The Indianapolis journal., 1885-05-21
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

NINE DE LEssEPs married in 1869, paraded her
twelve children on the occasion of her Ferdinands
induction into tho ranks of the Immortals.
VERSE sweetens toll however rude the sound
She feels no biting pang the while she sings;
Till stern the editor his chair turns round
And in the basket all her singing fings
MRS. SARAH B. COOPER, cousin Of Mr.. Robert
Ingerso has been for thirty years one of the fore
most contributors to the religious press on the Pacific
coast.
EDMUND HUDSON, the well-known Washington cor
respondent and editor, will prepare and publish
little volume in mem ory Of his late wife Mary Glenn
mer Hudson.
THE Rev. DR.. J. M. Cramer, who will shortly give
up his post as United States minister to Switzerland
has just been called the chair of systematic theol
ogy in the Boston University.
A vAssAR maiden met man
Who never learned paradigm,
But he was rich and drove span.
And she shook Greek and married him.
Washington Star.
wv. HOWELL, of Washington, treasurer of the
decoration committee of the late Inauguration cere
mony, reports an unexpended balance of $29.19,
which he handed to the Garfield memorial hospital
fund.
REFORMED drunkard offers the following recipe
as an infaible for the liquor habit Sulphate of
iron; grains; magnesia. 10 grains; peppermint
water IL drachms; spirit of nutmeg drachm This
forms one draught Two draughts to be taken each
day.
The Methodist Episcopal Church in this country
maintains nine theological senaries whose property
and endowments amount to nearly two million dollars,
and fifty colleges of various grades having valuation
of $40 OOO,O 1t also sustains iftytwo classical
seminaries, and twenty-seven colleges for women
THE Advent mania is intermittent. The year 1000
was almost universally expected to be the final con-
summation of all things. The Mlerite excitement of
1843 was the most extensive agitation of the matter
ever experienced in this country, though the time
has been set with confidence at various periods since
ARCHIBALD FORBES has found it necessary to de-
fend General Wolseley. In recent magazine article
he says that there have been but two heaven born
soldiers in the last thirty years These were Sheri
dan and the Russian Skobeloff. To Lee, Grant and
Sherman he gives the grade Of Exceptionally able
soldiers"
Col. MATTHEW s. QUAY is the owner of the site of
Fort Mcintosh the furthest American outpost among
the Indians during the revolutionary war; situated in
comm anding position the bank of the Ohio river
at Beaver. The old picket beat whereon the sentry
made his rounds is yet well defined and along this Mr.
Quay has planted forty shade trees.
GILBERT w. BOVINE died in Brooklyn thirty.
two years ago. leaving estate valued at 81 500,
OOO to be divided between three heirs by two trus
tees. It has been in the courts ever since and
all Of the heirs, two of the lawyers and one of the
trustees are dead, the surviving trustee being more
than ninety years of age. An English Chancery
Court could hardly have done better
INSTEAD of having lights streaming from the dia-
dem Of the Bartholdi figure, first proposed it
is now proposed to have electric lights placed with
strong reec tors around the foot of the statue cast
ng very strong light upon it. and thus giving the