The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-24

up with amusement at heir naive remarks, while Il e
bearing of his head still retained that somewhat proud
carriage which inspired these African chieftains with
a real respect for his wishes and a desire to retain his
friendship"
BIsMARCK's steady and very frequent drink for
years past has been a horrible mixture of London
porter and champagne, but in his late speeches in the
Reichstag it was remarked that he took frequent
draughts of cold TEA. But that's nothing. American
senators and representatives with the single exception
of Thomas Preposterous Ochiltree, take nothing else.
GENERAL SIR r. BUTLER, second in command to
General Graham in Egypt, won the Victoria Cross by
rescuing a soldier, whom he laid on his own horse
under heavy fire. lie has been exposed to innumera-
BILE risks, in Ashantee, Zululand, and elsewhere, but
never hurt. He succeeded some years ago. by the
death of his brother, to estates worth $75, 900 a year,
but would not leave the army. His mother was niece
of a former Duke of Norfolk, and he is married to a
daughter of the Marquis Townshend.
WHEN the Book of Mormon" was published in
1880 there was published with it a certificate of three
men, afterward known as the three witnesses" who
declared that they saw the angel of God come down
with the golden book which Joseph Smith interpreted.
Subsequently all three of these men renowned Nor
monism and declared their testimony false. David F.
Whitmer, one of the three, is now living, in his
eightieth year, in Missouri. He was a brotherin-law
of Oliver Cowdry, who wrote a copy of the book for
Smith.
DIR. McCosH, of Princeton College, is a very hand
some old gentleman, who was born seventy-three
years ago. He was a pet of Sir William Hamilton,
who was a great opponent of phrenology. AS an old
time metaphysician DR.. McCosh has hardly an equal
in this country. Recently, while the Doctor was
being complimented in a Pennsylvania railroad train
for his ability to dissect Kant, the good old gentleman
replied, with that little spice of conceit which comes
from ones knowledge of ones abilities, ut was per-
fectly easy to me-"
SENATOR FRYE is said to be a thorn in both sides of
the Senate; he has such a breezy way of overturning
its cherished idols and tearing up its traditions. He
has a manly hatred of all shams, and doesn't seem to
be afraid of t~reading on peoples corns in exposing
them. He is happy when he succeeds in stirring up
with a sharp stick the old fogies and sticklers for
forms and presidents. He is probably the plainest-
looking man in the Senate, wearing an ordinary bust
ness suit and acting in an indifferent, u~nceremonial
manner. He has never become acclimated to the for
NAL, solemn air of the Senate chamber.
DR.. BRADLEY, Dean SANKEY'S successor, advises
school-teachers to give their young pupils full ac-
counts, from time 70 time, of any great or marked
public events that are taking place, so that they may
feel that the horizon of their interests is something
larger than that of the schoolroonl and the play
ground. 81 venture to recall" he says, las a good
deed of my own, my having at much pains and
trouble conveyed to a nights rough quarters in Lon
don as many as possible of my young Rugby pupils,
in order that they might tell their ehildren's children
that they had looked on the funeral of the great Duke
of Wellington"