The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-12

and is very shabby dressed His eldest son Il
a volunteer in a crack Spanish regiment Of Chas.
seurs
JOAQUIN MILLER poet and editor, has shaved
his beard, cut off his curls. ard taken his place
| among common mortals. He has taken his wife
and baby to Washington. and after short visit
10 California will settle down there for the win
ter.
Two ancient beverages have recently been in-
troduced into Great Britain on account OF theE
supposed medicinal qualities palm wine, made
from the sap OF the date palm. and spirit pre-
pared from the water in which the combs boiled
In treating beeswax.
THE inducements offered to thu wives and
mothers of the country to urge their sons and
husbands to climb the north pole are not ann.
Gent 10 excite enthusiasm. The widow of DR..
Pavy has The munifcent sum of SIT a month
given her in the shape of pension.
COUNT BEUsT was a talented amateuri per
former and composer of music One Of his &C.
centricities was that while he would attend
funeral at church he would never on any occar
sion enter a cemetery. ~ never intend to
enter one, he would say. until play the first
part IN the performance"
A SMALL boy, on his first appearance in
parish school at Rochester. N. Y, was asked 10
ne knew the Lords prayer. He replied that he
had never heard of it. whereupon an urchn al
MS side, with friendly desire to excuse his ig-
noranee, said to the teacher please, ma'am,
mes stranger from Pennsylvania"
On West Broad street, Columbus, o., is the
shop of L. B. Davies, the inventor of the loco
motive cow-catcher. He was born in Remedies
county, Me-, and is now we'll on in years Ha
spends his time in studying books or mechanics
and designing iron work He is far from wealthy.
Like most inventors, he had not the knack
OF protting financially by his mechanical geniua
Mr.. RUsKIN says that, as young author his
literary work was always done as quietly and
methodically as a piece of tapestry II knew
exactly what l had got to say, put the words
hrm.y IN their places like so many stitches,
hemmec the edges of chapters around with what
seemed to me graceful fourishes touched them
finally with my cunninCest points of color and
read the work TO PAPA and mamma at breakfast
next morning, as girl shows her sampler.
HAMILTON s. WHITE, of Syracuse a nephew
of Andrew d. White has spent a fortune on the
equipment and support of fre-engine house
and apparatus. He has pe-fect little house,
containing a chemical engine. which has been OF
great use at Syracuse fires The electric appli-
ances of the establishment are wonderfully iu-
genous, and are in some instances Mr. Whites
own designs. The horses can be hitched to the
engine by harness consisting of only two snaps.
The Harvesting occupies only two seconds.
Mr.. HENRY NJ. STANLEY will come to New
York in a few days, declining, for lack of time,
an invitation to lecture in Dublin before sailing
II understand says Freemans journal
writer, ''that Mr.. Stanley regrets much that he
is unable to go to Dublin. because. although he
has discovered many out-of the-way places, he
las not discovered Ireland yet. 1t is a curious
rhing that he has latterly developed great re-
pugnance to lecturing in Wales, which is his
native country. The reason of this is interest
ing. Your readers are aware that Mr. Stanley
spent his early days in Welsh workhouse, and
parentage. Well. whenever he goes 10 Wales
no is to encounter twenty or thirty old
women who persist in claiming him as son or q
nephew, or some other intimate relation. 1t be-
ing highly embarrassing and inconvenieEt to
have as many as thirty mothers. the explorer
has determined to keen out of the way OF those
old ladies in future. He tells the story himself
with great relish"