The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-17
TOPICS.

have made a good one.
MINOR TOPICS.
Dear, dear! Where is that Colombian
army that started so long ago to invade
Panama and strike a blow of vengeance?
Is it stuck in the mud? Has it vanished
in thin air? Or did it simply get tired OF
waiting for the pay that never came, and
turn around and marched home again? Per-
haps it will always be a mystery; but, at
any rate, it seems strange that 10000 men
should disappear so quietly and utterly.
A man in New York loved a woman and
she returned his affection. He asked her
to marry him-to his surprise she shuddered
and shook her head. He questioned her.
and she confessed; she could never bear TO
change her name to his, which was Schnut-
t~enlaus So he asked the Supreme Court
to change his name, and now they are
married. His wife is known as Mrs. Edwin
Roland.
How often the ugly little despised things
turn out to be agents for good, and-but
that is very trite, of course. Nevertheless,
it may be noticed that Jones Falls saved
the residence portion of Baltimore from de-
struction. And Jones Falls has been an
eyesore to the city for many years-its ex-
istence deplored as an ugly blot marring the
beauty of the surroundings.
1t has at last been discovered why Rus
STA was unprepared for Japan's sudden at
tack which opened the war. The soldiers
of the Car had been informed that no
fighting could possibly take place until
Richard Harding Davis arrived, and no
news of his starting had yet been received.
BY the way, how is the Czarina's earache?
1t was understood that Russia was delay
ing the war until she should recover, but
that is no sign that she has recovered for
Russia didn't start this war. Let US hope
that both she and Viola Allen are much
better-they have the same complaint.
The Shah of Persia knitted a pair of silk
hose with his own hands and presented
them to King Edward of England. 1t will
be m that the Shah recently got
rid of several dozen of his wives, and he
has had to attend to the knitting and sew
ing himself since that time.
Among those who will benefit from the
high price of cotton the boil weevil should
not be overlooked. The planters will plant
a larger acreage, and the weevil will have
room for expansion. So he will feel as the
japanese government would should it gain
Korea for its own.
A Florida woman who is on trial for CIV
ing absent treatment claims that she used
faith cure on herself and turned her snow
white hair to its original color. Whether
she was obliged TO use absent treatment in
this case, also, she does not state.
What can be the matter with the Murat
Halstead history factory? Here this con-
hict has been in progress for a whole week,
and there is not a sign of a Complete His
tory of the Russo-Japanese War" Some
thing must be radically wrong.
A woman in Omaha has been ordered to
take a bath every day for twenty days.
This sounds like the orders of a physician,
but it is not so; it is the of a
police justice.
'Hearst's cake is dough- announces a
Democratic politician who is for Parker.
But he is telling us nothing new; Hearsts
whole argument as to why he should be
President is dough"
Very few red-headed men are BALD re-
marks a recent issue of a w%ell-known med
icaI magazine. No., very few bald-headed
men have hair of any color.
Chief Big Heart, of the Usage Indians,
went to Washington and spent $3.50 for valen-
tines. And yet some people say there's moth
ing in a name.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD.