The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-02
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Saturday

THE inaugural address of Governor O'Neal, Of
Alabama, contained sentence of 200 words.
No clew to the woman who wrote il has been
obtained.
BOSTON paper has computed that Governor
Buffers pay lie abont $40 90 per week, and point
eddy remarks that there is no deduction on &C
count OF absence.
DR.. WILD. of Kentucky, announces that Adam
was seven feet high This would seem TO indi-
cate that the Garden of Eden was located some
where in Kentucky.
GEORGE W. CHILDs, who has q Public Ledger
in the Quaker City, has imported a lot of aristo-
cratic COWS for his country seat in Pennsylvania,
to the tune of 100000.
MARIAN, the Amazon Queen" is now exhibit
ing In Glasgow. She is a native of Germany,
seventeen years of age, and over eight feet high.
She is plump and of good figure.
EX-SENATOR EATON, of Connecticut says that
the Democratic party took out patent fifteen
years ago for being fools, and are now busy en-
gagged in trying to get an extension of time.
The late Louis Blanc has LETT $4,000 to Pari-
sian children who have been deserted by their
parents. The deserving of each year are to re-
ceive savings-bank books with 800 set down to
their credit.
HENRY WARD BEECHER began the delivery of
lecture in Chicago last spring, but a sudden at
tack OF vertigo made 1t necessary for him to
leave the rostrum. He finished the lecture in
that city on Saturday evening.
OLD smokers among the public men of Wash
ington have discovered that the Chinese minis
ter, Cheng TsaO Ju, has pipes, manners of smok-
ing, etc to which their experience is only that
OF the boy who has his first corn-siIk cigarette.
WHEN Nine. Nilsson in Atlanta, sang SWAY
Down on the suwanee River" all the colOred
people in the gallery cried. Nine. Nilsson, whose
brothers and sisters welded TO their peasant
life in Sweden, Will, with her adopted son, con-
slider New York as her home.
ALBERT HIRES, who is prominent In political
affairs In Nevada, once saved his life by the
of a Masonic sign. He attacked by Indians
In New Mexico and was recognized by an Ia
dian Mason when about TO be scalped So Min
lister Daggett said IN a Masonic lecture at Homo
lulu the other day.
A NEW member of the Connecticut Legislature
was much surprised, after eating hearty meal
in the House restaurant, at being called TO
pay for it. "Why," said he to the cashier, 81
thought the state furnished us with our meals
when we we're here. That's what supposed
this place was for"
BOSTON CoRBErT. the man who killed the
assassin Booth, is living in Kansas engaged in
the cattle business. He has become u religious
enthusiast. and in recent letter to a friend in
Camden he says that he had been directed by God
to :ntlict corporal punishment upon himself as
a pei ance for having taken human life.
A WOMAN went to a Michigan clergyman for
advice to business venture, and implicitly
followed the directions which did not hesitate
to give. The result was disastrous. She now
him for $4,000, that being the amount
of the damage which his bad counsel caused.
His defense is, that while his profession made
him expert in spiritual affairs, the woman
had no excuse for relying upon his Judgment il
business matters,