The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-13

nary length. General Doniphan, at the out
break of the Mexican war, in 1916, led band OF
1000 soldiers from Fort Leavenworth to Mexico
aud back, 5000 miles, in thirteen months. He
lives now at Idaho Springs, man of seventy,
tall, hearty, and every inch republican soldier.
THE Detroit Free Press eau recognize true
temperance missionary on Instinct alone and
says: "Mr. D. r. Locke, of Toledo, has gone to
Vermont to investigate the working of the pro-
hibition act. He is just the man for the task
Vermont may bet its Green mountains that II
there is whisky in the neighborhood D. K. will
nose it out"
ELL ARP lives in an honest neighborhood. He
says: 81 have been living in Georgia seven
years and have had but one visit from begGar.
have never locked my front door at night. My
family sometimes go from home a visit 10 a
neighbor and stay all day and leave the house
unlocked, and nothing has ever been stolen that
we know of"
JOHN G.. SAKE, the humorous poet, ia growing
gradually weaker at his home in Third place,
Brooklyn. He suffers from cerehro-spiral men
nights. complicated with partial paralysis in
duced by being buried under railroad train in
an accident on the Panhandle road years ago.
1t is not probable that the once brilliant man
will survive this winter
THE San Francisco Chronicle says of the Flood
mansion to be erected in that city: "What the
cost of this establishment will be cannot be as
certained. But when 1t is considered that all
the stone has to he shipped from the East, that
it will require from two to three years to con-
struct the building, and perhaps another year
co frescO It's extensive walls, it may be safely
assumed that il will require the expenditure of
a considerable portion of j. G. Floods acculnu-
lated millions"
MRS. JULIA WARD HOwE's daughter is quoted
as saying in her forthcoming biography of her
mother that that accomplished lady has always
preserved her early taste for the German
language. well-wOrn volume of Kant lies
upon her writing table, and is taken up by her
for half hour every day. In the twilight,
when her grandchildren gather about her at the
piano and beg for song, it is often one of the
German student songs, learned years ago from
her brother, that she sings for them
| In 1856 the Empress Eugene losta valuable
diamond bracelet. 1t found in dirt heap
! by Collet, who, without knowing to whom it be-
| longed, carried it to police headquarters The
/ next morning he was astonished by the receipt
| of an order to present himself the Tuileries,
and when he did so was still more astonished to
receive the public thanks of his sovereign and
the promise of life pension of 600 francs.
| After she lost her crown the Empress continued
to pay this pension to Collet out of her pri-
vate purse, and now that he is dead she is re-
! ported as having determined to continue it TO his
successor in seniority among the rag-pickers
WHEN James 1 appointed Ben Jonson poet
| laureate he gave him an annual salary of one
! hundred marks, equal to 1885. On Jons0n's
rhymed petition TO 'The best of monarchs mas
tiers, men," Charles increased the poets pen
sion to $500, giving him zone fierce Of Canary
| Spanish wine out of our store of wines yearly"
| The salary was adequate for the conveniences Of
| life at the time, being the same as was paid to
the kings physician hut both pension and pun
! cheOn were often in arrears, Davenant was
nominally laureate tor thirty years, but owing to
| political commotion and the Puritan ascendency,
was far from obtaining regular payment OF his
salary. Dryden was made laureate and hlstori-
ographer royal in 1870, the two appointments
! Joined in one patent, giving MIN S 900 year
/ equal to at Leaf $1,000 nOwadays-and the
tierce OF Canary, his salary being subsequently
increased to 81 500, with an additional pension
! of $500 denendent on the kings pleasure.