The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-06
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

'OuR cause is not lost" says JEFF Davis, "but
lives eternal in your hearts" And the sentiment
was loudly cheered.
REPRESENTATIVE LOUIS ST. MARTIN, of New
Orleans, is the only Creole in Congress. He is a
little grizzled man of sixtysix
PAsTEUR has looked through microscopes so
much that his eyes are seriously affected and
hi, face curiously wrinkled about them.
SENATOR HEARST, of California, is tall,
straight man, with long, thin face and ford
complexion. His thick hair and long beard are
gray.
THE reason Patti tainted twice before going on
the Lisbon stage in Carmen" was that in her
presence the hotel porter had shot his wife dead
that very evening.
MRS w. @. ROBINSON, of Battle Creek, Mich,
is cousin Of President Cleveland. and has re-
celved letter from him requesting her to name
her baby boy. born four weeks ago. Grover Cleve-
land Robinson.
cedent by giving a drunkard his choice between
enlistment in the regular army and going to Jail.
The man chose the former alternative, and was
enlisted at Fort Schuyler.
THEY are to have potato centenary In France,
it being hundred years since the succulent
American tuber began to tickle the French
processes of the Partisan cuisine
T. j. FIRTH g. Sons, of Yorkshire, England,
have secured the Broadhead carpet mills, at
are expected to arrive from that country in
week The mill will run 600 hands.
WRITING to the Pail Mall Gazette anent that
journals discussion of how to give away $780,
900, John Ruskin says: "It happens at this mo-
msnt that don't want to give away any of my
money; and what want to be told is how am
to do any good by keeping it."
MISS ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND. lady of
the White House, is at Holland Patent, N. Y.
writing book for F. B. Dckerson & Co., De-
troit, Mich. The manuscript is nearly finished,
and the title will be "You and /; or, Moral In
tellectual and Social Culture"
On the eve of visit to Europe the late John
Welsh looked casually over the books of the
Episcopal hospital, at Philadelphia, and noticed
that its debts amounted to $4,000 Two days
later, when he was on the ocean and beyond the
reach of thanks, the managers received his check
for the full amount.
Representative ST. MARTIN, Of New Or
leans, is the only creole in Congress, and the
most cautious man Ia the world. During the re-
bellioD when General Lee was at the heigh. of
his great fame some one asked ST. Martin what
he thought of him. .'Well,p was the reply
ooouEOkoSu opcdhs quite lnSOIduly OI nlm!'
IT is proposed to make national park out of
the battle-ground of Antistam The State of
Maryland secured some years ago few acres of
a cemetery, and in 1877 this was transferred to
the United States. II the government should
buy the adjoining lands the plan pursued at
Gettysburg could be carried out and the posi-
tions Of the contending armies marked.
THE fourteen miles of street railway In Glas-
cow are owned by the city. and bring to the
treasury rental Of SIG. 900 annually. There is
no uniform rate of fare, but penny mile is
charged with reduced rates morning and even
ing. when the working people travel The orig
inal purpose Of the tramway. In fact. was TO en-
able workngmen to inhabit the suburbs.
M. CLOVIS HUGUEs the French Journalist,
whose wife recently distinguished herself through
successfully advocating the individual rights of
women by tho aid of a revolver. has started Le
Tambourin, after the style of M. Rochefort's ia
nous La Laterne. He will devote his entire at
tention to the editorial duties. while his wife will
attend personally to any disputes which may
arise through any political or social opinions
pressed in the paper.
THE Emperor of Austria performed the usual
interesting ceremony Of washing the feet Of
twelve old men. and afterwards serving them Of