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

And Love made Lusts capped, belled bedriveed fool
| CHIPS.
| accept the seasons greasing," said the bast
| ing-spoon to the turkey.
"When is white horse not a white horse2"
| he asked his ed-headed girl. And she smiled
| and answered. when it's a chestnut"
Strikes are queer things: the baseball mar
makes living by them, while the ssreetcar
| man loses by them every time.
| A Michigan town boasts young woman six
| feet and a half tall She will have some trouble
in finding man to look up to.
In the light of the Rev. Mr.. Pentecost's flor
| from religion over into anarchy, it is rather sig
nifcant that his initials should be H o. P.
It is distressing to reflect that in time all tina,
will linger of the present administration will be
Mrs. Cleveland's recipe for brown bread
There is talk of new magazine again. lit
is at once adjusted to cut wide swath among
magazine poets. American literature will be ap-
preciably benefited.
The Denver people must be trying to harass
the Rev. Myron Reed into other fields Of useful
ness They have commenced publishing wood
Edgar Fawcett. in an early number of Lippin-
colt, is to attempt the demolition of Robert
Browning. It was billy goat wasn't it, that
undertook to butt a locomotive off the track7
Professor Fechner of Leipsic University, died
recently in Dresden. at the age of eighty
years. There are those who believe he might
have lived to be hundred if he had not under
mined his constitution by writing a work called
Clam of
The Working Womans Union, in Boston, re-
Gently discussed the question, why does the
Average American Woman Object to House
cannot answer the door-bell with one hand and
simultaneously bake batter-cakes with the
other.
4 Il would certainly be strictly in order if the
Right Rev Bishop Potter should issue card
announcing that he is not by any means to be
mistaken for the M rs. James Brown Potter,
whose theatrical ex ploits have so long wearied
the public mind.
Science mus hereafter be regarded as one of
the deadliest enemies of rural courtship. Some
meddlng savant has discovered that turned
down kerosene lamp is a magazine of noxious
gas that lungs must not be exposed to.
A Brooklyn theater makes the announcement
that it will furnish its patrons with umbrellas
should it begin to rain during the performance
There is nothing startling about that; anybody
can lend Umbrella. Getting it back again is
whore the trick will come in.
The hustle is said to be going out. It is to be
hoped that it's Punishment will not be universal.
Bustle may not be in place in society but 1t is
the making of politics and business.
The young woman who threw vitriol in her
lovers face in Reading, Pa, the other day, is
entitled to full benefit of the extenuating cir
cumstauces in the case She worked in eye
glass factory, and it only force of habit that
inspired her to make spectacle of her lover.
Another London Parker is coming to this
country. He is an evangelist and is to fill en-
gagements wherever he may find them. If he is
wise he will at once. upon his arrival card the
press disclaiming any relationship with Eulo-
gizer Parker; then the public will endeavor to
receive him without prejudice.
All wool growers and officers of wool-growine
associations in the United States are requested
to send their addresses to Albert Chapman,
Middlebury. VT IT it were only wool gather
ers" now lots of US might hear Of something to
our advantage
In New England the question has been dis
cussed as to Whether thought had ever crossed
the Hudson river" II the Concord school
represents "Thoueht' in the New England
mind, the West rises hastily to resent the impli-
cation of any desire to ever become tangled up
in any such foolishness.
No wonder ballet girls prefer to spend a re-
spectacle old age the stage. A Liverpool
woman. sixty years of age. has just been SEN
fenced to seven years. penal servituds for steal
ing pair of pantaloons.
It is a good thing that Jumping Dog. the In
dian who fred the Cheyenne agency, committed
suicide. Had he lived he would have been Sc
verely dealt with for bringing journalism into
disrepure, having stabbed TWO men to death with
pair of shears.
The Sentinel recently made touching refer
ence to the 'small craft which struggle far be-
hind in its wake" s'Bshind in its wake" is
beautiful stroke of composition in itself. The
Sentinel always was laundering old party, and
if it includes the Journal with the small craft
alluded to, the public will at perceive that
it has made the serious mistake of wearing its
wake in front.