The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-23
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


THE Rev. DIR. John Hall, of New York, has only
missed preaching because of sickness two Sabbath
days during his sixteen years pastorate.
SENATOR EDMUNDs it is said, has a carefully kept
diary giving his views of public and 1t
is probable however that it will be given out
for publication.
MIR. GLADSTONE has promised to devote considera-
bic time and energy at the next session of Parliament
to the repeal of the law prohibiting marriage with
deceased wifes sister.
WHILE delegation of Jerseyites were visiting the
Treasury Department last week one of them inquired
of a Waterman if the bronzed pillars in front of the
cashroom were gold. He was answered in the affirm
alive.
GAIL HAMILTON recently refused very handsome
offer to write for leading New York newspaper. She
to have her price, and select her own topics
She is not strong enough to carry out regular
gagement.
THE price of Mr.. Baine's new book will be $3.50
for the two volumes or 1875 each The first volume
will be completed time in February, but the pub
fishers do expect get it much before the 1st
Of March.
AMONG the gifts received at pound party held for
the benefit of the Home for the Aged in Concord n.
H., was pound of silver dimes One half-dme had
to be added to make exact weight, and the amount
was 1925.
MRS GENERAL SHERMAN will adopt little Ella
Cady daughter of the late Dir, Cady, of Lafayette
Ind, for whom General Sherman entertained very
high regard. Mrs. Sherman stood godmother for
Ella at her christening. It will be year however,
before Ella leaves for her new home at st. Louis.
A PROMINENT and prosperous farmer of Michigan
is quoted as saying recently when was boy and
trudged along to school taught to take off my
hat and make obeisance whenever met a grown per-
Is nov,2 Whv iS he
pass by schoolhouse without being balled"
EVEN extreme loyalists growing alarmed at
Queen Vctora's posthumous tributes to John Brown.
She has up in her apartments Angels lfe-size por
trait of the ge. She has also ordered John Browns
rooms at Windsor Castle to be closed permanently,
and she has placed brass plate in his ROOM with
inscription recording his virtues and deploring his
| loss.
A LONDON schoolmaster was so annoyed by boy
who persisted in talking during lesson time that he
fastened strap with slip knot around the tongue of
the offender and then tied the other end of the strap
by piece of string to chair thus stopping the nus-
ance. The matter carried into court, but the
magistrate dismissed the case on the ground that no
real punishment had been inflicted
| Miss HoGARTH, the surviving executrix of Charles
Dickens has taken prevent the publica-
ton in England of Dickenss letters to his solicitor
Miss Hogarth says that Mr.. Dickens intended
that these letters should be published. They were
| preserved by the solicitor curosites, and
| bound in album with other Dickens memorials.
They sold by the solicitors executors with the
rest of his library they having knowledge of their
| contents
| THE preacher whom the bishop imposed upon the
Bethel African Church. at New Haven, and who
dragged out of the pulpit by the enraged members,
thus graphically described his mental processes
that occasion: my related to peace and pros
perity-the prosperity of the Christian church The
text was from Psalms cxxii, Z Peace be within thy
walls and prosperity within thy palaces. had just
got to that point where delineating the charac-
ter of David, the sweet psalnst when they grabbed
Then, peace, prosperity, and everything else
ished'
MRS SEPTIMA RANDOLPH MEIKLEHAM the only
surviving granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson is v.
ing in Georgetown, D. c. dependent the pay of her
daughter clerk in the Patent Office. A subscrip-
ton for her benefit last year only brought her 1920
and she has determined to make appeal to Con.
gross The House committee on pensions agreed to
report favorably bill for pension Of $3.50 year
The original bill proposed pension of SIS 900. Mrs
Meiklebam was one of twelve children five sons and
and seven daughters and she being the last daughter
was named Septma She was married in 1888 to a
physician, long since dead
| THOSE who have never the much talled-of
dynamite explosive will be interested to know that it
looks very much like moist brown sugar. Nitro -glycer
inc which is formed by the action of nitric acid upon
glycerine at low temperature is the active agent in
dynamite but is mixed with absorbent substance
to render it safer to handle than the liquid gycerine
The absorbent material thus used is slieous earth
a fine white powder composed of the remains of in.
fusora and resembling powdered chalk this takes up
three times its weight of the nitro gycerine
without becoming pasty and the ingredients easily