The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-22
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

COLONEL HIGGINsoN is to write the life of Mrs.
Helen jackson.
CAPT CHARLES CLARK, one of the Atlantic City
life guards has, during the season, rescued $50 per-
sons from drowning
VICTOR HUGos most famous works were written
after he was sixty years old. AT eighty he still
able to maintain his standard of excellence.
PROFESSOR JOHN DICKINSON, brother of Anna
Dickinson, is going to take the chair lately filled 10y
Professor Wheeler in the Lawrence Kan, University.
BOSTON Traveller: Il was poor man once" re-
marked General Fremont to the late Sheriff Merritt
who served writ on him at Nahant. 'but now owe
millions
Mr.. STURGEON has at length completed THE
Treasury of David, which he commenced to write
twentyone years ago. He has also in the press new
work entitled Storm Signals"
ATTORNEY-GENERAL GARLAND's summer home,
Hominy Hills, is equestered nook in the dense
forests the banks of the Arkansas river. The
house is log cabin containing only room and
scarcely any furniture.
The best paved street in Providence, r. L. is in
good condition to-day after five years wear and tear
"a pavement of granite blocks laid in concrete the
joints filed with mixture of pea gravel and asphalt
1t cost So. % per yard
ROBERT BROWNING, the English poet, though now
seventy three years DID, insists that he is coming to
the United States of not to lecture but he is
inwardly consumed by burning desire to see the
Yosemite before he dies.
THE American Architect offers three prizes of $50
each for preliminary sketches for Grant monument
to cost 100000 and to be placed il large town.
The pencil only is to be used, and perspective or
elevation should be added to the plan--the signature
to be motto corresponding to sealed envelope, with
the designers name inside.
THE Chicago Tribune thinks that many lives might
be saved if young of riaGeable age
furnished deadly weapons and taught how to
them in sef-defense. When young man whose
attentions Objectionable began to betray symp-
toms of making offer of marriage the young lady
could draw her revolver, and they say in Texas,
''get the drop him."
THE following sample verses of Longfellow'g
psalm of Life" are given in French almanac:
Speak not to in desolate rhymes:
Life is reverie, without sense, because
The soul is dead when she sleeps, and
Things are not what they appear to us.
Life is real. Life is serious death
Is not its termination. Dust, thou
Returnest unto dust" The word has
Not been said for our SOUL
MR. G. w. GABLE writes TO Colonel Higgnson: E'I
have thoroughly studied the subject of female
suffrage, but must say have argu-
ment against it that not fmsy. Men much
disposed to exaggerate the difficulties of voting intel
lgently when they talk of women voting. By the
time public question is ready for the popular vote
it has become very simple question, that requires
little than honesty and common to vote
upon it. If mothers are not fit to vote, they
ought to stop bearing sons"
A FRENCH savant M. Garaud has just published
book which processes settle the vexed question OF
pronunciation of Latin by the ancient Romans: He
says "The patois of Painters, in the department OF
Arege, is nothing less than Latin exiled the bor-
ders of Arege. 1t has been brought there with its
original pronunciation and accentuaton. Without
the aid of any book the has sufced to preserve
it's first form and intonaon after eighteen centuries
The most delicate infections of the voice have
been kept Thanks to the instinct OF harmony and
the love of sorority, Latin pronunciation has been
exactly transmitted to u.s."
Mr.. w S. GILBERT writing to the London Times
recently. said: For my part, never could quite
understand the prejudice against burglars. An un.
arrested burglar gives employment to innumerable
telegraph clerks police officers railway officials, and
possibly also to surgeons coroners undertakers and
monumental masons. AS as he is in custody the
services of whole army Of solicitors, barristers,
judges grand and petty urymen reporters governors
of als and prison warders called into requisiton
Really the burglar does more good than harm" And
then he fairly Rugged himself with gee to find that
half the newspapers took him to be in sober