The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-03
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mr. RUsKIN has discovered that Athene the god
dess of wisdom, wore bangs
IT is now said that Dr. Burchard intended to say
Rum, rheumatism and rebellion"
GOVERNOR CLEVELAND has received from relative
of President Buchanan the last Democratic President
the cane which he carried for many years.
THOMAS MAST, the caricaturist is to give course
of illustrated lectures this winter-strke mis- audience
with the jawbone of Mast, it were.-Philadephia
Record.
Miss JULIET CoRsoN, who was one of the first to
make cooking schools in the city successful has been
for time past disabled by serious disease which
has threatened her life.
Mr.. THACKERAYs handwriting has been initiated
effectively by some rogues in London that several
forged letters purportng to be from the pen of the
novelist, were sold there recently Thackeray auto
graphs
ALEXANDER 81. STEPHENS a nephew of the South
ern statesman is conductor in Pullman seeping-car
running between Nashville, Tenn, and Atlanta Ga
He inherited from his uncle The greater part of the
few worldly goods he had to bestow.
MASSACHUSETTS has a rival in the number of
marriageable women. Paraguay has only 10000
to 27O, 900 women, a veritabe woman's king
dom. The sit at home drinking and smoking and
the women the farmers producers and workers.
perfume, called "a Lilys Sigh" is now in
among whose purse is long the price being
$S per tiny phial. 1t produces an exquisite odor
very much like the heliotrope, and is said to have
been originally introduced in this country by Mrs.
Langtry
GOVERNOR PATTIsoN's economy in sending notices
written with typewriter, common paper. to the
presidential electors of Pennsylvania ism appreciated
Even stanch Democrats denounce it as a piece of
darnation stinginess" little does exalted states
manship find favor with the hungry and thirsty ones.
IT is rather odd that the who led the first
batch of emgrants across the plains to California in
1919, and staid there and got rich never had even
the smallest mining interest. His name Martin
Murphy. He began raising cattle and kept at it and
has just died San JOSE eighty years old, and worth
So, 900 600
THE other day down in the country after mar
riage ceremony had been performed, the bridegroom
and several friends walked down to the spring 'Is
he outen hearin 2" asked the bride. Eyes" some
replied wall, thank the Lord it's over. I've been
tyin to hem that Teller up for than ten years.
an have jest succeeded. wanter say to you wimmen
folks-dont give up. Recolleck what the Bible says
IF you don't git what you air arter at fust keep
peggin' away till you git thar -"
The following concluding sentences from an IN
published letter of Charles Dickens dated November
IT, 1868, are interesting as proofs of the earnest
fashion in which the novelist succeeded in identifying
himself with the characters of his creation at the
time when he reading to enthusiastic audiences
certain passages from his own works:-"r ONE early
in January he writes land certain friend of
yours do the murder in Oliver Twist. 1t is horribly
like, I am afraid have vague sensation of being
wanted as 1 walk about the streets.
IT may be interesting to know what the Rev, Mr.
Spurgeon Think of Raleigh's delight In discourse
at the Tabernacle he declared that if anybody could
show him in the Bible the command, Thou shalt not
smoke, !" he ready to keep it. II fnd," he said
ten commandments and it's as much as can do to
keep them; and I've no desire to make them into
eleven or twelve. Why may think it sin to
have his boots BACKED Well then, let him give it
up and have them whtewashed. wish to say that lam
not ashamed of anything whatever tnat do; don't
think smoking makes me ashamed, and therefore
mean to smoke"
THE last fact in character reading is the study
of the finger nails, which classified according to
their shape aud their color. If they are long and
slender they show imagination and poetic feeling
tisc feeling and laziness. If they long and fat
they indicate good sense, gravity and prudence If
wide and short they anger obstnacy. rudeness
and love of con troversy. healthy color cour
age lberalty health, happiness and virtue Dry
and brittle texture is a sign of anger cruelty and
fierce quarrelsomeness. The curved and clawlike
shape proves hypocricy and wickedness Softness
shows a corresponding feebleness of body and mind
and bitten nail dissipation and folly. If this
becomes generally known life will have new terrors
for the small boy.
JUDGE SHELLABARGER is sixty-four years old, and
very gray. A Washington letter-wrter says: "His
forehead is high his cheekbones hollow and his eyes
look out from under deep brows with brightness
which shows that the fires of intellectual activity
burning behind them. He has had long public
reer. He was member of the Ohio Legislature as
far back the days of Frank Pierce. For ten years
he served in the national Congress- and during that
time he took rank as of its most able members.
He represented, by the way the Keifer district He
now lives here in Washington, in fine brick house in
the fashionable Northwest He is literary in his
tastes and last year the president of Miss Ran
SONS Classical Society. He has a family and about
year ago the whole of Thorn Joined the leading Presby
terian church here