The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-21
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found it to be plain Gov. Job.
DR.. ScHLIEMANN is still engaged in hunting for the
grave of Alexander the Great as he says the site
mains in doubt. but if he finds it he may be there
| will be no remains in sight
MRS. GLADSTONE has not resigned, at all events,
but announces that her receptions, teas and dinners
will continue all the same, and her hospitality will
be dispensed in the old Liberal way.
| THE unfinished statue of Salmon P. Chase, modelled
by the late Clark Mills in Washington has been sold
for its value old metal There several statues
in Central Park that would serve similar purpose ad
| mirably.
| SMOKE is peddled from house to house in Yuma,
Cal by Mexican boys. They carry weed known as
'hediondia in old tin cans, and for dime will burn
enough Of it in the house to drive away all the
| quitoes.
DIR. HOLMES. in the July installment Of the New
Portfolio" says good thing when he remarks that
procession of DR.. Johnsons paragraphs Sound as
II they ought to have grammatical drum-major to
march before their tramping platoons."
WHAT Professor James wishes to see at Harvard
IA complete system of self government by the stu
dents) has actually existed for many years in the
leading institution of learning in the South-he Uni
versity of Virginia." writes member of the faculty
| of that institution
ROSCOE CoNKLING contemplates making three
weeks trip to Carlsbad for the waters Since his re-
| tirement from public life, four years ago. the ex-
Senator has sacrificed his health to the exactons of
his profession His physician has advised him to take
absolute rest and to that end Mr.. Coning sailed for
| Europe yesterday.
OF the fourteen Confederates who sat in jeff Davis
Cabinet only five remain: r. M. T.. Hunter, just ap-
pointed collector at Rappahannock; John ii. Reagan
who it thought would enter Clevelands Cabinet;
Bob Toombs, who is blind and very near the grave,
and Messrs Il. III. Watts and George E. Davis, who
are practcing law at Montgomery. Ala and Whining
| ton, N. G.
THE father of Novelist Howells' father was a very
pious man. He had passed through severe illness,
and was not expected to live. The family had gath
cred around the bed, and the sick comforting
them with kind words. Everything in this world is
good, he said. There pause and then his son
broke the silence with Everything, father, but the
| Ohio Legislature, and that's Democratic"
ONE Of the peculiar incidents growing out of the
trial of Cluverus for the murder of Miss Madison
for of its meanings "key-chans." 1t will be re-
membered that the Cluverius was invariably
Clavers by the people from that section
of the country and that the finding of the watchke
was an important link in the chain of crcumstantia
evidence that led to his conviction.
MINISTER to Brazil Thomas J. Jarvis drove
market cart in Norfolk, Va, forty years ago. At the
| close OF the war, penniless and unknown, he was
practically wanderer in its streets, when German
clothier pressed suit of clothes on him. You are
| one OF the fellows that went to the wars, said the
tradesman; 'come and get suit, and pay me when
you get the money" "And," says the Governor, II
don't think he ever regretted letting me have that
| suit"
AN extraordinary of mistaken identity occurred
| in Paris last month. woman saw at the Morgue a
body which she thought she recognized the father
of girl working near her at perfumer's. The girl
recognized her father and his clothing ALSO and
swooned. Coming to, she fetched brother and two
sisters who all worked in Paris. They all signed the
formal declaration to identy. The body had been
found at Mendon, which their father often
worked The children started for Creteil his home
to learn when he had been last seen. Arriving there
they found him outside his door, and greatly amused
to learn that he had been found dead at the Morgue
THE Boston Saturday Evening Gazette tells this
story of the late Rev. Dr. Thomas Whittemore One
Sunday Messrs. Ruggles and Lucas his sons-inlayV
attended his church. DR.. Whittemore never used
notes, and on this occasion very dfuse. When
the sermon about half through, Ruggles pulled
| out his watch. Whttemore him and at once
stopped. Looking over the pulpit he said 'Young
man, you put that watch back for you cannot by
looking at it shorten my sermon one minute" One
can imagine the sensation in the audience and the
feeling of Ruggles and Lucas. Suffice it to say that
they afterward attended church when they knew
their reverend fatherin.aw was to hold forth.
WE aren indebted to Pompeii for our great industry
of canned fruits. Years ago, when the excavations
beginning, party of Americans found, in what
had been the pantry of house. many jars of pre-
served figs. One opened, and they were found to
be fresh and good. Investigation showed that the
figs had been put into jars in heated state an apert
being left for the steam to escape and then sealed
with The hint was taken, and soon after fruit
canning introduced here the process being denti
cal with that in vogue at Pompeii twenty centuries
| ago. There many ladies among us who can to-
matoes and peaches for domestic use, and do not
realize that they indebted for this art to the peo
| pie of Pompeii.
| THE fact is admitted by an interviewed Snowman
that the feats of beasts and children in the sawdust
ring are in the main, produced by torture From the
biggest elephant to the smallest girl on an equestrian
shoulders, compulsion under the fear of severe pun
ishment is the incentive. He remembers that man
had small boy in training a hurdle rider of
four ponies The act is familiar one as done with
fullsized horses by adult the performer standing
on the back of one animal, managing them all by
reins, and finally leaping. along with his own steed
| over the hurdles The youngster had an arduous
winter at the work, and finally mastered it through
his greater terror of the teacher than of the horseback
danger. Now, it is traditional usage among circus
people that smile must be the face of the per-
former. ballet girl without her characteristic grin
would be greater curiosity than equestrian who
| did not show his teeth along with his agility. But
! this child found it impossible to smile Instead,
distressful expression of fright into his face
That would not do, and he literally dubbed until
| he smiled
| AN Independence Beige correspondent describes
Pope Leo as working man but very ascetic; he
speaks little and laughs He rises early and is
probably the only European sovereign who does not
| take matutina bath. Then he celebrates mass in
| his private chape-a duty which occupies barely