The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER says that, at Green
brier Springs, he was surprised to find that the most
beautiful ladies came not from the North or South,
but from the West"
WALT WHITMAN writes to his London friends as
follows: Fortunately I have a good, faithful young
Jersey woman and friend, Mary Davis, who cooks for
me and vigilantly sees to me-
A MONUMENT is to be erected to the memory of Col.
Drake. first discoverer of crude petroleum. The
Philadelphia News suggests that an oil can rampant
and a servant girl couchant would be an appropriate
device.
IT requires a great deal of labor to run a large vine,
yard. The proprietor of a raisin vineyard of 400 acres
at Fresno, Cal, employs a force of 100 men to pick
the grapes, and will require this large number for a
period of three months.
HINT from a reformed baggageman: People return
ing homeward from watering places and summer re-
sorts, if they want to get any good out of the straps
they bought to tie up fimsy trunks, will wisely soak
them in water for a day or So.
AREUNION Of the schoolmates of the poet Whittier
is said to be contemplated. Of the 100 pupils of the
old Haverhill Academy from 1927 to 1880, about
twenty-five or thirty are now living, and most of these
have expressed their wish for a meeting.
MRS. KELLEY, a retired English actress who held
many years a leading position on the English stage,
and was at one time manager of the Lyceum Theater,
never sat for q portrait until recently. She is eighty
one years old, and played as recently as 1878.
THERE has been a great deal of gossip at Berlin in
consequence of the Crown Prince having, for the first
time, deposited the whole of the family jewels, plate,
and other valuables in the vaults of the Imperial
Bank, before leaving Potsdam for Switzerland.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN was one day dining with a
party of friends, when one of them offered Mr.. Lin
coin some wine, and rather rudely tried to force it
upon him. Mr.. Lincoln bravely replied: Il have
lived fifty years without the use of Intoxicating liquors,
and l 90 not think it worth while to change my habits
now."
THE Charleston News and Courier has struck out a
new field for journalistic enterprise and philanthropy.
1t has arranged to supply persons of small means who
own their own houses and are unable TO obtain money
to repair them, with the necessary funds on mortgage
at d or z per cent. for a year, no charge being made
for examination of title.
WITH regard to the much-mentioned Rev. Mr..
Downs. of Boston, the cautious Courier of that city
will not venture upon an opinion as to his guilt or in
nocence, but unhesitateingly says: 'Of his intolera.
bly, ~vulgarity and execrable taste there can be no
question. He may be a ~maligned saint, but he is an
uncommonly noisy and disgusting cne."
LIEUTENANT THOMAS Fl. BARBOUR, first artillery.
who recently resigned from the army, was the second
o"oei III III ARMY, Ueh' w. D. I1arhey De-
ing the first in point of fortune. At the time of his
resignation Mr.. Barbour was aide -de-camp on General
Hancocks staff. Among Mr.. Barbour's belongings is
one of the finest sugar plantations in the island Of
Cuba.
MISS A. N. HOOPER, daughter of Mrs. Lucy
Hooper, returned from Paris on the Etruria. and is
making preparations to go out as leading lady of
BARLEY Campbells White Slave Company. Last
year she was a member of MIR. Days company, and,
while she had but a limited opportunity to display her
abilities, made a very favorable impression. She is a
young lady of rare intelligence and accomplishments
and her career on the stage will be watched with inter
est by many admirers.