Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1883 — Page 5

ABOVE THE CLOUDS. Interesting Narrative of a Balloon VoyujfoSeveuiceu Thousand Feet Above the Barth. Cable Special to New York Herald. The balloon, “The Colonel,” which ascended at Maldon, Essex, arrived at Flushing on Wednesday night. The aeronauts were Sir Claude de Crespigny and Mr. Joseph Simmons. The latter gives the following account of his voyage: Before the start from Maldon several pilot balloons were launched, in order to ascertain tbe direction we were likely to take. The pilots indicated several currents at a low altitude, but as at the moment of starting the wind gave a good deal of trouble, we found it necessary to leave the ground with great ascending power. Every attempt made to utilize the currents would have been at the expense of gas or ballast. We had a desire to cross the German ocean, therefore every ounce of ballast and every foot of gas had to be cautiously used* There was not much time to enjoy the glorious panorama ere we found it necessary promptly tr discuss the Sropriety of attempting to reach Holland or elgium. Fortunately the atmosphere over Epgland was clear. The start was made at ll o'clock. We kept nearly over the middle of the Blackwater. At 1:20 we are over Brad well. At 1:30 o’clock we are just passing the shores of Essex. Taking our bearings, we found we were going straight toward Rotterdam, and if the wind continued would probably reach Holland before dark. The bottom of the sea was clearly seen in every direction. Every channel and shoal was easily marked. They formed a curious network. We could see two men near Harwich very distinctly. Six steamers beneath us appeared almost in collision. The bell on the buoy east of the Blackwater was continually ringing. The sound was very clear to us. We are at an altitude of 9,000 feet. The lightship east of Blackwater is about the size of a flea, but very distinct. Although the bell is constantly ringing, we can now and again hear shouts from the decks of the Steamers. We throw out sheets of paper and find we are making still a trifle southeastward. Our safety and the attainment of our object depend upon being able to continue this course. At 2:30 p. m. we have not yet spent an ounce of ballast or touched any valve. Our altitude fit this moment is 10,000 feet. Our feet are cold. We appear to be overhauling mist to the southeast. At 2:55 we are enshrouded in mist. We tan see nothing but ourselves and the balloon. A few minutes later we have a magnificent picture of the balloon on a cloud. We can see our vis-a-vis doing everything exactly as we do, even our fingers hauling the ropes and grappling the cable, which I have let out, distinctly reproduced. I call Sir Claude's attention to this apparant mirage. He cannot see it where he is sitting, but on coming to my side he sees the rope as distinctly as I do. My blue serge silk looks now quite green and continues so for many minutes. The atmosphere is a very deep blue above us. The gas in the balloon is perfectly clear and the great dome has a very solid and assuring appearance. Everything is in perfect tranquility. I can hear the b§ating of our hearts very distinctly. Our ears are occasionally blocked, but we remedy this by widely opening the mouth. * At 4:30 we think there is a slight sound as of surf. Wc are very slowly descending. At 4:40 we emerge on the under side of the clouds, and can see something looking like a cdast-line to the southeast. We are still on the same course we started with. At 4:50 we have approached near enough to find our imaginary coast-line a long sweep of shoal, but this encourages us to think that we have passed mid-ocean. Another long line of shoal now appears as if by magic. We are in full view of six steamers. As we suppose, these are all coining from the east. On a nearer approach we see they are sailing Vessels. They appear to expect that we shall require their services, for they are tacking and dodging us. At 5:10 tw-o steamers are distinctly visible, both going westward. At ten minutes to 6 Sir Claude cries: “Look there? Is that another shoal?” We diseuss the matter with much interest. Sir Cluude cannot believe it anything but the mainland. I soon begin to think the same, but it continues for a long time very indistinct, and as I look very fixedly at it for some minutes it appears to alter its shape, and I conclude it can be nothing but a strack of cloud. Instead of increasing in distinctness this long sweep now grows a little more dim. At the same time we have other indications which make us think wo have changed our course. Sir Claude says two or three times that he does not despair now of the streak turning out to he land. .His distant vision was more distinct than mine. At ten minutes past 6 we are both perfectly satisfied. We arerin view of the coast to the east. The sun peeps between the clouds, and under the influence of his rays the balloon instantly shot upward with fearful rapidity. Sir Claude said, “Do you not smell gas escaping?” But I did not. Had it not been for this safeguard of his the consequences might have been serious. In a few seconds we were over a vast area of what looked like mountains of snow, solid enough to walk on. The grandeur of this scene it would be utter folly for me to attempt to describe. Not the slightest movement could be detected in any part of this vast cloud land. Every mountain peak seemed to stand there fixed forever. The temptation was too great to go down and leave this grandeur until a greater temptation came—the positive sound of the surf immediately beneath. We now opened a valve and rushed downward with great rapiditv. A few seconds are sufficient to bring us down front our highest position 17,000 feet—low enough to have spread before .our delighted vision the beach of Walcheren Island, on the north side of the Scheldt river, and the mainland of Holland shutting us in to the south. We had already passed the mouth of the Scheldt. I considered we were now safe enough, and sketched Walcheren while flashing iust beneath us. People were now hailing lustily from all points. The balloon brought down splendidly at Flushing, the grapplingiron taking firm grip in a ditch surrounding a 'wheat field. The ditch acted as a fence round the balloon to keep off the great crush. When we had emptied and packed the balloon we went through the streets, which were thronged with people all the way to the Hotel Wellington where we were entertained fora short time. After getting some refreshments we proceded to the landing stage and there procured berths on the steamer Princess Mary for Queensborough. I had almost forgotten to mention that the cold was intense over the mouth of the West Scheldt at an altitude of 17,000 feet. Iliad 400 pounds of ballast # left when we came down, and our journey* could have been prolonged but for our having promised Lady de Crespigny that we wcnild do our best to descend on reaching the coast. We landed at 7 o'clock.

A Carson Man's Variegated Daughter. Carson (NevJ Appeal. Carsou has developed a bad boy. His name is Johnny McGinnis, and he lives on King |treet. A few days ago Mrs. McGinnis •Started to give her seven-year-old daughter a bath. WherT she disrobed her by the tub she was horrified at discovering that the young lady was covered aii over with crocodiles, fish, rare animals and Egyptian ibexes, painted on in lasting colors. She said that her brother Johnny had painted her to get her a chance to go away with the circus. The tieigUbors were called in, and their low opiu-

ion of the boy was unbounded. The elder McGinnis sailed out after the venturesome lad and found him in Johnson’s barn, where he was decorating a young lad whom he had inveigled away from his parents. When the elder McGinnis had finished parleying with the younger McGinnis the trunk strap which he had brought into the barn had seen its best days. _ OPTION-DEALING BY THE CARD. The Principle of the Faro-Box Applied to Speculation in Wheat and Other Grains— Betting on Quotations. Chicago News. A grain-speculating device has been invented by a well-known sporting man of this city that will astonish the natives and cause a complete surprise to the dealers in options. In fact, it is veryliable to create a panic on 'Change, and throw the bulls and bears into a paralyzing fever of excitement. So quick is the action of this new scheme for the speculative person that “the market” can be changed in the twinkling of an eye, and the operator who has put up margins on the rise and fall of grain of any kind will know the result insun ter, and cannot be “frozen out” by any clique or “corner” manipulators. Owing to the mechanical arrangement of the device it is not an easy matter to clearly explain it; it must be seen in operation to give the would-be speculator a correct idea of its workings. Two boxes, such as are used in faro, are placed iu a case or frame, and in tiiem is put a pack of white cards upon which are printed in plain black letters the different kinds of grain, as wheat, corn, oats, barley and rye. Immediately beneath the words are fractional figures from one-eighth to seven-eighths, inclusive. The pack of cards, which contains about fifty-two in number, after being thoroughly shuffled, is placed in the upper box, and, by means of two levers, the second card below the first (which has been exposed to view) is pushed down into the lower box, a metal slide covering the face of the cards is moved aside, and the second and third cards uppermost in the pack are presented and appear somewhat in the manner given in the following diagram:

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To illustrate: Suppose Brown “bought” September wheat at $1.03 previous to the “operation” of the box above explained. Wheat appears on the card at $1.03%, as diagramed. He would therefore make % of a cent on each bushel his “contract” called for. The number of bushels to be purchased by any person can only be lirußed by the amount of capital invested by the firm operating the box. BlanK contracts to "buy” and “sell” grain of any kind will be furnished at the place where the business is conducted, and after they are filled out the levers are applied and the result stands out before all. The upper part of the box above the parallel lines is called the “up” side, and the lower the “down” side of “the market.” Had Brown “sold” wheat he would have lost of a cent on each bushel sold. In the event of “wheat” appearing on both tHe “up” and “down” sides, the difference between the figures is subtracted, and the margins either lost or gained according to the contract made. A speculator can be a “bull” or a “bear” as lie may choose. He is bound to find quick action for iiis money. Should the card representing the kind of grain he is dealing in not appear iit the first few turns or operations of the levers, he has only to wait a few minutes, the cards are iu the box, and wiil appear soon enough to satisfy the most impatient speculator. No one will have to wait as long as he does for the board of trade figures. Nor can there he any manipulation of the "quotations.” It is impossible to cheat by shuffling or manipulating the cards, and the box cannot he “worked” by. the operator so as to fleece the buyer or seller. When one man “buys” wheat, another may “sell,” and one will offset the other when the “quotations” are expose'd in the box. The names of the grains to be dealt in and the figures are printed on both ends of each card, so that they will come out right side up, no matter ( how they are put together. The person desiring to speculate in this way will be charged an eighth of one per cent, for the service performed—the same rate charged by the bucket shops. Margins can be put up for amounts of grain as low as 100 bushels, but the inventors of the scheme have not as yet fixed upon any limit, one way or the other; that will he governed by the development of the business as it progresses. A prominent board of trade man lias been instrumental in perfecting the scheme, having taken it from an imperfect stare. The speculator in grain who has watched the market during the sessions of the regular and open boards of trade, and tlion “got left,” can try what mere chance will do, and the speculative novice needs no previous knowledge of the technicalities and workings 6f the great board of trade and the auxiliary bucket shops to enable him to make “a deal;” all lie has got to do is to put up his margins, and “buy” or “sell,” as he deems best. He cannot be subjected to the manipulations of tlie market; the whole business of speculating in fictitious values is resolved into chance. The gentlemen owning thedevice for showing the fluctuations of the market argue that the quotations are influenced mainly by the large operators in the great grain marts, and the prices are largely fictitious; that speculation* in cereals is not carried on according to the natural laws of trade and commerce. Hence their device produces purely fictitious values, and no unfair advantage can be taken of the invester. A room is being fitted up in good style, where the great body of speculator can easily reach it, and within a few days the regular yet simple device will be thrown open for public inspection. That it will furnish food for argument there is no room for doubt. It is not a game. Contracts are drawn the same as on the hoards of trade, and a clerical force is engaged in settling margins and attending to the general business of the board. No name has been given the invention as yet, but the keen operators of Board of Trade alley will soon christen the new scheme and speculate upon its merits.

A Plea for the Kagle. Nvr York Time*. The squirrel-hunter who stops this imperial bird in his flight is moved by no desire to protect a furmer’s crops or to replenish his larder. The bird does no harm, and the cook will not touch it. The slayer of the eagle thirsts for cheap notoriety, and is shameless. Instead of pointing ins miserable shot-gun at the monarch in the air, lie should get down on his knees and thank (od that his eyes have been suffered to see this emblem of freedom, endowed with life, soaring and circling above the soil of a free country. ____________ ENTKRPHISIN’O looal agents wanted iu tills town for mi artiole that is sure to sell, live druggists and grocers preferred. Address Uiuniston Food Preservative Coiupauy, 72 lviiby street, Jtoaion.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, AUGUST TANARUS, ISS3.

MR. SEWARD’S BLUFF. One of the War-Time Stories Told in President Arthur’s Car on the Trip to Louisville. • LouUville Courier-Journal, Politicians—American politicians at least —ai# proverbially good story-tellers, and none tell better stories than Kentucky politicians. All the cabinet officers tell excellent stories, Lincoln especially. He seems to have inherited it. But about the best story that was told on the whole trip was one of Colonel John Mason Brown’s. It was not a humorous story, but relates to a bit of stcret war history that is exceedingly interesting. It i3 vouched for by Colonel Brown. The story runs as follows: It may be remembered that about 1860 and 1861, just as the great rebellion was being inaugurated, there was great talk of the scarcity of ammunition on the Union side. It was well known that the war would he a Titantic struggle, the wrestle of giants, ami the materials of war were not so plentiful as was necessary. One day the brother of Mr. Bedenu nt DuPont, who now runs a great gunpowder manufactory in Delaware, received a message from Mr. Seward, tbe minister of war, to come immediately to Washington, The message was urgent, the time critical, and Mr. DuPont knew it must be a grave matter; so he hurried on to Washington, and Mr. Seward held a conversation with him immediately after he reached the city. “You know' how tight we are for articles of war,” began the great minister; “now, I want you to start immediately for England and buy up all the saltpeter in the European markfet The government has implicit confidence in you. We know your kowledge of saltpeter, and that you are able to buy better and cheaper than any agent we could send. Buy everything up—the gold will follow you on the next steamer.” Mr. DuPont hurried off to New York and caught the first Liverpool steamer. When he arrived in England he w’ent to the bank-ing-house of Brown, Shipley A Cos., with whom he transacted all his business. He told them his object in coming there, and asked them to advance him $2,500,000. The head of the firm was most polite, he bowed to the ground, he smiled and rubbed his hands, but really the sum was so large, and really they could not afford to give it. They would like the best in the world to oblige Mr. DuPont, but, etc., etc. Mr. DuPont failed to get the money. He posted over to see George Peabody, the millionaire banker. Peabody listened to him with profound attention, interrupting now’ and then with a shrewd question. At length he said: “If you wiil guarantee that the gold will come over by the next steamer I will advance you the money.” Mr. DuPont immediately started out and bought uj every pound of saltpeter in the market. He chartered a steamer, hired a crew, and began loading it. He was just under good headway when suddenly an order came from the foreign office: “Lord , Palmerston forbids the shipping of the saltpeter.” Mr DuPont was dumfounded, and hurried around to the Premier's office. Lord Palmerston was polite and affable, but firm. They were munitions of war; they couldn’t be shipped. It was in vain that Mr. DuPont allowed his letters; in vain that he told it was for his government. Lord Palmerston was courteous but obstinate. Mr. DuPont at once set out for home, leaving orders with his men to watch the saltpeter. He hastened to see Seward, and told him all. “There is only one way to do this thing,” said Mr. Howard, “we must play the bluff game for all that it’s worth. Give these letters to Lord Palmerston and this open letter to our minister, Mr. Adams.” Mr. DuPont returned to London. He sent his card to Palmerston. The servant said he was engaged. Mr. DuPont pushed by the servant —an unheard of thing—and marched in to where the Premier sat, up to bis eyes in papers. “Ah. Mr. DuPont, I am delighted to see you, sir.” said the politest of politicians. “You have doubtless come about that saltpeter matter. Well, sir, lam sorry to say that the government has seen no cause to change its opinion.” Mr. DuPont handed the letters of Mr. Seward—letters of explanation and identification. They seemed to have no effect. “Mr. Seward has written this open letter to our minister. I suppose lam at liberty to read it to you,” and Mr. DuPont slowly read the letter: To Mr. Adams: On Lord Palmerston’s refusing to let tbe saltpeter go, you are ordered to leave England instantly, without presenting your respects to her Majesty’s government; return to Washington, when war will immediately he. declared against England. Without waiting for the dumfounded Premier to recover from his surprise, Mr. DuPont bade hint a polite adieu and left. He drove to his hotel and ordered his breakfast. While he was eating, in came a liveried and powdered footman, saying: “My Lord Palmerston is at the door waiting to see you in his carriage.” The hall was full of men, who were all agog at once, wondering what dignitary this could be. Mr. DuPont quietly replied: “Tell his Lordship lam eating my breakfast, and I will see him as soon as I have finished.” A buzz went arouvl the room. “Who was this blarsted American who dared to make England’s Prime Minister wait?” But Mr. DuPont was playing a bluff game, and he played it for all it was worth. He was nearly through his dinner, but took another bottle of wine to keep Palmerston waiting. Presently lie sent out a note, telling the great Englishman he was ready to see him. Palmerston came in and said: “Mr. DuPont, the government has changed its mind. You can ship your saltpeter. Come up to the Foreign Office to-iuorrow and get an order.” “I want an order right now,” and down sat the premier at the breakfast tabie and wrote the order. That night the packing began, and the next day the vessel was under way lor New York? Mr. DuPont picked up the Times the next morning. It had been recommending that the saltpeter be detained all along, but there, in the first column, was an editorial favoring its being allowed to go. Mr. DuPont went down to Brown, Shipley A Cos. They had heard of the vessel being detained; In fact, everybody was talking about it. “lam sorry you can’t get your stuff off.” said Mr. Shipley, a stuffy old man, subject to fits. “But I have gotten it off,” said Mr. DuPont. The old fellow stared at him incredulously. “Where did you get your authority?” “From Lord Palmerston; he wrote the order himself.” This was too much. The old fellow rolled over on his chair in a paroxysm of laughter. His clerks, thinking he had a fit, emptied a bucket of ice-water on him before they discovered their mistake. The matter was then explained, and the old man was loud in his expressions of surprise. While they were talking Sanderson, of the Times, came in. He turned to Mr. DuPont ami said: “The Times has had a great - deal to do with getting you this honor. It wants a little consideration; say about £500.” Mr. DuPont knew how much the Times had to do with it, and answered that there would be a number of fees for the use of the dock and the paying of his hands and nil that; if Mr. Sanderson could get that money he might have it. No bills were ever sent to Mr. DuPont, and a week later he was shak-

ing hands with Seward, and they were laughing together over the success of their bluff game. * ivi MONSEIGNEUK CAPEL, The Churchman Talks About the Conversion of the Marquis of Bute. Philadelphia Pres*. “Because Lord Bute happens to be a marquis and very wealthy there is no reason why he should not have a soul to he saved. His fortune is large, but that is no particular benefit to the church, unless he chooses to make it so. I also received into the church Lord Courtenay, who will some day wear the coronet of the Earl of Devon. That young nobleman not only has no money but failed some little time ago for £BOO,OOO, so that if I brought a Croesus into the church, I counterbalanced it by introducing a very great debtor. I had nothing to do with the conversion of the Marquis of Ripon. The Marquis acted on his own impulses and sougut instruction under an assumed name. He went as a complete stranger to ca 1 ! on a priest in London, and asked for advice. The clergyman had no suspicion of the rank of his visitor, and the fact remained unknown almost up to the day of his reception, when he disclosed his identity. I personally received Lord Braye, and also the present Duchess of Norfolk. The Duchess was a daughter of the late Countess of Lou* do’ .i, and niece of tiie late Marquis of Hastings. The Duke tell in love with her; but a Duchess of Norfolk must be a Catholic, and the Duke’s persuasions and mine had the effect of altering the young lady’s religious opinions, and she came into the church shortly before her marriage. I wish you would say that Monseigneur Capel told you that he did not convert Mrs. HicKS-Lord to the church. That lady came to me from America with excellent letters of introduction from persons of prominence in this country. She was already a Catholic, and being so well vouched for I. of course, had pleasure in introducing her in society. The circumstances may be almost forgotten now, but I think I saw it mentioned recently somewhere in a newspaper that the lady’s conversion was influenced by the social advantages she might obtain thereby through me.” One of the Beauties of Trades-Uulonign). New York Tribune. Let women and men, all women and all men, stand on the same callous, soulless, brutal dead-level of unionism. Then what appears? Only this, that the many who do not devote their lives to others, if they cannot get just as much as they want for personal passions or pleasures, prefer to trample upon and morally slaughter the few who do devote their lives to others. To tiiem it does not matter whether the man has a sick wife or a hungry child, or whether the woman lias a helpless father or a failing mother; this beautiful ‘•‘Brotherhood” puts them on the same level with the man who spends for cigars ami drink as much as another needs to keep a wife or child or mother from want. He, being the majority, votes-for a strike, because he does not propose to go without his cigar and his drink except for a little time, and to force somebody to pay him more for his services. But the man with wife and child, the woman with helpless ones depending on her efforrs, what are they’to do? Os course, if they do not want to be called "deserters,” they must strike also, aud let sickness or starvation fall where it will. That is trades-unionism, and a particularly beautiful and Christian-like thing it is for this nineteenth century!

Making Bill Loriiuer l’rove It. New York Tribune. Judye lioadly seems easily satisfied. Being asked by a newspaper correspondent what lie had to say, now that Governor Foster had furnished him the name of the man who informed him that he (Hoadly) had said that his nomination cost him a large sum of money’, the Judge answered: “I have nothing to add to my correspondence with Mr. Foster. My object is sufficiently accomplished by the disclosure of the name of his informant.” And he would say no more. “When this’ere Bill Lorimer said I was caught robbing Dr. Green’s hen-roost,” said Mr. Roswell Smiley to the crowd sitting round the stove in the village grocery, *T jis swore I’d make him prove it.” “Well, did you?” asked tiie little man on the cracker barrel. “Did 1? You bet I did.” “And what ye going to do about it now?” pursued the little man. “Do about it? The’ ain’t nothin’ to do about it, 1 said I’d make him prove it, and I did.” A Remarkable Bouquet, London World. A Dduquet recently carried by the Princess of Wales was remarkable, II w’as comentirely’of large lilies, tinted with the most delicate blue and pink hues by the absorption of dyes through the stems. By this process, which was discovered by Mr. Nesbir, the well-known analyst, while experimenting on the anatomy’ of flowers, very beautiful results can be obtained without in any wa.v affecting the perfume or freshness. Singular to say, flowers refuse to absorb certain colors, while they dispose of others in different planners. If placed in a mixed solution they make a complete analysis, and some of the lilies which had been treated with purpie showed distinct red veins and blue veins, the colors having been divided in the process of absorption. The Cereal Idea. The Graphic. The “vegetarian theory 7” is slowly' though imperceptibly gaining ground among a small and intelligent class. Like all new ideas, it has necessarily been obliged to pass through its era of extreme and develop people who starved themselves to deatli or came near so doing. The tendency at present is not to discard meat entirely or at once, but to reduce the daily quantity consumed. The term "vegetarian” seems in a measure inappropriate. It should be rather the “cereal theory,” since it is from grains of all descriptions that nutriment is gained. Tiie dailybill of fair at any of our restaurants shows a great increase in tiie amount ami variety of vegetables and grain food consumed over forty years ago. Quietly Waiting at His Tlome. Richmond (V a) State. Marshall T. Polk, ex-Treasurer of the State of Tennessee, who is popularly supposed to be in j,he penitentiary of that State “doing time” on a twenty-years’ sentence for the larceny of State funds, with a line of nearly half a million hanging over his head, is really quietly waiting at his own home, in Nashville, under hail, the determination of an appeal he took against the judgment. Possibly tbe severe judgment pressed on Polk may yet stand hint in good stead, and lie may escape punishment for his moral lapses entirely'. Vanderbilt’* Eyes. New Yoik Letter. There is no trutli in the story that William 11. Vanderbilt’s eyes are in danger, except from fat. His face grows soft and pudgy month hv month, and his under lip hangs down more than ever, but his health is fair. He is not a pretty’ thing, but he is good for ten years more at feast. A Ludicrous Blunder. Washington Post. The strike of the telegraphers must he loaded with the responsibility of the ludicrous mistake by which Senator Butler, of South Carolina, was made to say in a public speech that he wanted to see 200,000 “Mormons" settle in that State. He said Germans. “Woman and Her Diseases” is the title of hu interesting treatise (06 pages) sent postpaid, for three ritampa. Address World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, M. Y.

THE SULTAN AT THE CIRCUS. How Some American Lion Turners Gave an Exhibition at Yiidiz. Cable Special to New York Herald. Colonel Boone and Mrs. Boone, otherwise Milly Carlotta, thq American lion tamers, ! who have been astonishing the natives for ;.the last few days by their wonderful feats i with a group of five lions, have met withdis- ! tinguished honor at the hands of the Sultan. ■ They were summoned to Yiidiz to give an j exhibition in presence of his Majesty’, who ! was so struck with their intrepid behavior j that in addition to a very handsome gratuity ; he decorated one of them with the order of j the Mejidie of the third class, and the other with the Shefkat, an order specially’ instij tilted for ladies. Thinking it would be interesting to hear what an impression their visit to Yiidiz would make on an American mind new to ! the East, 1 waited on the Colonel and had a I chat with him. He said: “The Sultan is a mighty civil- ■ spoken gentleman. He has a nice, soft voice. ; Anyhow, he treated us uncommonly well, j W hen the performance was over he told me he was very’ much pleased and that I must S take the animals there again. His Majesty : sat in a chair within a few feet of the cage when I drove the lions back. As we prepared to leave he called out ‘Bravo!’ He was the only one who said a word. Ali tiie others stood in a half-circle behind his chair. Several ladies of the harem were present, although they did not show themselves. They j stood behind a screen of lattice-work. I know ! they were there, as one of the black fellows ! came from that direction with the order of the Shefkat sent to my wife by the Sultan’s chief lady p . Besides, I caught sight of one lady peeping round the corner of the screen. I had not to thank anyone, but knowing that the Sultan was fond of wild animals, I thought it would not be long before I heard from the palace, especially as some big pashas had been to see the performance. “Anyhow, one of the lads came and asked me how long it would take to get the animals to Yiidiz. When the telegram arrived we started immediately, the cage being drawn by six oxen. At the barracks the guard stopped us and we had to wait an hour while a telegram was sent to Yiidiz. Tiie reply came that his Majesty wished me to come on immediately. I thought after this that the road was clear, but a mile further on a cavalry picket detained us while another message was sent. I had to answer all questions asked in the reply before they allowed me to move a foot further. The order came that wc might move on. but we were soon brought to a stand for n third time. Presently Achmet Bey came out of the gates, attended by a number of people in uniform, and asked if 1 had firearms on my person, or in tiie cage. I gave up my pistols, which were only loaded with powder, but as I could not have gone into the cage without them Achnict returned them to me, when his Majesty gave tiie order to commence. At the end of the performances an official handed me a silk bag containing £2OO. We were seut back to l’era with an escort of cavalry.”

Hanging; a Hammock. Boston Herald. It is no wonder that so few persons enjoy a hammock, seeing that the most of these “swinging couches” are hung in a manner to forbid comfort—both ends of equal height. Suspended in this style a hammock is good for nothing but to sit in or to swing in. For reclining purposes the head should be fastened six feet three inches from the ground or floor and the foot three feet three inches, the longer stretch of rope at the foot. Try’ it and see. Why They Are Cheerful. Brooklyn Eagle. The cheerfulness of the Western Union telegraph managers is not inconsistent with the fact that nearly every customer of the company is complaining of the delay in the transmission of messages. It is the high privilege of all well-entrenched monopolies to luxuriate in the sentiment so forcibly expressed oy Mr. Vanderbilt: “The public be d-d.” A New Attraction for Cincinnati. Cincinnati Enquirer. Mr. Tilden’s picture in the Louisville Exposition is attracting a fair share of attention. Would it not be a pious idea to get a lock of Mr. Tilden’s hair for the Cincinnati Exposition? If this suggestion meets with approval, it is not too early to send a trusty man ahead with a microscope to look for the hair. Camp-Meetings Firmly Established. Washington Post. The camp-meetings, which are said to have come into existence because churches were few and small, have become more firmly established, now that church edifices are numerous and largo. “The groves were God’s first temples,” and, from present indications, they are likely to be popular ten) pies for ages to come. Penny Wisdom-Pound Folly. It is foolish to save the little that Sozodont costs, and suffer what will result in bad teeth and large payment* to dentists. Place a bottle of it on the toiler, use live drops only of It every time after eating, cleanse the mouth, ami show your wisdom. “Rough OX Rats.”—‘Clears out rats, mice, tlies, reaches, bed bugs, ants, vermin, chipmunks. 15c. Ladies ask for Corttcelli sewing silk.

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Bnfants and Children Without Morphine or Narootine, What gives our Children rosy checks, What cures their fevers, makes tiiem sleep; *Tis Castoria. When Babies fret, and cry by turns, What cures their colic, kills their worms. Bnt Ce-i-iiin. What quickly cures Constipation, Sour Stomach, Colds, Indigestion : But Cast or la. Farewell then to Morphine Syrups, Castor Oil and Paregoric, and Hail Cm-toria. Centaur Liniment.—Anatsolute cur© for li hen mutism, Sprain-, Burns. Galls, Ac., and an instantaneous Pain-reliever.

BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHTS ; Are tast taking the place of all others in fan lories. Foundries. Machine Shops and Mills. Parties having their own power can procure an • Electric. Generator and ob Ain much more iigiit ! at much less cost than by any other mode. The incandescent and storage system has been perfected, making small lights for houses and stores ; hung wherever needed, and lighted nt will, day 1 or night. Parties desiring (venerators or to form ' companies for lighting cities and towns, cun Isend to the Brush Electric Cos., Cleveland, 0., oi to the uuaersigued at Indianapolis J, CAVEN.

AMUSEMENTS. DICK 8 O X S’ GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. GEO. A. DICKSON ..., Manager. The best located and MOST POPULAR Theater in the State. GALA ENCAMPMENT WEEK AMUSEMENTS. Engagement of the Popular LIPMAN COMEDY COMP'Y InT.W. Robertson's Charming 3-act Comedy, “ o XT r ©! ” As originally produced at Wallace's Theater. N. Y. Magnificent Military Pageant Every evening by the Teci mr-eh Rifles. Grand Prize Dram Corps Drill Tuesday evening for a purse of S2OO, participated in bj : all the Drum Corps utU'"'.iug the encampment. Prices as lisnn!. Box office opens for sale of reserved seats Thursday morning, August 9. ZOO THEATER AND DODBLE ELEVATED GARDEN. C. T. GILMORE Manager. Monday, August 6, ’B3. Matinees Tuesday, Thursday and .Saturday. NOTlCE—Eucampmc nt week. The J ACKLEY WONDER COM BIN ATI < >N will hold the hoards at the Park Theater during Encampment week. LOOK! ° urM |r ,mer LOOK! THE FEMALE WRESTLERS from the “Cirque Imperial, ' Paris, Mile. MARCIA and WANDA ALB. without doubt the most perfect specimens of physical perfection now living; trimming and Doyle, Irish songs and dances; The Lorpeye, horizontal bar specialty: Wiley ami Thompson, songs and dances; Lillie Carroll, serio comic. The Great Zuufretta Troupe will close this great show. PRICES: NIGIIT 15c, 25c, 350 MATINEE 10c, 15c, 250

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AN OPEN BEORET mm THE LADIES The brilliant, fascinating tints of Complexion for which ladies strive nro chiefly artificial, and all who will take the trouble may secure them. These roseate, bewitching hues follow t he use of Hagan’s Magnolia Balm —a delicate, harmless and always reliable article. Sold by all druggists. The Magnolia Balm conceals every blemish, removes Sallowness, Tan, Bedness, Eruptions, all evidences of excitement aud every imperfection. Its effects are Immediate and so nat ura! Unit no human being can detect its application.

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Porfablc, or Slick set. Economical. Durable, Simple Thoroughly first-class in oil respects* iTnspection SuliciteJ. Mur Sale by JOHNSTON &BENNETT 02 K. Washington si.. Indianapolis.

Summer Toys, Traveling Accessories, Celluloid Collars and Cuffs, Fans and Satchels, Fishing Tackle and Games. CH ARLES MAYER & CO. No*. 20 and 31 W. Washington Brreer,. rTITTvX 13 iIOTI and u INDIAN APOUS. INI) elevator :iu<l all modern con von fences, Hotel of tue city, and strieclv tirst-ciass. Hates, #2.AO, *3 arid .-t3.ao per day. L uo iuttor price imu.idr.ij: oath. VyiEO. F. ri INGiC, Piopiiotor-

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