The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-09
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE father of Judah P. Benjamin once kept afruit
store in Charleston, S. G.
A 'oowMAN'' owns his own cattle. A cowboy" is
one who works for a ''cowman."
HENRY WARD BEEcHER is going to trough it" in
the Rocky mountains during July and August.
PRESIDENT McCosH, of Princeton, promises to make
that institution to the Middle States all that Yale and
Harvard are to the New England.
FRED DOUGLASS has been disowned by one of his
cousins. This shows that an ethiopian can change his
kin if he wishes to.-Boston Post.
Mr.. EVELYN JERRoLD, son of the late Blanchard
Jerrold and grandson of Douglas Jerrold, has been
appointed editor of Lloyd's News, making the third
generation of Jerrolds who have edited that paper.
Mrs. BLAINE is tall and not slim, and she is grave
and digniied in manner. Born in New England and
well educated, she met Mr.. Blaine in Kentucky, and
was his first love. Her companion and cousin is Miss
Abigail Dodge, the Gail Hamilton" of literature.
BISHOP WILBERFoRcE, more remarkable generally
for bitterness than sweetness of observation, once
observed, in speaking of the lovable nature of DR..
jacobson, who has already retired from the see of
Chester: Ihave often heard of the milk of human
kindness, but L never knew which was the COW until l
met with Jacobson"
In Brazil, where the inhabitants take coffee many
times a day, alcoholism is unknown. Immigrants
gradually contract a fondness for coffee, and their
children fall into the same habit, and never contract a
love for liquors that are so fatal in other countries.
The number of cafes in the larger cities is enormous,
while the drinking saloons are few.
A New HAVEN reporter asked Isaac H. Bromley if
he intended to start a new evening paper in that city,
when he answered BY asking, Don't you know they
sell papers for two cents now, and don't you know
you can go down below here ard dig clans
worth five cents apieeel l guess l won't start a news
paper Here is a great clam-opening for two-cent
editors.
A RESIDENT of Macon, Ga, has purchased from a
local confectioner, for $12, the right to eat as much
candy as he wishes in one month. He has gained
FIVE and a half pounds in weight in the first week, and
processes to be ready to bet from 300 to $500 that
he can eat two and a half pounds of candy on the
twentieth day. The confectioner is beginning to feel
uneasy.
REBECCA WRIGHT, then a young Quaker girl, gave
Gen. Phil Sheridan the first information that induced
him to attack and capture Winchester. Sheridan re-
warded her first with "all the fresh beef she wanted, "
and afterwards got her a place in the Treasury De
partment, which she subsequently resigned to marry
a Quaker named Bonssll. Sheridan swore that she
was entitled to a pension, and Simon Cameron ex-
pressed the opinion that Gen. Sheridan should have
married her.
LABoUcHERE, writing two weeke ago, said; "Gen.
Gordon has not yet proven a success at Khartoum.
He may, but, if so, it will surprise me. Judging from
the extracts from his works which the Pail Mall
Gazette has published, his mind upon many points is
in such a condition that DIR. Forbes Winslow would
have no conjunction in signing a certificate to confne
him in a lunatic asylum. He is brave, honest, and in
many things admirable. But | suspect that he en-
tirely overestimated his influence with the Soudanese.