The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-04

jrnges Of Africa" he was chained to the floor and
the police interfered the supposition that he
maltreated idiot The remoTal Of his false hair and
beard revealed perfectly sane negro. The magis-
trate said that Williams could exhibit himself as
wild man any other kind Of man as long as he
hurt no one.
JOHN HABRERToS, the author of 'Helen's Babies"
is OF slight build and rather shorter than the ordinary
individual in stature. He wears slight brack mus
tache and his jet curly locks rather long His eye
is mild and yet has snap about it, AS edit of the
New York Telegram he sits at a rough specimen of
desk, on which is a promiscuous mass of odds and
ends from the relic of wrecked train of cars to .
piece of antique bronze which answers for paper
weight
BEVERLY TUCKER has novel scheme on hand. He
says he hates crowd and wants to avoid the naugu-
ration hubbub. i've decided he says, ito take tho
train for New York the Sd. shall have car all
TO myself-trave like prince at the ordinary faro,
because everybody will be going the other way. TN
spend the 4th in New York, and have decent dinner
with my friend Cranston, at the New York Hotel,
which is more than anybody win get in Washington.
Then III take the train back on the 5th and have
car all to myself again"
In his last word about America, In the Nineteenth
Century Matthew Arnold ridicules Sir Lepel Grifins
oughly suited to their institutions. He thinks we
have solved both the political and the social problems
He believes that English society only be reformed
by aboishing the aristocracy and describes himself in
conclusion, as bound to America by the memory OF
great, untiring and most attaching kindness. So the
smartest man in England has good word for the
people he expects to lecture to next year.
THE report that Miss Louisa NJ Alcott Is seriously
i'll is entirely without foundation says the BostoR
Transcript, and has caused Miss Alcott much annoy.
ance. She is spending the winter in Boston, and 10
perfectly we'll with the slight exception of touch OF
writer's cramp in the right and hand, to whch
fact is due the long delay in the appearance
of her next book, a sequel 10 Little Men," Miss
Aleott says that this cramp brought by reply
ing to the many hundreds of requests for autographs
she has received and she is now obliged TO make it
rule never to reply for they in such numbers as
greatly to inconvenience her.
WHY not make the biographical department of the
Congressional Directory a thing of interest and .
show foreverf The annual of the Connecticut Legis.
ature sets the examples thus under the of Rep
resentative Lee of Merden is this delightful bit Of
notwithstanding Lee, William Wallace-radical
Republican believing in equal burdens equal rights
equal duties and protection. In religion is sinner
and hereto; his kind can be found in James l., 27.
Is tool-maker, aged ffty-seven years. Born in
Barkhamsted and educated in the old red school house,
Took his degree in seminary the Turks river ia
Pleasant valley It was operated by his father and
had a water-wheel underneath Enlisted in the war,
but was rejected account of broken arm: served
his country however in aiding his brothers orphaned
children. Has been fireman, mason, constable justice
of the peace and alderman but during all his office
holding has always allowed his family to associate
with the neighbors common plane Of equality.
Never much of hero, because he couldn't be- and is
greasy mechanic. but considers himself just
full member of society as if he had been a cnlege
graduate"