The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE Epoch: Tho sweetest thing in purses is
when pretty girl purses her lips
OSCAR WILDE thinks :aat the culture of the
world will be in pett;coats in the twentieth CEN
fury.
IN Waldeck, Germany, it is the duty of mar
riage-cense officers to inquire whether a man
or woman is drunkard, and, if So to refuse a
license.
WE respectfully suggest that President Cleve-
land might do good thing in presenting beau
tifully engrossed copy of the Constitution of
the United States to L. Q. c. Lamar.
CHICAGO Herald: At Louisville. the other
day, Mr.. Moody preached a sermon on '.The
Sheep That Was Lost" The wool question
should not be carried into religion. 1t is too
prominent, indeed, in politics. where it properly
belongs.
THE statement that the late Mrs. Theodore F.
c. Dernarest, of Los Angelep CAL. wrote the IA
miliar hymn, MY Ain Countree." is disputed,
and counter claim to the authorship is put
forward in behalf OF the late Peter Gilfllan, of
Scotland.
JOHNNY JONES, he is called is the finan-
cial king of New Zealand. He lives at Dunedin
and his wealth up into the millions, and
the greater part of 1t was made in steamboating
He is native. and earned scant wages
as an oarSman on q ferry boat
Miss AMELIA RIvEs, the author, is said to
have been overwhelmed with offers of marriage
since her portrait published in Harpers
Magazine recently. She was greatly discomfit-
ed by the first letter of the kind but has since
grown quite accustomed to them.
EXPECTING DEATH" said Major J. w. Powell
of the late Spencer F. Baird. at the memorial
exercises in Washington the other evening
''and having become enervated by overexertion,
he calmly and philosophically awaited the time
of all times. Almost his last words were adj
dressed to little child saying. in his weakness
I am more Of a baby than YOU"
GEO. w. RosURE, known as the ''cowboy
evangelist" is said by an Arkansas newspaper
to be worth 500. 600. which yields him an in
come of $3.50 day. His fortune was made in
cattle and by lucky investments in real estate
He is just forty years old, and in his youth
reported to be one of rhe most lawless of the
desperadoes of the plains.
AN Englishman, the other day. visited the
tower of the Cathedral at Cordova with gypsy
guide. Two shots were heard, and the English
man came down with blood on his clothes
The dead body of the gypsy was found at the
top of the tower, and the Enelishman was ar
rested. But his story that he attacked by
the guide and shot him in self defense was ac-
copied and he was discharged.
Mrs. D. G. CRoLY, otherwise known as Jen-
ME June, says that the male opinion is that
women not lovable after twenty-five, and
never club-able She denies both allegations
and defies all "alleeators" There are half dozen
weli-estaoilshed womens clubs in New York
and she belongs to one of the Oldest The one
thing that has been proven By these clubs is
that women tsane women) can keep secret.
No outsider has yet been able to find out wheth-
er or not their stewardesses keep cold tea.
THE richest in Bangor, Me-, is Edward
FL. Blake who is worth between 81. 00O, 900 and
$5,000000 He is not yet forty years of age
and remains unmarried He was graduated at
Bowdoin College, and is lawyer by profession
He spends his time in looking after the large
property left him by his father and uncle Mr..
Blake IS an eccentric man, and has but init
mate friend He has neither parents, sisters
nor brothers. and lives a lonely life. The only
serious charge that can be brought against him
is that he plays the clarinet
THERE is log of yellow color standing Just
outside of Chi Hua Gate of Peking where it
has been since the fall of the Ming dynasty.
commanding the reepect Of all classes Of people,
It is in perfect condition. The insects have
not made any raid upon it they do on other
logs. The people believe that the log must be
the residence of some god. SO they annually
worship it. On the LIST of October the EN-
peror commanded the board of ceremonies TO
appoint a few officials to pay respects to the
deifed log.
"a CURIOUS experimental Catholic version of
the gospels in thoroughly modern French-has
just been put stop to-" says the Paris CORE
spondent of the London Times. '.Some mouths
ago NJ. Henri Lasserre, fervent Catholic pub.
lished French translation of the gospels from
the Vulgate, and received many compliments
from Catholic prelates and journals. He also
published amended edition which benefited
by certain criticisms Both editions, however,
have been placed on the index, and NJ Lasserre.
deferring good Catholic to this decision.
will suppress the book"
GREAT curiosity is excited as to how General
Bragg will stand tho rarefied climate of Mexico.
Says Washington correspondent: 1.-THE ex-
cuse that has been given by the gentlemen sent
to Mexico by Mr.. Cleveland for some eccentrici-
ties in their behavior upon conviyial occasions
in the capital of the Montezumas has been that
the high altitude of the city has disturbed their
equanimity General Braegss newspaper friends
believe that he stand the racket, however.
They intend to send the President OF Mexico a
photograph of General Bragg making his great
speech at the dinner of the Gridiron Club in
Washington last winter.