The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

LENT begins Feb. 10. which leaves barely six
weeks more of the strictly fashionable season.
SOMEBODY "unpatriotically" compares Maine
sardines to pincushions soaked in bad whale OIL
THE Eldorado Republican thus pokes fun at
two well-known New York citizens 'For Pres
ident in 1885, George Francis Train, citizen at
large; for Vice president Citizen George Plat
form-Give the cranks a chance"
IT was a queer coine idence that the venerable
DR.. John D. Ogden, of New York. should have
died s'the night before Christmas" He was
twice married. both of his wives being the
daughters of Clement G. Moore, the author of
the poem THE Night Before Christmas"
A CONTEST over a seat in the Maryland Legs
lature is going on between two men who bear
the striking names. respectively, of Scaggs and
Sasscer Scaggs is said to be man of COM
manding ability. He recently remarked, with
a pungency worthy of his high reputation for in
teilectual brillancy. IT won't stand any of your
Sasscer."
THEODORE TILToN is living in a remote quar-
ter of Paris in by no means affiuent circum-
stances His dress is almost shabby and with
his hair han ging about his shoulders he presents
a peculiar appearance as he walks ABOUT the
streets of the French capital He does little
literary work now and then but writes with no
regularity.
AN experiment is being made the Califor-
MIA coast to test the utility of ocean-wave force.
At an opening in some cliffs great fans are sus-
pended. and their movement at the ebb and flow
of the waves is so geared as to work immense
pumps which are designed to fill large reservoirs
on elevations, these being used to supply water
power to manufactures OF various kinds.
'THE difference between t. V. Powderly and
Mr.. Samuel Gompers, of the American Fedora
tion," said one who knows both very well, sis
that Powderly has the big head developed to
an extraordinary degree. while Gompers is as
modest as any man in the ranks. Powderly has
the power to use the Knights OF Labor as an
emperor uses an army, to feed ms vanity or IN
trench himself in power; while Mr. Gompers
presides over federation of distinct bodies.
each governing itself"
BosToN Herald: Anna E. Dickinson is re-
ported to be on the Of visiting Florida for
her health, which is still much broken. 1t is
said that she has become poor woman, as well.
having parted with the considerable sums OF
money which she had made before her unfortu-
nate desire to be actress broke IN upon her
life Miss Dickinson is brilliant woman intel
lectualy and there will be general regret that
her health has prevented her of late from using
those powers in which is her real strength.
DR. J. HAsEy LOWELL, of Philadelphia, is a
pronounced vegetarian, believing that eating
meat is the cause of untold evils. He even thinks
| that veeetarianism is the best remedy for in
| temperance. His theory IS that flesh eatlng
| men have an abnormal taste for drink, and that
| if men viii only confne themselves to yegeta Die
| food the desire for drink will be antagonized:
! mo man, he says; who eats pound ID, OF
| macaroni daily will become drunkard. What
| we want is a temperance vegetarian restaurant,
| where young men may be banqueted on maca-
! roni beans and rice"
| THE Rev. Samuel Reynolds Hole, the English
| Rosarian, whom the Queen has lately appointed
| to be Dean of Rochester, was educated at Brase
| nose College, Oxford, and graduated B. A. il
| ls44 He was ordained in the same year tt
| the curacy of Caunton, near Newark, and has
| been vicar of Caunton since 1850 In 1873 hi
was appointed rural dean of SouthweH and two
| years later prebendary of Lincoln He was
/ select preacher to the University of Oxford IN
| 1856 and since 1883 has been chaplain to tht
/ Archbishop of Canterbury. He Is the author O.
"A Little Tour in Ireland illustrated o.
Leech, 1853; "A Book About Roses" 1863