The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-16
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

JUSTICE MILLER, of the Supreme Court,
has gone to Block island for the summer,
as for a dozen years past.
THREE boys of Jackson, Miss, recently
saved a girl from drowning. and the CRATE
full father gave them five cents, telling
them to divide it among them.
The Rev. II. r. Haweis comes ont strong
~ In the st. James's Gazette in defense of
the Shah, who, he maintains, is not nearly
SUCH a barbarian as he is represented to be.
MAURICE B. FLYNN. the young New York
contractor and politician, who died recently,
used to boast that his father was 1.-THE best
grave-digger that ever was in Kinder
hook"
ODONovAN Rosa has shaved off his
beard, cut his hair, and now looks some
thing like a Christian. Just now he is in
mourning owe the disappearance of his
son., whom he describes as IAN outcast,
aged thirty-one."
JOHN NJ. BRosIUs landed in Atlanta our
years ago with $50 in his pocket, and q
chest of tools which were made in 1S4S.
The same man to-day is worth over $500, 900.
Inc fortune was made on two patentS-an
axle for a wagon and a sewing machine.
LORD BALFoUR, of Burleigh. is a direct
d~escendent of Robert Bruce. and has in
his family archives a deed signed by that
monarch comforting upon one of his ances-
tors the title to a small estate at Clack-
mannan, which has ever since remained in
the possession of the family.
SENATOR JOE Browns son, who is an
Atlana lawyer, thus delivers himself: Our
great question at the South is the negro. I
don't believe anybody knows yet what is
the best solution of the negro problem. /
have come lately to think that if it is left
alone it will solve itself better than staues-
men can solve it."
COLONEL HI. BECKwITH, of Philadelphia,
has the credit of having given the since
famous bonanza king, Mr.. Mackay, his
first employment in mining. Colonel
Beckwith was at hat time superintendent
of q Nevada mine, and became subsequent
~ a partner of Flood. O'Brien& Mackay
in their operations at Virginia City. He
long ago retired on q competency.
No daughter of the late Emperor Fred
erick has the gift of beauty. The heredi-
tary Princess of Saxe-Meiningen has hand
some shoulders when seen from behind,
and so gets her head painted in profile.
with her Jack toward the painter. Prin-
cess Sophie is said to have the face of a
'child staring at vacancy while it holds a
spoonful of pudding in It's mouth"
GEORGE LAW. whose phenomenal DRINKS
in queer company are the subject in peri
Odical newspaper comments, is said to have
been on another spree at Long Branch, dur
ing which he was fleeced of $50, 900. His
appearance on one of these festive saturna-
liza with a couple of tough companions is
said to have suggested the mirth-provoking
.razzle dazzle" song in Hoyts Brass
Monkey"
h. w. JOHNSON, q livery stable keeper, Of
Amsterdam. while out in q buggy saw the
cloud-burst which deluged Johnstown, n.
Y, and says that it was not a meeting of
clouds which caused the precipitation, bnt
the Overtaking of an immense white cloud
by an immense black one. the black one
making a squirt by the aid of a current of
wind, and piling up on the white one. In
about. five minutes q large farm was con-
verified into q lake.
DAVID KIMBALL PEARsONs, the Chicago
philanthropist. who has given more thar
$4,000 to colleges and societies, is one of
the busiest men in Chicago, in spite of his
sixty-nine years. He spends his time be-
tween his city Office and a beautiful sub
oughly in sympathy with his ideas and
plans of doing good with his money while
they are both alive. He looks fifteen years
younger than he is, and talks cOncisely and
to the point.
HE report That the Ober-Ammergau Pas
sion Play has been spoiled is all fudge.
1.-THE rustic flavor of the whole affair."" says
a critic, (which was one of its chief
charms, is gone, together with the devout
atmosphere which pervaded the perform
ance in the old time" The village is, on the
contrary unchanged in it's idyllic stiffness;
the villagers are as reverent as ever, and
the fact that they are to AVE new scenery
and new dresses for the plays production
next year proves nothing against their rev.
erence. 1t royes merely that the old
scenery and costumes were getting worn
out.
AT the Women's Congress now in prog
ress at the Paris exhibition, presided over
by Mile. Deraismes, the greatest woman
speaker in the world" an interesting paper
on the Industrial Women of Sweden" was
read by Mime. Fries. They are bank clerks
and managers, even professors in boys
high-schools, working jewellers, watch
makers. and engaged in every sort of wood
carving. The education of nearly every
Swedish girl who was not born to fortune
was, the lecturer said. in a great degree in
dustrial. There is no doubt. the speaker
added, that the Swedish woman will soon
receive equal political rights.