The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-02


average four times weekly" she recently said to
an English reporter ssYou will therefore
readily understand how distastefulit has become
| to me-"
| MOSES STERNs, Of Philadelphia, is endeavor-
| ing to organize the women and girls of that city
who are engaged in domestic employments He
/ thinks they should be permitted to receive their
company in the parlor at least two evenings
each week.
| CARELESS nurse in Providence left her little
charge in its carriage on the sidewalk while she
went into store. The wind rolled the carriage
off the sidewalk, it. overturned and frightened a
horse. which, in is plunging crushed the poor
| little baby's head.
! NEAR-sIGHTED man chooses a pair of spec
tacles at an opticians. "This is not strong
enough for me-" "But it is No. g." 'No. 3, you
! say! My sight grows worse and worse every
| day. What comes after No. 32' "No and
| No. !" And after No. 1p' IA dog!"
THIRTY-FoUR liquor dealers were arrested and
locked up in Newport, r. l., on Sunday on the
| evidence of two young men who style themselves
| Barnes Brothers, detectives" who obtained
| board In the families of wellknown liquor deal
i ers and Immediately began their series of spot
| ting.
GEN. BUTLER, ais he appears while sailing
about in his yacht is thus described: ''He rarely
has coat on, and wears large straw hat the
| lower part of the brim of which is covered with
| dark cloth to shade his eyes from the glare of
| the sun upon the water" It was the glare of the
| Sun that knocked him out in 1884
REV. w. j. DROUGHT, an English clergyman
of Chantiy, France, who wrote the Count of
Paris polite letter of regret at his exile from
| the country, was required by the French gov
| eminent to 60 too. Drought had met the Count
| IN charitable work in his parish and there is
| considerable indignation among English resi-
dents In France over the affair.
/ WHEN Harrison Oliver, Of Bolton, Tex, was
boy. companion mistook him for deer and
fired th1rty-six bullets into him. He was
| wounded number OF times during the war, and
in 1873 Bolton dentist, mstakiug him for an
enemy. fired ffty-o duck shot into his back
/ Sixty bullets ranging in size from duck shot
to an ounce ball, remain in his body.
THE exCommunist General Dubisson, was
| encountered by Potapoux, one of his former
| aides-de-camp. in a small town in Italy. "How
| do you manage to live? inquired Potapoux. ut
| is quite simple" answered Dubisson; 1--WE run
| across beggar who is both blind and dumb. l
follow him about and as no can't see the pennies
that people throw to him, stoop and pick them
| up"
Fort WORTH Gazette Wanted-A school
master and a missionary. The following
'notis" applicable to Bandera as to hogs) is
| posted on a fence in Morris county; eff any
! mans woman's cows or oxen gifts in these
here oats his or her tail will be cut off as the
| case may be. l am Christian man and pay
| my taxes but d-n a man who lets his critters
| loose, say ("
/ SENATOR EyARTs is famous for his long SEN
| fences, but he has demonstrated the fact that he
| can formulate very short and crisp utterance
| on occasions where his personal Interest in the
| subject is strongly excited An instance of this
| is at hand. When, after his recent accident the
| surgeon was sewing up the scalp wounds the
| Senator said promptly and with 10 unnecessary
| gestures: either your needle is dull or my scalp
| is very sore!"
| A LONDON paper offered prize for ''politi-
| cal epitaph, and the following lines secured the
| guineas:
| Here lieth Joseph Chamberlain;
| Alas how fate will baulk US!
| By his own patent weapon slain
| The sharp, twoedged caucus.
| Though Joseph with his latest breath
(See Laboucheres last wheeze)
l. Ascribed his all untimely death
| TO catching "Brght's disease"
| CAPT JOSEPH WHITRIDGE, who recently died
near Springfield, o.. at the age of eighty three
had made pretty thorough preparation for death
| up to certain point. Thirty years ago he put
! away heavy plank of burr oak, and, after let
| ting it season for twenty years. had his coffin
| Hldue OF IT, ne DOuSDG q WlnOlng-Sneob ana
| placed it in the coffin which was stored away in
dark room. Twelve years ago he dug a vault
in field near his house, walled it up, covered it
| with sandstone Slabs and placed boulder
| weighing seven tons for the headstone He was
! buried in his coffin and grave.
/ Miss PHOEBE HARRoD, of Newburyport, Mass
was born in that town just 100 years ago last
Saturday. She is still in possession of her facu-
ties, and was able to hold birthday reception in
| the old town where she was born and has always
| lived. There was prayer by the pastor of her
| church, singing, an address by Richard S. Spot
| ford and poem by his wife, Harriet Prescott
! Spofford Over fifteen hundred persons paid
| their respects to the venerable lady, among them
| four old men. aged ninety-four, ninety two
| ninety, and eighty nine years. Mrs. Sarah
/ Stlckney, aged ninetytwo, assisted Miss Harrod
/ in receiving the guests and the bell Of the First
| Presbyterian Church was rung 100 times.
THE licensee of the Cathedral Hotel, in Mel
bourne, has sold by distress warrant, the per-
| sonal effects of Lord ST. Leonards, of England,
for 919, owing for Injuries There was much
lnerriment while his Lordship's wardrobe was
| knocked off at auction to All Implying crowd of
dealers The liveliest competition was for his
shirts, both white and Crimean. His hope of OBJ
| tanning f70, 900 from case pending in London
was not enough to stop the sale, LORD ST. Leon
| ards is the man who suffered Imprisonment for
| indecently assaulting servant-girl. He has fire.
Quently been before magistrates for drunken
ness He burnt the last will of his grandfather
and predecessor, Lord Chancellor St Leonards.
| Altogether, his Lordship is bad man, and seems
to be gathering in as much of the wages of sin as
! he can without paying the debt of nature.
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COMMENT AND OPINION.
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