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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-03
Secretary Rusk's Western Trip.
Ial 10 the Indtauanolis JOurnaf

Special 10 the Indianapons JOURNAL.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.-Secretary Rusk
proposes to do little speech-making to the
farmers out West. He will go into Ohio
about the middle of September and will
attend some agricultural fairs in Michigan
at a later date. As q campaigner among
the farmers Secretary Rusk stands at the
head. HIS Western trips will not be of a
political nature, however. though they
may have tendency to put in some strong
strokes, in opportune times. before the
elections.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-03

WASHINGTON, Sept. "A bill introduced
by Senator Coke to-day provides that here
after no national banks shall issue circulat-
ing notes. and that within six months each
national bank shall deposit money with
the United States Treasurer for the re-
demption of its circulating notes. The
be returned. United States legal-teuder
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-03

WHAT steam is to the engine Hoods Sar-
saparilIa is TO the body, producing bodily
power and furnishing mental force.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-03

Stage Robbed by n Lone Highwayman.
SUsANvILLE. Cal. Sept. last night
the Liegan and Susanville stage was stop
ped by a lone highwayman near Milford,
five miles from here, and the Wells, Fargo
81 Co.'s box taken. The value is unknown.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-03
Patents Granted Hoosier Inventors.
Special to tho Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-Patents were is
sued to Indian1ans to-day as follows:

Dennis ]. Brennan, ]. Jones and E. Gold
thwaite. Elkhart. said Brennan assgnor to said
Jones and Goldthwaite, railway rail.joint; Mar
tin F. Divine, Sellersburg, hay-frame; James T..
Eller and J. 8. Jordan. Indianapolis whif1e-tree
hook; Washington j. Engle, Marshall, thill-tug;
PRESLEY Gregg, Aurora, hay-sleG; Theodore III.
Haberkorn. Fort Wayne, brake mechanism for
cars; Otto III. Hasselman, Indianapolis, voting
booth; William II. H0rrall, assignor of two
thirds to ]. G. Billheimer and F. NJ. Myers. Wash
ington. mailbag fastener; Paris c. Johns. Mar
assignor of one-half to j. f. Carr. velpen. thIll
support: John F. Mains. assignor of two-thirds
to b. Carr and A. NJ LaFOiiette, Indianapolis,
device for delivering mailbag catching-fork;
Ezra Master, Mishawaka. dovetail joint; David
M. Parry and T. H. Parry, indianapolis road
cart; John c. Pate, Boonville. grading machine;
Adolph f. Prahm, Indianapolis, bran packer;
George Valdez. Mlllersburg, box fastener; James
p. Wright, Reynolds, sand band for vehicles.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-09-03
MINOR MATTERS.

Mr. weddebern Will Try to Defeat Congress
men Who Voted Against the Lard Bill.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 2.-In talking with
A. j. Weddebern. the compound lard bill
lobbyist, to-day. he outlined a project by
which he hopes to secure the defeat of
those Western congressman. who voted
against the lard bill Weddebern IS said
to be an officer in the National Grange. He
edits granger paper. and it goes before
committees as the representative of the
National Grange of America" Mr.. Wedde-
bern says he has got up blacklist to be
sent to the heads of the oranges throughout
the West. 1t will set forth that the men
who voted against the lard bill are enemies
of the farmers. and should be defeated.
To-day he telegraphed to two districts
where conventions are about to be held,
notifying the masters of the local oranges
that the two Congressman who desired re-
nominations had voted against the lard
bill.
John w. Foster and the Spanish Mission.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. Sept. 2.-Speaking to-day
of the offer of the Spanish mission to Hon.
T. c. Platt and his declination of it, lead
ing Western Senator said: There is one
man specially qualified for the Spanish mis-
sion, and ] hope the President and Mr..
Blaine will see their way to appointing
him. That man is the Hon. John w. Fos-
ter. of Indiana. There is not man in the
country more conversant with Spanish
affairs and matters affecting reciprocity.
Just now when Mr.. Blaine's plan of recip-
rocal trade with Spanish American coun-
tries is likely to be carried into operation,
the services of Mr. Foster would be partic-
ularly valuable. He negotiated the former
measure of reciprocity which was proposed.
He has already served in the Spanish mis-
sion. and knows it thoroughly. His diplo-
matic experience outside of Spain has been
as extensive and varied as that of any pub
lie man in the country. In view of these
qualifications. and the special fact that he
is a master of the reciprocity question as it
affects Spain and Spanish countries. Foster
wo1ld be model man for the place."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-29
A TOY FOR THE EMPEROR.
The Miniature Railroad Which IL in Opera
tiou in Ii Hung ChauR's CITY.

The Miniature Railroad Which Is in Opera-
tion in Ii Hung ChanR's City.
About two years ago they presented
complete miniature railway to the Emperor
through Ii Hung Chang, and the line,
which is about three miles long, is laid
down within the imperial city. The young
Emperor is very much interested in its
workings, and spends great deal of his
time in riding to and fro in the beautifully
appointed little carriages.
He was greatly struck with the toy railway
and its influence upon the recent decree has
been very considerable, The old reaction
ary party among his advisers were adverse
to the miniature line being laid down with
in the precincts of the sacred city and it
was very near being returned to the donors.
But the Government was .afraid lest it
should give ofense to the French, who are
greatly feared and respected since they
burned and sunk the Chinese feet
At first the high authorities would not
allow any foreigners TO have hand in lay
ing down or working the model railway.
The result was when they started the lit
tie engine they could not stop it, and great
CONSERVATION was occasioned to the occu-
pants in the palace by their inability to con-
troll the strange contrivance of the foreigners,
which dashed along the line till it was
pulled up by coming in contact with
mound of earth.
Since then, however, French driver has
been procured, aud the Emperor is q fire.
quenL traveller upon the cars.
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partners existence as il she had been
brought up on Fifth avenue. The spectral
unconcern of the girl who dances with a
fellow when she would prefer somebody else
is one of the things that has driven me to q
more serious life.
observed, however, that she was much
interested in the young man with whom sne
waltzed after the quadrille was over. The
young gents of the John B. Smith Assocla-
tion understand waltzing. They dom
waste any time skipping about, except when
they see clear space on the floor and take
slide for it out of the crowd. When they
get the needed room they simply spin round
in it, the young man turning backward on
one foot as pivot and dragging the heel OF
the other foot after him, while the sole oil
his shoe sticks up nearly straight like
grave-stone. His chin, meanwhile, reclines
on the young woman's shoulder, but not
hard enough to keep his mouth shut, and
his eyes look up at her bang with an ex-
preston suggestive of Raphaels cherubs.
THE RACKETs DOWN BELOW.
wandered away from the dancers and
made my way to the lower deck to learn, II
possible, the origin of an especially internal
racket which suddenly arose in hatquarter.
lower deck before, but this one, as I have
said, was especially so. 1t proved to be
nothing more serious than a small fight.
When got there it was over, but that was
otno consequence to me, as several others
were about to begin. found Young man,
whom l recognized as reporter named
Adams. getting points about the fight from a
big-heade6 man, who proved TO be one Of
Mr.. Smiths Lieutenants. The conversation
showed that the Lieutenant's sympathies
were strongly with the victors in the little
unpleasantness, and when he moved away I
asked Adams why he didn't get the other
eide of the story from the vanquished.
Cant" he said; ''too late; they've all
gone overheard"
We landed at pier near the little town
of New Cologne, so named as an antidote to
the oil works above mentioned. There we
had some athletic sports, consisting of
racing, wrestling, fighting and baseball
match for a keg of beer, which was empty
be ore the end of the second inning. These
the party. but the older ones found much
better game in the village.
MILLIGAN CARRIES THE ELECTION.
There was an election in progress in New
Cologne, and Milligan discovered that one
of the candidates had been friend of his
at school. inquired, in some surprise,
what school Mr.. Milligan had ever attended,
and the reply was: Reform school, you
-" but protest that am not as big
fool as this man said was.
At this moment Mr.. Milligan appeared on
the scene and said: "Now, boys, are yez
wild me or agin me? My friend johnson is
20 votes behind. Shall we snow de other
feller uuder?"
will we?" howled the gang, "well,
watch u.s."
Then Milligan led the way to the polls.
There was naturally some protest on the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-29
FRIGHTENED BY A WOMAN.

A Burglar, Who Atrerwnrd Killed Man,
Fled Before n Delicate Lady.
ST remember desperate burglar" said a
New York police officer the other day, "who
was hanged for killing man whose house
he had been caught robbing, telling me
that the only time he actually felt scared at
finding himself face to face with one of the
iamates OF the house he was Cracking was
when slight, delicate woman, clad only in
her night dress, came running down the
stairs ID, putting her hand on his arm, in
qured in terrined tone:
"'What's the matter? Is there burglar
in the house? Oh. protect mel
'In her terror she did not think of him
as the roDber, and the evident comfort it
gave her to find some one to protect her
gave him new sensation altogether.
"He was staggered a moment by the sit
uation, but hearing other inmates moving
upstairs who had evidently been aroused by
her loud exclamations, he quickly said:
Certainly, ma'am; I'll protect you-have
no fear. just stand here behind the door
while look in the kitchen, where the noise
seems to come irom.'
"'Oh, thank you,' she replied, as he
slipped out into the kitchen, picked up his
shoes and vanished out of the window,
leaving the booty piled upon the floor in a
tablecloth, which he was just tying up
when the woman came upon him."
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part of the election officers, but in one hour
from that time the man who hadn't voted at
least twice was no "true son of the old
Four ward" as Mr.. Milligan expressed it.
When the johnson faction received this
formidable addition to its ranks, the con.
stables and other officers of the law quietly
slipped away to secure assistance, and at the
end of the hour they returned so we'll rein
forced that Mr.. Milligan ordered a retreat
1t was running fight from there TO the
boat. am exceptionally good at that kind
of fight, and was the first man to cross
the gang-plank.
THEY SAILED AWAY UNCAPTURED.
1 never fully realized why it was called
that kind of plank till saw the others
come aboard. 1t was considerably past the
hour for leaving when they arrived, so that
the main body OF the e1curslonists was on
board when the Milligan party, pursued by
the constables, arrived. Some of the more
courageous of the latter followed, but the
captain cut his lines and we sailed away.
The constables left the boat within the first
hundred yards from the shore without hay
ing made any arrests.
Just then 7 observed Mr.. Adams ap-
proach Mr.. Milligan with his notebook in
his hand. Milligan turned on him in
wrath.
"Yez want to put dis ting in de paper, do
yez?" he yelled; "Yez want to cast ojum on
the John B. Smith Association I'll kick
de bloomin'-'
At this moment Mr.. Adams left the boat.
saw him leave just as I climbed flag
staff in order to be out OF the way, for I
hate to intrude.
remained at half-mast, so to speak, dur
ing the rest of the voyage
HOWARD FIELDING,
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A TYPICAL OUTING.
Fielding Investigates a Sample New
York Summer Excursion.
BARELY ESCAPES WITH HIS LIFE,
The Merry Dance on the Deck and Athletic
Sports on Shore.
SETTLING AN ELECTION CONTEST
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH,

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPArcH.i
I have been making study of the sum-
mer excursion, which is with us once more,
and which, in common with other season.
able complaints, will be ehecked only by
the approach of cold weather. The con-
clusion at which have arrived after a per-
sonal investigation almost fatally thorough,
and occupying nearly the whole of the
longest day of my life, is that the summer
exctrsion as source of joy is less desirable
than malaria, though slightly preferable to
hydrophobia, which it resembles in many
important particulars, among which may be
mentioned its unrufied serenity and its
aversion 10 water as a beverage.
1 am inclined to the belief that the kind
of excursion which shall describe is con-
fined to New York Bay and adjacent waters.
1 know that Down East where was born,
when Deluge Fire Engine No. went across
the bay and contested with No. 3, of Bel
fast, Me-, in competition designed to show
the relative capacities Of the engines for
water and the companies for rum-and-mo-
lasses, we used to think that two men dead
and a half dozen in Jail was a very fair sort
of an excursion; but, bless you, for real ad-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-29
AN ENGLISH LADYs TRIUMPH.
Miss PhiIippa Fawcetf's Grent Feat q
Lessou TO the Cynics.

Miss PhiIippa Fawcetf's Great Feat q
Lessou TO the Cynics.
London Spectator.l
1t must be pleasant to Miss Philippa
Fawcett to know that while winning name
for herself and the possibility of career,
she has delighted all the women in the
kingdom cultiv ated emo ugh to understand
her tri umph. She has gratifed to the full
jealousy of sex which has, We suspect,
helped for many years past to stimulate
English women to intellectual exertion.
That jealousy has probably been felt bv
able women in all ages and all countries,
by the great Roman lady as by the Indian
Begun or Rance; but of late, and in En-
gland, circumstances have developed it
into something like passion.
Most feats of our day being civil feats, and
most successes achieved BY. Intellectual
capacity, able women have felt that they
could do or could achieve them all If they
had only fair chance, and have waxed
wroth in their hearts, sometimes, indeed,
also with their tongues, because able men
did not, as they thought, willingly acknowl-
edge their mental equality with themselves.
They wanted TO prove it. not only by pro-
duction, which in some fields of literature
they had already done, but by some directly
bCobs hhS VI WHICH
no educated man, however cynical as to
their claims, would have the hardihood to
deny. They were notcoutented with George
Eliot or Mrs. Browning. for these women
possessed genius, and genius proves moth
ing. that wind blowing where it listeth; but
they were grateful to Miss Prideaux for
winning that broad gold medal SO seldom
granted even to male anatomists; more
grateful to Miss Agneta Ramsey for beating
all the men of her year in classical attain
ments; most grateful to Miss Fawcett for
coming out in the mathematical tripos we'll
in advance of the Senior Wrangler
1t was in the study of exact science that
impudent men said that women were sure to
fail, and to triumph in mathematics over
the whole academic world was indeed sweet.
so sweet, so contenting, so productive of
mental rest, that it would not surprise us if
female energy showed for year or two
symptoms OF falling of. At least, it will
be felt, women have been first in the mems
special field Tor intellectual athletics. They
have won the chariot race at Olympia, and
must be qualified for the reins.
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AVOIDING POISON VINES.
simple Rules Against Two of the Terror,
of FIower.LovinR Mankind.

simple Rules Against Two of the Terrors
of FIower-LovinR Mankind.
Harper's Young People.1
There need be no trouble in identifying
the poison ivy in any of its forms. The
hairy trunk will often serve us, but there
are two other features which are OF mucb
more value. First let us remember thar lis
leaves are always grouped in threes what
ever the outlines of their more or less wavy
margins. In some sections the plant is al.
WAYS called the 'three-leaved ivy."
Four things need to be committed To
memory to insure safety against our poison
sumachs:
First-The tlffee-leaved ivy is dangerous
Second-The fve-leaved is harmless
Third-The poison-sumachs have white her.
ries.
Fourth-No red-berried sumach is poisop.
GUS.
Both the poison ivy and the poisou
sumach. though unlike in appearance of
foliage. have similar white berries growing
in small slender clusters rom the axIIs Of
the leaves. In all other sumachs the berries
are red and in close punches at the ends of
the branches, and far from being dangerous.
yield a irosty-looking acid which is most
agreeable to the taste, and wholesome
withaI. With these simple precepts fixed
in the mind, no one need fear the dangers
of the thickets.
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A WOMAN DID IT.

Miss Lydia Boouh Had Money Intended for
n Hospital Used to Found Vnssar College.
Harper's Bazar.]
Vassar College owes its existence to q
woman, Miss Lydia Booth, q cousin of the
founder, Matthew Vassar. Mr.. Vassar was
planning hospital on the plan of Guys
Hospital. in London, at his bequest to the
community, when his kinswoman suggested
the founding OF college for women, which
should be to them what Yale and Harvard
were to men. Immediately application was
made for charter, and in 1861 there came
into being Vassar College, which on each
18th Of june celebrates founders Day"
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with similar gang on the lower deck. As
| the arguments consisted principally of beer
bottles tine upper deck seemed likely to win.
Meanwhile a band, concealed as ne
| might suppose tor its own protection, was
| maltreating popular tune in a very salts
factory manner. had long felt desire to
see that tune get what it deserved, and the
time had come. Encouraged by this act of
Justice, boarded the boat, and made nv
way to the upper deck without bloodshed.
There found most of the younger gents"
and the ladies. A space was being cleared
either for dance or a ring fight or both.
Bv this time we were under wav and
headed for Staten Island, but 1 had little
sympathy for the island. know the place
and it deserves all it gets. Varieties of
malaria and mosquitoes which are only a
little too good to live in New Jersey make
their home in Staten Island; the beer is very
bad; and the little malodorous waves that
grease the shore consist principally OF refuse
from the Standard oil refneries at Constable
Hook.
DANCING ON THE DECK.
I Joined the crowd that was watching the
merry dance and shutting of the air from
the dancers. The John B. Smith Associa-
tion understands its business in the ball
room. either afoat or ashore, and when its
floor manager asks a gent to fill set in a
quadrille, he fills it or his coffin. 1 was
fortunate enough to recognize this fact by
intuition SO that did not handy words
with Floor Manager Gilligan C'Stumpy"
Gilligan, middle weight; bested Tommy
the Kid in four rounds, and fought the
Long Island City Terror to draw in the
spring of 'S7) when he said: "Come, fl in
dere, Slim Jim. Take de lady to yer right.
Miss Astor. Mr.. Rothschild; look slippy
now, for de bands just goin' to take fall
out of another tune"
1 tried to be cheerful and exclaimed:
"On with the dance I' in tones intended to
express great joy, but Gilligan said: mo
back talk, young feller. De cook says he's
short O. cold meat, an there's no KNOWN
who'll fill de vacancy. See?"
THROUGH THE May FIGURES.
Thus encouraged took my place; Stumpy
called "time" and the band came up smif-
ing. must confess that had little cause
to complain of Miss Astor" She went
through the figures correctly. with exactly
as much semnambulistic Indifference to her
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-29
HoNoRS IT IN SPIRIT.

Ing than the OK teams standing OUTSIDE our
hall on town meeting day are to the Black
Horse Cavalry at Albany.
HoNoRs IT IN SPIRIT.
For the purpose of my investigation
bought a ticket which entitled me as a
gent to taste the delights OF the John B.
Smith Associations tenth grand annual e1-
cursion. This pleasure trip was designed
to celebrate the 45th birthday OF the distin-
guished patron, Mr.. Smith. That eminent
statesman of the Fourth ward accepts these
grand annual compliments gratefully, but
he attends the excursions only in the spirit
from his saloon, accompanied by one of his
lieutenants to whom the bar privileges have
been let for the day.
II Mr.. Smith had begun the practice of
attending in the body when the first grand
annual" occurred, the association would
now be named after somebody else, because
Mr.. Smith would be where excursions on the
cool and ripping waters are ardently de-
sired, but wholly unobtainable. The boys
excuse his absence because "Smith's good
feller, but he's no use in fight" The day
set for the excursion dawned red hot, and as
L made my way to the pier 1 congratulated
myself that was to sail away from the
heated city. When 1 saw the barge upon
which most of the party had already en-
barked was much disappointed.
NOT DUMB ANIMALS THIS TIME.
1 had once seen such a craft upon the
river and had supposed that it was used Tor
transferring Western cattle across the Hud-
son. Ny sympathies had been enlisted on
behalf of the poor dumb animals.
The barge had been empty on that
occasion, but it was now crowded
and the animals were not dumb.
A gang was hanging over the rail
on the upper deck and loudly disputing
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-29
The Latest slang Word.

St. Louis has new slang word sprung on
the town by street gamin. The word is
"lony." and it means fraud, fake, or
anything that is not what it pretends to be.
1t is supposed to have its origin from the
photograph, because the phon ograph imi-
tates
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-29
MUSHROOMS FROM TURNIPs.
An Enterprising Fellow Commercials the
Delicate Esculeut.

London TeIegraph.J
An individual living in the Department
of the AveyTon. struck by the high price
at which mushrooms were being sold in his
district, conceived the idea OF fabricating
the delieacy out of turnips.. He cut the
turnIps into rounds, dried them, and alter
giving them dab of the paintbrush, dis
posed or them to unsuspecting customers as
the genuine article. For some time he drove
a thriving trade, but unluckily for him one
day sold batch to gourmet who was not
so easily to be taken in.
Indignant at the trick played on him, the
gourmet brought an action, which has just
resulted in the condemnation of the mush-
room manufacturer to two months imprison-
ment.