The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-21

high degree, and that in his report he copied
rative of an Expedition to Lake Itasca in 1892
That was bad enough; but he offended even more
fagrantiy when, from an earlier work by the
same writer, containing meteorological observa-
tons forJuly and August 1920, Captain Glazier,
letter for letter. copied to show what was the
condition Of the weather just sixty-one years
later A few more breaks" like these, and the
public will come to think that Captain Glazier
does not know even where the Mississippi river
is However, it might be well to give the Cap
tain chance to explain himself
THE New York Herald has at last come to the
conclusion that there is great deal of nonsense
displayed in that city in welcoming actors and
singers, approaching the shore from other parts.
1t takes as its text the formal and stited well
come rendered Madame Patti, on Sunday last.
It says. with becoming candor:
when any kind of celebrity or notoriety
comes from Europe to New York it is thought a
necessary thing to hire q tugboat, stuff it with
flowers, band and a company of deadheads and
reporters, and go down the bay to meet the
steamer Then the whole dreary story of sham
hilarty gets into the papers, just as all the pa
pers yesterday morning gave silly account of
Nine. PATHS welcome-the Herald's account be-
ing as silly as the others"
The Herald then proceeds to wonder what is
the use of it all. 1t is indeed a ''put up job,
and no one is deceived thereby. Yet it is kept
up, and the New York press devotes columns to
reciting the glories of q welcome that was
studied out Ia detail and paid for in advance.
There is very much too much "boum boum" in
these matters.
PHILADELPHIA faint saying nothing" but she
has attended strictly to business during the past
year. and claims to have put up no less than
9108 buildings during the building season of
1886 During the past six years there have been
erected no less than 80 900 buildings in that city.
which is said to surpass the record made by Chi
cago or New York, with all their blowing 1t
may be remarked that wind does not put up
houses very rapidly. The people of Pennsyl-
vania are wise in pushing manufactures for all
they are worth. Philadelphia is great factory
center.
UPON the death of an illiterate, but we'll
known restaurateur at Chicago, it was discov-
cred that he had 1914, 900 in cash in his safety
deposit vault 1t was said of him that he did
not know how to write and that he took this
manner of preserving his money rather than re-
reveal the fact that he could not write check
It was evident that he knew how to make fig
ures as he must have charged enough for the
food he served.
A ''YoUNG man, of passable appearance" ad-
vertises in the New York Herald to act as escort
for ladies of responsibility who wish to attend
theaters or other places of amusement, and have
not the necessary male protector. Next we shall
hear of ''passaDle" young men advertising to do
counting to order and then there will be war,
from the word GO.
NEW YORK Anarchists, male and female, babe
fearful farewell to Mrs. Lucy Parsons the
other night, when she left for Chicago, and,
after her departure, remained at the hall, and
danced and sang until morning. The impend-
ing fate of the Chicago brethren seemed to cast
no lasting gloom over the spirits of these genial
people.
THE story of an invention whereby 1000, 900
feet of gas can be made from barrel of OIL and
the residuum left worth as much as the oil was
before the process, sounds little apocrypha
We suppose that when two barrels are treated
according to this process the residuum is worth
twice as much as the oil was originally.
1T is said that Theodore Thomas positively
refuses to furnish music for the ballet of the
American Opera Company. This is too bad, but
it will hardly result in killing the ballet The
ballet be it known. is tough flower altogether
and is not easily trodden down.
PERHAPS it might be well to lower Liberty's
arm, bend her majestic figure, and replace her
fiery torch with supplicating hat-New York
Tribune.
good suggestion; but will New York pay for
the haiti
THE humorist VINO is obliged to explain his
jokes suffers much, but the poet who is called
upon to explain an insult out of his verses must
endure a still deeper degree of misery DR..
Oliver Wendell Holmes knows how it is himself.
AN Ohio man died this week while on his
knees engaged in prayer. Few Ohio men are
likely to be taken while in this attitude, but the
circumstance will have a tendency to render
prayer even less frequent than before
THERE is reason now to hope that there will
be no personal encounter between Colonel Nc
Gosh, of Princeton, and Maj Oliver Wendell
Holmes. The Colonel is gradually being placated.
THE Louisville Courer-Journal suggests that
the City of Atlanta "should erect a statue to
Thirst, and paint it dark brown Thirst was
drowned there recently.
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BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.
Mrs. MAcKAY's dressmakers are pledged not
to duplicate her dresses.
A MEMORIAL of the late Samuel Morley is to
be erected at Nottingham.