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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-20

tion. it's railroad facilities, etc: giving alta.
tistics of its business aud trade full ac-
counts of its manufacturing industries and
IN all ITS achievements. past present and
future. The press IL no more interested i'm
the progress of the city ana the promotion
OF local enterprises than other people
arc, but Ii IL expected to do this
sort of work. and do lt for
nothing Then see how much political
work we do for nothing. laboring in season
and out OF season for good government
honest politics and party success Look
Mt the amount of political matter we print
during campaign. every line of which
costs money. and then. il the other side
wins, we are held responsible for the de-
feat In the way of private business we
are expected TO do a great deal OF free
advertising, and In spite of orr best eff
forts IL will creep in. Many persons who
never patronlze paper beyond snbscrib-
ing for 1t aud getting their full moneys
worth. expect an occasional com plimentary
mention of themselves or their business
Some who borrow the paper or read it in
public places do not hesitate to ask adver-
Using fayors because they are regular
readers Some persons who pay for $50
W orth of advertising space expect q ten
dollar reading notice thrown in. and think
the newspaper Is very mean II IL declines
To accommodate them. Yet there il hardly
a day in the year that we
do not say good word for
somebody for nothing. Church fairs.
missionary societies. charitable move
ments of all kinds, complimentary benefits.
ETC.. all expect free notices IL a person
dies who happens to have a considerable
family connection the friends think We
should print half column obituary notice,
or perhaps fifteen twenty VERSES OF
elegiac poetry out of Difference TO the feel
lngs OF the family. Generally, out of def
erence TO the feelings of the public we de-
cline, but In spite of everything We do,
have to PRINT good deal of obituary mat
ter for nothing. OF course. n paper has it's
friends. patrons and advertisers, or it
could not live. but 1 assure you we do an
immense amount of gratuitous work. both
for the dear public and for the iDdividu-
alsn
While the newspaper man was talking q
fourth person had Joined the circle. and
became interested in the discussion. As
the first opportunity he cleared bis throat
aud said: Gentlemen. 1 understand Won
each claim TO represent profession which
does more gratnitous and philantnropio
work than any other. When it comes To-
that, j think my vocation leads all the
rest. Gentlemen: l am plumber. Now.
AT this point the other members OF the
party each remembered that he had an
engagement, and they all incontlnently
fled. leaving the plumber master of tie
field.
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in bushel baskets. saying: Take il. spend
1t rs you please-only leave me in peace 10
my art"
CHARLES II. UNCLEs. a carefully educated
young man. will be ordained By Cardinal
Gibbons this week. to the Catholic priest
hood. The attendant ceremonies will be
celebrated in Boston. and the occasion will,
1t is declared, gain special moment from the
fact that this will be- the first ordination In
this country of n c0lored man to orders In
the Roman Catholic Church.
AT q recent christening in Q Lon don
cathedral the baby, the daughter of q
nobleman. was attended by thirty little
maidens between the ages of three and
eight. They were dressed in white. and
formed circle around the font. The baby
itself had It's breast covered with u mass OF
stephanotis and other white blossoms, but
1t resented the ceremony just as If It had
been an ordinary infant
Col. THOMAS w. KSox. the author of
boy Travellers" is said to have been pre-
sented by the King of Siam with the dec
oration of the Siamese Order of the White
Elephant, in recognition of the fairness
with which his kingdom was treated in the
account given by the boy Travellers of
their visit there. j. A. Haldeman of Kan
sas. Queen Victoria and Sir Edwin Arnold
are the only other Engiish-speaking per-
sons who have ever received the order.
Hon. JOIN c. HOUK. who was recently
elected to succeed his father. the late Judge
L. Z. Houk. in Congress from the Second
Tennessee district, is abont thirty .one
years old. He is said to possess good deal
of his fathers ability. and his popularity is
demonstrated by the large majority given
him over one of the ablest Democrats in
his district. Mr.. Houk was assistant door
keeper of the House in the Fifty-first Con-
gIess. He has national reputation as q
political organizer. i: is predicted that he
will succeed himself after serving the IN
expired term TO which he has just been
elected.
A PEN-PoRTRAIr of John W. Mackay
drawn by John Russell Young exhibits the
famous bonanza king as "a tallish. slender,
well-knIt, active man, with nimble, rapid
gait; finely cut, compact head. lines strong
in the regions asst gned to energy aud per-
ceptIon: hair somewhat of the Saxon. flax
EN-, uncertain color; n gentle. measured
voice and prompt, hearty address" He
would be pointed out In any assemblage rs
n man of distinction. bat he is of n retiring
and modest demeanor. He is noted for his
simple way of life. eating plain food and
holding wine in aversion.
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ALL ABOUT A NEWSPAPER NAN.

The strained condition of affairs i'm
Europe gives exaggerated Importance to
trivial incidents, if any incident can he
called trivial that involves the POSSIBLE
tiles of war. Not week passes that
something does not occur that threatens
to disturb the delicately adjusted ma
chinery of peace and plunge the whole
continent in war, for III the present sit
uation no matter where war begins, or
what it's ostensible cause may be, it is
sure to be a general war.
The latest disturbing incident, and
one that has set diplomatic circles of
Europe in ferment, is the expulsion of
a French journalist from Bulgaria. NJ.
Chadonine is his name. and just now it
is very famili ar one in Europe, where
the press is vigorously discussing "The
Chadonine incident" Very few news
paper men achieve the distinction of
having their names connected with an
incident" that may figure in history as
q cause of war.
Nj. Chadonine seems to be an agrees
i've, irrepressible sort of person, with
an inclination to personal journalism.
His alleged offense consists in attacks
on the Bulgarian government, or rather
on NJ. Stambouleff, the Prime Minister.
In March last the world was startled by
the announcement that NJ. Constantine
Baltcheff', the Bulgarian Minister of
Finance, had been shot and killed while
out walking with NJ. Stambouleff. the
Prime Minister. The affair caused q
sensation and gaze II. Stambouleff "a
great shock. The general impression
was that the bullet was intended for
him, and that Russian agents had plot
ted his murder The minister seems to
have been partly of the same opinion,
for he has been untiring In his efforts to
ferret out the perpetrators of the crime.
Numerous arrests have been made in
Bulgaria, the extradition of several per-
sons has been demanded from other
countries, anda system of rigid espion-
age has been established over persons
whom there was no reasnn To aus
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BREAkFAST-TABLE CHAT.

MARGARET FULLEK'S pincushion 10 ex-
hibited and regarded rsverently at the
woman suffragists' fair in Boston.
Miss MABEL DUNLAP, graduate of the
Philadelphia School Of Design. has been
appointed one of five ladies' 10 decorate
palace-ear interiors ut WilmingtOn Del.
ARCHDEACON FARRAR, of London, offers
$500 for the proof of any one case. either IN
the church or ont of 1t. where drunkenness
has been cured without total abstinence.
The Duke of Edinburgh. the second son
of Queen Victoria, is the best educated
member of the British royal family. He
speaks five languages fluently. plays sever
al musical instruments we'll and the violin
expertly. and has some talent for painting.
RossITER JOHNSON, the wcll-known
Century editor. is tall, fine looking man,
with flowing chestnut beard and keen
gray eye. Very few have done more than
he toward the passing of the international
copyright law. His friends are numerous,
and he has u few literary enemies. too.
AwRITER in Belgravia recalls what seems
like a mockery of fate. Before the poet
Philip Bourke Marston became blind. in
fact. while he was yet an infant, Dinah
Mnloch, his godmOther, aDOstrOphized his
beauty in lines beginning. Look at me
king"
CAPTAIN JOHN w. PHILIP. who has been
selected for the command of tho new ar
mored cruiser New York. had to his credit
at the beginning of the present year n total
of seventeen years and nine months sea
service Ont of the total number of forty
five CAPTAINS only tive officers havo bad
more sea service.
ONE of the men who helped save the life
of the Czarevltch of Russia last year has
become so demoralized by good fortune
that he has been summoned several times
into court. The brave but weak Japanese
receives an annual pension of $1,000 from
the Russian government and small sum
yearly from the MikgdO.
THERE are five Taylors in the House of
Representatives. all Republicans. so this
family controls about one-seventeenth OF
seven households of Taylor, Wilson. Hem
d-rson, johnson, Stone. Hopkins and
Russell will together make up one-fifth of
the Republican delegation.
In Rey kjavik. the capital of remote lee
land. a charitable lady has erected on her
own land high school for Iceland girls.
Needing more funds for teachers. salaries.
books, etc., than her private income would
cover che sold her family jewels many OF
them heiriooms seven hundred years old,
in order TO obtain the money for her enter
prise.
A CORRESPONDENT writing from Dresden,
who had caught q glimpse of Rubinstein.
says: mime. Rubinstein and the great
artist are. they say. well-like other artists.
not sinipatica. so be lives on pension here
in Dresden. while she dwells in 81. Peters
burg. where she gives the most magniti-
cent entertainments. But II Is hard To be-
lIeve that the fault 10 with the great
musician; for have 1t of friend who has
a way of telling astonishing things that
he gives her money for her extravagances
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A CABLEGRAM from ST. Petersburg
says a decree has been issued stating
that from Jan. next the Lutheran clergy
will be deprived of the right to appoint
or discharge the masters of Lutheran
schools in Russia. This order savOrs of
religious intolerance, and goes to prove
what has been suspected-that the Rus
sian persecution of the Jews is part of q
general system of religious fanaticism
which embraces gentiles and Jews,
Professionals and Catholics. The Greek
Church, which is the established church
In Russia, is fanatical and intolerant to
o degree, and has no use for any other
church or sect, except to persecute them.
When all the facts become known it
will doubtless be found that the Greek
Church is at the bottom of the persecu-
zion of the Jews, as it is of all other acts
of religious prescription in Russia. The
order against the Lutherans- above re-
ferred 20 is in the same spirit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-20

EVERY year Boston, with all the cities
and towns in Massachusetts,, votes upon
the question of fcenss.dr no license.
Usually Boston votes about two to one
for license, but this year, when the
Democratic majority for Mayor was
$1,000, the majority for license was only
1890, and the anti-license vote was con-
siderably more than the Republican vote
for Mayor, which shows that thousands
of Democrats must have voted against
license. From this fact no one should
jump to the conclusion that any cOnsid-
cradle number of Democrats are in favor
of closing all the Boston saloons. Such
is not the case. Under the present law
not half the saloons are licensed which
were few years ago, and those people
who have been compelled to go out Of
the business are voting against license,
in the hope of securing majority
against license. in which event the
traffic could not be prohibited, and they
would stand as good chance as other
yiolatOrs.
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the children ready for church. and incl
dentally looks after the big Sunday dinner.
makes few beds. and picks mp generally.
That is to say. he does this at all times of
the year. but it is about this time that he
happens across pleasing bits of holiday lit
erature. and. his heart being attuned to the
sentiment of the season, ne reads them.
Little things of this sort catch his
eye: christmas is coming Three
little words. and yet how mighty
they are in their conjuring power. Like
chime of Joy bells. they ring for those who
give and for those who receive. 1t 10 blessed
to give. Amid your own joyous expecta-
tions do not forget your washerwoman-
husband. do not forget your wife. Think
of the gladness box of Jenkins's soap
would bring to their hearts," And then
the father of the family whispers some
thing that is not a prayer and wonders
why newspaper publishers will trifle with
the feelings of their readers In this heart
less way. But the publisher smiles to him.
self and sayeth not, while the advertiser
sits up nights to devise new ways where
with to beguile again the wary newspaper
reader who cant lie fooled OH aa ad, and
never reads EN-"
A GENTLEMAN connected with mission
work in New York city dcprecates the sys-
TEN of Chinese Sunday-sch0ols which is
growing up in that city. He has particular
reference to the practice of placing classes
of grown-up Cinnamon in charge of young
lady teachers. He regards this as democrat
izing and dang erous. He says the average
unconverted Chinaman is thoroughly cor
rupt at heart. and cunning and deceitful to
the last degree. He has satisfied himself
that most of them 60 to Sunday-school
simply to be near the pretty girls who
teach them, and in some instances he has
found that. instead of getting any moral
Impressions themselves. they produce q
demoralizing impression OH the teacher.
On the same line Christianized Chinaman
says:
1t takes born Chinaman to understand how
unchristianiZed Cinnamon regard women. WOn-
en- are SD much merchandise in our country.
When man gets hard up he sells his
ing of it, Well, When Cinnamon come
here they have the same ideas about American
women. Even those very few who become real
Christians only acquire an exalted idea of women
after long residence, and then doubt II they
hold them in as much esteem as American men
do. know personally and positively that most
Chinese Sunday schOol sch GLARS In tins city go to
Sunday-schoOl with no idea whatever OF EN-
bracing Christianity, even OF learning En-
glish, hut simply because they like to sit beside
pretty girls and be petted by them.
The inference seems to be that this kind
of mission work should not be intrusted to
young ladies.
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Washington. like every other large city.
has her Mrs. Malaprop. whose twisted say
ings. together with many which she never
said. bnt which she gets the credit for. go
the ronnds of society. Our Mrs. Malaprop
is q rich woman. or. at least. q rich mans
wife, and if her early education was
neglected as il was not, could have all tho
educational advantages she needed now.
But she is above and beyond oil encatIonnl
advantages. Not To speak of all the old
chestnuts put of on her on every Mrs.
Malaprop, as that she was going TO
take her daughter abroad to have her
portrait painted by one OF the Old masters
she has said some very funny things. as
when she remarked the other day coming
down IN her wrapper in the morning to SEQ
a friend: "You really must excuse me foo
coming down III my nom de- plume" Per-
heps her most celebrated speech was one TO
n departing guest. W no said he had enjoye
her party very much: Yes; but I'm SO sor-
~ none Of our best people are hers to-
night" l always liked best myself her
naive remark 10 General Sheridan, who had
taken up the wrong fork from the lavish
pile beside ms plate: No; General; that
little fork IS your fish FORK. | know you
won't mind my telling you. Pm snre L
would be glad to- have anyone tell Mr.
Threestars If be WAS making faux pas
like that
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A CINCINNATI paper describes a

A CINCINNATI paper describes canine
funeral which took place in that city re-
Gently. The dog, family favorite and
pet. died in st. Louis, and was brought to
Cincinnati for burial During his sickness
he was attended by three ply sicians. and
all that science and affection could
suggest was done to save his life.
but In vain. After death the re-
mains were embalmed and placed In
handsome coffin. trimmed in white. The
gentleman and lady who owned the dog
accompanied the rename from st. Louis to
Cincinnati. and the body was deposited in
q grave dug in the gentleman's back yard.
The funeral arrangements were decorous
and complete, aud marble slab with an
appropriate epitaph was placed at the head
of the grave. The total expense of the
dogs sickness and funeral amounted TO
s3ls. People may laugh ut that sort of thing.
but nobody con shy the owners o: the dog
we're heartlese
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WHILE it is probable that the grip
will have n run this season, there is
every reason 10 believe that its ravages
will be much less severe than two years
ago, il for no other reason than that
the physicians have learned how &c
treat it. 1t is the opinion of many ply
sicians that it is an infectious fever,
and that the seeds of the infection left
by the two past epidemics only await
suitable atmospheric and unsnnitary
conditions for developing their fatal
tendency. The great epidemic OF the
two past years has been traced in q re-
cent work by DIR. Sisley, of London, to
an Asiatic outbreak in Bokhara after an
unusually wet spring, large tracts of
country having turned into marshes.
After this very wet spring severe cpl
demic of influenza suddenly sprung up
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-20

THE American navy contains 1916
enlisted men, of whom only $3.50 were
born in other countries than the United
States, and of these foreign-born only
79t have been naturalized. OF the Bal
timore's crew of $50. some of whom were
killed in the CHILEAN riot, 1S7 were of
foreign birth. The fact is. the native
born American of the present day does
not take to the sea as business, even
when that business is the sailing of mer-
chant vessels.
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and ragged during the summer. The Rus
sian traders who were in that region re-
turned to their homes after suffering from
the disease and carried the germs with
them to Russia; thence it spread over
Europe and reached this country. 1t is
believed that damp weather, with sud-
den changes, is most favorable for the
spread of the disease, and that an old
fashioned below-zero winter would de-
stroy all the germs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-20

The last volume of the war records
contains all the dispatches regarding
thelCWashipgton scare of July, 1864.
Among them are many estimates of in
telligent persons in the country about
the capital as to the number of the
enemy. Several most reliable persons
put it at from $4,000 to 5000, when the
number did not exceed 10000. Those
who made these estimates must have
become Washington correspondents.
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THERE is reason to believe that one
cause of the frequency of murderous as
saults is the mild treatment of those
who are under charge of murder. 1t is
not unusual that persons under charge
of murder in the first degree are per-
mitted to leave prison on bail. Just
now DIR. Graves, who is on trial for n
dastardly murder, is permitted full free
dom and lives at n hotel.
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DEPRECIATION OF LAND IN ENGLAND,

A few weeks ago there was meeting
of land surveyors In London. in which
some remarkable statistics were given
regarding the shrinkage OF land values
in England, which have beer printed in
the London Times. The information
upon which the statistics were based
came from eight hundred provincial
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-20

Going ND IN the train the other day girl
Was overheard TO say: .rbe first thing to
de 10 To pick out n good, fat inan"" lt
sounded cannbaiistlc. and some listened.
Then stay close TO him." she continued:
'he will make his way through the crowd.
and you slip along before they can close in
behind him. and you can ALWAYS get ont
safely. even at Fifty-nIntb street" After
q pause she continued: And nice. fat men
always take me across the street: they don't
always know II. but that does not matter.
/ follow them as close as possible and never
get run over. The truck drivers pull up
and swear at them, and in the meantime
reach the side walk"
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THE fact that Door keeper Turner, of
the House, has had 1000 applications for
the 80 places under him, and that the
applicants have been with him from the
rising of the sun until the going down
thereof, and from its setting through
the otherwise lonely hours of the night
until It's rising. should remove any doubt
that may have existed lest there should
be n lack of patriots ready to devote
their services to the country in time of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-20

A LETTER of General Grants appears
in the official records to President Lin
coin in which he suggested the making
of Washington. Baltimore, the Shenan-
doah and upper Potomac valleys into a
division, over which General Meade
should be placed. In the next sentence
he recommended General Hancock for
the command of the Army of the Poto-
mac. This would seem to indicate that
General Grant would have liked n change
in the commander of the Army of the
Potomac about the middle of July, 1864.
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a Good Man to Cultivate.

Mudge-Say. Do you know Billiger, who was
voted the cane at the church farl I'd like to
make his acquaintance. A man of such popu-
larity must be worth knowing.
Yabsley-But church fair vote does not show
that a man has many friends. 1t merely
shows that his friends are willing to spend their
money on him.
Mudge-Wcll, does not that show that he must
have pretty good sum of money himself!
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SDrfnC.Tfke.

Such days as these do fill the woman's heart
With such unrest as comes in balmy spring;
She feels deep desire to use her art
In scrubbing floors. turning carpets, securing
paint, raking leaves, trading old over
coats for flowers and all that sort of thing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-20

THE Milwaukee people, in addition to
other inducements, will send carload
of beer to the Democratic national COM
mittee, it is said, to win it to the Opin-
ION that that city is the proper place for
The Democratic national convention. In
view of this statement the decision of
he committee will be watched with
n arna curiOsifv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-20

EVERY ono who knows where to find
tho best bargains during Christmas sea-
son is a careful reader of the advertising
columns OF the Journal, which were
never SO full and varied as this season.
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The homicide the past week at the
Maileabie iron-works was due to the
wholly unnecessary practice of carrying
deadly weapons by those who seem to
have no judgment in using them. There
seems to be an irrepressible tendency on
the part of many persons who carry pis-
tolls to be pointing them at people.