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THE TWO EXTREMES. Said Sir Walter Scott, as he saw the old Tron Church burning, "Eh! but many a weary aermon have I heard in yon old church.’' The stern faith of the Scotch Calvinist was well adapted to develop the iron virtues required by the times in which it was dominant; but it was a dreary faith, nevertheless, and ill-suited io a condition that developed the graces and amenities of society. When it was no longer necessary to fight persecution with perseverance and an intolerant law with bigoted faith, the hard teachings and harder practices of Calvinism became uncongenial and repulsive. Not because there was less real religion among men or less earnest devotion to the service of God, hut because a change of feeling came with a change of condition, and when socioty began to cultivate literature and Hie arts, and to find enjoyment in sqpial intercourse and the exhibition of taste and refinement, the religious practices of a previous condition weie found as ill-fitting as the wide-legged boots and the big hats. It was no longer a grim satisfaction to sit three hours under a sermon subtilized into forty ‘‘heads” and five "applications,” or to make Sunday a day of positive pain by restraint and self-denial that was a denial of no evil and no influence that could cause evil. Sir Walter Scott only gave utterance to this sentiment of antipathy to the old exacting, harsh religion that worked wholly by fear and repression and the curses of the law, and not at all by love, and kindness, and pleasant associations. Sermons had become "weary,” and the observances they were fitted to had become weary and dreary, and were tending to repel the better classes of society from religious connections. Such a faith would have few followers in this day and land. At the opposite pole of the religious world we find a condition of society that is as little Kkely to meet the approval of genuine religion or judicious culture. We see it in cities, here and abroad, where theaters are opened on Bunday, and saloons do their best business at ehurcli-time; where all the amusements and games of the week are given an added zest and larger attendance on that day, and such occupations as can profit by the business of the day aro prosecuted with as close an industry as on any other day. It is not because Sunday is made sacred by any divine sanction that there is a measure of desecration in such disregard of it, but because the great majority of community holds the day sacred to rest and worship, and experience has proved that such a consideration and observance is a wholesome influence for health and morals. A day of restraint on self-indul-gence, of attention to higher duties than those of the store, or the shop, or the office, is a needed day in all civilized communities, whether it be set apart by law or not, and when set apart by law or custom its disregard is a menace of evil always and a source of evil often. Wherefore we are by no means disposed to accept the assurance of Rev. W. H. Moffett, our consul at Athens, that the week’s amusements can be profitably renewed on Sunday. He says: "The churches here are open on Sundav forenoons, many at hours when good people aro fast asleep, and in the afternoons and eveniugs the people enjoy themselves. They have their family parties, their harmless enjoyments, their music and dancing, and their evening concerts. Ido sincerely believe that they can go to their night's rest with a more devout and thankful spirit, and with a more lively gratitude to the good Father of all, than if the day had been turned into a continuation of the old Jewish Sabbath, filled up with at all hours, Sunday-schools, elass- ‘ meetings, temperance speeches, etc., ad nauseam, until the children, at least, get to dread Sunday as the dreariest of all the week.” It is not necessary to a moral community to fill up Sunday with sermons, Sunday-schools, class-meetings and temperance speeches, ad naußeum, to make the day subserve a moral purpose. Much more good is to be done by filling a good part of it with pleasant family and neigliboily gatherings for intelligent conversation and home entertainments, and making it especially a day in some sort sacred to home and home pleasures. The old Calviuistic idea that Sunday is to be made dreary to childhood and maturity by a pre33 of observances and exercises with which the spirit of this generation has little sympathy, seems to possess Mr. Moffett, and he cries out against it for the fascinating freedom of Greek life. lie Lb as

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much mistaken in the present spirit of Sunday observance here as he is in the possibility of introducing among people of Anglo-Saxon blood either the free use of wine or beer of the Greek or Latin races or their free indulgence of customary amusements on Sunday. Some part of what he commends in the Sunday observance of the Athenians prevails here very generally. Other customs could not be maintained here without the evil effects we have referred to. lie thinks, with a good many others, that the best practical temperance reform would be to make general the use of wine and beer as a means of expelling stronger drinks. "I may here say that I am firmly persuaded that a more efficient step would be taken to advance the interests of temperance reform by encouraging the manufacture of these light wines and good beer than by any prohibitive legislation, or by the most effective cornet solos in the park of Sunday afternoons.” As we, in this country, have been using beer, good and bad, pretty freely for twenty years or more, and are constantly using more and more of it, with no perceptible diminution of the evils of drunkenness, the reverend gentleman's expression of confidence in tho temperance agency of the bevearge must be received with some measure of doubt. The races of the south of Europe are not a drinking race, in the sense of drinking to intoxication. Neither French, Spanish, Italian nor Greek gets drunk commonly or frequently. Nor does the German. But tho Anglo Saxon and his more northern congener does, and he will do it on any liquor that contains an intoxicating quality. The difference is in the man —in the race—not in the liquor. There is the mistake of a good many men who have seen the sobriety of people in Europe, William Cullen Bryant among others, as well as Rev. Mr. Moffett.

THE STUDY OF MANNERS. A common complaint against the public schools is that they do not fit the pupils for practical life; that what is learned from textbooks is useful but not altogether satisfactory when the time and labor spent in gaining the knowledge are compared with the results. This stricture is most frequently brought out when the propriety of public instruction in trades and arts comes up for discussion. It must be admitted, however, that a boy or girl may be well drilled in elementary studies, and may be skilled in some form of manual labor, without being fully qualified for all the exigencies of daily life. The vague dissatisfaction felt by many in regaid to the training received by the youth of the period is voiced by the Hon. D. P. Baldwin, in an address to students, which he has published in pamphlet form under tho title, "A Study of Manners and Conduct.” It is a forcible and convincing argument in favor of the practical utility of good manners and graces of behavior in all the walks of life. In addition to this, the truth of which is conceded by every one in a general way, he dwells at length upon the necessity of attaining the accomplishments in question at an early age. Asa means of doing this, he suggests that instruction in deportment be given in public schools. In reply to the objection that manners should be taught at home, he answers very truly that in many families, even of intelligence and intellectual culture, there is little or no social life, and that the members of such families may, though otherwise qualified to appear well in society, be put at a disadvantage all their lives through awkwardness and shyness growing out of their early unfamiliarity with such scenes. As to the lack of manuals on such subjects which are fitted for text-books, Mr. Baldwin urges that text-books will be written when the demand arises, and, as a preliminary movement toward this end, he suggests the holding of school socials where, under the direction of their teachers, the children will entertain each other and their friends according to tho most approved rules of behavior. If this can be done in private "finishing” schools he sees no reason why the same plan should not be carried out elsewhere.

Mr. Baldwin's ideas will probably meet with criticism, but, though they may be impracticable, they are founded upon a need which students do not realize clearly until their youthful days are past. Carlyle, in his letters, makes allusion to his brusquene3s as a result of his early lack of acquaintance with polished people, and liuskin confesses that he has found it impossible in later life to acquire ‘‘skill in any pleasing accomplishment, or ease and tact in ordinary behavior,” these graces not having been taught him in youth. It is not desirable that a crop of youthful Turveydrops be turned out of the public school mill; but thore seems no good reason why a certain amount of training in the social habits and customs of gentlemen and ladies should not be given, to the great benefit of all concerned. If this be adding anew burden to the already overloaded school system it is not impossible that 3omo other branch could be lopped off without serious injury, in order to make room for it. Mr. Baldwin’s address is worthy the attention of teachers and students, though it may be added in this connection that a careful editing and revision of the pamphlet is desirable if it is intended for genem! circulation. TriK St. Louis Republican admits that Talmage discovered Sam Jones, but claims for itself the credit of making him the well-known public character he is by systematically publishing extracts from his sermons. This claim may have some foundation in fact. Judging from Mr. Jones’s bad grammar, bad

manners, and general disregard for the proprieties of life, he is just about such a man as a St. Louis paper might be expected to make. MINOR MENTION. A New Jersey girl took a walk on the seashore with a young man one day last week, and the young man, making a misstep, fell over a bluff; but, fortunately for his neck, caught and held by a projecting shrub twenty feet from the top until the girl tore her petticoat into strips and rescued him. Had the case been reversed, and the young woman's life been saved by tho man, all established precedents of history and romance would require him to subsequently offer himself in marriage. As it is, in this instance, however, some speculations are being indulged in by persons interested in social affairs as to the proper course to be followed. It cannot be expected, of course, that the young lady will feel it her duty to propose to the youth herself; the assumption of the masculine character of rescuer does not seem to endow her with further privileges. "What the young man’s duty in the premises may be is what puzzles the gossips. To sot their minds at rest they should read Holmes’s new portfolio, in which a parallel case is described at some length. A muscular young woman rushes into a burning building, carries out on her shoulders a handsome man who is ill with a fever and helpless. He recovers, in the course of time, from the fever and tho shock and marries the muscular girl precisely as he would have done had he dragged her from the {burning house. With the question thus settled by so high an authority on the proprieties, nothing remains for the New Jersey man who fell over the cliff but to marry the New Jersey girl. Circumstances do not always alter cases. In a shooting scrape at Macon, Ga.. on Thursday night, Samuel Jemison and Edward Strohecker killed each other. The tragedy resulted from an old trouble, but was precipitated by Jemison’s failure to invite Strohecker to drink when others were asked up to the bar. Strohecker followed Jeraison to a neighboring restaurant, and began firing at him without a word of warning, and Jemison, without saying a word, returned the fire, killing Strohecker almost instantly. As Jemison reeled to fall, ho cried out, “I am dead!” The friend who caught him said, "Well, if you are dead, you got your man!” To which the dying man responded, "Yes, I believe I have, hut I am killed." He was right in both things. His antagonist died in a few minutes and he remained only till morning. But what kind of talk is this to go before immature minds inclined to imitate? There are many who will regard the conduct of Jemison as courageous and heroic. His indifference to murder and deafti will be held to he to his credit hecauso of his sang froid. But neither nor both change the character of his offense. Ho invited trouble, tl e evidence shows, and was ready for a fight to the death. Both men wero murderers, and both cowards when compared with genuine heroism. The line between, true and spurious courage should be plainly drawn, for the beutit of youth unable yet to discriminate. Indifference to death is an order of courage below that of a brute, and ill-becomes any man.

What has taken possession of the juvenile mind that it tends to suicide more than usual? On Wednesday a thirteen year-old son of Dr. Stuart, of Schenectady, committed suicide because he had been reprimanded for slamming a door hard enough to break the glass in it. On the same day, at Atianta, a colored lad of tho same age blew his brains out because his mother didn’t want him to play with a revolver. On the same day, at Akron, 0., Allison Sanders, aged nineteen, killed himself without a moment’s warning, giving no reason for the act At Bloomington, 111., on the same day, James Corridan, aged eighteen, jumped into a well and drowned himself because he feared he would become an invalid; and in this city, on the same day, a young girl, aged nineteen, committed suicide without any well-defined reason. It is bad enough for old and world-weary people to take their own lives, but it is hard to understand how the young and hopeful can do it. There must be something amiss in the education of such youth. After long-continued and stubborn opposition on the part of conservative New Yorkers, a street-railway line was established on Broadway, to tho manifest benefit of that thoroughfare. The success of this line incited the enterprising owners to attempt the conquering of fresh fields, and they are now endeavoring to secure a right-of-way on Fifth avenue; but the opposition encountered before was as nothing compared with that which meets them now*. Fifth-avenuites are enraged to think that the desecration of their street can be seriously contemplated, and hold indignation meetings, sign petitions without number to the State and municipal authorities, and refer in strong terms to the "conspirators” whose evil designs they wish to defeat. A resident of Fifth avenue would prefer to walk down his beloved street, even though he wero lame and halt, and had only a five cent faro in his pocket rather than to enter so plebeian a vehicle as a street-car before his own door. But the probabilities are that the alternative wiil bo presented to him. Indianapolis is not the only city whose confiding people havo deposited their money in banks, to receive small portions of it back in the remote future, when what is left of the assets ha3 been realized upon. The Penn Bank, of Pittsburg, which closed something over a year ago. on account of peculiar financial transactions of its president, has just announced its first dividend of per cent. As tho first dividend wiil be the last, these creditors, among whom are a large number of laboring people, will not greet the merry holiday time with as much joy as they might otherwise do. Here is a hint for church authorities who do not know how to manage delinquent members. Father Mclncrow, of Amsterdam, N. Y., finds that nailing a board across the pews of those who are in arrearages, answers every purpose. Tho offender walks up tho aisle, fails to get iuto his seat, and walks out amid tho titters of the congregation. Perhaps he never returns, but others, in wholesome fear of such an event, pay up promptly, and peace reigns. At New York, on Wednesday, the Javanese residents, to the number of about one hundred, celebrated the seven thousandth birthday of their god Roma. After the celebration they made Roma howl by getting hilariously drunk on pinetop whisky and gin. A pretty young lady who was taken by her father one day last week into the New York Stock Exchange, fainted with fright at what appeared to her to be the fierce and angry demonstrations of the brokers. She had not

been previously informed that the exchange was a cage filled with bulls and bears, and her surprise was, therefore, not unnatural. The giving of a atone instead of bread was exemplified at Louisville lately. A colored man claims that he was promised a barrel of flour for his vote. It will be seen that votes come high in towns opposed to a "robber tariff.” Instead of flour, he received a barrel filled with stones and dirt. The Courier-Journal will lobby for a bill making this a capital offense. The man who trotted Mr. Hendricks on his Knee when he was an infant, and who affectionately refers to the late Vice-presideut as "Tommy,” has already come to the front with his "recollections.” The American people are of a patient and long-suffering sort, and will make only a silent protest when such things are heaped upou them. The following mysterious paragraph, addressed to "an unfortunate boy,” appears daily in the St. Louis Republican, and is signed by the editor: "All that you expect will be guaranteed you. Send your address and where you can be seen, or call at this office.” The question is whether it means Governor Hoadlv or Senator Mahone. Gerhardt scorns the $2,000 clause, and will be a barkeeper at Louisville, having "signed” for a year. People who have not the honor of knowing who the Hon. Mr. Gerhardt is, are informed that he was second baseman in some club. Hoy now? What are the people to think? Are mixers of fancy drinks paid more than $2,000 a year? Hardly. Six children were bitten by a mad dog at Newark, N. J., recently, and arrangements are being made to send them to Paris to be treated bv Pasteur. If this be the outcome of being nipped by a dog affected with the rabies, ninetenths of the children of this great country will court the mad dog assiduously. Lillian Spencer, the actress, has been granted a divorce. She says her husband declared he had married her as "a speculation.” He was closed out, just like any other fellow that makes a bad investment. Charlotte Wickliffe died at Louisville, on Wednesday, at the age of 117, but as yet the other ballet-girls have taken no action.

BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT. A BULLFINCH sold in London the other day for $350. Dr. Edson, of New York, says that red stockings are poisonous. Canon Farrar was born in India, and as a boy resided on the Isle of Man. Capoul says that he intends that his new operahouse in Paris shall be devoted entirely to the production of French contemporary works. Salvini is said to boa high liver, although never drinking to excess. He craves the delicacies of the markets, and gratifies his tastes at whatever cost. The daughter of a once famous tenor has been convicted of swindling. It is seldom that the sins of the father are visited so directly upon his offspring as this. The new Earl of Shaftesbury is said to he a decided High Churchman—a fact which will come as a personal shock to a great many religious people in England. "Cool as a cucumber” is scientifically correct. An investigation in England showed this vegetable to have a temperature of one degree below that of the surrounding atmosphere. The Pall Mall Gazette gives the following analysis of maiTiage: “Do you wish to be my wife, Mabel?” said a little boy. "yes,” incautiously answered Mabel. "Then pull off my boots.” In some English towns it is said that "bread services” are now being held, each person attending church bringing one or more loaves, to be distributed among the poor and unemployed. A death certificate was so filled in by a Chicago doctor as to make it appear he had killed his patient He wrote his owe name, inadvertently, in the space where the cause of death is specified. The Bartholdi Statue of Liberty will probably he dedicated on Sept. 3, 1886, the anniversary of the signing of the treaty of Versailles, when peace was secured after the war for independence. Anew overshoe for women is a soft gray felt coming well up the leg, and bordered with white fur, lined with red; it buttons, is soft, and of elastic texture, so that the bows on tho shoes do not get crushed. Du. Antonin Martin says that the flavor of cod liver oil may be changed to the delightful one of fresh oysters, if the patient will drink a largo glass of water poured from a vessel in which nails have been allowed to rust. The splendid portrait of the late Vice-president Hendricks, which appears or. the first page of the current Harper’s Weekly, is from the pencil of Mr, T. A. Butler, one of the best portrait artists of the metropolis.

Tim daughter of James D. Fish has been living very quietly in Auburn since Nov. 15. She has her little half-sister, the daughter of Sallie Reber, with her. Miss Fish is permitted to see her father once a fortnight. Three appears to be an agreement among recent medical writers that water is fattening, or, at least, favors a fullness and roundness of the body. It should be drunk at its natural temperature, and in considerable quantity. Nothing ever goes right on earth. Miss EllenTerry, the actress, has been advised to take a long rest from her professional labors, and over 700 American actresses still maintain the most robust health imaginable. Owen Brown, sen of Old Ossawatomie, is still marching on. He has left Put-in-Bay island, 0 M and gone to reside with his brother Jason and his sister, Ruth Thompson, and her husband, who live on the mountain side near Pasadena, Cal. Christian Register: “Yes,” said a lady, when interviewed ou the subject of servant girls, “I find that the Swedes make * the most capable and trustworthy servants. I never had a Swedeuborgiau that did rot give perfect satisfaction." Senator Voobuees, of Indiana, will be one of the principal speakers at the dinner of the Holland Society of New York, to be given Jan. 8. He is descended in the direct male line from Stephen Coerto Van Voorhees, who came from Holland in 10(50. It makes the average woman shout And dance, and jump, and shriek, When she finds the note In her husband’s coat That she gave him to post, and he carried about In his pocket for more than a week. —Puck. According to Professor P. Wagner, steamed potatoes are fur more nutritive than boiled ones. With the latter, not only is more water taken up, but also nutritious salts are extracted by the surrounding water. Tho author publishes analyses in support of bis opinion. Young Mr. Lamar is a zealous adherent of Lamar the elder, whom he calls “pa.” “Why,” said he to a Washington gossip the other day, “pa’s a h—l of a man, anyhow; he has more friends than any other man in the South, and he does less for his friends than any man in the South.” The Rev. Pleasant Hunter, of Palmer, Mass., recently received two calls at 85,000 and $3,000 a year. Although he receives only SI,BOO a year in his present charge, he has decided to remain where he is, because he thinks Le has a work to do there. The local papers are making a hero of h'm. ONE of the ex-representatives to the Maine Legislature from Augusta is now supported by the city. At one time this gentleman owned some of the best appointed stage lines in that part of the country, and was worth at least SIOO,OOO, but the railroads reduced his business, his mind became weak, ant his

property went to ruin, until a few months ago he was obliged to appeal to the city for aid. Recently mortgages on his only remaining piece of property were foreclosed. A citizen of Georgia had a quack arrested for fraud in selling him a preparation for preserving the scalp, during the use of which he lost all his hair. But the quack escaped, “I did not pretend,” he said, “to sell you a preservative for the hair, but for the scalp. Your scalp remains intact, does it not?” Miss Foster, daughter of the former minister to Spain, has the autograph of the late King Alfonso in her album. The sentiment is in Spanish, and roads thus: “The chief of the country of tradition and memories, who is an enthusiastic admirer of the gigantic achievements of free America, the country of the future.” It is said that King Alfonso was devoted to his first wife, Mercedes, who died five months after their marriage. The King always kept in his private apartments in Madrid, says one who visited those rooms, the veil and wreath Mercedes wore at her first communion, those she wore when he married her, and also some toys with which she had played in her childhood, in addition to good pictures of her. The small boy with the level head Now joins, on speculation, The Sunday-school that owns a tree, And sweet anticipation Leads him to work with awful zeal, And wear his best ajiparel Without a murmur, practicing The latest Christmas carol. —Life. Hard drinkers will be ploascd to know that their practice is considered by some scientific writers to be, on the whole, a benefit to the community. In a recent paper on “The Economy of Vice and Crimo,” Dr. Brigham said: “The alcoholic load to self-extermina-tion is one of the most speedy ways of destroying the weak and inferior, and although some who select this road are brilliant specimens of mental power, yet, as a whole, they are weak and unworthy of preservation. Intemperance, though doing much harm, also does great good. The certainty and celerity with which intemperance destroys the weak and wicked classes of society favorably recommends it over the ordinary methods of to-day in the administering of justice.” “Congressman William D. Kelley and Stuart Robson were introduced to each other at the Continental Hotel, recently,” says tho Philadelphia News: “ ‘So you’re the father of the House, are you?' remarked the actor admiringly as they seated themselves at a table. ‘I am very glad to meet you indeed. I was in the Thirty-first Congress myself.’ You were in the Thirty-first Congress?’ exclaimed Judge Kelley, as he regarded the actor with a look of blended wonder and incredulity, and then continued: ‘Why, lam old enough to be your father, and my service only began with the Thirty-seventh Congress.' ‘Yes, but you see you began as a member,’ replied the comedian, ‘while I was but a page. However, that sha’n’t stand between us. Once moro I iterate I am very glad to meet you.’i” Albert A. Wilson, who succeeds Colonel McMichael as Marshal of the District of Columbia, is a gentleman of pleasant appearance and of more than average height and weight. His head is merged in a heavy though flexible neck, and his sharp chin is just developing a double. A wiry, spare mustache, touched with gray, does not cover a mouth that i9 small and rather lacking in expression. Mr. Wilson was born within a few squares of the White House, and close to where he now lives. His first appearance in politics was in 1880, when he was made president of the Columbia Club, a Democratic business men’s organization, at whose meetings he has presided ever since. He has been a delegate to one Democratic convention, and during the last campaign was treasurer of the District Democratic committee.

QUERIES ANI) ANSWERS. [All proper questions of general interest will be admitted to this column, and answered, if possible. If the answers cannot be given the questions will bo printed to invite replies from the outside. The column is for the mutual pleasure and profit of our readers.] THE AMERICAN PROTECTIONIST. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Where is the “American Protectionist” published? Bloomfield, Ind. J. R. Baxter. In New York city. CORONERS FEES. To tho Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: In case of suicide, who pays the coroner’s fees for tho inquest? * City The county. THE UNITED STATES ARMY. To tho Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: Where should a person apply to enter the Uni toil States army? Can a man go for less than fivo years? Bean Blossom, Ind. J. W. Helms. At Columbus, O. No. WHO LOSES. To tho Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: If money sent by express is lost, who would lose—the company or the sender? SUBSCRIBER. New Mays villi, Ind. The express company. STATE CAPITALS.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: (1.) What is the capital of Dakota? (2.) Os Louisiana? Ab Solum. Alforpsvillb, Ind. (1.) Huron. (2.) Baton Rouge. scotch poems. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal Was the poem, “Our New’ Scotch Hame " written by Alonzo H. Davis, who has a Seotch poem in your last Sunday’s Journal? Burns. Vandalia. Yes. MARIE STUART. To the Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: Who wrote tho play of Marie Stuart, to bo presented by Modjeska? Reader. City. It was written by Friedrich Schiller; adapted to English by Henry Wingfield. PAMPHLET. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: From what is tho word “pamphlet” derived? City. k. Probably from tho French “par un filet,” by a thread—signifying a small book merely stitched together. FANNY ELLSI.ER. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Please give an account of Fanny EUsler? Q. City. She died about a year ago, nearly eighty years old. She was a famous ballet dancer of fifty years ago and was much raved about at that time. IN MAKING AN ASSIGNMENT. To the Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: In making an assignment of property for the benefit of creditors, if a man knowingly leaves out to the amount of $75 does he not lay himself liable, and what could bo done if proven? Reader. Franklin, Ind. He could oe proceeded against criminally. THE NEW STATE-HOUSE. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: (1.) When was tho work on the new State-house begun? (2.) Who are the Commissioners and by whom appointed? (3.) When will tlio work be completed? West Middleton. o. e. m. (1.) In 1877. (2.) Morris, Nelson, Seward and Mursinna; by the Governor. (3. ) In two years. FUCHSIA To tho Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: Os what country is the fuchsia a native? Cicero, Ind. ' Adaline. This beautiful flower was brought from America to Europe in the sixteenth contury by Leonard Fuchs, a German botanist, and was named after him. Mexico produces fuchsias in great variety and magnificence. u. s. senators holding over. To tho Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: How many Unitod States senators hold over the 4th of March. i88(? What are their names and politics? Michigantown. Ind. J. M. Thompson. Thera are forty-two Republicans and thirtyfour Democrats holding over, as follows: Republicans—Stanford, Miller of California. Teller, Bowcu, Platt, Hawley, Logan, Cullotn, Harrison, Allison, Wilson of lowa, Ingalls, Plumb, Halo, Frye, Dawes, Hoar, Conger, Palmer, McMillan, Sabin, Van Wyck, Manderson, Jones of Nevada, Blair, Pike, Sewell, Evarts, Miller of New York, Sherman. Mitchell of Oregon, Dolpb, Cameron, Mitchell of Penney l-

vania, Aldrich, Chace, Morrill, Edmtmda, Mahone, Riddleberger, Spooner, Sawyer. Democrats—Pugh, Morgan. Jones of Arkansas, Berry, Saulsbnry, Gray, Call, Jones of Florida* Brown, Colquitt, Voorhees, Blackburn, Beck, Eustis, Gibson, Wilson of Maryland, Gorman, George, Walthall, Vest, Cockrell, Fair, McPherson, Vance. Ransom, Puyne, Hampton, Butler, Jackson, Harris, Maxey, Coke, Camden, Kenna. “you can’t comf. it.” To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: In what has the school-boy practico of putting the thumb to the nose and spreading tho fingers out it! origin? j. e. F, Monticello. We do not know, but it is by no means racv era. Rabelais says: “Panurge suddenly lifted up in the air his right hand, and put the thumb thereof into the nostril of tho same side, holding his four fingers spread out.” the crescent. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: What was the origin of the crescent on tho Turkish banner? INQUIRER, Clayton. It has nothing to do with the Turks or their religion. It was the ancient symbol of the city of Byzantium, and is said to have had its origin in the fact that Philip, the father of Alexander the Great, in besieging the city set the men at work one dark night to undermine the walla. Luckily for the besieged, a young moon suddenly appearing revealed the design, which accordingly miscarried. MONTE CHRISTO. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Who wrote “The Wife of Monte Christo’’ and “Th Son of Monte Christo," books that purport to be com tinuations of Dumas’Jnovel, “The Count of Monts Christo?” Lkskr. Westfield, Ind. Such catalogues as those of the Boston Antheneum and the Brooklyn have no entry of either of the names you give. There is a “Countess of Monte Christo’’ written by J. Du Boys, and “Edmond Dantes,” a sequel to Monte Christo, representing the Count as a French politician. ELIGIBILITY TO THE PRESIDENCY. to the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: The son born in a foreign country of American parents. (citizens) is born a citizen of the United States, but is not eligible to the presidency. The Constitution requires that the President of the United State* be born in the United States.—[Taken from Irish World of Noy. 28.] Is the above correct? READER. Terre Haute, Ind. The Constitution of the United States says: “No person, except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that offico who shall not have attained to the ago of thirty-five vears and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.” SONS OF ROYALTY. To tho Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: Are not King Milan, of Servia, King George, of Greece, Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, Prince Henry of Battenberg all sons of King Christian of Denmark? If not, who are they? n. A. L. Michigantown, Ind. Milan Obrenovitch I, King of Servia, is A Servian by birth, born on Aug. 10, 1854, of a Moldavian mother, who had married the only son of Prince Ephraim, of Servia. Prince Henry Maurice, of Battenberg, Queen Victoria’s new son-in-law, and King Alexander, of Bulgaria are brothers, sons of Prince Alexander, of Hesse. Georgeos I, King of Greece, is Wilhelm, second son of King Christian IX, of Denmark. He was born Dec. 24, 1845, and, like King Alexander, of Bulgaria, appears to be a very capable person.

A Nonsensical Decision. Saturday People. It has been decided by Judge Norton, of th* Criminal Court, and Harding, the prosecuting attorney, that a ballot box is not a ballot-box, even though it may havo ballots in it, under lock and key, the same as at the polls—that it c&a only be a ballot-box when at the polls. We are neither a judge nor a prosecutor, but in our opinion the odds is the difference. Hatchet Holt broke open a ballot-box that was locked and had ballots in it. If it wasn’t a ballot-box, what was it? It wasn’t a dry goods box, but one of the regular ballot-boxes belonging to the city. Yet the judge and the prosecutor, through some inscrutable process of reasoning, declare that it wasn’t a ballot-box in the eye of the law, and that Hatchet Holt committed no crime in it* waton and unnecessary destruction. This will do to tell to the marines; common sailors won’t believe it. The smashing in of a ballot-bot is no crime, and Hatchet Holt goes unwhipt of justice if he doesn’t get a medal for himself and hatchet. This is a great country and we are a great people, and law is a rum thing. It is supposed to be based upon common sense, but this is a mistake. It is founded on uncommon sense, a* displayed in the above decision of Judge Norton and Prosecuting Attorney Harding. A Misquotation. Boston Herald. The clergyman who made the funeral address at the burial of Vice-president Hendricks prosaically misquoted one of the most familiar line* of Longfellow, when he rendered it: “Life is short, and time is fleeting.” The correct rendering, it is hardly necessary to say, is: “Art is long, and Time is fleeting.” The verse of which this is tho opening is a paraphrase from tho German of Goethe, in which the strikingly poetic figure in it is found. Longfellow has been accused of plagiarism for the use he made of it. Edgar A. Poe attacked him violently on tnis point.

Practical Temperance Legislation. Interview with Canon Farrar. “What is the practical solution of this vexed question—high license or prohibition?” “To pass prohibition laws universally now would do but little good, probably. You cannofc go in advance of public opinion in this matter. The people must be educated. It would be very difficult to adopt such a law until the mass of the people demand it, and if it were adopted, it would doubtless be evaded. Until such a law is possiblo, I would favor legislation tending to limit the sale of liquor.” An Autopsy Should Have Been Held. Lafayette Call. The Indianapolis Journal of yesterday has • very sensible editorial article upon the cause oi Vice-president Hendricks’s death, and declaret that an autopsy should have been had, to determine, legally and professionally, if possible, the cause of death. The article concludes with the significant assertion that “the speculations and theories now so rife as to the cause of Mr. Hendricks’s death” should have been put to rest by a post-mortem investigation. Not Flensed with Hazen—Or the Weather, Philadelphia Times. It is possible that we have not yet reached that point in science where the weather may be surely foretold a few hours in advance, although we had many years ago much better luck than wo are now having. If the failure of the present service is owing to tho impossibility of doing better with our present knowledge of science, then the service had better be siopped and the money saved. It is practically useless, and thoroughly ridiculous. A Proposed Test of Pasteur's Tlioory. New York, Dec. s.—Dr. O’ Gorman, of Newark, N. J., who has taken a deep interest in the cases of the six children bitten by a mad dog on Wednesdav. sent the following cable dispatch to Professor ‘ Pasteur, the French scientist, on Thursday: “Six children have been bitten by a dog supEosed to be mad. The dog was prematurely illod. Will you take charge of the children if sent to Paris? 1 have spinal column of dog. If requested will forward.” Yesterday Dr. O’ Gorman received tho following from Professor Pasteur: “If you fear danger, send the children immediately." It will reauire SI,OOO to send the children to Paris. One hundred and fifty dollars have already been subscribed. Professor H. H. Morgan, for more than twenty years principal of the high-schoql at St. Louis, and his assistant, Professor W. F. Sandford, have been asked by the school board to write their resignations. They are charged lewd conduct and the non-payment of bin*. Since tho death of bis accomplished wile. Prof, Morgan had taken to drink.