The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-22
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| THE belle'of Long Branch is beautiful young
Jewess named Stella Isaacs. whose face is said
to be a perfect fac-simile of that of Venus, seen
on artisticaly-cut canoes.
! IT is stated that Mrs. Cleveland always asserts
her right to take precedence of her mother--that
in entering carriage or railroad car Mrs Fol-
| som Is never permitted TO go first
RURAL journal says 'Mr. Jones called to
see US yesterday and laid an egg on our desk. y
| Mr. Jones can have $50 week by applying to
Mr. Barnun, who will bill him as the ''Only HUI
| man Hen"
| Ar Oneida, N. Y, tho other day, baseball
umpire made a wrong ruling. When it was
pointed out to him he fined himself IS cents. At
the close of the game his severity gave way, and
he RENTED the fine.
| THE London Lancet, and other European med
ical journals, are presenting Professor Buisson's
treatment for hydrophobia as more eficaeious
| than Pasteur's. 1t is asserted that Buissons
method effects cures even after rabies have been
developed.
! New York Times: Mr.. B. Ia prominent poll
| tician) -Uncle 'Rastus, want you to come up to
| my house and vndcate the kitchen ceiling
| Uncle Rastus-W wha' dat, sah--vindicate de
ceilinT Mr.. B.-No, no; don't mean vindicate.
mean whitewash the ceiling.
"MR FEATHERLY," inquired Bobby, from
across the table, ARE you in the book businessg'
''Ig No; I'm in the drygoods business. You
| know that very we'll Bobby" Eyes but ma
| ing your little periodicals, and thought perhaps
| that you had made a change"
| Mr.. FRANK STOCKTON is credited by ArIo
Bates with sending a ponderous door key to
| friend, just sailing for Europe with this mes
| sage He says it is the key to of the very
/ best boarding houses in London. He is sorry he
| has forgotten the address; but if you try the
doors until you find the one this fits you may be
sure the place is capital one"
THE University of Mississippi, at Oxford, is
looking about for i've professors to fill vacant
| chairs-Latin, Greek, mathematics and lite
nature A salary of So, 600 is offered, and house
free OF rent. Many Northern colleges pay less
| and when the facts become known there will
probably be queue of applicants reaching from
| the railway station to the university.
A STORY comes from Massachusetts summer
resort to the effect that city chap taking seat
on an old stump there thought he heard the rat
| tie of a rattesnake. He sprang to his feet and
rushed for the hotel, bowling all the way as the
| rafting grew louder, and finally fell down in
| swoon. A box of sugar-eoated pills that he had
| in his pocket was the cause Of his fright.
| AT Chautauqua, recently. there was class Of
| fifty who entered competition in English pro-
| nunciation. At the end of one hour, forty four
had gone down on errors, fifteen minutes moro
| settled three more The remaining three with
stood the tests, without failure. for forty five
| minutes more when two failed This left Miss
| Mary c. Cook, q teacher in the Buffalo Female
| Academy the winner.
| THERE is a very religious restaurant in Bos-
ton, on the walls of which there is an odd tumble
| of texts of Scripture, and items from the
bll,of-fare., something as follows: He
L Oh aNA I'LL 11Nn1r IT,
sages, 10 cents "If We be Obedient, We shall
eat of the Fat of the Land-Hot Apple Sauce,
cents" GOD Moves in a Mysterious Way
Hash, 10 cents" ''Be Careful for Nothing
Coffee and Cakes, 10 cents"
STRIKING similarity to black walnut, it is
said, can now be manufactured from poor pine
/ by the following method: One part of walnut
peel extract is mixed with six parts of water and
the wood is coated with the solution. When the
/ material is about half dry, solution of bichro-
/ mate of potash with water is rubbed on it. and
| then your walnut Is ready. In this way excellent
walnut can be made from poor pine and it is
safe to defy detection, except upon very close ex
| animation.
GENERAL WALLACE says a Chautauqua
writer of the famous Lew, 'fs under medium
] height and has face of good features and har-
monious lines. His hair is iron gray, and falls
/ in bang-like locks over shapely forehead. His
/ chin and mouth are concealed under cascade of
l
/ most hirsute( appearance, which makes one
/ think of United States Senator or Godivas
| earl, whose chair hung down yard behind, his
| beard a foot before"
THE wife of Mr. Eli Taylor of Appalachicola
Fla, was riding through the woods recently,
| when she met bear which seemed disposed 60
dispute tho right of way. There was no time to
| be lost and the lady, seeing long, stout stick
/ lying near, leaDed from her horse. seized the
| weapon, and, with remarkable presence of mind,
| aimed about ten feet from the head of the on
rushing animal, which, according to well-known
| principles when woman strikes at anything re-
ceved the blow directly between the eyes. The
animal fell, never to rise again.
BRIDES Little Brother to Background DID it
hurt you much when she did itl Bridegroom
What hurt mel Brides L. B-The hook Did
it go into your lipl Bridegroom don't know
what you mean, johnnie. Brides Mother
Leave the table this instant, Johnnie. Brides
L. B.-What for9 only wanted to know If 1t
hurt him. You said Sis had fshed for him a
| long time, but she'd hooked him at last, and
wanted to know if BIS L. b. is yanked out
of his chair and hurried from the room, and the
bridegroom becomes meditative.
AUSTIN CoRBIN indirectly owes his Manhattan
Beach property TO his son, bright lad known
as Austin the Second dozen years OF
more ago, when the boy was an infant, he was
seriously ill, and the family physician ordered
him removed to the seashore instantly. Coney
Island was the nearest point from the Corwin
home in Brooklyn, and Wyckoff's was the best
hotel on the island Thither the Corbins went
in carriage. and waited all day for back bed
room to be vacated. During the summer Mr..
Corbin spent his Sundays with his family, and
often wandered over the eastern end of the
island, then wilderness In the end he bought
the property FOR what now seems a song, and
young Austin's life was saved.
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