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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JXO. C. NEW Si SON. TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1885. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Car. bo found at tha following places: LONDON—American iu Europe. 449 Otrxaci. PARlS—American Exchange In Paris, So Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor riotela CHICAGO—Pahner lions®. CINCINNATI—J. R Hawley A Cos., 154 Vine Street LOUISVILLE—C. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. CTT. LOUTS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 And yet Indiana has nothing. Mr. Hendricks, will you now sit down? Can Mr. Hendricks take a hint when he is kicked down the back stairs? Grover Cleveland seems to be having a good deal to do with the present administration. The Hon. Joseph E. McDonald has recently visited Washington. He did not call upon Mr. Hendricks. The English under Gen. Graham and the Soudanese under Osman expect to meet in pitched battle to day. It is barely possible that Hon. Joseph E. McDonald may have some influence with the present administration. The President has done very well thus far, with few exceptions. But will anybody say that he has acted like a Democrat! ' Owing to circumstances over which he has no control, Hon. Thoma3 A. Hendricks has gone out of business as an office-broker. Comparatively, Grant is dying in the prime of life. Emperor William was a man of twenty fivo when General Grant was born. The Vice-president of the United States staked his all upon the question of a postmaster, and has lost. Did ever a man throw himself away for so small a thing? Without saying what Louisville is on week-days, it must be confessed that on Sundays that, city is quite lively. Throe men murdered there day before yesterday. ■BMBnMHDßacnmana Cleveland’s administration is severe on such papers as attempt to publish alleged pictures of distinguished men. He is digging down to the bottom of the political grab-bag. Notice to Indiana office-seekers —Do not send your applications to Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, Vice-president of the United States. Not that way lies the route to the White House. The man who thinks peace is assured between Russia and England has not read between the lines. The force of gravitation and greed is going to take the Czar’s followers further southward soon. For palb— One large portfolio, in which to carry applications for office to tho Various departments. The owner has no further use for it. Address T. A. H., retired broker, U. S. Capitol, Washington, D. C. The hotel five at Chicago, which occurred early in the evening, caused the death of five persons. It is well it did not occur late at night, when the rapidly-advancing flames Would, doubtless, have found scores of victims amoug the sleeping guests. The Dubuque letter, the Circle fifty-thou-sand-offices-for-the-boys speech, and the Brooklyn speech, have been amply avenged. Mr. Thomas A. Hendricks has not influence enough with the administration to secure tho appointment of a postmaster. Op tho $600,000 borrowed by the State, $40,000 is to be squandered on an extra session, called because members failed to do their duty during the regular session. The people of the State will hold tho Democratic party responsible for this swindle. A Minnesota man, after devoting five years to an investigation of the matter, has demonstrated again, by a now and improved system of logic, that Lord Bacon wrote Shakspeare’s plays. Evidently, time in Minnesota is of as little value as in any spot on the globe. “But yesterday his word might have stood against all the world; now lies he there, and none so poor to do him reverence.” Oration over the late Thomas A. Hendricks, delivered by Mark Antony Hughes East, after the great man had bee a knocked cold by Brutus Bynum. IT is said that it is the President's intention to havo the cattle grazers driven out of Oklahoma. This should be done, since settlers are not allowed to take possession. Let the federal bayonets be turned to ilie cattlo land thieves for a time, now that they have kept out the “boomers.” Sir Michael Hicks Beach, who is to bo the Conservative leader in the House of Commons, vice Sir Stafford Northcote, is undoubtedly the moat stirring man on the front oppoiition bench, and promises to be an aggressive leader. Iu the Beaconsfield administration he wae Chief Secretary for Ireland, and afterward Secretary for the and gave

token of marked executive capacity. In opposition he has been the most outspoken leader on his side, with the exception of Lord Randolph Churchill, and has never wearied of denouncing the failures and neglects of Liberal diplomacy. He is credited with being an uncompromising enemy of Russia and an extreme advocate of the forward school of imperialism. He is a strong man, and will be a decided strength to his party. OUB NEXT STOBY. Harriet Prescott Spofford is just fifty years old on the 3d of the coming April. The large part of her life has been spent in the beautiful and historic valley of the Merrimac, on the eastern coast of Massachusetts. For many years her home has been the romantic island referred to in Whittier’s lines: “Deer Island’s rocks and fir trees threw Their sunset shadows o’er them.” The house is a large, old-fashioned farmhouse, with immense verandas, from which are magnificent views up the Merrimac. In this romantic spot Mrs. Spofford’s powerful and romantic stories and beautiful poems, that have won her a place among the foremost word-painters of the age, were written. Besides the novels, “Sir Rohan's Ghost” and “Agarian,” she has written innumerable short stories for the Century, Harper’s, the Atlantic and Manhattan. Her stories are strong, powerful and vivid, the outcome of a mind engaging in its traits and of an artistic mold so finely formed that it will bear repeated scrutiny. nr idealization is alike truthful and luxurious. Her stories, “The Mount of Sorrow,” reprinted in Scribner's series of short stories, and “The Ghostly Lady,” published in the Saturday Journal series last January, show her at her best in dealing with the more terrible phases of nature aud life. On Saturday next we will publish a story by her, entitled “A Handful of Pebbles.** THE BINK QUESTION. Tho rink question will not down, but is occupying the attention of many men given to thought, especially clergymen and doctors. So far as the Journal is concerned, it cares not whether roller-rinks are a financial success or the contrary, whether they grow in popularity or become tabooed, or are shut up from indifference, as a toy laid aside for some newer one. But the rink question will not down peremptorily; it must bo decided upon stable grounds and outside of mere denunciation. Whether rink-going is healthful and can be kept reputable is a matter of moment to many thousand people. That foolish persons may abuse this amusement ought not and cannot be used as an argument against it to its abolishment. It is reported that some half-dozen contestants in the late six-days’ skating match at New York are likely to die of the resultant effects, and that one has already forfeited his life. It was a shame that the speculating managers allowed such a brutal contest. It Was nothing less to permit untrained men to go into it, siuco it must have been known that no man who knew anything about the terriblo strain of such a race would have gone into it without weeks of practice. The death of the skater, after wearily keeping at it for six days, was little, if any, less than manslaughter, and the managers should be held responsible. Others have lost their lives by attending rinks, though not taking part in a race of any kind. One of the latest victims is a Miss Cleary, of Williamsburg, N. Y., who died on Thursday last. She had skated a great deal on© evening, and went directly into tho cold street without taking the precaution of allowing her body to resume its normal temperature, and the result was pneumonia and death. These deaths, nor any others brought about in that way, can rightly be charged up to tho rinks. The person thoughtless enough to leave a rink while in a glow and face an arctic night, would as readily do thesamo under any other circumstances. Many a girl has caught a death-cold upon leaving a crowded and overheated church. Some have died from exposure at funerals, and some from being immersed The penalty is so great that it is * hard tc censure, but the truth remains that but for thoughtfulness the death penalty would not have been incurred. It has been suggested, as a safeguard, that managers of such places of- amusement and recreation cause the skating to cease some half hour before the house is olosed, the time beiDg put in by a concert by the l&nd usually present on such occasions, during which those present could leisurely promenade. By this means those who have thoughtlessly allowed themselves to skate 100 hard or too much, will have an opportunity to “cool off,” and will go into the outer air with comparatively no danger of pneumonia. In some form or other, the link has come to stay, and it is the part of wisdom to make it as healthful and wholesome as possible. It is encouraging to see that the men who have money invested in rinks are seeking to maintain their popularity by removing ever}’thing objectionable. The Chicago rink owners have met and organized an association and formulated a set of rules, among whioh are tho following, the wisdom of which will be conceded: “£o person in attendance upon a rink shall approach a woman in any way, except, of course, where she should need assistance in case of accident, unless a proper introduction shall have taken place, and parties so offending shall be expelled from the rink; nor shall they bo allowed to skate at any of the rinks included iu the association.” The object of this provision is apparent, and the fact that offense in this direction will debar tho guilty one from other rinks will render it effective according to the way in which it is enforced. 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two hours and a half preferred-evening sessions to close at 10:30 o'clock, at the latest—--10 o’clock as the closing hour preferred. No rink shall be open for skating beyond the hours mentioned. The object of this is to prevent enthusiastic skaters from overexerting themselves. This rule might well be modified in tho way suggested. Tests of speed beyond ten miles —five miles favored as a limit—are prohibited, and there was a sentiment favorable to prohibiting these tests altogether, while tests of endurance exceeding .three hours are absolutely forbidden. The sale of liquor is forbidden, and smoking also, except as confined to the smoking-room. No money shall be offered by the proprietor or manager of any rink as a prize, except in the case of professionals who may give exhibitions; betting is positively prohibited, and there shall be no skating for private wagers. Any person who violates this rule shall be debarred from attendance upon the rinks. All of these are for good, and should be enforced by all concerned, if they care to preserve the popularity of their plaoes. The wholesale objection to rinks comes from those who largely forget how they enjoyed themselves when young, and do not sufficiently take cognizance of the imperative fact that amusement aud recreation of some sort will be indulged in; the only regulatable thing is the scope and character of the pastime. It is not denied that some bad things may happen through associations formed at rinks; but those inclined to foolish and criminal flirtations would be pretty sure to find vent for the inclination had the roller-skate never been invented. Every precaution should be taken by relatives and friends of the young folks, and they should be brought up in a way to never forget their gentility; but that done, all is done, except to hope for the best. The country got a lavger taste of the flavor of Mr. Cleveland’s administration yesterday than since the nomination of his Cabinet. Tho names of the ministers to England, France, Germany and Mexico are suggestive both of tho methods and general purposes of the President as at present entertained. The nominations are, in the first place, respeotablo and creditable, in tho second place, they are of men in no wise prominently mentioned in connection with tho places to which they are appointed; and, in the third place, as a necessary corollary of tho second, they are not “Democratic,” as the “boys” understand it. The selections made indicate that Mr. Cleveland, for tho present at least, is moved by liis personal predilections rather than by partisan considerations, except it may be possible that he thinks to strengthen the future of his party by killing it for the present. Mr. Phelps, of Vermont, who succeeds James Russell Lowell, is a lawyer of ability and distinction, a man of character, and a New England Democrat. While he has been a candidate for Governor of his State, ho has never been known as an office-seeker. If Mr. Lowell must bo supplanted, Mr. Phelps will do the Nation credit as his successor. The same can be said of Mr. McLane, of Maryland, who goes to France, and of Mr. Pendleton, who goes to Germany. Os all of the gentlemen it may also be added, that they are of blue-blood, rich, aristocratic; of the Manhattan Club type of Democracy; of that class which pronounce it “Veela” and “Aindecoo;” -who drink champagne at dinner, dine off silver, and have flunkies at their backs. Mr. Bayard has already saturated the State department with eau de cologne and the aroma is deepened by these appointments. The nomination of Mr. Pendleton will be gall and wormwood to the “kids.” He was defeated for re-election as senator, butchered, slaughtered, with the broad-ax in the hands of yelpers for spoils, and the present appointment is as direct and positive a personal indorsement as tho national administration could well give. It is a strong center blow at the Influence of the Cinoinnati Enquirer in Ohio politics, and will be apt to interfere with Mr. John R. McLean’s ambition to succeed Mr. Sherman in the United States Senate. Mr. Pendleton's nomination will, for this reason, be very satisfactory to Mr. Thurman; and, indeed, the entire batch are of a kind that willthrii 1 the “noble old Romans” of the party, and oarry consternation to the “kids” and the smart alecks, who believe in bluster and “fine work.” Altogether, Mr. Cleveland did a neat stroke of business yesterday; he gave another stab to the Democratic party, and has called into the public service & number of very reputable Democrats. But it will not be long until there will be musio by the full band. We do not have iu this country university representation, such as they have in England, but tho representatives from the counties in which our colleges and universities are situated, and which are among the largest in terests of their several localities, are very naturally and properly regarded as in some sense the representatives of the educational institutions at their homes. Mr. Gordon, of Putnam county, is held to represent the inter ests of DePauw University, whioh is located at Greencastle; and, therefore, his violent and apparently envious opposition to the State University, and to other of the State’s educational institutions, is looked upon as a reflection of the feelings and desires of the friends of DePauw. This is exceedingly unfortunate for the latter institution, for we have every reason to know that he misrepresents tho best friends of that University in his abuse of and opposition to the State's higher colleges. Yet, for the obvious reasons we have mentioned, DePauw must suffer in public

estimation because of the attitude of the man who assumes to sp k for the county of its location. There is neither rhyme nor reason in Mr. Gordon’s course. Already the State has been belittled by the action taken toward the State University, and it must not be followed up. Purdue University, for instance, in its efforts for the development of technical education and the application of scientific methods to the practical affairs of industrial life, is worthy of, and should command, the most liberal and ened support of the State. It is to be hoped that but few, if any, members of the Legislature will lend themselves to a serious attack upon institutions that are doing valuable work and bringing credit to the State throughout the country. The Sentinel says “the Union Veteran Army is now meeting in the garret over Judge Taylor’s court-room. They pay no rents, and, as they meet after night, they are compelled to bum gas, thereby adding to the county expenses.” It suggests that “the commissioners would do well to look into the matter at their next meeting and cut off this expense. ” It also claims that the army is a political organization. We understand that the Union Veteran Army is not a partisan, though a political, organization, and that it numbers many Democrats on its roll of membership. It may be true that it meets in a garret; but, if so, it does not meet to plot treason, as did the party friends of the Sentinel, a little over twenty years ago, in garrets and cellars, and out-of-the-way places. Not long since the Democratic State central committee did its “meeting” in the State offices, and not only used the gas, but also the official stationery. At that time the Sentinel did not call for the cutting off of this “expense.” The Atlanta Constitution says: “We have taken pains to read all tho attacks made on Higgins, and all the objections to his appointment that have been made in the newspapers. The trouble seems to be, so far as we are able to discover, that Higgins is a very active Democrat—a man who believes thoroughly in the Democratic party, and who is anxious for its success.” Some of tho charges made against Higgins are that he has been a wire-worker and a ward polititician of tho lowest grade, an organizer and backer of the Baltimore thugs and bumjj mers, who vote on election days according to contract wherever they are sent, and that he is a gambler and an associate of thieves and gamblers. If, having considered all these things, the Constitution insists upon regarding the appointment clerk as a representative Democrat, who shall object? The Journal has hesitated to say that much, but with this official encouragement may venture to remark that it has no doubt Mr. Higgins is quite a model Democrat. The ladies of Murray Hill have followed the example of the ladies of Beacon street, Boston, and have petitioned the New York Legislature not to pass the equal-suffrage bill now before that body. There was a chance that the bill would pass, and the wrath of tho suffrage advocates over this protest, which is likely to snatch victory from their hands, may be imagined. It is not consistent, however, that they should object, to the presentation of the opposite side of the question, and if the arguments of the objectors prove most effectual, the champions of the cause will perhaps be convinced that success can only be attained through the conversion of a greater number of women. Let the Murray Hill women and their kind be won first, and the Legislature will follow. A New York paper estimates that at least 50,000 Democrats in that city are more than willing, yea anxious, to succeed Postmaster Pearson, and that eaoh considers himself fully equal to the duties of tho position. This calculation does not include Carl Schurz, but the addition of his name will not materially alter the total. In the campaign the Democracy regarded their German ally as a host in himself, but as a candidate he counts only one, and not much of a one, either. The nomination of Mr. Jackson, of Georgia, as minister to Mexico, is a piece of political *‘resurrection,” though the gentleman, so far as is known, will make a creditable representative of the government. But what a weeping, and a wailing, and a gnashing of teeth will be heard in Kentucky, which State thought it had as much of a mortgage on the Mexican mission as it had on the internal revenue cornmis3ionership. To the air, “Do You Think I’ll Make a Soldier,” disappointed Democrats hereabouts are humming: Do you think I'll get an office, office! Do you think I'll get an office, office! Do you think I'll get an office, office! In eighteen eighty-five! Rise, swear and go for Cleveland, Cleveland! Rise, swear, etc. From now till next fall. Everybody curses mugwumps, mugwumps! Everybody curses mugwumps, mugwumps! Everybody curses mugwumps, mugwumps! They won't do at aIL They're the dog that’s in the manger, manger, They're the dog, etc. Where our fodder lies. Careful readers of the daily newspapers see signs of spring which the benighted portion of humanity misses. One unfailing indication that winter is over is the agitation observable in base ball circles. This agitation is shown by the increased number of headlines over columns devoted to tho national game. It is very evident, at present, that the hibernation of the players is nearing an end. Ti#k absurd fashion followed by so many Eastern periodicals, of dating their issues far in advance of the actual day of publication has its embarrassing features as welL Harper’s Bazar issued last week aud bearing date of April 4, an-

nounces a certain wedding in high life as having taken place on Thursday and extends congratulations. Asa matter of fact the wedding did not come off, owing to the unfortunate death of the expectant bridegroom, thus rendering the congratulations a misfit The reported rumor that President Cleveland was to marry the daughter of his dead friend Folsom has been denied, on what appears] good authority. The President and the lady are each to be congratulated. He is too old a man to think of making a school girl his wife. Her pictures represent her as a beautiful young lady, and she deserves a good husband near her own age. - The autograph hunters who are so lacking tn decency and propriety as to ask for Genera Grant's signature at the present time are being rebuked on all sides. There are people who rate the intellect of autograph seekers on a par with that of postage stamp collectors, and are not surprised at their ill-timed applications in the present case. Syracuse, N. Y., has a five-year-old girl addicted to the inordinate use of tobacco, acquiring the habit when but two years old. The wretches responsible for this deserve to be publicly whipped. Henry Bootes Jackson, the author of “Tallullah" “and other poems." Heavings! .Who next* Let Mr. Cleveland now say “turkey” to Indiana, and all will be forgiven. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Does tho law entirely prohibit fishing with ipcars? Headers. Wagoner, Ind. It prohibits the use of gigs, spears, netsjßeines, guns, or traps of any kind, during the months of March, April, May, November and December. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Please publish the address of Cyrus W. Field. Dublin, Ind. John Heed. New York city, ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Miss Anna L. Dawks, a daughter of the senator, has written for young readers a book entitled “How We Are Governed." Miss Cleveland has invited Miss Lamar, the daughter of tho Secretary of the Interior, to be her guest at tho executive mansion for several weeks. Lawn tennis is said to have brought in, like rollerskating, anew and peculiar disease. It is a rupture of a muscle in the arm. The ailment has already been dignified by a name. Colonel Bob Ingersoll was asked by a friend to reveal the secret of oratory. His prompt answer was: ‘‘Use small words to express the idea, and be sure that the idea overlaps the word at both ends." Magic Twain’s real offonse, which prompted the Concordians to boot his latest bock out of their library, was once making fun of Emerson, and it is alleged that he has even spoken disrespectfully of Whittier, Vice-president Hendricks is said to be an impartial presiding officer in the Senate, but his voice, unlike Mr. Edmunds’s, is thin and pitched in a high minor key, difficult and sometimes impossible to be heard. Ilis manner is hesitating, and his official speech is not. always concise. It is said that the transposition of one word was the foundation of Daniel Clark’s great fortune. He had bought “1,920 square tosies’’ of land in that part of New Orleans that afterward became its commercial center. In the engrossing of the deed the “1,920 square tosies" was carelessly made to read “1,920 tosies square," and increased the value of SIO,OOO to $20,000,000. Mr. Clark took advantage of the error, and the law of Now Orleans was powerloss to prevent him. General Wolskley can afford ophthalmia less than most men, as, ever since the Crimea, he has had the sight of but one eye. W r hen he was doing duty in tho trenches before Sebastopol, a shell exploded in a gabion full of gravel, in moving which he and two sappers were engaged. They were both killed outright. Wolseley got so severe a peppering with the gravel that he was literally “stuck full of stones from head to foot." There was not a square inch of his face that had not a gravel-pellet embedded in it; part of his shin-bone had been carried away, and his eyesight was in so great danger that for weeks he was kept in the gloom of a cave near Balaklava, and so missed being present at the fall of Sebastopol. The Chinese know the value of advertising. Here is tho “ad" of an ink manufacturer of Canton translated: “At the shop Tae-shing (prosperous iu the extreme) —very good ink; fine! fine! Ancient shop, great-grandfather, grandfather, father, and self make this ink; fine and hard, very hard: picked with care, selected with attention. This ink is heavy; so is gold The eye of the dragon glitters and dazzles; so does this iuk. No ono makes like it. Others who make ink make it for the sake of accumulating base coin and cheat, while I make it only for a name. Plenty of A-kwantsaes (gentlemen) know my ink—my family never cheated—they have always borne a good name. I m&ko ink for tho ‘Son of Heaven’ and all the mandarins in the empire. As the roar of the tiger extends to every place, so does tho fame of tho ‘dragon’s jewel.’"' Some years ago there lived in Powhatan county, Virginia, a very worthy man who enjoyod a local reputation for “power In prayer." It was his habit when praying in public to “run in," as the printers say, passages of Scripture and occasionally to add details of “local color" to Bible narratives, a practice which was attended sometimes by ill effects. A distinguished woman of letters assures us that she once personally heard the prayerster relate to the Lord the story of the prodigal son with embellishments, ending as follows; “An oh! Lord, thou knowest that when yet a great way off, his father saw him aad had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. And, oh Lord thou knowest that the father said to his servants ‘bring forth the b sfc robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet, and bring hither the fatted calf and kill it’—and oh Lord it was the very best of veal." “I believe," writes a Pall Mall Gazette correspondent, “that the connection of the Hittites with the blameless Ethiopians of Homer is tho really important footer in the Soudan question, and 1 believe Mr. Gladstone agrees with me. I believe that Prince Bismarck’s transitory policy is less momentous than the hypothesis that the founders of Troy were prehistoric Germans, and 1 believe Mr. Gladstone agrees with me. I believe Homer was interested in an early edition of the Athanaaian Creed, dorived by the Helli of Dodona from the Phoenicians, who got it from the Hebrews, and I believe Mr. Gladstone agrees with me. Lastly, I think that to hold in ethnology and archaeology opinions worthy of Jacob Bryant or Mr. Casauhon is in itself a proof that a statesman comprehends the meaning of plain facts and obvious arguments; also I believe that as a casuist Mr. Gladstone missed his chance by not living in Pascal’s time. And I wish he had." Those who are about to marry will, perhaps, be interested to know that in former times no charge was made for marriage announcements in the newspapers. Mr. Waiter, of the London Times, was the first editor to throw out the suggestion that the bridegroom might very well pay a email sum to the printer for acquainting the world with the fact of his happiness and good fortune. The oh&rge at first was trifling, and was paid regularly to Mrs. Walter as pin-money. But Mrs. Walter at her death found it worth while to pass this prescriptive right of hers to her daughter and when a few years ago it was repurchased by the present proprietor, it was assessed at from £-1,000 to £5,000 a year. The parson's fee at a wedding was also much less a hundiod years ago than now, and the clergyman who united the most aristocratic of parishioners seldom reoeived more than one guinea from the happy bridegroom. Indeed, the three great events of life— birth* marriages aad deaths—were vastly less

expensive in those days than they are at present* mM men could both live and die, if they so pleased, at o rate exaotly proportioned to their incomes, and ill conformity to their tastes. An unappreciative Englishman thinks that Hands]*; in “The Messiah,” treated the .Scriptures irreverently* He says? “I take the following from the soore; “ ‘For unto us a child is bowwow wowwow wowwow wowwow wowwow WOlg wow bowwow wowwow wowwow WOWWOW WOWWOW WOW wow worn.’ “Then, after awhile, in a jerky way: " ‘And the—govern— rnent shall be up—on hi* Show—oh oh oh—oh—oh—o (prolonged note? Oh- -oh oh oh—oh—oulder And his name shall be called _ (fiddles go frantic) Wonderful (fiddle diddle diddle dum) Counsellor (twiddle diddle diddle) The ev-va-las-ting fiddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle dam/ “Isn't it like a pack of profaneness from beginning to end! I imagine that if the prophet Isaiah had foreknown the work of Handel he would have been moved to say or sing, in the words of the Psalmist, ‘Oas* ejus per frangam.’" There are 400 firms engaged in the manufacture of roller skates, and the monthly product is said to, be 300,000 pairs. Most of the factories are, however, behind their orders. Most of the best skates turned out cost only 55 cents a pair. They are sold to the hardware men by the gross at $1.35 per pair, and are retailed at $6. Complete machinery, which performs the entire operation of stamping through several sheets of steel at a time, is the cause of the redaction in the first cost. The aim of inventors and manufacturers now is to produce a skate for fancy skating that will turn in the smallest possible space. One of tIMI best skatos first brought out made a complete circle in a radius of twenty-two inches. This was followed by one that would turn in eighteen inches, and anew skate, just put on the market, will make the turn in just seven inches. The demand for roller skates, instead of declining, seems rather to be increasing. On Feb. 1 it was estimated that there were 40,000 rinkg in the country. There are now probably not less than 45,000 to 50.000. Indiana Democratic Legislatures. Kokomo Tribune. The Indiana Democratic Legislature neveC fails to make itself odious. It was an Indiana Democratic Legislature that refused to appropropriate money to prosecute the war; it was au Indiana Democratic Legislature that broke a quorum in ordor to prevent a vote on neero suffrage: it was an Indiana Democratic Legislature that refused to submit a prohibition amendment to the people; it was an Indian* Democratic Legislature that put it in the hand* of the Governor to appoint trustees of the benevolent institutions; it was an Indiana Legislature that four years later took tho appointing power out of the hands of the Governor and placed Ur in the Legislature in order to keep Republican trustees out; it was an Indiana Deno ocratic Legislature that made offices in the benevolent institutions a reward for political services; it was an Indian* Democratic Legislature that placed the benevolent institutions under partisan control; it wa* au Indiana Democratic Legislature that rqfusod to pass the appropriation bill iu 1883; it was an Indiana Democratic Legislature that caused the State to borrow money to carry on its institutions; it was an Indiana Democratic Legislature that refused to allow the evils of alcohol to be taught in public schools; it was an Indiana Democratic Legislature that gerrymandered the State so that the Republicans could get three out of thirteen congressmen; it was an Indian* Democratic Legislature that gerrymandered the State so .that the Republicans would have to carry it by 20,000 in order to carry the Legislature* An Indiana Democratic Legislature can always be relied on for two things, vis.: a division of the spoils and partisan legislation. Responsible for Patten. Chicago News. We are informed that the member of the Indiana Legislature, Patten by name, who took occasion to vilify General Grant the other day, is a crank of the first Water and therefor is wholly irresponsible for any of his utterances. For years he has tried to got into Dan Voorhees’o confidential service as a hepfiUc&sinr 'Vwp?" hees has never consentwjAo having him around. Patten has apologizedrTor his unseemly attaok on the dying Bolster, and now if ho will apologize to John.Q. New, editor of the Indianapolis Journal, for threatening him personal violence, we presume to say all will be forgiven. At all events the real responsibility of Patton’s lunatio utterances would not seem to rest upon Patten, ,but upon the people who elected the fellow to the Legislature. Indeed, it appears to be a popular weakness all ovor this continent to promote cranks to places in which they are afforded opportunies to bring odium upon the public they are supposed to represent. . If It Only Were H .-ndrloks. New York Commercial Advertiser. Said an Indiana Democrat to our correspond* ent: “If Hendricks were in that White Hons* instead of Cleveland, thero would not be any of this cry about tho offices not being given out* Hendricks is ono of the kind of Democrats who believe that when a Democratic administration comes into power all Republican office holders should step aside and let Democrats fill their places. If anything should ever happen that bo would get in charge of that White House, you will find that he has none of these blank, newfangled notions about civil service reform.* This Indiana Democrat, in his description of tho Vice-president, only gives utterances to the prevailing idea of the notions of that officer on that subject Mr. Hendricks is the consoling angel that ministers unto those who are troubled iu their minds over the delay in giving out tho offices. _ St. Thomas’s Mission. Greensburg Review. Our own Thomas appears to be laboring, hk season and out, to counter balance the bad opinion which office-seeking Democrats have inibioed regarding the new administration. He is described as continually haunting the and making importunate, and often unreasonable requests for appointments. Evidently ouf Hoosier statesman has decidod that the people shall see that this civil service foolishness is nc fault of his; that he is doing his living best to “turn the rascals out" If the spoils men break with the administration, Mr Hendricks will bo their natural leader. • —i —— In the Nature of Sarcasm. Lafayette Suuday Times. What a change is observable in the conduct of public affairs ever since the 4th of March, an 4 yet the party of reform have only been in power less than two weeks! How much smoother things run, what trust is observable in the faceo of our people; what evidence of love, charity and righteousness are seen -m every hand. All wrangling has ceased. When one is smitfee* upon the right cheek, he (particularly if a Democrat) straightway tnms the other also. All duo to tho triumph of the party of civil-servioo ro* form! Has Reached Bottom. Richmond Palladium. State legislatures are mostly composed of men who prefer to prolong their sessions for tho pay there is in it for themselves. The Indiana Legislature has been growing worse in this ro* spect session after session until it would thero was no worse to descend to. Please Do Go Home. Fort Wayne Journal. And still the cry among the people Is, why don’t the Legislature pass the appropriation bill* and go homel The answer comes to all: Bocause there is $0 a day in it for tho members. e* _ _____ Poor* Mr. Hendricks. Chicago News. Down to the present time Mr. Hendricks boo been unable to convince anybody outside of l*diana that the tail can wag the dog. Neither Do We. St. Louis Globe-Democrat Heudricks to Cleveland: “What ara I her* for?’’ Cleveland to Hendricks: “Damftno.” And * Very Small Man lie Is, Too. Atlanta Constitution. Higgins appears to be a bigger mo* than mugwumps-