The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-14
MINOR MENTION.
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ton which was decidedly to his credit. Two re-
captions had been arranged for by the committee
in charge of affairs-one for the masses" to
take place at Faneuil Hall, the other at the Ven
dome Hotel to which admission could only be
had by the holders of tickets. When Mr.. Cleve-
land heard of this arrangement he interposed his
veto. The people, he said, did not want to see
Grover Cleveland as a private individual, but
wanted to greet the President of the United
States; and. so long as he held the
Office, people desiring that privilege
should not be admitted to his presence
| by ticket. AS a consequence of this decision
several hundred persons who were not among
the elect Of the committee paid their respects to
| the chief magistrate at the Vendome. and crowd
ed and otherwise disconnected the favored and
fastidious few who going to have it all their
own way. Perhaps this shock to the aristocratic
and exclusive feelings of the mugwumD element
is the cause of the painful lack of enthusiasm in
their local newspapers concerning the Presi-
dents visit to Bostontown.
THE City of Churches is, naturally enough, a
great place for the discussion of deep and alb
sorbine theological and ecclesiastical problems
One Brooklyn congregation is agitated from the
front to the back pew by the order of the vestry
men that all gentlemen who attend the rectors
receptions must wear claw-hammer coats. Some
of them had 70 coats. but one patriotic vestry
man, presumably in the clothing business. vol
unteered to lend rs many garments of the kind
as were wanted AS a result of this dress reform
movement. at least half the men at the first re-
ception wore claw hammers, and according to
the testimony Of exultant trustee, mot a
poorly dressed person present" This is re-
garded in Brooklyn as the beginning of great
religious movement.
Ex-PREsrDENr CHAPLIN, of Beloit College,
tells that just forty years ago the first board
of trustees held its first meeting in the basement
of the old church Of sacred memory. Eight of
the sixteen were present 1t was trying hour
We seemed to have been dreaming before now
| we must face practical duty. In silent pause
we sat. One ventured at last to ask, We'll,
brethren, what shall doP The sanity
Father Kent replied, Let US pray 1t was surely
| the fit thing to do. to make Father Kent the first
president of the board
THE Virginia New Enterprise tells Of an
accident that oefel a lady of that city. She
was hanging up clothes, when the line broke.
bringing with it a bird -cage, and causing the
lady to fall and hurt herself so badly that she
has since become speeches., il spite of all the
doctors could do for her RELIEF, The vexing
thing about this accident is that husbands do
not know whether to ascribe it to the clothes
line or the bird-cage They do not know which
to lay in stock Of
| IT looks as though the Knights of Labor
butchers at Chicago are about to lose in their
| fight with the boss packers. which is to be
greatly regretted, not because they are Knights,
but that so many men and their families must
suffer deprivatons following the loss of employ
ment at the beginning of winter A strike
| should not be entered upon except with the
greatest elaboration.
| SECRETARY BAYARD has rebuked Minister
| Phelps for undue and expensive freedom in the
use of the ocean cable. Mr.. Bavard thinks that
if Mr.. Phelps must publish the confidential COM
munications of the State Department and his re-
documents across the water. and are far less ex-
pensive.
| A FROG farm has been started on the western
shore of Cayuga lake. Frogs are such croakers
that it would seem they would object to being
raised for the market but it is said they all jump
at the chance
AMONG the articles said to have been found in
the ruins of the cars burned in the disaster at
Rio, Wis, was "a little iron boys safe" If the
little iron boys safe, his parents are to be con-
| graduated.
THREE-FoURTHs of the saloons of Indianapolis
will be open to-day in direct violation of the law
This fact is known to the police authorities, but
nothing will be done to render the law effective
E. N. HALBEDEI. in The Journalist, advocates
school for journalism. The idea is not alto
gether a new one, we believe. There should
also be established school of poetry.
THE lady that Mr. Theodore Roosevelt has
gone to Europe to marry is Miss Edith Carow.
He will hardly eat Carow, though defeated for
the mayoralty.
JUDGE MOORE of Brooklyn, decides that there
| ia no objection, as far as he can see, to a man
kissing girl, If she is willing roble Judge!
THERE may be something rotten in Denmark,
but all the same Prince Wsldemar prefers resi-
dence there to Bulgaria
A BosroN poet announces with much emo
ton. that golden-rod is dead. If this circum-
stance will cause cessation of poems dedicated
to that weed, there are some unsentimental