The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-24
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ABRAHAM IIINCOLNs largest fee as lawyer is
said to have been $5, 600 in arailroad case
BLIND TIGERS" is what they call the illicit whisky
shops which dot the line between northwest Georgia
and Alabama.
THE brother officers and comrades of General Sir
Herbert Stewart have resolved to erect memorial to
him in ST. Pauls Cathedral
MRS JULIA WARD HOWE and her daughter will re-
turn from New Orleans about June 15 and so at
to Newport for the summer.
DOCTORS should be careful not to abbreviate when
they prescribe rhamnus catharticus. The who
wrote for syrup of rham. cat" deeply offended an
elderly lady who had been his patient for years.
EDITOR SHROPSHIRE, of the Coosa River (Ga.)
News, and his wife said to be the youngest grand
parents in this country. He is thirty-fve and she
twenty eght, yet they have grandchild over year
old
THE Riverside Parallel Bible, soon to be brought
out by Houghton, Miffn g. Co., will contain both
the Old and New Testaments, with the authorized
and the new revised versions side by side in parallel
columns.
THE Shakspearean adage of the thankless tooth
and serpent child is now Illustrated in nephew
of Senator Sharon educated and provided with good
place by his uncle, but proving defaulter and
discarded
MISS PARLoA the wellknown cookbook writer
and teacher used to be chief cook at the Appedore
House, Isle of Shoals. Her present prominent posi-
on is due to the energy with which she stuck to her
profession and determination to elevate herself in it.
FRANCOIS CoPPEE, the poet of the poor, lately
ceived into the French Academy is shy and retiring
of lfe He makes his home in little cottage with his
unmarried sister and mingles seldom in fashionable
society. The place is by cats of which he is
very fond.
THE British Medical journal hears that Professor
Huxley feeling the weight of long years of arduous
intellectual labor is under the advice of his friends,
about to withdraw from many of his most active
Payments in order to recruit his strength by pro-
longed period of rest
Ex-PRESIDENT MARK HOPKINS, of Williams Col
lege (Mark the perfect man, his pupils lovingly
ncknamed him. has been sitting for his portrait in
New York city, and the painter says he never had
good and patient sitter before. Yet DIR. Hopkins is
in his eighty year.
GORDONS DIARIES or the most important parts of
them, are to be buried in the Record Office, whence
some scholastic excavator will dig them up in flu
ture generation and publish them illustration of
the curious INSTRUMENTATION that permitted to
British military in the last quarter of the nine
teenth century
THERE is colored preacher who lives Jasper,
Ca, that rules his horse by butting him. If tho
horse is fractions stubborn he takes the kinks out
by deliberately Selling by the and butting it
squarely in the forehead until it falls to it's knees
This it generally does at the second third butt
when the old parson steps behind and drives ahead
again.
THE London Vanity Fair has cartoon representing
Mr.. T. H. Escott, editor of the Fortnightly Review
and author of the wellknown work on "Contem-
porary England" He is represented as bending
forward. wearing single eyegass, and with rather
heavy features He is fortyone years of age and was
for fifteen of these writer of leading editorials for
the daily newspapers.
OFFICIAL life in Washington has been unusually
fatal Not to mention the tragic deaths Of Lincoln
and Garfield of late years we have seen Hunt, Gar
fields Secretary of the Navy dying after painful
illness, while minister to Russia in foreign lanc
Howe, Arthurs first Postmaster and Folger
his first Secretary of the Treasury died in Office and
Frelinghuysen, his Secretary of State few weeks
after retiring to private hfe Now we have General
Grant in precarious condition, and even Arthur's
health has been much broken.
On the same principle apparently, that the young
woman, who after getting religion " found that her
sealskn sack and other fnery dragging her
down to hell and gave them to her sister, Western
liquor dealer advertisss as follows: Having expe-
rienced change of heart through the blessed efforts
of Brother B. and Sister s.. desire to state to my
friends and patrons that at the end of the
current month shall retire from the accursed liquor
traffic forever Until that time my stock ON hand will
be offered at greatly reduced rates. Come one come
ALL"
Mr. CHARLES A. DANA relates the following remi-
risc of xuhO bo -, ho+o
in Richmond Immediately after the Union troops had
entered the city On shaking hands, Mr. johnson be-
gan express his views concerning the necessity of
punishment for the chiefs of the confederacy
To which Mr. Dana replied: ''Why urge these opin.
ions npon me? Mr.. Lincoln will be here this morning
tomorrow, and he has the decision Of the oues-
ton" II know that" rejoined Mr.. johnson "but
the subject is Of such moment and it is so necessary
that example should be made, that wish to argue
the question with every gentleman meet"
A FUNDRAL in st. Pauls Cathedral is not only a
rare event but it is also exceedingly costly honor
The fees paid by the corporation of London for bury
ing the late Lord Mayor in the cathedral were about
So OOO When royal funer al takes place at Windsor
the preliminary fee 10 the dean and chapter for break
ing the ground" is 81, O00 This item is the more un
reasonable nasmuch the royal vault is not under
st. Georges Chapel, and ground Is broken, the
only disturbance being tie temporary removal of
certain slab the floor of the choir in order that the
coffin may be lowered into the vault beneath whence
it is wheeled along passage to the royal tombhouse
underneath the Albert memorial chapel.
THE New Haven Register declares that under the
elns Of Yale fourishes private detective who has
established bureau of information there for the
benefit of parents of young who spend
money there than they ought to. The detective Is
said to keep numb Der Of books which contain in
gard TO each victim the precise number Of marks