The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mr. ANDREW MCLEAN, for many years managing
editor of the Brooklyn Eagle will succeed the late
Thomas Kinsella as editor-in-chief.
THE Atlantic for March will contain an article from
the pen of Oliver T. Morton, of the late Senator
Morton, entitled Presidential Nominations" Mr..
Morton is twenty three years old, and is now a law
student at Indianapolis
JOSEPH Cook has alarm clock on his desk on the
Boston platform, TO warn him when to end his pre-
lude and begin his lecture when to break off for in
terlude when to his lecture and when to
clude the whole performance.
JUDGE WILLIAM LAWRENCE, First Comptroller of
the Treasury is said to furnish government printers
with the most illegible copy that they get Rev
erdy Johnsons handwriting the worst, especial
y after he became partly blind and paralytic in his
fingers.
PROF. W. G. HursoN, of the University of Missis,
sipp where they coeducate the sexes discovers that
female students are quicker and alert than
boys. And the girls of Girton College, in England,
who have just formed fire brigade, necessarily
hbit precisely the same qualities. Inspector Shaw
says SO.
MATTHEW ARNOLD was fairly blown out of Buffalo
into the Dominion by brass band. He bitterly com
plains that in his last lecture his voice drowned
by carnival band in a neighboring hall and by
plumbers pounding at steam pipes in the entrance to
the hall where he trying to hold forth This
sweetness, indeed.
AN unpublished work by De Quincy is announced.
1t is styled 1.-THE Confessions of English Hasheesh
Eater and was written in the last years of the
thors lifetime. The manuscript discovered upon
the backs of the illustrations in book which was
many years in De Quincy possession. The story of
the discovery will be told in preface by Rev. Mr..
Haweis.
In connection with the "Cape Cod Folks" matter it
is said that certain popular author made pilgrim
to the of that story under pretence of sell
ing Autographs to the inhabitants, but with the real
purpose of concocting magazine article descrip-
tive of the neighborhood. His presence gave rise to
such serious suspicious that he felt obliged to leave
the place precpitately.
A PROOF READER in the government printing Office
at Washington relates that when Senator Jones's
great silver bill speech in process of publication,
the Senator brought his secretary to assist in proof
reading The secretary suggested some change, when
the Senator said: who in thunder is making this
speech, you IP The voluminous effort printed
in accordance with the Senator's wishes without fur
ther debate.
M. lola is fat ual-lookng, with air of
combativeness and impertinence about him.
says the Paris correspondent of the Argonaut. HE
has heavenaspiring nose, general!y-though not in
his case-associated with humor His lips thick,
and overhung by grayish-brown mustaehe. The
whiskers which adorn his cheeks short and
scrubby, like the beard they merge into. His fore
head is intellectual and he has the eye of thinker"
WORTH has just completed superb dress for Mrs.
Mackey. 1t is of white velvet, with pile of unusual
length and softness cut in princess form, with Wat
teau back and terminating in long court train. The
front trimmed with hundreds of wings redbreasts
;e
The train is edged with red feathers and feath
ers form the epaulets Long gloves of red kid are
with the dress, and slippers of red velvet with
the toes ending in tiny robins.
GEN. BOOTH, of the Salvation Army, has been held
guilty of deception and untruthfuness in of his
recent real estate transactions He took theater
promise to properly maintain the hquor-seing part
of the business and then did his best to destroy it by
substituting some teetotal bibulous abomnstion for
genuine whisky beer. He has been fined heavily.
and compelled to restore the premises. Another
gious teacher of different turn has been suspended
for three years for drunkenness.
JOHN G. FREMONT is very ill at his home on Staten
Island A few days ago he caught cold and
it fastened itself upon his lungs with grim tenacty
that refused be shaken The trouble threatened to
develop into pneumonia but that it is thought, has
been avoided. Gen. Fremont is not strong physically
and his friends fear that any serious illness at this
time would carry him off. The damp weather of the
past week. with its heavy fogs has been very bad for
his complaint. Fremont is aged man. and his hair
is quite white.
A WRITER in a London trade paper says "In Sar
tor Resartus there is mention of Dutch cows which,
during the wet season. may be grazing in jackets
and pettcoats of striped sacking, in the meadows of
Gouda and feels, reading it, if the ASSERT on
is incredible; yet in Sussex to-day caref ully
groomed and combed and their feet shod with double
shoes. 1t is fact of which plentiful proof can be
given that such and consideration often be-
slowed upon sheep in former times to make the wool
grow finer and keep it from impurities"
AsToNE in the graveyard adjoining the old Concord
schoolhouse in Germantown bears the following in
scription: in memory of Adam Shisler, who de-
parted this life Dec. %, 1777, aged 969 years"
Now everyone knows that Mr.. Shisler was not a
ond Methuselah so there must have been some mis-
take. What the mistake2 The explanation is
that the stonecutter marked the mans age 90. in
stead of 60 by accident that might happen to any
absent-mnded person. To correct this, the 80" was
filed with cement, and another figure cut after the
90" But time and frost loosened the cement, and
now the once hidden figure appears distinct as the