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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-19
Big Bliss o.,BuffaIo.


Twas heller of the party, who sat sulking on
keg.
At the way the bloomin' Mugwumps were a-pull-
in Growers leg,
He thought of Gresham and he swore in right
eous Bourbon woe,
"And yet" said he, there's Bissell-Big Bliss Of
Buffalo.
'For hear that's what they call him inAhe
town where he Is known,
Which goes to show he's one of u.s. and not too
much high tone,
judge he'll make old Adlars go as she used
togo.
So guess I'm safe in bankin' on Big Bliss OF
Buffalo.
81 don't know deal about him, for he amt been
much in sight,
But low a man that's called Big Bliss lie apt
to be all right.
1t sorter sounds like one of us-so common-like
you know,
And guess the boys are in it with Big Bliss Of
Buffalo,"
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SIXTEEN PAGES

No man except an old-line Democrat
is safe until the Cleveland Cabinet shall
be completed.
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THE Bloomington Qnd.) World offers q
prize to the prettiest girl in Monroe county,
the matter to be- decided by votes of the
citizens. Rural journslismf Yes. The
Chicago Tribune offers prize to the Chi
cagO woman who has the smallest feet, the
question to be settled by actual measure
ment. Metropolitan iournalismi Why. of
course You pays your money and takes
your choice. Meanwhile. the Journal
prints the news. Now is the time to sub
scribe.
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Modest Man

(Which would you rather be-very good or
very great"
"We-ell, if it came to a pinch, suppose
should resign my greatness"
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For cold. heartiess betrayal Of trusting
confidence, the act of that Massachusetts,
man who provided hen with q setting"
of snowballs is unique in its atrocity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-19

A NEW YORK Jenkins Gushes over Mrs.
Jefferson Davis, just now visiting In th at
city. and who Is perhaps one of the FORE
most women of America today" Her per-
sonality is declared to be wonderfully in
teresting." She is q naughty, pensive.
lovely woman who seems to be always sad.
Her eyes have quivering droop which 10
actually fearful. and their expression is
intensely melancholy" AS if this were
not gloomy enough, it is added that "her
complexion is that of dead white jasmine
color. which attracts with negative mag
netism." This is positively "spooky." And
what is negative magnetism" any wayf
Mrs. Davis should avoid Jenkins.
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Would Not Have Thought IL.


Mr.. Wickwire-What did you say was the
name of the new soprano in the choiri
Mrs. Wickwire-Pearl Gray.
81 never would have thought it."
"Why notl"
''She does not look like person OF color"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-19

REVERENCE for the truly great is sadly
lacking on the part of newspaper writer's.
A Washington correspondent who CHANGED
to see Senators Brlce and Hill in close con-
fab was reminded of Before and after
using" hair.restorer "ad."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-19
DANGER Ahead

my goodness me-" exclaimed Mrs. Wickwfre.
as her husband stumbled over a rocking-chair in
the dark; IL wouldn't such awful language.
Suppose therehad been hoop skirt on the chair.
Just you wait till next summer"
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DisgrHcefui Surrender.

This country tolerated hoopskirts once
and IL can stand them again If the women
really want them.
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From Honeymoon to Alimouy.
Chance Acquaintance-Ma
The Other one-Not just now. Iwas-for CO..
summer and two falIs-Niagara and Sioux.
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Training Lawmakers.

watts-what has become of old man Johnsonl
Potts-He's out in Kansas. running q law
school.
Watts-Whatl Hei
Potts-Certainly. It wouldn't be called a law
school in any other State; II would be known as
O shooting gallery.
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THE latest hat Is bat-shaped. 1t is. of
course. a woman's hat. The mans hat 10
expected to accommodate the whole brick.
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HAVING ascertained that the different
elements of food are taken no by the
blood and carried to the parts of the sys-
tenn which they are specially designed
to sustain or build up-each organ
taking that whloh is needed when it
is ia the blood-Dr. Hammond pro-
poses to utilize this power OF the or
gsns of the body by sending to them
In the circulation just such material as
they need if they are exhausted. AS ne ex-
presses it:
Take patient who is suffering from nervous
prOstratiOn, resulting from Overtaxing the
brain. He has used up his substance faster
than he makes It. A few drops of the extract
or the brain OF an OK are injected two or three
times day under the skin. The patient will
recuperate. Notwithstanding no other medicine
and no other treatment are employed. Again,
the patient Is suffering from weak heart A
few drops OF the extract taken from the heart
of an OK Is Injected under the skin; the pulse
viously impossible, can then be taken without
danger or distress. WHAT'S put into the blood
goes directly into the system without alteration.
and the organ that requires it takes 1t up. Thus
can be treated digestive, circulating, or nervous
diseases.
Dr. Hammond has been developing this
theory for several years, and has como to
the conclusion that it may be used in
practice. 1t requires six months TO pre-
pare the extract which contains the es-
sential principle adapted to each organ.
DE-. Hammond's experience leads him to
say that the administration of six drops
will produce striking effect within o
few minutes. AS Dr.. Hammond is an
educated physician, his method is worth
consideration.
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hold of tho work. The dear men have
tried two or three centuries they have wrig-
gled. twistsd over tho problem. talked.
petitioned, legislated, used strong language.
held the street commissioners up in their
metaphy steal tweezers in long sermons and
editorials, but all to no purpose, because
they forthwith empty their scrap baskets.
full OF papers. cigar stumps, toothpicks.
red tape and ali, into the streets" 1t IL
not only for the sake of neatness, but for
sanitary reasons that she would
Danish paper. ut 10 an element
of danger; blowing about it frightens
horses and carries diseases from
one neighborhood to another. We fumi-
gate letters from vessels that have had
contagious diseases on board. and then let
papers from hospitals, asylums. lalis, prls-
ons. tenement houses and the slums OF our
city sport with the winds from the four
points of the compass" Mrs. Stanton's
plan is to burn all these scraps in stove and
furnace, but in q region of gas fires refuse
must be disposed of in some other way.
and the ingenuity of the Indianapolis re-
formers must provide q plan. The COM
munlty anticipates good results from their
efforts.
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DURING the last few weeks several post
Office clerks and letter-carriers in Chicago
have been detected rifling letters, and have
been arrested and turned over to the law.
There has been q sort of epidemic of dis
honesty. This leads q postOffice official to
say: ut is singular, but in the course of
several years experience have discovered
it to be fact that we may run along here
for months without single case of dishon-
esty. Then somebody fails. and in quick
succession three or four others fall. The
law then disilfects the otfense. and another
period of moral healthfulpess follows
hallway men say they have the same ex-
perience In regard to accidents. They may
not have q wreck for months, and then
they will have three or four in succession.
Insurance men say that big fires happen in
groups. and when they hear of blaze that
has destroyed million or so in property
they are confident others will soon follow.
Such things are unacoountable by any nat
ural law. but there are many who insist
that they are true. Perhaps they are merely
cOincidences
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Booth as Biiiposter.

One story of Booths trip to the Sand
wich Islands remains with me. He had
gone there in 1854 in company with his
comrade, Mr.. David c. Anderson, en-
route to Australia, and they were to play
in the Royal Hawaiian theater. They
had hired native to paste up the bills
announcing the performance. This had
to be done with preparation named
''poe-poe," made from vegetable called
"tara-tara," which is favorite food in
Honolulu, but the poor man was so hun
CRY that yielding to temptation he incon-
tinently ate up the paste, and to their
surprise no bills appeared. When the
reason was ascertained, they feared to
trust another native, and it was there
fore agreed that as Booth was the young
er he should act AS billposter. and it came
to pass that every night after the per-
formance Edwin went about the city
with his play bills and bucket of paste
and put up with his own hands the post
ers announcing what the company would
play on the following night. And he as
sured me that he did this honestly and
did'not eat any of the paste!-William
Bispham in Century.
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A subordinate court of the Independ-
ent Order of Foresters was instituted at
Burbank Monday night by High Chief
Ranger G. A. McElfrssh. assisted by D.
d. H. @. B. E. H. Everly and several
members of the order from Los Angeles.
The following officers were duly elected
and installed: A. s. d. Fulton, G. D.
H. G. R.. Frank Scheidler, @. R. @. @.
Mag, P. G. R.; W. R. Rupe, V. G. r. !;
J. II. hampton, R. s. L. E. Phillips, F.
s.; q. Zimmerman, treasurer; 9. r.
Valentino, chaplain; DIR. A. o. Conrad,
physician @. G wilkinson, L. w. j. @.
Everett, J. W.; Sam Gilmore, s. B. /;
Thcmas 7. Esrhart, j. B. Court Bur-
bank starts out under very favorable
circumstances, being located in one of
the few towns of Southern California
that have not neglected to boom right
along through the late financial depres-
sion. Its membership of % charter
members is com posed of the representa-
tive men of this section of the country,
which makes the success of the order
an assured fact. The court meets
every Monday evening at 1880 O'Clock
in Foresters' hall. Burbank.
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Chewing Gum.

I asked very famous physician the
other day if it was injurious to chew
gum-not that I do it-and he answered:
eyes and no."
"And how?" inquired.
"To chew gum for five or ten minutes
after meal is absolutely beneficial" :"
said he, Especially for hasty eaters, who
do not half masticate their food, because
the action of the jaws causes the gastric
juices to flow, and that is good. But SO
few people can use and not abuseit. They
get the gum in their mouths and keep at
it till they fairly dry up the saliva sup
ply, bring ON headache and get gener-
ally nervous. This will cause indiges-
ton. New York Recorder.
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REDONDO.
Large Quantities of Grain Awaiting Ship
ment-Notes.

m6nC-NOt0bs
REDoNDo. Nov. 29.-Nsture's sublime
effort as regards climate has been for
the past week indescribable for the
early morning sun, with its delightful,
warming rays, has benefited not only
those who reside in, but also those that
are visiting our city.
The work on the hot salt water bath
house is nearing an end, and the build
ing will be finished sooner than any
one expected.
Bracewells mammoth warehouse is
crowded to its fullest capacity with corn.
barley and wheat. HALLS Casino also
contains thousands of sacks of corn.
Large quantities of hay and grain
wharf, showing that it is evidently q
fact that Redondo will soon be COM
PEELED to erect more warehouses for the
reception of the grain from the sur
rounding country.
Within radius of 10 miles around
Redondo there ia enough grain produced
in one year to fill 20 warehouses like
that of Mr.. Bracewell. act
8. B. Hall will soon commence re-
modelling the Casino, making many al
terations that will be for the conve-
nience and accommodation of the thous-
ands who will visit US during the com.
ing season. He says that no expense
will be spared to make this ideal spot
pleasing and attractive.
The special theater train chartered
by our old pioneer AL. Currier, which
left here this evening, was we'll patron
lied.
The building of new residences and
the improvements of old residences are
too numerous for the writer to enumer-
ate.
George Norcross, our enterprising pho
tographer, is taking some very fine
views of the city and beach; among
them he has taken one of the large
schooner Novelty, Capt. Ben Lewis.
This schooner sailed from Hoquian,
Gray's harbor, WASH, with a cargo of
100 900 feet of lumber for Clark & Bry-
son.
The Novelty got new foremast at
Redondo, measuring 116 feet in length
by "a inches in diameter. This mast is
actually one of the finest sticks of tim
ber ever seen on 8 four-master.
Two of the largest abalones that have
been seen for years were captured by
Captain Stetson's crew at Fisherman's q
cove. These shells measured 934 inches
long by AZ inches wide, and are now on
exhibition at Halrs fruit and news stand
on the pier.
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express are ship
ping flowers daily from the Redondo
hotel company's garden to Los Angeles
and it's environe.
]. Mills Davies and G. d. Chase, for
merly real estate agent of Redondo,
were visiting the beach today.
John @. Morgan and Henry Gerioux,
accompanied by three expert miners
from Arizona, wsre prospecting among
the sand dunes for gold dust, and they
| found enough black sand with few
grains of the yellow color to satisfy
| them to such an extent that Morgan
SAYS they will come and try again.
J. B. Mullen, the Southern Californis
railway agent, was initiated into the
| /. O. o. F. last evening.
! Henry g.. Roberts of Azusa was visit
ing the beach today, and while here he
| contracted with S. b. Hall for his entire
crop of Lisbon lemons from his foothill
| ranch. Mr.. Roberts will commence
shipment a.s once and continue until tbs
! entire csof is exhausted.
The herald., 1893-11-30
Willy TRANSFORMERS
TRICKS WHICH ARE PLAYED BY I'M
PECUNlOuS THESPIANS.

Come of the Methods They Use to Take the
Arrival of the Comedians Friend-The
Trunk Trick.
Any one who knows the look Of the
Transformer" can tell him at glance.
It is the fine days that bring him out.
Little is seen Of him on wet and rainy
days, but give Old Sol just half acliance
Ind you wonder at the array of immacu-
late linen. cigarettes and Prince Alberts
exhibited by these fly by night stars,
whose ways of securing an existence are
as ingenious as they are manifold. The
men, with but few exceptions, are bar
bers or walters who do not work at their
trade, as they are either too light for
heavy work or too heavy for light work.
The ladies are as rule the possessors
Of good homes, which they desert to
follow their cherished calling.
A company of Keystone talent leaves
Philadelphia TO play the state Of New
Jersey. Their stock in trade consists
of a $25 bank roll and several bun
dles-not trunks-of wardrobe. Ofcourse
they are in possession Of their ability,
which is not appreciated by New Jersey
natives, and after making several stands,
pursued by angry hotel keepers, they go
ashore on the rocks, and with one ac-
cord all noses point toward the Quaker
City. The ladies have little trouble in
securing transportation, as they are ex-
perienced in the art of telling the con-
ductors q story calculated to soften q
heart of steel. They ride, and before
reaching the Delaware river have
touched" the accommodating ticket
puncher for cents each with which to
pay their ferry fare.
Not so with the men, as they care not
for varnish covered cars, but prefer rid
ing in what is known to the professionals
as side door sleeper, but which the rail-
road calls box car. The comedian has
secured possession of his valise, which he
has expressed to his destination. On
resching home he redeems it from the
express company and HES himself to
some theatrical hotel, where he secures
room and board for week, at the end
of which time he is unable to pay and
informs the hotel man that he is expect
ing to sign with Manager So-and-so and
will settle in day or two. After hear
ing this song for four weeks the landlord
takes charge of his grip and advises him
To find other ouarters
Happy thought! His friend, Tom
Blower, has arrived in the city, and as
Tom is dressed-in their language
of sight, our comedian hunts him up,
and after short confab with him Tom
can be seen walking in the direction of
the hotel lately occupied by Comedy.
Reaching there, he calls at the desk for
our comedian and is informed by the
proprietor that he is not in, whereupon
Tom becomes agitated, and in conf
Dental tone tells the hotel man that he
desires to engage Comedy to work the
Eaat Of that week. as his comedian has
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can enjoy. themselves untrammeled by

can enjoy themselves untrammeled by
clothing
The Maca pruen, or monkey plum, is
the favorite fruit, and the parrot is the
favorite bird. For 81 a young parrot
that can talk in Spanish may be pur-
chased, and a mocking bird can be had
for 80 cents.
None of the liquor which obtains its
name from the island is made there now.
The Dutch have taken hold of the manu-
facture of the liquor and have trans
ferred the business to Holland. Anew
York Herald.
The herald., 1893-11-30
A wonderful Enrine.

CANNOT BE SURPAssED.-An engine exerting
SURPRISING power is always source of wonder,
and yet how many are entirely forgetful of the
existence within themselves of an engine more
powerful and enduring than any ever il vented.
Not perhaps until they experience irregular
pulse, heart futtering, tenderness in shoulder
weak and hungry spells, smothering, short
breath, or paiu in 81 e, when its existence is
no longer TO be denied. as the possessor must
knew he has heart disease Mrs. De Bar Fitch
burg Mich, had heart disease IS years; had to
hire house hep; lived on liquid food, used Dr.
Mi.5s' Heart Cure, and all symptoms left her
Continued use cured ner. Sold by g. II Hance
1T N, Spring, on guarantee, who will give
you the doctors book free.
The herald., 1893-11-30
cURAcoA, A QUEER ISLAND.
Dependent Upon Rain For the Water Sup
nIy-Some Odd Cuatoms.

DependenC upon Rain tOr the water Sup>
ply-Some Odd Customs.
Curacao is one of the queerest little is
lands of the Caribbean sea. 1t lies 60
miles north of Venezuela, is about 60
miles long and 12 or IA wide, and it has
population of more than $4,000.
There is no means of procuring fresh
water ON the island except by saving
wells have been bored under the super
vision of the Dutch government, to which
It belongs, but each ended in failure.
A curious statement regarding these
borings is made by the inhabitants of
the island. They say that in each and
every case after certain depth was
reached the tools dropped out Of sight,
indicating that there is no solid founda-
tion to the island. The borings were
made in low places and through hills,
and in about 80 different places, each
with the same ultimate result. A few
wells have been dug to q lesser depth
and brackish, unpleasant tasting water
is obtained from them, fit only for man
ufacturing purposes.
AO dPPlOdCA VI tilO ld1hy nOdoO1 10
always an interesting time there. The
water in the reservoir is low at this
time, and the natives eagerly await the
opportunity to gather fresh supply.
Clothing is never washed there in fresh
water, but at all hours of the day the
beach is alive with women beating the
clothes with clubs on the rocks.
The houses are all built in the Dutch
style, and are mostly Of stone, with tile
roofs. The streets are very narrow, in
some places SO narrow that it is possible
to shake hands with the occupant of a
room across the street simply by leaning
out Of the window.
There is scarcity of young women in
the island, but an overplenty of old and
wrinkled danes. 1t is said the young
women leave home as soon as they are Of
marriageable age and seek husbands in
Caracas, Venezuela, or some other South
American city. Yet there are some Of
the prettiest girls there a traveller ever
set eyes upon. They are the daughters
of Dutch fathers and Spanish mothers,
and the mingling Of the two bloods has
produced beautiful race, which is grow
ing quite numerous there.
Three-quarters Of the population is Of
African descent, or mixed African, Span
ish, Dutch and Indian. A few Indians,
said to be descendants of the Caribs, are
still to be found on the island living in
huts Of straw.
Their sole business in these days seems
to be the peddling of lottery tickets. Ev-
erybody invests in the lottery there, and
as there are drawings each day the ped
ding of tickets forms quite paying
business.
Some of the Africans there are mag
nifcently formed, especially those en-
ployed along the lagoon in loading and
unloading steamers and ships. They are
at home in the water and will dive un-
der steamer for "real" or 10 cent
piece.
Of late years they are forced to wear
suits while sporting in the lagoon near
the settlements, but as the lagoon ex-
tends in the center of the island several
miles each way they may be seen every
evening making their way in punts to a
point beyond observation where they