The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-25
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

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by English newspapers in articles on politics
A LITTLE Illinois village is happy because its
name is changed from Kickapoo Station to Potts
town.
A SON of Montgomery Blair, bearing his faith
ers' full name, is in the present graduating class
at Princeton.
DR. TANNER, of Cork, seems to be the Holman
of Parliament He has blocked thirty three
bills and nine motions.
MEN who habitually use intoxicating spirits
are more difficult to cure. if bitten by mad
dog, than temperate men. So says the famous
Pasteur.
MRS. CHARLES S. WGRIsHoFFER, since her
women in the world. Her fortune is estimated
at $40, 100000
SOME inquisitive person sent Sarah Bernhardt
set of printed questions to fill out Among
them was whats your favorite animall' She
answered Man"
DR. HOLMES expresses belief that professor
ships tend to produce longevity. Quarterly
payments of fixed stipend are tranquilizing
prescriptions says he.
THE editor of Western paper recently wrote
and Small but the printer made it s'the minstrel
firm of Jones and SMALL The editor considered
the mistake so triAing that he let it stand with
out correction.
In a list of realized sales per acre of cultivated
land in England mushrooms lead with $500 as
the average product. Following come flberts
G200; onions, f192; black currants, f168; straw
berries. ESQ; gooseberries, plums, early lettuce
and early potatoes, G100 each.
A CHICAGO jeweler has invented self-wind-
ing watch. By an arrangement something like
the carefully balanced lever of pedometor, the
watch is wound by the motion of the wearer
when walking. walk of seven minutes will
wind the watch to go for forty-two hours.
OF all hair drained and incoherent schemes for
which the segregative Briton subscribes his
guineas, none approach the Metropolitan
Anglo Israel Association, which is engaged with
twenty ono affiliated societies in maintaining the
identity of the Anglo-Saxons with the ten lost
tribes of Israel.
A TRAMP has confded to an Omaha reporter
that in order that his hands may be caloused
like those Of workingman he carries hickory
stick. which he grasps and twists he walks,
thus keeping his hands in a condition to deceive
any justice before whom he may be arraigned
as vagrant
THE men laughed, but the women would not
give him cent, when a colored clergyman from
the South made this begging speech at Asbury
have always been told that Northern men are
more generous than Southern men, and that
Southern ladies are more beautiful than North
ern ladies'"
The London World prints the thrilling news
that some of the younger princesses wore. at a
certain performance, soied dresses of cream
muslin, with ermine capes that had seen better
days But the shock that this information
would give the sensitive reader is softened by
the additional record that the Princess Louise
of Wales had fresh and pretty new frock at
certain state ball.
How the whrligig of time changes men and
things! At the close of the war Parson Brown
low then. Governor of Tennessee drove his
predecessor, Isham G. Harris, out of the coun-
try by offering reward of So, 600 for his cap
ture. A few days ago the same Harris. now
Senator from Tennessee, introduced bill for
the relief of the widow of Parson Brownlow,
and heartily supports it.
TwENTY-sIx years ago Joseph 10th was an
invited guest when the Putnam Phalanx of
Hartford visited the grave of General Putnam.
AT that time subscription paper was circulated
to secure fund to erect monument over 'sOid
Puts" grave and Mr. 10th put down his name
for 80 He heard more about the monument
until last week, when he read that it was about
to be erected. Thereupon he made good his sub
scription by sending $40 to Adjutant Tyler, of
the Putnam Phaanx.
A STATISTICAL expert calculates that if 1000.
900 babies started together in the race of life,
15O 600 would drop out in the first year. 3d. 900 in
the second and %. 900 in the third year. At the
end of forty live years about half of them would
be still in the race. Sixty years would see &c.,
600 gray heads still at it. At the end OF eighty
years there would be $4,000 remaining on the
track; fifteen years later the number would be
reduced to 223, and the winner would quit the
track forever at the age of 108.
IT was announced that the Thomas Paine So
cietv of Frederick county, Maryland, would cell
citrate the seventy-ninth anniversary of Tom
Pane's death at the house of Aaron Davis, near
Frederick; but not a celebrater appeared Mr..
Davis hip,self observed the day by not working
He said that, while there were only about
dozen members of the society, there were three
or four hundred believers of the Paine doctrines
in the country, but fear of social ostracism or
injury to their business caused them to make a
secret of their views.
Mr. LARKIN, who was for ten years a sort of
secretary and intimate associate of Carlyle, says
that the open secret of the Scotchmans life was
his desire to be a man of affairs rather than
writer. Little some of his critics imagine
it," says Mr. Larkin, ''his heart was sick of per-
petually exhorting and admonishing He longed
to be doing something. instead of, ne says,
eloQrently writing and talking about it, to be
kind of king or leader in the practical activities
of life, not a mere prophet, forever and forever
prophesying"
DANIEL r. ARNOLD is the station agent at
Pawtucket Recently the clerks and freight
hands went to his Office in body aud the
Spokesman began speech about the strikes out
West and the relations of employers and EN-.
ployeJ and was going when Mr. Arnold very
sternly and impatiently said: estate your griev-
ance." The next moment. he felt the cheapest of
any man in New England, for the spokesman
said the boys had come to make him present
on his ffty-seventh birthday. 1t was a nics
present, but Mr.. Arnold could hardly say thank
you,r he was SO surprised.
AS matter of good taste, the publishing of
long list Of wedding presents is questionable,
but the list recently published in a country pa
per is, in one sense, interesting. including as il
did: From father and mother of the bride. one
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