The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-16

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kind and FOR vegetation, more unsteady from
year TO yearl Look at the woodless hills of
the hills be deprived l. of the rest of the protection
which the forests afford, and half the area OF this
State will be sterile in less than fifty years. The
rain will wash the soil from the hilltops first, and
then from the slopes; the limestone which is now
covered with productive humus, loan and clay,
will be laid bare; the naked rocks will reflect the
rays of the sun and increase the summer heat;
the north storms will blow unhindered over the
country, and every change of wind will cause an
abrupt change in the temperature; the rainfall
Will be diminished and become irregular; snow
and rain-water will at once run down in the val
ultimately carry away the best part Of the soil.
even from the valleys. Such will be the ma
~voidable results Of further devastation of tim
Der.
A of Denver is authority for
a story illustrating the sharpness of one of
the trustees of q colored church in that
| city. 1t seems there has been quite q re-
ligious awakening and excitement among
the colored people, and the colored brother
referred to determined to utilize it for the
benefit of his church. Through a friendly
real estate agent he secured options on a
great many lots in the best residence parts
of the town, several being on Capitol Hill.
His plan of campaign was to dig a COM
mencement of a foundation and call on the
richest of the neighbors with a statement
of his intentions, as follows: I'VE, the
colored church, having secured the adjoin-
ing lot, are about to build. As you would,
of course, like to lave as fine a building as
possible you viii no doubt give a good sub
scriptiOn." In every instance the building
scheme met with decided opposition, and
the n%eighbOring residents subscribed lib
era1lv toward erecting the church some
where else. In this way the thrifty brother
a building fund of $4,000.
A ~CUTTLE-FISH, sometimes called an
"ink-fishs" was captured near New Haven,
Conn, a few days ago by persons dredging
for oysters. 1t il one of the curiosities of
the sea-. This one was about eighteen
inches long and weighed two and a
half pounds. Its distinguishing charac-
~teristic is the presence of an ink-bag con-
tanning q black fluid called ~''sepia." which
the fish elects when disturbed. The back
bone is not unlike an old-fashioned quill
| pen, and the ancients used both the bone
| and fluid for writing purposes. The fluid
was once largely used in the manufacture
of India ink. The fish was escaping from
the dredge as the latter reached the sur
| face of the water. Almost at the same in
slant it threw forth an inky black cloud of
the fluid which completely enveloped it.
and but for the use of q scoop-net it would
lave escaped.
FOLLOWING is an extract from a story
written for her class by a little girl seven
years of age. She seems to have pretty cor
rect ideas regarding political husbands"
| She says:
Now about this time Mr.. Simpson began to per-
wade the county. He was a good liver and a
| high politician, but not much of a father. Mrs.
Simpson was of q good family, but was not very
| good at training her children, so they came very
Simpson boarded at a house where there were q
s go ca, many So@ 1sne Se p Saa Iast h his na9sisc, 9 tSos 9lg mt
| had had the situation nine years and had ex-
pected to keep 1t for twenty. or at least for ten.
But now he had iostit and was almost pOcketless.
THE Cincinnati Commercial-G Gazette, in
enviously facetiOus common upon a recent
! letter from the Journals talented London
correspondent, animadverts pleasantly mp
On the statement made that Queen Victoria
was to shave a birthday" In this case,
vaulting hypercritical ambition O'erleapt
itself. Shakespeare, Webster and worces-
ter all define birthday as "the anniversary
of ones BIRTH" So her Majesty, God bless
her, can duplicate the day every year that
she lives, without soliciting consent from
critics not up in good English.
THE annual catalogue of DePauw Uni
versity shows a total enrolment in 1888 of
9O2 students. The past has been the most
prosperous year in the history of the insti-
tuition. The college, preparatory school.
theological. law, normal, music, military
and art schools make favorable exhibits.
| The largest percentage of increase is made
by the College of Liberal Arts, the Theo-
logical School and the Normal School. The
graduating classes number sixty-eight, and
every department of the university is in a
| flourishing condition.
part of the early strawberry sup
ply for this market comes from southern
Illinois. Centralla being the principal ship
ping point. The crop this year was UNI
usually large, there being shipped from
Centralia 70,206 crates, each containing
t~wenty-four quarts of berries. The neigh
boring station of Walnut Hills shipped 3d.
600 crates. This crop represents the yield of
over 1000 acres, and brings a handsome
profit to the producers. A large part of it
goes to Chicago, st. Paul and the tributary
towns.
THE Christian scientists of Syracuse, N.
Y, have been chartered as a church, and
hold regular Sunday services. . There, as
elsewhere, the practice of the healing art
by the believers la been quite extensive;
SO general. in fact, that it has been de-
nounced from the regular pulpits as a de-
fusion. In five recent cases death has been
ascribed to the interference of these heal
ers, and scandal has been created in conse-
quence.
A CORRESPONDENT from the lower part of
the State writes that much valuable time
is ~squandered by certain natives there
abouts in sitting on the banks of the Ohio
river in expectation of seeing frightful
relics from Johnstown drift past. One
negro servant recently returned home very