The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-21

| or. works ten hours at his trade, uses neither
| liquor nor tobacco. and as hs says, never went
: on strike
PROF HUxLt:Y will contribute it is said, q
chapter to Mr.. +. Darwir's life Of his father.
Another feature of the book will be the testi-
| mony it bears to the strong influences exercised
over Darwin by Sir G. LyelL
| QUEEN VICTORIA will mark her jubilee with
Chapter of the Garter at Windsor, followed by a
| State banquet to the Knights in st. Georges
| Hall. The last Chapter of the Garter was held
after the investiture of Louis Napoleon, in 1855
Mrs. HENRY ScHUNEMAN, of Lapier Mich,
doubted Kittie Kingsbury's desire or ability to
DIG potatoes, and offered her one cent for every
hill shed dig. Miss Kitte went to work and
before she quit at night had dug 500 hills and
earned So.
| FLIEGENDE BLETTER: Policeman-"Have
you permit to play herel" Organ grinder
NO but it amuses the little ones so much. |"
Policeman-'Then you will have the goodness
to accompany me-" Every well, sir. What do
you wish to sing?"
HARPER's Bazaar: II can say one thing in
favor of Mr.. Featherly." remarked Mrs. Hen
bricks. the landlady-'he never takes the last
piece of bread on the plate" mo, indeed, Mrs.
Hendricks" assented Dumley cordially, 'Feath-
er!y amt quick enough
| MRS HELEN HUNT JACKSON is the subject of
dainty memorial pamphlet issued by Mr.. F. D.
Thayer. of Denver, Col. It contains phototype
pictures OF the dead author, her old home at
Colorado Springs her grave in Pine Hill Forest,
and Cheyenne Mountain.
| THE writing desk on which Jefferson wrote the
document is still preserved in the State Depart
ment library. 1t is small affair Of the old
fashioned type, SO that when opened out slop-
| ing desk of about fifteen inches or more square,
Wit hoi1 70 oH
! MR.. T. B. ALDRIoH is described by Lewiston
Journal writer as rather short and compact
man, with smooth face and thin, sandy curly
hair. In conversation his small blue eyes twin
| ke and his dainty mouth puckors up until it
looks like good sized dimple in his well-round
| ed face.
| STAMP coLLEcTING has reached its most seri-
Gus aspect as a mania in Paris. One man has
over million postage stamps preserved in $50
| richlybound Volumes and another keeps two
clerks in arranging and classifying his enormous
| collection. There are in Paris about $50 whole
sale firms employed in the trade
THE Rev. Florence Mccarthy created sensa-
ton in Washington church on Sunday, by
stating that the police reports showed large in
crease yearly Of arrests of youths between the
| ages OF ten and twenty years, and, IN compari-
son with Chicago, which was said to be the wick
eldest city in the country. he believed now that
| Washington was the worst city on the continent
| for crime
DETROIT Free Press: $50 Miss Blank is mar
riedi' he inquired. Yes" II heard that her
father gave her check for $40, 009" Eyes, ne
| did" WAS it good for aDythine'" ''Well,
| that's the point that puzzles everybody who
there They were all crowding around to see if
1t was certified, when she held it aloft and ex-
claimed Dear father. but these diamonds are
| enoughP She touched it to the gas, and away it
went. think it's new kink, and one intended
| to save the old man."
1T is related that Mr. Hamilton Dston had
church in his neighborhood in Philadelphia in
which he was interested completely renovated
and redecorated at his own personal enpense.
| and one day, with pardonable pride, showing an
irreverent, but enthusiastic, friend through the
| sanctuary, the latter, in his admiration,
claimed, to the others surprise and horror:
well, this beats h-l!' Quickly recovering him
self. Mr.. Diston quietly observed: "Well, that
is what churches are built for"
CARDINAL MANNING, who is now growing old,
says he finds it necessary to relax some of his
former vigor. For many years he was accus-
toned to rise at o'clock A. NJ, and he did not
retire until nearly midnight He is now verging
| on eighty and growing weak. How he lives is a
| mystery. He eats few crackers and swallows
a cup of coffee daily, and occupies the rest of his
time IN work Justin Mccarthy, in the London
Daily News illustrates his personnel by cOmpar-
ing it with the pictures we see in medieval ca
thedrals. He is an unwearied worker and
thorough ascetic.
UNDER the heading of "a Warming Wash
ington Territory husband whose wife is on the
jury. says: "My wife has been gone away on
jury four days. l have not had square meal
since she left. My children are crying for
bread. and everything goes wrong I am
hungry, angry, and all out of sorts in every re-
spect. write this to warn the people who ad-
vocate womans rights in my presence again
must be very large man, and if ever the sher-
if comes after my wife again he had better bring
n posse with him. for my shotgun is loaded and
l will not hesitate to use it."