The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-28
MINOR MENTION.


PHILADELPHIA society is not often stirred up,
but when it is 1t is oh fay bong tong, ali la
moved and nux vomica. Millionaire Sineerly's
coachman, colored man. was recently married
to dusky sweetheart of his and the occasion
was made brilliant one, the white friends of
the groom and bride combining to make it an
event long to be remembered. An Associated
Press dispatch describing the affair, which took
place at church, has the following description of
the bride and groom:
1.-THE bride was richly dressed In a robe of
cream-colored satin en- train, which fitted tightly
up around the neck and was covered with lace
and natural flowers. Orange blossoms were
neatly arranged around the bridal veil. The
bride is above the medium height, with shapely
outlined features, an aquiine nose, small mouth,
and fine teeth as white as snow. Her complex
ion is a dark brown, and her hair dark
and wavy. She has beautiful eyes. They
are black, large and penetrating They sparkled
like black diamonds in the white surroundings
of the bridal, and gave the unaffected girl. with
gracious manner and lithesome figure, the air
of an Egyptian Queen. The groom, who has
been Mr. Singerly's coachman for many years, is
a perfect specimen of the sturdy African He is
thirty-fve years old, and as black and shiny as
the pure Lehigh coal that Mr.. Singerly sells at
So per ton. He is somewhat taller than his
BRIDE and in figure is an Apollo Belvedere."
This is combining business with pleasure quite
intimately. The hint that the brides eyes
sparkled like ''black diamonds" was very deli
cate-for Philadelphia-hint of one of Mr.. Singer
lys commodities, while at the conclusion of the de.
scription of the groom the quality of the Lehigh
are duly exploited. The advertisement thus So
cured fully justified the outlay made by Mr.. S.
in buying clock as a wedding present for this
faithful coachmaA.
A GEORGIA paper. after referring to the ig-
norance of Christianity. the appalling heather
ism which prevails in the mountaia regions of
that State comforts itself with the reflection
that with the penetration of the Marietta &
North Georgia railroad through that section, and
influx of population, contact and intelligence will
dissipate this ignorance the rising sun scatters
the mist of the morning" It may be true that
the railroad is civilizer, that the gospel ship
travels on railway track in preference to any
other thoroughfare; but the scoffer will
find it difficult to understand why
enterprising and Jealous missionaries should
wait for the ''steam cars" before making their
way into these mountain Businesses Where are
the circuit-rders who, according to Miss Muir
free are prominent figures among Tennessee
mountainsersl Are there no successors to the
pioneer revivaists who, staff in hand. penetrated
to the remotest wilderness forty years ago, and
sought out the most obscure sinnerq Is it true
that the home missionary of the period will put
up with nothing less than all the modern con-
veniencesq
A FRESHMAN has been discovered in Lafayette
College. at Easton, Pa. who has a few old
fashioned ideas that might, with profit, be again
brought into practice. Curiously enough, he
objected to the indignities and insults heaped
upon freshmen by members of higher classes,
and when a delegation of sophomores broke into
his room at night to haze him, he met them with
revolver and began firing point blank at the
leaders. Fortunately no one was struck. but
the ardor of the hazers TO get at the fellow was
not circumstance to the enthusiasm with
which they got out of there.
In a damage suit in New York city. brought
against young lady for alternating the affections
Of a husband, the defendant. to identify her
writing, was requested to write few words from
dictation. The court stopped her when she
spelled went with an ''h" after the wv" This
should not be allowed to prejudice her case, for
it was shown that a few months previously she
had been kissed against her will A Young
woman kissed against her will is not herself
again for months and, it may be- never But it
should be remarked that such cases are rare
very rare indeed
THE newspapers Of this and other States
chronicle the progress of an unusual number of
successful religious revvals There Is an in
stinct in man which bids him prepare in advance
for the trials of presidential campaign, which
period is apt to be an off year in religion. The
question is, does the prevailing earnestness and
interest manifested thus early indicate that the
next campaign is to be more trying and democrat
izing thar usual.
THE conductor of the Marine band at Wash
ington has composed waltz, entitled 1.-THE
Transition Of Venus" which he has dedicated to
Miss Cleveland. There are some compensations
in life, after all, for the woman who sacrificed
the proud luxurious position of school ma'am to
assume the cares and responsibilities of the
Presidents household.
PEOPLE who fail to understand why General
Hancock. with salary of $500 year, left his
wife nearly penniless at his death. will find an
explanation in the mention Of a single instance
of expenditure, which. In smaller way, was
constantly being repeated. 1t is narrated that