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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11
A STREET CAR TO FLY.
Sideways and Elevated Roads Dis
cnrded by a Belgian Inventor.
Philadelphia Press.

AAAAbANiEAAo tACoos
A flying street car is the latest novelty
which an ingenious Belgian has devised
for the convenience and amusement OF Iis-
itors to the Antwerp exposition. He does
balloon dirigeable' is the Belgian way Of
putting it.
. sembles the famous Pennington air ship
or a miniature whalsback upside down. The
floating apparatus is a huge, cigar-shaped
In the front or Prov Of the car Is an i'm
mense fan or propeller. and at the other
sed an aP TPRich prn 6Ke q 1 a ruG HHGr IN 'hfef
The car is divided into three sections,
one for the motorman, another for the pas
about in size to the baggage apartment or
a suburban car, is for the use of the con-
ductor.
turned TO good account In connection with
this flying street car, as from the overhead
wire the electricity is obtained with which
with this overhead wire a travelling cable
one end of which connects with the motor
the other being attached to a trolley which
slides along the wire as the car moves.
In the rear compartment OF the car
where the conductor has his quarters. is oil
the paraphernalia for lowering the machine
A stout ships anchor attached by a wire
cable to a windlass, which in turn is con
nected NTH the electric motor, provides
the means for hauling down the flying cal
when a station is reached where passengers
are to alight.
Inc HrSt pTdcllcdl INSTRUMENTATION VI luIs
aerial means Of rapid transit will be made
during the Antwerp exposition. One mode
machine is already pretty well advance
toward completion, the termini of tht
route being the exposition grounds and tht
bourse at Antwerp, which are about a mii'
apart.
During the exposition trips will be made
every half hour by this novel means of loco
motion and the success OF the experiment
may probably revolutioniZe street-car traf
hc. one great drawback to it's popularity
however, is that the trip of a mile will Cos
3 francs, 81.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11
SUNDAY"
A Lenten Custom Which Changed
Conditions Have Banishel.

Mary b. Merrill, In st. Nicholas. .
'Mothering sunday is the fourth Sunday
in Lent, and is often called "Mid-Lent sum
day The custom which gave rise to the
name, like many another delightful old GUS
tom, has passed away. and so the name has
become almost forgotten also.
1 suppose you all nave read stories of
apprentices. young lads who were bound
out" as they called IL, TO learn a trade.
years.
How would you like it. my boy-just
home from a spin on you new safety
to be tied down TO work day after day
under a master who was not always easy
to please. and who would allow you only
Sundays and an occasional day on" to go
TO see your mother.
And you, my dear girl, with your happy
home and days brimful of enjoyment, what
would you think of a life exactly opposite
to yours?
For in the days of long ago. as well as in
our own time, there were many young girls
who found il best TO leave their homes and
make their own way in the world.
Would you not be glad Of an occasional
Sunday when you could array yourself in
all your best fnery and 90 TO see your
mother. taking care that you wrapped your
little present up very carefully. SO tEat YOU
prise as she united the string, took off The
wrapper and brought to light the treasure
which you had bought for her with Your
very own e~arnings%'
That was .Mothering Sunday the fourth
Sunday In Lent, when absent Sons end
daughters, particularly the young aprren-
tees. would return to their homes with
some little present for both parents, but
more especially for the mother. An ancient
custom, and a delightful one, it seems 10
me.
Immagine the joy of Peggy or Thomas,
the pride of the mother in the simple gift
and the admiration of the small brothers
and sisters who gathered around and loDge1
for the time when they also would be out IN
the great unknown world and could come
"amothering."
Perhaps il was not an apprentice or a
serving maid, but some young h~ousekeeper
who would come from her own home, and
with a most important air would present
her mother with some pasties or a "simnel'
OF her own making. The simnel, or sinnel,
was a kind of rich weet cake offered as a
gift at Christmas or Easter, and especially
on "Mothering Sunday"
We may be sure that it was a. happy time.
and that the mother admired the gift and
praised the giver, and rejoiced that her
Thomas was such a fine, steady lad, or that
Peggy was so strong, and rosy, and loving.
In one OF his poems Robert Herrick, the
early English poet, says:
I'll TO thee a simneI bring.
'Gainst thou go a-mothering;
SO that, when she biesSeS thee,
Half that blessing thou'lt give me.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11
BITS OF FASHION.

1t is said on good authority that small
drop earrings are to be worn again.
Perpendicular trimmings. such as cords,
ruchingS and bias bands, are placed UPON
many of the skirts.
Crushed belts of velvet, silk or satin finish
most of the round or pointed waists; a small
rosette is placed on the front and back.
The backs of many Of the new skirts are
quite straight, and are stiffly interlined, so
that they stand away from the figure.
Velvet capes, coats, costumes and COM
binationS will be worn for months TO come,
and in some guises through the entire sum-
mer.
The rufles Of silk petticoats have several
rows of cord stitched on to them, which
stiffens them gracefully, and yet suff1-
GENTLY.
Velvet ribbon combined with lace or pink
or yellow chiffon will be a very popular
combination on elegant evening toilets next
season.
Seamless bodices, flaring skirts clearing
the ground all around, and distended sleeves
In many quaint styles sum up the fashions
of the present moment
Handsome buttons in cut steel. jet. enam-
ell. bronze, onyx, and in odd rich Persian
many OF the elaborate tailor gowns of the
season. Some of the buttons are very large,
too large. indeed, for good taste.
Black will hold its wv on certain cos
tunes, but will appear most en- evidence
as a trimming rather than a combination.
Black velvet ribbon, lace edgings and in
SertlOnS, ana Jet anu silk SlnpS VIII De
used in profusion, with quantities OF lace
keeping closely in general favor as a garni-
ture.
Accordion-pleated skirts of black silk
muslin. with fancy bodices of colored silk.
have the yoke and the pulled sleeve to the
elbow covered with black guipure lace.
sometimes plain. again with the rich de
very effective and becoming toilets at mod
crate expense. A certain shade of canary
yellow is greatly liked for the silk portions
of the bodice.
Black and ecru lace insertions of every
width are displayed very prominently just
now. These trimmings will be highly favored
in widths from one TO three inches, the two
inch insertions being particularly popular.
These are not inserted as formerly, with
the dress fabric cut away beneath it's
meshes. but laid directly on the material,
often as a border or in rows, as GALLON is
used on the skirt.
The summer season will show a general
revival of the corded cottons Of the old
fashioned type. but of greatly improved
-quality-piGueline duck in ivory, cream white
and pale yellow or tan color, also dimity,
Marseilles. cotton Bedford cord. etc. These
are plain. striped. lowered or polka dotted.
and will be made up either In the still pop
ular Elton Jacket shape or with Gull skirted
medium length coat shape. with shirtwaist
front and SOved or bell skirt. with the sioped
seam down the center of the back, 4 model
that seems to be quite as fashionable as
ever.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11
THE HOUSE OF ROTHsCHILD.
Interesting Sketch of the Founder OF
n Financial Dynasty.

n FINANCIAL Dynasty.
II; F; ks Paris Letter in New York
The Revue des Deux Mondes presents
come capital appropriations of the historian
SiicneIet on ms contemporaries. One
terest to the readers of the World. Writ
Ing from Frankfort in 1872, the poetic his
torian limns the first and most surprising
entiousness up to lola at his best:
This morning / have seen NJ. de Roths-
chiId, whom L found alone with a. secretary
doing his own work, his feet democraticaIly
resting on a wooden bench. 1t is a tradition
In this house that even in death the same
simplicity rules, for in tn cemetery each
Rothschild has a simple fat stone over his
or her grave. and nothing more. Anselme,
the founder of the bank, lives in a pavil-
Ion which overlooks three streets, like the
house of our medieval patriot. Jacques
Occur, at Bourges. The cd Rothschild
mother, eighty-three years old, continues
TO hVe IN the gloomy birthplace Of the
race, in the street where her son began
his fortunes. II is In the family a sort of
sEperstition that the mother and father
fidelity brings good luck to the family. Ev-
erything would be lost if they were to
that the greatest care on Roths-
child's mind is that his sons after him shall
not divide the fortune that lie leaves. but
that IL snail be. continual in one mass and
conducted by them all in harmony. The
house OF the great financier groans with at
no embarrassment of any kind in the func,
lions set for each. This sombre mediator of
nations, who speaks a language known to
all-that is. gold-forces them by this lam
guage TO come to an understanding among
themselves whenever il is TO his interest to
have them understand each other. Really
In this way a more potent arbiter of ma
tonal destinieS than ever was Napoleon.
In a burst of expansion he said to me,
not without a shade of pride: L know Eu-
rope prince by prince and the bourses of the
world courtier by courtier.' He might have
added: L have their accounts, all OF them,
In my head Nothing is more certain than
when they present themselves, kings or
courtiers. he is able TO say 10 them Instant
ly, without consulting his book, exactly the
state of their accounts and what they may
depend on for the future. And 1t Is his
fortune TO be able TO say to kings: If you
take such and such a minister you will fail
and you may end in exile exactly as he did
to the French King in the case of the Duke
de BassanO. There is only one thing that
these great calculators cannot foresee-the
pu~iSsance of seif-sacriice. They never seem
TO dream that there are in all times at Paris
10000, 10000 men ready TO die for an idea.
Since half of the family of the Rothschilds.
thus described. rules the Paris Bourse. and
the early fortune has never been divided.
II may readily be imagined with what inter-
est the French public reads this intimate
sketch of the founder of the Midas dynasty,
whose simplest word may make the fortunes
or thousands on every bourse in Europe.
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latest society sketch, entitled. 1.-THE Re-
Coming of Crane.

William II. Crane is booked to appear at
the Grand Opera House on the I'D, 2Sd and
24th inst. He will open his engagement
with his new comedy, Brother john"
Since this plays original presentation in
New York, a year ago, it has been the
principal vehicle of the actors talents, and
is said to have been exceedingly we'll re-
ceived wherever presented. During his six
weeks stay in Chicago during the world
fair season ii was the only play the COM
edian gave, and it's success was almost phe-
nomenal. There are fourteen characters In
the play, and they are all said to be par
ticularly well drawn. Mr.. Crane is Sid TO
nave a very strong part in Brother john
and to make a great deal out of 1t. On the
closing night of his engagement Mr.. Crane
will present his successful comedy, The
Senator" giving 1T with a strong cast and
much careful attention. The comedy was
written by David d. Lloyd and Sydney
Rosenfield, and is an excellent picture OF
social. political and diplomatic life in
Washington.
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GfIIett,s speciaIty Componx.

The engagement of the Albini Speciality
Company at the Grand Opera House four
weeks ago having proven such a popular
success the experiment is to be repeated
Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights and
Saturday afternoon at the same house. The
attraction this week is the Gillett Speciality
Combination, the chief feature of which is
GAIA, the young woman who has recently
created quite a sensation by her marvellous
feats of strength. Some years ago Lulu
Hurst, who was known as the Georgia Won
der, puzzled the public very much by doing
seemingly impossible things in the way of
exhibitions Of her great physical power.
GAIA, however. seems TO be even a greater
wonder than was Miss Hurst. The latter.
according to the Chicago papers. where the
company has just closed an engagement,
gives a remarkable exhibition. In addition
TO this feature the combination includes
Coonie Scott, serio comic singer; Bryant
and Connors, Irish comedians: Leopold and
Green, musical team: Amlita, Spanish
dancer; Kitty Burk, vocalist; Boyle and
Graham, in fancy dances, and the Gillett
family. five in number, who introduce a
long list of novelties, among them q series
of sensational acrobatic and gymnastic
feats. The show will be refined in char
acter. and entertaining performances are
promised. A scale Of popular prices will
rule.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11
"The Police PatrOI.''

Tomorrow afternoon and all week the
Park Theater will present 1.-The Police Pa
troll as its attraction, and as it is known
TO be one Of the best of the sensational
dramas, the patrons of that popular house
will probably fill the theater at each per-
Torrance. The company playing the piece
is one of A. Y. Pearson's combinations, and
this Is generally a guarantee that the
drama will be in the hands of good people
and will be produced with all scenery and
stage properties necessary TO make the play
attractive. 1.-The Police PATROL" while be-
longing to the sensational class, is a play
with many strong and interesting features
and has been a great success and a good
drawing card for several seasons. Last sea-
son il was played at Englisn'S Opera House,
and has heretofore always been presented
In the better or high-priced theaterS. With
a mysterious murder as the basis of the
plot, the action OF the piece brings out many
sensational, not to say startling. Incidents.
and several situations are dramatic TO a
thrilling degree. The interior of a police
station, where real horses are harnessed to
a patrol wagon and dash off the stage in
a very realistic manner is one of the feat
ures of the production. while q view OF Hay
market square, Chicago, where a sensation
al arrest takes place. is another. The COM
pany carries all of the stage effects used in
the performance, and the cast includes some
well-known people.
As this is to be the st. Patrick's day at
traction the Park Theater managers Will on
Thursday and Friday evening distribute n
very neat souvenir of the occasion 10 all
The souvenir is a nickel b~outonniere. round in
shape. with an enameled center. on which
IS a. shamrock. around which is printed
Compliments of the Park Theater."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11
DANGERS OF pERIoUE.
Unmixed Ii Produces n Deathly Sleep
and Menaces Life.
Lewiston Journal.

~ W I t0NAA 80
The tobacco merchant was showing us a
''yard" of perique tobacco grown in that
famous country in the South. and the con-
versatiOn had drifted In that direction.
NO man can smoke perique straight" said
ne. and those who know IL best use about
one-eighth perlque and the rest other to-
bacco. l well remember the first that /
ever smoked. My friends put up the trick
on me. and when ! came 70 myself / had
the pipe with me. but l didn't know where
cent me from New Orleans as heavy as
rOped mOlasses. l filed a pipe with ii and
covered il with dry ashes and laid II away
pipefu1 OF tobacco in his lie. and who al
ways was smoking In my store. He came
In. and how his eyes slistened at sight of
the full pipe! He lit IL and sat down. In
five minutes II fell from his hands, his
head went back and he had passed away.
He slept over two hours and / got afraid.
We couldn't awake him. and ii was fully
four hours before he came 10 himself. He
never smoked my pipe again"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11

Prof. Francis G. Peabody. in the Forum.
What should a city say to submerged
life? II should say: First OF all, YOU
must get out Of town. You are a dead
w-ight here. sinking from bad TO worse.
and dragging other lives down with YOU.
This is not a good place for you. and Il is
not good for the city that you should stay
here. Two alternatives are before v0i.
Either YOU must apply TO be sent 70 our
voluntary colony where every opportunity
OF healthy life and vigorous labor will be
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11

Fields & Hanson's Drawing Cards Com
pany comes TO the Empire for one week,
commencing tomorrow matinee. This COM
pany has never appeared az this house, hut
several Of the specialties with the show
have been seen in this city, and have
gained popularity. One OF the features Of
the show is the electrical speciality OF the
Salambos. This popular team OF perform
ers were brought 10 this country by Imre
Kiralfy as the stars of his spectacular pra-
duc.ion in New York. Some Of the other
prominent artists In the show are Fields
and Hanson, in their amusing and eccel-
tric musical speciality. Of which they are
the originators: Matt Gallagher and John
West. who lately starred in the comady,
THE Colonel and l." Cunningham and
Grant. the grotesque k~nockabOut song and
dance artists; Edgar and Curran, Irish
comedians, vocalists and dancers; Charley
Cas-. who Will. IN his original way. FIX
plain Matters" Miss Maud Beverly. the
pleasing little English serio-cCmic: E,dora
and Norine. the premier Australian Jug
glers ana equiiibTists. IN feats OF trick
balancing: George Austin. the king OF the
bounding wire. assisted by Ia petite sammy
Green: Sam Laug, TIRE comedian and author.
assisted b. Miss Doilie Sharp. in their
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11
Guess.


OHICdBU IIIUUIIC.
Ibid you find out what that woman was
hollerin' about?' said farmer Corntossel's
wife when the old gentleman returned to
their room in the hotel.
II asked the clerk" he replied.
what did he say"
He said it was IL Trovatory.' I didn't
like 10 show my ignerence by askin' more
questions. But / reckon maybe it's Their
snssietY name fur toothache."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11
Mans Heavy Burden.

New 1OTk eekly.
Mrs. De Science-If I am able to carry the
baby around, L should think you ought
TO be.
Professor DE Science-You forget. my dear,
that an average man has 10 carry an at
moSpheric pressure of fifteen tons, while
women, being smaller. do not have TO carry
over ten or twelve tons.
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AMUSEMENTS.
offered you. and where you may hope t,

offered you, and where you may hope to
be restored to capacity for social service;
or else, coming on the charity of the city
you will be sent, not 70 a jail or poor
house. where your inclination to idleness
and more a burden, but to a colony of
compulsory farm labor adapted to your ca
pacity and need. One thing you cannot DO.
You cannot stay here and beg"
Tt the many perils from which all cities
even now guard themselves, and against
which all legislation is socialistic-perils
like the drink habit, the selling Of dyna-
mite, the evil Of prostitutjon-we should
add one more peril: that of idleness. Every
member Of a modern state ought to be.
in some way and degree, by his mind or
his hands, or both, a contributor to the
great welfare. If that is socialism, let us
Of Stable civilization and the secret of judi
cious charity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11

Tnmnany Times.
Aunt-Wel. Bobby. what do you want TO
be WlVu you grow up.
Bobby remembering private seance in the
WOodshedD-An orphan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11

The figures here given are from a conserv-
alive WaIl-street point of view, and repre-
sent rather below than above the fortunes
of the persons named. Since the period of
depression began many millions or these
dollars have been wiped out.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11

NOTE-As a compliment to their pat.
rons. the Park Theatcr managers will.
on Thursday and Friday evenings,
March 10 and 16. present TO every per-
son occupying a seat on the first floor a
handsome souvenir of st. Patrick's Day.
1t is of novel design. made of nickel,
with IN enameled center. on which is
fired o shamrock. and made TO wear as
n boutOnniere.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11

his wealth will not reach 500. 900. 90. and he
Is probably not worth more than $15,ON.VW.
VANDERBILTS SON-IN-LAW.
The men who married into the Wander
bilt family are rich men in their own right.
OF these William Sloan is worth S20,O0O,OOO.
DR.. Seward Webb and II. Mex. Twom-
bley. who married Vanderbilts, are worth
In the neighborhood of SIC, 1000. independ-
entity OF what Vanderbilt left to each Of his
daughters.
But there are a score or more or men In
New York city who are worth SlO,OJO,OOO.
To be sure. they are credited with more as
a rule. Among these are such wel-known
mon as Robert Bonner. James NJ. Consta-
HE. the great merchant, John Clafin, or
II. =. CIafin & CO., Theodore Havemeyer,
the sugar refner, and Eugene Kelly, the
Irish n
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FURNITURE

Five floors filled with n elegant line of new. well selected stock. This
is the only exclusive Furniture Store in the city with no side issues OF any
kind All styles, all grades, at the lowest prices.
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7. ELDER. 43 and As South Meridian S
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-11

The Great Police Station Scene.
Haymarket Square, Chicago,
at Night.
The Great Patrol Stable.
The Terrific Struggle.
The Alarm and Quick Hitch.
The White Patrol.
PRICES-1Oc. zoe, SOC.
MATINEE, 10c. zoe