The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-07
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Brethren of the Charterhouse. He has just com.
pieted drama which Mr.. Tooe is to read
IN must be expensive living
For the angels up in the sky
For we all know, both saint and sinner
mat a rent in a cloud is high.
Boston Budget.
CANON FARRAR iustifes, in one way at least, his
reputation as public speaker: He enuncates clearly
and distinctly though he makes pretense of elocu-
tionary effort He has, in fact, all the charm Of
good reader.
SECRETARY WHITNEY does not intend to use his
country place. FIVE miles from Washington. as regu
lar residence He has had it fixed up more as place
for occasional visit and it for entertaining his
friends who drive with him.
The largest, and probably the Oldest 6gtree in thu
world standing in the garden of the Capuchin Monas
terry at Roscof, is about to be Sold 1t was planted
in 1921. Its branches cover space of asa square
meters, sufficient to shelter 200 persons.
REV DIR. MoCosH. whose gray hairs about to
be brought in to the grave by the Princeton
boys has smiled of times when told that the
secret and sepulchral midnight password of the stu
dents Jimmie McCosh, by Gosh'
MAJ. DANIEL SIMPSON, has been drummer for the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston.
for sixty.six years Last week he celebrated the
ninety-ffth anniversary of his birth. He has drum
that was beat at the battle of Bunker Hill.
SON of the Duke of Westminster is not the only
English aristocrat who owns hansoms that used
by the public daily in London. His horses of fine
stock and the cabs contain the latest improvements
lamp to read by at night, place for umbrella.
looking glass, and many other conveniences.
THE Duke of Newcastle it is reported. has Joined
the Roman Catholic Church The conversion occurred
some time ago, it is said, but the avowal post
poned until the young Duke attained his majority.
This conversion has caused much annoyance in Esab
lished Church circles The Duke has great influence
and has an income of 5000 900 year.
IT is said of Vice president Hamln that during his
long public the venerable ex-senator has been
from Maine TO Washington and return one hundred
times more, has visited every State in the Union
but Oregon and has crossed the Atlantic and passed
some time in Spain, and yet in all his travels he
rode train boat when accident occurred.
he always arrived at his destination on time.
THE manager of circus that has gone through
Canada, says: Nowhere else in the world are
audiences interesting to the performers. In
Quebec, Montreal, Hamilton and London notable
fugitives from United States law-such as Emo,
Mother Mandelbaum, and suppose not less than fifty
| more-are pointed out to the ringpeople by some
resident person. These exies to go to the
circus to relieve the tedium of life in their uncon-
| genial cities; and they are interesting TO showmen,
l
| cans"
BARoNET WARD, cousin to the Earle of Rosebery,
has raised in the Court of Chancery claim to the
estates of the Earl of Norfolk, worth go 500. 900.
and to the title of Earl He bases his claim partly ON
missing document supposed to have been placed in
the coffin of the last Earl and buried with him in the
family vault at Bexley Hall. The claimant has APP
piled to Sir Richard A. Cross. Home Secretary for
permission to open the coffin, and pending to
this petition. has locked up all to Bexley
Hall. He is engaged to marry Alice Millais daughter
| of the artist.
| Dr.. JOHN SwINBURNE sent letter 60 the work.
ingmens meeting at Troy, containing this paragraph:
81 cannot refrain from suggesting that the laborers
and artisans who the producers should act wisely
in the approaching election cast their where
they will count most for the benefit of the State and
| the Nation at large Itdoes seem to me that it will be
hard for any citizen believing in the protection OF
American labor to reconcile his actions and profess
sions if he be found acting with the party Of free
trade which is attempting TO degrade white labor
even as they fought to enslave black human aborers
| in the past"
BILL NYE has written a letter of coincidence and
sympathy to Postmaster Villas in regard to the
newspaper portraits of the latter. He says:
While have not the pleasure of being member Of
your party, having belonged to what is sneerngly
alluded to as the e o. D. / can not refrain from ex-
pressing my sympathy at this time. Though we may
have differed heretofore upon important questions OF
political economy, can not exult these Portraits
Others may goat these efforts to iniure you but
/ do not l am not much of gloater, anyhow.
leave those to g,oat who in the gloat business
STILL it is of the drawbacks incident to greatness.
We struggle hard through life that may win the
confidence of fellow-men, only at last TO have
pictures of ourselves printed and distributed whera
| they will injure u.s."
| TT is more than q quarter of q century since Jay
Gould tasted whisky if the Albany Evening journal
is right, and the first drink the last In the days
when he was surveyor in small way and was map
ping county on the practical plan of getting lodg
ngs and meals of the farmers in exchange for mark.
ing correct sun-dias their door-steps. he became
tired one hot dusty afternoon. lie to country
tavern. In his pocket was a Scent piece. It sud
denly struck him that, az a medicine to relieve
fantness he ought to buy glass of whisky with the
half dime II ignorant of bar usage" he Ia
quoted saying. land so, when glass and botss
were set before me, filed the tumbler chock full
The bartender made protest, and swallowed the
big horn Then went my way, trundling my wheel
barrow-lke of distances and occasionally
taking the bearings with a sextant Never in my life
had my work gone off half 80 blithesomely and for a
while thought l was making map of the starry
heavens instead of very dusty portion of this
dane sphere After an hour or more of exaltation /
grew sleepy and took long nap under tree in field.
I awoke with awful headache, and found that the
figures entered in my notebook during the time Of
extra steam were quite incoherent was fully con-
vinced that whisky bad surveyor and havs
never tried it for any other purpose"
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