The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-01

SPEAKING of popular supersititons, the Nashville
Banner says there is whose home is not far
from that place. who, if ne meets red-headed man
when he starts for his Office in the morning, immedi
ately goes back to his home and takes fresh start
JEFFERSON DAVIS, who was to have delivered the
Grafton before the Maryland Society of the Confeder
ate Army and Navy, in Baltimore on the 22d of Feb
ruary has written that his health will not admit of
his speaking in that city at this of the year.
and the Grafton has been abandoned
CHARLES BEACH says that he once searched the
pockets of Horace Greeleys historic white coat in
which he found more than two hundred business
cards, which had been given him from time to time
during the many years he had worn the coat He
was not aware that there card about his clothes.
THE Hungarian patriot, Kossuth, is now eighty. one
years of age and lives quietly at Milan. He neither
believes in the alliance of the Latin races in that
of the Teutonic He fances that Austria and Russia
will ere long be at daggers drawn and fancies that
as he has infrmtes save those of old age he may
live to see it.
Miss FLETCHER has noticed an odd feature in the
play of Indian children. She says that in their sport
they copy the and perplexites the labors and
dangers which beset their elders but they never to
her knowledge, initiate any of the religious
ials of the tribe She does not attempt for
this popularity.
Miss KATE FIELD, who is now in Salt Lake City,
says that she has discovered that whenever Brigham
Young wanted to entertain anyone he would send him
to the Townsend House. Thousands of dollars were
lost by the landlord in this way Brigham never paid
United States officials among these guests.
Governor Axtell and George @. Bates are named by
Miss Field
AT microscopic exhibition in Boston, lately the
sting of honey-bee was thrown upon the screen,
the point of which sharp as to be
hardly distingushable. At the same time
the finest of fine needles shown, under the
power of the microscope and the end of the needle
measured five inches Said the exhibitor,
God can make fine point, but man cannot"
JUSTIN MCCARTHY, the novelist is a native of Cork
and fifty -four years of age For number of years he
a reporter the Cork Examiner and enthusi-
astic member of the Cork Historical Society, which
mainly recruiting ground for the Young Ireland
In 1850 he went to Liverpool and afterwards
became editorin-chief of the Morning Star which,
der his management did excellent work for the
of Ireland.
A CLERGYMAN in Durham England, some short time
SINCE taught an old man in his parish to read, and
found him apt pupil After his lessons fin
ished he not able to call for time and when
he did, only found the wife at home. 'How is John9"
said he How does he get on with his reading?"
oh nicely, sir" "Ah suppose he'll read his Bible
very comfortably now9' Bible, sir Bless you, he was
ont of the Bible and into the newspapers long ago.
MATT IL. CARPENTERS monument is ready to be
erected in Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee. It is
of Vermont marble, in Grecian style and seventyive
feet in height The estate pays the expenses. The
family have omitted the elaborate tribute that Judge
Black prepared as that was intended for public
monument. The legend the marble is Matthew
Hale Carpenter, born in Moretown Vt, Dec %,
1924; died in Washington, D. c., Feb. "a, 1888"
YOUNG Henri Rochefort has returned to Paris
physical wreck after his experience with NJ de Brazza
the Congo African fevers have robbed him of his
hair and teeth but in these respects his father tells
him, the wigrnakers and dentists will make him as
good The young is disguised with NJ.
de Brazza, whom he regards as an impracticable
dreamer. He is trying, Rochefort says, to win the
favor of the savages by atery which takes the form
Of imitation. Thus he goes without clothes, drinks
only water and lives cocoanuts and bananas
THE Washington Star says: "On the 9TH of Febru-
airy will be given probably the largest theater party
given in Washington less than eighty persons
being included The idea originated at the lunch given
recently by Miss Schenck. committee of arrange
ments formed then and there and the invitations
issue solely from that Forty young ladies have
been asked each one in turn inviting gentleman
her guest and escort After the party at the theater
handsome supper will be served. 1t is still
tain who will be selected to matronize the party Miss
Blaine is treasurer"
COLONEL E. G. COOPER has told the Denver News
of hairbreadth escape he had from death in the
jaws of Colorado lion. He was skating on a lake
near his gold mine, and the lion sprang for him.
There a chase for miles, the Colonel occa-
sionay getting the best of the lion by making sud
den curve. At length skate began to loosen and
he felt that the supreme moment at hand. He
had heard that music might soothe brute and he be
gan to sing but this enraged the lion and bethinkng
himself of rival newspaper he had in his pocket, he
drew it forth and read the lion to sleep.
WASHINGTON letter in Cleveland Leader: Robert
Lincoln is only fortyone years old but his whole
life has been full of history and he has in that time
lived years where other persons have lived days He is
finely educated, and graduated at Harvard College He
is great student and spends most of the time when
not at the department, with his family. He had a
large practice at Chicago lawyer, before he came
to Washington, and was of the most active sup
porters of Grant at the Chicago convention. 1 have
no doubt that he will be President day; if not in
1884, then in 1888 He is, mark my words, the great
of the future.
ACCORDING to the Italia, the AIahdi is not as black
as he is painted. 1t that correspondent of
that paper, missionary, who succeeded in escaping
from Upper Egypt to Cairo, states that the False
Prophet treats his prisoners remarkably we'll They
lodged in tents and properly fed, and when
Sisters of Charity and Catholic missionaries expressed
natural anxiety as to the fate of some hun
dred and fifty children whom they had baptized, and
whose education they had been supervising the
Mahdi had tho little children brought into camp and
intrusted to the of their masters and mis-
tresses If this information is correct it will be pos
sble to think better things of this fierce soldier of
Islam who is causing such trouble in the Soudan.
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