The Indianapolis Journal

The San Francisco branch of the Salvation Army has about completed arrangements to disseminate salvation on horseback. A force of ten mounted men is to be sent through California on a preaching tour of eight hundred miles. The squad will be called the Hallelujah Cavalry and will be commanded by a major in the Salvation Army. They will be dressed in a picturesque uniform and will camp out on their journey. The two leading riders will bear lances, from the tops of which will flutter the colors of the United States and the Salvation Army. The rear of the cavalcade will be brought up by a light two-horse wagon that will carry the camping outfit, musical instruments, baggage and ammunition in the shape of tracts, singing books, etc. There will be ten brass instruments which the company will play entering towns, riding two and two; and also banjos, guitars, tambourines and an organ for dismounted music. Altogether this promises to be a unique departure in the way of proselyting efforts.

The New York Legislature has passed an act which has become a law, making it a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment, for any person in the city of New York to throw paper or garbage in the streets, to throw banana skins on the pavements, to scatter hay and straw, to unpack goods in the streets, or to empty cuspidors and bar-room refuse in the streets. The superintendent of police has instructed the force to enforce the law. To a question what would be done with a person who should throw a newspaper or banana skin on the pavement, the superintendent replied: If he does it inadvertently he would hardly be arrested for the first offense. It is the person who does that sort of thing persistently who will be punished. A man, for example, buys a banana, and throws the skin into the street. Another does the same, and before long the pavement in the vicinity of the banana stand at which these purchases are made is littered with the rubbish. To a reasonable extent the proprietor of that stand will be held responsible for that condition of things. Now that New York city has undertaken to abate the banana-skin nuisance, it will be in order for other cities to do so.