The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS

The New York Sun says a man should leave
off beer-drinking at fifty. True. If he Is not
too much bloated. he can become the successful
manager of a new snake show.
THE wicked book agent has been at it again.
One of the fraternity induced a man Of Cadillac.
Mich, to buy a book for a Christmas present to
his wife and then sold a copy Of the same book
to the wife for a present for her husband.
CELIA w. WALLACE, a Saratoga widow, worth
nearly 81, 900. 900, left that place last summer
because she owed $500. which she apparently
did not want to pay. So bitterly did she feel on
the subject that she refused to return even to
her mothers funeral
THEODORE ROOSEVELT prefers the cowboy of
the West to the Indian. He says: IT don't 20
so far as to think that the only good Indians are
the dead Indians. but | believe nine out of every
ten are. and / shouldn't like to inquire too close
ly into the case Of the tenth"
HARTFORD, Conn.,, has a Tongue Guard, COM
posed of young ladies' who put a penny into the
treasury whenever they find themselves saving
anything spiteful or untrue about one of their
own sex. The treasury is opened once a quarter.
and the funds in it are donated to charitable pur.
poses.
MILE EMMA NEVADA was married Oct. l. in
Paris. to DR.. Raymond Palmer. of Birmingham,
England. The civil service occurred at the En-
glish embassy and the religious ceremonies at the
Church of the Passlonist Fathers. The girlish
prima donna is the daughter Of DR.. Wixom. of
Michigan.
MISS CLEVELAND is the object Of som fun
poked at her with due dignity by the London
Times. That Journal quotes a sentence from
Miss Clevelands book and AIDES: But this is
nothing compared with, a sentence of twenty five
lines on page 148, which is calculated to give the
reader pause"
PRESIDENTS Washington, Monroe, jackson,
Harrison. Pierce. Grant and Hayes all served
actively as military commanders and officers be-
fore serving as Presidents. Lincoln and John
son both held military commissions during act
i've operations. the one as captain in an Indian
war and the other as br;gadier- general In the
Union army.
CHARLEs A. JANA is named by ''The Loung-
err" Of the Criti as the author Of the ARTHUR
Richmond attack on Secretary Bayard. 1.-THE
Loungerr suggests of a recent editorial that il
was written simply to divert attention from the
| guilty party, somewhat as the author of s'The
Bread winners" is said to have decribed John
Hays library. in order to throw the literary
bloodhounds of the scent.
A GIRL, thirteen years old. who has grown only
an inch in height since she was two years old,
and has gained but little in weight, was before
the Concord, N. H., Medical Society, at its an
nuai meeting a few days ago The girl weighs
thirty five pounds and Is thirty-three inches
high, has never been severely sick, and is unusu-
ally healthy. Her mind seems to have stopped
growing at the same time.
KATE FIELD says that Mrs. Browning's con
versation was most interesting. 1t was fire.
quently intermingled with trenchaut, quaint re-
marks. leavened with a quiet, graceful humor of
her own; but IL was eminently calculated for a
tete-a-tete. All that she said was always worth