The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-30
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


"MoTHER HUBBARDvILLE' is said to be the name
of Georgia railway station.
ONE county in Kansas Sedgwick is expected to pro-
duce 8 900 600 bushels of corn this year.
JOHN RUsKIN thinks that very few books worth
reading have been written during this century.
PUCK: Notwithstanding the depression in bust
circles the business of the thief seems to be
picking up.
THE colored people of vicksburg have determined
| to erect $4,000 monument to commemorate
emancipation.
LAND agent at Rome. Ca received few days
ago order for 100, 900 to 5OOO 900 of desr-
able farm land, in solid block. to be interspersed
with timber but all forest. These lands said
to be for immigrants, and the order from Lon
don.
A NEW fresh terror has struck Albert Edward Of
Wales in the discovery that Batenburg has, resident
in the squad streets of Geneva. about 800 rela
tves, living in abject poverty, all of whom to be
imported and provided with pensions and places in
England.
METHODIST girls assured by the official journal
of their church that they cannot dance without break
ing that solemn which they made at the altar
in the presence of God and His angels to renounce
the devil and all his works" The assertion is further
made that truly good Christians are never dancers.
dom go to church more than once on Sunday. They
agree with Lord Melbourne who once staying a. Nune
| ham with Archbishop Vernon Harcourt, and being
invited to attend afternoon service after going in the
| morning. said: NO. my lord. Once is orthodox
| twice is Puritanica"
"SHow me your license, If you please, sir. said
| French gamekeeper to poacher. I'm not hunting
game, my friend said the poacher; I'm only looking
for my wife. who has run away into the woods with
| young fellow, a neighbor of mine. When l find her
IL shoot her and the fellow too. THAT alters TIE
case" said the gamekeeper with grin; 'but before
| you go any further show your marriage certif-
| cate"
1T is the opinion of Prof. Hodge, of Princeton who
has studied the subject carefully, that Sir Moses
Montefore has gone to the Christian heaven although
he was devout Jew. Prof. Hodge argues the ortho-
dox belief to be that God may lead person outside
the church to essential truth independently of human
agency" and may save him. although his relations
to Christ may be obscured by peculiar conditions
| as to elude our recognition"
MARY ANDERSON is to make her appearance in New
York in "Pygmalion and Galatea." When she last
played Ill that city much said about the marvellous
folds of her robes while appearing the animated
statue TIE secret of the whole thing her dress
maker art The drapery deftly and ingeniously
sewed to follow the lines of every limb and by this
means the clingng effect which reproduced certain
appearance of sculpture was produced.
| HENRY ULLIN of New Orleans creole family was
brisk bright young fellow when he disappeared from
that city twenty years ago. He has returned broken
down in health, but not in spirits In the time of his
absence he lieutenant in the navy inventor of
a machine for which he got $50 900 in Paris gam
be< who spent that money in year, fighter in the
French army in Mexico, builder of bridges for the
| Suez canal and now agent for De Lesseps in Pan
anna He thinks that few have more persistently
been alternately pauper and prodeal.
| MISSIONARY meetings, es conducted in Germany,
likely it would SEEM to conflict considerably with
our preconceived ideas to these assemblages. An
! American who recently attended meeting at Jena
thus describes t 1t was held in the upper room Of
beer-garden and the students who made up the ma
orty of the audience, drank flowing mugs of beer
they listened to the addresses They also made the
room thick with tobacco smoke that it was difficult
to read the hymn books Before the speakers began
their addresses they took copous draught of beer
and after they finished they lit their pipes and con-
| tentedly smoked during the exercises
| RUsKIN: Above ALL accustom yourselves to look for
and to love all nobeness of gesture and feature in the
human FORM and remember that the highest nobleness
| is usually among the aged, the poor and the infrm
You will find in the end that it is not the strong
of the soldier the laugh of the young beauty
chat the best studies for you. Look at them and
look at them reverenty; but be assured that endur-
ance is nobler than strength. and patience than
beauty; and that it is not in the high priced pews
where the gay dresses are, but in the church free
seats where the widows weeds are that you may see
the faces that will fit best between the angels wings
| in the church porch.
|
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