The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-31
MINOR MENTION.

No man. it is sad can be hero to his valet,
but this, like all rules, has it's exceptions. Mem
bers of the Plymouth Church congregation are
not literally Mr.. Beechers body servants, but the
relations between themselves and their pastor
seem to be of an equally confidential nature.
Some giddy persons at the Thursday evening
prayer meeting noticed that Mr. Beecher had
hole in the left leg of his trousers. Observing
their subdued hilarity, the great and good ex-
FOUNDER of the evolution theory begged
to be allowed to inform the congregation
that his pantaloons were new. eff they
were DID," he observed, ''and l couldn't afford
new ones should be dreadfully ashamed. AS it
is am not; but my wife is In making call,
this afternoon, my leg came in contact with a
barrel, and it had nail in it; hence the tear.
tried to close it up with pin, but it dropped
out" Having thus explained the condition of
his wardrobe. the Plymouth pastor proceeded,
with the ease Of frog jumping off a chunk, to
draw moral lesson from the incident. $50 it
is with our SINS" he said. 'We can't pin them
up. The pin will drop out and disclose the bare
spot" That the Plymouth brethren saw moth
ing undignifed about this, but regarded
these dressing room secrets, with flavor of cheap
piety added, as fresh demonstration of their
pastors originality AID genius, is indicated by
the fact that they refused to regard them as
strictly confidential, and for Brooklyn delecta-
ton only, but telegraphed them far and wide to
be published as news" by papers with limit
ed comprehension of the wants of a community.
A dissertation on pants may satisfy the
worshipers in Brooklyn prayer meeting but
Western people prefer different sort of religious
pabulum.
A VERMONT paper having made the supposed
discovery that Mr. Howells's female characters
are portraits of his wife's sisters and cousins,
and aunts, of whom there seem to be great num-
bers, the Boston Advertiser goes to the trouble
of denying the story, and says his heroines are
not portraits but original delineations. The mat
ter is hardly worth getting up
quarrel over. Every one who
has read Mr. Howells's novels knows that the
women in one story could be substituted for
those in another without disturbing the literary
least. Whether they are pictures of his wife's
relatives or of his own, or are evolved from his
own brain, the likeness among them all is very
striking. In fact, there are only two styles of
girls in the entire series, and these two resemble
each other closely enough to pass for twins
THE heroworshipers of New York who have
done so much for unfortunate Gustav Fleischer
who sought to commit suicide in order to escape
the duty he owed his family, have now among
them man upon whom they might, with good
reason, bestow their bounty. He is only truck
man, and his wife and baby live on the fifth
floor back of tenement house. He is an hon
est man and poor one, dependent upon his
daily labor for his food. but he asks no I'M
earned fayors. and is sturdy, thoroughly roll
able fellow. In q burning block, the other
day. he ran up crumbling stairways,
through all the floors, rousing the
inmates and getting them out. On
the topmost floor he found a woman dazed
with the horror of her surroundings and unable,
through fear, to save herself. Acy Gardner 1.-THE
hero's namel seized her in his arms and safely