The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-15
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

GENERAL JUBAL A. EARLY writes of his wife. ian
interesting letter. from whom has been going the
rounds of the newspapers, that she is lady whose
acquaintance he has not yet made.
IT is said that Broadway Tabernacle pays 81 ,238 a
year to keep the life of the pastor Dr. William Tay-
for insured for $50 900 for the benetof his family
in addition to a salary of $40 900.
PROFESSOR RICHARDS and Gardner Morse, ir., of
Yale College, will begin this week walk to Philadel,
phia and thence TO Baltimore. From Baltimore they
will take the cars to Philadelphia and walk back to
New Haven.
HENRY GEORGE, says London correspondent of
Irish paper twas asked in my presence if he would
run for Scotch constituency and he replied Il guess
not; would then be ineligible for the presidency of
the United States"
REV. J. c. WOOD the English naturalist, who has
spent quite successful season Boston, has returned
to England for his family and will live in this country
a year two. He has six daughters and is very
much devoted to cock-roaches which his favorite
insect.
SEVERAL French women and one young American
girl Miss Laura White studying architecture
in the special school at Paris with view to making
it their ife-work. The Ctoyenne says that already
several have distinguished themselves as build.
ers and house-decorators The exquisite carpenters
and cabinet worin the mayors house at Passy
has been executed by lady.
THE professors of Victoria University at Montreal
charged with having furnished the graduating
classes with copies of the questions to be submitted
prior to the annual examinations All the students
to the number of forty. passed, many of whom have
already left practice in the United States and Can
ada The matter has created great STIR and there is
talk of annulling the charter of the institution
A RECENT writer on the emotions of infants says
curiosity shows itself the minute child begins to
take interest in other things besides its food, and
when though it still carries everything in its mouth
it does merely because the tongue is the finest
well as the most exercised organ of touch At this
stage the child handles things looks at them closely,
pulls them to pieces and so in playing instructs
itself.
PHILIP A. NOLAN, general secretary of the Catholic
Total Abstinence Union of America has issued bull
etin describing the general condition of the union
and the recent steady growth of the cause He says
that the great amount of total abstinence news
furnished by the Catholic press of America is espec-
tally noticeable The document contains much inter.
esting news about the subordinate unions and their
conventions. st. Johns day, June "a has been
chosen the feast day of the union, when every
member is expected to approach holy communion.
A STUDENT in the medical department of the Uni.
versty of Kharkof Russia. has recently returned to
his studies after somewhat protracted vacation He
left college wentyone years ago, having been permit
ted by the Russian government to ''rustcate during
that period for participation in a hazing scrape of
some magnitude, known to history the Polish in
surrection. His present age is sixty years and by
the time he graduates is likely to have reached that
age which will give the community confidence in his
steadiness and responsibility medical practton-
A. H. SWAN, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, controls more
stock than any other individual the continent His
present possessions valued between So 600 600
and SO 600 900, while the amount of stock of which
he has the exclusive control and management is over
200 900 head and valued at over So 900 600. He
was the organizer and is president and general man
ager of no less than five different stock organizations
in Wyoming. He is native of Green county Penn.
sylvania which place he left for the West in 1858,
when twenty-five years of age, with $1,000 in his
pocket.
IN old paper, worn with age and now unknown,
l came across Abraham Lincoln s. only autobiography"
says Washington correspondent. 1t was written in
1913 at the request of Charles Lanman, who then
making up his dictionary of Congress aud had asked