The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-06

you say that he-he too-would be alive if the doc.
tors had done all they couldf well, no. no; not OK.
acty alive now" said the gentleman And when,"
asked the hostess did your poor friend Pindar de
The medical man covered his face with his hands,
Poor poet" said he "he died 442 years before the
Christian era!"
JUSTIN MCCARTHY the novelist, is native Of
Cork, and ffty-four years of age. For number of
years he a reporter the Cork Eo,amner and an
enthusiastic member of the Cork Historical Society
which was mainly recruiting ground for the Young
Ireanders In 1850 he went TO Liverpool and after
ward became edtor-n-chef of the Morning STAR
which under his management did excellent work for
the of Ireland.
SENATOR MORGAN of Alabama had hard strug-
gle when he began the practice of law His shngle
hung unnotced for many months Becoming desper-
ate day he packed up his few books and started
for the depot, determined abandon his profession
and go to Texas He had reached the foot of the
stairs which led his Office when he was accosted by
elderly man who inquired where John Morgans
law Office fright here, sir; my name is Morgan"
Going outl' II am about to start for Texas on
pressing business" Indeed Then you direct
me to good lawyer2 I've little to dispose Of"
Il decided said Mr. Morgan afterwsrd, in telling
the story to a friend THAT my Texas trip was not
pressing after all took the old gentleman into my
office and heard his case. won it, and since that day
fortune has favored me-"
DURING the past year the professor of aesthetics In
the University of Munich, a proverbally wearisome
writer, delivered his lectures somewhat exiguous
audience There were five students in all, WHO week
by week melted and grew beautifully less until at
last but was left This solitary individual how
ever seemed to concentrate in his person all the
diligence application and punctuality of his frivolous
e &C.
the Professor approached him and praised him
for these admirable qualities and proceeded to inquire
of him. what is your name my young friendr
No answer. What country are you from! Abso-
ute silence. The matter was soon elucdated, for it
discovered that the patient and perseverng disc
pie poor deaf mute, who had taken refuge from
the cold of winter in the lecture of
the university.
In appearance Arab Pasha is big strong broad
shouldered good-natured fellah His fez thrown well
back displays a broad massive forehead surrounding
large, soft eyes, which have in ordinary moods
kindly, dreamy expression. There is undesirable
something about the which impresses favorably
all who come in contact with him. and for those who
understand his native Arabic, the only language he
speak, there is singular charm in his converse
ton. His stock of useful and theoretical knowledge
is unfortunately, not at all in proportion to iis=-
times leads to larnentable display of ignorance.
Like all men liable to be intoxicated by the flow Of
their own rhetoric he could be wildly inconsistent
without being hypocritca A dutful SON a good
husband, kind father and on the whole, an up.
right respectable man. he the determined.
stoca hero the blind, uncompromising fanatic no
has sometimes been represented.
COLONEL DASr, of Georgia who 4 gallant Of
fcer in the confederate army during the of tbs
rebellion tells the following amusing story which has
not heretofore appeared in print. Il have always
had said he "a great respect for the valor of the
Massachusetts troops, and there was one regiment
particularly, the Ninth, which fought like hgass
1t so happened that during several engagements we
were pitted against each other, and there much
desperate work, can you During Of our
encounters fortunate enough to surround
of their companies, and we shooting away
they, seeing that unless they surrendered they
certain of annihlation showed the white flag. I'm
fortunately this not by my entire command,
and several shots were fred after had given the Or
der to cease. In the midst of this desultory firing
there a strong Hbernian voice from out of the
bushes How'd up yez scoundrels We have sur
rendered, and yer KILN Dirnmocrats."
NJ. DIX FoY, the great Paris matrimonial agent bss
just retired into private life refusing TO part viii
the good will of his profession to any successor but
taking with him to his country seat for
tune and pretty daughter. His modus operandi
was cautions in the extreme He carried his pro-
fession in a handsome suite of rooms at one end Of
which mysterious cham Der, constructed that
his clients could come in and go out without meeting
one another On entering the great mans sanctum
the woud-be Benedick Beatrice gave full particu-
lars of his her position, fortune etc. the correct
ness Of which inquired into, the client paying
thousand francs preliminary Fee No such vulgar
means as photographs were used, but the exact re-
quircments being mastered, the parties brought
together to meet their fate in the ordinary of
social life. His list included princesses, duchesse4
and many Americans. On signing the marriage con.
tract handsome commission paid.