The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-22
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

con, no; he doesn't amount to much" said young
lady, referring to a rather effeminate youth. why
he actually wears ear-mufs!"
IT is announced that the able and conscientious
Mahdi pay off his troops with scrupulous regularity
every Friday and meanwhile the British Nation is
anxously waiting FOR Wolseley to pay off the Mahd
GENERAL BooTH Of the Salvation Army, calls upon
his English admirers for another "loan," promising
100 per cent interest be paid he puts it. in in
stallments of - per cent in this world and % per
cent in salvation which brings the actual interest
down to legal rates.
On the 10th of March 1897 Thomas jefferson paid
the of five cents for seeing an elephant. 1t is
commonly understood that in these degenerate days it
costs much than five cents to the 'ec-
plant" Oh for return of "Jeffcrsonian simple
ityr
FROM the French. They are discussing motemp-
sychosis in a drawing room. IT. said witty
young man remember that way back in the
days of Moses and Aaron I was the golden calf.
Since then have been changed -" Yes said
lady time has worn off the gliding"
r. H. SToDDARD calls Miss Edith NJ Thomas an
American Keats Her song" he says. 'like his, is
mesh of sweet growths, an arbor over which vines
are luxurianty traing-a little HILL upon which her
genius is standing tip-too and futtering its wings
She has the greatest gift that any poet can have
quality"
A VERY old man, Abraham True died in Kankakee
yesterday aged ninety eight. He was native of
Maine pioneer at Lawrenceburg. Ind; in
1920 came 20 the present site of Kankakee in 1886
built the first house tho present site of Kankakee
and kept for many years halfway house. remem.
bered by all oldtimers the Indiana. Illinois, and
Iowa thoroughfare OF trail, In 1858 he sold 5000
weight of fish he caught
WISH, says the San Francisco News Letter some
one would suggest some way by which Eastern people
who have made brief visit to us could be informed
formed for good that one here ever dreams of
using the word Frisco" We are fond of nick names
of pet names and of chummy cuss words but we have
been familiar with the name CT our city 1t is
the surest test of persons alienship when he filings
at us, as grateful compliment the word Frisco.
THERE vacant three Carriers says the Lon
don Truth of which has been on hand for nine
months unprecedented period to keep such a dis
tinction dangling The insignia of deceased knight
is returned by his representative to the Queen who
usually grants special audience for the purpose
The costly state robes go to the Dean Of Windsor
who gets them his perquises he being registrar of
the order which is lucrative post if the knights hap
pen to die off fast TIE Duke Of Abercon is now the
senior Garter.
THE intermcnt alive OF Miss Cox, of Okonoko w
Va, relates the Cumberland Times recalls to mind
the curious custom pFactced by old Virginia fam
ily the Fendals Of Alexandria. Whenever member
of the family dies the male of the
branch thereof just before the hour for interment
buries dagger in the heart of the dead assure him
self of reawakening The dagger used is one sacred
to the purpose and has been devoted to its use for
many generations. The custom originated because of
the burial alive of member of the family and an in
herited tendency to peculiar form of heart disease
Mr.. GOODWIN SMITH, in severe notice of Car
lyle's Life, expresses himself in this WISE when
man, being in diseased and highly irritable condi.
ton, believes the whole world, himself and his own
little circle of admirers excepted TO be moral polit-
ical social and economical Gehenna the world being
in fact nothing of the sort the theories of life and
government founded that belief likely to afford
guidance to maakinds On Carlyles transcendent
excellence as paiatsr Of historical scenes and as