The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-24

ciate the richess and ripeness of the change
/ when he contempates the possibiity-the ride
uous possibIlity-of the burly old lexicogra-
pher having been known to posterity as Dr.
/ Samuel Janauschek.
SENATOR GEORGE, of Mississippi who boasts
that mis- sons are none too good 10 work in the
cotton field. nevertheless has son who draws
salary of 81 800 in the stationery room at Wash
/ lngton Paper, you know, is sometimes made of
| cotton.
| JACK MCDONALD, who trained Heenan for his
| prlze-fghts in England, nearly quarter of a
century ago, is now needy hanger-on at Lon
don places of sporting mems resort. Isn't it
/ about time for the American people to chip In
and buy Mr.. Mcdonald gin-mil7
| RUsKIN's enmi1y to railways is not altogether
unreasonable. The pine forests along the Adri-
attic al Ravenna, Italy, celebrated by Dante and
Byron, and which furnished the shipyards of
Rome and Venice, to be cut down because
an excavation for railroad has SO drained the
soil that the trees have died
The medical faculty of Paris has got an addi-
! tional mc!aDer in young American lady named
Mile. VictOrine Bennett. This young lady had
chosen the subject of her thesis "Infantine
Paralysis" and sustained her arguments in a
most brilliant manner, which elected the ap
plause of the doctors on the jury.
| TALL, stylsh-looking woman, leading grey
hound, pc sed the balcony of Saratoga hotel,
on which two gentlemen were standing. "What
| beautiful creature" said of them, In a
| voice that proved loud enough for the lady to
| hear Turning very red in tine face she glanced
angrily at the speaker and said: "You have no
right to insult me, SIR" Excuse me, madam"
he replied, ''but you fiatter yourself was al
| luding to your dog"
| HENRY STUDY, on dying at Ransom, Ill.,, has
left a strangely acquired fortune of &c., 900. He
was cripple from birth. At the close of the
war he donned the uniform of a soldier, made up
a pathetic story of having been wounded in bat
tie, and went on a tour as a beggar. He was
wonderfully successful, by reason of his clever
talk and miserable appearance and in three
years accumulated the sum mentioned. he ever
| afterwards lived idly on the interest.
1T appears that there is more virtue in Van
derbilt than he is generally credited with. Mr..
Leet, one of the editors of the Saratoga Season,
has been investigating the matter and has dis
covered that during the past few years he has
disbursed So 100000 in private charities. This
| money has been distributed unostentatiOusly.
None but his most intimate friends have known
of the benefactions, but there are figures to
prove that the money has gone to the channels
to which it directed
NJ. DE LEssEPs meeting friend in Paris the
other day, was complimented upon his fresh and
almost youthful appearance. ''It's odd that
| should be looking WELL" responded the veteran;
"for have had a vast amount of trouble and
worry lately" 'Ah, yes" said the friend, II
know; those English ana the Suez canal" mot
bit of it," broke in the ancient canal-cutter; 81
mean the worry about the illness of one of my
children. l have been passing some anxious
nights, can assure you"
YEARS ago, when David Crockett was mem
Der of Congress, and returned home at the close
of the first session, several OF his neighbors
gathered around him day, and asked ques-
tiOns about Washington. "What time do they
dine in the city," asked one. Common people,
such Us we are here, dine at l; the big ones
dine at 3, we representatives at 4, the aristoc-
racy at s." Well, when does the President fod-
derf' "Old Hickory2" exclaimed the Colonel:
swell, he doesn't dine until next day"
SPRINGFIELD Republican: Minister Lowell
used TO talk in a straightforward honest Ameri-
can fashion, knowing what he wanted to say
and saying it, but now he huns and haws like
peer at a county dinner or a lawyer in the vaca-
ton. "He was good enough TO say" and az am
bound to take for granted" and perhaps may
be allowed to say" and "My friend, if 1 may be
permitted to call him 3d." and hundred more
such circumloeutory and apologize phrases
these make American ear sick with desire
for blunt word or two from Hosea Biglow.