The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-11-12
THE DURABILITY OF LIES.
Many That Are Well and Ye
Seem Imperishable.

Brooklyn Eagle.
There is that well-ixed old legend about
the injurious property OF night ar: Mnas
because they will not let air into their
house after dark. 1t is night air, you know,
body told your grandfathers second
COUSINS wife's sister-in-law that night air
was unwholesome. So they leave all the win
entire family and the exhalations of closets
and the gas of furnaces and stoves all
night, and get up with a headache. but
with congratulations that none or that
dreadful air from the hills, and the woods,
and the fields has got into the house. ASK
them how the cattle, that are out all night
them what makes soldiers. and sailors; and
prospectors, and hunters so big chested and
hardy, living, as they do, in the air all
can't break up an old lie with q regiment
of troops or a herd Of cattle. Why. there
used to be a lie, and 1t was even IN the
made people crazy, and that il you slept
out In the moonlight you would wake up In
the morning a roaring lunatic. Inc man
who called a crazy person a lunatic, Dor,
rowing the innocent moon to coin a word
from, was perhaps responsible for that. he
never thought to look at the effect OF moon
LIT slumber on an army or a Waterman.
Every now and then We read reports OF q
shower Of frogs, or toads, or SNAKES, OF
lizards, or young alligators. But these
showers never occur near where anybody
lives. Since the resuscitation OF the Brook
lyn Institute these animals appear to know
that if they fall into the streets of this city
they will become subjects of scientific sur.
~veillance, and they have carefully re1ralneo
from falling even in Prospect Park.
The wheat grown from seeds preserved
for 5000 years and more in mummy cases
covers squares miles of-imagination-and
the frogs that have been imprisoned II
granite or coal; deep Gown In i ha,, neards %
years-a couple Of billion before frogs were
created. would be marshaled into a re-
spectacle army. When ne got into the
hot, but the frog got himself crystallizeo
in. just the same, and when the chunk is
blasted. he hops and starts for the nearest
locked up over night.
Once in a while he gets into the stomach
of a citizen, this frog does, and sometimes
snake which, resisting gastric acid ant
needless of the lack of air, plays around
for months, now and then corning up int
dinner time. Ordinarily. a snake eats only
live food, but perhaps he accustoms him
self to oysters if his keeper will consider
The rustic occasionally looks at a cloud,
sky pierced by rays OF the sun that spread
into a visible fan of light, and says: TT.
goin' to rain. The SUMS DRAWN water.
And he really thinks 1t is water going up
instead of light coming down. If 1t rains
1t is because the clouds are there, and 1
Is working as hard as usual for the evap
Grafton of water on the surface Of thu
| earth.
divining rod that can find gold and silve
and hasn't brought any of the counties
millions Of the late lamented Kidd to light
| and about honor among thieves, and abou
the evils that befall possessors Of the opal
and about the Mapleton and some othe
| ghosts, and about raising umbrellas on tn,
| stage, and about thirteen people at the ia
BILE, and a whole lot of other things; bu
It wouldn't do any good.