The average weight of a skeleton is
about II pounds. Number of bones
24O.
The average weight of the brains
of a man is three and one-half pounds:
of woman, two pounds and eleven
ounces.
A man breathes about IS pints of
air in a minute, or upward of seven
hogsheads day.
Five hundred and forty pounds, or
one hOgshead and one and one-quar-
ter pints, of blood pass through the
heart in one hour.
Twelve thousand pounds, or "a
hogsheads 4 gallons, or 1O.72S3 pints,
pass through the heart in "A hours.
The average height of an English
man is five feet inches ola French
man, fl re feet inches of Belgian,
five feet 81 inches.
The average of the pulse in infan-
cy is 100 per minute; in manhood,
50; at sixty years, 60. The pulse Of
females is more frequent than that of
males.
One hundred and seventy-fve mil.
lion holes or cells are in the lungs,
which wonld cover a surface 80 times
greater than the human body,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21
Knows Better than to Save Money.

81 see," said Senator Frye, "that
Washington paper, in very compile
mentary notice, sets me down as
poor man, not worth over $50, 1000.
That's too much, )" said Mr.. Frye.
but the fellow who wrote that does
not know the reason l am so poor.
It came about in this wise. | was
brought up in Quaker family, and
when, in my boyhood, got chance
to go up to Boston my Quaker grand
father gave me So to spend. | did
not know any boys in Boston, and |
could think of no way to have S.
worth of fun without boys. SO |
kept the money in my pocket. When
l got home my grandfather asked me
how | spent the SIS, and l, with the
air of one who had done a Yirtuous
action, said, L did not spend it at all,
grandfather | saved it and have it
in my pocket Whereupon my
grandfather said: You may give
me back the money, William,
gave you that money to spend in
Boston, ever since that" said the
Senator, 81 have known better than
to save money" -LeWiSto,cn Jour-
nal,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21
True Unto Death.

From the st. Paul Globe.
That was touching story told by
Mr.. Gladstone announcing the death
of Princess Alice in Parliament. She
had been cautioned by the physician
not to inhale the breath of her little
boy, who was i'll with diptheria. The
little fellow was tossing in his bed in
the delirium of fever. The princess
stood by the side of her child and
laid her hand on his brow and began
to caress him. The touch cooled the
fpvered brain and brought the wan
dering soul back from its wild deli
rum to nestle for moment in the
lap of a mothers love. Then throw
ing his arms around her neck he
whispered, Mama, kiss me-" The
instinct of mothers love was stron-
ger than science, and she pressed her
lips to those of her child. And yet,
there is not woman in all the world
but would say she would not have
had a mothers heart if she had not
kissed her BARN. And so it will be
10 the end of time. The mother will
kiss her child, the wife her husband
and the lover his sweetheart. though
death in thousand forms lay con.
cealed beneath the vermiliOn color.
ing of the pCuting lips.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21
Receipts for the Household.

Picked FGGs.-Hard boiled fresl
eggs; drop into cold water and re-
move the shells. Boil red beets ten
der enough to jam and cover them
with cold vinegar spiced with cloves.
mace, salt pepper; pour this over
the eggs, and in two days they will
be beautiful red color.
BLACK CHOCOLATE CAKE.-Ont
cup of butter, two cups of sugar, two
and half cups of flour, five eggs,
one cup Of sour milk, one teaspoon
full of soda dissolved in a little boil
ing water, one half cake of chocolate
grated and put i'll the cake before stir
ring in the flour: bake in jelly tins in
four layers.
WHITE POUND CAKE.-TNo cot
fee cups of white sugar, three-fourths
of coffee cup of butter, one coffee
cup of milk, three coffee cups of flour,
whites Of nine eggs, two teaspoOnful
of baking powder, grated rind of one
lemon; stir the butter and sugar to a
cream, add the milk and -four, and
last the whites of eggs whipped to a
froth.
OOCOANUT CAKE.-OEe cup of but
ter, two cnps of sugar, four cups of
flour, one cup of sweet milk, whites
of eight eggs, two teaspoonfuls OF
taking powder, one large .cocoanut
grated and put INTO the cake which
must be baked in jelly tins; CRATE
another cOcOanut and make a soft
frosting to put between the cakes,
sprinkling heavily with cocOanut;
frost the top and sprinkle in the same
manner.
Splendid FRUIT CAKE. - Three
pounds of sugar, three pounds of but.
ter, little over three pounds of flour,
tWenty-four eggs, six pounds of cur
rants, two pounds of raiSins chopped
fine, one pound of citron, one pound
of sweet almonds blanched a cut thin,
one pound of lemon peel, one pound
OfOrange peel, quarter-Ounce of mace,
quarter ounce of nutmeg, a cup of
fruit syrup. 1t will take four hours
10 bake in a modern oven. Frost
with almond icing.
JELLIED CHICKEN.-BOil chicken
until very tender, cut the incest parts
into small bitsn return the rest with
the bones to the kettle, and boil I'M
til all the jelly is extracted from them
Strain the liquor and skim off the
fat. Dissolve and add geIatine enough
to make stiff jelly. Season with
salt and pepper. Place hard boiled
eggs, cut in halves, around the edge
of the pans, with the round ends up,
then fill with the chicken and strain
the boiling LIQUOR over it, and set it
away to cool. A very ornamental
pyramid can be made by using differ
ent sized pans, each smaller than the
other. Decorate the top with bou-
quet of celery leaves and flowers cut
out of picked beets.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21

Mrs. Geo. Gilbert, Bryan, Ohio, writes:
CDR. S. B. HARTMAN & Co., Columbus,
Ohio: commenced on the fifth bottle of
your PERUNA this morning, and should
just as soon think of doing without my
meals as without my medicine. I
have been doctoring for about four
years, and kept getting worse all the
time and was just giving up in despair
when l got one of your books, 1.-THE Ills
of Life" was in bed at the time.
read and re-read your book and felt like
trying your medicine. My folks thought
there was no use in trying anything more,
l was too far gone, and might as well
make up my mind to die. / told them
PERUNA was the medicine / needed, and
intended to try bottle. 1t proved a sue
cess in breaking the chills, and if it had
not done one thing more, would have
been satisfied. But it has done more, and
feel like another person. Everybody
that sees me is surprised to see me looking
so well, as they all thought l was dying
with consumption, and now my own folks
have as much to say for the PERUNA as
!. l recommend it to everybody l see.
There were two of our neighbors in yes
terday inquiring about the PERUNA. l
gave the one my book to read; told her
to bring it back, as | priced it very high
ly. The other got the name of the PB-
RUNA TO send to his son in Chicago. He
is telegraph operator My disease is
something similar to Mrs. Milo Migrants,
though nothing compared to being so bad.
There was Z lump raised on my collar
bone, and it was long time before it