The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-23
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

An old home is like an old volin-the music of the
past is wrought into it.
CELLuLoTD collars it IS declared produce sores Oh
the neck and blcodpoisoning.
A MAN is ike egg. lou can't tell whether
not he is good until heis broke
CURIoUSLY, the first name of every in Bowdoins
four-oared crew this year is Frank"
THE famous Singing Sands Beach at Bluff Point, n.
Y, has been washed away by the high water this
spring.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN is poundmaster in Syracuse,
and the Journal says he "goes about the town doing
good.n Just like him.
Mrs. GEORGE b. McCLELLAN is understood by
the Boston Beacon to be the author of "A Carpet
knight the recent novel.
MEssRs. R. NJ. PuLsIFER, of the Boston Herald,
and Charles A. Dana of the New York Sun, are both
devout and active Swedenborgians.
IT unmarried paragrapher who wrote,
Helen of Troy was the first woman who wanted to
go to Paris and leave her husband at home"
GIVE like Christian, speak in deeds;
A noble life's the best of creeds
And he shall wear a royal crown
Who gives lift when men are down.
QUEEN VICTORIA recently said that ''no ambassador
or minister during her reign had created much in
terest in England as Mr. Lowell; no other had
much regard"
THE young novelist, F. Marion Crawford, is going
to settle farm his wife owns in Cheshire county
n H., and run for Congress. This is the story that
goes the rounds, but very likely it isn't true
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN, after an hour and half of
chat and music with Ernst PeraSo, on his visit last
summer, requested Mr. Perabo to omit the 'Sr" from
his programmes in future. The authorized editions
Of THE AIikado' omit the Sir
"AH, William" said an old lawyer to Mr.. w. W.
Story scu1ntop think vo, ;oht have followed
in your fathers footsteps! You might have been
great lawyer you had it in you and you chose stay
on here in Rome and pinch mud"
CHARLES T. HOWARD, the 'king of the lottery
frauds" who has recently died, exclaimed: LOT
terry doesn't need advertisement. Tell emw where they
can buy tickets; that's all that's needed. Lottery
playing is disease. 1t doesn't require any urging
man to catch it."
GENERAL SHERMAN, in reply to a recent request to
be present at reunion declined, saying: II have
madeall and more appointments for this year than |
can fulfill, even it is. Mrs Sherman thinks I am
kept away from home so much that she might as well
leave the house and go away"
NATHANIEL 2. WILLIS, the poet and editor has
long been dead but there is another Nathaniel P.
Willis in Boston, merchant who has been for fifty
years connected with one house, and who has just
celebrated his golden wedding, to which guests from
Philadelphia, Baltimore New Haven and Providence
were invited
THERE is on exhibition in London painting by Mr..
Loves Dickinson entitled "Gordon's Last Watch"
1t represents the hero the night before his betrayal
standing alone upon the rampartseofz Khartonm his
Bible and his field gass in his hands and look of
de.th-expectng reverie upon his face 1t is pro-
nounced by Gordon's friends to be an admirable
likeness.
THE fundamentally davs have ccxne--
The saddest of the year,
When impecunious men bring forth
Last season S summer gear;
And hold them in this light and that
To solve the painful doubt
If all of earth's ammonia
Win take the grease spots out.
Boston Gazette.
THERE was tall desk in Victor Hugo's bedroom.
1t the one he most used. He every morning
at 6, washed in cold water, and then took cup of
black coffee and egg. This rejection kept up
strength and did not draw blood from the brain. IF
ideas did not come rapidly, he went to the window
which all day open, winter and summer sought
inspiration by gazing thence, returned to the desk,
sketched, and then wrote. If his 'go" Stacked he
walked about again, looked out, and drew. AT III he
breakfasted. His Pegasus was the knifeboard Of an
omnibus He mounted it early in the afternoon and
did not return until late.
AT murder trial in Lancaster, S. c.. last week,
witness admitted that he had been drinking the
day of the murder. He said that he felt it some but
not in a romantic, extortionate way" Another wit
ness said he executed "a rain bow curve in coming to
the of the tragedy His horse described as
'a.stting bias-wise the street." Being
examined, he said to the solicitors II q master
drnker. can outdrink you" But the greatest sem
sation was produced by witness who stated that he
refused to take drink when invited by of the
parties to the difficulty This caused "incredulous
laughter in the courtroom"
OF the parts of the Barthold goddess, as seen On
the Isere, the New York Journal says 1.-THE box that
holds the tips of the gentle goddcsss toes big as
a Broadway stage. The toes would turn any Chicago
girl green with envy. The that is to deck Lib
ertys head stretches in huge semi.circle from
side TO the other of the hold. IL would make an
admirable training track for hundred yards dash.
could be utilized the steeple of country church.
The curl of hair that is to nestle coyy against the
maidens check is eight feet long, and weighs
thing under two tons. The lady's eight fingers and
her two thumbs fill as many stout boxes and the slab
she is to carry her left is big enough to have
written upon it law than all the Philadelphia
lawyers know together. The statues left ear Is en-.
closed in crate ten by twenty feet; her right eye
peeps out Of box that is slowed forward; her left
orbit looks shyly from another that lies aft One eye
lid is propped up against the aseres sde and bit Of
the scalp leans against it,"
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