The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-10
ODDS AND ENDS.

The two dollar-and "a half rife is q charming
and instructive toy, and every boy should have
one. Caliber No. % is the favorite size, and will
furnish beautiful surgical practice for young
doctors, with an occasional subject for the coro-
ner This little rifle is justly popular in tho
northeast part of the city, and the sons OF a
number of first families are provided with
them The English sparrows furnish very at
tractive mark to the young riAeman, although
this far not a sparrow has been suffered to fall.
The bullets-No % is adelightful little sphere Of
lead--drop around quite distance from where
they are discharged and furnish some rather
clever surprises to sedate and elderly people,
who don't know much about projectiles. A
woman bending over wash tub, in q back yard,
was much astonished to see hole made in a
garment she was lifting from the water as a bull
let fattened itself against the side of the tub.
A little girl on the way TO a grocery, who had
taken short cut through alley. had hole
made ia her sun bonnet by one of these invisible
sharp shooters.
A few DAYS ago North Side lady thought she
would visit the public school attended by her
young hopeful in order to see him at work in
school The boy only goes to school in the fore
noon.> One afternoon she arrayed herself, kissed
her boy at the front gate. and telling him to be
good While she was gone, went over to the school.
She entered the room, looked over the array of
faces and then 1t came over her that she had left
the youngster at the family domicile Where
upon she founced out in high dudgeon and went
home.
few days ago a young woman was leis-
urely stepping across the Union tracks on Vir-
ginia avenue. when, raising her eyes, she saw
good looking brakeman on TOP of slowly re-
ceding freight train waving his hand at her.
The young woman, who seemed to be of
flrtatious disposition, smiled sweetIy and
waved. her hand at the handsome brakeman,
who rose from his seat on the brakes and again
waved his hand, this time with much greater
energy than before. The young woman, evil
IDENTIFY fiattered, acted as il under charm,
while the brakeman continued waving his
arms as if possessed. She stopped and fumbled
Ia her pocket for q handkerchief, the man on
the car in the meantime appearing to be almost
frantic At that moment the fiagEnan rushed
out and pulled the firtatlous female person aside
barely in time TO save her from being run over
by a backing train.
1--WE have been working for ten years to get
walks in Circle Park" said George W. Sloan
cat last we have them, and they are all that
could be desired in smoothness and beauty. Of
course, the express men are to be given new
bivouac ground. You notice the fires they build
in the street? Well, after they and their vehicles
are gone why not abolish the sidewalk? IF the
low Circle fence is removed the bricks in the
sidewalk taken up. and the recovered ground
sodded, the apparent size of the Circle would be
increased % per cent There never was much
need of 8 sidewalk there, and there is even less
need now, with the beautiful walks in the park
ar Al
and ends man. ''has schooled me to have no con-
fdence in the habitual user of opium in any
form whether he uses it by the mouth or in the
way Of sub-cutaneous injection. 1t is sweep
ing assertion to make, but I believe that they
will all lie, and if opportunity is offered nearly
all of them, men and women. will steal don't
mean to say that they would steal clothing
anything to eat, but they will steal opium or
morphine, or anything they can turn into the
narcotic One thing in favor of the user of
opates is that unlike the liquordrinker, he never
beats his wife, He only beats his druggist
Complaints are becoming frASu Of the treat
ment of those doubly,gf etcned unfortunates who
are confined as insane at the Marion county poor
farm. They are in the hands of cruel and ignor-
ant attendants, and i'll treatment is given them
even to the extent of blows and kicks, while verbal
abuse is so frequent as to be thought nothing Of
Their clothing is suffered to go unwashed until
it is fairly alive with vermin There is great
deal of whisky drinking among the attendants
and employees, who are frequently drunk There
are over fifty insane men and women ct this
place. and this asylum, frequently mismanaged,
has never been in as deplorable condition as
now.
'rrhe meanest man in town." said Pennsyl-
cts hon Do4 T.. A. Il.
sis a North Merdan-street lawyer, who will
come in one day, get shaved, and come in
day or two later and get his head rubbed an
hair combed on the old shave"
An old gray haired, stopped man, with seedy
dress, and careworh look on his face, sat ia
front of the hugo blackboard in the Board Of
Trade Building. and with an anxious eye watched
the quotations transferred from the ticker to the
board.
"A dealer in margins" suggested reporter to
a wrinkled- browed middle aged man, who sat
next to him.
Not now" was the answer of the wrin killed..
browed man. ''He used to be dealer in mar
gins, and I've seen the day when that old fellow
was the nerviest man among US. He had more
grit than any man ever saw, and for a while he
made money, too but he got caught at last and
every dollar he had was swept away Tt nearly
killed him for awhile. but ne gradually recov-
cred from the shock. aud he soon got to coming
back 10 his old haunts, although he hadn't dol
lar in the world to invest. That was few
years ago, whsn the bucketshop fever was 80
high, and do not think his face has been absent
from his old haunts day since. lie never has
anything to say, hut regularly comes around and
quietly watches tho market fluctuations, aud
seems to find happiness and contentmont where
he lost the accumulations of lifetime How
his family are supported J. do not know. but I
have heard they arc kept by relatives who are in
wellto.do circumstances. The man caught the
margin mania, and it will remain with him until
he dies. and although no lost all he had here, If
he was given one hundred dollars to morrow he
would inYest IL in margins"