The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-05

Another tells how to get safely down a rope from
| a burning house: Catch the rope with your
| foot, and give it turn round the leg, near the
ankle; then press your feet together against
| it, to make something ike q foot-rest. If,
in your haste or fright you can remember
it, snatch a wooden cloth or piece of leather to
catch hold of the rope with, ami save your hands.
And, first, last, and above all. don't lose your
head person in peril of water or fire needs
precious little instruction what to do if he can
keep his head" He'll sec the chances and
means of escape better than anybody else The
trouble is that no amount of instruction or ex-
hortation will teach person to keep his head"
Practice in perious situations will help to do it,
but practice of that kind is not likely to have
| much chance to increase into familiarity. The
instructions and warnings that turn up every
day, almost, i'll some paper or other, are about the
idlest babble going well intended as it certainly
is. 1t is doubtful if all that has ever been pub
| lished has helped half dozen persons out of
| danger that their own presence Of mind would
| not have enabled them to escape without any
instruction at ALL Keeping ones head won't
| come by teaching.
THE case of Dr. Buck, of Braddock, suburb
| of Pittsburg is romance Of the Fra Diavolo
| type DR.. Buck is handsome man, of about
thirty years of age, who has lived for some
years at Braddock in elegant style having fine
| house, we'll fitted up, with valuable collection of
| paintings of its attractions. His grounds
| are described as the handsomest in the
| place; he kept fine horses; his practice
was large and among the best class of citizens,
! and he was highly regarded by the community.
| He is now under arrest, charged with being
accessory to highway robbery insurance
agent having been taken, or as it is claimed,
decoyed, by him to out-of- the way spot, under
a thin pretext and there robbed by supposed
accomplish of Buck Of large of
money. The evidence though damaging, is
not conclusive, but detectives claim to have dis
covered that the popular Doctor has for years
been connected with body of men known as
! the Gordon gang" which has become famous
| for its audacity in committing robberies and its
skill in escaping arrest and punishment. The
| Doctor is supposed to have cultivated the society
of the most wealthy citizens for the purpose of
giving pointers" to the gang, and it
| was Of course, necessary to the purposes
| of both that their connection should be concealed.
| The trial is now in progress in Pittsburg
court, Buck denying that he had any knowl-
edge of tho robbery A large number of promi-
nent persons have testified to the Doctors prev-
| Gus good character, and he relies largely upon
! this for his defense. The outcome is looked for
with interest by the residents of the suburb
where his home is, out where, if the court goes
against him, it will not he in the future
| THE middle aged men of to-day who shot grey
! squirrels in the woods about the town with rifles
in their boyhood despsing shotguns as I'M
worthy of hunters Skill can remember that
it was a rare thing to find red" or fox SPUR
| rel" dozen years later it was quite as rare a
thing to find gray squirrel. The colored race
ran the other out, and kept it out for many
year, Now the exiles are coming back, aud
the red squirrel is growing scarce. A forty
| four year old hunter says he has but three
| in the last year, in region where the gray was
common enough to make satisfactory hunting
| There is study for naturalists in these alter
nations of varieties, as there is in the analogous
| appearance and abundance, for few seasons, of
onespecies Of weed in the open ground in and about
the city, aud its disappearance and replacement
by different Species that goes, in its turn,
| through period of profuSion to be followed by
| total and almost sudden extinction.
| MADEMoIsELIE JANE HADING is an actress
who is winning the affections of the tickle Paris
ians away from their old-time favorite, Sarah
| Bernhard N1ademoisele Jane, it is said, is a
woman of great intellectual power, and has
! given much study to the art of love-making, in
| which she is pronounced an adept by all behold
| ers. Just what intellectual love-makng is, is
not explained with as much perspicuity as could
| be wished, but whatever it may be like, it is de-
| cared to be irresistible and bewtchng. The
Prince of Wales has personally rendered the
actress his congratulations after witnessing her
| great personation of loveress and as he is pop
ularly supposed to be an expert in affairs of the
heart, his opinion may be considered as an excel
! lent testimonial.
| THE fact that to the dispatch announcing the
presentation to Harvard College by James
| Russell Lowell of several hundred books was
| appended the assurance that all the works were
valuable and none of them commonplace has
called out the facetious criticism of some i'll
informed persons The writer of that dispatch
has evidently been at some period of his life
connected with school or public library, and is
acquainted with the sort Of literary junk which
philanthropists are accustomed to bestow upon
them with much flourish 1t is gratifying to
learn that the Lowell gift is not Of this sort.
SITTING BULL, since he became first old
man" in the "Wild West" show, is said to have
developed mayvelous appetite for pie, and to
have secured all the recipes for making the
delcacy for the future reference of his squaws
And Sitting Bull was brought east for the pur-
pose of civilizing him, too.
REV. SAM JONES says dude looks as if he
was melted and poured into his pants Thirty
years ago George ID. Prentice said OF an overcoat
that some admiring tailor had given him. that