The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-21

or the children had q new toy. The humble
artisan was satisfied and glad, doubtless If he
| realized even the slightest advance on the
price of vases of its kind He fashioned
others and impaired to them all the
beauty that deicacy of coloring and all the grace
of contour could suggest. But at length old age
or infrmity put stop to his labors, his wheel
| stood idle and rotted away. the products of his
cunning were scattered, and death came over his
| threshold to lead the poverty-stricken creature
to his last long rest. Fancy his feelings could
he have looked across the centuries and see this
one specimen of his handiwork bring price that
would have made him and all his relatives in
dependently rich, and laid the foundation for
race of celestial Rothschilds. Yet it is doubtful
if the dust of the unknown artisan hidden away
in an unmarked grave would have rested any the
easier had his hands received the money the
moment the vase came from his crude kiln.
THE Boston Record wants to have a monu-
ment raised to the memory of the two women of
Scituate who scared the British vessels from the
harbor, in 1872 by beating drum and blowing
a fife behind the bushes The Record thinks it
wise thus to honor the heroines, in order to en-
courage women of this day to go and do likewise
in similar emergency, which the absence of
coast defenses renders a possibility.
O'ER Stonewall Jackson's charger. dead
Again we drop tear.
The record shows him perish-ed
About four times year.
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the gulf stream, with printed instructions to re-
turn them with particulars as to where found,
the purpose being to determine the direction and
other peculiarities of the current. has proved
failure This is as might have been expected,
for the bottles were empty. Now il they had
been filed there would have been an inducement
to pick them up.
MISS GERTRUDE NJ TEscH, of Milwaukee, is
suing her uncle for SIS, 900 damages for having
expelled her from his service without reason.
The offense was committed in 1883. It it quite
plain that the more she thought about it the
madden she got. By arithmetical rules. she got
mad at the rate of $1,000 year, which, it must
by admitted, is high figure.
A RURAL New Yorker has sued school teach
er for $15, 900 damages for fogging his boy. 1t
ought to be easy for the defense to establish that
this amount is excessive. Not one boy in q
thousand is, or ever will be, worth that much.
Boys drug in the market; that is, all neigh
bors' boys are.
LADY dixie it is announced, has a volume Of
stories almost ready for publication If it should
be advertised that she had drawn the romantic
and dramatic episodes from her husbands ex-
perience she might realize a small fortune FROM
the book.
SARAH BERNHARDT told critic who wrote
unfavorably about her Ophelia that he was
| traitor and an imbecile Many an actress, who
smiles sweetly upon her critics when she would
like to annihilate them, will envy Sarah's
courage
DEAR sister Rose she draws the line
On bow much neck she'll show;
And other ladies do the same,
But draw it very low.
In Massachusetts, they do not agree with police
officers who take it upon themselves to murder
prisoners. At Uxbridge. Policeman Mandock has
been held without bail for killing prisoner for
not submitting to being handcuffed.
PHILADELPHIA has brewers progressive
| union" 1t is not stated whether the members
are in favor Of passing the bottle around. or Of
moving from table to table after che prize, as in
progressive euchre.
No Irishman would have thought Of destroy
ing the vessel that sunk in the collision last
Sunday steamer bearing the name Oregon
is safe to sail any waters, for all that the Irish
| patriots care.
Two women are suing q benevolent associa
ton at Louisville to recover insurance on the
life of a man named Morgan, each claiming to
be his widow He was "a good enough Morgan"
for them.
Nor only have the lilac and crocus opened for
business in March, but the bare-footed boy is
also abroad in the land. He thinks he has come
to stay, and we fear he has.
THEY found him dead and all alone;
His face none recognized.
They wrote unknown upon the stone
He never advertised.
Iowa points with pride to 8 citizen named
Sheol If he has that kind Of time the year
round, is he really citizen to be proud off
IT is really too bad that the German hog
should have been attacked by trichiniasis The
hog can count upon American sympathy.
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.
NEXT month the city of New York will be 200
years old.