The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-14
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


ScHooLBoYs and collegans will rejoice to hear
that manuscript of another work of Sallust
has been discovered. which they will be expected
to read.
MRS. CLEVELAND. nee Folsom, uses statione-
ry with her monogram in heraldic fashion, and
the motto in Latin, "Where the bees are there
is honey"
ARCHIBALD FORBES, the distinguished English
writer and war correspondent is in Washington
and rumor Is revived that he Is to wed Miss
Lulu Meigs, daughter Of Gen. NJ. c. Meigs.
In his autobiography Mr.. Martin Farquhar
Upper says Jenny Lind confessed her indebted
ness to his "Proverbial Philosophy and that
Webster always, after hard work. refreshed his
mind with it.
MISS CLARA FoLz, the feminine lawyer of San
Francisco, has gone home after short lecturing
tour in Illinois and Wisconsin. She has been
engaged to deliver her lecture now being written
on 'The Private Soldier"
DR.. SUNDERLAND who married the President,
says that he omitted the word ''obey" in the GER
emony because that word is only used In the
Scriptures In referring to bond slaves and
slavery. He prefers the word "honor" in its
place.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON did not get the great idea
of the law of gravitation from the fall of an
apple. He was in a garden when the thought
flashed upon him, but he saw no apple. That
story was an invention Of Voltaire, says lit
erary lconociast
A NEW departure in church action is the en-
gagement of Mrs Goodell, the widow Of the
Rev. DR.. Goodell, of the Pilgrim Church, ST.
Louis, as an assistant in the parish work Of the
church of which her husband was the late pas
tor, at salary of 81, 200 year.
A DIVORCE case is soon to come up in Maine
court, the outgrowth of a triiing quarrel be-
tween man and his wife twenty-five years ago
Since that day. although living together, neither
has spoken to the other, until few weeks ago,
when, in the excitement of housekeeping, the
woman said to the nan, where's the nails!'
The man looked at the woman calmly, and did
not answer
THE aged ex-Treasurer Of the United States
Gen. f. E. Spinner, now in his eighty sixth year.
is living at Pablo Beach, Fla. For the last nine
months he has occupied a tent facing the ocean
When his strength permits he devotes much of
his time to fishing, his favorite sport. He con-
tinues to take lively interest in public affairs.
| and delights to have political chat with those
who call upon him.
QUEEN VICTORIA has always taken keen in
terest in the newspaper descriptions of cere-
monies in which she figures. This womanly
weakness was again shown during the recent
visit to Liverpool. Her Majesty had special or
ders given to all the daily newspapers to furnish
supply of copies for her use at the Newsham
House. This order of the Queen acted as
stimulus to the reporters, who knew they were
writing for the eyes Of royalty.
DURING one of their recent raids Apache In
dams murdered the wife and child of A. L. Peck,
a ranchman living near Nogales A. T. He was
away at the time When he returned the loss
made him nearly crazy. He SAID II have
| ranch and four or five hundred head of cattle,
but never want to them again The gov
eminent won't protect me- so I will protect
myself I will kill every Indian in the country"
Mounting his horse, he rode off, and has disap
peared.
DIR. SMITH, pastor of the First Methodist
Church in ST. Paul, found gang of men paving
the street in front of his church last Sunday
morning. He asked them to stop. They did
not. Then he said that they must STOP and
right off, too. If they did not he would make
complaint against each individual workman, and
see that he was arrested and punished for break
ing the Sabbath day. At this the PAYERS took
up their tools and quit work, and the energetic
pastor walked into the pulpit and preached with
great fervor, saying in the course OF the ser
mon, that he proposed to have Sunday observed
in front of his church if not in any other part Of
St Paul.
WORD comes of the death of Charles Walker,
the Chinese, Indian and Crimean veteran, of
whom Kinglake, writing Of Colonel Daubensys
charge at Inkermann, says: GIN the earlier
moments of this audacious attack the color
geant, Charles Walker-a man Of great size and
great strengthened welded the butt-end of his
rife with prodigious effect; and now. when En-
glish and Russians became so jammed together
that none could make use of their weapons, this
huge color sergeant was still fercely driving
rent through part of the close-compressed crowd,
doing this more or less by the power of his
mighty shoulders and arms, but also by dint of
the blows he laid in ri ht and left with his fists
and the war he maintained with his feet against
the enemys ankles and shins."
SOME idea of the intensity of Mr.. Gladstone
when he is reused by the Tory carpers may be
had from the following incident: During a re-
cent debate he was annoyed by Sir Michael
Hicks. Beach and Lord Randolph Churchill, who
tainted him with abandoning some vital prnci-
pie of the home-rule BILL He spoke in reply
calmly at first, but Lord Randolph Churchill
kept interupting him, he became indignant and
passionate. much SO that the studs which fast
ened his shirt-front were torn from their posi-
tions. He was utterly unconscious of what had
taken place, and as he reclined in his seat after
gaping six inches excited considerable amuse-
ment among the young Tories. The lion had
been aroused in the Grand Old Man
TIE Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot who
scandalized the British aristocracy some time
ago by engaging in trade having put ego, 900
into the cab business in London, has now added
to his commercial undertakings by retailing coal
The nobility in general are at last beginning to
make themselves useful A number of younger
sons of noblemen follow agricultural pursuits,
and have opened milk and butter shops in Lon
DON Lords and dukes now dabble openly in the
Stock Exchange. A duchess resigned her place
as lady waiting to the Queen some time ago
to open millinery shop because there was more
money in it, and the Earl of Kenmare. chamber
lain TO her Majesty the Queen, whose irish ten
ants cannot or will not pay him any rent on his
deeply encountered estates is about to establish
number of gin shops in London.
COMMENT AND OPINION.