The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-21
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


CARDINAL NEWMAN received into the Roman
Catholic Church just forty years ago. on the 9th of
October. 1S45. He had been vicar of st. Mary the
Virgin, at Oxford.
Miss ST. PIERRE. the Tennessee heiress, thinks
she elevate the poor white people of the South.
She intends to form colonies, and give the poor
whites houses and work. She will give each family
timber builda house and ten years lease twenty
of land.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL admits that if Greek is
to be retained in college study only for the pur
poses of discipline there are other studies which
be substituted that will bring about the result
But he favors the retention of Greek for other and
presumably better
RECENTLY discharged clerk in of the bureaus
of the Treasury Department wrote the following on
the fyieaf of his ledger:
Goodbye, old friend!
I've kept you long. I've kept you straight,
And III keep you again in SO"
Mr.. PETER BUTLER. of Boston the famous
watch given to Daniel Webster by the Hon. Moses
Grinnell and others. Mr.. Webster gave it to his
friend and biographer Mr.. Peter Harvey, and he in
turn bequeathed it to Mr. Butler, who also possesses
Mr. Websters gold snuff-box, gift from that states
direct.
The Councillor of State appointed 20 try and reduce
the King of Bavaria's expenditures mostimmediate
ly resigned, by reason of worry and irritation and
who is to succeed him is very difficult question. Ex
penses however, being curtaied in the servants hall
and stables and the separate theatrical performances
are for the present suspended. Work the various
palaces is necessarily stopped because there is no
money to pay the workmen
LAWYER KATE KANE is still making things hum in
the Chicago police court. Recently she defend
ing shoplifter ard tried to convince the judge
that it not unusual for women to wear pillow
for pockets inside their dresses The judge
said he didn't care if the woman had pocket big
enough to kold the courthouse, but he drew the line
when it to filing it with jerseys and things taken
from stores without paying for them. And Kate Kane
lost the
HERE is etching of Miss Mary Murfree, the
Charles Egbert Craddock of the magazines: ''She is
short and painfully crippled square and angular.
brown skim very red lips small white teeth and black
swapping eyes, her hair brown and in curls
about the forehead surmounted by braid. make her
look countrifed The mouth is large and the teeth
perfect When she speaks the mouth stretches to
surprising degree and the teeth shine in a set SMILE.
Miss Murfree says she will never marry.
AMONG the Irishmen who have gained an illustrious
name in New Zealand is the Most Rev. DIR. Croke,
first Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, whose re-
moval to the of Cashel is still deplored not only
by those in his former diocese, but by Roman Cath
olics all over New Zealand. To the native race he was
special object of admiration account of his spen
did physique. and the with which he cleared
foot fence if it stood in his way These qualities
with the warlike Maors, went quite far his elo
quent efforts to induce them to become members of
his spiritual flock
THE Omaha Herald says: ''Some of the strongest
Oil
Among them are Nicholson. OF the News; Groo of
the Herald Goodwin. Of the Tribune, and Alfalet
Young. of the Democrat, who, although last
toned in the list is of the brightest and most
promising young journalists in this part of the
country But for the angry controversies that
largely restrict newspaper debate to subject in
Utah. these would make broader mark upon
the newspaper life in the West than was ever made
before in any Territory"
HERE is an extract from dispatch of Queen Eliza
beths deputies in Ireland to their royal mistress:
"Shoud exert ourselves in reducing this country
to civty and order it must acquire power con-
sequence and riches. The inhabitants will thus be
alenated from England and will cast themselves
the arms of some foreign powers perhaps erect them
selves into independent and separate state. Let
u.s. then rather connive at their disorder for weak
and disordered people never can attempt to detach
themselves from the crown of England" In the light
of subsequent events, this is interesting.
MAX ORELL says that London contains more
Roman Catholics than Rome, more jews than the
whole of Palestine Irish than Dublin more
Scotchmen than Edinburgh more Welshmen than
Cardiff and country folks than the counties of
Devon Durham and Warwickshire put together u
has birth in every five minutes has seven accidents
every day in its 5000 miles of streets has average
of forty miles of streets opened and Is 600 new
houses every year. In 1893 there were added % ITO
houses to the vast aggregate of dwellings which
is called the metropolis thus forming 1863 new streets
and one square, covering distance of sixty.six
miles and eighty -four yards
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