The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-11
ABOUT PERSONS.

THE Kew. james Freeman Clarke, OF Boston,
last week completed his seventy-fourth year
Physically and mentally he yet seems as Wig
orous as he was thirty years ago.
kRIsTIRN HJERP having applied for naturali
cation in Portland, Ore, the Oregonian says:
hjope, flor his OWN Stake, that he will change
the photography of his name"
A TURK ISL Pasha has shown his appreciation
of the work of our mission schools in his coun-
try by the following remark "When girl has
come back from the American mission school,
You should not say girl, but school has
come"
A BOSTON preacher speaks Of Ben Butler as
having in him ga mixture of good and bad
with quantity and intensity, in which it is
amazing both elements can be combined; and
he profits by being condemned as by being ad-
mred"
NEW YORK Herald: REV. Henry Clay Dean is
now sixty years OF age and is in excellent health
He says that he was wrong in denouncng
President Lincoln for the emancipation pro-
clanation. He has lost his bitterness ana has
made many new friends in Iowa and Missouri
by his lectures on Christianity"
RICHMOND Palladium: "Mrs. d. NJ. Jordan
won six Gala lilies at the bazaar Saturday night.
We do not wonder at her good luck. Flowers
shouldn't poets have an attraction for howers7
If Mrs Jordan can only feel metrical, lily verse
will celebrate the fortunate winning"
A Swede once laid wager that he would go
down one of the almost perpendicular ladders
in a Lake Superior iron mine, face foremost,
with a can of nitro glycerine in his hand. Not
only did he do il, but a crowd of his fellow
miners gathered TO witness the feat. although
ono false step would have been certain death to
the reckless fellow, and half the loOkers-on
might also have been killed.
DETROIT Post: Senator Gordon is out In n
card Indignantly denying that he is going to
Florida to locate. For he-e-e-s Georgian.
For he himself hath said IT., And it's greatly TO
his credit, That he's Georgian, That he's u
Georgian He e-e might have been Canuckan,
A Maine man or Kentuckan, Or cen Ohio-an,
Or cen Ohio-an! But in spite of all tenpta-
ton, To chance his habitation, He remains
a Georgian. He remains a Jaur-aur-aur-aurgi-
anl'
AS fortunes are considered nowadays. Peter
Cooper not very rich man. Four years ago
he gave 81 ,Oo0, 900 apiece to Edward Cooper, his
only sou, and A. s. Hewitt, He reserved
for himself an income of about 100000, the
most of which he gave away. During the war
his income from his iron works, which are
among The largest in the country, averaged
ST 800 aday, but during the last few years the
losses have been heavy, the firm refusing to Gis.
charge any of their men.
GEORGE K. ANDERSON, of Titusville, is
thought TO carry heavier life insurance than
any other man in the country He is Insured
for S35o,0o0. J. B. Stetson, of Philadelphia.
has $3 5000; Frank Jones. of Portsmouth, n.
H., $2O5,00o; James Park, jr, Pittsburg $780,,
900; W. Fl. Langley, Galipolis, o., $500, 900;
John How, st. Louis, $30O.0 00 Hamilton Diss-
ton, Philadelphia, $500, 900; P. Lorillard. New
York city, $25o,oOo; F. W. Deverp, New York
city, .$25U,000 Cyrus Field. New York city,
$24O,0O0 Amos Whitley, Springfield, O., SPOIL
900; Alexander Barrett, New York, 100000; F.
D. Roberts, New York, 5000, 900.
Ex-SENATo. TABOR was interviewed by re
porter as he passed through Kansas City the
other day. "I sometimes think" said the il
lustrious statesman. pa thetically, "that
man in this country has been abused and lied
about as have. 1 don't call myself n great
man; oil that claim is tho right to be let alone.
never saw the like Of some of these newspaper
men. They say good morning or 'good even
ing to a man, or perhaps pass dozen words
with him. and then go away and write a column