The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-22
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE benefactions of the Packer family in the Lee
high valley and very costly. The resi-,
dence of the late Robert A. Packer worth 5000 600
has now been turned into public hospital.
II AM sorry TO admit that many of the women who
thus attempt to improve upon their Masters design
protesting Christians, says female correspond
ent of the Baltimore SUM- opposed to the wearing of
bustles.
In recent lecture delivered at Salt Lake City Beva
Lockwood gave it her opinion that it was all we'll
enough for the milk and class of women to get
married. but that the sterner members of the sex
should never entertain the idea. All the men in this
country will agree with her there.
THE Duke Alexander, of Wurtemberg now dead,
cavalry general in the Austrian army, but
he did not distinguish himself in that capacity. After
his retirement from the service he devoted most of his
mind and time to the construction of hobby horses
and carrouses for the instruction of youths in equs
trianisn, in which he notably proficient.
Miss ADELE FIELD, in communication made to
the Academy of Natural Science, of Philadelphia re-
ports that the earth worm after its head has
been cut Off has the power of regenerating the whole
of the dismembered portion She recounts her expert
ments with such minutenesss of detail seems to
show that error in her conclusions impossible.
A GIRL at Harvard, Miss Brown of the Annex, has
led the entire college in all its departments. She
passed the examinations to enter equal footing
with her brothers. has taken instructions from the
professors though separate recitations. and
heads them all in rank. She cannot take diploma
but she have certificate of testimony of what she
has done.
THEY believe in the oldfashoned Fourth of July in
Bismarck, D. T. An orator of that town thus deliv-
cred himself independence Day: Ladies and
gentlemen, while scanning the checkered past with
eyes of patriotic fire, and looking through the veil
which hangs like a drapery of eternity between the
oblivion of ages and the bright prsmatic splendor Of
brilliant and transcendental present. should not
let slip from the peary chambers OF mernorys shining
temple the grave and solemn truth that eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty"
Miss CLEVELAND is in trouble about that portrait
which she would not allow her publishers to put in
her book She allowed Mrs. Laura G. Holloway to
have steel engravngs made for use in her book The
Ladies Of the White House, and finds that these
engravings being sold separately, neatly framed
and with inscription stating that they autho-
rzed by Miss Cleveland and issued by Mrs. Holloway.
She is in New York, incog, trying to stop this Mr..
Fay, of 1O4 Broadway, will have her countenance
in his unrivaed collection if she isn't quick about it.
THE late Dr. Prime was of medium height, slightly
bald his side whiskers being tinged with gray. His
face beamed with intelligence and amiabilty He had
an unusually genial, cheerful disposition, and his
unassuming until called to defend some
principle advocate in which he was in
terested when he bold any of his associates
in public life He fond of social life and his fund
of anecdotes and personal "reminiscences made him a
great favorite among his friends. His memory was
carefully trained and he recalled without effort Incl
dents which happened many years ago.
THE cave out of which Israel Putnam dragged the
wolf is seldom visited because it is in stony mount
ainous forest, in a remote corner of Connecticut A
picnic party recently made the tedious trip which
! involved several miles of rough walking There are
pictures in primers of Putnam entering the cave
erect, with blazing torch held above his head The
hole is really small that it only be explored on
hands and knees and adult cannot turn around in
it, The length is 800 feet and tradition says that the
hero followed the beast to the further end shot him
between the eyes by their own glow, and then was
drawn out with him by means of rope
THE Hon. John S. Wise, of Virginia began his po-
ltical early in life, but not early did his
famous father who, when he presented him self at the
bar of the House of Representatives to be in
member, mistaken by the Speaker for a page.
| The elder WISE says Philadelphia Times writer
was tall, nervous, skinny man, weighing about one
hundred and thirty pounds with large gray and deep
set eyes, prominent nose and thick lips. He an
excessive chewer of tobacco and was never without
| cud in his mouth. He was not an ardent lover of
slavery, and always believed it to be a curse and a
stumbling block in the way of progress"
MARK TWAIN has written a letter in which he as.
serts that his children we'll behaved well governed
and companionably charmngi and he refers to Mrs.
| Harriet Beecher Stowe Charles Dudley Warner and
| his other Hartford neighbors as witnesses He at
tributes this goodness to his wifes training He en-
phasizes the point in her discipline that promise
broken to the youngsters. whether it involves whip
ping or a picnic. In administering corporal punish.
ment she invariably lets few hours elapse between
the sentence and the execution that no anger on
her part shall enter into the mater; and he afirms
that the cbd never goes away from the Of tor
ture until it has been loved back into happy hearted
ness and joyful spirit.
ANOTHER story of General Logan is Oh its rounds
told by Chicago gentleman. 1t is of an occurrence
toward the close of the war when the General was in
| Chicago. He had gone to the depot with two OF
three of his staff to take the train to join his com
mand He carrisi sword on his arm a new one
wrapped in the usual cloth cover. The General
slightly advance of the Others stepped on the plat