The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

IRELAND has never been fuller of tourists than is
this year.
PROFESSOR TYNDAL1, one Of the most noted oe
scientists, does not know the year of his birth.
The young Due de Morny. of unsavory notoriety,
lately tried to replace its pedestal at Trouvie the
statue of his father which was taken down IN 1870
The police nterfered, and would not allow him to
complete the undertaking.
Mrs. GARFIELD left her summer home at Mentor
last Saturday and is visiting the family of ex.
Acknowledgement Wayne McVeagh at Philadelphia.
Harry and James Garfield have returned to Williams
College, where they are Seniors Miss eMollie viii
spend another year at private school at Cleveland
Mr. EDGAR HUIDEKoPER of Meadville Pa. is in
receipt of letter asking him to be of the jury in
the international Agricultural Exhibition at present
being held in Amsterdam, Holland The letter sug.
gested that Mr.. Huidekoper should be in charge of
the cattle department The demands of business
PEELED him to decline the honor.
PosTAGE,sTAAIP collectors will be interested to
learn that their hobby is represented by spe.
cal organ of the press, published at Halifax, and
called The Phatelic Courier and Stamp Collectors
Journal" One of its aims is ito make its Office a
central phlatelic bureau Of information with view
to bringing about union of correspondence through
out the world
ANEW method of finding husband has been tried
by a young lady of Albany. She sent up toy bal.
loon, to which she attached card bearing her
and the further inscription: If any good-looking
young bachelor widower finds this win he please
return it," After weeks absence the balloon was
found by young farmer who returned it with his
compliments and photograph.
THERE is truth in the following quaint passage:
God looks not at the oratory Of prayers how Ell.
oquent they are at their geometry how long they
are at their arithmetic, how many they are; nor
at their logic how methodical they are but He looks
at their sincerity how spiritual they are" At the
same time it may be added, remarks the Churchman,
that the oratory geometry, arithmetic and logic may
all be necessary if would worship in the beauty of
holiness
II AM surprised writes Henry Iabouchere, "at any
one blaming the associates Of Lieutenant Greedy for
having saved themselves from starvation by deyour-
ing the flesh Of those who fell victims 10 the hardships
Of the arctic expedition. / am glad to think that
never was exposed TO this dire necessity myself;
but suppose that human flesh is much like any
other flesh; and most assuredly, were starving
with the corpse Of a friend by me- should regard
myself very foolish / to allow myself to die
of hunger
An individual who represented himself as 'scien-
tist has been amusing the medical journals with de-
scrptions Of his method for the cure of all diseases
It consists of less formidable process than the
complete fltering of the patients bloodin
land thereby removing all deleterious substances.
He applies mouth of his machine to artery and
the other to vein, and, he remarks, the bloods
got to go through my filter the mann die. The
doctors kind to him. his language is good he asks
for nothing and he believes he is going to the
human race.
AT the opening of the Philadelphia electrical exhi
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which began. 20 Thou who art light, in whom there
is no darkness Thou who dwelleth in the light who
maketh the fires Thy ministers and sendeth Thy light
ming forth to the ends of the earth gracous behold
Thy servants now here assembled and cast upon us
the light Of Thy countenance" AS DIR. Macintosh
concluding there ran a low murmur from one end Of
the great building to the other and from the floor to
the roof It was the multitude repeating the Lords
Prayer after the clergyman.
PASSING conditions have developed in London
somewhat CHASTITY literary taste and the favorte read
ing there is found in certain records Of Herodotus
Boecaecio, and De Foe. All about the plaques of
Athens Florence, and London is read with morbid
interest 1t looks as though history will repeat itself
in more respects than should the emergency which
many predict arrive They talking Of camping out
in case of an epidemic and Of late the white tents
have thickened by the Thamess side, and are to be
seen dotted all around suburban London especially
in and about Epping Forest. This, Of course, recalls
the plight Of the merry company who prepared them.
selves for the worst by narrating the Decaeron and
brings to mind also the colony who fixed themselves
in the East London woodland when the coclxney was
dying At the rate Of 20 600 per day.
Mr. FRANK r. STocKToN's contribution to DR..
Holiness birthday book has the following: As around
the head Of famiy-say Of virginia-g gather his
cousins and his second cousins and his cousins 50 far
removed that we never hear Of Them wishing him joy
and good fortune, 50 come we all upon this, your
birthday and would be glad to come some other day.
If we could find decent excuse for it. to wish you.
not all unseilshy, many years Of life, and strength,
and work And when, some morning further re-
moved than the remotest Of your literary kin, you
shall push back your chair fold up your napkin and,
rising from the table, say After this breakfast
without you I'VE win look at each other and smile,
and each think TO himself. with little comfortable
vanity, Not il St Peter be the Of discernment1
take him to boz