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THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. BT WO. C. VKW * SON. - ■ . 1 .g. SrASBIMGTON OFFICE—BI3 Fourteenth St. P. S. lIIATH, Corrws pendant SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 1886. TWELVE PAGES. BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. VXBMS INVARIABLY IV ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID 13V THE PUBLISHERS. THE DAILY JOURNAL. Onym, by mail $12.00 ©** year, by mail, including Sunday 14.00 fix months, by mail 6.00 K> months, by mail, including Sunday 7.00 Three months, by mail 3.00 Three months, by mail, including Sunday 3.50 One month, by mail 1.00 One month, by mail, including Sunday 1.20 Par week, by carrier (in Indianapolis) 25 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. Par copy 1 Scents ,Om year, by mail $2.00 THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL (WEEKLY EDITION.) Om year SI.OO Less than one year and over three months, 10c per month. No subscription taken for less than three months. In clubs of five or over, agents will take yearly subscriptions at sl, and retain 10 per cent, for their work. Address JNO. C. NEW & SON, Publishers The Journal, Indianapolis, Ind. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Booms .242 The Sunday Journal has the largest and lest circulation of any Sunday paper in Indiana. Trice five cents. That there should be differences of opinion and even quarrels in churches is not etrango. The regenerate man possesses many of the traits of him who is supposed to be yet deep in trespass and sin. But it must prove at puzzle to many that members of the same Christian organization could be wrought up to such a pitch of frenzy as to do murder. The rioting that has taken place at Detroit and the imminent danger of fresh outbreaks there are calculated to make one wonder of What value religion is as a check on excesses. If it be answered that these Polish Catholics are unlearned, it simply shows that they have not taken advantage of educational adwantages. While religion is supposed to exert a wholesome restraining influence upon even the unlettered, the Spirit of God working upon the heart of man ought to have the effect of removing or softening the grosser passions, and it would seem that so cruel a crime, so bloodthirsty a deed as murder, could find no tolerance in the heart of any man in the bosom of the church. But in the Detroit affair, as in that only a few weeks ago at Toledo, the spectacle is presented of an entire church gone mad, and hot with the desire to murder and destroy. Men, women and children alike seem insane in their frenzy, and all brought about by a comparatively trivial cause. The inevitable conclusion must bo that there is something wrong with the church in which such awful excesses are possible. The Polish congregation at Detroit must be little different from a herd of human cattle, held in organization by fear or superstition. Were it not for the scandal of such a proposition, it might be argued that the church should take it upon itself to suppress these murderous outbreaks. Yet how much less scandalous is it that organized society must protect itself from them? The bloody impulses of these madmen should be promptly and effectively checked—not only. to shield society, but to save the church from the disgrace of such outrageous proceedings. There is no reason why the entire mob should not be dispersed at once, and with such vigor that no thought, of rallying again will be entertained.

Speculations as to the actual character of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s religious belief are not infrequent among those who are given to a discussion of such matters. Some of his recent utterances bearing on this subject have been of a nature so vague and contradictory that the public may well be excused for an inability to formulate the creed of tho distinguished divine, since he seemed unable or unwilling to do so himself. It has been supposed by some that he leaned to the panetheism which requires—- “ The sun, the moon, the stars, the sea, the hills and the plains Are not these, O soul, tho vision of Him who reigns? Is not the vision He, though He be not that which He seems? Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?” Under the circumstances, therefore, Mr. Beecher’s sermon of last Sunday is something of a surprise in the distinctness with Which he defines his views on the personality of God, and the disclosure that those views are vtrictly sound according to the orthodox belief. He said: “We must think of God as a person, although the limitation of human personality is such as by no means to cover the whole extent of what would be divine personality; but our personality represents a more nearly perfect conception of the divine existence than any other point in human experience. * • * Any other method of thinking of God evaporates tho Divine Being. That He is a •tandency to righteousness’ is all very well in an essay or a poem; but as an object of thought, influence and communion, it really takes away all thought of God. No man ever wants to throw his arms around the neck of a tendency. If we are to worship God, and to love God, and to obey God, there must be sodaething that shall answer to the training that we have had in human life, and along Which training our affections, aud our obediences, and our reverences have had their outflow.” Admirers of the Plymouth pastor, who have feared that he was wandering into paths which might impair his usefulness, will be pleased, with this plain avowal of a belief which it is the fashion ty accept with modifications, if at •1L Others, weak in the faith, and who are given to a dependence upon teachers and preachers for the statements of proper doc-

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will be secretly rejoiced at the assurance from this source that they need not “throw their arms about a tendency,” but can cling to a God who has human attributes mixed with the divine. Even Mr. Beecher, if he has ever leaned toward a different belief, finds that a diffused and impersonal power is not enough to satisfy his strong mind. A HEW YEAR RESOLVE. At this season of the year, more than any other, it is customary for men to make fine resolves of what they will and what they will not do during the new year. They will give up habits that are vicious or unprofitable; they will forego pleasures that are expensive, physically or financially; they will observe a more conscientious discharge of even the little duties that have been neglected, purposely or carelessly, and altogether will do better. This is but natural to every one who reflects, and regarding the last past year, sees how it might have been bettered. It is creditable to human nature that it is so. The desire to do right is one of the noblest impulses, and sincere regret for wrong committed is its twin brother. But high resolve is better than deep repentance. The face sunnily lifted to the future is greater aid to struggling mankind than the sight of a head bowed down in the humiliation of regret. The world has sympathy for him who says “lam wrong.” But for him who expresses a determination to sin no more the feeling is that of admiration and a desire for fellowship. The meditations of the thoughtful man instinctively turn in upon self during the closing hours of a speeding year, and the introspection, if honestly made, must nearly always reveal some flaws, some blotches, that more careful conduct would have saved. Almost as certain as it is to indulge these serious thoughts at this season of the year, is the fact that they hinge on a better line of moral conduct. The flight of time sugests the end of 1 ife. A year goes by so hurriedly, the swift-footed months count twelve so frequently, that life seems a passing show, soon to be done with. The ayerage man would like to quit this existence with a decent record. As it may not be spotless from beginning to end, he would like to have it honorable in purpose and execution. This thought naturally suggests attention to the future and extends beyond the bounds of life. And this, in turn, directs the thinker to a contemplation of the church aud his relation to it, and its effect upon mankind individually and collectively. Few can give serious attention to this without being impressed with the feeling of obligation to afford some kind of moral support. As the balauce-wheel of all human action, as the “governor” that keeps the vast engine called mankind from running to destruction and tearing itself to pieces, the Christain church is indispensable in the moral economy of the world. Among the good resolves for the year should be one self-pledging to be a better friend of religious organization. It need not necessarily be that one should be an active member of any church, or subscribor to any particular tenet. No more does lack of such membership excuse one from the moral obligation to afford every reasonable aid and encouragement to religion. For whether it be regarded as of divine or of human origin, few care to deny that it is the salt of the earth, without which mankind would be infinitely worse off. It were a work of supererogation to attempt to detail the great work of the church and its salutary effect upon society. Millions of homes throughout the world are built upon this foundation, and other millions recognize it as their protecting a?gis. The family, heaven’s best gift, is tho outgrowth of religion. There is a kind of animal family relationship among savage tribes; but the family of civilization, where love and not brute strength is the ruling force, is the gift of religion, because religion is its surest guaranty. Every man, every woman, is in debt to religion and the church. It is an obligation that cannot be discharged perfunctorily, nor in a lump. The good it confers coming hourly, the duty to acknowledge it is continuous. To-day is a very good time to make a good start in this matter, and it will be found, at the end of the year, that if the resolve be rightly kept, there will be a gratifying balance on the credit side of the ledger. The influence of every moral man should be unqualifiedly on the side of religion. A Y. M. 0. A BUILDING. Anew building for the Young Men’s Christian Association in this city is an absolute and imperative necessity. It has been a necessity for years, but the time has now come when it must be built. There are no ifs nor ands about it; the new structure must be put under way and be ready for occupancy as soon as possible. The only question to be discussed now is methods. It is too late, and unnecessary as well, to debate the value of a Young Men’s Christian Association in a city like Indianapolis. Fortunately, even under the disadvantages incident to an old rattletrap of a home, the association in this city has a record which commends it to the active sympathy and support of every thoughtful man, whether Christian or not. In this world, whatever substantial and permanent encroachment is made upon evil is by displacement. A coffee-house will .take the place of a saloon, and do more for the temperance reform than a series of meetings protracted till doomsday, attended only by the men and women already sanctified to this most important moral movement. So a Young Men’s Christian Association, with a comfortable and commodious home, with light, cheerful parlors, well-appointed gymna-

sium, attractive baths and well-stocked read-ing-rooms, will do more for the benefit of young men, be a better aid to public morals and the welfare of the city, than any number of meetings attended only by those who do not specially need the practical and personal ministrations of the gospel. Os course, the work of building anew association home must be largely committed to the hearts and hands of the church people, for in all such enterprises it is the church that must lead and carry them forward. The thoughtless and godless may scoff at the church and at religion as much as they please, yet it remains a fact that the church bears the burden of all advance in humanitarian movements. So, in the nature of the case, the churches of Indianapolis must be the nucleus of the movement for the putting up of aY.M.C. A. building. Subscriptions for the necessary funds should be undertaken by churches, and every church in the city should be represented according to its ability in the walls of the coming structure. But outside of the churches it is an enterprise that appeals to every shrewd, sagacious business man and tax payer. Simply upon the low plane of business and economic selfishness, anew Christian Association building commends itself. Asa police and sanitary measure it will more than pay. Merchants and manufacturers who employ'young men should be glad to take an interest in the work, paying for it just as they pay for insurance policies or any necessary expense of their business. Other cities of the country have built and are building fine homes for their Y. M. C. Associations, and Innianapolis must not and will not allow the year 1886 to close without seeing a commodious, substantial, well-equipped building erected on the site of the present disgrace. In Albany, N. Y., one gentleman has given $50,000 for anew association building; Atlanta raised more than SIOO,OOO for one; Nashville raised $50,000, and so it goes. At least $35,000 is needed for a building in Indianapolis, and that will give the association a property worth $75,000. How such a home would strengthen the hearts and hands of the Association, and make it a vital force over the hundreds and thousands of young men who need its influence and saving power. We believe the people of Indianapolis will raise this amount and put it at the disposal of the association. All that is needed is to have th e matter properly set before them; the right effort rightly made, and from men and women of all classes will come contributions—none necessarily very large, but many in number and mighty in faith—more than sufficient to complete the proposed building, and give the young men a home worthy of them and their work, and creditable to the moral character and religious zeal of the city.

MINOR MENTION, After all the elation felt at Boston over the report that the widow of ex-King Ferdinand, of Portugal, was coming back to that, her native city, to live, it is positively cruel for prying correspondents to drag fact3 to light which may compel expectant but exclusive residents to mod erate the ardor of their welcome. After being told that the lady in question was the daughter of a musician, “poor but respectable,” who went abroad years ago under the patronage of Longfellow and Appleton to cultivate her voice; after having had it explained to them with elaborate detail that ex-King Ferdinand was so charmed with the young American that he married her at sight, so to speak—after having thus been prepared to open their rms to ono who had gone out from among the-, nnoticed, it Is saddening to learn that the; are not to be permitted the exercise of unrestrained hospitality. As the daughter of a supposed poor German musician, she was not barred out from Boston society by circumstances of birth, though it would, of course, have been more satisfactory had she been of Mayflower descent. As the daughter of a poor and obscure German tailor, however, which, it now appears, she really is, the case is somewhat different. The offspring of a horn blower may, other circumstances being favorable, be admitted to the most intellectual circles; but can the barriers be so broken down as to let in the child of a tailor, even though she be wedded to a King, is a question which is now puzzling the social authorities. There is reason to believe that this would be decided very speedily in the affirmative, had the further disclosure not been made that the lady is not in reality the “royal widow” she has been described. There was a marriage ceremony of some sort, doubtless, between the loving and devoted pair, but it seems, on investigation, to have been one of the kind which is not regarded in certain foreign countries as wholly binding. It is also of record that had the ex-King accepted a proposal to return to power in one of the many revolutions in Portugal the American “wife” would not have been regarded as his queen. These disclosures complicate the situation somewhat in the lady’s native city, and cause an indecision which must be truly painful to the individuals who have the matter under consideration. Without wishing to rudely anticipate tho decision, we nevertheless venture the assertion that it will be favorable; that the lady who was not good enough for royalty in Portugal will pass muster in Boston. Whether the fact that the “royal husband” left her four millions of dollars, a part of which, at least, she must necessarily bring with hpr—whether this circumstauce will have any bearing upon the problem it is impossible to say; but the chances are greatly in favor of a royal reception being extended by democratic Boston to the King’s widow. A Memphis bridegroom finds himself in a very peculiar and unpleasant situation. Charles N. Grosvenor, of that city, had boen in love with Olivia P. Hill for several years past, and she had reciprocated. But her parents, who are quite wealthy, objected to the match, and the gentleman was forbidden the house. This was about three months ago. Since then a young l&dy from Louisville visited Memphis, and Grosvenor was caught on the rebound from his other love affair, so a wedding was arranged, yesterday being the date set for it Miss Hill heard of the prepararations in dismay, end on Sunday last, unable to endure it longer, telephoned to hor

old lover to come and see her. He replied that he would when he brought his bride with him from Louisville. On Tuesday he received two letters from her, and he was weak enough to call upon her. She then confessed that she had loved him all the time in spite of the objections of her relatives, and said she was desperate. “If you marry that woman,” she said, “I don’t know what I will do. I may commit suicide. Life will not be worth living.” He pleaded for time to make his peace with the Louisville lady. His old-time love would not listen to delay, and so, almost before he knew it, he was married to Miss Hill beyond all chance to back out He confesses that he was more in love with Miss Hill than with the lady he was to marry, but wanted to keep his word. There is talk of burning him In effigy. If Miss Hill’s parents don’t relent now, it will be because they care nothing for their daughter’s honor. The divinity that doth hedge a king seems sadly out of repair in the case of Ludwig, of Bavaria, who, on New Year’s, was so importuned by impatient creditors that he sneaked off to bed up-stairs, right after supper, feeling as humiliated and helpless as a man baldheaded at the age of twenty-five. They threatened with all kinds of writs, and place dunning bailiffs continually behind the arrass to haunt and disconcert him continually unless, he planks down something on account Ludwig seems never to have realized how very wretched a man could make himself. With an artistic bent of mind, he has been incarnadining his little kingdom aud having memoranda put on the popular slate. But the creditors are getting restless, and hare suggested that he should look around for some job, and, if he can’t do better, he might marry Mrs. Kramer, relict of the baron of that name, and who is well fixed financially. They somehow seem to know that she is willing; but Ludwig, unhappily, has an aversion to women, and can’t think of marrying one. Let the result be what it may, the situation now is very trying, and Ludwig is almost persuaded that the king business is not what it has been cracked up to be. His friend at court, luckily for him, is the aged Emperor. Prince Bismarck is unmistakably hostile. A deplorable suicide is reported from |BudaPesth. A talented young debutante on the operatic stage, but a few days before the public, and the recipient of marked favors, committed suicide because her betrothed said he had not time to accompany her to visit her sister. The girl, Fraulein Aranka Szikalai, called after him: “Come back; if you won’t go to my sister's with me, I’ll kill myself,” and then rau back into the house. Knowing that she had already made three attempts at self-destruction, the lover followed her and burst into her apartments only to find her in death convulsions from a deadly poison. The particulars are too meagre to afford any adequate explanation of her desperation. The result is deplorable in that the girl is represented as giving promise of extraordinary musical talent.

Ex-Minister Benjamin says the game of poker was not invented in America, as is generally supposed, but was known in Persia centuries ago. As, even with this advantage of inherited skill on the part of the Persians, Mr. Benjamin does not mention that they “got away” with him on any occasion, it may be assumed that the national reputation in the line of poker was properly maintained. Your true American can learn as much in a lifetime as a heathen who has centuries the start of him. With injudicious frankness, a New York illustrated paper explains the quick work by which pictures of people and things are made to appear in their pages immediately following distinguishing events by the statement that draw ings are sometimes made with a blue pencil in the dark. In spite of the shadow cast upon the press in general by President Cleveland's charge of untruthfulness, no one familiar with illustrated papers will doubt this story for a morn ont. Coffee drinkers may be interested in knowing the results of experiments made with that beverage in France, as reported to the Paris Academy of Sciences. The experiments, which were made on dogs, showed that while moderate quantities of coffee always increased the process of nutrition and the repiratory movements, too large doses produced retardation of the heart and diminution of the nutritive processes. Col. John A. Joyce, the author of a volume of pennyroyal poems, is greatly excited over the disputod authorship of the poem “All Quiet Along the Potomac.’’ The Colonel knows the anguish of an author whose writings are claimed by others. Ever since Ella Wheeler claimed his poem, or he claimed hers, as the case may be, he cannot be happy when two-fer poems are in dispute, A Reno, Nevada, woman has just been relieved of four snakes which had somehow found entrance to her stomach. They are said to be from eight inches to three feet in length, and she must have suffered frightfully. The physicians in charge are puzzled, it not having occurred to them that snakes were contagious. Delirium tremens will not be so popular in Reno. Seating rink, Louisville—Miss May Carpenter —Mr. John Otto Meunch, jr.—the old story this far. But it did not result in an elopement and scandal. Miss Carpenter fell and broke a leg, and John Otto broke an arm. They could not conveniently elope if they cared to, and it does not appear they are acquainted. Providence sometimes interferes in season. It is a mistaken idea that medical scientists have discovered no cure for trichiniasis. Several medicines are known, any one of which will destroy the parasites that cause the disease. The only objection to them is that when of sufficient strength to kill the trichinae they produce the same effect upon the patient. New York City’s Council is asked for an appropriation of $50,000 for a building in Central Park for the preservation of antiquities and objects of interests associated with the American revolution. If the “Sword of Bunker Hill" is securely caged thereby, some fifty millions will be gratified. B. S. Smith, of Vienna, 111., has gone to his reward, having been married seven times and and leaving twenty-three children to mourn his loss. Quite a number of ladies in that vicinity, who had not the pleasure of haviug been married to Smith, are greatly distressed, Thrity bands were in the Lord Mayor’s inaugural procession at Dublin. It must have been a grand sight to see so many, and not one of themmurdering “Marching Through Georgia.” Under the head of “Political Notes” the New York Post mentions the reception given Madame Greville-Durand, the French novelist, at the

Tremont House, Boston. Can it be possible that the Madame has become a mugwump since her arrival on American shores! BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT. The Cologne Gazette says there is not hereafter to be a Parliament at Westminster, bat a “Parnellment” A Georgia man swallowed his tongue, and came near strangling before a doctor could get it back into position. Mr. and Mrs. Algernon Sartoris, the latter formerly Miss Nellie Grant, are now living in London, having a house in South Kensington. The recent statement of a correspondent that Senator Brown is a “leading temperance man of Georgia” is causing the newspapers of that State metaphorically to smile. Up in Canada they say cockney Englishmen just over are the only ones that call it “tobogganing.” The natives call it “sliding,” and the toboggan is called a traineau. Paul De Saint Victor, the late famous literary critic, had a superstitious fancy that be conld write well only by using an inkstand which he had purchased in Switzerland. A Philadelphia dime museum has on exhibition a “human volcano,” whose breath is of such high temperature that it sets fire to a piece of paper held before it. The fellow came from Kentucky. Mr. John W. Mackay’s grandson, called the “young Prince Colonna," is to be christened in grand style at a cost of S6OO, which is said to be more than the child’s fnther receives in a year for serving ae an officer in the Italian army. It is said that Madame Greville’s profits from her lectures in Boston have been very small. In New York the lectures will be given iff* drawing-rooms. It is also stated that Madame Greville’o yearly income from her books is SB,OOO. No volameof Tennyson’s has exceeded the Bale of his “Maud,” and that was condemned by the critics, only to be rapturously received by the public. Since that, the poet-laureate has been obstinately indifferent to the opinions of the critics. Mallon Zidore, the doyen of the guild of the cigar-stump collectors, who recently died in Pans, uttered a wise and beautiful saying when asked if he was contented with his lot “Yes,” he replied, “enough to love life, but not enough to dread death.” Mr. Parnell is a bachelor, and lives the simplest sort of life in lodgings, as a rule taking his dinners at a hotel. His habits are ao quiet that he and his sister Anna were guests at the same hotol for weeks without knowing that they were under one roof. Mr. Labouohere throws cold water on the warm American reception of Canon Farrar by declaring that the Archdeacon “often talks and writes nonsense and twaddle, and during his tour in the United States he seems to have surpassed himself.” Rev. Attious G. Haygood, of the Methodist Church South, than whom no man is better posted on matters concerning Southern education, says that since the war the people of the North have contributed no lees than $40,000,000 for educational purposes in the South. They have at last invented something new, albeit very gruesome, in the way of a circus performance in Europe. It appears that the latest freak of female circus riders there is to hold a living python outstretched in their hands, as they swing around the sawdust. Front seats are not at a premium. Mrs. Garfield denies the report that she is preparing a biography of her husband, but says that she has been collecting the material for auch a work. It is said that a biography will appear before long written with Mrs. Garfield’s authority. Colonel Rockwell, it is also reported, will be the editor of the work. Election inspectors in France are politer than they are in America. In the Canton of Pielan, Brittany, a schoolmaster’s wife presented herself at the polls and asked whether she conld vote for her sick husband. “Certainly,” was the mayor’s courteous reply, “twice if you like.” And no one protested. Mrs. Brownlow, widow of the famous parson, ex-Governor and United States senator, is still living in the Brownlow homestead at Knoxville, Tenn., a lady of sixty-seven years, remarkably shrewd, well preserved and in full possession of all her faculties. She has with her one daugher; all the other children are scattered over the country. The author of “Tom Brown’s School Days,” now disguised as Judge Hughes, has just given what may be called an umpirical decision at the Stockport County Court, England. The dispute was about a walking match, and the Judge decided to havo the match walked over aeain in his presence next month. Nothing could be more characteristic of “Tom Brown.” A curious episode of the hearings in a New York divorce case was the presentation in evidence of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s popular novel, “Through One Administration.” By this the defence sought to prove that the mere fact of a man's being discovered in the sleeping apartment of a woman did not constitute even a breach of improper conduct or action in America. Love, politics and dress got sadly mixed up in Modale, lowa. A certain partisan father residing in that place promised his daughter a new silk dress if she wonld persuade a certain bachelor to vote the Democratic ticket. The young woman got in the vote by promising her band in marriage. Now she refuses to wed, and the bachelor talks of a suit for damages in $500,000 for a breach of promise. At the revival: Preacher—Young men should never go to a place where they would not take their sisters. Is there a Christian young man in this audience who thinks he may safely break this wise rule? Young man under the gallery stands up. Preacher—And what is the place, my young friend, which you think yourself justified in visiting and yet to which you would not think of taking your sister! Young Man—The barber shop, sir. Lady Randolph Churchill’s success in electioneering suggests to the Boston Courier that “nobody ever knew of a woman who was plain and elderly to effect anything in a political canvass.” This is an error, since Baroness Burden Coutte was very effective in assisting to elect her young husband, Mr. Bartlett, ana the Baroness is decidedly plain and unquestionably elderly, but she possesses an abundance of those solid charms which are so potent in a parliamentary canvass. A recent incident recalls the curious effect produced on many ladies present at the marriage of the Duke of Albany by the violets used in trimming the frocks of the bridesmaids. “What can they be thinking about?” said a baronet’s wife; “violets are fit to deck a funeral, not a wedding. No good will come of this.” For such excellent reasons opals, the prettiest gems in the world, never fetch their real value, and emeralds, also held unlucky, are little cared for, while pearls are of great price. Captain Ericsson invented the first steam fire-engine somewhere about 1840. He lives on St John’s Park, in New York city, in a small brick bonse facing the southwestern end of the square. A visitor there at 10 o'clock at night would see the door of this little house open suddenly and a man, apparently of fifty, with a stout figure and a ruddy face, trip lightly down the steps and, reaching Hudson street, walk rapidly northward. It is Captain Ericsson, who is close upon eighty years of age. He works twelve hours every day, eats lightly, bathing daily in the coldest of water and using sharp gymnastic exercises. W. W. Corcoran, a man who| gives honor to hia millions by his broad charity and large endowments, celebrated on Sunday his eightyseventh birthday. He attributes his good health to regular habits of living. He always has been ao early riser. After a light breakfast Mr. Corcoran drives to his office, where he dispatches business with rapidity and ease. After lunch he

spends the afternoon, if the weather permits, fr calling upon hie numerous friends. Aft dinnec Mr. Coreoran eats heartily, bat eschews all wine save of the lighter sort, such as clarot or hock* The evening he devotes to his family or to the reception of visitors. QUERIES AND ANSWERS, f 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 in rite replies from the outside. The ool* nmn is for the mutual pleasure and profit of our readers.] THE EDITOR To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Who edits the National Republican at Was!* ington, D. C ! Counting Rook. City. E. W. Fox is manager. HIGH-MIXED CORN. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: What kind of corn is high-mixed? Smiley, Ind. W. H. Buanrr. Two-thirds yellow, high colored, and one-third white, or one-third red and sound. THE ARSENAL CANNON. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Ie the cannon at the arsenal in this city firsi at sunrise and at sunset, or at 6 a. m. and at soar set! x. y, z. City. At sunrise and at sunset. SAILING VESSELS. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Have ships or sailing vessels ever sailed tns Mississippi river as far up as St. Louis! Fingastlk, Ind. A Reader. Ocean steamers have; sailing vessels have not. VICE-PRESIDENT HENDRICKS AND TOBACCO. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Did the late Thomas A. Hendricks use tobace* in any form? 3 x. Castleton, Ind. For years prior to his death he neither smoked nor chewed. WHERE IS M’GINNIS! To the Editor of the Indlanapolie Journal: Commissioner Biack has appointed Archie Mb* Ginnis as special examiner in the Pension Bureau. Can you give me McGinnis's postoffioe address! I. T. Davul Raglesville, Ind. We can not, but will send it you if furnished. postmaster’s oath. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Does the postmaster have the right to administer the oath of office to his deputies? a. D. L Mundy, Ind. The oath must be administered by a notary public, or someone qualified to administer an oath. u. s. army recruiting office. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: 1. Ie there a recruiting office at Indianapolis! 2. Are they receiving any recruits now for the regular army! c. O. B. Spickland. L No. 2. Yes; there’s a recruiting office at Columbus, O. For particulars write to recruit* ing officer there. THE GREAT PORTLAND FIRE. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal) Will you give me the date of the great Portland fire? h. c. a. City. July 4,1866. A fire-cracker thrown by a boy kindled a fire which consumed nearly all (he business part of the city, eight churches, and many dwellings, destroying property to the value of $10,000,000 and rendering 2,000 familes homeless.

SPECTACLES. To the Editor of ths Indianapolis Journal: Who invented spectacles, or reading-glasseef Crawfordsville. m. m. Spectacles were unknown to the They are supposed to have been invented by Alexander de Spina, a monk, of Florence, Italy, about A. D., 1285. Others claim that the great English monk, Roger Bacon, suggested specter in 1280. Others say that Sal vino was the real inventor. BEARDED WOMEN. To the Editor of tne Indianapolis Journal: Can yon give me the names of any bearded women In history? Alma. Jonesboro. A bearded woman was taken at the battle of Pnltowa, and presented to the Czar, Peter I, 1724; her beard measured one and a half yards. The great Margaret, governess of the Nether* lands, had a very long, stiff beard. A alight mustache is considered in some countries • beauty mark in women. LAW—LATIN—SHORTHAND. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: (1.) Please give the address of a firm that sell* law books. (2.) Which is the older Latin or Spanish? (3.) Is not the Spanish lan* guage derived from the Latin! (4.) Where can one get a treatise on shorthand so he can learn alone? p, Eugene. (1.) The Bowen-Merrill Cos., booksellers, Indianapolis. (2.) The Latin. (3.) Yes. (4.) Andrew J. Graham, publisher of phonographic books, New York city*. GOBELIN TAPESTRY To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: From what did the came Gobelin tapestry come! W'nat is it, any how? Jones*' Anderson. Gobelin tapestry is so called from a house in Paris once possessed of famous wool-dyers, ol whom the chief, called Giles Gobelin, who lived in the reign of Francis I, is said to have discovered the secret of dyeing scarlet and which was called the scarlet of the Gobelins. This house afterward became a manufactory of tapaltry, t whioh the name Gobelin was applied. SIGHING SONS ok SORROW. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal. Who is the author and where can I find the eong of which the following was the first stanzd It was published in a paper a few years ego: Hail, ye sighing sons of sorrow. Learn with me your certain doom; Learn with me your fate, to-morrow— Dead, perhaps laid in the tomb; See all nature fading, dying. .Silent all things seem to mourn. Life from vegetation flying Calls to mind the m older ing urn. Brookfield. J. V. M. Daily. We are unable to find out anything about it SPANISH ARMADA. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: What were the forces of the Spanish Armad* and who commanded them? Schoolgirl. City. The “Invincible Armada,” asjit was called, consisted of 150 ships, 2,650 great guns, 20,000 soldiers, 8,000 sailors, and 2,000 volunteers. It was under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia. It was defeated July 20, 1588, by Drake and Howard, Tne Armada was afterwards almost destroyed in a storm. More than 10,006 Spaniards were drowned, killed or taken prisoners. The English lost but one ebip. The English kept up a running fight from the 21st to the 27th of July. FRENCH SPOLIATION CLAIMS, ETOL To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: To settle a dispute, please answer the following: (L) Is the United States government a party in the construction of the Panama, or any other canal on the Isthmus? If so, what is the extent of our interest, and how much has been paid! {2.} About how much is the amount of the French spoliation claims, and how much has been paid on the same during the present administration! Pkrrysville, Ind. Republican. (L) No; nothing. (2.) Senator Hoar, in a speech delivered in December, 1882, said, in response ft* a question by Senator Miller, that the claim* amounted to not less than five to seven million* The outside figure ie porhaps about the amount. Nothing has been paid during the present ndh ministration.