The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

SAIL things come to him who can wait is a
proverb that originated in ante-restaurant
times.
MARIE VAN ZANDT is recovering the use of her
paralyzed limbs. Her doctors think full recov-
cry is certain
Mrs. KATE CHASE says the best portrait of
her illustrious father Is the bust in the Supreme
Court room at Washington.
THE Burmese have popular drink. says an
English temperance missionary, which will dis-
solve an English rife ball in thirty minutes.
MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON has given Prof
Maria Mitchell 81, 900 toward the fund for the
endowment of the observatory Of Vassar Col
lege
Mr. TILDEN's library numbers &c, 900 volumes,
and includes one of the finest collections in the
world Of illustrated books, to all of which the
city of New York falls heir under the terms Of
his will.
ANDREWS, the Georgian, who last year walked
from Atlanta to Boston, is now on his second
trip, accompanied by the same little dog. The
peculiar thing about it is that the pedestrian is
ninety six years old.
| THE Prince of Wales declines to go out to the
| Adelaide Jubilee Exposition, next year. on the
| ground that it would not be proper to absent
himself from England during the jubilee year
| OF the queens reign.
| SHOULD there be fusion between the Repub-
licans, and the Greenbackers and Prohibition
lists in West Virginia, that Democratic majority
of 4,200 OF 1884 may be on the other side of the
column next November.
| A WORKMAN at q Skowhegan shoe factory
| who had been discharged by order of the Knights
| of Labor, has brought suit against two of them
| for conspiracy to injure his business, and they
| are held on $3.50 bail for trial.
1T was fancy with some lovers of the olden
time to have stockings made from their ladies'
hair, they desiring, suppose, to have their feet
as well as their hearts to be entangled in the
meshes of their mistresses' tresses.
SECRETARY OF WAR ENDIooTT is known by
only few members of Congress. The Door
keeper of the House refused him admittance on
a recent visit, and would not believe him when
he said he was the Secretary of War.
NEW YORK Sun: Dumley-Fish may be a
good brain food, but can't see that it has any
effect upon me. Robinson-How often do you
eat it'll Dumley-Fve been eating it three times
day. Robinson-You don't eat it often
enough, Dumley.
JOHN BRIGHTs personal popularity does not
| appear to have been much impaired by his re-
cent political course A guinealimit subscrip-
ton has been taken up in the Reform Club to
procure life sized painting of him to place by
the side of Cobdens portrait in the central hail.
LITTLE Juanita, the tiny daughter of Joaquin
Miller. has been creating a sensation at the
Grand Hotel, in the Catskills, by her extraordi-
nary recitatons. She recites like an experienced
actress, and looks veritable baby, with curls
and short skirts, and has to be lifted on table
TO be seen.
CABLE special: havo roundabout but toll
erably authentic report that Mrs. Leslie and De
Leuvlle will be married here in a few days
The arrangements for the wedding have been
kept in great secrecy. am told that they went
fortnight ago to the authorities Of Westminster
Abbey to try to have the ceremony celebrated
there but failed.
THERE is photograph Of the late Alexand er
Stephens in the possession of Major Lamar Cobb
| of Athens, Ca, in which the Southern statesman
| is represented as sitting with legs crossed and
the bottoms of both feet resting squarely upon
the floor. This was favorite position of Mr..
Stephens, and it is said that one has yet been
able to rival him in his acrobatic feat.
COLONEL BATTERsBY in his new book on
Birdie Bits, says that the bit should not be the
chief means of conveying to the horse the knowl-
edge of the masters will. That task should, in
the main, be done by the voice, or, in the ridden
| animal, by the movement of the riders's body.
The bit is an instrument of torture to be re-
served for critical moments.
JOSEPH TRELoAR chief clerk Of the New York
custom house. has been in continuous service
for thirty three years next October. and he is
yet only about fifty years old He came in as a
clerk under Greene G. Bronson, and has served
under thirteen different collectors He is a
Democrat, and says he has never fled paper as
backing from politicians. He has evidently
made himself invaluable in the customs service,
aud no administration can afford to do without
him. whether Republican or Democratic. When
he first began his career clerk, ne received
$400 year. Now he gets $4,000.
THE UMPIRE AHEAD.
There's symmetry of motion
To my sympathetic notion
In the pitcher as he curves the ball:
There's idyl, great in dlcS.on,
Quite exciting as a fiction
In the batter when he flies the wall.
And the pose of grace and beauty
Of the catcher doing duty,
Is an epic quito exceeding all.
But for poetry Of motion,
To my unpretentious notion,
There's nothing like the nm pire's rail-.