The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-31

was an agent of the Scottish Temperance Teap7e be
travelled some 200 900 miles and delivered T. 500 adj
dresses.
THE Hon. Leopold Morse attributes his successful
financial the fact that he has never invested
dollar in speculative stocks.
CONSTANCE Kenmore WooLsoN is insulted by the
suggestion that she wrote THE Bread Winners No
woman could have vulgarized herself.
MGR CAPEL, who has suffered somewhat in WASH
ington from the severity of the season. will at his
physicians order postpone his lecturing tour in the
West until after Easter.
DON MIGUEL was the first English-speakng settler
III California The year was 1917 He is still living
at the age OF eighty. He and his wife at Los AM
geles with great-grandchildren around them.
H. O. c. LAMAR is said by his Mississippi friends to
be one of the few poor in the United States Sen.
ate. OF late years of his salary has gone to pay
old debts-obgations of nature that only "a man %
scrupulous integrity would think of paying,
THE bate-fag of Grants first regiment is so bullet
ridded that it will barely hold together. The confed
crates if Grant is the great general he is cracked up
to be, made great military in firing at the
flag Of that regiment instead of banging away at its
colonel.
MRS. REBEccA r. PoMERoY, one of the famous
nurses of the war, died at Newton Md. last Thurs
day Most of her services were rendered at the Column
ban College Hospital in Washington and it was Mrs.
Pomeroy who nursed Mrs. Lincoln and little Tad" at
the White House.
Four years ago T. T. Fortune. editor of the New
York Globe writer who makes marked impression
in journalism. type-setter in New York office,
and caused serious strike therein-the other compos-
itors going out in body because they wouldn't work
alongside of a niger"
THE spy Belle Boyd" who at the outbreak of the
rebellion, was fifteen years of age is the matronly
wife of Colonel John Hammond of Texas, who dwells
on ranch near San Antonio. He was one of 'Stone-
wall Jaekson's scouts in Virginia She was as
may be remembered banshed to Europe. She has
four children
In speech delivered at an ti-slavery meeting in
Syracuse, N. T. thirty years ago Frederick Douglass
in touching upon the subject of amalgamation said:
IF black man burns his feet by marrying a white
woman he must expect to stand the blisters His
recent escapade shows that he has wonderful supply
of nerve for the occasion.
JOHN G. THOMPSON, the well-lnown Ohio politician
who has been seriously i'll for the past weeks with
lung trouble, is considered by his physicians to
be in very critical condition. dropsy having set in
making recovery doubtful. His sickness is believed
to have been brought by recent political troubles,
which have much depressed his usual good spirits.
NOTHING so pleases a of mean spirit as to bs
able to exercise spitefuly little brief authority Not
long ago Mr. Gladstone had of trees planted
along some waste land bordering highway. IL
act of entire benevolence, but unhappily the
waste not his own, and he promptly notified
that unless the trees were removed within a given
number of days he must pay the penalty of his tres
pass He has removed the trees.
THE entire income of the University of Cambridge
is put down at e231 265 IS I'd Oxford has at least
NJ ono g.
little than half what Lord Dudley has received
in good coery year, what the Dukes of Devon
shire and Northumberland together annually receive
a average, while Mr.. vanderbilt's income would
pretty nearly the receipts of Oxford Cambridge
Dublin, Durham Yale, Harvard, and Princeton COM
bined.
PROF. E. J. JAMES, while a visit to Germany last
summer, asked the professors of twelve German
universities DO you think that too many young men
studying at the universitiesl" Almost uniformly
the was, There is no doubt of it. Germany
said of the professors is fostering the growth Of
class of professionally educated for whom there
is room in the professions and who too proud
to go into business of any sort. Result-poverty
suicide.
Mr.. TooLE, the English comedian, recently told
how friend of his had gone into barber's shop to
be shaved. Said he in his gravest manner the bar
day before yesterday oh yes, sir" replied the
barber with much exuberance and delight at the
favorable appreciation and the tender interest evinced
in his instrument, rubbing his hands and reaching it
down. Here it is, sir" ''Ah, well said the visitor
dryly, after little hesitation, then-yes-then-IU
take chloroform, please" Denouementl
VICTOR HUGO is in excellent health but suffers
from ennui. His deafness. which he does not like to
show confess, isolates him The receptions now
hardly last twenty minutes and still held after
dinner. Strangers not welcome visitors, though
eourteously received. 1t is necessary to say some
thing to them, and so to betray the single infrmity
from which the poet suffers. What he appears to
JOY most seeing his friends at dinner At the head
of his table he talk for himself and those around
him. He retres to his bedroom at o'clock, and
walks up and down until midnight, thinking about
what he is to write next morning.
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