The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE average life of railroad is fifteen years.
FEBRUARY will not again have Eve Fridays, as it
had this year until 1912
Miss KATE FIELD is the Joan Arc who now leads
the gentiles against the Mormons in Utah
CLEMENCEAU originally studied English in order
that he might read Robinson Crusoe" in Defoes own
language
w P ELLIOTT of Lewiston, Me-, is believed to be
the oldest editor in the United States. He was born
Jan ~, 1898, and started the Lewiston Gazette in
1911.
A sUBscR1PTroN is being raised in st. Petersburg
for the founding of five scholarships in that city in
memery of Charles Darwin. The scholarships will be
for students of natural science.
Miss NELLIE HUNT daughter of the late Minister
Hunt is reported as having for time been
gagged to Russian nobleman who is of the house
hold officials in the Imperial Parliament
SCHUYLER CoLFAX and wife at the Elmra, N.
Y, water Mr. Colfax is taking treatment for
influenza which has necessitated the canceing of all
his lecture engagements for time to come.
THE Lampasas CTex.) Dispatch starts off ON mar
riage notice thus: bob Mcdonald and Sue Mitchell
have decided to slide down the ceardoor of life hand
in hand together, and consequently took out license
TO we'd"
FRED DoUGLAss's red-headed white wife not only
parts her hair side half inch above her left
car but she sits by the stove hours at time reading
the Atlantic Monthly. The enemies of Douglass feel
fully avenged
IT may surprise people to know that there is
legal national holdaynot even the Fourth of July
being States, by their Legislatures have desig-
mated certain days holidays but Congress has never
made any such day.
IT is not true, as reported, that S. s. Stone Of
CleYeland, recently deceased, the search for whose
will is exciting some interest in that city was a
brother of the late Amasa Stone The two families
were I'M way related. 'o
Mrs. OLE BULLS little daughter Olea, now twelge
years old inherits something of her farthers fddlng
facility and is going with her mother for summers
visit to Norway, attempting concerts, probably, in
of the principal places.
GEN. LoNGsTREET stands six feet two inches high
and weighs two hundred, but he is aging very
fast his hair is white his eyes dim and his hear
ing hard. In contrast, his youngest son, Robert
Lee Longstreet is brig hit, beardless boy of nine
teen
REPRESENTATIVE OCHILTREE is said to be al
together disguised with Bismarck who he declares
is in his dotage. "As for Mr.. Lasker he adds "he
was a great man and friend of mine. 1 have been a
guest at his house in Germany, and his brother lives
in my town in Texas
II sorry Redpath left ireland just when he did"
said Judge Curran to a Dublin newspaper man the
a month longer would have arranged it that he
would be here yet" ''Ah, how 500" In jail" re-
spondel the Judge grimly.
THE New Orleans Picayune prints the following:
Lee statue attracts great deal of attention and adj
miration and many persons have inquired why the
statue not made to face the splendid length of St.
Charles avenue What, said one gentleman, would
you have Lee turn his back the North!"
ROBERT LAIRD COLLIER photographs John Ruskin
as a very acknowledging from what the aesthetic
world has fondly fancied him. He makes him but five
feet five inches tall with iron gray beard extending
up his eyes low and retreating forehead and long
hair, which, like Tennyson's, for years has had
acquaintance with comb BRUSH.
MR.. MATTHEW ARNOLD says he has been as far
West as St Louis, and the further he went the more
daeontented he was. Philadelphia to his eye is the
handsomest city in America and Chestnut street Ia
paved and hghlydecorated alley, trife bulged out
at the sides in fact) the only misunderstanding
street to him in America. (which reminded me of
our Bond street" "And Boston, TOO cold too
artificial, don't like Boston"
Mr. GIADsroNE's eldest SON who will probably he
made lord of, as back-handed compliment to his
father, is an extremely good, dull and commonplace
young man. He has spoken but once or twice during
his ten years in Parliament and the only remarkable
thing about him is that he always rushes from the
House the moment his father rises to make long
speech Herbert has also failed to realize the high
hopes professed by the servile adherents of his
father, and is now regarded amabe rather than
clever very obstinate, slightly shallow, and deplora
bly, indiscreet.
THE great fftyton hammer in Krupp's works at
Essen gained its of ''Unser Fritz and the in
scripton it bears, Fritz, let fy!" in the following
When, in 1877, the Emperor William
visited Essen this steam hammer attracted his at
tention Krupp presented to him the machinist
Fritz, who, he said handled the hammer with such
nicely aud precision not to inure touch an ohn