The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-26


mules' might be placed where tho driver would
see i when he looked into the car to scowl al
some passenger. .sWelcoue' should hang in
every car a. expressing the managers kindly
| feelings towards every human being with q
nickel By substituting such notices as these
for the present advertising cards the street-cara
might be imbued with An elevatine influence.
and eventually. perhaps. tho whole system
| might be lifted out Of the mud.
/ A CORRESPONDENT, who asks why dew does
| not fall ia winter, is informed, first that dew
does not fall at all. Tho phrase, "falling dew, =
/ is misleading. Dew is moisture held in suspense
| in the warm atmosphere, and deposited ar
night on the surface of bodies which grow cool
after the rays Ok the sun Withdrawn. After
/ the sun sets all such bodies, including plants,
| cool; some slowly. some rapidly. according TO
/ their relations to heat As soon Is the cooling
process has lowered the temperature of any
object down to the point OF saturation for the
| vapor present IN the air. dew will begin to form
| upon it. Some bodies are believed very quickly,
grass. whilst others are more tardy as wool,
wood. metal, all depending on the
| rapidity with which they part with their
| heat and cause the condensed moisture to be
| deposited on their surface. This dew, instead of
falling is simply condensed or expressed from
| the atmosphere. The same operation is OBJ
served in a warm day when q pitcher or glass
filled with cold water cools and condenses the
air in contact with il, causing deposit of moist
ure on the outside. This always has a cool, re-
freshine look in summer. and people sometimes
call it the sweating" OF the glass. Dew is not
deposited IN winter, because the conditions that
produce it do not exist Vegetation is not
warmed by the rays of the sun, and the winter
air, being constantly cold, is not made to give
out its moisture at night by condensation.
AT meeting held in Boston, few nights ago,
in honor of the memory of Wendell Phillips,
Gen. B. F. Butler was one Of the speakers. He
spoke very feelingly of his early acquaintance
with Phillips, OF their later friendship and Of
Phillips splendid devotion to the tislavery
cause. Coming war times. Butler said the
firing on Sumter relieved him OF his "constitu-
tional obligations" to the South. and he became
ant-slavery man himself. Then, referring
to the origin of once-famous and historic
phrase. he said:
When the exigency of service arose by
which was told. in some way. to keep my con-
/ stitutional obligations with the South resort
ed to legal snhterfuge, and declared the col
ored people contraband of war. This in
June. 1861, and Wendell Phillips said: .sYou
have buiided better than you knew; you have
struck blow which will end, not far distant.
in the freedom of the slave and in the arming OF
the negroes to be used in war against their
masters"
That the origin OF the phrase "contra-
bands" which stuck to the negroes during the
war. It was happy conception of Buffers,
worthy of MASSACHUSETTS, lawyer, and I'M
doubtedy contributed great deal towards
turning the public mind in favor of emancipa-
ton.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. in . recent lecture
on the lie and character of Washington, related
an amusing anecdots to illustrate the fame of
Washington in other lands. He said when he
was in Berlin, some years ago. while seated in
cafe chatting with some friends. German gen.
tleman, after few minutes pause, turned and
asked, 'tAre you not Americana"
ssYes," replied Mr. Curtis. II am"
"Ah." said the foreign gentleman with that
peculiar emphasis which only the Germans can
give. "ah, know your great men over here
very well. especially that great man Gen. Wash
sington Irving"
= WASHINGTON women of the advanced type
are riding bicycles, and the vehicles not
made with side-saddlss, either. The manufact-
urer expects to do a profitable business when
the International congress meets in that city,
next month, for, as he remarks, forcibly, why
should woman of sense ride sixty pound tri-
cycle, when she can have q bicycle Of half that
weight that will 60 twice as fast?' As the inter-
national congresswomsn are, of course. all
women Of sense, it seems to follow that the COM
ing woman will come on a bicycle.
THE idea of floating thsater seems plausible
enough, and it is surprising some enterprising
manager has not attempted it before. The
project as now stated embraces all the parapher-
palia of regular theater. which is TO be towed
from ono Mississippi town to another, thus in
Producing the drama into places hitherto mac
cessible. and among people presumably thirst
ing for high art. Perhaps there may be mill
ions in it.
THE absence of suburban resorts and attrac-
tions in the vicinity of Indianapolis has often
been remarked and regretted. Perhaps it is to
fill this long-fslt want that ghost is said to be
revisitine the glimpse of the moon at Broad
Ripple. An enterprising ghost that could be in
duced to make regular engagements and period
ical appearances at that place might make it a
very attractive resort for, persons of ghostly
tastes.
REUBEN DALEY, editor of the Jeffersonville
News, and for twenty-one years outspoken
infdsl, has made public profession OF Chris
hanlty, aud united with the Presbyterian Church
He has been somewhat prominent defender
of skerticisn, and several years ago issued an
order to the foreman of the composing-room
that whenever the word God appeared in his
paper it must be commenced with a small sg"
THE color question is up again in the South Car
DINA Episcopal Diocese. some of the clerical
brethren refusing take part in the coming
convention it negro delegates are allowed to par
ticipate Nevertheless, the Southern white
clergyman insists that he loves his colored
brother, and even goes 80 far as to declare that
his straight road to heaven is through the Epis-
copal Church.
WHEN it comes to listing the foes of monop-
oily the name of Mr.. George Rice, of Marietta