The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-06
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A MAN in Milwaukee has written poultry book OF
1000 pages-a regular hencyclop@dia as it were.
HIT the transcontinental walker has arrived in
st. Lous from San francisco. He has worn out
pairs of shoes on the trip thus far
Mr.. WILLIAM NJ EvARTs. upon being remon-
strated with upon the length of his sentences re
piled: 1.-The criminal class the only people OPP
posed to long sentences
MISSIONER is beginning to show dislike to paint
ing the portraits of women. To critic who asked
him for the reason he replied They paint them
selves better than can"
PROF RICHARD t. GREENER, one of the few colored
alumni of Harvard College, contemplates writing
novel which shall deal with the problem. He is
already known occasional contributor to maya
zines.
PAPA said little daughter of clergyman recent
" IF God tells you what to write in you why
do you so often scratch it out againl The clergyman
changed the subject by asking her how she liked her
new doll
AN old man in Douglas county,W T., believed that
Christ had come second time in the person of child
in Washington Territory whom he frequently visited
The child died few days ago and the old man hanged
himself in despair.
You did not pay very close attention to the ser
mon fear this morning "0h yes did, mamma"
Well what did the minister say!p He said that the
picnic would start at 10 o'clock Thursday morning
and OIL ma, can goY'
For some acknowledgement the heirs of Lord
Byron informed Mr.. Jeareson that if he ate mpted
publish any Of the letters which proved that their
ancestors had not been guilty of monstrous ofense
they would ask for an injunction
A LADY relative of President Garfield who Is
employee in the Treasury Department is said to have
brought bouquet every morning since Garfield died
fba al ME in
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Mrs. DIR. MASON, a lady belonging to of the
bue-bood families of Boston, spends her at
the Restigouche Fishing Clubs grounds, at Metape
da, Canada She has landed thirtyfve salmon this
season. and has had expensive fly named after her.
SIR JOHN ASHLEY has testified in London court
that he permits his cab driver to pick fares
cabman, he paying Sir John $3.50 day
from the receipts and he also declared that the Duke
of Marlborough had cabs running for hire the Lon
don streets.
THOSE ministers and elders of the United Presby-
terrain persuasion whose conscences wounded by
the permission given by their General Assembly, to
such congregations may desire it, to employ instru
mental music in public worship, going to have
meeting at Xena o. next month, and talk the matters
over.
REV WIN. HENRY VEIL was buried at Bueyrus
Ohio, on Monday. aged seventy-eight. He was one of
the pioneer ministers of the German Lutheran Church.
and was noted as being the original Petroleum v.
Nasty, of Wingerth Corners Inconsequence of some
bitter remarks Of Rev Veil, the Nasty letters
started.
Mr.. THOMAS CoNRoY is hard working shoemaker in
Tanners Falls, Pa. who, in fufllment of vow, for
twenty-six years has refused to touch fortune of
R5 900 and accumulated interest awaiting him in
Dublin Ireland until his relatives shall apologize
for having enormously accused him of sympathy with
the Molly Mcguire organization.
THE expression "a rope around the neck" originated
in the Greek State of Locri in Italy There, accord
ing to the constitution any citizen who proposed a
law did it with "a rope around his neck If the pro
posa failed to obtain majority the proposer at
once strangled. This practice prevented any change
in the constitution for over two hundred years
PosTdAsTER-GENERAL GRESHAM was somewhat
astonished the other day upon opening letter
tanning an offer from st. Louis man to rent the
basement Of the postofce in that city for bar
room. As soon he recovered sufficiently from the
shock he replied, kindly but firmly, that the United
States was not erecting fine buildings for such pur
poses.
IT is said that the following anecdote, which has
been told of number of people, originated with Lord
Cowley, who, at one of his parties in Paris,
leaning againstthe mantelpiece when unknown
gentleman said to him, DO you mean to say that
Lord Cowleys parties are never hvelier than this9'
Newer" "Wen," said the stranger, then I shall
take myself off at once" You're lucky man, ="
said Lord Cowley with sigh I'm obliged to stop"
THE United Presbytery Of Dumbarton is in trouble.
Mr. Gray a member of the Helensburg United Pres
byteran Church. was elected elder of that church.
He was refused ordination however, by the session,
on the ground that he took walk in the country