The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-30

| for the purpose of leading him to higher intel
lectual life
THE announcement that tine governments
stock of postal cards has run low and may even
be exhausted before fresh supply is obtained,
| will not create any wild excitement or alarm in
| the community. The postal card was useful
| invention, and has its patrons now, but the day
OF its popularity has passed. AS circular it is
OF service, and is convenient for the briefest of
business communications; but for other purposes
1t has not usurped the place of enveloped letters.
Postal clerks will be slow to testify that the card
is going out of fashion, but it's nevertheless, true
that even those people who loudly advocated its
introduction and enthusiastically sounded its
praises abandoned its use in personal correspond
ence after short trial. The postal card is con-
venent and cheap but nine persons out of ten,
and not sticklers for style and elegance only.
unhesitatinsly select paper and envelope when
writing the briefest notes.
| MAXWELL, the man who is suspected of know
ing all about the St Louis trunk mystery, is
undecided as to whether he will practice medi
cine after he gets out of Jail or whether he will
60 into the newspaper business. He inclines to
|
nice. easy life that a man with literary tastes
ought to be able to do very we'll in it." If Mr..
Maxwell has any true friends they will advise
him that nice easy life in Jail. with oysters
and frogs legs and pie brought to him every
day by ladies of the elite st. Louis society is far
preferable to any kind of newspaper job. If
he knows when he is we'll off he will stick where
he is.
| New YORK woman gave her husband dose
| of his own medicine as she stated in note left
| behind her, by taking $50 out of the savings
| bank and going off for weeks junketng at the
seashore, leaving him with five little children to
| care for and no servantgirl Instead of taking
| the matter philosophically, he pursued her,
| begged her to return, and, on her calm refusal
| to do so until she got ready, called upon mag
| ist rate, who laughed at his woes. The injured
husband then went home, and is now engaged,
it may be supposed, in "'tending baby" The
acknowledgements of woman is taking strides
| quite awful to contemplate.
| ANEwARK, o., woman stepped out a second
| story window the other night climbed picket
| fence and walked ten miles before she walked up
| to know what she doing. Had she been
| wide-awake she would not only have taken a
| different way to get down stairs, but would have
| required the services of a stepladder, two
| chairs and man in climbing over the picket
fence, and then would have torn her dress off
| the waist. With such impediments in their
course it is better for women to travel in their
sleep.
| GEORGIA comes proudly to the front with
young woman who possesses marvellous powers
of mnd-reading. The commonplace mind
reader who by painful effort points to some
| article on which the thinker has his attention
fixed, is as nothing compared with this newly
discovered prodigy, whose method is simply to
walk up to a man, look at him a moment, and
| tell him what he is thinking about. Lulu Hurst,
the Georgia Wonder" will now make way for
the Georgia Terror"
s'THE father of Miss Nourse the Young ladv
who committed suicide by drowning herself at
| Louisville few days since, killed himself with
! poison In Lafayette, Ind, in 1867. He Was at
the time editor of the Journal of that CITY,"
| He was for time a contributor to the Journal
of this city, in the later years of the war; writing
in scholarly style, with unusual force and
clearness, and still moro unusual elegance of
chirography At least, the Lafayette man was
the contributor here whether he was father of
the Louisville lady or not
| THE song that has had and is having great
run, and Justly So is one the words and music of
which are the work of our Indiana poetess. Mrs.
| D. M. Jordan, of Richmond. 1t is entitled,
Break into Beautiful Blossoms" The verses
| have all the richness and smoothness incident to
Mrs Jordan's writing, while the music well be-
fits the rythmical melody that sings itself in the
words. 1t is a beautiful parlor ballad The
publishers are VIM. r. Snow g. Co., of Rich
| mond.
| PITTsBURG claims possession Of young man
| with broken heart who is never known to
| smile, and who shuts himself alone in dark
room at midnight and pours his misery out
| through the strings of violin in musical walls
like the cry of lost soul" Pittsburgers should
not be proud The case is unique only in the
fact that elsewhere young men afflicted with the
midnight violin craze have broken heads ALSO if
the neighbors can get at them.
A Boston paper proffers tho information that
| it is the fashion to be 'literary" at summer re-
sorts this year. and that crochet work and
embroidery have given way to the summer novel
This is the natural reaction from too much fancy
work The woman who has accomplished one
or more crazy quilts realizes the need of resting
her mind and finds nothing better adapted to
that purpose than the average summer novel.
| =
THE PHILOSOPHER.
Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?-"As You
| Like It.