The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-28

Sickles sometimes with the additional informa
tion, The man who shot Key The last time
saw General Sichles at the Academy saw also
standing in the lobby Mr.. Barton Key known to
the profession james Barton II lie also
saw General Sickes he must have had an uu-
pleasant sensation, for can imagine nothing
that would work a man up to such a roint of ex-
element as to meet the murderer of his father
face to face"
FROM the reported remarks of handsome
young LADY employed as receiving clerk in tel.
egraph office Upon my word, it doesn't seem
to me that the men who do business have brains
enough to keep them out of the poor-house it
they had TO work for other people, You've no
idea how difficult it is to strike just the right sort
of demeanor in a place like this. The manager
tells us that we must be nice and amiable, and
never curt or saucy. That's all very well, but
we soon find that il won't do to obey these
orders too fully. 1t don't take more than half a
smile, or more than word sweetly spoken, to
excite insulting familiarity in good many Gus.
toners. get mad enough twenty times day
TO strike my fist through that wicket into their
silly, aggravating, mawkish faces"
MR. Cross has almost finished the "Life" OF
George Eliot and it will be published by Messrs.
BlaciwOod in the course of next year. The
work will contain great deal of corresponds
ence of the very highest interest Mr.. Cross
has, luckily, been able to recover almost the
whole of his wifes letters among them being a
SERIES extending over several years. written 10
some of the friends of her younger days. George
Eliot took extraordinary pains with her letters.
They were invariably written with almost as
much care if they had been intended for i'm.
mediate publication; but this sort of solicitude
for good work was inherent in her character.
and she was quite incapable of hasty, ill-consid-
cred composition, even in her shortest notes,
written TO her most intimate friends, concern
ing the most trivial topics.
THE exact date of Luther's birth seems to be
at least doubtful. 81 nave often," says Melanc-
thon, ''asked Margaret lLutherl at what hour OF
what day it was that her son Martin. came into
the world. She recollected the hour AMI the day
perfectly, but had forgotten the year She stated
that she brought to bed on the 10th of No
vember at IL o'clock i'll the evening, at Eiseben.
WHITTIER she had gone to buy provisions at the
fair that was held every year in that place, and
the child was baptized next day, after the mans
of the saint whose festival they were celebrating
at the time, St. Martin" Luther's brother,
James, whom Michelet calls an honest, worthy
man, believed that the year of Martins birth
was 1888, and there is little If any proof to the
contrary; hut neither can there be SAID to be any
positive proof ofthe fact. Some jealous partl-
sans of the Popes cause maintained that Martin
was born on Oct %. 1883, so that they might
find an extremely bad horoscope for the Re-
former One Gauricus, with the same amiable
intentions, fixed the hour ana minute at ITO p.
NJ. on the 22d of October, 1884, and from the
conjunction of the planets on the occasion, cun-
WINGED himself that the heresarch died without
any sense Of religion. ellis SOU, most impious,
sailed to he'll, there TO be scourged forever with
the fiery whips of AlectO, TisiDhone and Me-
gera." Tyeho Brahe was satisfied that Luther
saw the light under favorable auspices.