The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-21

eight, had been standing there since 10 o'clock. The
eight places would fetch something like five six
francs-a fortune for day. A charitable soul sent
them some hot coffee some bread and cold meat, and
the look of delight at the vctuals told heartrending
tale of privation
DIR. LINTGRAFF, a German scientist and linguist
has sent a number of monographs to Central Africa
to have the natives talk and sing into them. The
plates are to be returned to him, from which he will
study the pecularities of their barbarc language in
his snug studio by merely passing the plate through
duplicate of the instrument that produced it.
GEN. GRANT now weighs two hundred and twenty.
eight pounds, writes New York correspondent to a
Boston paper and but for few gray hairs in his
short beard there is nothing to indicate that he has
grown older in the last FIVE years. Since his recent
fall however, his habits of life more regular and
he has also parted with all but two of his horses
THE Smith family fills fifteen closely printed pages
in the new London Directory, and the Browns eight
There is in the city charity for poor Smiths estab
lished by alderman of the two hundred years
ago. He gave Ell 900 to captives held by Turkish
pirates and 900 to poor kinsmen, and the latter
fund has increased until it is worth about 100000
year.
OPENING his mail last Wednesday in Washington
from Baron Tennyson, perhaps the first received in
this country since the poets election to the peerage
1t is said that Tennyson has read through two books
of tales by Mr.. Townsend, and much enjoyed them.
Gath gave the letter to Mrs William Walter Phelps
with whom he breakfasted that day.
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL has purchased the
property in BOrdentown heretofore belonging to his
mother, and which she lives. The consideration
mentioned in the deed is 500 OOO but this is merely
formal price, the transfer of title is made solely
with view of keeping the place family home
stead. 1t came to Mrs. ParneH from her father Com
modore Stewart of the American navy
LORD TENNYsoN has written the following letter
and lines in answer to request for his autograph
from the secretary for the Chelsea England) Hospital
for Women, to be sold bazaar in aid of the hos
pita fund: "Sir: 1 send you stanza from poem
of mine written half a century ago. as you say you
wish for of mine:
Not he that breaks the DAMS but he
That thro the channels of the state
Conveys the peoples wish, is great,
His name is pure, his fame is Free"
ONE of the most curious customs that attracts the
attention of strangers in Panama is to the native
women walking along the streets smoking long,
slender cigars, in much the same fashion as do
here. 1t is the custom of the people there and espe
ciay of the women to gather in the public market
ioying their morning smoke AS there few news
papers in Panama, and proportiOnately small num-
Der of readers the market is the place where the
of the town is to be learned.
IT having been represented to the mayor of Man
chester England that 10000 persons there out
of work and petition signed by 500 all protesting to
have got work to do" having been sent in, the
mayor had the fifth name each page of the petition
inquired into, and found that one person not in
Manchester at all Nine had given wrong addresses.
Five at work. one, whose family earnings
amounted to $40 week, having got leave from his
employer to attend the meeting of the unemployed
Two lived ON their parents nine upon their children
other members of their family; one upon the
ings of woman to whom he was not married.
GENERAL GRANT recently told newspaper CORE
spondent speaking of the rebellion that it was so
much young mems that he thought himself
rather too old to make successful commander be-
he thirty-nine when the struggle began. He
said that the Mexican war which closed only thirteen
years before the rebellion began seemed to him much
more remote in 1861 than the rebellion does now,
nearly twenty years after its close The Mexican
episode merely, and being fought foreign
soil and with small forces did not leave such impress
sons on the minds of those engaged in it left
by the great civil Speaking of the nameless bat
ties of the rebellion General Grant said that there
were many fights brought on by "Reminiscences in
command of colonies where were killed
than fell in Of the battles in Mexico which
famous in history The battles of the civil
so numerous that their very and more
fading from the public recollection leaving only the
most important to stand out distinctly in the national
memory