The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-13
MINOR TOPICS.

m4NOh lux 40.
Those who complain that America has
no picturesque ola ruins should take
stroll along Ohio street between Meridian
and PENNSYLVANIA. The massive pillars of
the new federal building look through the
crumbling arches of the condemned blocks
like some Greek temple seen through bro
ken columns to which time has been less
kind 1t only needs a little moonlight to
look like scene in ancient Rome.
Mayor Mcclellan, of New York, has APP
pointed a former milkman TO take charge
of the pumping station at the city water
works Of course, the papers will poke a
good deal of fun at this appointment, but
really il seems proof Jnat the mayor is
doing his best to FIJI his offices with ex-
perienced specialists. This one, at least,
seems particularly appropriate.
Colonel Jones, of Binghamton, lately of
the Sixth Massachusetts, Volunteers. has
sent a check to aid the citizens of the
stricken city of Baltimore. Was this tact
full? Was not his regiment the one that
shed
1.-The patriotic gore
That drenched the streets of Baltimore
some forty-three years ago.
What is Great Britain doing all this
while? She is preserving a dignified and
ominous silence, but far to the north OF
her Indian possessions and beyond the
boundaries of the Himalayan SHOWS, may
be heard, If one listens intently, the graf
ing sound of saving wood. 1t is much to
be feared that in Thibet it is all over but
the shouting.
1t is said that Victoria Falls in Zambesi,
South Africa, is capable of five times the
energy that Niagara can produce. In view
of the fact that Victoria is to be "har-
nessed," this means great deal to South
Africa. But 1T seems a pity to have all
that power wasted on such country
that; just think what we could do with it
here
There Is one good thing about these wars
in far countries; people who read the pa
pers learn so much about geography. Be
fore we took the Philippines from Spain
not one man out of fifty knew where the
islands were; by the time this Japanese
war is well under way the average citizen
will be acquainted with the whole Pacific
ocean.
1t seems strange that the mayor of Chi
cago, when he heard of the Baltimore fire.
did not order all the business Of Chicago
stopped until asbestos curtains had been
placed between all the business blocks. He
could have made even more trouble that
way than by closing the theaters.
BY the way, ii is a servile imitation of
the English tor TO call Japan the far
East" Japan is the far West-it is much
closer to the United States on the west
than on the east. 1t is closer even to In
diana in that direction our common phrase
is copied from England.
The Bears delicate little scented note to
the Jap contains card with the repre-
sentation of a Russian heart on which the
map of Korea is engraved. And under
meath is the legend:
81 saw her frstky, and she is mineovitch;
1 want her for my Valentineovitch.
Remembering Kishineff," remarks a
Southern contemporary, THE world de-
clines TO consider the war contest be-
| tween a Christian and a pagan nation. 8"
| Well, then, let us speak of ii as a war
between a Christian and an anti-Semitic
nation.
! Tolstoy talked freely to Bryan; and now
/ if he takes the American papers he has
| learned that Bryan marketed the inter
view at fancy prices. The Russian sage
thought he was talking to a statesman. not
/ a reporter.
The best statehood argument Indian Ter
| ritory and Oklahoma have yet produced
is the fact that between them they raised q
half million bales OF cotton during the last
season. And good, high-priced cotton al
that.
The grandson OF Ralph Waldo Emerson
is to be placed on the Philippine commits