The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-26
MINOR NJ ENTION.

| recent trial of the Colin Campbell case that may
give US pause That was suit for divorce-an
everyday occurrence in this country. The trial
| lasted some weeks and the evidence showed a
wretched state of things between the parties,
utter incompatibility to say the least. Yet the
| court refused to grant the divorce because the
| main charge was not proved. On the same day
that the result of the trial was published in the
| Journal, it contained an item that, according to
reports received by the State Statisti-
| clan, 825 divorces were granted in Indiana
during the last year for various statutory
| causes. The divorce law in this State COM
pares favorably with that of any ether. and
probably the proportion Of divorces to popula-
ton is about the same. The contrast between
the difficulty of obtaining divorce in England
aud the ease with which it is done here is sug
| gestive. Either it Is too difficult there or too
| easy here Something may be said on both
sides but it may we'll be questioned if the ease
| with which the marriage tie is sundered in the
| United States is not undermining ts sacredness
and exercising demoralizing effect on society.
! MANY a man, when he has drifted far from
| the place of his birth and become famous, has
found pleasure in buying and owning bit of
| land near where he first saw the light Itmay
not have much value and he may not have any
use for it; but from some freak, or fancy, or old
association he likes to own it. 1t seems this is
the case with General Phil Sheridan-every-
bodys "Lttle Phil"-who has recently bought
160 acres of mighty poor land in Perry
county, Ohio. The General was born in
that county, and presumably not far from the
farm he now owns A correspondent says: Il
have an idea that General Sheridan bought the
farm so as to insure himself exercise when he
retires from the army. and it will be an excel
lent place for the purpose. He can follow the
chipmunks, squirrels, rabbits, quail and ground
hogs the whole year round, and insure himself
against the rust of inactivity. to say nothing of
the exercise that will be necessary for him to
tickle the taxes out of the land"
No sight is so pathetic as that of the little
child who looks longngly into the shop windows
knowing that Christmas joys have slight chance
Of entering his home. Fortunate people who
have had their Christmas gifts and pleasures
should now remember that thousand children
are yet to be provided for. To the candy and
nuts which are promised to the little at
Tomlnson Hall on Tuesday evening it would be
| well TO add more substantial gifts. Besides the
thousand who will gather at the hall, there are
doubtless others who have been overlooked, and
it is not yet too late to seek them out and pro-
vide for them also.
THAT hopeless wall, 20 that this too. too solid
flesh would melt" need no longer be INDUCED in
by the stout man of the period. A Baltimore
citizen of extensive avoirdupois has reduced his
| weight twenty five pounds in three weeks upon
diet of which faster Succi's mysterious powder
forms component part. He takes three tea
spoonfuls of this mixture in day, eats nothing
else, claims to have no appetite for solid food.
and is we'll and strong If this sort of diet comes
into general use, it will be little hard upon the
grocers and provision men. but will greatly SIM
plify the now complicated ways of living and
housekeeping.
THE friends of that American institution
known as the bob-sled look with displeasure
upon the encroachments of it's imported rival,
the clumsy Canadian toboggan, and in various
| cities where toboggan slides have been built are
insisting upon the use of one chute for their
own favorite. 1t is contended for the bob-sled
that with the facilities offered by prepared
slide 1t will throw all other coasting apparatus
into the shade and that all il needs is fair show.
THE arrest in Chicago, of three men almost
positively identified as the perpetrators of the
big express robbery ST. Louis in Oc-
tober last, proves anew that criminals are never
so smart as they imagine, and are almost sure
10 be outwitted by detectives In this case the
robbers attracted attention by their lavish ex
penditure of money, and few days of shadow
ing furnished sufficient grounds for their arrest.
DURING last week the express companies at
Atlanta, Ca, delivered an average of two hun
dred jugs of whisky per day to residents of that
city. In addition to this supply from outside,
many saloons selling 'on the sly" AS
result, says dispatch dated Christmas eve,
There are more drunken men in Atlanta TO-
night than was ever known before This may
not be owing to prohibition, but it does show
that prohibition does not prohibit.
A RED BANK. n j., special says that Mrs
Sidney West, who eloped with married man,
has returned and sis now reconcied to her hus-
band" Mrs West, who, it will be remembered,
stopped in this city with her lover, Mr.. Rock
WE'LL and INDUCED in the little formality of a
marriage ceremony, seems to be of very anna
BILE disposition. 1t isn't every woman who could
be reconciled to her husband after such an es
capade as that
Mr. FRANK STOCKTON is negotiating for the
purchase of farm in the vicinity of Washing
ton. His idea. according to a correspondent, is
to be entirely isolated from the crowd, when he
will have full swing for his wonderful imagina-
| NJ
or perhaps BOTH must regard wonderful" imag-
ination being something like cat-a thing
that needs plenty Of room to swing in.
COL P. DOMAIN. of whilom journalistic fame,
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