Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY- 24, 1889-TWELVE PAGES.

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TJnxJnesa Offlce ..223 1 Editorial rtooms......242 TWELVE PAGES. The Sunday Jonriyloable the elrculotion . ofmaunday paper In Indiana. A CO.CCIG ANinVEESAET. The COth of April next will bo an inresting centennial . anniversary. It will be the ono hundredth anniversary of our national existence. On tho 30th ' day of April, 1780, in Federal Hall, in the ity of New York, tho inauguration of Je government of tho United States of America under tho Constitution, formed ;n convention and adopted in that body, it " Philadelphia, Sept. 17, 1787, took Slace. Both houses of Congress there assembled and entered upon their duties. GexAYslington took the oath of ofiico as the first President, and this Nation was torn and entered upon its conttitutional existence. The independence of the colonics had been proclaimed in Philadelphia, July 4, 177G. The Conf ederate Union of the States had been agreed to in Philadelphia, July 9, 1773, but tho country was without a government or a head until April SO, 1780. Tho event is to bo commemorated in New York with very interesting ceremonies. A movement is also on foot for a celebration in Chicago. Tho Union League Club ha3. issued an address recommending1 a general observance of tho day as ono of patriotic thanksgiving. The suggestion is a good one and should be generally adopted. " Wc "horrid "like to see it adopted in this and made an occasion of aunani- ; as expression of patriotic union and otionto constitutional government, institutions and liberty restrained iw. It will bo a fitting and appropriate occasion for tho people, in a spirit of patriotic gratitude, to unitedly reiterate their declaration of attachment to the principles of our national Constitution and devotion to tho maintenance of our republican institutions. The school board should take steps to have the day appropriately observed in tho schools. Let us-, for ono day in the year, or ono flay in tfce Century, forget that wo are partisans and remember only that we are Americans. Let Democrats beat their swords into plough-shares and Republicans their spears into pruningJiooks, and join all hands around in celebrating the birthday of free government. THE LOCATION OP CHURCHES. An old citizen calls attention tautjie original location of tho churches in this city, ao inustrativo of the growth of the ity; and of the : notions 0 the fathers. The firit churcneg were, all located south of Washington street It was considered almost ft dangerous eipenxn'e'ht to locate the Fii 0 Presbyterian" Church on Pennsylvania, north of 'Market too far north for tho convenience of the population. "When the Methodists resolved to build Hheir new church it was located north of "Washington, on the corner of Meridian and Circle. "When the Episcopalians built, about 1837, they located on the north side of the Circle. When a church was to be built for Mr. Beecher, a year or so -later, it wa3 located on the west side of .the Circle. When the First Presbyterian deeded a new church it was located the east side of the Circle, ' where the Journal building now is, arid when the Congregationalism built It was on the Circle, opposite to Christ Xhurch, so that at ono time there were Javo churches on tho Circle, giving occasion, somo thirty years ago, for an amusing mistake. A member of the Legislature, who boarded at the hotel cn Alabama, east of the market-house, who was not a total abstainer, starting 'for tho State-houso down Market street, came to the high fence that then inclosed the circle. Not wishing to risk hiniscli! on tho 6teps that furnished ingress and egress to tho sacred inclosure, he started around the Circle, keeping close to the fence. .Though competent to legislate if ho could reach the State-house, he was not in a frame of mine to notice when ho had reached West Market fitreet, so he kept around the Circle and around, again and again, until meeting Eome one he said: "Mr., can you tell me where the Capitol State-house is! This is the longest street I ever saw, and it?s full of meetin' houses 'pears to me Fve seen rnorn'n a hundred, and they are all on t'other side the street, and big meetin' houses, too." Meanwhile the Methodists had built their second church, Iloherts Chapel, as uear to the Circle as possible, only a lialf square cast on Market street, and when the Presbyterians ' built their Third and Fourth Churches, these, too, were each located only a square and a half from tho Circle, and tho First Christian Church " ccly a square further off. . When tho First Baptist Church , was burned, in u;o or 1&J1, they determined

to mako the desperato venture of buildr1

ing'up town, so far out, indeed, as to b considered quite a hazarj2SSJ?irrTal, fio extraVTTjfsiTnjirm'Size and stylo as to boa matter of unfriendly comment both in the church and out. It was a pioneer movement, and was soon followed by the two Presbyterian churche3 from the Circle, and the Methodist and tho Congregational, so that University square hecame the center of church location. These arc now all down-town churches. CREATPEE3 OF HABIT, v In spite of tho migratory spirit in tho American people, the tendency that leads some to "go Wesf merely for the sake of going, and others to move into a new house evexy May, the bump of "locality'' is well developed in the ma jority of persons. They become at tached to places and to tho inanimate objects that surround them. In a general way they may have no special liking for tho town they live in. but when it comes to leaving familiar scenes, the house they are acimstomed to, the street whose. every feature is photgraphed on their minds, the office or store-room, whoso very dinginess may bo attractive through long ac quaintance, they shrink involuntarily from the change. They will say, per haps, that it is friends and relatives from whom they hesitate to part, but if all the friends for whom they care were to join in their exodus the regrets would still exist though, possibly, unacknowledged. Personal affection is itself largely a matter of habit and propinquity. We love the members of our households, because they are ours, because they are there, because they make part of our everyday life and its routine. It 'would not do to say, if it could be told, how great a part of the grief which follows their departure to new homes or to another world, comes from the breaking up of this routine, and how much from loss of their companionship. It argues' nothing against tho depth of human affection that outward things so influence us. We are creatures of habit, and the habits are made by the animate and inanimate influences. It is natural to dread a change of home as well as change of associates. The new home may bo more luxurious, the new companions as agreeable as the old, but the old we are accustomed to. It is for this reason, perhaps, that the pictured glories of paradise have so little charm even for the world-weary. We cannot care even for heaven until its 6cenes have become familiar. THE NEW STATES. The youngest States, like the newest bride, are the center of attraction. The admission of four new States at once is without precedent in our history. Two are tho most ever admitted before on the same date. Florida and Iowa were both admitted on March 3, 1845, though Florida had been an organized Territory since 1822, and Iowa since 1833. With this exception all the other States were admitted one at a .time. Kansas and Nebraska were both organized as Territories at the same, time, May SO, 1854, but Kansas was admitted as a State Jan. 29, 1SG1, and Nebraska Feb. 9, 18G7. The period of territorial government has varied considerably in different cases. Ohio was a Territory only five years before -she became a State, Indiana sixteen years, Illinois nine years, Michigan thirty-six years, Iowa seven years, Wisconsin eleven years, Minnesota nine years, and so on. Dakota was organized as a Territory March 2,1861; Montana May 2G, 1804, and Washington March 2, 185:3. Washington's term of territorial government is the longest on record, exceeding by a few months that of Michi gan. The act admitting a new State does not always take effect immediately, snmo steps generally being requisite on tho part of the people of the Territory. In the present case the people aro required to elect delegates to a constitutional convention, which shall meet on tho 4th of "July next, and formally adopt the Constitution of the United States, after which they may proceed to frame State constitutions to be ratified by the people. The vote on the constitutions will be held on the first Tuesday in October, 18S0, and if ratified the President will then issue a proclamation declaring the admission of the States. This proclamation will be issued by President Harrison, and the new States will not bo admitted until it is issued. The act of admission, signed by President Cleveland, leaves nothing more to be done by Congress, but the actual admission will date from the issuance of President Harrison's proclamation after the ratification of the State constitutions in October next. At tho same time that the people vote on the adoption of their State constitutions they will vote on the location of the State capital and on the final adoption of the name, provided any change of name is proposed. The new States will be very large ones. North and South ' Dakota contain 140,100 square miles; Montana, 140,080 squaro miles, and Washington, 00,180. As a basis of comparison, Indiana contains 36,350 square miles. AVashington, much tho smallest of the new States, contains nearly twice the area of Indiana. Eventually all these Sates will no doubt be subdivided into new ones. Their material resources are practically inexhaustible, and their population of the most energetic and progressive character. They will be great States. Perhaps few persons are aware that the entire territory constituting the new States once belonged to France, and came' into our possession by tho purchase of Louisiana in 180:3. That was tho largest real estate transaction on record, and the greatest bargain. The Territory of Louisiana had originally belonged to .France, .was ceded by her to Spain in 17GJ, and by Spain ceded back to France in 1800. In 1803 Napoleon I, being in sore need of money, intimated to the United States that he would negotiate for the sale of the province of Louisiana. This government offered $10,000,000, and finally paid 815,000,000.. The treaty of cession, or deed, was signed April 80, 1803. Tho territory thus conveyed stretched from the mouth to tho

source of tho 'Mississippi, and west to the Pacific, and embraced 1,171,931 square miles. . It comprised all of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Oregon; the entire territories of Dakota, Montana, Washington and Idaho, the State of Minnesota west of the Mississippi, the most of Kansas, all of Colorado, Wyoming and the Indian Territory. At the timo. of the purchase neither Franco nor tho United States had any idea of tho extent, resources or value of the country it embraced. It seems incredible that less than ninety years ago the new States soon to figure as additional stars on tho American flag were part of an unexplored province of France, inhabited only by savages and wild beasts.

LIES AND LIABS. Mr. Oscar Wilde is reported to have written an essay on "Lying as a Lost Art," but it is not probable that this aesthetic writer is so optimistic as to believe that lying, as a practice, is becoming less common. The title of the essay, indeed, .refutes this idea. He treats the subject, it must be inferred, from an artistic 6tand-point, and observes, or thinks he observes, that the liars of to-, day are moro bungling and careless in tho exercise of their peculiar accomplishment than was formerly the case. Cer tainly, if Mr. Wilde keeps his eyes and ears open, and himself in pace with tho world's movements, he can hardly detect any diminution in the number of liars. If he reads the newspapers, and everybody who is anybody does read them, he must be convinced that tho prevaricator is abroad in tho land in great force. This is by no means equivalent to saying that newspapers aro untruthful; far from it. On the contrary, it is generally and correctly understood that reputable newspapers, in their individual expressions, aim to be, and usually are, accurate and truthful. It is only because they chronicle the events of the day and tho doings of fallible people that so-called "news" is received with some doubt by wary and experienced readers. It is not the newspapers that are to blame if any assertions in suchnews columns vary from the truth, but the unvcracious public itself, which contributes alleged facts to newspaper writers. Occasionally, it is true, a reporter or correspondent, not being free from the weaknesses of humanity, does a little romancing on his own account, but, as a rule, the writer is blameless and merely "tells the tale as 'twas told to him." It is not necessary to look to newspapers to discover the popular tendency to indulge in fiction. It is met with in private life and in public. There is an inherent disposition in the human animal to exaggerate, and it is this trait rather than viciousness that accounts for the prevalent inaccuracy of statement. Tho mildest development of this is the universal habit of embellishing a good story by a few extra touches. The best of men will do this. It is hero that the artistic sense comes in. They are not liars, then, but artists improving on an incomplete piece of work. As to whether the art is deteriorating in finish, is a question for Mr. Oscar Wilde and others, who have timo to compare ancient and modern liars, to decide; but to those looking only at recent instances it will appear that some very talented falsifiers are now going to and fro upon the earth. Take, for instance, "Dr." LeCaron and Mr. Piggott, two persons who must have come under Mr. Wilde's notice. These persons had, it is true, a mercenary and selfish reason for deviating fiom tho truth in the course of their careers, but there are many evidences going to show that they built up their elaborate fabrications moro from puro artistic enjoyment of the work than from any effort at selfprotection. They first "labored to deceive," but apparently wove their par ticularly "tangled webs" more for tho personal satisfaction of it than from necessity. They are "bad eggs," as all persistent liars must be, but it is plain that they have derived a certain pleasure from theif occu- " pation apart from the attainment of the original aim. It is more than likely that all liars of high degree have something of the same feeling. They are reprehensible creatures, and all who. have suffered from their inventions would willingly vote to abolish them off the face of tho earth, but there is no doubt that many of thein "touch up" the truth less from a wish to cause mischief than from the instinct of the inventor. In somo lines of life this would lead them to become novel writers or f ree-trado advocates; in others it produces Le Carons and Piggotts men with vivid imagi nations gone wrong. 'Squire Keigwd?, of Jeffersonville, Ind., has contributed his mite to the discussion whether marriage is a failure. 'Squire Keigwin is the Jeffersonville justice of the peace who is sought after by the eloping couples from Kentucky. Daring the ten years of his official career he has married over 2,500 couples, of whom more than four hundred couples were during the year 1S8S. He says: "It makes me very tired whea I read the silly efforts of these iocalled lecturers who aro trying to convince the people that -' marriage is a failure. I have united nearly three thousand couples, and I do not know of half a dozen couples out of the entire num ber who have been divorced. I believe the lives of these elopists are just as blissful as those of people married under other circum stances, and, besides, a clandestine mar riage, in almost every instance, saves unnecessary expense." 'Squire Keigwin makes good fees by marrying eloping couples, and it is to his interest to promote that sort of folly, but it is not likely he knows anything whatever concerning the future relations of the persons he unites. Antiquarians and relic hunters some times get a set-back in an unexpected manner. A sewer contractor in Pittsburg re cently unearthed a large nuraber of corroded cannon balls, and the would-be makers of history immediately remembered that in 1815 an arsenal and fort had occupied the place where they were found. - One aged citizen was frank enough to Admit that he had never heard any cannonading in the vicinity, but this did not deter others from carrying away specimens of the missiles aud storing them m cabinets . as relics of revolutionary wartimes. Their idols were shattered, however, when the exoiayor pulled the veil from the historical romance by saying all . the columbiads used in the

late civil war were tested at the place

where the balls were found before being turned over to Uncle Sam. The relics didn't even possess the merit of having been used in warfare. THE Milwaukee Sentinel eives the oriein and evolution of the Cabine't rumor that Governor Hoard, of that State, was in Ka Secretary of Agriculture.' It says that a few days ago the New York Sun made a guess as to the next Cabinet, and set down W. D. Hoare, of Wisconsin, for Sccretarv of War. The writer was doubtless thinking of ex-Governor Rusk, but by a lapse of the pen used the name of tho resent Governor. while the compositor changed his name to Hoare, in consequence of an e having got into his d box. This 6et Cabinet eossiners to thinking that Governor Hoard has been prominent in agricultural circles, and they have awarded him that department. Some of the New York papers sent on for photoaraphs of him, and he suddenly found him self famous. Tnn custom prevails in Washington of kissing the Bible on taking an oath. This is done in the courts and in administering all official oaths. It is a quaint old enstom, and while it adds nothing to the binding force of an oath, it is not without solemnity to a man of serious mind. The President of the United States kisses the Bible when he takes the oath of office. The oath is always administered by the Chief-justice and the Bible for the purpose is always purchased by the Clerk of the Supreme Court. Mr. Cleveland used a Bible belonging to his mother a graceful and appropriate act. After the inaugural ceremony the Bible used on the occasion is usually presented to the President's wife or some member of his family as a souvenir. ; Prohibition does not seem to prohibit in Rhode Island. The Providence Journal finds by actual enumeration that there are 529 saloons, kitchen bar-rooms and like re-' sorts m that city, and over two hundred in Pawtucket. The chief of police says he is powerless to remedy this 6tate of things. In the small towns, where the population is sparse and public sentiment sustains the law, he has met with success, but his efforts and his expenditures have gone for naught in the cities and manufacturing districts. This sustains the local-ontion M theory, which is based on the idea that to make .a law effective the public sentiment of the community must be behind it. Ttte Journal congratulates itself aw its readers on tho quality of the poetical contributions printed in its columns from week to week. More than one writer whose literary offorts first appeared in this paper has since gained national fame, and there is no room to doubt that some who are now trying their wings in the same way will reach like distinction. It is not a fair test to compare these contribution with "mag azine poetry," because magazine poetry, as a whole, is not of a high grade. The Journal's verse-writers have tho merit of originality and purity of thought, as well as grace of diction, and the paper is proud of them. A gentleman from Texas, who has been spending a few days in tho city, furnished considerable amusement the day after his arrival by asking the hotel clerk for "some sticks of wood like that in the grate." Inquiry elicited the fact that he had watched the natural-gas fire all the evening, and the next morning, only to find that the wood was not consumed. The heat was there, but .the sticks were not even charred. To use his own words "As far as I could see the wood kept on burning, and yet even the bark was as tougbas ever." He wanted to introduce the wood in Texas. Dobs advertising pay? That depends on the means used. Some time ago the J ournal printed a little notice saying that the post master at LaPorte.had received a letter from Germany, inquiring the whereabouts of George Zinn, who was at one time an iumato of the LaPorte county asylum, and stating that he had fallen heir to a small fortune. Since tho publication of the item the postmaster has been flooded with letters from all parts of the country, signed by George Zinn. All claim the inheritance. TnERE is reason to suspect that the bicycle case, decided yesterday, was expedited in its course on the docket on ac count of the recent collision of two members of the court with a wheel. It is a matter of congratulation that a case was pending which enabled them to take this short cut to a ruling against the offending machines. There is now no room for con troversy in the matter. Wheelmen have no right to tho sidewalks, and must be mado to keep off of them. Present indications are not very favor able for pleasant weather for an out-door , demonstration in Washington on the 4th of March. This cold spell is apt to last sev eral days, and though not as cold East as it is here, the temperature in Washington is not very likely to be balmy or spring like by next Monday, Persons who expect to march in the procession or stand in the open air had better provide themseves with overcoats. The Bunalo Express makes the astonish ing statement that that city raises $1,911,S65 a year by general taxation and pays out $1,329,980 for official salaries. It substantiates the statemety printing a list of the city officials and .their salaries. This payroll contains 2,052 names and the officials, with their assistants, subordinates and helpers, are legion. The Rev. David Swing, of Chicago, informs the Journal that he was not the writer of the letter printed in the Journal of the 17th, in relation to the defalcation and flight of Joseph lJL' Moore. Mr. Swing adds that he has no motive for scolding Indianapolis people for their sins, as the residents of Chicago furnish all the material needed. New York city has contributed $75,000 for the centennial celebration in April, about $32,000 has been subscribed by individuals, and a bill is pending in the State Legislature to appropriate $125,000. They are evidently planning a grand affair. The semi-annual announcement Is made that the Andover controversy is raging. The public has forgotten what the controversy is about, but cherishes a firm conviction that without a theological wrangle on hand Andover would not be Andover. If it is true, as stated, that Mr. Cleveland is a spiritualist he should have employed a medium who would predict his election for a second term. Spiritnal mediums 6hould be required to earn their money. Eight Michiganders have applied for the Governorship of Alaska, now held by Mr. Swineford, and a large number of counties are yet to hear from. People have laid off their linen dusters in Dakota, and the picnic season has come to a sudden end. Emigrant to Canada: Please shut the door, it is cold. Boston women are writing articles to the papers of that city on "How to Cleanse th

Polls." They are evidently of the opinion that polls aro things that can be "cleansed" with a scrubbing brush and a mop.

BREAKFAST-TABLE C1IAT. At his country home Mr. John Wanamaker is 6aid to have tho finest lot of rho dodendrons in Pennsylvania. James Russell Lowell will devote the remainder of his life to travel and reading, lie says that his literary work is all done. Lieutenant Hen, of tho Galatea, proposes to viit America again, and will sail with Mrs. Henn in timo or tho New York races in August. Wedding rings were used by the ancients and put upon the third ringer, becauso of a supposed connection of a vein in that member with the heart. Kino George III, of England, had a watch not larger than a five-cent piece, which had 120 parts, the whole not weich-" ing quite 60 much as a ten-cent piece. A young lady who aspired to fame as a musician went one day to Rubinstein for advice. She played for him, then asked, What shall I do!" "Get married," was tho reply. The Woman's Journal ridicules the National Divorce Reform League for having no woman in its membership, and the "impudence of its attempt to uecido the question of the family with all women left out." Benjamin Franklin's watch is owned by a gentleman of Lancaster, who says it still keeps good time. It is of silver, shaped like a biscuit, and has engraved on its back:' "Ben Franklin, 1778, Philadelphia." , A little girl .yesterday asked a Washington bookseller if he had a book entitled "Robson and Crane." Being questioned about the book she said: "Why, its all about two men that were shipwrecked on an island all alone one Friday." The London Queen accepts King Solomon's rule, and says that a good birching across the shoulders is salutary for bad girls as much as for bad boys, and that the authority to give it ought to be intrusted to every head teacher in the kingdom. A representative in the Nebraska Legislature writes to a Lincoln paper denying that ho tried to blow out the incandescent light in his room, but admitted that he bathed his head with the contents of a hand-grenade under the impression that it was bay rum. Bill Nye says the New York World paid him $G,000 the first year of his engagement with it. After that, in lieu of increase, he took the profits resulting from the sale of his articles to a newspaper syndicate, and, as he says, is making nearly three times his original salary. Congressman W. L. Scott, of Erie, Pa., is worth probably $15,000,000 but he is one of the least ostentatious men in Congress. His face is sallow and he is rather thin and round-shouldered, with sparse sandy hair. He represents, either as president or director, 22,000 miles of railroad. Fanny Macaulay, who died the other day at Brighton, Eng., at the age of eighty, was the last surviving sister of the great historian. She was the frequent companion of her illustrious brother, and to her he wrote some of the most genial letters that are to be found in his correspondence. "I have never been in a hurry; I have always taken plenty of exercise; I have always tried to be cheerful, and I have taken all the sleep that I needed." These were the rules followed by the late Kev. James Freeman Clarke, and he outlived and outworked most of those who began life with him. Kate Field 6ays that the woman who aims to be fashionable might as well commit suicide at the start. She must neglect home, husband and children, put away comfort and convenience, be a first-class hypocrite and a good slanderer, and, at the end of ten years, Dreak down and become a physical wreck. The cost of maintaining public schools in New York State last year was $14,980,841, an increase of more than $1,200,000 over 1887. This money was for the education of 1,772.958 children of school age, of whom 1,033,2(59 attended school. The number of teachers employed was 31,720, at an average annual salary of $419.75. The Rev. Edward Everett Hale believes in more than local option on the subject of liquor; he believes in individual option. He says it does not naturally occur to him to offer his visitors wine any more than it would paregoric or'opium;bnt if his guest felt that ho needed wine lie should hope he would tell him so, and he would endeavor to get it for him. A broom manufacturer of Humboldt, Kan., has constructed a new broom for Mrs. General Harrison, to be presented when she becomes mistress of the White House. The brush is made of the finest straw, and upon the handle of polished wood, straw and silver wire are interwoven at intervals representing fourteen different designs of rare beauty and exquisite workmanship. . Sixty-one years ago Charlotte Mason became an inmate of a well-known insane asylum in Virginia. Her malady was in someway connected with the election of John Quincy Adams, who was then President of the United States. Though she had never seen Mr. Adams, Miss Mason talked of no one else from the timo of her incarceration up to her death, which has only just occurred. To a correspondent who wrote to Whittier asking if the words often attributed to him, "Identify yourself in youth with some righteous, unpopular cause," wero quoted correctly, he replied: "I am not sure whether the quotation is among my writings, but I fully indorse it. The truth I know by my own experience and that of my early friends. We have all had reason to thank God for the privilege of advocating unpopular irutn." Count von Moltke is now very old and suffers considerably from deafness and the maladies attendant upon a bad liver. He does not show his ill health, however, and to all outward appearances is well preserved. He is tall, lean and slightly bent. He wears a blonde wig. His features are very strong, and the gray-bine eyes, thin lips, marc id cheeks and long, straight nose are calculated to leave a lasting impression on all who see him. An instance of presence of mind ap proaching to the horrible occurred in the Grand Theater, Glasgow. Miss Rose Lee, while singing a love song, saw a "flyman" fall headforemost from the flies to the stac. a distance of twentv-two feet. She not only continued her song, but moved forward to the front of the stage in order that the calcium light, which was directed upon her, might not reveal the form of the dead man to the audience. The house which Mr. Blaine has rented for the next four years at Washington is the historical brick mansion where Philip Barton Key died, and where the assassin Pavne tried to kill Feeretarv Seward. Belknap lived there in Grant's time and Mrs. Belknap died there. It has been in turn a family residence, a boarding-house, a club house, the social headquarters of two administrations, a government office, and a vacant building shunned by househunters on account of its reputation. The original eau de cologne is made from a recipe which, according to a writer in the Leisure Hour, has been known to only ten people since it was discovered nearly two hundred years ago. The written copy of it is kept in a crvstal coblet. under triple locks, in the room in which tho essential oils are mixed. The casks in which the perfume is kept are made of cedar wood irom Lebanon, which is stronger than any other and does not smell. More than two million bottles are sold annually, and of these lou.ouo go to one house in .London. It is one of the unwritten laws that every incoming President of the United States shall be sworn on a new Bible. Clerk McKenney, of the United States Supreme Court, supplies the Bible. After the in augural ceremony the volume is presented to some one of the President's family. The custom was set aside in the case of Mr. Cleveland, who took the oath on a Bible once owned by his mother, although itr.

McKenney had purchased a book for the occasion. It is understood that General

Harrison will return to the old custom and kiss a Bible furnished bv Clerk McKenney. The medical editor of a certain London paper, who advocates a vegetarian diet, has undertaken to live for an entire month on nothing but whole meal and distilled water. This meal he grinds himself, mixes it with cold distilled water into a batter, and bakes it for au hour and a half. Ho allows himself one pound of meal and two pints of water daily. Miss Zollicoffer, of Tennessee, daugh ter of the Confederate general, is to make a copy of the famous painting of President Polk, by llealy, in the Polk mansion at Nashville, for the Scotch-Irish Congress to be held in May at Columbia, lenn. lho Polks were originally Polloks of Ireland, but intermarried with the Knoxes of Scotlaud, whereupon the name became abbreviated into Polk. "Tnn 'prosperous Queensland squatter. whose landed possessions aro estimated at five millions,' mentioned in the lato Lady Brassey's posthumous volume, is James Ty son, at once the wealthiest. and the sting iest man in Australia. Almost every sec1 , ?l 1 . .! 1 - 1 ouu inuiviuuai you ineeiin me colonies nas an anecdote to tell of 'Hungry Tyson,' to give him his unenviable sobriquet," 6ays the Pall Mall Gazette. . "Old Jim," the alligator hunter of Indian river, Florida, declares that Senator Quay can catch more fish than any man alive, and tells how ho knows. "I've took parties over to that ar inlet as I knowed war good lishers. Ihev had -all the hxm's and contraptions as Matt had. an' they sot down right alongside o' him. Well, by gravy! Matt Quay would sit there haulm' 'cm in as fast as he could swing his" rod, an' tho other fellows couldn't get a dern bite." Dr. Guddrand Vigfusson, an Icelander, and the nrst canainaviau scnoiar oi tne day, has died in England, where his home has been for twenty-five years, and where, in 1803, he completed his Icelandic-English lexicon. He had at his death nearly finished his labors on the "Origmes Islandia?," which will bo published this year. Its subject is a critical account of the migrations and set4 oti icnt ilia onnatitnf inn mirl i 1 ctnrr gf Ilia native iand the only land where all the people are educated and there aro no class conflicts. AHEAD OF OLD TIMES. The muses nine were fly old girls, at least so runs tue tale. But scarcely nt to be compared with recent nines of Yale: - They lavished honor and renown upon the an cient world. But surely those were stupid times In which no ball was twirled. Diana was a huntress boll, she knew where game was found. She used to hag the biggest stags in aU the country round. Where are her bows and arrows now and where her crown of bays! Yale beats her record with a Stagg who ritches as no prays. From Poem read at New York Yale Dinner. AN HOUR IX WARNER'S STUDY. The Humorist Acknowledges that He Has Had Many Manuscripts Returned. Special Correspondence of th Indianapolis J ournal. New York, Feb. 23. Mr. Charles Dudley Warner has just finished two numbers of the serial, "A Little Journey in the World," which will begin in the April number of Harper's Magazine. I had tho pleasure of looking at the manuscript a few days ago. It is the clearest "copy-plate" on paper of commercial-note size, with hardly an erasure. Mr. Warner is a rapid writer, never making a second copy of any manuscript. He uses violet ink, because it flows much more freely than any other kind and enables him to "work the faster. "If I had been at . work on the serial," said Mr. Warner, i could not have seen you, for when I intend to write on that I leave strict orders down 6tairs that no one ris to approach my study " on pain of not 'death.' perhaps but a scolding." Mr. Warner works from 10 o'clock in the morning until 3 in the afternoon, when he walks down to his oflice in town, to attend to his duties as editor of the Hartford Courant. He seldom takes any luncheon. A most tempting, but a very modest collation was laid out for him at one end of the diningroom table; a bowl of milk, a few slices of bread and a baked apple, with a vase of roses to add beauty to the repast, but it was already 3 o'clock, and the luncheon uutasted. - There is an open fire-place in this plainlyfurnished study, with a cheerful blaze. The "delusive gas-log" is nowhere to be seen in Mr. Warner's house, for has he not anathematized it as ."a fraud which no one can poke, and before which no cat would condescend to lie down.acenterof untruthfulness, demoralizing tho life of the whole family V ' "1 don't suppose you ever had any manuscript returned!" I ventured to inquire, and 1 am bound to confess that his answer was balm to my souL "Oh! my, yes; I had plenty returned to me, but then, as I became an editor when quite young, I was somewhat independent of other editors." "And what was the very first thing you ever wrote for publication!" Uh, 1 cannot remember, " he replied. for it was so long ago, but I presume it was some sketch lor Putnam s Magazine or for the old Knickerbocker. "Here is a copy.of Putnam's Magazine for 1853," he said, taking the book down. The "dust-covered" book, I was going to say, but that would be a misstatement, for no dust can be found in that well-regulated work-room, even if the search is conducted with the aid of a nrst-class microscope. "And in it is an article that I wrote for it, 'Salt Lake and the New Saratoga.' " Mr. Warner, as well as all other people in tho world of letters, is constantly oesieged with notes from j'oung writers asking for advice, or if they may submit some choice and precious MSS. to him. "I always reply to such letters that I shall be very frank with you, and tell you the truth as it seems to me. I can always sympathize with young writers, even if I nnd their letters a great interruption to my work, for I remember how anxious I used to be in regard to my articles, and how eager for somebody's opinion besides my own. "Do editors conscientiously examine all MSS. submitted to them, whether tho author be known or unknown in the literary firmamentT" Mr. Warner says that every magazine editor is looking out for something good, and name or influence only avails in so far as it calls more immediate attention to a manuscript. Nor is it ever necessary to read every page of an article to tell whether it meets the needs of the magazine in question, or whether it is worth . publishing at alL You need not eat the whole dinner to tell whether it is good. Often the readers for different publishing honsf do not know the name of tho authors, so there can ba no possible bias in favor of a name already made famous. In regard to the international copyright bill Mr. Warner declares that every one who desires to stimulate American literature should vote for it. It is not only a question, however, of protecting home authors, it is a matter of getting our books without stealing them. "If we paid more for our books we should think more of them aud not throw them aside aswe do a newspaper. Literature loses its force in the world when books are to be had at almost the asking. I hope we shall have more better books, but as paper is cheaper than it used to be, and pretty but inexpensive bindings are now made, there is no reason why there should not be cheap books, for peoplo demand them as well as expensive ones. American literature has grown to be what it is under many great obstacles. Obstacles, no doubt, may be a help as well as a hindrance as the basket set down on an acanthus is fabled to have suggested the Corinthian capital. "In the caso of the English author, his property is brought over here for the express purpose of being confiscated." The Author's Reading recently given at the Lyceum in this city, netted a good sum, and a reading is soon to be given in lioston, when Mr. Warner will take part. The proceeds are to help on this copyright matter. His reputation came to Lim with some suddenness on the publication of "My Summer in a Garden." These were a scries of papers reprinted from the Hartford Courant. , There was a f reshucss about them that

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delighted everyone, atharniDVoow' mosphere. delicate ati QiuinC UWoctIn this saiiie houvA ma belonged vas th fire-iWtvLif. ,rfi'a "Back Log Studies" JSpSfe cile, theon.y rrmin.W n the brnnrA bnet nf W.UL i the drawing-room. T , "juu jt.csseu ut agncultin if on a. sve too mnth of it, i.&U tw?1 iii tk ti ll a v t with aithir" Skj Garden." and ho alwav .M!?!: la a principal 1.11 TilllH nf n ,-JttV 1 , rtv Karri.ti - possesor vefretablf a and ftiit (that better and cheaper done tr the rnVrV..0 dener), but to teach pal face nd tin" phy and the higher virtfjllSS? JA,ln8" and expectations Migbti leadffcXSST1 to resignation and soini-luenation cllr "Tho Gilded Age,s wriunlT yP J arner in conjunct ioci frith Mark -?Mr The latter contribute toiJ joint duction. the careerof xh IlawkSl 5,?" and of Colonel tellers, fcupyinF thl lIjr eleven chapters audtlity-twootJ bf r? terj scattered throngljit ib?? rest of the romposi to stry mut 1 cAJj to Mr. Y nrnt-r. e h:e the word Vf',u authors that there wasio intention ftLli3 ing it humorouMhe tie SfpiV i"1that of bitter satire, tr anS hot to th In appearance. Mr. Xarner is tall ft'P erect in form, with a axon counts Jl indicative of though? aud rXSj? U hen at his work ho x?ars a black Sfc veteen jacket. Jtf His pedestrian powers are good and 5 the summer he takes lort traWJ iSiS panied by one or two frids; the AdirST dack region being a favrite resort ii an angler he is patient ad expert. 1 All the walls in his limse are cover with brown wrapping parr, or such tit used to put down tindtf carpets. Th-i? are di tlerent shades of t fc paper, to bS? ! and the frieze in each room is of Jnml bright color which reliefs the monow An unnoticed plain wal surface Mr. WirJl cr considers the best b:kground for BirT ures. Umd Wcciism. JKFFERSONIAN ilttrLicrTT. It Had IWn In Bad Heafth for 'Tear. aa the lreent AdminUtntlon Killed It. Bardette, In Brooklyn Eagle. ' ters of lire, as it were, in frovemWr faciei out in somewhat considrably somewhat les than four ycam. Wkea we rememher the volumes that werf written about this same JelierF.onian sinpVcity whatet! er that may be a few, sa three or few years ago, and then wadethrongh the descriptions of the lavish jplcndor and ths costly magnificence of dess which mrk the life and entertainment of Washinctoa society now, we almost wish there hii never been any Jetleronian simplicity However, it is comfort inr to think there u no longer any talk of it. People are, in ths lump, easily culled; the ar more fooU. many times told, outside the avluins (or the insane, than there,'are inside. Um nobody believes in Jefletsouian simplicity any longer. Jc lersonian simplicity died poor. It didn't lay up h much ss a-i Lavish Extravagance. Jt couldn't ke? iu own property. We ar going to tut swath a few inches widf at each Ruccesding administration until we kill the hired man. Let the wayfaring man. who ii not generally considered intellect uaHr robust, make no error in this readier it is writ in a large hand for his especui benefit. There is loie for the part in the hearts of us all, for the fathers who lived long ago; but they pit on the iw. ger in ways that were small, ana carried ii on rather slow. They were manly and honest, and hated the things which Christian man honestly loathes; we've forgotten George Washincton's hatred of rings, though we wear Mrs "Washinpton'a clothes. Ye have increased in goods, ia power and pelf, wo have torn doun our barns and built more; we haTe obUeUd our neighbor and pampered oumlf, ard added each year to onr store, So vers able to have all our tlreses from Worth. and to ke ep all the uations asrog; and we're going to file a new claim for the earth, and to put on a good deal of dog. The Coming Change In th Fla?. Iowa State Register. For nearlyvthirteen years there Lis Um no change in the American Hag. Admini trations have come and gone, Enropcaa dynasties have risen and fallen, bat ths stars and stripes have waved over the land of the free and the homo of the brave, with tliirteen stripes for the thirteen original States, and thirty-eight JStarsforthethutr eight States of tho Lnion during this period. After more than a decade has pawd without the admission of a Hate to the Union, the next few months will see the old flag changed by the addition cf several fctars. Probably before the year 1S9 haa closed the flag will have forty-two stars instead of thirtv-eicht, the two Ihkotai, Montana and Washington bein? thnsrrp. resented. During the war of the rebeilioa a million men marched to the tnnsic of the Union, to say that no 6tar should be blotted from the Hag. The forty-two start will he as jealously guarded as were the thirtr seven, and several new states will soon be ready to stand in their defense if occasioa should require. The State Department will have the pleasant duty of providing anew outfit of flags for service abroad, one tot sent to every consulate, naval vessel a pd naval station abroad. The uewflaeawiL also have to bo sent to every government building in the United States, and to the army and navy. The change will cot bs very noticeable to the casual glance, bet the four new stars will mean a great dealt North and South Dakota, Montana and Washington, and to all of their prdi:ters. . Bewailing Democratic Prospect. Memphis Avalanche (Dem.) The Democratic party, so long a it cn: control the solid South, will have 153 vote to start with. Only 43 votes mors are rr rmirrd in win mitilStntes are made 01 Ul9 Kepnblican Territories. The prolabihtie" are that the Democratic party will have a lighting chance four years hence, even ia these territories, and that its propect :cr victory will be even greater ia Indiana, Illinois and other States, shall the Democratic party then throw, as a 60p to ue Blood v-shirt Cerberus, two or three, Southern States! And who is to decide wn lambs shall bo led to the sacrifice! ..Vol Tennessee, nor Arkansas nor MismmtI"; Their interests are all closely interlinked and their prosperity depends upon Democratic rule. Nor do we apprehend that u Democrats of any other Southern tuw will consent that tho break ahall be w made as to throw them into the KezmhUcia column. While the fat-frying cl-f gathering on the miasiuiatic I otomie m to leat the tom-tom and souna mc in honor of the return of tho KepabUcani to pt and the publican holiday.' Where Ballet Show Are Free. Minneapolis Journal. . . Salaries aro small in Samoa, hnt it coJ comparatively little to live there.. A Mnirj foot of linen rag will keep a man in clottej for his lifetime; missionaries w,,ai dropping around, so food is a ma" xt and then there is no 1 for a f at the spectacular show. A good Miiei roaming about the highways of hamoa day long - Safer to be Hair an Hoar Earlj. Chester News. - j .. John Hickman, who represented this c trict in Congress, as always onjjaaj The day before his death, he wby a near friend, who said: &.3 b you thinkof eleventh bout ;?fJJJSr Mr. Hickman raised himself on bis tm and replied: "They had better .M reaw by half-rast ten." Hare Missionary Work at HotMilwankee Sentinel. . Kate Bnshnell has interested .the of Washington in the dives of nonu Wisconsin. It is to be hoped that .in justing their indignant vision to jifiel mote lield, they will not be ddiit for seeing the evil in their own muaetu vicinage. " Joseph Little Ilxl. Boston Herald. mce ol Mr. Joseph Charalerlam W the P Glasgow that his marriace had drawn A erthe bonds which unite LcgiJ a d America. Joseph appears tvfbe rtrf up Salem and Birmingham with i ot the earth. ' No Copyright Needed. Albany Journal. ' ; t.;.-:trtof . Mr. Bayard has promn!?at bci Thev are not they are safe. So sober them. ... Ci an wiu

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