The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-18
ABOUT PEOPLE.

EX-SENATOR EDMUND G. Ross, of Kansas, is
now editor of the Albuquerque New Mexico)
journal.
MIR. w. NJ. SINCERITY, of the Philadelphia
Record, is building a 100000 country house at
Elkton, Md.
EX-GOVERNOR ST. JOHN, of Kansas. is an
nounced to deliver twelve prohibition speeches
in Ohio at $50 each.
SENATOR EDMuNDs advises every tourist to
buy guidebo in order to avoid going TO the
places it recommends.
SENATOR CAMERON, in private letter from
England, says he is not having such a royalty
good time some people said he would. The
greatest sight he beheld in London was Tom
Oehitree, OF Texas, whom he met by chance.
PROF. REMsEN, of the Johns Hopkins labora-
tory, deems the study of chemistry bracing
for the morals as for the mind. ~ believe" he
says, "that frequent practice in qualitative and
cumulative analysis has tendency to develop
honesty"
TIE injury from which Mr.. Justin Mccarthy is
now suffering was caused by blow on the
shoulder from of the swinging doors of the
House of Commons. At first the hurt was
deemed trifiing, but he has now been ordered to
take absolute rest and quiet for the remainder
of the session.
LORD WILLIAM BEREsFoRD, whose plucky but
| daredevil exploits both on the field Of battle
and in sport are notorious throughout India,
has again broken HIS collar-bone in two places.
1t is difficult to believe that two sound places
could have been found iii his lordship's collar
bone, as this is the fourth time In as many
| months that he has met with similar accident.
LAST week a Sunday -school teacher of Batavia,
n. y, was trying TO make clear to her class the
feeling of auimosity cherished against the gen
tiles by the Jews and she asked: "What class of
people have been looked down upon among us
(referrng of course, to the slavesJ ana still de-
spsed by many in the South and Northl" A
bright little girl in the class quickly answered,
"the Democrats"
COLONEL INGERSoLL recently wrote these
touching words to a friend whose mother had
just died at a goodly age: "After all, there is
something tenderly appropriate in the serene
death of the old Nothing is more touching than
the death of the young, the strong But when
the duties of life have all been noby done, when
the sun touches the HORIZON, when the purple
twilight falls upon the present, the past and the
future. when memory will dim eyes can scarcely
spell the records of the vanished days, then, sur
rounded by friends, death comes like a strain Of
music. The day has been long, the road weary,
and we gladly stop at the inn"
TIE stories that have been sent out concern
ing Mr. Blaine's marvellous memory are coming
home to roost. Blaine plumes himself upon
never forgetting name or a face. But if Lyman
K. Beecher is not mistaken, his memory is not as
remarkable as his tinesse Beecher, while riding
in the cars overheard Blaine inquire his name
of the conductor, after which he came forward
and addressed him by name. In few minutes
the honorable gentleman from Maine walked
toward the water-cooler and while refreshing
himself consulted a memorandum book, and on
his return alluded to a circumstance which had
happened when they last met, at the same time
Dragging of his wonderful memory.
II seems that there survive in an obscure little
village In Thuringia two male descendants of
Martin Luther, whose lineage is undOubted ard
who bear his name. One is carpenter in Kios-
ter-AllendOrf. and the other is q theological
student AT the University OF Jena In the lapse
of centuries it would be difficult to define tho ex-
act relationship to the Reformer, but the line IS
traced direct. This branch of the Luther family
enjoy in consideration of the services of their
ancestor, right that each man shall on his CON
hrnaton receive fifty thalers, on his appren-