The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-29

has been elected principal of the colored
graded school in Sumter, s. L. During the
past few years he has been practicing law
in that city.
JOHN G. WHITTIER has gone to the White
Mountains for month, his feebleness hav-
ing necessitated the change. Although he
is not i'll. his friends are reported to be con-
cerned about his condition.
THE Shah of Persia has acquired the dem
ocratic habit of shaking hands with crowds
of strangers. he is not as skillful in this
as an American President, but he does very
well for an indolent Oriental.
lola is said to be the best paid novelist
IN France. Mrs. Humphrey Ward has just
been offered S5,000for story of $1,000 words,
and John Strange Winter refused an offer
OF $500 for her next novelette,.
THE little house in delightful park be-
tween Second and Third avenues. 1T Nine
ty-trst street, in New York city, where
Washington Irwin lived while he was writ
ing Astoria has just been occupied by a
German club.
The late Theodore Dwight Woolsey, ex-
president of Yale, provided in his will that
such books from his library in Latin, Greek
and German as the committee of the Yale
University library may select be given TO
that institution.
long kept at Castle Greifenstein, were pre-
sented recently to the Grand Duchess
Sophie of Sachsen- Weimar, by the nephew
of Schiller, the Freiherr Ludwig of Gleich-
en-Russwurm. The Grand Duchess imme-
dlately placed them under the management
of the guardians of the Goethe archives in
Welmar. Hereafter these two collections
OF mementOes and manuscripts of the two
greatest German poets will be exhibited
together.
RECENT close inspection of the comet
discovered by Mr.. Barnard, of Lick Obser-
vatory, in September last, shows that it's
body is evidently becoming disintegrated
and the fragments are to be seen streaming
behind the comet in the form of tall,
comet, which is 165, 900 600 miles from the
earth, is still fairly bright, and were it not
for the fragments which are seen to follow
IL, would seem to be In q perfectly normal
condition.
AN act of heroism ON the part of the
United States vice-cOnsul at Kanagawa,
Japan, has just been reported. His name
is G. II. ScidmOre. On the 18th of June a
Japanese subject, Hiravocho Michome.
jumped overheard from the American
steamer City of Rio de .Janeiro, with the
intention of committing suicide. He did
not struggle in the water or make any ef
fort to save himself, and it was with great
difficulty that Mr.. Scidmore, when he
leaped from the launch in which he was
riding. was able to get hold of him and haul
him alongside. Though very pale and very
much fatigued, he said: Take the Japan
ese aboard first" He was finally drawn
aboard himself, and ringing cheers greeted
him as he was landed.
SAY!
stunning name for the stranger man.
Whose steps you desire to stay,
And one that is built a winning plan,
Is the good American "Say!'
Some fish may rise tn the simple "Sir"
And others to "Hi!" or "Heyv'
But the sleepiest wight is sure to stir
At the sharp salute of 'Say!"
Say WHAT you say-it may be naught,
Or may be the time of day;
But a foreigner, tramp or prince is caught,
Never fear. by the shout of "Say!'
J. -Pittsburg Dispatch.