The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-12

cigars, each link being lighted at the stump of
its predecessor Happy manr exclaimed Gam
beta once, speaking of the great German, beer
and smoke agree with him."
ANDREW FL. CARNEGIE s. Co., of Pittsburg
have recently admitted their seventeen superin-
ship Their several shares range from $4,000
down to So, 900.
FALL RIVER Herald: The Presidents sister
has put her fair veto upon smoking in the White
House, and Grover has now to tip the wink to
Dan Manning when he wants him to come out
and have pipein the woodshed.
WASHINGTON supports between IL, 900 and 15,-
600 dogs. of which not half are licensed. Yet
the poundmaster never knew of case of hydro
phobla in the District, and the only mad dog he
ever saw was one in Germany, in 1862.
A PASSAGE from the will of Napoleon Bona
parte is in st. Louis museum. It is dated
at St Helena, April 10, 1921, and reads 81
die Ill the holy Roman Catholic faith. in the bo-
som OF which was born more than fifty years
ago.
The culture of ostriches at the large ostrich
farm at Los Angeles, Cal is succeeding beyond
expectation. There are now twenty-one grown
ostriches there and during the last seven
months Sc, 600 worth Of feathers have been sold
from them.
Mr. MATHEW ARNOLD is at present at Berlin
studying the German educational system. He
has become a great favorite with the junior
members of the British embassy, who have been
quite successful in stirring up the embers of the
poets youth.
A COUPLE were married by a Los Angeles,
CAL, judge on Christmas day. and in gratitude
the bride presented him with mammoth straw
berry, inches long, "a inches wide and 81 inch
es in circumference They do things on a large
scale in the glorious climate of California.
NoRRIsTowN HERALD: A writer in the Bos
ton Globe traces the origin of the um
brella back to the Garden of Eden. We
don't care so much to have the origin
of the umbrella traced back as 40 do the UNI.
breila itself traced from the strad we placed it
In only ten minutes before its disappearance.
G. P. HUNTINGTON, railroad manager, has
control. east of the Mississippi river of 1882
miles of road. He can travel from New York to
San Francisco over system of transportation
largely controlled by himself. This he can do
by steamer from New York to New Orleans. or
Texas, and thence by rail to San Francisco; or,
from Newport News he can ride over his own
rails, with the exception of about ninety miles,
all the way to the Pacific.
A ROCHESTER, IN. Y. rhymster has put the
weather signs of the period into this sing-song
condensation:
sun of red is weather warm
A sun of blue is general storm
crescent red is weather cold,
A crescent blue is fair foretod,
star of red no change implies,
A blue star, local stormy skies
square of black flag of white
cold wave comes in all it's might
IT is said that the paralysis of the actor T. W.
Keene caused by excessive smoking. He
is not the first member of the profession who has
succumbed to the effects of the weed. Thomas
Placide, the famous comedian. died of cancer
in bis lip, which was caused by pipe smoking,
and j. A. Zimmerman, who was treasurer of
Niblos Garden during the run of the famous
BLACK Crook" died from paralysis and soften
ing of the brain, superinduced by smoking cigars.
De Vivo, the operate manager, who is an invet-
crate smoker. has had two three warnings. in
the form of severe Illness that he must abandon
the weed