The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-29


it be as well to first catch the Silcotts
before building new place to stow
them?
KATE FIELD, in her new paper, Washing
ton," says:
We ought to establish in the United States
school OF department for public men. And the
first motto should hang up over the door would
be: Don't sit on your spine' couldn't help
Of sS the the Ch
justice delivered his Grafton. In marched the
President and Mr. Blaine. followed by the other
amphitheater. Satl Yes. sitting is what IL is
called Within five minutes, every mothers son
of them. with perhaps one exception, had slid
shoulderblad and the small of his back.
The justices Of the Supreme Court followed,
ana nj sney Went IN the same n way so sou dd ne fne
in. In contrast with them. there sat the foreign
ministers and the delegates to the two
rods. What made the contrast most disagreeable
was the fact that our own great men were by far
the best-looking persons on the floor. as rule
IL seemed pity that they should spoil their fine
effect by such an attitude. But it is the common
fault OF Americans In public places. Congress
nanaaaamy si,s !. on nts four nunared anu QUO
letters. Our magistrates do IL on the bench.
Our State legislators do II. Everybody does IL
when he hasn't his hands or his brain, or both,
too busily occupied to admit of such thing.
This is witty. and mainly true as to men,
but how about the womeni How many
American women are there who know how
to sit in q CHART OF course. they are al
ways graceful, whether they lounge, loll,
dangle over the side of O chair or curl up
on the seat; but this is not sitting properly.
The average American woman is about as
slouchy in her manners as the American
man is awkward. If Kate Field succeeds
in establishing school of department for
public men, we trust some enterprising in.
dividual will start an annex for women
INTERVIEWS with Philadelphia clergy
men concerning their respective views of
heaven and hell disclose the curious fact
that they are much clearer in their minds
as to the condition and situation of the lost
than of the redeemed. They are all abso-
lutely certain of the existence of hell, and
had well-defned ideas about it, but while
they teach, of course, that there is q heaven,
they seem to have but a vague concep-
tion of it, either as ''place"
or q "state. A critic commenting
on the matter insinuates that the
preachers have lack of proper faith, but
he does them injustice. They have, un-
doubtedly, all the grace needful. and their
failure to give graphic account of a place
of future bliss is owing to O common men,
tai pecu liarity-a defect. perhaps. man
must be in state of mental exaltation to
be able to describe ecstatic happiness in
telligibly, while misery of the deepest can
be depicted with only ordinary effort. II
you do not believe it just draw on your inn
aginations and see.
FEW months ago the Journal copied
from an English church paper statement
relative to the alleged treatment of United
States Consul Sweeny by some of the for
eign missionaries at Constantinople. The
substance of the statement was that Mr..
Sweeny had been coIdly received and badly
treated by the missionaries on account of
his own religious belief. he being preacher
of the Christian Church. We have received
a note from Mr.. Sweeny. saying that the
statements contained in the article referred
to were entirely erroneous, and did great
injustice to fine body of Christian peo-
pie. He adds:
Ibave been received with the utmost consider
alton by all the people of Constantinople whom
have met, but with especial cordiality by the
missionaries. write this, not on my own ac-
count, but as simple act or justice 10 large
body of Christian men and women against whom
should be sorry to see prejudice ARISE In the
hearts of my friends.
THE question having been raised whether
the pawpaw can be propagated from the
seed and domesticated. writer in the
Rushville Republican, who claims to have
had experience, says:
Late in the autumn, scrape the enamel from
| the seed and place in box of wet sand. Plant
| the middle OF May Tor soon the ground is
| warm enough) OH the sunny side OF house or
| fence, where it will not be exposed TO stock In
| four years you will have a bearing tree. The
| enamel must he removed 10 insure early decay
OF the null in sprouing the seed. This VIII place
the pawpaw In reach OF all who desire IL. The
is not only valuable for its fruit. but one
or our most beautiful shade trees. 1t is free from
any insect. has beautiful foliage, and never
| grows large enough To he an incumbrance.
| This writer mentions one pawpaw tree
| he knows of, raised from seed seven years
old, fifteen feet high. with trunk twelve
inches in circumference. and which has
been bearing fruit three years.
| FANEUIL HALL, Boston, has held many
| odd assemblages during the past one hun
dred years, bnt never stranger one than
the five hundred tramps, bcggars and
crooks which George Parker. reformed
gambler and burglar. mustered there for
| Christmas dinner. IL was the seediest,
toughest and toughest lot of men that ever
sat down to square meal which began
with turkey and ended with coffee and
oranges. After the dinner the story OF the
'Prodigal Son" was read and soloist sang
where Is My Boy Tonight" which. in
connection with the good dinner. caused