The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

MORE Democratic simplicity: Minister Cox
| writes: II have bought for my own use six white
Arabian horses"
| QUEEN VICTORIA has conferred baronetcy
upon Francis Cook, the husband Of Miss Tennie
c. Claflin. of Iowa
EDWARD EeGLEsToN, it is reported, has writ
Ten novel Of Western life of about the length
| Of his "Hoosier Schcolmaster."
| A CALIFORNIA woman, while splitting wood,
| bit her tongue in two. Her husband has been
| on big spree ever since. kentucky State Jour
| nal,
| THE Nebraska City saloon-keepers have all
signed an agreement not to sell any liquor to any
| man who is known to have signed the temper
ance pledge.
THE Broadway investigation may yet result in
glorious vindication for Col Jacob Sharp. You
can never tell what an investigation will bring
| forth, especially in New York.
| A STATISTICAL prohibitionist calculates that
the bushel of corn which the distiller buys for
thirty cents is eventually sold to drinkers for
| $1,000 The consumers of that liquor paw largely
| for rain water.
| AN eminent gourmet says that the broad and
| statesmanlke way to broil beefsteak is to keep
it over the Goals just long enough to count forty
| four, turning it four times. This is new ap-
| plcation of 4ll-44
| u.
toll but once in his life. and that with other
treasures, was stolen from under his pillow while
| he slept This so Disguised him that he swore
| he would never carry another weapon.
JUNIus HENRI CLEMMoNs. who claims to
have been the first electric telegraph inventor is
| now seventy-two years old, with abundant white
| hair and beard and bushy eyebrows, STOPPING
| shoulders and slow step; but his sight is good
| his voice firm and his hand Steady. He is clerk
| OF a congressional committee.
| ALvAN CLARK, the famous lens maker, OF
Cambridgeport. says that the lens for the great
| Lick telescope will be ready in about two or
three months. The finishing touches alone re-
| main to be performed in order to make the re-
| fraction perfect These are done with the end
| of the finger dipped In emery The ability to do
this depends on the sense of touch.
JOSEPH ENGLISH, of Boston, has wasted ten
and half valuable hours in writing on pos
| tal-card the entire address of the Hon. H. B.
| Metcalf delivered at the general convention of
Universalists, held last year in Brooklyn. The
address contains 4.l62 words, and Mr.. English
wrote them all with a steel pen by gas-light,
without the aid of magnifying glass.
| IT is reported in literary circles that Mr. Joel
| Chandler Harris. of the Atlanta Constitution, is
soon to marry wealthy maiden lady who owns
| large estates in North Carolina--a Miss Caroline
| Mugs, niece of the Confederate general, Stone
| wall jackson. The two met at picnic on Look
| out Mountain last 4th of July. Miss Mugs has
considerable literary TALENT she is regular con-
| tributor to the Charleston Tablet, and has pub
lished a volume of very pretty poetry.
| WHEN you hear the cold wind screeching
Der the green and down the street,
| And the rheumatism reaching
/ From you head down to your feet;
When you snifie when you sneeze
When you cough. and when you wheeze
| As the penetrating breeze
Gayly carols through the trees,
| Then you have the best assurance
That the vernal spring is near;
/ So screw up your firm endurance
While the festive March is here.
New Haven News
| MRS HAwLEY's war record was as good as
| that of her husband, the General, and, though
she wore no shoulder-straps. the red cross of
mercy might we'll have been woven on her raj
ment Veterans yet live whom she nursed at
| Beaufort Fernandina, Hilton Head and Will
mington. A fall from an ambulance while she
| was searching Five Forks battlefield for the
grave of her son. well as the fatigues of cam
| paigning, caused her to be much broken in
health, and she never fully regained her strength
| ZONE Of the most noticeable of the women
visiting on Friday" says Washington CORE
spondent of the Chicago tribune, twas Mrs.
| Jessie Benton Fremont She had with her her
| son, Francis Preston Fremont, and his wife.
/ Mrs Fremont although looking somewhat older
| than when she was last In Washington two ar
| three years ago has lost none OF her energy or
decision of manner. She has strong face, her