The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-23

some days ago It showed a bright. rather girl
ish face but manly forehead. The back Of
the photograph was Endorsed. Samuel j. Til
den. Yale '33. Presented to William B. Guyer.
April 81, 1888" This is all very WELL but as
the Worcester Spy remarks. Daguerrs did not
invent photography until 1899.
A BUFFALO paper says that just before the
opening session Of the savans in that city Bishop
Coke remarked to a reporter: 81 should like to
correct the proof-sheet of my prayer. You news
paper men and the printers are so unfamiliar
with prayer that you're pretty certain to bungie
it up badly" This will go on record as the
standing joke of the session.
IT was to Henry O'Rely, who has just died,
that New Jersey railroad, forty years ago, re-
fused permission to erect posts aud build q line
of telegraph along its road between Philadelphia
and New York. The frank and absurd reason
given was that "the telegraph would interfere
with travel. by enabling persons to transact
business by its means instead of using the rail-
road.S
GEORGIA rattlesnake got into pantry the
other night, found some eggs and swallowed
them, crawled partly through the handle of a
jug, found more eggs and swallowed them. and
was thus made prisoner, the eggs on each side
of the jug handle being too large to pass through
In bis efforts TO escape he knocked the crockery
right and left awoke the inmates of the house.
and met deserved death.
THE town of Whately Franklin county Mas
sachusetts, has little school-house and tav-
ern. In the tavern is BAR Somebody dis
covered not long ago that the bar was less than
600 feet from the school house. and. If the towns
people were to regard the law. one or the other
must go. So they held a town meeting last
week, and. by a large vote, decided to keep the
bar and turn the school into private one.
CLERGYMAN who has recently interviewed
Cardina Now,,o Il, docc rihac than
being plain. simple men, with little pomp about
them. Cardinal Manning was emaciated. and his
face had several bad gashes, as if he had shaved
In the dark and in haste. His fingers were all
bone," it is added "and the ring slipped up and
down upon it as he spoke. He would almost
brighten you Cardinal Newman presented tbs APP
pearance OF very old man, with his teeth gone,
but his face wore expression of rerose.
He would rather impress you as q sweet charac-
teri
THIRTY years ago James Starnes left his wife
and two baby boys in Chattanooga, and went to
California to make his fortune. In the course of
time he heard that his wife was dead, and aot
long ago he married a young woman and came
back to his old Tennessee home, where he found
his first wife alive and still faithful to his mem
Org. James and his two wives are living in the
same house now and he cannot decide which to
give up. He'll have to decide pretty soon, for
t5ey are becoming demonstratve in their ieal
ousy. The baby boys are with families,
and James himself by his second wife, has
four-y ear-old daughter.
RED CLOUD, Sioux chief believes that it is
better 20 get living out of the white people
than to quarrel with them He does not favor
schools for the Indian children or the adoption
of any ways of civilized life, "for so long as the
Great Father knows that we cannot earn our
own living. He will give us rations and blankets,
but if He thinks we know how to take care of
ourselves we shall get nothing more from Him. y
Acting on this princi pie, Red Cloud complained
of the farmer sent to teach his people agricult-
ure "Our farmer is not of the right kind; he
expects warriors to work What want is
white men to plant our corn hoe 1t, harvest II
and put 1t into the barns which they will build
for us. Warriors don't work."
president SCOTT, of the Cincinnati South
ern road, was very clever Englishman, and
much wittier than Englshmen usually are" said
a Kentuckian the other day, to Philadelphia
Record writer. when he first took hold of the
Cincinnati Southern ne was greatly annoyed by
the claims for horses and cattle killed by trains
of the road on their way through Kentucky. 1t
seemed as though it were not possible for train
to run north or south through Kentucky without
killing either a horse or cow. And every ami
NAL killed, however scrawny. scrubby or mser
able it may have been before the accident, al
ways figured the claims subsequently pre-
sented as of the best blood in Kentucky. well.
said Scott, finally one day, when the 999th
claim had Just been presented, L don't know
anything that improves stock in Kentucky like
crossing it with a locomotive"