Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 April 1891 — Page 7

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An interesting story of crime in a IJmtmetropolis is to be found in the Pf. annual report (that for 188D) of the mlssioner of police for London. Tho I metropolitan area guarded by the force 700 square miles, and for the pro•tloi. of person, and property 15,000 en were on the' rolls.. Of the men, 1° never, owing- to reasons not detailed, fjveral thousand were continually un•vaiiabl^-

At the °f tlio list of crimes comi„ed in spite of the public puardians it.wl seventeen homicides, tho most of vthich were plainly deliberate murder, but not a single capital conviction is rerded against the nrnnos of the crimiuls In four cases the criminals could Jot 'be found, one of the four being ••Jack tlic Ripper," of Whiteeliapel. In other cases the assailant was insane, fome committed suicide, and in a few cases conviction for manslaughter was obtained. On the whole it was fairly safe to

kill a

man in London quite as

„(e as in Kentucky or any of the American states where feeling that tho criminal "done had to" commonly Influences tlie jury to -acquit. It is likely

no state shows so serious a failure

justice as this report shows for London. in the report on crimes against property it is tolil plainly that stealing does not pny. Even leaving out of consideration the awards of punishment meted out to the thioves, they would scarce jjave been the wages of honest labor. Thus, there were but 499 burglaries and S.OOOpounds worth of property gathered in-about 0 pounds a job on the average. Hut of this a great part was recovered, while in 124 cases not a fartliinp was obtained by tho burglar. Moreover, these figures represent the lo?s to the owners, not the gain to the thief. No statement of tho actual i°h receipts of the thieves can be made, but when one considers the prices at which tl.e thieves must sell their plunder to the fences, it is reasonable to suppose that had they all got off scot five of imprisonment, suffering only from tlio loss of the property which was recovered from them, tliey would not have made f.j a joli on the average, perhaps not §2.

There were aBout fifteen hundred esses of housebreaking, and here the same story is told. The thioves got property of an estimated value of £11,WO (the owners always estimating their losses as high as possible), but much was recaptured. Even on the basis of the estimated loss, in over half the cases the value was less than £5, while in only thirty-two cases out of the 1,500 did the value exceed £50.

The cases of shop-breaking numbered 817, or seventy-three less than in 1888. The number of burglaries, too, was less than in 1SSS, and so, too, were the house-breakings and pocket-pickings.

Sir Edward lirndford, who writes the nport, Miys the decreaso would be still greater were it not for the leniency with which habitual and well-known criminals are treated by judges.

On an average, however, crimes against property were 18 per cent, less numerous in 1SS9 than in 1SSS.

The portion of the report referring to the health of the force shows that 37'J members were invalided, of whom 280 obtained pensions and the others rewired gratuities only. The latter had b«cn in the service less than fifteen years. Of those put on pension sixtythree had rheumatism and forty were retired because of "age, long service and debility." There were nineteen caws of phthisis and diseases of the lungs, eighteen were affected with bronchitis and twenty had injuries that rendered them unfit for duty.

The roll of honor gives 2.000 names of men specially commended by magistrates and others for meritorious conduct in the discharge of duty. In 100 of these cases the men had been hurt. Of the cases commended 200 were for stopping runaway horses, forty of the MO having been injured in doing so.

The story told in the "lost property Apartment" is perhaps the most interMing in the report. Kor instance. 1,100 purses were deposited in this department, besides 130 deposit* of coins found in public carriages. Twelve deposits were of ban.c notes, one deposit a.one amounting to £290, while the number of watches, valuablo pict'p.s of jewelry, etc., left there were 1,209. It» true that rewards amounting to £2.23$ wore paid to those who brought 'a tho articles, but it is a very good showing for Uritish honesty.

In the department of accidents it appears that 140 people were run over and tailed by various kinds of vehicles, ®«ile the number of maimed and injured was ft,.130. Curiously enough, 112 these eases were due to velocipede ™ers. The ltritish driver appears to even more reckless of the safety of Pedestrians than tlic drivers of New 'orit—N. y. Sun.

JAILED BY A POLAR BEAR.

I* Vmiiii Diuio'k Thrilling? Kxporlence Among the Icebergs. Gi the western coast of Greenland is

Settlement cnlled Upernavik. It is I Peopled partly by Eskimos lind partly IJ panes. in this settlement dwelt a I

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clergyman. Oluf Neilson by

l^me, with a son and a daughter: Osl«r eighteen years old, and Hilda, sixwen. early summer, Oscar frequently I

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hunting walrus and seal, with his Ifun or spoar. It is well known that I us cold, cheerless coast is never wlthP»t iceberg-s. One June an iceberg thus 11.

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sea

went booming with a great and. Oscar and Hilda went off In °'r «yak to see It and they noticed n, P°0'8 which had formed th« caves wore the resorts of seals "aw-aruses during part of the day. 1th have some good spoarlng

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Oscar, as ttiejr turned their

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bent a new l.'ne to tho handle and tha next day set out alone in the kayak. I Meanwhile, Hilda went up the valley for the goats. Her parting words to her brother were to be careful and to keep I watch for bears, as this was a favorite I haunt of the fierce polar bears.

Pulling his kayak up on tho rocks, Oscar proceeded out to tho berg, tho base cf which was not less than two acres in area, and from it rose to a considerable height two columns of darkblue ice somewhat resembling towers in form. One of these was honeycomled at the base, ami through the sides of tho low flat mass upon which the towers rested were various openings, so that when an ocean swell came rolling in, it went through tlieso perforations with a piping sound. I ie decided that he would enter the main cave at the base of the icc tower, hide tlmre, and wait.

Moving along carefully, with the coll of line hanging upon his shoulder and the spear in his hand, he entered the dim, cold cave. The open space, Oscar told me, was about forty feet square, and in the center of it, dipping eight or ten feet below the floor of the passageway, was a deep pool ofwater covering about half the area of the floor of the cave. Into this a large, square block of Ice had fallen from the roof.

How fortunate its presence was will soon appear! Oscar crouched down on the cold gray Ice, his spear grasped. In his hand, and Ins coil of rope lying beside him with one end fastened to his wrist. A gurgling sound, as of hurrying water on the other side of the pool, came to him, and he watched anil listened to make out the cause. Presently he saw two round black heads disappear

a.s

if they had

gone through the ice at the place wheneo the sound came, and then four or five other head of seals bobbed up, as if they had entered tho little lake from that point Ho knew then that it must bo a passage leading- to the sea.

Hut while the gurgling sound of the water came to him from the pool he heard a slighter and dim-rent noise coming from the mouth of tho care by which ho had entered. Turning, he saw, to his unspeakable horror, a ""lingo polar bear, its shaggy hide dripping water! The beast had seen him and was hullung along toward him. Oscar turned and faeed it for a moment—but what could he do with his spear against suoh an assailant? The spear could IV.T f^hrnug-h

that

shaggy coat and

thick hide. II»w tho animal's claws spread and stretched over the ice as it came along! Nearer and nearer it came, now crouching lower, its muzzle thrust out. and its claws stretching farther than ever from its feet.

Lhero was only one course. Oscar sprang into the icy water, and in tlireo or four strokes was close to the icecube. His spear and coil of rope were upon his shoulder, and by drivinir the spear into the hard blue* cube lie was enabled to get upon it. It \v is just large enough to bear his weight but ho was Obliged to stand very still on the middle of it to prevent it from heeling to one side and sliding him into the water. It. was almost as dark as night in the pool, aud Oscar could see the two glowering oves of the bear looking down upon him. lint the beast did not come into the pool. It turned away from the brink, aud lor two hours—two hours of wet. and cold, and terror— Osca* did not see the bear again.

Then Oscar resolved to go to the top again and sprung into the water, climbing hastily by the easiest way to the floor of the cavern. To his utter dismay he saw the great brute lying on the ice close to the cave's mouth!

Hour .after hour passed, until Oscar knew that, it must be late in the after noon, for the sun shone yellow on tin ice beyond the mouth of the eavi Still his savage jailer made no move still Oscar sat. not moving from the lump of ice. thinking of the terror of Hilda at his long absence. Still another hour went by, and the golden glOw on tho ice outside began to turn to gray, for the sun was below the hills that sheltered Upernavik.

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Another half-hour of terror passed, end then Oscar saw the bear spring to its feet, thrust out its head, and make for the opening of Wie cavern. Oscar held his breath, and peering out, saw a seal slowly crossing the great ice platform, making for the rocks. The bear swiftly disappeared, making after this now prey, and you may be sure Oscar was not long in getting outside of this terrible dungeon.

What was Oscar's amazement presently to see the seal stand up, throw back the fur from its head aud shoulders, aud turn into a girl!—yes, into his own dear sister Hilda!

She shouted aloud and waved her handkerchief. The bear, evidently disconcerted, turned, run lumberingly up a gulch and disappeared into a tangle of ground-firs.

When the brother and sister met their joy was so great that neither could speak a word. Hilda, borrowing another kayak, had came to look for Oscar, and had seen the bear at the mouth of the cave. At once suspecting the cause of her brother's absence, she went home, got the skin and personated a seal, with tin1 complete success I have recorded.—Kdmund Collins, in M. Nicholas.

Somr Novel Sorapbooks.

A young woman who finds that a very large part, of her lift, is made up of society duties and pleasures has devised .. a unique way of perpetuating the memory of her engagements. During the past two seasons she has received several hundred invitations, all of which she lias preserved and pasted in order

In two enormous sorapbooks. In another book she has arranged every one of the cards that have boon left at her house, with tho dates of the calls and "In" or "out," signifying that she did or did not see the young man, writtan upon them. As a result of this method, which has required little tlmo or trouble, she has a complete rocord of her pleaaures since ber debut.—Chicago Post.

—Times Change, but People do Xot—• Aooording to a Roman doctor, who lias been fumbling over a lot of skulls found in Etruscan tombs, the ancients wore artificial teeth, but for that mat* tar, so they do to-day.

—A Concordia, Kan., preacher had a valuable horse blanket stolen during the progress of a series of revival meetings. In a few days the thief was converted by tho preacher's words and the next day returned the stolen blanket and confessed his sin. —lternhurdt's nine performances in Boston aggregated S42,830.37, the largest amount ever drawn in that cit3' by any actross or singer in the same number of appearances. And yet Sarah thinks it an outrage that she should be required to pay a dog tax. —Sir William •iordon-Cumniing's family place at Altyre, Morayshire, is one of the most beautiful places in Scotland, and the richly wooded demesne contains more than fifteen miles of grass drives. There are nearly fourteen thousand acres of first-rate grouse cover. —An eccentric tragedian, whose ch'ef attraction is the hardihood with which he faces guying audiences, and endures such approbation as is expressed by showers of stale vegetables and venerable eggs, has been compelled to protect himself by a net stretched across the stage. Now tho boys attack liim with putty-blowers. —A Louisville, Ky., lady has presented her pastor with a remarkable ring. It is probably the only one of the kind in the world. It contains twelve precious s'ones, the same as were in the Aaronic high priest's breast-plate, and arranged in tho same order—sardius, emerald, ligure, beryl, topaz, sapphire, agate, onyx, carbuncle, diamond, amethyst and jasper. —There was a lively scrapping match between two Indiana lightweights the other night, and when the victor returned to his home in Seymour, puffed up over his victory and S100 in his pocket, his mother realized that his egotism might prove his downfall if not nipped in the bud. She therefore squared off and broke his ja\v, and knocked him out in the second round. —l!aron Maurice do Hirsch's signature to the document by which he gives 62,500,01)0 to ameliorate the condition of his countrymen in America is thus described: "There was a bold start, a wild zigzagging of pen marks up and down and finally a tangle which might be taken to mean anything that suited the fancy of the reader. Yet nobody felt called upon to criticise the penmanship." —Joseph Savory, present lord mayor of London, is said to be making some very bad breaks. His letter to the czar in the interest of the Jews was returned unopened, and now lie has the humiliation, to say the least, of being

"A LITTLE NONSENSE."

—An Knglisli publisher announces a new work entitled "He Always Pleased His Wife." It is.

rtietion.—N.

Y. Re

corder. 5"? —Sanso—"Were you ever in a fight, liodd'.'" K. 'M—"Yes—or—no—er—that is—I once had a fight but 1 wasn't in it."—X. Y. Sun. lle.es are said to be possessed of powerful memories. So are people to whom a bee over introduces himself.— Richmond Recorder. —A watched pot never boils, but it often makes the' man that watches it boil to see the other fellow rake it in.— I'linghamton Leader. —lie Can't Understand It.—It is hard I to get a farmer's boy to understand why turning the grind-stone is better for him than to go a fishing.—Rain's Horn. —"Amelia, darling." "Yes, Arthur." "You know we'are soon to be married." "Yes." "And we should learn to bo cconominal in small things." "Yes." "Hadn't you better turn down the gas?" —Spare Moments. —She—"If I were not a girl, I should like to be a lieutenant of hussars." "It is quite unnecessary for you to be as much as that, my dear young lady, for you are irresistible even as you arc."— Fliegende Hlatter. —Mistaken in His Wants.—"Can you cook?" lie asked. "Yes." she replied. "Can you sew?" "Yes." "Can you wash and iron?" "Yes." "Will you be my wife?" "Xo! What you evidently want is a hired girl."—Somerville Journal. —With the Light Turned Low.—Clerk (in the gas company's oflice)—"This bill of Wislilets is entirely too large: ho couldn't have consumed so much gas last month." liookkeeper—"How do you know?" Clerk— "Er-um. 1 ought to know. 1 am paying my addresses to his daughter."—lirooklyn Kagle. —A Denver confectioner has luing up in his store lists of the various articles which he supplies. To-wit: For girls, angel cake for agriculturists, hoe cake for the paragraph writer, spice cake for the red-haired girl, ginger cake for the impecunious, short cake: for tho pugilist, pound cake, and soon.—Tomahawk. —A Case of Fmcrgency.—Itricktop— "No, thank you, lludger. You really must excuse inc. Fact is, 1 promised Mrs. Ifricktop that I would never drink except in case of emergency ." Uudgcr —"Well, when wo emerge from the saloon that'll be a case of emergency, won't it?" Hricktop—"That's a fact, old man. That lets me out."—Epoch. —Illcks—"Going to buy a house, I hear? Of course, you'll take your wife along with you?" Wicks—"Not If I know myself. Took her last week to see a house, and after we had spent an hour looking it over, my wife said she guessed we wouldn't purchase to-day, but wouldn't the owner bo so kind as to give her a sample?"—Boston Transcript

SOME QUEER EXPRESSIONS. They Are Found In the Vocabulary Fccn* lliir to Tlileven. "One frequently hears odds and ends of slangy expressions which are said to have tlioir origin in tho vocabulary used by thieves, but Is It true that the class in question really has anything like a vornacular peculiarly its own?" was tho question propounded to a veteran detective by a representative of the Free Press. "Yes, it is a fact," responded the detective, "arid, curiously enough, a number of the expressions used by crooked people nowadays were current

caught in an aggravated case of plagiarism. lie read a sermon to a body of young nu-n. and afterward had the chagrin of having it revealed that he took it bodily from Spurgeon. —Among the "arts" taught by a lady in Cincinnati is that of "being able to shed tears whenever occasion requires —a most powerful weapon in the hands of any female." It will surprise a great many people that shedding tears is an art. It has always been looked upon as being a part and parcel of a female —the same as lu-r hands and feet, and as to occasions the general idea is that her tears are like, a motion to adjournalways in order. —Detroit Free 1'ress.

ISO

years

ago among Knglisli and French thieves. ithin my own recollection there have been a good many changes in these slang expressions, but the great majority of them still remain in use the same as years o. You can, however, set one thing down as an established truth: When you hear either a crook or au officer sprinkle liis conversation pretty liberally with slang, make up your mind that he is no good. To be "sure all thieves, and the majority of detectives, understand what the various slang expressions used by thieves mean, but it's only tho more ignorant class of thieves or the coarser grade of men whose business it is to run them down, who habitually talk in the vernacular. Although I am a little rusty so far as these expressions are concerned, I will jog my memory and give you all of them that I can now recollect In the first place to 'graft' is to steal, and all thieves are 'grafters,' knuclts and guns, although variously subdivided according to tho particular line of stealing they engage in. Thus a burglar is a 'night worker' or a 'house worker.' A jewelry store thief is a 'pennyweighter,' a highwayman is a 'strong arm man,' a shoplifter is a 'hoister,' a safe blower is a 'peter man.' 'box man,' or 'iron worker, formerly called 'gopher blowers.' A pickpocket is generally called a 'dip,' but sometimes simply a 'grafter.' A thief who robs houses in the early evening is called a 'porch climber,' 'climber' or 'second-story worker.' All petty thieves come under the general designation of 'sneaks,' and those who steal from wagons on the streets nre called 'butcher cart thieves.' A forger is a 'scratelier,' and a confidence man is a "con man.' 'Touch' means steal, 'jug' means bank hence the expression 'touching a jug' signifies stealing from a bank. A woman is a 'moll,' and a 'moll-buzzer' is a pickpocket who makes a specialty of robbing women. Men are called 'blokes,' 'guys,' 'suckers,' 'marks' and 'mugs.1 'Suckers' aud 'marks' aro victims or intended victims, and a 'soft mark' is an easy victim. Money is 'sugar' or 'stuff," stolen property is 'swag,' a receiver of the same a 'fence.' To conceal stolen property is to 'plant' it, and 'springing the plant' is to remove the property from where it is secreted. "Kacli thief's share of plunder is called his 'whack,' and what is deposited for use in ease arrest follows a crime is called 'fall money.' All police otlicers are called 'coppers:1 an unnnifornied otlicer is a 'flaty cop' while a detective is a 'fly-copper'or 'fly-collar.' 'Pinched' or 'sneezed' menus arrested, while 'sloughed' is used in the same connection. 'Cooler' or 'quod' mean a jail or police station, while 'grand quay' means a penitentiary. A lawyer is "a 'mouth-piece' and a judge is a 'beak,1 while 'settled' means convicted and sentenced to prison. 'Doing a bit1 is sewing a term in prison, 'dotting tho black gown' means being condemned to death, while 'croak1 means to kill. A crook who informs on his associates is called a 'snitch,1 a 'finger1 or a capper.1 l!y otlicers tho same are called 'spotters1 or 'stool pigeons.' 'Fanning' is feeling of a man's pockets from the outside to seo what he carries and where he carries it. 'Whisking' means searching a prisoner. A person's head is his 'nut.' his face is called his 'mug,' his nose 'conk,'his eyes 'ogles,'his ears'lugs,1 his mouth 'kisser,' and his teeth 'grinders.' His hands are 'dukes,'his fingers 'forks'or 'hooks' and his elbows 'crooks.1 A hat is a 'dicer' or a 'cady,1 a coat a 'ben1 or 'benjamin', an overcoat a 'top benjamin,1 a watch is a 'super,1 a gold watch a 'red super.1 A collar is a 'dicky,' trousers are 'kicks,1 shoes are 'squills' or 'stamps' aud boots are 'churns.1 A dollar is a 'case,'a hundred dollars is a 'century,' while counterfeit money is'queer'or'flimsy.' A man who passes counterfeit monoy is said to 'shove' it, man who makes it is called a 'connincker1 or 'coney-man.' 'Pipe' is watch or look at, 'screw' Ig got out of the way, 'pad the hoof1 moans to run away. A revolver is a 'gun' and a slung shot is a 'billy' or 'blackjack.'

A saloon is. a 'lushing tub' or 'boozing ken,' a car or train is a 'rattler,1 while food is 'peck.' To 'patter flash1 is to talk slang, and 'stash your gab' means stop talking, and right here, I guess, would lie a good place for me to pause for breath, and give you an opportunity to commit to memory the slang expressions I have been able to recollect."—Detroit Free Press.

A I.rtter on rosing" Stamp. When the postmaster in the little country oflice at Ellington, Conn., opened his mail bag one day a single uncanceled postage stamp fell out. Ho looked among the letters to seo if the stamp had come from one of them, but they were all right. Then he examined the stamp to see if the stamp was still on it. He found that Mrs. J. F. Irviss, of Shaker Station, in this state, had exercised her ingenuity and strained her eyesight, by writing a letter on the back of the stamp. On one edge was a small margin of white paper, such as is always found on tho full sheet of stamps, and on this was written the address N. Y. Sun.

A Grave Charge.

First Police Official (ansiously)—I hear that one of our men has beaten half a dozen inoffensive citizens to death.

Second Police Official (hotly) —If that horrible charge is true, I'll—I'll—hang me If I don't have him transferred to another precinct—N. Y. Weekly.

—An incautious burglar entered tho sleeping apartment of an editor in Billvllle, Ga. the editor pounccd upon and overpowered him, aud made six dollars by the visit

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FOR THE SPRING TRADE.

All the new and handsome patterns and colorings are in the stock,

and in the cheap grades there are many designs heretofore

only produced in the highest-priced goods.

ANew Stock of Window Shades.

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