The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-22

those buckets and hurled into the air in con-
away from the track An ordinary locomotive
boiler is set in the car which carries the pillow
and gives it the power. A locomotive. perhaps
more than one If the snow is packed hard, is
coupled to the rear of the and pushes it into
the drifts. 1t may run at six miles hour
it may be pushed at any speed up to forty miles
The machines cost SIS, 900 each.
Mrs. Dow. of Dover. N H. who was recently
made president of street-rai.way company in
that city, and secured the election of her hus-
band to the Office of treasurer, kindly says of
that gentleman: He is thoroughly competent
to fill the position and will have my advice and
aid This generous Endorsement of fellow
official indicates that harmony is likely to rule
in the management of the compary's affairs; but
it also dsposes of the erroneous idea entertained
by some that Mr.. Dow was elected that he might
give advice and aid to Mrs Dow. That lady
seems to De quite competent to run a railroad.
to say nothing of husband, without assistance,
and to have been quite successful in casting off
the skackles which the world is frequently as
sured Cypress the down-trodden sisterhood.
THE Boston Transcript attempts to cast dis
credit upon the recently published statement
about to celebrate his Tooth birthday. is grand
son of John Hancock, by declaring that Han
cock had but one son. and that he died in boy
hood. In view of the disclosures which are
made from time to time concerning descendants
of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington,
Thomas jefferson, and other revolutionary faith
ers, the Journal would respectfully suggest that
it is rash to assume the non existence of progeny
of any great and good man of the past merely
because their names fail to appear on the family
register.
THE Mayor of Chicago displays remarkable
lack Of familiarity with "amusements" in his
threat to revoke the license of a theatrical COM
pany if it should give the decollette performance
outlined on the bill boards Did the Mayor not
attend the circus in his youth often enough to
learn that show ever lives up to it's possersl
Has he not enough knowledge of the s'drama"
to know that the actual anatomical display is
never so lurid as that upon the dead walls? The
Mayor is right in baniehing the very appearance
Of evil, but he ought to know that actress
was ever SO diabolical as the three-story posters
represent.
MAYOR HEWITT. of New York, in a special
message to the City Council, says:
"A visit to the great charitable institutions
maintained by the city, containing population
of over fourteen thousand persons, will convince
the most skeptcal observer that the chief cause
of crime, sickness and poverty, which fill these
institutions with their tenants. is to be found
in excessive indulgence in intoxicating liquors.
If the abuse of this traffic could be prevented
there would follow immediate and very
large reduction in the general criminal bust
of the city, by which the moral tone
would be raised and taxation would be lesseued."
The same is true in every city of the United
States. The open saloon is the universal public
enemy.
THE Minneapolis Tribune of recent date
stated that "thirty below in the dry air of Min
nesota causes less discomfort than thirty above
on the banks of the Ohio" The same paper
contained list of over sixty persons frozen to
death by that dry and painless cold. That time
honored theory in regard to the dry climate Of
the Northwest has been considerably shaken by
recent events.
A MAN was tried at Muncie last week for dis
turbing religious meeting. His offense con-
sisted in reading newspaper during the serv-
ices. It is not easy to see how this could be
called disturbance, unless the members and
preacher chose to withdraw their attention from
the services and fix them the The
court could not see the disturbance and the de-
PENDANT was acquitted.