The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

SPEAKER CARLISLE has two sons, William
and Logan. William is twenty -seven years of
age and is married. Logan is younger and still
a bachelor. They are both in business at
Wichita, Kan.
THE Epoch: Wife-John, do you know that
this is the anniversary of my wedding day2
Husband-Why. no it isn't We were married
in March Wife, am speaking of my first
husband John.
Fun: Miss Forsyght--Do you think its quite
the thing dear, to a sprig of mistletoe
-conspicuously placed in your front haira Miss
Angenew-Why, what would be the use of hid
ing it in my back hair, dear2 ~
FIFTY-sIx years ago last Friday night William
Lloyd Garrison and eleven others organized in
Boston the New England Anti slavery Society.
OF the twelve who signed the constitution of
the society that night Oliver job nson alone sur
wives.
DIR. MERRIAM, of North Adams, Mass, has in
his possession a sleigh which was made for his
great great grandfather in 1868. and which has
been used by the different generations Of the
Merriam family ever since. 1t is still strong,
and DR.. Merriam drives about in it every day.
MISS RUTH OBERLY, one of the six pretty and
clever daughters of Civl-service Commissioner
Oberly is one of the wittiest young in
Washington society. She recently remarked
HPeople reside in Boston. live in New York.
dwell in Philadelphia, sojourn in Washington
and inhabit Chicago" Some very nice dstinc-
tions are here made in epigrammatic way.
MAJOR POND has been corresponding with n.
Rider Haggard in reference to his coming to
America to lecture. The author of .sShe" has
how cabed that his lowest terms will be f100
night. and Major Pond thinks that he will have
to postpone his visit until he revises his notion
that the American lecture field is sort of
King Solomon's Nine" or until he finds a
ager who would like experience and is willing to
pay for 1T.
GEORGE W. WILLIAMS, the colored historian
and the best known writer of his race, has just
put the finishing touches to DRAMA which he
hopes to see performed on the stage before very
long. The mage of this play is 'Panda,7 and
the scene is laid in Africa '.Panda." the hero
is said to be second 'Othello" in character and
appearance. The horrors of slave-ship
reproduced. and one scene is devoted to a slave
market in Charleston S. &.
A MEETING of the Wendell Phillips Hall AS.
ISOLATION will be held in Boston Feb. %, to
begin the work of raising the necessary funds
for memorial building to Wendell Phillips
and to commemorate his services in the anti
slavery and other reform movements. Large
and small halls. library. and reading rooms;
offices, etc. are to be provided for labor. tenn
prance. woman suffrage, and reform organiZa-
tons generally, at a nominal expense.
THE winter term at Wellesley College has
opened with Helen A. Shafer as president
Miss Shafer is woman of remarkable intellect
ual qualities. Her speciality is mathematics,
and in that branch she has proved that the fe-
which man has to great extent monopolized.
Miss Shafer is a tall, slender, graceful woman,
with pale, delicate face, brown hair and earn
est, blue-gray eyes. She was born in Newark
n. j.. and obtained her education at Oberlin
College Ohio from which institution che re-
ceived the degree of III. A.
DON'T GO TOO FAR
Now as the dainty of calendar we tear off
Most of wicked it behooveth to swear off;
But two wild, vicious sins must not yet ro-
pent.
Life.
MISSED 1T.
They met he proposed; but she secuted the thoughts
With passionate ardor his words they were fraught;
She guessed that again he would fall on his knee
Ard madly implore her to smile on bis plea
Fut he wastoo hy n....
Mr. YATES gives in his World tLondon)
hitherto unpublished story of Rogers, the poet
MANY" he says. twill remember Henry T.
ChorIey the musical critic of The Athen9um, a
man as repuIsive in appearance. as insolent in
bearing. as malevolent in speech rs Rogers
himself These were his charac tfristics in later
life: but when young and obscure he was anx-
ious to propitiate the risen, and to testify his
mental and moral ohsequousness and desire for
notice. One day in a crowded room he saw old
Rogers lowering here and there among the
company, and addressed him, Offering his own