The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-14
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

OCTAVE TEANET, the story writer is a native Cf
Andover, Mass and her first ancestor on her moth
ers side in this country the Mayfower.
Mr.. RUsKIN'S illness is due to an accident Like
Mr.. Gladstone, he is fond of oodchopping and
while cutting his estate at b entwood his
slipped and cash cut in his leg.
THE New York elevated railroads carried 400 O76
passengers on Saturday, without accident any
noticeable delay On the day of the opening of the
Brooklyn bridge the number transported was 3S9,-
SOL.
THE wonderful Lake Mistassinm of which so
much said few months ago, turns out, on sur
vey to be only 100 miles long. by average width
Of 20 miles. It's dis fattered himself when he
thought he had found 1.-The greatest of inland seas"
MI SIS CLEvELANDS visit to Holland Patent, n. Y,
is proving very enjoyable. THE old homestead, y
writes Miss Cleveland to friend in Washington
never seemed attractive and pleasant than
now" 1t is probable that she will stay in Oneida
county until cold weather
STATE SENATOR BOONE of California sad before
a meeting of San Francisco inventors that 1T is a
pity the great art of printing which has reached such
perfection in its other departments should still be
bound down to manual labor in its chief department.
that of setting ard distributing the types
w. F. CoNANT, an inmate Of the Concord n H,
asylum, was maze violently Is DeLeVeu
remorse, because he deserted from the army in the
war. His doctor recently wrote to President Cleve-
land, asking the mans discharge and he has Just re-
ceived it. It is thought the will save his life.
AN alleged improvement has been devised on the
oldfashioned 'scarecrow'a pole supporting dilapi-
dated hat and tattered and trousers stuffed with
straw. 1t is windmill, with sleigh bells
attached. The wind makes the fans go round, and
II.
crows.
SENATOR FRYE said, at the dedication of the Wash
burn library, Llvermore, Me- ut does not require
much of man to be Governor Of Maine but to be
Governor of Maine in 6164 man. to be successful
must have brains and courage. Israel Washburn the
wa- Governor of Maine, ranks with Norton of Indi.
ana and Andrew, of Massachusetts,"
A PAPER recently read before the Bar Association
at Atlanta (Ga.) brought interesting facts
relative to the early history of the State The Ogle.
thorpe colonsts not only arrayed themselves against
slavery but they declared Enthusiastically for prohibi.
ton. Theimportation of and negroes into the
colony forbidden, under heavy penalties
"REMINISCENCES OF GENERAL GRANT naturally in
clude many things that happened. Thus, Gen.
Bob Toombs remembers that Grant was court.
martialed for paying quartermaster. certain
with equally inaccurate memory tells or meeting
with Grant in California fixing the date of its oc.
currence two years after Captain Grant had come
East.
SIMPLE OF sleeplessness has been advised by
Partisan physician for American travelling
through Europe who suffered from wakeful nights
The remedy complete cessation of mental ex.
erton in the evening No letter writing no reading
of excitable books allowed, and the mind was
placed in passive a state possible The Amer;.
can, who had been victim of seeplessness for wears
returned home cured
PHILADELPHIA Press writer finds the King of
Denmark to be tall mild man nered man with co,n
pact gray side whiskers not particularly imposing in
appearance with little appreciation of poetry science
art but sociable, and, for monarch | sbonld
imagine very condescending. de speaks English in.
differently and apologies for his bad pronunciation
by saying: My son in-law. as you doubtless know.
is the Prince of Wales. and really ought to speak
better English than l do"
COLONEL HOE, the inventor Of the celebrated Hoe
printing press although seventy five years of age at
tends daily to the business affairs of his great estab
Gshment in New York lie is Of iovial dispos;tioD
and walks through the workshops whisinc the latest