The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-24

"A FAITH cure D6IloVer mas D6en IOunO VINO 10
willing to put his theory to a supreme test, and
will start as missionary to Africa to teach it
| among the natives An epidemic like the chol-
era would not find more inviting field than an
ignorant people depending on faith to save them
from its ravages. The faith cure may work
we'll in nervous troubles. which often need moth
ing more than the determination to not be i'll to
effect cure When it has been demonstrated
that it will cure consumption. well-developed. or
will relieve what has hitherto been regarded as
incurable by the medical profession it will be
time to introduce it to the natives Of heather
countries. It would prove very dangerous
thing to place reliance in at time that the best
medical skill is called for.
RECENTLY the members of the Salvation Ar
my in England were enjoined to sea-
son of fasting and special economy in
order to save up something to forward to the
depleted army treasury. The work was entered
into with great enthusiasm. Sugar and sweat
meats seem to have been the luxuries 'most gem
orally Topped off i'll the selfdeniaL 'hymn,"
of course. was composed and the fasting soldiers
comforted themselves by singing it, the chorus
being as follows:
Il never have any veal or ham,
very little mutton or lamb
III do without my sugar and JAM
Or anything for Jesus"
"Religion"is becoming a very fine sort of thing
lately.
IT was thought that Mary Anderson would
break the record, and not announce that she in
tended to retire from the stage ''at the close of
| Put ici CT hath hoa
done for her, and it is gravely announced that
she will visit India next year and then retire
from the stage. There are selfish people who
would like to be guaranteed life and health till
the day that Mary Anderson plays no more.
With anything like good luck she will be playing
farewell engagements for forty years to come.
AN Iowa man boasts of horse that he uses
to deliver goods with who knows all his regular
customers. and bows to them when he meets
them. That is remarkable. but not much more
so than the Indianapolis horse, the property of
an inveterate tobacco chewer, and which gen.
orally has bit in his mouth from the time he
begins work in the morning till his harness is
taken off at night
THE Louisville Commercial libels American
girls by declaring that ''if Prince Louis Napo
leon escapes from the United States without
some American girl asking him to marry her, he
will miss the usual fate of the titled foreigners
who visit this country" No true American girl
would think of such thing unless the supply of
American boys had run out.
BoYcoTTING has struck its true level In Gin
cinnati, where the gamblers. incensed by the
part taken by firm that manufacture playing
cards, have ordered boycott on the same. The
public will have no trouble in determining its
duty in this instance
Mr.. GLEN STUDEBAKER. of Studebaker Bros,
of South Bend, was elected president of the
American Carriage Builders Association, at the
recent meeting of the association in New
York This is an honor worthily bestowed upon
an Indiana man.
1T is said that ireland" means west, land,
from the Celtic word 'iar," and land, meaning
west land. The average Englishman prefers to
continue in the belief that it has an inseparable
connection with the ordinary significance of ire.
THE strike at the Minneapolis cooper shops
has been settled by the proprietcrs granting an
advance of Is cents barrel People who have
'barres of trouble" would like to settle their af
fairs at the same rate.
ELLEN TERRY wears an Indian 'luck stone"
when she appears before new audience 1t
would come handy in case she wanted something
to throw at the fellow who expressed disapproval
of her acting.
A LONG ISLAND man. sentenced to pay judg-
ment of 500, got in his revenge by paying the
man in onecent pieces. This was es-cent-tially
a mean trick.
AN Orange county IN. Y. J farmer carried to
market six barrels of apples, "none of which
weighed less than pound apiece" A barrel of
apples in Indiana weighs much more than that.
MILES STANDISH has been done in bronze for
Boston. He was in brass largely in life. He
was SUI Priscilia-ous kind Of cuss, for fact.
In Chicago they spell it "sucksesser," and
that too in big gilt letters ST. Louis does bet
ter than that
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