The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-10
MINOR MENTION.

MINOR MENTION.
THE National Divorce Reform League Icol-
lected during the past year, 81, 900 with which to
prosecute its warfare 5000 Of this amount going
to the secretary of the organization. 1t seems
to be difficult to find philanthropists ready to
ter into this path Of reform with that great de-
gree of enthusiasm which Is accompanied with
cash. The trouble is, perhaps, that the good peo-
pie who are happily married take comparatively
little interest in the matrimonial difficulties of
the rest of the population, while those who chafe
under the yoke are naturally indsposed to tight
en- their bonds by aiding in the proposed reform
A PITTsBURG paper ventures the opinion that
if it were the rule for stores and shops to close
at o'clock in the evening. instead of at or
10, just as much business would be done, while
there would be an appreciable economy in the
expenses, as gas bills would be greatly reduced"
It is by such strivings after civilization as this on
the part Of other cities that Indianapolis people
realize how far their own town Is removed from
barbarism Six o'clock has been the closing
hour for all the better class Of stores and shops
in indianapolis for many years; and SO well es-
tablished is the custom that a social revolution
would be required to change it
THOSE newspapers-ther are good many of
tnem-which are afflicted with the idea that the
general public yearns for information concern
ing Slugger Sullivan are now giving much valua-
bic space to the 'classic statues" denial that he
knocked down an eight-year-old Philadelphia
newsboy. Isn't it about time that the exploits
of the drunken brute were left to be chronicled
in the briefest form by the police reporter. and
placed without headlines in that part of the pa
per where only the eyes of those personally in.
terested are likely to see thems
THE paths Of the princes, Henry and Alexan-
der. of Battenberg, are diverging further and
further every dag. While the latter is demand
ing and oh tanning concessions from the Emperor
of all the Russias. the husband Of Beatrice is
being tyranized over by his motherin-law In a
way which will cause many manly hearts to
throb In sympathy for him. Because he had
fall recently while following the hounds" the
Queen has vetoed any more hunting, except I'M
der such restrictions as will practically stop al
together
BECAUSE cashier gathers together all the
them between two days 1t does not necessarily
follow that he loses confidence in banks, what
ever other people may do. When defaulting
employee of Vermont firm was overtaken by
the sheriff. the other day, he led that officer,
after some vigorous persuasion on his part to
sand bank in which he had carefully deposited
the funds for future reference.
IT'S cold wind that doesn't blow good to some
one. The wintry blasts have suggested to the
authorities at Washington the advsability of re-
leving the soldiers who have been guarding Gar
fields tomb for four years. in the cemetery on
Lake Erie's bleak shore. The hearts of the lone
ly sentries have been warmed, accordingly, by
information from Adjutant-general Drum that
they would be ordered back to their regiment on
the LIST of next June.
THE man who can look an English sparrow In
the face such day as this and not feel sorry for
the plucky and accomplishing little fellow isn't
fit to live in the same town with the sparrow
The sparrow Is fighter by instinct, but as
plucky as he Is pugnacous, and faces the rigors
of winter as courageously as the best of U.s.
Slurs on the sparrow should be shelved until
spring
DURING the year 1885 indianapolis had 1000
births and l6, 600 deaths.-Hancock Democrat
1t is just such errors as this that often travel
fastest and longest defy correction. The aver
age death rate in indianapolis is about thirty
per week. or 1850 per annum. very satisfactory
showing for city of its size.
On such day as this methinks it was that
Gray wrote the lines:
Chill penury repressed their noble rage
And froze the genial current of the soul
This was just the kind OF morning to do that
kind of business for the fellow with the temerity
to leave red-hot stove.
ArrERa previous encounter. la which bad
words and disagreeable personal illusions were
the only weapons, two government officials Of
Atlanta met upon the street. the one armed with
an umbrella, the other with rolling.pin, and
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