The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-26
MINOR MENTION.

otner institutions, TO the amount OF something
like million dollars, was an honored and re-
spected business man of Hartford for fifty years.
His family relations were irreproachable; he was
pillar in the church; not whisper was heard
against his financial integrity in all
those years. He was, in short, one of
those men in whom every member
of the community had confidence And yet after
half century of honor, and after reaching
time OF life when the affairs of this world should
have been losing their Importance, he became
thief and a refugee from justice. It is commonly
taught that every mans character for good or i'll
is established by the time he reaches middle age;
but this case, and many similar ones that have
lately come to light prove the rule to be one Of
many exceptions It was a cynical woman who
said that no man, however sanity, was safe
from the Establishments OF members of her own
sex until he was in his grave. Judging from
recent developments the same may be said to
the temptations offered by the mighty dollar
THRIFTY ST. Louis has lost no time in figuring
up how much money it made off of the visiting
Knights and their friends. The estimate is that
while there was public and private outlay on
the part of the town and its citizens of $00 900,
the visitors expended during their stay not less
than 81 900, 900. It is needless to say that st.
Louis rejoices loudly over this liberal percentage
ofproft on her "hosptable" investment. On the
other hand, however, the question is what the
Knights did with SO much money. With close
allowance for exorbitant hotel rates and other
inevitable expenses of such affairs, there is still
a large margin unaccounted for, and that will
call for elaborate and ornate domestic explana-
ton.
THE doctrines of the Socialists and Anarchists
of Chicago, and of the country at large, have
been materially qualified since the miscreants of
the Haymarket massacre were found guilty of
murder in the first degree, which carries with it
a sentence Of death. Let that sentence be en-
forced against them, and those who otherwise
would be induced to follow in the footsteps of
these fellows will hesitate to do SO, and will
save themselves good deal of trouble and pain.
A MILWAUKEE paper, after a week of moist
and unpleasant experience, announces that
nothing produces such general meteorological
disturbance as State fair" The Indications.
not inducing those of Virgins, are, unfortu-
proof to sustain the theory. 1t is not unlikely
that the agricultural board will wish they had
taken up with the prophet Loves offer to fur
nish them with a week of good weather
AN exchange asks: "Does anybody know just
how much our towns and cities owe to the en-
terprise of their newspapers" Generosity and
native modesty has prevented the Journal from
estimating, even in round numbers, the immense
debt due to it on this account but it takes pleas
ure in giving to individual members of the COM
munity, on application or by messenger, the
exact figures of the amounts they are respect
lively owing to the paper.
JOE HOWARD the New York newspaper cor
respondent, tells Western reporter that his
success is due to the fact that he writes as he
talks. The New York Commercial Advertiser,
on the other hand, says that the excellence of
Joes letters is owing to the fact that he lifts"
large portions of them, bodily, from the col
umns of that paper If the Advertiser is to be
believed the genial Mr.. Howard writes as some
other man talks.
LILLIAN RUSSELL SoLoMoN's mamma says
she is glad her daughter has got rid of her hus-
band, and adds that she would have left him be-
fore if it had not been for chat Jersey mar
riage." The public will be gratifed to learn
from this that Jersey marriage, or any other
kind, will keep an actress from leaving her hus-
band when she is tired of him. The millennium
is still some distance off, but this is surely an
era of reform.
AcHDUKE JOSEPH, of Austria, has written
grammar of the gypsy language, which contains
239 pages, and bears the title of 'Romanocsiba-
kerosziklaaibe." If the contents of the book
bear any similarity to the name, the small boy
who contemplates running off and being a
gypsy will do we'll to think twice, and then re-
main to endure the anguish which accompanies
the study of English grammar.
AN estimate of the amount of recent New
England embezzlements brings up the total to
over ten millions of dollars. It will be some
consolation to the proud fellow-citizens of the
defaulters to reflect that they, the defaulters,
were, without exception, members of old and
highly cultured families. and that some of them
have ancestors who came over in the Mayfower.
ICE-CREAM has killed another man down in
Pennsylvania. He ate pint of it in half min
ute and paralyzed his interior with cold Per-
haps this explains some of the other fatalities
that have occurred from the use of this dish dur
ing the summer. It may have been the quantity
of the cream rather than the quality that moved
picnickers down.
1T looks as though Rev. Henry Ward Beecber
was charging pretty stiff price for his Sunday
sermons over in England. At the churches in
which he appears. printed tickets of admission
distributed in the understanding that every
ticket holder shall contribute not less than two
shillings to the collection, to meet the heavy ex-
penses of the management" For such an i'm
provident man as he proudly claims to be, and
one careless about the use Of money. Henry has