The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

AN eastern critic is hard on Literary Life. He
pronounces it a 'spullet egg"
"WILL" CARLETON, thesauthor of BETSY and
l are Out" is going to lecture and read to Eng
lish audiences this autumn.
SIR ARTHUR BASS OF PALE Ale" fame, enters
the British peerage as "Baron Burton of Range
more and Burton upon: Trent"
Miss MARY CECIL HAY, the novelist who died
few weeks ago, left in manuscript novel, "a
Wicked Girl "and it is to be published soon.
DIcKENs's 'Old Curiosity Shop has finally
been located at IA Portsmouth street, Lon
DON It is at present occupied by waste paper
dealer
"WHY should we subscribe to the Casino9"
said Mrs Parvenu at Narragansett, when solic
tied. 81 can't read half the magazines ny hus-
band brings home now
BOSTON Traveller: Miss Cleveland says she
met some of the finest women in the world dur
ing her year in Washington. and of these she
gives the palm to Mrs. Logan.
THE Rev. Miss Louise Baker is preacher at
Nantucket correspondent says of her: "She
has a sereney beautiful face and sweet voice
Young men get converted by look"
LAWRENCE BARRETT's daughter is in school
at Utica, N. Y. Her schoolmatcs say that, in
obedience to her father, she has never seen
play or an opera 1t is his wish that she never
should have aught to do with the stage.
RESIDENT of Crisfeld, Md, not long ago.
made over all his property to his wife to escape
paying his debts. His wife then eloped with
another man. and carried off her husbands
wealth. There is little sympathy wasted upon
the forsaken husband
IT is told in st. Paul that the children in Min
neapolis, its nearby and hated rival, have
refused to read the Bible in the public schools
"a = IL ELL N
while from Genesis to Revelation there is no
mention made of Minneapolis.
ANDREW Low, of Savannah, Ga. who recently
died abroad leaving three or four millions to his
heirs and much smaller sums to certain favored
charities blcckade-runner during the war
He MADE his millions shipping cotton to Liver
pool through the blockading fleet.
Oh. for mans discrimination!
IT'S enough to make one tired
He's resigned his situation
When, in fact he's just been "fred'
And similar condition,
On the other hand, one sees
He's accepted position"
That he begged for on his knees.
-Charlestown Enterprise.
AT the Mechernich lead works, in Germany,
the tallest chimney in the world has recently
been completed. 1t is 440 feet high six feet
more than the famous chimney of the St. RoIlox
chemical works, near Glasgow Scotland. which,
uHtii Tue OtFudu OuS WAS DuilL, was without a
rival The fiue of the Mechernc chimney is III
feet in diameter at the bottom and 10 feet at the
top.
IT BELIEVE every man deserving the name of
a man has the blues sometimes said Rev. T,
w. Jeffrey, in Elm street Church, on Sunday
evening. with all the anxietes of the present
and possibilities of the future facing him, not
knowing what to do next and with the pressure
of labor on his frail body he is something more
than or less than man who never has
the blues
Miss IDA e. HowGATE, who has just been ap-
pointed to clerkship in the Treasury Depart.
ment, passed the highest examination in her
class, and was certified for appointment by the
Civil-seryice Commission. She is the daughter