The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-08
ABOUT PEOPLE.

E. W. BRADY, formerly of the Muncie Times,
has purchased the Davenport News. and is fur
nishing the people OF Iowa with a good temper
ance paper.
Mr.. DoRMAN B. EATON says that the passage
of the civil-service bill is a most encouraging
sign of the times, and is the first step in the re-
form to which 1t will inevitably lead.
SOME of the young gentlemen of New York
will be interested at the present time to know
that "mashing" is a word Of gypsy origin, from
mashava, meaning fascination by the eye.
THE question of the morality of Walt Whit
mans Leaves of Grass" is to be tested in a Bos-
ton court. A man there has been arrested for
sending 1t through the mail. He is charged with
circulating obscene literature"
MAJOR BURKE, of the New Orleans Times
Democrat, went to work in a stoneyard as a com
mon laborer just after the war. He is now sup
posed to be worth half a million, and to be look
ing toward the United States Senate.
IN "a Boston club a year or 80 ago a player in a
game of whist held the thirteen trumps; and
there has been such a case in a New York club.
But the London Court Journal tells how, at the
Cuvier Club, four well-known gentlemen held
each the thirteen of a suit.
VANITY FAIR tells a story of how Anthony
Trollope once heard two novel-readinR youths,
in a wayside inn, discussing one of his eternal
ShoA u uom Luoy WoEo LlTCus Mt TOSo,
acknowledged himself to be the author, and
promised to go home and kill the character. In
the following installmant she died of apoplexy.
MR.. CRoFFUT writes: The fashion or custom
of smoking is making Roadway among New
York ladies. Thousands of ladies in the oity are
fond of their cigarette, ana many of them smoke
regular cigars. 1 hear, indeed, of ladies who
give smoking parties to their confidential
friends, where the cigar takes the place as the
inspirer OF gossip heretofore held by immemo.
rial tea"
THE Detroit News Is responsible for the state
ment that a T~ecumseh, Mioh., belle will soon be
married in a pair of black silk stockings which
her grandmother wasmarried in forty years ago
If she could only get, in addition, her grand.
fathers hat OF forty years ago, a paper collar, a
smile and a pair of spurs she certainly would
have a novel costume, but to be married in
nothing but a pair of black silk stockings is
something which the town officials ought to pre-.
vent.
THE Rev. George Gordon, of Greenwich, Conn.
has been called to the pastorate Of the Old South
Church, Boston, one of the ''softest," as it is one
OF the most historical, pulpits in the United
States. The salary is So, 900 a year and par
sonage. Mr.. Gordon Is a Sootchman, thirty
years old, and unmarried. He worked his way
through Harvard, overcoming many obstacles
incident to poverty, and graduated with high
honors. President Eliot speaks of him as one Of
the most remarkable graduates for many years
WHILE driving, recently, from Godollo to q
hunting meet, near the Hungarian village Of
Magoroyd, the Empress of Austria saw an old
woman almost on the edge of a high bank over
hanging a rapid stream. without uttering q
word to any one, her Majesty sprang out Of the
carriage ana ran to the poor creature, whom she
overlook just in time to save her from falling
into the river. 1t turned out that the old woman
was blind, and that the mere child who acted as
her guide Jagged behind. When the little girl
came up the Empress gave her a scolding and
the OLD woman a handsome gratuity.