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Year: 1878

The following paragraph contains
the most vivid description OF what
the sun is supposed to be that we
have ever read. We doubt il any
better idea OF that great luminary
could be concentrated into a dozen
lines. 1t makes one perspire while
reading it even, and suggests more
than anything we remember the lake
of fire which is said to burn for ever
and ever.


A molten or white hot mass, $4,000
miles ia diameter. equaling in bulk
100000 worlds like our own, having
a surrounding ocean OF gas on fre,
$4,000 miles deep, tongues of flame,
darling upward more than 10000
miles, volcanic forces that hurl Ito
the solar atmosphere luminous mat
ter TO the height Of 100000 miles.
drawing to itself all the worlds be
longing to our family OF planets,
and holding them all in their
proper places: attracting with such
force the millions of solid and stray
masses that are wandering in the
fathomless abyss that they rush
helplessly toward him, and fall into
his fiery embrace. And thus he con-
tinues his sublime and restless march
through his mighty orbit. having u
period OF more than 100000 of
years.
Year: 1878

Has now been published for over Half a
Century, and il but just TO say that it has
done more to promote general intelligence
and establish healthy moral and political
sentiment in tie State than any other in
stitutirn. either public or private. 1t Is
the unanimous verdict of the leading news
paper men throughout the country that,
considering its field, THE JOURNAL
has no superior as newspaper IN the
Government. There has been literally
no adverse criticium upon either it's gen
eral or Editorial management In the past
three years, except such as comes from
adverse political Or rival business interests.
THE JOURNALS growth in popularity
and in circulation has been steady and con-
tinuous from year 10 year.
Year: 1878


A Trick that Cured n Desire for Death.


A young man, suffering from the
reaction incidental TO a spree. entered
a grocery at the north end recently
and unceremoniously knelt before the
proprietor, asking his forgiveness for
being In such a condition. The gen.
tleman thus addressed tried to pacify
him, bu: could not, and finally re.
ferred him to the clerks. The young
persistent then turned to the senior
clerk, and on his knees pleaded to be
shot, offering to sign his own death
warrant. Finding him persistent, the
clerk decided to try and dispel his
morbid desire for death by means Of
a practical joke. So death warrant,
sOlemnly worded in long and s0nor-
Gus phrases, was drawn up by one OF
the clerks. to which the petitioner az
fixed his name, remaining still upon
his knees. The first clerk then drew
a revolver, and ordered the victim to
close his eyes. which was done. A
fire cracker was meanwhile slyly ig-
nited. and placed upon the floor at
the back Of the fellow, who with pale
face and anxious expression awaited
the fatal shot. Suddenly the cracker
exploded, and at the same instant the
young man overcame all desire to
shuttle of this no ortal coil, and with a
howl and bound he was out OF the
store, fully persuaded that his time
had not yet come.--Ne,o Bedford
(Mdss.) Mercury.
Year: 1878

The right Of the people Of the south
to govern themselves is recognized.
nay, insisted upon, by the people of
the north; but II the people Of the
south violate the laws OF the country,
and the laws are not vindicated by
local sentiment, and the Democratic
party winks at such violations. max
ing no protest against them, the nat
ural effect will be the punishment OF
the Democratic party in the north by
leaving it o1t In the cold Boston
Herald.
Year: 1878

Here is how an exchange puts 1t:
We suppose that many people think
that newspaper men are persistent
duns; let a farmer place himself in
similar position and see IL he would
not do the same. Suppose he raised
one thousand bushels OF wheat, and
his neighbor should come and buy .
bushel, and the Price was a small
matter Of only two dollars or less,
and the neiehbor says, Il will hand
you the amonnt In a few days." AS
the farmer does not want TO be small
about the matter. he says all right,
the man leaves with the wheat. An
other comes in the same way, until
the whole OF the Thousand bushels of
wheat are trusted out to one thous-
and different persons, and not one OF
the purchasers concerns himself
about Ii, for IL is a small amount that
he owes the farmer. and OF course
that would not help him any. He.
does not realize that the farmer has
frittered away all his large crop Of
wheat. and that its value Is due him
in thousand little driblets. and that
be Is seriously embarrassed Ia his
business because his debtors treat it
as little matter. But IL all would
pay MIN promptly. which they could
do az well as not, 1t would be q very
large amount to the farmer, and en-
able him to carry on his business
without difficulty. The above CON-
parison is too true of the diniculties
that the newspaper man has to con.
tend with. e .efra-
Year: 1878

The price Of single subscription for one
year will hereafter be only 81 25 In clubs
of twenty five and upwards. per copy, 81.


They will pay to the Agents OF THE
WEEKLY JOURNAL cash commits
sion OF 10 cents, To De retained out of
each subscription. To secure the paper
at : 90 per year there must be club Of
twenty-five They offer no premiums this
year to subscribers, having given them
the benefit of % per cent reduction in
price.


The WEEKLY INDIANA STATE
JOURNAL is the cheapest paper at the
above price that can be produced any
where
Year: 1878

Witty sayings are as easily lost as
the pearls slipping OF a broken string:
but a word OF kindness is seldom
spoken in vain. 1t is a seed which.
even when dropped by chance.
springs up a flower.
Year: 1878

are not recommended as remedy "for all
the ills that flesh is heir to, but in affections
of the liver, and in all Bilious Complaints,
Dyspepsia and Sick Headache, or diseases Of
that character, they stand without a rival
Year: 1878

A philosopher has said that true educa-
ton for boys is to "teach theri what they
ought To know when they become men"


What is it they ought To know then!


l. To be trle-to be genuine. No edu-
cation is worth anything that does not in
clude this. A man had better not know
how to read. he had better never learn a
letter ia the alphabet, and be true and gen.
ulne in intention and in action, rather than
being learned In all languages, to be at the
same time false in heart and counterfeit In
life. Above all things teach the boys that
truth Is better than riches, more than cult
ure. more than any earthly power or
position.


9 To be pure In thought, language and
life-pure in mind and in body. An impure
man. young or old, is plague spo', Il i,per
who ought to be treated as were the lepers
of old, who we're banished from society.


B. To be unselfish. To care for the feel-
ings and comfort OF others. To be polite.
To be just in all dealings with others. To
be generous. noble and manly. This will
include a genuine reverence for the aged
and things sacred


l. To be self-reliant and self-helpful,
even from early childhood. To be indus
trious always, and self supporting at the
earliest proper age. Teach them that all
honest work is honorable, and that an idle,
useless lite of dependence on others is dis
graceful.


When a boy has learned these four
things, when he has made these ideas a
part OF his being, however young he may
be, however poor, or however rich, he has
learned some Of the most important things
he ought to know when he becomes man.
With these four properly mastered, it will
be easy to find all the rest 4. l.. SescdA
in Home Arts.
Year: 1878

The Potter committee was raised by
the Democratic House Of Representatives
for the deliberate. though not avowed. pur-
pose of Mexicanizing the American Gov
ernment, and It was only after great tidal
wave Of public sentiment came up against
it that they said 1.-THE action OF the Forty
fourth Congress, as to who should be de-
clared President for the present tenn was
final"
Year: 1878

VERY ECONoMICAL.-The Democratic
House OF Representative cut down the pay
of Government laborers and watchmen So
a month. The poor fellows had enough to
do to live on what they were getting last
year, $50 a month. But economy is the
battle cry of Democracy. OF course it
does not apply to the IS 900 year paid to
Congressman, but to the pooriy-paid and
over-worked laborers and watchmen. We
shall hear the old story from thousand
stumps about Democracy being the friend
of the workingman. 1t would be well tor
these oratorical economists to explain why
they retained their own fat salaries and
robbed the poor of IS q month.
Year: 1878




The complaint of frequent encores at mus-
cal entertainments is not confined to this CITY
The following is found in the Boston Tran
script:


Will you pardon to my rusticlty and inexpe-
rience in such high circles a question about
what constitutes good breeding in ultiy ated
Boston audience? l had the felicity of attend
Ing Herr Wilhelmj's matinee on Saturday. His
hrst TWO performances each received an encore
to which he responded gracefully with SO ue of
his rarest art. In reply to the second encore
he played long and difficult piece which
must have made great demands both on his
muscular and nervous system. The third en-.
core brought him with very polite bow upon
the stage for his answer, and he retired. Then
the usual clamor was renewed, but he did not
return. wish to ask whether this last de-
mand was within the limits of that delicacy of
sentiment for which our well bred citizens are
noted? know the demand was not made bv
many of the audience, but it looked to me like
the bourgeois greedlness of man who gorge 8
himself with paid-for dinner that he m ay be
sure to get his moneys worth am sure that
Boston musical audience in Music Hall never
Intends TO make unjust demands upon any
artist, domestic or foreign, but in my perplexi-
tty about this to me novel social phenomenon,
beg to inquire for the rule which holds amoug
well bred people touching such matters


A CLERGYMAN
Year: 1878

Nine. Ratazzi is, in fact, remarkable per.
son; she is a foe musician, a clever writer
and wonderful diplomatist. She is made up
OF caprice aud Imagination, and when she de-
sires to indulge in amusement her talents
come to her aid, and assist in creating some
thing fantastic and original. But, in indule-
ing her whims, she is Indifferent as to who
shares her fstes. Some years ago, when Nine.
RAtazzi had her summer residence at AK, and
was more particular as to whom she invited,
gentleman dined with her. in company with a
number Of friends. He was much amused to
perceive among the walters a large monkey
dressed In livery, and who waited upon the
table, changing the plates and performing 9TH
er services with the gravity and adroitness of
the regular servants. Before admitting the
monkey to the dining room the hostess would
glance up and down the table to see if there
were any bald heads present, for the monkey
without any apparent reason, invariably, af ser
removing plate would slap it down on the
nearest bald head until it was broken. The
creature, 1t seems, was very intelligent, aud
his mistress very much attached to him. The
following morning after dinner, the gentleman
retained to the house to call when he found
every body In tears In answer to his questions
servant pointed to an object hanging bs fore
the princesss window. On examination he
fund it to be the monkey, who it was said had
fallen in love with his mistress and in iealousy
and despair had hung himself
Year: 1878

The ignorance of Englishmen concerning
American politics would be always amusing
were it not sometimes intolerably offensive.
One of the most striking illustrations of that
ignorance is displayed by the London Times
in its comments on the correspondence
between Secretary Evarts and Lord Salisbury
relative to the fishery dispute. The Times
accuses Mr.. Evarts of throwing the United
States into ferment by publishing two Wig
orous dispatches two weeks before decisive
election so as to arouse patriotic feelings in
manner profitable to the Republican party.


Now in fact, the controversy over the
fishery question had no more to do with the
November elections than did the controversy
over the authorship of the letters of Junius
or the poems of Ossian. 1t affected
the choice of our Congressman as
little as the remonstrance of the Span
ish government against the fitting
out of Caban privateers in our ports affected
the election of the Cortes that called King
Alfonso to the throne. The fishery ques.
tion had about as exciting an effect upon
the voters as the glacial theory. Continued
injustice by England might make it a popular
grievance, but to-day the American people
take on the whole, rather more interest in
Schliemann's discovery of the hog.pens of
the Ithacan King than they do in the CORE.
spondence between the American and Brit
ish cabinets.


The London Times, is journal that has
claims to be the foremost newspaper in the
world, and it has done much to justify that
claim. But its reputation has been won by
careful collection of news and intelligent
comment upon it found everywhere except
in its account of American affairs. Its de-
cription Of the effect of the fishery dispute on
American party politics is one of the least of
the blunders it has made.
Year: 1878

The Burlington Hawkeye presents the fol-
lowing ten valuable rules for young men:


Always pick up hot poker by the cold end
Never spend your money when YOU can get
things for nothing.


DE not despise twenty-cent cigar or a So
dinner because another man pays for it,


Remember that 1t costs more to go to a high
in free church


Nothing IS troublesome to you that other peo-
pie do for you willingly.


Never pay to-day the man you can put off till
tomorrow.


Never trouble yourself to do for another VIII at
he can Go just as WE for himself.
Never buy what you dou't want simply b. :
cause the man says he is just out of It,


do not poullice your own elbow for the boil
on another mans neck.


When angry be sure you can handle YOUR
man before you call him liar.
Year: 1878

THE New York World Is again speaking
its mind, and rises on its toes to say: "When
Congress meets in December, it will do well
to bear in mind that Mr.. Fernando Wood
and Mr.. Sunset Cox, after being we'll boxed
on the ears by their constituents in New
York for their cowardly submission to the
dirty despotism of Tammany Hall, had the
impudence to attend Tammany Hall meet.
ting and to VOW allegiance there to regime
of roguery and blackguardism which had
just been contemptuously thrown off by an
overwhelming majority Of the voters of New
York of all political parties."
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters ana commun
cations. The anne and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty OF good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve CON-
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

Different countries have different methods cI
dealing with their young. The Greenland bab,
is dressed in furs and carried in sort Of pock
ct at the back of bis mothers cloak. When
she is very busy, aud does not wantto be both
cred with him, she digs a hole in the snow aud
covers him up all but bis face and leaves him
there until she is ready 10 take care Of him
again. The Illndoo baby hangs in basket
from the roof, and is taught to smoke long be-
fore he learns to walk Among the Western
Indians the little tots" are tied fast to a board
and have their heads hattened by means Of an-
other board fastened down over their faces. In
Lima the little fellow lies all day in hammock
swung from tree-top, like the baby 10 the
nursery song. In Persia be is dressed in the
most costly silks and jewels, and his head is ne
yer uncovered, day or night; while in Hucatan
a pair of sandals and a straw hat are thought
to be all the clothing he needs.
Year: 1878

The Drawer" in the November HWper
has this from the very down Eastern most sec.
tion Of our precious country:


It's customary with the students in our col.
ege to say Not prepared" when called upon
to reci,e difficult and not well-memorized
passage On hot summer afternoon, in The
year =, tie class was seepily stumbling
through the introduction TO Buffers AHalogy
The reverend doctor was quite as familiar with
the subject matter as with the members OF
chapters and sections, and had way Of his
own in calling for a recitation, which sounded
quite as much like a call to Judgment as a call
to recite. The lesson was going badly, and
the doctor, nesting in his chair, called out
"Mr. T, you may pass on to the Future
Life"


Mr. t. was too much Of a wag to let the
opportunity slip, and promptly responded
Not prepared"


The reader can easily imagine tho effect on
the risibles Of the class.
Year: 1878

4 gentleman at a dinner party was Sc
next young miss. lie asked her If she
fond Of e.baology. She said she was, bu'
vas not very well. and tic doctor had tol
not TO eat anything for desert except era
Year: 1878

There have been several stories told
about hardened glass going to pieces sud-
denly, and without apparant occasion.
The most startling of these has been re-
Gently told by Professor Ricard, of Bohe-
mia. He had bought a child's drinking


cup at the town of Saatz. The cup had
hard usage for about six months, but
seemed worthy of its reputation as hard
ened glass. One evening, after ordinary
use, it was left with spoon in it on a
table, and the room was shut. Shortly
afterward a noise as of a pistol-shot
alarmed the whole household. On enter
ing the room it was found to be Uttered
in every part with shreds of glass, and
that was all that ever was found of the
drinking-cup. 1t is evident that liza
bility to such an explosive performance
may make the hardened glass danger
GUS article in household use. The ma
terials is known to be in a state of ten
sion, like Prince Rupert drop, and the
exact conditions under which it may fly
into fragments are, as yet, unknown.
Year: 1878

The idea expressed in the above head
ing, though commonly held to be of
sacred origin, or as merely poetical
manner of expressing a commonplace
occurrence, may nevertheless be taken
literally as well as fguratively, it being,
as a matter of fact, saying which has
satisfactory groundwork in natural facts.
1t was recently stated in evidence before
the Commissioners appointed to inquire
into the Herring Fisheries Of Scotland,
that the practice of pouring quantity
of oil from boat on to the surface of
the sea during heavy weather had the
immediate effect of calming the waters
and relieving the boat from the danger
of heavy broken water. But" added
one of the witnesses, " although the oil
has this effect for time, the sea becomes
rougher afterwards and SO the advantages
of adopting the plan is practically not
very great" 1t is more than probable
that this latter statement can be ex-
planned by the law of comparisons. The
oil cast out on the weather side of the
boat effectually assuages the violence of
the waves, which instead of breaking
over it, glide smoothly under it. Pres
emily the film of oil becomes dispersed
and the waves, again unchecked, appear
by comparison with the late calm, to bt
still more formidable. A fresh dose o.
oil would, however, again prove advan
tageous, but the experiment is seldom
repeated, and SO the efficacy of the rem
edy is called into question. The bes
way of adopting it is to throw overheard
barrel or skin filed with oil, anc
pierced in two places to allow of tn,
gradual escape of the contents. Thi
reservoir should be secured by rop
and kept on the weather-side of the boat
and renewed as often as necessary. Th
plan is frequently adopted, with the bes
results, by native boatmen in the Persial
Gulf and in parts of the Indian Ocean
where sudden squalls are apt to sprin
up.
Year: 1878

growth and steady going, it is true, but
the tendency to rut-making and routine
are 80 great in human nature that it is
often only by wide excitements that a
whole community is lifted and for
warded to new level. Men often get
into the condition of pig iron. They
pile up nicely in bars. They are in an
excellent state of preservation. They
certainly lie still, and though there is
vast capacity in them for machinery,
and cutlery, and agricultural imple-
ments,-though they contain measure
less possibilities of spindles and spades,-
there is nothing under heaven but fire
that can develop their capacity and
realize their possibilities.


There are communities that would
never do anything but rot, except under
excitement. A community often gets
into stolid, immobile condition, which
nothing but a public excitement can
break up. This condition may relate to
single subject, or to many subjects.
1t may, relate to temperance, or to
church debt. Now it is quite possible
that man under excitement will do the
thing that he has always known to be
right, and be sorry for it. recede from
it afterward; but the excitement was
the only power that would ever have
started him on the right path, or led him
to stop in the wrong one. 1t is all very
well to say that it would be'a great
deal better for drunkard, coolly, after
quietdeliberation and a rational decision,
to resolve to forsake his cups than to
take the same step under stimulus of
social excitement and the persuasions of
companionship and fervid oratory, but
does he ever do it? Sometimes, possi-
bly,, but not often. Without excite
ment and great social movement, very
little of temperance reform has ever
been effected. Men are like iron: to be
nodded they must be heated; and to say
that there should be no excitement con-
nected with great reform, or that re-
form is never to be effected through ex-
citement, is to ignore the basilar facts
of human nature and human history.
Year: 1878

You are no longer a child; you have
long since put away childish things.
Yet you may now own to your most in
innate friend how often the remem-
brances of your earliest childhood are
uppermost in your mind. They come
in fragments, like torn bits of some
bright picture, and at times when those
about you deem you immersed and ab-
sorbed in the important concerns of life.
You may be statesman, lawyer, editor,
merchant, physician, clergyman, soldier;
the attention of a nation may be con-
centrated upon you; hundreds, thou
sands may be under your employ or
government; you are fighting great
legal battles; your commerce extends
to the uttermost parts of the earth; the
treaties you are writing reaches the
profoundest depths of philosophy,
science or theology; the editorial you
prepare to-day may change the policy
of government; your face may be a
reflex of the hard, stern practicalities of
life, yet in the very thick and press of
your business, as you take your seat in
court, as you ascend the pulpit steps, as
you see the good ship Washington laden
with thousand tons of grain disappear
in the ocean mists, bound for Constanti-
nople, there may have mingled with
these important concerns some memory
of your earliest childhood-the flower
you plucked, the dirt pies you made, the
little sled and the first remembered snow
storm, the gilt watch and chain, the first
pair Of pantaloons, the low bench at the
infant school, and there comes with all
these, proud, busy man as you are, 8
warmth, glow of old and perhaps deal
recollection living over in memory Of
childish days, a wish that for the mo
ment you can jump from all this tur
moil, care and perplexity into your frs
jacket and trousers, and be chile
again.


The world imagines that naught bu
the greater matters engaged your atten
Year: 1878

There is great fear, on the part of
some amiable persons who write for the
public, lest, in certain excited move
ments of reform, there should be those
who will take steps for which they will
be sorry. They argue, from this, that
it is not best to have any excitement at
all, and especially that nothing should
be done under excitement. 1t so hap
pens, however, that the path of progress
has always been marked by sudden steps
upward and onward. There are steady