The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-27
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ABOUT PEUPLE AND THlNUO.
THE number Of selfmade railway magnates in this
country is 225.
Four dollars a week is the amount earned by good
mechanic in Holland.
HAwKERs of cheap literature in country ~neighbor-
hoods are selling a small biography of General Grant
for the new autobiography finished during his distress
ing illness.
DAVID SWING. says that putting an eggin coffee to
make it clear is still an active h~umbug. Although the
nineteenth century Is nearing It's close, its blaze has
not yet shined into the coffee-pot."
Miss ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS has in the press
of Houghton, Mifiin s. Co. a new book describing
summer life in a seaside town of Massachusetts 1t is
to be entitled "An Old Maids Paradise"
Col. A. F. ROCKWELL, now on duty at st. Paul, is
a Shakespeare scholar in a small way, and has spent
some time in reckoning that Shakspeare's characters in
twentyseven plays have made 81, O07 speeches.
WHAT Victor Hugo did before all as a poet, y says
the Saturday Review, was to rediscover the secret of
crashing sound in French verse. Since the death
of Corneille, French poetry had rippled; Victor Hugo
taught it once more the movement and the music Of
the wave"
The first volume of General Grants memoirs will
not appear till December, nor the second till about
March, 1886. Mr.. c. L. Webster, of the firm pub.
fishing it, will go to Europe to arrange simultaneous
issues in several other languages, besides French,
German and Italian.
PROFESSOR RILEY. the entomologist of the Agricult.
ural Department, is quite superiuously des cribed as
"a tail, thin, dreamy eyed person, with long black hair
which drops in curls from under his broadb trimmed
white hat, touching his collar" His rem arks on
locusteating reveal some such parsonage.
THE oystermen of Princes Bay, S. l., are trying
the experiment of throwing medicated balls of -four
into the water whore the destructive drumfsh are
feeding on the oysters. Unless something can be done
at once, the oystermen assert. the whole crop, which
they value at a quarter of a million dollars, will be
ruined.
The Gear and his wife have planned a little trip for
July in the imperial yacht, including a visit to the
latter's parents, the King and Queen of Denmark, at
Copenhagen, a look at the Antwerp exhibition, and q
call on the Prince and Princess of Wales at Cowes,
Isle OF Wight. Any dynamite found in the cabin
will be tossed overheard before the yacht sails. as
nothing could be more unpleasant on a pleasure voy.
age.
A LADY in Iowa stopped at a hotel in which there
was a case of smallpox. The landlord neglected to
inform her of the fact and she took the disease. Sub.
sequently she sued the landlord for damages. and OBJ
tanned a verdict of SIS, 900. The case was taken be-
fore the Supreme Court of the State and the Judgment
of the court below affirmed, on the ground that q land
lord who receives guests, knowing that there is a con-
tagious disease in his house. is liable for damages to
any guest who may contract the disease.
EXTRAORDINARY honors were paid the Hon. Il. M.
Hubbard on the occasion of his resignation of the
Office of postmaster of the ancient borough of Wal
~lingford, Conn, which he had held since 1872. All part
ies-United States senator's, Yale professors, members
of the House of Representatives, and lawyers, were
npaCnnk n~1 4r~A-1oJ L. AZ TT1I -
alumnus of Wesleyan, and a lawyer of New Haven,
though residing in Wallingford, and having held the
Office he now vacates almost since he started" He
is one of the trustees of Wesleyan Academy, at vii
braham, Mass, where he fitted for college.
DAVID SWING, in a recent article on Home Build
ing" rejoices that some of the new styles of archi-
lecture are friends of a short purse; that a house may
be built for $1,000 that will be as beautiful as the
reasonable heart can wish; that beauty has at last
escaped the service of the rich, and that the planet
has become a little weary turning over day and night,
winter and summer, for the rich alone. Mr.. Swing is
exceedingly glad that color.art has come TO the aid Of
the common pocket-book; that, being an inexpensive
form of beauty, it has come to rival sculptor, and
carver, and goldsmith; that no stucco or fresco can
much surpass a wall finished in terra Gotta paper, re.
lieved by a broad band of blue; that new art can take
a fern leaf, or the feather of a bird, and reproduce it
in bronze in a few hours; that the inexpensive photo
graph is a better picture Of wife and child than
Grecian Parrhasius could have painted; in short, that
beauty has come at last to the homes Of the poor.
What we all need is to know real beauty and real
worth without relation to it's cost.
A WASHINGTON correspondent has the following
story of Judge Foraker's boyhood: Young Foraker
was raised on a farm in southern Ohio, and his pa
triotism developed rather early. During the Fremont
campa ign, when flag raising and mass meetings were
setting the country wild, young Foraker's parents
went away on a visit. leaving Ben, who was then ten
years old, at home. The boy concluded to have a
flag raising of his own, and he found on the other side
of tie Rocky Fork a tall, straight sassafras pole,
which he considered the very thing for his purpose.
He cut it down with a Ratchet, dragged it to the Rocky
Fork, threw it in the water, and swan across, pushing
it in front of him. The story of his expedients to get
it up the hill on the other side corresponds to that Of
Robinson Cruso in making a boat to get away from
his desert island. His little sister helped him, how
ever. and the pole was finally planted after a hard
weeks work. He then took a couple Of child's petit
coats, one red and the other blue, and with these and
one of his fathers best shirts he made a flag and
hoisted it to the top Of the pole. When the family
returned they found young Ben triumphant and the
red, white and blue waving over their farmhouse"
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