The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-09
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

New YORK ladies who claim to set the fashion
have taken to fencing as a relief from mental
work.
GENERAL POPE, who goes on the retired list
next week. will spend a year in Europe, and
then settle in some Western city.
Mrs. r. ii. BREWER. OF the Montpelier Argus.
is the pioneer woman compositor in Vermont.
She began typesettiug thirty-fve years ago.
THE amount which Prince Bismarck has Of
fered the Duke of Edinburgh to induce him to sell
his rights to the Duchy of Coburg- Gotha is
fl00, 900.
BURDETTE says: II hold it to be q solemn,
self evident, heaven born truth that a man who
will play chess for amusement would saw a cord
OF wood for a joke"
THE salaries of college professors are notori-
ously small A statistican who has devoted some
attention to the subject says that rfs~ average
salary in the United States paid to a college
professor is 81, $50.
MILTON COLE, appointed an assistant door
keeper of the Iowa State Senate. is discovered,
to the horror of tho Prohibitionists of that body,
to be a saloon-keeper at Audubon and eonspicu-
Gus for his open defiance of the prohibition law.
Mr. WILLIAM HENRY SMITH. the recently APP
pointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, held one of
the shortest terms of office on record. He took
tlc OdIu " L LIZ III 4uOiudy, anu Wdlhtu Jul
with his government on the following Wednes-
day.
MIR. JAMES FRENCH, of Toronto, has received
a letter from Mr.. Gladstone acknowledging the
receipt Of a barrel of Canadian apples and ex-
pressing some anxiety about a lot of Canadian
turkeys alleged to have been shipped by a later
steamer.
THE poor of Paris will derive no benefit from
the grand ball which was recently given for
them, regardless of the fact that it was de-
scribed as "a great success" 1t appears that,
although the receipts amounted to so, $50, the
expenses actually exceeded that sum.
THE condition of Mrs. Catherine Scales, the
mother of the public schools" of st. Louis, is
declared by the Missouri Republican to be a dis
grace to that city. After a long and useful career
of devotion to the cause of education, now, at
the age of seventy, she is sick, poor. and
scarcely able to procure the barest necessities of
life.
ONE of the clerks in the Office of the Register
of the Treasury. at Washington. went into the
Registers room the other day, and addressed his
chief as "Mr. Rosecrans." '.You NAV call me
Mr.. Register if you wish" the old gentleman
blurted out, but my name is General Rose
Grams, sir, General Rosecrans." Now all his
clerks are very careful TO call him mr.. Regis
ter"
Boston has a new agony. Whenever a young
woman goes out walking in the modern Athens
slippery weather, she carries with her a small
bag filled with ashes. When a sidewalk is
reached that is slippery a corner of the bag is
torn open and, as the Boston Advertiser with
scriptural ambiguity, puts it. You may walk
across as triumphantly as the Israelites did over
the Red sea-"
special United States commissioner to inquire
into the causes of cholera, writes that he will
sail for home about the beginning of next month.
His Investigations have necessarily been cen
Quoted slowly and carefully, but nevertheless he
has collected a large amount of valuable data.
He will probably make another visit to PROBES
sor Koch, the eminent German scientist, before
sailing for this country.
NINE. GREvILLE is a lady of taste and also a
lady of acute perception. She says that it is
libelous to speak of American gentleman as
gauche. II find, on the contrary, a dash of
oia-time stateliness and courtesy about the men
which is rarely to be met with among Euro
peans. 1t is the true courtesy which proceeds
from kindliness and a desire to avoid wounding
the feelings of any one"
A SUNBURY, Pennsylvania, girl got out a IL
cense to marry one man, and next day applied to
the court clerk for another permit to marry a
different party. Itthen transpired that she had
two admirers, and it was the young romans in
tentlon TO mold the TWO certificates in terrorem
and finally marry the ono who would offer the
greatest financial inducements. She kept her
plan hidden from the lovers.
GEN. WILLIAM s. HARVEY, the Oldest living
soldier of the regular army, il now at Tampa,
Fla. About one hundred miles from that point
the shore upon one side of a bend of the Caloos-
ahatehie river Is called .Harney's rum 1t is so
called because during the Seminole war General
Harvey escaped from his tent, during a night
attack by the Indians, in his night-shirt, and
saved his scalp and life by fairly outrunning his
pursuers. most of whom were exceedingly feet
footed. Billy Bowlegs. the Seminole chief, who
became distinguished later on, used to say, in
speaking of his fast Indian ponies, that they
could be at a railroad train--''beat anything 'cept
General Harvey