The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-10

He has a goodly growth Of lightish brown hair, we'll
sprinkled with gray. Hist head is large and his fore
head prominent. His eyes recede we'll back in the
sockets. His complexion is a sickly sallow. His nose
is straight and rather large. His eyes, which are of a
blue tint, are set well apart, showing good perceptive
faculties.
THE following lines were discovered last week on a
slip of paper found in an old fashioned bottle in the
center of an oak tree, cut down at Goshen, Conn.,,
She was young
And she was fair,
But the Indian
Raised her hair.
It is believed the paper was concealed in the tree
about ITO years ago by a woman named Hunter,
whose daughter was killed by the Indians.
AN Atlanta, Ga, paper, giving an account of Carl
Schurz's recent lecture in that city, says: HE advo-
Gated good housekeeping, and said soda biscuit and
bad pie would ruin any mans stomach, and when the
stomach is ruined the man is done for. He related
some interesting stories illustrating the high esteem
IN which a good housewife is held. One of these
was Bismarck's wife, who carried the keys dangling
by her side, and he said that to a man of sense there
is an attraction about a bunch of keys which a bunch
of diamonds never possessed"
A FELLOW who has tried tobogganing says it Is mag.
nifcent. You get on the thing, with a girl in front of
You and another behind you. The steerer gives a
shove, and we go over the brink with a leap. It makes
a fellows blood curdle. Then, blind to the perilous
nature of the situation. the girl behind you throws her
arms around your neck, and you reach down and catch
hold OF her ankles and place her feet in your lap, or
somewhere else, SO they won't fall overheard and tip
us over. You get rid of your own legs by putting
them in the lap Of the girl in front of you. She
doesn't mind it a bit. Neither does the girl behind
you, and, after awhile. neither do you.
WHILE people heap ~invectives on Aaron Burr
they forget that he served gallantly on Putnam's staff
during the Revolutionary war, and by his foresight
and superior knowledge of the ground averted what
ngton at the Apthorpe House, on the Bloomingdale
road, on the 18th of September, 1776, when New
York was evacuated by the American troops before
those of Howe, Tryon and Clinton. Fifteen minutes
after Washington had quilted the Apthorpe House,
under Burr's guidance. the British rushed in. 1t
might have made a difference in that early stage of
the little affair if Burr had not saved Washington.
EDMOND ABoUT's life. says a French writer. was a
series of t~ransitory Joys and enduring bitternesses. He
had to wait for the Legion of Honor, but had scarcely
obtained it than the Empire fell, and he voluntarily
removed from his buttonhole the rosette which re-
called years of servitude. He married a charming
girl whose father had a large fortune; but the father,
a widower, married again, and had a second family,
thus reducing his daughters portion. About, having
a large family, rushed into speculation, and gained a
tolerable fortune; but for several years it had been
wasting away. His final ambition was to be an
A~cademician, but he has died before being received.