The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-27
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

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them, and only ten who can read or write.
MUSEUM managers are Offering alluring inducements
to a Wisconsin girl to exhibit the horns which are
concealed by a careful arrangement of her hair. This,
considering her sex, is a very rare ornament.
DIR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES will celebrate his
seventy-sixth birthday next Saturday, but he will be
by far the youngest of the many old boys who will as
semble to project the centuries at that celebration.
PUNxSUTAwNEY Tribune: Frank J. Black, the gen
ial and brilliant young journalist who writes about
medieval theology and other little things, made us a
very pleasant call last evening. We were not in at the
time.
THE Southern papers are angrily showing that Lord
Vane, recently deceased in England, was not the Con-
federate cavalryman, j. E.. B. Stuart, as his assumed
name was Stewart, and he served in the Union army
as a colonel.
1T is said that a meeting of the shoe dealers will be
held shortly to invent and popularize some new sort of
outdoor muscular insanity. Lawn tennis is on the
decline and stocks of yellow canvas and leather Shoes
cannot be disposed of.
WALT WHITMAN's receipt from his Philadelphia
publisher, Mckay, of only $22 az half of his annual
royalty, would seem to show that in the past six
months what has been said about Walt Whitman's
| poems considerably exceeds the current sales of the
same.
1Oh Ab1 hAC OoIOg GoNo iONhAOS ~s
dear wife was my constant friend, companion and adj
wiser. We travelled four continents of the world to-
gether, and visited many islands of the seas. Now she
is waiting for me, with the same sweet faith she 50
| we'll illustrated here"
A SAVINGS bank in Portland, Ore, has a twenty
dollar gold piece which was taken from the stomach
of a slaughtered COW, and found to be worth $16.25.
The milling is worn off the edge, which is smooth and
rounded, but the designs upon the sides remain visi-
BILE. The date of the coin is 1870, but how long the
COW had been digesting the SIS. rs no one can tell.
THE Lowell Citizen suggests as an idea for the Grant
monument fund that a national collection be made
solely Of twenty-cent and three cent coins. Melted
together, they would furnish the metal for a colossal
statue of great intrinsic value, while the people would
be glad to contribute all in their possession, and thus
accomplish the permanent retirement of the numis-
matte nuisance.
MANY of the New York admirers and friends of the
late Mrs. Helen Fl. Jackson are of the opinion that a
biography Of her should be prepared which, with her
letters and remembered conversations, would, they
say, better represent her mind and nature than all of
her published writings. They rank her as the most
gifted literary woman America has produced, and are
convinced that she deserves a personal record. They
think of proposing to Thomas Wentworth Higginson,
who was her intimate friend, to undertake the work.
ELLEN TERRY is once more declared to be full of
determination to recross the Atlantic with a company
of her own. Having vainly urged Henry Irving to
make another tour of this country, she is thought to
be vexed with his obstinacy, and inclined to punish
him therfor. Her intiEates say she is so whimsical
and changeable that no one knows, nor does she know
herself, one week what she will do the next. She
always speaks of Americans in terms of glowing
enthusiasm, calling them the most generous, chival-
rous and appreciative of all nations.
IT is just fifty years ago that the construction of
the first French railroad, that from Paris to st. Ger.
main, was officially sanctioned. The late Emil Pereire
undertook to make this line at his own expense. 1t
had taken nearly three years to obtain the consent of
the authorities, the contention of Theirs being that
railroads could never be moro than mere toys, while
Arazo also doubted their utility. The financial diff
culties were also great, and only surmounted when
the Rothschilds and Daviliers were won over. The
road was opened in 1887, and became the nucleus of
the Western system.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND is a plain, blunt
man and has little respect for the conventionalities of
life. He says that he never wore a dress coat and
never will wear one. General Cabell, of Texas, in
speaking of him, said the other day: Mr.. Cleveland
will have a hard job in persuading Garland to attend
swell receptions or sit for hours at a state dinner.
The Attorney general thinks too much Of his own
comfort to put up with such ceremonies. He told me
that one of the conditions under which he accepted
his place in the Cabinet was that none of the restraints
of Washington society should be placed on him."
In the Revised Bible, published at Oxford, only
three printers errors have yet been discovered in all
the editions. In the pearl 16mo edition there is an
error in Ezekiel, xviii, 20, where an 'e' is left out of
righteous, and the word is printed righteous In
the parallel 8vo edition there are two mistakes. In
| Psalms, vii, ID, Shafts appear instead of Shafts"
! and in Amos, v, Pa, in the margin, ''overfowing"
should be 'everfowing." The usual guinea will be
| paid to any person discovering a printers error in the
| book and pointing it out to the Controller of the Press
before any other discoverer.
APR1vATE London letter says that Canon Farrar
designs his lecture on Robert Browning particularly
for Boston, where the poet, whom he regards as next
to Shakespeare in imagination and knowledge of human
nature, has, he hears, more sympathetic students and
| genuine lovers than in all the other American cities
combined. The same correspondent says that Brown.
ing is again talking of a visit to the United States,
notwithstanding his seventy-three years. He is
reported to be very anxious to see Boston, Harvard
Collage, Niagara and the Yosemite, and may sail
after he has finished a new poem on which he is now
at work.
ANY one who has ever visited Kingston, Canada.
will recall the round towers which form a part of its
extensive Notifications. These, it is supposed, were
copied from the similar structures on the coast of Ire
land, which are about to be demolished. The Irish
towers were built at the time when Lord CORVALLIS
was Viceroy of Ireland, at the suggestion of the Duke
of Richmond who had heard that the town of Mar
tello, in Corsica, had by means of similar defenses
successfully resisted the attack Of a feet. This same
Duke of Richmond afterward became Governors gen.
eral of Canada, and it was during his career there that
these Martello towers were built for Kingston, then
the capital of the united provinces of Upper and
Lower Canada His death occurred in 1919 from
hydrophobia, produced by the bite of a fox.
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