The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-11
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Adult IEUtLE AND IHINUS.
THIS year, for the first time it is said the Zulus
have had the entire Bible translated for them into
their own language.
AUG. STRINDBERG, the Swedish author, has pub
lshed book on matrirnony, which betrays such init
macy with the subject that the Stockholm authorities
suppressed it.
IT is discovered that the late Alexander NJ Sullivan
the Irish leader, began life housepainter which
fully accounts for his distinguished ability to paint
things generally red.
DETROIT Free Press: Pennsylvania has neutral"
shoe stores. Nobody but the know exactly
what their neutrality consists Of but there strong
suspicion that they neither lie tell the truth about
their goods.
To the disgust of the Blancs dEspagne, who to the
number of about 200, chiefly women lately held a
meeting and elected Don Carlos King of France, he
positively declined the honor at their hands the
score of previous engagements to Spain.
ENGLIsHMEN eat at much shorter intervals than
Americans accustomed to. The farm laborer eats
four meals day in of the baronial halls in
England the tables spread for meals at intervals
of four hours during the day and evening.
MEN digging trenches for sewers In Schenectady.
N " have found, at a depth of sixteen feet the old
corduroy road which laid in 1890, and led to the
fort at the time of the massacre by the Indians On
another street the hollow logs which were laid in
1906 and served for pipes for the citys water sup
ply, have been found in an excellent state
,,.,,Ns = -. u iersons black stallion, known
eater" The horse threw Scott down
and was gnawing at him. when Charles Oscars bull
dog Sykes to the rescue and getting hold of the
horses nostrils, compelled him to release his hold
The dog saved the mans life and handsome collar is
to be purchased by several persons for the dog.
In Ontario passenger trains not started on
Sunday. Recently it attempted on the Credit
Valley new road, but strong the public feel
ing aroused that the company felt constrained to
abolish the Sunday train. When the Dominion gov
eminent directed that the Welland canal be opened
! during twelve hours of Sunday so strong was the
expression of public opinion on the subject that in
few weeks the order countermanded.
REARING memorial to a creation of fiction seems
little out of the ordinary. They have come pretty
near it at Wordsworth England, however, where
Bede memorial hall is to be built. George Eliots
| preaching woman in Adam Bede is Dinah Morris the
] original of whom Elizabeth Evans, the authors
own aunt. For many years she preached in the
town of Wicksworth and the necessity of new chapel
suggesteG he notion of memorial building
ACCo NC to the London Lancet a young girl who
just died in the asylum at Hamburg possessed the
peculiar gift of changing the color of her hair accord
ing to the state of her mind. In periods of sedate
ness her hair of its natural dull color when ex
cited became reddish and her anger was indicated
| by blonde color. Three days were generally re.
quired for the change to be completed and her COM
plexion also varied in the same periods and in the
same direction.
IT is recalled that when the late Secretary Folger
was a member of the New York State Senate. at
the close of the debate the famous Tweed charter
two senator's who strongly suspected of having
accepted bribes to give their reasons for voting
against their party. One of them, turning toward
Mr.. Folger and the other faithful Republicans ex-
pressed regret at having to differ with them and then
euoted "'1is hard to part with friends so dear"
How dear9" cried Folger quick as a flash; will the
Senator name his pIice9"
OLD Madeira wine has always been popular in
Washington, especially the tables of the Justices
of the Supreme Court. For many years supplies
obtained from old mercantile houses in Alex
andra which had made direct importations prior TO
the revolution, and in November, 1852, many Wash
ington cellars were replenished at the sale of the
private stock of the late Josiah Lee of Baltimore
Fifty demijohns of various brands of Madeira were
struck off at prices ranging from $24 to $40 per
gallon. and one lot commanded $3.50 per bottle
which at FIVE bottles to the gallon Is at the rate of
$3.50.
A LARGE number of married counles living In Rio
de Sui, Brazil awoke lately to find that their mar
riages had been illegal. They were mostly German
Professionals and in the absence of cercs of their de-
nomination they had resorted to civic marriages
upon the of officer of the city that he
could perform the ceremony legally. Meanwhile there
is still absence of proper cergymen perform the
functions The Catholic clergy will do nothing for
them nor does the government in any way intimate
that it will relieve their distress If only somo of
the phianthropic missionary societies would send out
his way in doing it.
In speech at ''the Celtic dinner" annually given
in Brittany NJ Renan said: 1--WE are true sons of
Pelagius, who denied original sim A censure which
the Protestants always addressing me is this:
What does NJ. Renan do with sini' Mon Dieu be-
leve that suppress it. l cannot understand those
melancholy dogmas. L confess to you, the more [
think it the more that all philosophy is
summed up in good humor. We Celts will never be
Pessnists Nihilists. On the brink of those abysses
smile from nature from a woman will ALWAYS
save My mother, who died at eighty-seven joked
an hour before her death. e Trust to the expe
rience of a compatrot. will not teach Won |
the art of making fortune that specially is unknown
to me. But nearing the end of my life can tell YOU
something of art in which have entirely suc- |
ceeded; that is the art of being happy. =
There is but receipt for it, don't seek after hap
pness This Is the upshot of my expe. |
rience."