The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-28
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ENGLAND sent more than IL 900. 900 free-trade
| documents into this country last year
Dry GooDs Chronicle: A woman who dresses
| well on hundred year says: II am too poor
/ TO buy anything but the very best
PRAISE COP BAREBoNEs, the Puritan has n
rival as far as a name is concerned. in Bend
| thickness johnson, recently born in Boston.
''HIAwATHA" viii have TO do for an American
! epic. thinks Professor Davis, of the University
| of Michigan. until better one is unearthed in
| aboriginal literature.
| w. W. GREENoUGH. for th:rty-two years
president of the Boston Public Library, gives
| notice that he cannot serve longer He is one
| of the best librarians IN the country.
| A MAN by the name of Mcclure has sued Tom
| Mast the cartoonist for $3.50, at San Francisco.
! McGuire who is Nast's manager says that the
| money was lent to buy Christmas presents for
| Nast's family
| NEW hanson cabs in London are provided
with small silver whistles for the use of lady
| passengers TO direct the driver. One whistle
| signifies turn to the right two to the left and
| so on; something like the pilot signals of q
| steamboat.
| WIN. d. HowELLs, the novelist was a type
| setter, and was Bret Harte, and so was Mark
! Twain. r. II. Stoddard, the poet. was a black
smith, Frank Stockton was engraver, and
John G. Whittier q farmer. with slight in
terruption, until ne was nearly thirty years old.
BISHOP HENRY c. POTTER, of New York. has
been irreverently but graphically described as
| the "best groomed" man in New York. His at.
| tire, however. is the simple dress of Epis-
copal bishop with nothing to distinguish it from
the ordinary clergyman's dress except the little
purple silk apron worn State occasions
PUoK ''Musc is love in search of a word"
| said Sidney Laner. Well bet So that the late
lamented never dreamed of its going cunning
| for such words as MISREPRESENTATION and
| "Liebeswebens" and ''Weltbegruessune' and
"Liebesentzukune;" but when it came into the
woods of the Wagnertes, it struck big game.
FORMER citizen of Pinkneyville, ILL.,, has
| probably the largest grave in the world. He
was down in his coal mine day. and when in
| a remote gallery the roof caved in, and the
waters of a subterranean stream flooded the
mine which was about ten acres in extent 1t
was impossible to recover the body and the
| sons of the drowned mineowner closed up the
| shaft and placed headstons over their fathers
ten-acre grave.
WILLIAM MAssEY's generous gift of 500, 900
| to the House of Refuge at Philadelphia, to en-
able that institution to remove TO some quiet
place in the country, where the inmates may be
educated as farmers, is not only applauded in
his own State. but is spoken of with admiration
wherever report Of the benefac'ion has become
known. Mr.. Massey is a wealthy brewer, and
| evidently does not intend to leave his heirs TO
| fight against his charities.
CHEvALIER BLoNDIN, who made the whole
continent SILVER when years ago he crossed Nj
the possibilities of tieht-rope eccentricites when
he returns to this country shortly. Among his
features" will be lunch party for one. He
proposes TO carry a miniature stove upon the
rope build fire. cook omelette, and then
regale himself with bottle of champagne, and,
provided the hzz does not go to his feet to
return TO the end bindfulded. This would be
difficult to many on terra frma.
WELL KNOWN Paris scientist, DIR. Dslaunay,
has made some curious discoveries which show
ha hafxv IiffI
To ascertain the qualities OF appli cant cook be
says it is sufficient to give her plate 10 Clean n
sauce to make, and watch how she moves her
hand in either Act. If she moves it from left to
right. in the direction of the hancs of a
watch. you may trust hers if the other way she
is certain to be stupid and incapable. The in
telligence of people may also be gagged the
Doctor further says by asking them TO make
circle on paper with pencil and noting in which
direction the hand il moved. The good students
in mathematical class draw circles from left to
right The inferiority of the softer SEX as we'll
as the male ounces is shown by drawing from
word. says the Doctor, centrifugal movements
are characteristic of intelligence ard higher de-
veloDment; centripetal ara a mark of incomplete
evolution. person. as his faculties are devel-
oped ay even come to draw circles in differ
ent way from what he did in bis youth.
THAT'S ALL.
She was a pretty salesgirl;
Ee asked FOR a kiss.
For he was the accepted
Of the fair and blushing miss,
She gave him and she drew
Her rosy lips away,
rs there she asked in trem bling tones
Anything else to-day?''