The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

| ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
| YALE professors own over $500, 900 worth of real
estate in New Haven.
| Mr.. AND Mrs. LANGTRY have been invited by the
| Queen to attend state bail at Windsor Palace.
THE latest temperance gossip is to the effect
| that Francis Murphy who is in Pittsburg, will
marry again.
| JOAQUIN MILLER is said to be aspirant to a
consulship. He to be welcome visitor at the
| White House.
| THE Republican postmistress at Napoleon, Mich,
| has married the Democrat whom she expected to be
| appointed her successor
R. B. HAYES. refusing an office to relative wrote
mo man connected with by blood marriage has
received any appointment at my hands,"
| COMMISSIONER BLACK has received q letter from
lady who says she has fallen heir to fortune, and
does not think it right to contnne to draw her pen
| sion.
| SENATOR LOGAN, whose health was much tried by
the long contest in the Illinois Legislature will seek
rest and quiet for the next three months in the She
nandoah valley.
| DIR. ZINTGRAFF, of Bonn, has taken photograph
with him to Africa He intends to bring home
phonograms of the savage dialects which he will hire
the natives to speak into the machine.
| NEW YORK World: The venerable Harrison is now
successfully operating revival in Louisville, KY,
gathering grain in the same field where as the boy
Preacher" he sowed seed seventy years ago.
THERE was an old man pretty tough
Who was broke all up by cough;
He fell in the Slough
Of Despond just though
He thought he should never get through.
ROSCOE CoNKLING is growing quite stout. While
crossing the City Hall park, several days ago. he is
said to have dropped silver dollar which he had to
q how rs Mo HI ne
get down himself.
THE Philadelphia Times has been taking census
of the religious opinions of the lawyers of that city,
and finds that of the 500 members of the bar there
ninetenths are either church members have we'll
defined church affiliations.
NINE. PATTI has written TO London that she will
sing in that city in June, provided there then
sings Of cholera there at the time she wisely surmis
ing that Patti and cholera at would be too much,
for the mighty metropolis.
THE poet Whittier once lent volume of Plato to
one of the neighboring farmers, and when the book
was returned, asked well, friend how did thee
like my friend Plateg 'Frst rate said the farmer;
Il see he's got some of my IDEAS
Miss MAY KING (Kin YameD graduated at the Wo-
mans Medical College of the New York Infrmary, Fri.
day. She is the first Chinese ever granted de-
gree of NJ D. in this country She is the adopted daugh
ter of Dr. King, who for many years missionary
| in China.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago Times makes
the statement that the Oldest soldier in the United
States army is Ordnance Sergeant vii liam Gaines of
Wilson. Kan who retired by special act of
Congress. He enlisted in 1915, and served con-
tnuously until 1880.
M. PAUL DE CAssAGNAC has retired from the polit-
zeal dictatorship of the Paris Pays that journal
has become the property of member of the Jeromst
section of Imperialists with whom N. do Cassagnac
cannot agree. For the future NJ de Cassagnac will
devote his journalistic activity to the Matin.
In the revised version of the Old Testament occurs
one change Qevticus xviii 1877 upon which, in Great
Britain much reliance has been placed in respect to
marriage with deceased wife's sister:
| Ole Version. New Version.
take wife to her sister, take woman to her sist
to her, to her to be rival to her, to
nakedness beside the 9th her beside
| er in her lifetime. the other in her lifetime.
| GERONIMO, the Apache Chief who is leading the
band of murderers in the Northwest, has had STIR
ring career He was a war chief with the famous
Cachse, was great Mexican raider, and later was
leader in Victories band of murderers He has been
| prominent in more raids and massacres probably
| than any other Indian living. He owns a farm near
San Carlos but could not endure peace He is an ex-
cessively bad Indian.
| ABOUT quarter CT mile from the Seaside House,
and about sixteen miles from Astoria, Ore, there is
deposit of clamshells which is probably the largest
of the kind in the United States The shells cover an
of four acres and in places ten feet in
/ depth. Over one Thousand loads have been hauled
4 away to make roads, with scarcely a perceptible
| diminution of the immense deposit. From time to
time relics of the old clam eating tribes that made
that place their headquarters found. party re-
| Gently found clam-opener. 1t was made from
whales TOOTH is about eight inches long and is ground
sharp at the end There some sixteen feet of soil
| top of these clam beds, which grow fir trees
| some of them 400 wears old