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NOTES.

It is said that Ibsen reads very little. He
declares that he will not be drawn away
from himself"
Tolstoi's next novel, to be ready about the
opening of the new year, will have for its
title 1.-The Kingdom of God Within U.s."
Samuel Minturn Peck, writing TO a friend,
says: II am crowded with orders for poems,
and am at present writing at the rate of
two a day."
Mr.. Howells's literary autobiography be-
gins in the Christmas Ladies' Home Jour
nal. and will continue through a years
numbers of that magazine.
Edward Box says that of five thousand
poems which come into his editorial Office
during a year. not fifty. If printed. would be
read with any degree of patience by the
public.
Mr.. Hall Grain, author OF THE Stow-
goat and other popular novels, has writ
ten a life of Christ. not from the point
of fact" but from the point Of imagina-
tive insight"
J. b. Lippincott Company announce that
they have secured the American copyright
for "Ouida's'' new novel. 1t is entitled
Two Offenders" and will be published
early in December.
The Christmas sermon by Phillips Brooks.
which is TO appear in the Christmas num-
Der of the Century, was preached by Rishop
Brooks for the last time in the Church OF
the Incarnation, New York, on Christmas
day, 1872.
Prof. John Fiske. of Cambridge. Mass,
the eminent American historian. is to be
banqueted at Delmonico's. New York, Dec.
IS, the anniversary of the Boston tea party,
by the New York Society of the Sons OF
the Revolution.
In Gosse's Life OF Gray" occurs the fol-
lowing bit of careless writing, which makes
Mr.. Gosse most un-complimentary to wom-
en-: About this time the excellent Wharton
married and left Cambridge. A still worse
misfortune happened TO Gray In the destruc-
tioa Of HIS house in Cornhill, which was
burnt down In May. I14S."
The wicke6ness of printing cheap and
ugly books was lately enlarged upon by
Mr.. Morris IN n London lecture. He even
declared himself hostile to Aldus because
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where Ii becomes waste Of time and
strength, and, therefore, a hindrance to
mental culture. President Gamblers point
relative to the influence of football on boys
perhaps If such boys did not get interested
in football they would not want to go to
college at all. After all, we suspect that
very well in their studies with those who do
not. But excess is always to be avoided.
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The Prince of Wales has seventeen broth
ers-in-law, sixteen uncles, ifty-seven cous-
ms and fifty-eight nephews and nieces.
The engagement is announced in Boston
of Miss Olea Bull. daughter of Ole Bull,
the late eminent violinist. and Mr.. Henry
j. Vaughn a Harvard 80 man, still en-
gagged in the study of law.
On Thanksgiving day Rabbi Hecht, of
Milwaukee, will preach in a prominent
Methodist Church of that city. and the Rev.
DR.. Halsey, the pastor of another Method
list Church. will preach in a Jewish syna-
gogue.
Within three days of the death of Sir
Christopher Teesdale there were more than
a hundred applicants for his place as
master of the ceremonies, which is in the
gift OF Queen Victoria, and worth about
200 a year.
1t is reported that Bismarck's memoirs
were practically completed before his recent
illness. They will fiji two volumes, and will
be concerned less with the events of 1885,
1870 than with the latter period. a principal
aim being a defense of his policy that led
TO his deTniSSion.
Cardinal Mezzofanti. the most remark
able linguist the world has ever known.
is said to have been able TO use every word
of any considerable Importance in over one
hundred different languages, and TO have
been able TO carry on Il conversation In
forty-five or fifty others.
Rev. DR. Joseph III. Rylance, or New York,
takes little stock in the plan of getting the
sale Of liquor under the control of high
moral influence. He believes the German
method Of drinking is the most commenda-
BILE. 1t relieves the concert hall and beer
garden of coarsenessl and debauchery on
account OF the presence OF women and chill
dren-
Lord Aberdeen's sons first exploit In Can
ada, where his father is encouragement
was to get the sheriff after him.. With a
companion he went hunting. and got into
some pettv trc'rhie with a guide, who had a
war;, 14i - against him. The sheriff
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The Journal has had frequent occasion to
call special attention to the merits of it's
poetical contributions. 1t is true that the
verses speak for themselves and make their
own impression on the readers, but merely
as a token Of editorial appreciation, beyond
that Of giving them space. a word of COM
ment seems proper. The Journal is proud
of its poets. More than one afterwards
known to fame first found recognition
through its columns, and many a poem first
printed here finds it's way into papers and
other publications throughout the country,
and from there into pockets and scrap
books where people put the verses that
touch their hearts. This morning the Offer
ings are of a sort to please an e~xacting
taste. Take, for instance, Mr.. Harris's
"Fifty-five." In versiication it is without
flaw; in thought 1t is an inspiration.
Though he has a happy faculty of utter
ance, Mr.. Harris has never descended to
the modern fashion of writing rhymes
without reason" but always speaks a
thought clearly. simply and with pleasing
phrase. He is a singer of whom Indiana
has reason to be proud, and of whom the
only criticism to be made is that he is too
seldom heard.
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The Deputy Assistant United States
Treasurer at New York makes a suggestion
which, if feasible, ought to be carried out,
viz, for the establishment of an information
al clearing house to avoid the trouble and
expense of shipping gold back and forth
across the Atlantic. In support of the sug-
gestion he says that from June 80, 1878, to
July 1, 1893, there was a difference OF only
S10.0O0,0 600 between the amount of gold i'm
ported and exported; yet in that time ST.
900, 10000 100 had been moved, or $49S, O0O, 900 one
way and sos, 000, 600 the other. In round
figures the cost of transporting that gold to
settle a balance practically of only &c. O0,-
600 was about 50, S0O,O 900. The cost of freight
and insurance may be counted at one-quar-
ter Of 1 per cent, or, say. 81, .0O0, and an
average of ten days interest on 81, 900, co.,
600 at 5 per cent. would amount to 81, 1863, 800.
Any system OF international clearances that
would save this large outlay would be worth
irving
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A good deal of reform work Of one kind
and another has been set on foot by vari-
Gus local organizations, but it does not ap-
pear that any one of them has discovered
the need of missionary and police effort
looking towards the suppression Of the pub
lie ball evil described in the Journals local
columns this morning. Such balls as these,
free to all, with no restriction whatever as
to the character of the persons admitted,
and, with a low price of admission, are
simply schools of vice and traps to lure
the feet of the innocent and unwary. Young
men and boys go there in order to get a
taste of what they believe to be "life,' and
they find it in the company of lewd women
with whom such places are favorite resorts.
Young girls, ignorant of the character of
the entertainment, are thrown into an asso-
citation which at it's best must be demoraliz-
ing, and at its worst means destruction.
Strangely enough, these affairs have been
allowed to go on unhindered for an indef-
mite time, and have even been under the
special encoura cement and protection Of the
police, but now that attention has been
called to the evil measures will perhaps be
taken to put an end to II.
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BULL BATTING.
II Was Practiced at York Until the
Close of the Last Century.

ANtWCdSliS IA
The custom of batting bulls in open spaces
has been INDUCED in from time i-mmemorial.
and probably had its birth In the arenas or
Greece and Rome. 1t vas an exciting, but
barbarous and disgusting, amusement: yet
until the birth Of the present century IL
was publicly observed in almost every VIII
lege and town of the country, and relics or
its existence are still 10 be found In various
Places. In York two places were used for
this isnoble PRACTICE one was IN Ihursoay
other was In the street OF Pavement. As
the two places were markets, they each
lad a cross or corn chamber. and the fight
n yariably took place near to such cross
so that the people who we're In a position
to pay fora seat could have a good view OF
the sport.
Pavement has lost all evidence OF the
game, but in St. SIMPSONS square the stons
TO which the bull was fastened still re.
mains. 1t Is q very heavy stone let ln,o
ened into the earth with cement Formerly
a strong iron ring was attached 10 inc
stone by two hooks, which were let into
the stone and run with lead. Consequent
on the wear of traffic. this ring became
,SGss S S6as.s s%snt Sf b Ssa5 Mr. e TSom ana B Mf.
who lived opposite to the stone, and II was
presented by him to the Yorkshire Phio-
keeping. The hooks which held the ring,
and the lead running. remain on the stone.
The custom was to fasten the bull 10 this
ring; then to stake out a ring, within the
circle Of which no person was permitted 10
go except those necessary to the PERFORM
by their owners and they attacked the
chained >cast, which In turn sought 10 gore
or toss them. and very frequently, in the
action It killed them. AS fast as the dogs
were killed, or manned. or wearied. fresh
dogs were let loose on the maddened bull,
and the fight was continued for hours until
the dogs were exhausted or the people were
sickened with the sight Of blood. The ami
NAL was then led away, TO the danger or
those who had witnessed the show or more
particularly those who had taken part in IL
Al York the market cross formed a point
Of vantage eagerly taken up 10 witness the
vulgar and demoraliZing exhibitions. Hap
PLY. in the course of time the wealthy citi-
zens withdrew their patronage and presence
from the scene, and the people who attended
were of so much lower grade that the Gus
tom died out. A century at least has passed
since the last bull fight in the city OF York.
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The condition of Pennsylvania street,
from Ohio to North street, has been one Of
great inconvenience and annoyance to all
who may use Pennsylvania street north,
but it has been an absolute denial OF en-
trance or exit to those resident between
Ohio and North streets. The street-car
company has not only used the center
of that street for its own purposes. but has
taken both sides as deposit ground for ma
terial, dirt and powders. so that it has been
impossible for carriages to approach the
fronts of the houses. The street-car COM
pany evinces no haste in making changes;
it does not Inconvenience or discontinue it's
own traffic, because it runs it's cars at any
speed it deems desirable, from ten to twenty
miles ar hour. and disregards utterly the
great trouble and inconvenience given to
residents. This is simply an outrage upon
citizens, and would not be tolerated in any
'well-governed city in the country.
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pursued the Governor-generar son across
the St Lawrence and into the United
States.
Mrs. Stephen Turner. eighty-seven years
of age. Is the only revolutionary pensioner
on the books of Agent Mason at Rochester.
n. Y. Mrs. Turner is the widow OF Samuel
Durham who married her in u.s.. when she
was nineteen years OF age and he was
sixty-nine.
Mime. Bernhardt introduced an innovation
at the Renaissance Theater. in Paris. re-
Gently. by persuading the manager not to
allow women wearing bonnets to sit in the
orchestra stalls. The result was that the
house gained greatly in appearance and
there was rejoicing among the male sex
present.
A letter written with ones own hand is
considered more respectful and courteous
than any other. Bishop Darlington. whose
handwriting is execrable. wrote to a cor
respondent: Out of respect / write TO you
with my own hand, but TO facilitate the
reading / send you a copy MADE by my
amanuensis."
Miss Ella Knowles. who was an unsuc-
cessful candidate for the encouragement
ship OF Montana, and was then appointed
assistant by her successful competitor, re-
Gently secured In favor or her state, before
the Interior Department In Washington, a
decision involving about $2OO,OW or school
lands in Montana.
The ultra fashionable hostess has the
loaf of bread brought to the table on a
large carved wooden board, accompanied
by a good-sized knife. also with carved
wooden handle, and slices are cut as they
are called for. Individual butter plates are
used. which the understanding pass 10
her when a fresh supply OF bread is needed
Miss Sarah Brown, the only unmarried
daughter of John Brown, Of Harpers Ferry,
is visiting her friends in Massachusetts.
Her sister Anne (Mrs. AGams) lives at Pc
trolit, Cal, and her brother Jason in Pas
adena, while her brother Salmon has mi
grated from northern California. John
Brown, jr., still resides at Put-in-Bay
island, Ohio, and n sister of his father CMrs.
Hand) lives at Wellington, ..
The man with a brand new overcoat
Remarks that the day is raw;
But the one whose coat Is still In soak
Replies. DO you think so? Pshaw!'
kansas City Journal.
Ey'rybody's skeart and tremblin';
Don't know when they may expire
Mas afeard to tech a clothes line
Might have crossed a trolley wire;
Jumps when some one rings the doorbel,
Thinks it's that Internal gong!
Twins gettin' drefful nervous
Since the trolley come along.
Washington Star.
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THE FOOTBALL QUESTION.

The football controversy has reached the
South, not only the game itself but the
controversy concerning its influence and
tendencies. President Gambler, of Emory
College, the leading Methodist institution of
the South, is out with a vigorous protest
against match games, declaring that they
defeat culture, increase the expense of col
lege bills and call for a shortening of the
the games which usurp the place OF classes.
The excitements of the games are, he
thinks, damaging to intellectual growth.
The pernicious influences Of college sports
date back to the primary schools. where
students in kits are eagerly looking for
ward to the time when they can join not
the college class, but the college team.
Thousands of boys from that age up to
graduation, says President Gambler, are CIV
ing the athletic ideal the highest place in
their minds. and grave consequences to
athletes are slow in taking hold Of the
serious business of life. There seems to be
good ground for some of these views. but
they apply equally to all athletic sports If
cultivated TO excess. The solution of the
question is found in moderation. There is
nothing demoralizing in football in itself
more than in any other outdoor sport, but
unfortunately the tendency of the times is
toward excess in all games. y moderate
amount of physical culture and exercise is
undoubtedly conducive to the development,
of sound minds and sound bodies. but any
athletic sport may be carried to a point
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IL was he who was the first to issue cheap
literature. So far as the printing OF books
IN very small type goes, criticism can hard
~ be too severe. knowledge acquired at the
paid for.
Mrs. Cameron. the intimate friend Of
Tennyson. is a photographer whose work -
acknowledged 10 be OF the most eminent
artistic quality. She made photographs OF
her friends. including Tennyson. Lady Ten
nyson, Longielow, carlyle, Browning, lry-
lection OF these have been printed in a
book, OF which only four hundred copies
were made. and which sells for SIS a copy.
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Speaking of Tips.
Philadelphia Times.


Few feel more the prevailing tendency
not TO shell out cash Tn a Coal on Johnny
stvle than the walters Ia tie fashionable
hotels ana restaurants, but they do not get
much pity. WHY the average waiter in
sIlch establishments should look with scoTn
and disdain upon a dime is hard to de-
termine II Is more than 500 can earn in
. daI- in the best possible investment and
no good reason exists why the waiter
oddifional is charged in such establish
ments for the service. The trouble mostly
crows out OF the passing reign OF wild
extrayagance in which fools who squand-
cred their money have been In the habit
of nosing as great p-ersoneges by tossing
the wnfter a dollar bill. There Is not much
of that done now. II must bc apparent TO
anyone that a quarter given n every meal
10 a waiter in Il little while runs 10 an
amount that Is more than most people
get in interest from a very large sum OF
money, and few can afford IL along with
all other expenses. For instance there are
few $1,000 houses I'm Philadelphia at pres
ent which bring their owners 81 a day after
taxes and other expenses are paid and
there are plenty OF people who are not get
ting over } per cent. for their money.
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SHREDS AND PATCHES.

Enjoy your own life without comparing
1t with that of another.-Condorcet.
This would never have happened If Mrs.
Lease had been in Liliuokalanfs place.
Washington Star.
My son, if You want to be independent of
your uncle don't be too fresh with your
a~nte.-Elmira Gazette.
Generally when a man feels the need OF
economy he thinks it ought to begin with
his wife.-Ram's Horn.
Nell-Miss Passes hasn't a very beautiful
form, has she? Belle-No, but she makes
UP for it.-Philadelphia Record.
Does Secretary Gresham believe republics
are q failure? Then why does he overthrow
that of the Hawaiians?-The Independent.
With all this excitement on hand 1t ought
to be no great trick for Van Allen to man.
age to have himself forgotten.-Washington
Post.
A woman's lot is cast among hard lines
when she is trying to crawl through a
barbed-wire fence.-Binghamton Republican.
lican.
Secretary Gresham wears a No. z shoe,
but n great many people think he put a
bigger foot in it than that-Washington
News.
Love is that sort of thing which makes a
mans bank account of $500 seem abundant
ly large to go to housekeeping on.-Atchison
Globe.
There are now %, $50 societies of Chris
tan Endeavor In the world, and yet we are
told of an increase of c~rime.-Boston
Transcript.
Gresham, Of course, was not aware that
the club he was throwing at Harrison was
shaped exactly like a boomerang.-Kansas
City Journal.
Fond Father-I want to tell you a funny
thing my little girl said the other day.
Grumpy Old Bachelor-Don't; bury 1t in a
magazine.-Boston Gazette.
We fancy that Wendell Phillips would OBJ
ject quite as strenuously as Talmage to hav-
ing one of the ~latter's sermons credited to
hi1n.-New York Commercial Advertiser.
The announcement that the new Demo-
cratic tariff bill has passed the White
House is rather. unusual in form, but il
will be understanded of the people.-Hart-
ford CnIrront
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Kansas claim to nave rma from
Washington that the Senate will unseat
Senator Martin. of that State. on the ground
will be done in accordance with the wishes
Of the President. who desires to punish
Martin for voting against the silver repeal
bill. and also against the confirmation CT
Van Allen The President IS earning the
reputation OF q good hater.
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Of tiresome speeches. And Americans. when
they consider the English method. can but
regret that it is not in use here to prevent
perpetrated by silver Senators during the
recent session. Official courtesy does not
conflict with common sense and the instinct
brethren.
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Sure tn Win.

Subeditor-I think / have a great idea for
the Improvement of the paper. / believe
1t would be a good idea to start a
page"
Boss Editor-I see nothing new In that.
Subeditor-But 1 shall make this page one
that the women will read. I'll fill it up
with accounts of what the men do at the
clubs. See?
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A Good Thing.

Mrs. Hashcroft-This Hawaiian row has
proved a good thing for me.
Mrs. ~Drydapple-In what way?
Mrs. Hashcroft-The boarders get to dis
cussing it at the table every morning and
they get so mad they can't eat anything.
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Vox et Praeterea Mill.

A very young orator. Mr.. Puff.
Supposed he could never talk enough:
The more he talked the less he said,
And his words with ideas never wed
He thought he thought, and lost his breath,
And everybody approved his death,
And the question crowner made avow
late deceased was not talking nowi .
moral is-do not talk too much.
For heavens kingdom is not OF such!
Charles L Holstein- ,
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vad P~rofcssionaI Privileges.

DIR. Bowless-I see that a fellow in ILL
nois is making money by advertising a cure
for alcoholism. When his victim sends him
the necessary dollar, he sends him a card
advising him to drink nothing but water.
DR.. Pilze-Well, that is cheap enough for
good medical advice, but 1 wonder If he has
a diplOma?
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The late Governor Rusk was one Of those
high-minded and courageous men whose
example should be emulated. For the
tricks. and particularly the evasions of the
adroit wire-puller he had nothing but con-
tempt What was right was worth fight
ing for. and what was the right thing to
do was the only thing which should be
done. As a matter of course. such a man
was a tower of strength with an intelligent
people who admire courage, manliness and
integrity. In the best sense Of the word he
was ar American under every circum-
stance and upon every occasion. To him the
flag Of the Republic was "old glory"
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This is one of those disgraceful periods
In the federal administration of affairs
suit with the tariff-making committee Of
Congress. while American manufacturers
employing hundreds of thousands of Amer
lean men and women, are snubbed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-26

A w~orkingman out OF employment called
at the Journal Office yesterday to relate his
experience in trying to get work. He had
registered at the Commercial Club employ
ment bureau and received a card directing
him to call on the foreman of a certain
establishment. The foreman indorsed on
the card: This man not being a member
of the union, 1 cannot give him employment
unless some arrangement can be made with
the union" So it seems that organized Ia
Dor does not regard ~nonunion men as COM
ing within the scope OF the movement for
the relief OF the unemployed. On the other
hand, the Journal learns that in some in
stances union men have been refused work
IN ~nonunion Establishments because they
belonged TO the union. Away with such
proscriptive determinations In times like
these. when men, women n children are
suffering for the lack OF food. it is nhuman
TO draw union and nonunion lines against
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The new liberty bell has gone to New
York, and from there it will be sent to
Washington, and thence to Mexico. If it
can ring in liberty and good government in
that can be paid il.