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AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. GRAND OPERA-HOrsß—'“The White Slave.” LMJLISH’S OPKUA-ID*l SB—Denman Thompson in “Joshua Whitcomb.” PARK THKATEtt—'James, the Bandit King,” j company. ZOD THBATKK— Rk’hmoiul Jt Hall's variety com- j prtn.v. CASE RAT L—Columbus vs. I udianupoli-, 10 A. m. and 3:30 r. m. THE DAILY JOURNAL. — r.Y .1 NO. C. XKW & SOS. For BitM erf Siit*sct !i*n-*n. **t<. see Sixth Pwt SiItJRDVT, SEPTEMBER 29, ISBS. TUI: INDIASAPOLIS JDUitNAL Cn Vp found at tii following piaoost LONDON—American Kxcliansoin Knropo, 4t9 Btran4. rAltlS-Ausorican Kxciialvge in Pari,, 35 Bouletrard tie. CipuciMt. KVW YORK—Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotels, WASHTNOTON. I> Brentano's 1,915 Pennsylvania avenue. Cli I t 'AGO —Piiltner House. CINCINNATI —.1. C. Hawley ft Cos.. 154 Vine street. I.OUISVIT.I.E-C. T. Itenri nt, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streers. ItT. LOPls -Pnion News Company. Union Itepot. The Voters Ready Reference— The debt, less the cash in treasury on May 15, 1874, was *91,0:14,8*19.4*2 The debt on May 15, 1876, w;i9. 181,505,734-03 Increase under Democratic coutro| 18530,904.61 Debt May 15, 1876. leas cash in treasury *1,565,734.03 Debt May 15, 1878 *1.301,134.46 Decrease in t weti cy-tb rest months by Republicans *364,609.57 THE COMET’S TALE. When Rip Van Winkle got back to the village of Falling Waters, after his sleep of twenty years, he was much as one who had dropped down from another sphere. A great war had been fought, b : s old comrades, some of them, had fallen in battles that he had never heard of, and nearly all were dead. The children that he had dandled on his knee, or, laughing, carried on his back the day before he went to the Catskills, were Town to utcn and women, and remembered •i,m only as a tradition. The world turns over a great many times in

even a score of years, and its people and their affairs are changed almost beyond recognition. Just now an old acquaintance is coming back earthward after an absence of seventy-one years. History gives ns his name, and has so faithfully described hint that, though few are living who saw him three-3core and ten years ago, he will be readily recognized. The comet of tBl2 is now sauntering across the pasture lands that environ the earth, and in a few over in 'fa??™ b * went nineteenth century. Where lie has been meanwhile, and how many millions of miles he has traveled are matters of interesting conjecture. Out yonder somewhere, beyond the clouds of stars that rise like dust between ns and the deeper regions of space, he may have rubbed noses with other comets, flirted and played with them, or entertained a gathering of celestial bodies with lish stories of what he saw in this part of the heavens when he made the grand tour. For all we know, it may be that after he got out of our range of vision he stopped and loitered on the way. a veritable truant from the celestial school, where bis fellows were kept in that half-delightful slavery that seems so irksome, but which is always recalled witti a regret that it did not last forever. This old nomad of the skies may have mischievously plucked at the trains of liis fellows, mad in the joy of meeting after so long a separation, and now, in excess of good feeling, he is taking another plunge down through the depths of the jeweled sea of the universe, to again whirl around the sun, and as rapidly speed away again into the va3tv solitudes that lie so very far away. But with all his ' travels, with all the star-dust iu his dazzling train, he is recognized and known. A welcome awaits this gay prodigal of the skies, and as he swings in mighty strides above our heads a thousand million eyes will follow him in his flight. But while he is unchanged and all the spheres of the solar system are still lazily swinging in their old-time orbits, sad'dog3 in the tread mill that never tires in its ceaseless round, the affairs of earth have changed until this long-haired sleeper from the celestial Catskills will hardly know us when he gets here. Since he left us, seventy-one years ago, the United States has fought three great wars—one against the mother country, one against Mexico, and a third, the most disastrous of all, among Us own people. From a population of but 13,000,000 the country has now 55,000,000. From stage coaches blundering along in hanks of stifling dust, the inhabitants of earth have gone to speeding in chariots of fire. From ships that drifted at the mercy nf tide and storm, the sea is peopled with palaces that defy the elements. On the American continent are bunt'eds of cities that had not been dreamed of ■.cventy years ago. The home of the red man and the haunt of the wild beast have een driven westward a thousand miles. In the Eastern hemisphere the metamorphosis las been scarcely less marked. Republics uive risen and fallen, and empires have suffered many vicissitudes. When this comet as! viewed the earth the first Napoleon as in the zenith of his power. All Europe was under his feet, and there was i.ut a ruler from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, from Cairo to London, who did not ■ar Idm. His ambition was boundless, his tnility to conquer apparently illimitable. I'lie abdication at Fontainbleau was yet two rears away, and the terrible hundred days,

culminating at Waterloo, did not transpire until three years after this comet had withdrawn from the range of earthly' vision. No monarch now living was on the throne then. France, from conquering the world, has been vanquished and humiliated, stripped of territory and changed to a republic. Italy has been wrested from papal dominion. Russia lias despoiled Poland, Prussia has absorbed Germany and King William has been crowned emperor. England has fought innumerable campaigns in the East. Turkey has been vanquished by Russia, and Egypt is a dependency of the Briton. The campaign in Crimea and the siege of Sebastopol were fought forty-two years after this comet last visited this portion of the universe. Two thousand million people have lived and died since then, and the earth still roils on and over, a veritable car of Juggernaut, To earth and comet it is all the same. They understand it all, and these periodical visits of the latter are as much expected as are social calls among mortals. The comet sweeps in and out of view, the earth says hail and farewell. Men may come and men may go, but the Creator’s works go on for-

60CIAL QUESTIONS The good old days are ahead of us, and not ill the past, yet some features of former days would-be welcome now. The old-fash-ioned sociability, the feeling of neighborly kindness that ran through the whole community'a generation ago, would be a wholesome substitute for the frivolous formalities of the present. The notion that every member of the family should work and he a producer as well as a consumer, was better economy' than prevails now. The chief end, in too many cases in modern society, is to become ornamental; the fact of being useful is a minor consideration. This phase is not confined altogether to the female side of the house. But to the great credit and honor of the women themselves, they realize the situation into which they have drifted and are making decided progress toward a better condition. The ideas of women’s work have been greatly’ enlarged and the acknowledgment of her ability’secured. She has knocked at the doors of the higher institutions of learning and has been admitted. True, she lias almost knocked the door down in some instances before gaining entrance; but she got in, and promptly demonstrated her right to be there. She is there to stay, and the man who does not like it must go. She has fought her way into the professions also. In literature she was famous before the tyrant had time to frame his objections. In short, woman has cleared the way of most of the obstacles that hitherto i/l 6 > V.. . - ant <umfiftnnnj’ upon the common plane of the race, except the political disability in being deprived of the ballot. The proposition whether she is greater and better without the ballot than with it, is a grave one, and is being carefully canvassed. All parties to the controversy have at heart the common welfare, and the solution will be wrought out in the light of intelligence and in a spirit that clings about the nobler impulses. The question is an old one, and yet it is new. The masses do not understand it; neither do all those who are 30 dogmatic in favor or against it. It has couched in it a philosophy that reaches to the very roots of the foundation of human society, and those who would precipitate a measure of such moment are not the wisest people. Such a problem cannot be solved by intuition. However simple the suffrage question appears upon the surface, and the flippant manner in which it is frequently’ discussed has given it a character of this kind, thoughtful people, both men and women, hold in reserve the right of further investigation. They will content themselves with nothing short of probing the question to the bottom, so that when a conclusion is reached they can afford to stand by it. The position of the Journal in favor of equal suffrage is well known and has long been maintained, but we recognize tbe fact that such a revolution will come slowly and therefore the more surely. But while enlightened opinion is working its way to the end and final solution of this question, there is, in the meantime, ample room for the full exercise of all the talent in the land, both of men and women. Men can well afford to employ themselves in growing better while the women would make a happy hit by growing stronger. There is much to correct in social and domestic affairs when a fearfully large per cent, of the women of the land are confirmed invalids. For whatever part of this deplorable state men are responsible, they’ should furnish a remedy and the rest be wrought out by the use of ilte good judgment of the women themselves. Let both sides strive to be better and stronger physically’ and morally’, and when this sort of evolution has done its work the suffrage question can be justly settled. ______________ The International Dentist. Dr. Evans, an American dentist who lives iD Paris, evideutly regards himself as au object of international interest. Dr. Evans excels even the brethren he left behind him in charging enormous fees for merely looking into the mouths of patients If the patient had any money left after these cosily glances it was all ucoded to pay the Doctor for torturiug them and inserting the latest improved patterns of porcelain teeth. By his accomplishments in the way of making out bills Evans has accumulated a fortune, but it Is not this only to which he avenues his importance. In 1870 the Doctor assisted the Empress Eugenie, in her secret flight from the Tuileries by providing her with a disguise and accompanying her to the Normandy coast. An account of this flight was lately published iu the French papers, but it was incomplete, ami the Franoo-Arnerlcaii dentist has been appealed to to give the details of tue uff.ilr, but he sternly refuses. “It was I alone,” he says, who accompanied the Empress and Mine. Lcbreton from Paris to

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Chiselbnrst- I alone know the exact details of tat long and painful journey. I have in my journal, which you see on the table, a complete narrative of tbe eveuts. But the question is delicate. lam a stranger, living in France. I love, I adore France. I wish to keep aloof from politteat parties. Consequently, I have no right to | judge or censure your statesmen. The facts j noted in my diary place many prominent men, now’ living, iu a very unenviable light. Many persons are criticised or bluimd; so that when the proper time comes I shall publish my story iu tho American papers.” It will be seen by this that this dentist is not only true to his country in the matter of charging high fees, but lie is also a patriot and a statesman. His assertion that he adores France may be true, but he loves America belter, else he would not promise her papers a “scoop” such as this. It is not improb" able that Dr. Evans cou templates coming hack to his native laud to run for office, and if he be" gins by treating his home in the way he promises, they will do their part by him. A Mncli-Needed Crusade. Mr. L. Lunt Bmitli, of Philadelphia, has entered upon a crusade against what, he regards as oue of the most gigantic evils of the times. Mr. Smith, who is himself a publisher and editor, proposes to drive his lance against certain newspapers which claim circulations they do not possess, with the intent to thereby defraud the confiding and virtuous advertiser. Mr. Smith thiuks the noble profession of journalism is becoming tainted and corrupt, through the audacious lying aud criminal dishonesty of scoundrels who go about getting “ads” by falsely representing tlmt their papers have immense circulations, when really whole editions can be

carried in a market basket or a wheelbarrow. Mr. Smith is perhaps a little mistaken iu believing that reproach is being brought upon journalists by this base and all too common practice. The sins of the bold, bad advertising man should not be laid upon editors who are, with the exoeptiou of those in Cincinnati, not only truthful, but incapable of such vile artifices. Mr. Smith is right, however, in principle, and his efforts to clear tbe skirts of what he terms the Great Press from the very suspicion of evil are truly commendable. The crusader began his work this w eek at Philadelphia by exposing, from the lecture platform, iliis shame:ul and criminal practice to the world. He has beguu the war iu earnest, for the benefit of suffering thousands, he assures us in a confidential circular, ami will not cease to do battle in tbe cause of right and justice till he obtains a victory or ceases to exist. He is conscious of hie physical weakness, and it is only the moral strength of his cause which enables him to battle for Aform against a power which most men fear. (That tbe advertising solicitor is an object of terror almost any one will admit.) Someone, he acknowledges, bravely and pathetically, must be sacrificed before a good cause is triumphant, and, though he does not say it, no one can doubt that L. Luna. Smith would die, if necessary, to cure advertising men of lying. The noble reformer appeals to honest and upright editors and publishers for words of encouragement. If they will assist him with their mighty journals, h© believes a victory over fraud and crime will be assured whieh will redound to the honor and glory of all concerned in the cause of right and justice. Mr. Smith kindly offered a complimentary ticket to his lecture, if the same be applied for on office stationery, but owing t.o the late hour at which this invitation was received none of the honest and upright editors or proprietors of this paper could be present on the occusion. We cannot, bow'eror, listen witb- *• i- ii *• -—• "l minno** *" this struggle against an insidious enemy the Journal will stand by him. Down with all unprincipled wretches who claim a circulation when they have it not. Defeat to them means more columns of advertisements—reading matter at top of each—and higher rates for the honest and reputable sheets. Wo are with you, Bum. The rascals must go.

“Bomanee and Tragedy of*Pioneer Life." To Augustus L. Mason, junior member of the law firm of McDonald, Butler A Mason, of this city, must be awarded the credit of having contributed to American literature one of tho best, if not unquestionably the best, connected accounts of Inaian campaigns from earliest days to the present time. The volume, bearing the title aoove given, just issued by Jones Brothers fe Cos., Cincinnati, is a compliment to the au•thor’s genius, being- well mounted in every feature. It is a handsome quarto of 1,032 pages, richly illustrated and beautifully printed. To those acquninted with the author’ll peculiar qualifications for such an undertaking his gratifying success will be no surprise. From the rich resources of romantic and tragic events of our various Indiau campaigns he has wrought out a fascinaiing book. But while interesting in every page, it possesses that better recommendation of being true to history. Mr. Mason has had access to the best records that the country affords, aud every considerable library from Boston to Ban Antonio has been levied upon to secure desired data. The style of the book is eugaging, and the reader will not be able to find a dull page in it. While it is a volume formidable iu size, the author has not written against space anywhere, and the result of his labors will meet a heurty reception from all who care to know the history of the picturesque native of America, aud who want that history in form as encaging as is the romance that surrounds the ai>origue of early daye. A9 a book for the edification of the youth of the land it is unsurpassed. It presents historical events in such a manner as to compel attention. Older persons will find satisfaction in reading its pages as a means of gaining a better and more reliable knowledge of what has long been familiar to them as written history and unwritten tradition. An introduction has oeen written by John Clark Kidputb, LL. D. The book will be sold on sub scription. _ Dr, Henry C. Potter, pastor of Grace Episcopal Church, who lias been elected the assistant and successor of his uncle, llie Bishop of New York, comes of a family of bishops. His father was the bishop of Pennsylvania, and his uncle, Horace Potter, has been diocesan of Now York since 1854. The newly-elected bishop is in his forty-ninth year, aud represents what is Known as the broad church view iu ecclesiastical polity. He started in life as a merchant. Ho has been rector of Graoe ClmroU fifteen years, the wellknown Gothic edifice standing at the corner of Broadway and Tenth streets. Originally a part or Trinity parish, Grace Church has inherited much of the wealth and culture of that parish. Its charities have been remarkable. A few years ago it fitted out aud sent forth a ship of its own, laden to the water’s edge with food aud clothing for a suffering nation across the sea. Contributions on single Sundays at Grace Church have often exceeded #20,000, With respect to fiis election, Dr. Potter said; “As the son of a bishop I know only too well the nsture of the honor that has been conferred on ur. I was not desirous of obtaining it, and my people here have seriously objected to my considering it at all. They will regret very much that I should leave them, now that so many plans are Just maturing for church work- Ido not know yet what I shall do. The announcement has come so unexpectedly that I have not had tune to prepare myself.” Tiik Charleston News and Courier does not propose t hat General Butler ahull capture the entire South without a protest and a struggle. It repriutn the celebrated “woman order” of the General, dated New Orleans, May 15, 1802, aud

adds: “Butler’s conduct in Now Orleans can j never be forgotten. His very name Is an offense | to every man who holds women iu honor. Thf J crimes he committed cgnuol bo blotted out by j the recital of au occasional act ol' kindness, or the recollection of some spasm of apparent generosity.” It will he one of the humors of politics to see the News and Courier enthusiastically throwing up its hut for rare old Hon. as its candidate tor President. IiORJ) CoLKHIDGK is a wit of the first order as well as a chief justice. After being shown the hog-killing his Chicago entertainers took him on | ’Change. His few words “on the board*' were, capital. Every distinguished visitor who lias | been led down the board room through the howl- i iug uiob of bulls and to the president’s ■ desk will appreciate them. After running the. gauntlet and usremllugthe platform, Lord Coleridge suid: “Geiitleiueu, allow iue to thank you for lett IUK me get up here safely. Chicago affords in.my opportunities for profitable study to one who is obliged to pick up a living in London by means of the law. I thank you for allowing me to view this scene, which is an entirely strange one to me, and one which l shall never forget as long as I live.” The New York Times punctures the dreadful statistics of the drinking habit among workingmen depicted by Mr. Joseph Medill before the | Senate committee, by remarking, “The statistics of the internal revenue and the tariff indicate j that the whole value of the liquor, wiue and beer produced and imported was not touch more than half of the sum given by Mr. Medill as consumed by the workers for wages alone, mukiugiio deduction for export.” An unkuowu man greatly exdrrd the citizens ofW ashiugton by walking around the raising of the dome of the national capitol and viewing the city carefully and calmly through afield glass. He was commanded to come down from his perilous place of observation by a policeman. The incident shook Washington from center to circumference in these dull September days. Tub Ohio papers cordially notice the labors of Mr. Charles L. Holstein in their campaign. This week he has been speaking in company with Senator Sherman. At Athens the report says “Major Holstein’s address was forcible and eloquent.” True Newcastle Courier modestly disclaims the pubiicaiiou of a daily issue as a permanent thing. It was only for the fair week; but it demonstrated the enterprise and the ability of this, among tile very best, of our State nows- ; papers. i * “ | The Chicago News, after a careful examinai tion, finds that the Illinois Democrats are for i Tildon. And so are the Democrats in many I other Btates than Illinois. | Tub Postmaster-general has requested tne I Post Office Department erf Canada to furnish him ' with a Tull account of the working of the Post--1 office Savings Bank. W HKN the voters up in Michigan To eleota Governor wish again. They should not repeat their com promising folly; But select a man whose name Will fill the trump of fame With some othef sound than that of plain Begol—e. But now we’ve come to think of it. Perhaps we’ve missed the kink of it. And his name is not Begolly but Becole; * r> '‘ # —’ ~ "" Uoffdllv. The reflection’s melancholy: ! He’s a Democratic Governor, —* his soul.

BREAKFAST CHAT. The Right lion. John Bright has had his photographs taken by the electric light. Miss Mildred Lee, daughter of General Robert E. Lee, will spend a pure of the winter in Washington. On account of recent deaths in the family, Secretary Chandler’s Washington home will be closed to society this winter. Thkrb are two colored female lawyers—Mary A. S. Cary, may it please the court, in Michigan, and Louisa V. Bryant, j’our Honor, in Colorado. Out of 11,000 copies of the now volume of tho Encyclopaedia Brltannica, only 3,000 are retained by the publishers for sale outside of America. It is said that a Vermont editor in publishing one of Byron’s poems changed tho words “Oh gods!” to “Oh gosh!” because the former was too profane for hie readers. The Emperor of Brazil has given Professor Lacerda #20,000 for his discovery of permanganate of potassium, nypodermically injected, as au antidote for the bite of the cobra. AT a hotel in Fall River, Mass., the bill of fare carries tho following appeal; “Guests will confer a favor by not ordering more than they think they ean eat, as this will prevent waste.* A summer boarder at Kenuebunkport, Me., writes that on asking at the circulating library for the “Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle,” she was told that she would get them at the postoffice. The Hon. “Cerro Gordo” Williams is a model “blue-grass” farmer. His tobacco crop always commands the highest price in the Louisville market, turning him a net profit of from #25,000 to #30,000 a year. “Senator Bob Hart,” the converted minstrel, lias an autobiography in press which he hopes will yield him something, “although people have au idea that clergymen can live on air aud get fat chewing daylight.” Mrs. Ralston, widow of the famous Califor nia banker, is living with her two sous at their new mining camp in California, where they are working hard and where they Lavo erected a house for their mother. Turk is will be unless than ten bridesmaids at one of the October weddings in New all of whom will be dressed alike aud will wear bonnets according to what is called the English style- and will carry large baskets of out flowers. Evidently the Empress of Japan does not hold a very high opinion of the virtues of the ladies in the empire. She has just ordered her chamberlain to prepare a list of all the faithful wives In the island in order that she may present them with a medal oy badge of chastity. Das Echo (Berlin) states that a “deuth mask” of Luther is still in existence, iu the possession of the Maiienbibliothek at Haile. It was made on February 21, 1546, when the great reformer’s body rested in the High Church at Halle, on its way from Eisleben to Wittenberg. Tennyson read a poeui before the Czar of Russia recently at Copenhagen. He selected ouo of his owp productions, The Czar is a very polite potentate, but a special dispatch to the Philadelphia Call soya that a well-bred, large-sized yawn could be seen struggling with itself behind the autocratic digits of the bomb-proof monarch. The mcauest man yet lias been found in Bangor, according to the Commercial. He was goiug into the suburbs of the city about a mile with his team, and an acquaintance who wished to go to the same place asked for a ride. On getting out of the wagon the passenger asked how much the Dili was. “Well,” said the owner of tho team, “as I was going the same way, I guess two cents will be enough.” He took tin* in .aef, too, The London Saturday Review says: “One reads this speech with a kind of shame, in thinking that there is not probably a Wngla Englishman of letters who could have delivered so good

a discourse; not one scholar, poet or novelist who could stand up and speak so well, even on such a subject as Henry Fielding. Several there are, no doubt, who could imvaswritten as well; indeed, it i a most promising and fertile theme; but U> write is English, and to apeak is Auierican. M A Flench physician has tried to discover the psychological influence of trades, and finds that persons dealing in sweets like candy have a slightly morose disposition, which gives women the air of conceit; paper dealers and booksellers are supposed to be uocouimunica- | nve and raiher courteous; glove-dealers aro I represented to be specially gentle and patient, | and all leather goods are said to have naturally i a pacifying influence; silks and dry goods in general are represented to cause monotonous ; forbearance, and opticians are supposed to have unusual equanimity; barbers are said to be garrulous and anxious to please; and tobacc o is announced to make people amiable, crockery dealers are supposed to be excitable, engravers are yielding, and scissors-grinders are naturally cross. At least, so this French doctor finds.

/iHT ani> drama, Tlie time when “folk gau longeu to go on pilgrimages” is done; our neighbors have come home from mountain's in the West, lakes in the North and seas at the East; the store-win-dows have blossomed into pictures of actors ana aetressos. Now for art and the theater! What, ho! within there! My lord, the carriage waits! All is in readiness for the long winter evening amusemou;s. The footlights are burning, the orchestra is tuning up, the woods and waters of the mimic world are freshly painted, the stage cottage is repaired, the king’s palace and all the wooden goblets for tbe royal banquet are regtit, the street tu Verona is well furbished up, the viliatu’s black eyebrows are corked, the ladies* cheeks are painted, Claude, Armand and Ophelia are waiting for their cues, and O, best of all, the premiere dauseuse, in her lace-skirts, tiptoes across the green-room floor.

Much have we to look forward to in the way of art this year. At Euglish’s we are to have famous Henry Irving, w r ith his “photographic doting,” as the great treat of the season, and what wo have not seen for many a year, though we have long looked forward to it—jocund, witty, perpetually gay Falstaff, by Barney McAuley. Then we are to have young Eyttou Sotheru in good plays; Mr. and Mrs. Florence in certain exquisitely finished perionuances; beautiful Mile. Rhea, who is like a June night, glowing and scintillating with light and radiance. Plenty of opera companies, concerts, pantomimes and spectacles come, one after the other, aud there is a long list of plays of the intensely interesting modern sort, full of unexpected situations and lively dialogues at this theater. Mrs. Gatherwood’s play will probably be performed here. The other theaters have engagements as good We are to have a number of amateur concerts and plays, and ah, yes, the Flower Mission entertainments. Indianapolis is now u theatrical center. Our stage-struck damsels and lads are in demand, being good artists ami successful in their calling, and wo are sure of something good at our amateur performances.

We ha ve already had Macbeth, for a beginning, given to a good house, which is always drawn by Shakespeare, when he is done decently. This Macbeth was done by an actor of the real old-fasbioued roaring sort, he shouted himself hoarse in the first act, and died utterly broken-winded, his support being in much the same condition—scarcely able to mumble and growl their parts in the latter part or ♦* play. Oar Macbeth slung his crown and dagger about and snook nts armor, while ear-piercing stage thunder rattled and stage ligntnlng flashed. It was dunder and bfitzen, and come on, Macduff, from beginning to end, w ith him. His favorite pose, will* bis back to the king, would have sent him to the scaffold before, a real king, and his remarkable habit of soliloquizing at midnight in a terrific bawl would have wakened any castleful of sleepers in tbe known world. Why can’t actors be natural? The Lady Macbeth was a Strapping woman (Miss Hamblin, a good actress, don’t forget liei,) who, when she grabbed Macbeth by the shoulder aud gave him a shake, hearty took him off his feet, to the grinning amazement of the gods- What must it have been to have seen this fearful, terrible, beautiful drama played in Bhakspeare’s time; played by actors all great and before an audience as great as the actors. Imagine a Macbeth played as he is In the book—at first frank, brave, generous, but gradually bewitched and over-persuaded into murder. Imagine the effect of the “knocking” If it broke in upon the murder scene played in whispers, while the thunders of the stormy night, if heard at all, were far and deeply heard through the walla of the old castle.

The Coming Art Exhibition. Art makes iife cheerful—cheering aud comforting is art in all its shapes. Early in November we are to have an art exhibition, composed of the best works to be had in Europe aud America—the first of its kind that has ever been held in Indianapolis, and one of the most delightful that has ever been seen anywhere. The pleasure of seeing truly great pictures and sculptures is one compared with which all other pleasures seem poor and tame. The exhibit will take place iu some central building, and down stairs, where it will be perfectly accessible. Admission, 25 cents; catalogues, 15 cents. It is to be given by the Indianapolis Art Association, whose next meeting occurs in the parlors of the Denison, at 4 p. m. on the first Tuesday in October. Every one interested in art is iuvited to Join tho association then and there, the yearly membership fee being #lO, aud each member having free entrance to all art exhibitions given by tho association. The exhibit will be open day and evenings, and will continue three weeks. The hush and silence of an art gallery, the beautifully hung walls, the glowing pictures, the easy seats, the pleasant company, the murmuring talk, all combined make a most charming resort. It will be a kind of autumn festival, attracting to this city the people of the neighboring towns and villages, who are, as W. D. Howells says, the best and most cultivated of this republic, and have a sharp appreciation of art. The exhibit will show specimens of Italian, Spanish, Russian and Dutch art. English water-colors, with their pure tints, giay-blue skies and green fields, will be seen. There will bo English landscapes in oils, showing the neverending vistas of tlie ancient aud umbrageous counties of Eugland that were cultivated by tlie Romans for five hundred years before the time of the Saxons. There will be flue domestic and historic scenes from Dusseldorf. There will be works of modern French art, which resemble the antique, in that they represent everything in a perfectly natural, unstudied manner. There will be pictures of sumptuous interiors and Louis XIV costumes; there will be faces, heads, figures illustrating poetry and romance; there will be bronzes ami marbles—in short all that is required in a magnificent art exhibit. To be a success un arc show has to be genuine. The people like real art. Works that don’t need to be explained by a long lecture; works that ilon’t call out make-believe exclamations of rapture, will draw the people. Originality has a hold on the world. Anything uncoplod and thoroughly good will be appreciated. Every

day folks, who aro no judges of art and don’t want to be, and know nothing of the technique of art and don’t want to know, quickly see the unapproachable charm of perfect art. Mechanics and artisans, whoso eyes are trained, have keen sensibilities to beauty, anti they are the ones who aro “absorbed in the calm passion of art” whenever the chance is offered. Tha “broad style’’ of smeared and splashed art may not charm them, but minuteness of finish, which is the hiootp and perfection of art, aud grand composition, they understand. Taste for grand art is rooted in the minds of the people, ami they may be expected to taco hold of the coming exhibit with a sharp appetite. Mary Dean.

NOTE AND GOSSIP. Bleak House has been again prepared for tho stage, under the title of “Move On; or, Jo. tha Outcast.” The most irrefragable proof of woman’s intellectual Inferiority to man lies in the fact that, up to date, no woman humorist has yet arisen. Only the vigorous manly brain could have conceived “Peck’s Bad Boy.” Various medicial men, pillera of the public safety, have furnished the press with article* teaching “how to act during the cholera.’* If the cholera could be taught how to act it would be more to the point. Among the attractive curiosities of recent book nomenclature is “Sunshade, Muff and Glove” an English renriut of “Lorabrelle” a popular French book; also “Mias Gilpin’s Frugalities; or, Remnants, aud 200 ways of using them.” A Kentucky housewife glories in the possession of a waffle-iron made by a negro blacksmith in 1760, and which agefiias not withered, as iB still turns out waffles with the date of that year imprinted on them; all of which is too waffle wonderful to be true. “Gee in the sense of “agree.” i9 not slang, as has been popularly supposed, but has been discovered to be Dorsetshire English, pure and undeflied. “My daughter don’t gee with her man” is the Dorsetshire matron’s method ot describing domestic infelicity. Housewives plagued with black beetles will be glad to know of an English invention for their destruction, known as the “Deadly Beetle Buster.” It is constructed on purely scientific principles, and is worked by an air-pump which draws the beetles from their holes by force. Ancestors have become so popular that a London gentleman, au author and genealogist of experience, advertises himself as prepared to undertake heraldic researches on short notice, at moderate terms. An American would add “Family trees grafted aud transplanted in the latest style.” English theater-goers do not like Mary Anderson’s walk. Tkej r complain that it is wan tiug in elasticity and freedom of movement. If the manner m which Mrs. Langtry’s talented buskins slapped tho tragic boards is the ideal English “walk” it is much to Miss Anderson’s credit that she merits their disapproval. The wisest men unite in the belief that Intensely intellectual women are Dot always tho most desirable companions. Auerbach, in “On the Heights,” describes the Countess Irma, witli all her wit, grace, and beauty, as “an unspeakably fatigueiug woman, requiring an everlasting fire-work display of mind.” Pyrotechnic displays ara wonderful and delightful, but au eternal fourth of July, mental or material, would soon wear out the staunchest man. Bless the dull day and the average woman. Each has Us niche to till. Foreigners who are interested in the study of Amerlcau politics undoubtedly gained much insight from the important discovery, recently made public, that the President’s bed-room in the executive mansion is furnished iu pigeonegg blue. When the color of the stripes which gambol around the tops of his exeeiiency’* socks shall have been made known the entire plan of his administration will be readily determined. Iu the political world there are no trifles. “If tbe nose of Cleopatra bad been a little shorter It would have changed the history of the world.” The Boston drl is another target for newspaper wit entitled to a discharge with a liberal pension. She is not half as disagreeable as tbe Western girl, who, having had one winter in Boston, finds the West “too crude,” and entertains her circle of friends with unending information as to tlie way they do things “in the East.” The New York Mail thus libels the Massachusetts maiden: “A Boston girl lost her copy of Emerson from the suspension bridge at Niagara, last week, and she cried as if her cultured heart would break. Come to flud out, it was a borrowed volume, and she cried because she’s got to pay for it.” It would be well if the New York girl would read more Emerson, and less Ouida, Rlioda BroughtoD, and The Duchess. The eternal fitness of things is occasionally lost sight of by the most talented writers. The Countess Margaret, in “I>r. Claudius” is made to say, “I get up at the screech of dawn.” A countess, even of pen and ink, is oertaiuly entitled to the choicest words the market affords, and the phrase quoted is a gross insult to tha nobility and to the capabilities of the English language. There are 85,000 words in the English language, all free of taxation, yet the average speaker and writer can find no other titlj for the woman-doctor than “Mrs. Dr,” How does “Mr. Dr.” fall upon the earl Ridiouloualy, of course. The distinction of sex can readily bo made by giving the lady’s first name, as “Dr. Martha Perkius,” etc., but “Mrs. Dr.” this or that is enough to make medical aud tituiut angels weep.

The Bread-Winners. The interest of the novel reading public ii much aroused by “The Bread-Winners” in the Century, thus far the most entertaining serial story which has appeared in that publication for many a moon. Alice Belding, the American girl of the story, is a charming creamre, and it is to be hoped her portrait will fall into the hands of everyone who ever read that infamous libel on American girls, “Daisy Miller.” It is too early iu the prepress of me story for any extended comment to lie seemly, and the minds of curious readers are possibly best employed iu j striving to fathom the authorship, which is as yet a profound secret. A current item stating that the MS.of the story was found iu an old desk, formerly the property of a deceased and wealthy gentleman of Cleveland is assuredly a fabrication. A youth in the tale is described as w earing pointed shoes, which aro of comparatively recent date, and consent not liable to have been mentioned jny old MS. By others, Colonel John Hay is stated aB the author. At the risk of being eonsed yromature in forming an opinion, let the eiuenC be recorded that the story has all simple characteristics of that charming anonymous novel, “A Lesson in Love,” o.' “The Round Robin Scries.” However, we shall see what we shall see. A novel, and delightful characteristic of “Tho Bread-Winners?” is the beautiful absence of ail that analytical, philosophical and metaphysical digression which has become the almost Inevitable feature of the modern novel, aud which, ?o a reader pressing anxiously forward for the satisfactory close, is so irritating. The story Is narrative, pure and simple. Its characters are gifted enough to point their own moral, and tho unknown author’s fluent and graceful use of language leaves nothing to be desired in the adorn mentor the tale. Emma CAEir^ON. [ft tines not militate ngnitist the vnluo of this r Hint the authorship <>f “The Bread-Winners” to have been authoritatively disclosed since the wu* written.—Eo. Journal.]