The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-29
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

faiy acUVltyi according TO the Boston transcript,
which is the New England authority such matters,
is the flash weekly
IT is said that for every novel printed and published
in England, ten written and rejected. This makes
average of three thousand novels which writ
ten in that country every year.
PRESIDENT GARFTELD's pew in the old Disciple
chapel, in Washington has been placed in
of the $4,000 Garfield Memorial Church, which
was dedicated last Sunday No one is allowed to sit
| in it.
GENERAL PLEAsANToN is a familiar figure at the
Capital. He is tall slender and straight
His hair is gray but his step is elastic and he is
sidered to be of the most entertaining storytell
ers in Washington.
MIR. BLAKE the inventor of the transmitter, in uni
versal use in the telephone, who blacksmith in
his early days, is very wealthy and lives like
prince at Weston, Mass.S He has in his house
fitted up like blacksmith shop, and when he wants
amusement exercise he labors at his old trade.
THE Wurtemburg Minister of the Interior has is
sued orders that henceorth young folks of either sex
shall not be allowed to dance togethern places of pub
lie amusement. He, however, will relax this order in
of marriage parties if the orginators of the
tertainment furnish the police with the necessary
moral guarantees
MRS. CATHARINE GILBERT, the wife of a Lake Erie
captain, has been in jail in Buffalo, nearly fortnight
TO pay OIL pho, dlIHOuSn SHe
has sufficient bank deposit. At last accounts she
was stoutly vowng that she would never pay dollar,
but she has not just Mr.. Pickwick had,
and the prosecution does believe she will prove
obstinate.
THE Salvation Army of Denver, Col. paid its re
spects to Colonel Bob Ingerson, by calling on him
in body and exhorting him to repent e'er it be too
late The Colonel listened to them philosophcaly,
putting away at his cigar and making the smoke curl
he blew it into the air After they had finished he
told them that he would consider what they had said
but couldn't promise to accept their views.
CAPTAIN CASH, old captain, wants the Secre-
tares of War and the Navy to offer a reward of $50,
900 to any whaler who shall rescue the Greedy arctic
exploring party He thinks that the whalers, who
to start out in short time, would exert them
selves, if such reward were offered, to reach Greedy
and the would thus be effected probably before
government expedition could be fitted out.
BULwER's relates that after finishing the story
of Kenelm Chllingy's suerings at the grave of Lily,
the novelist profoundly detected, istless and
broken his face presented the look of who
had just passed through the last paroxysm of pas
sonate His family learned afterward that
the incidents referred to were not the creations of
fancy, but the memories of fifty years before.
WE have known, says the Pail Mall Gazette, one
French lady to spend $40 a year upon pills. Tar,
odouOrOili arc aiming INC Atiiiy pms
they put up in the neatest and most attractive
manner The capsules have an envelope of Slightly
sweetened gelatine and when bottled ready for sale
look more like sweetneats than anything else Per-
haps the agreeabeness of their medicines the
! why French people, from childhood upwards
i good-tempered
Two Englishmen says a writer on South America,
to show the keenness of the natives of Tucuman were
once sleeping in lone hut, when of them, hearing
noise in the bush, hurriedy put the wrong boots
in the dark and went out with his gun in the hope of
getting shot at some nightly prowler In the morn
ing his Gaucho servant said to him, "What did you
think there in the bush when you went out last
night senorl" How do you know 1 went outl" 81
the marks of boots in the ground your boots,
but your friends; but it was your tread!'
4 YOUNG lady recently addressed letter to Ruskin
| on the subject of arttraining DESTROYS of becoming
artist, and wishing good advice, she thought she
could do better than to apply to high authority
The reply was characteristic and rather disappoint-
ing The great critic without giving her any hint
to the right to pursue told her: Tt would be
better to write less and cultivate good and beautiful
handwriting. No who writes you do could
make good artist" 1t took five people to deeipher
the hieroglyphics in which Ruskn clothed these few
words. The young lady framed this curious produc-
tion and hug it in her studio
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general at Cairo, has presented an Egyptian mummy
to Cornell University. The mummy is now on it's
| way here from Egypt NJ. Emile Brugsch Bey, of the
Cairo Museum has translated the inscriptions on the
| wrappngs from which it appears that the mummif,a
Egyptian lived about 2 700 years ago and named
| Penpi. On the mummy case which is painted in
bright coors the usual emblematic pictures and
this inscription: "Praseyneme to Osiris the god of
Amenti, the good god, the ruler of Abydos, may he
give good repose to Penpi the justified"
| CHARLES SPRAGUE PEARCB accosted in the streets
of Nice woman peculiarly dressed and without in
| PRODUCTION, asked, "Wl you sell your dress''
''No, " she replied petuantly to attract the
tice of passer-by, who questioned him with
earnestness: what did you do to that womanl" 81
am an artist replied Pearce; her dress pleased me-
and asked her to sell it to me-" 'What will you give
for itl' Five francs" replied Pearce. 'You shall
have it" 'Why!' asked the artist, with sur
prise do you know the woman2" She is my mother
inlaw." The costume has since figured in of his
most noted salon paintings.
SENATOR j. j. INGALLS,, in essay John
Browns place in history declares that the three
of the who will loom forever against the remotest
horizon of time the pyramids above the noseless
desert mountain peaks the subordinate plains
are Abraham Lincoln. Ulysses S. Grant and old John
Brown, of Osawatomie" mo pagan philosopher no
Hebrew prophet Christian martyr, spoke in
lofter and heroic strains than did John Brown
when he wrote in prison, under sentence of DEATH 1T
is great comfort TO feel assured that permitted
to die for cause and not merely to pay the debt of
nature, which all must feel my self to be most un-
worthy of great distinction. l feel just content
die for Gods eternal truth and for suffering human
ity the scaffold as in any other way"
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