The Indianapolis journal., 1890-04-22

school with his AK. ard. handing this in
strument to the irato Carlyle. exclaimed:
''Jist d0o't ootricht and no mince matters"
A RIcHMoND man afirns that it was the
visit of the New York Seventh to that city
in 1857 which led to the adoption of gray
IS the color of the confederate uniforms
few years later.
1T is agreeable to see q man with q sense
of the propriety of things A clergyman
named Fiddle refused to accept the title of
ID. ID. because, as he said. he didn't want
to be called Rev. Ichabod Fiddle, ID. d."
ONE hundred districts in Victoria, Aus
tralia. will soon take simultaneous action
towards the destruction of the rabbit
plague. Poisoned grain will be used and 1t
is hoped that 80 per cent of the rabbits
will be killed.
GENERAL FREMONT wore his hair falling
over his shoulders until within five or six
years ago when some friends induced him
to have it cut quite short. This changed
his appearance so greatly thSt he declared
be could hardly recognize his own reffec-
tion in the mirror.
THE rat plague in Lincolnshire, England,
continues in spite of the enormous destruc-
tion of the animals by the farmers during
the past few months. One farmer who
scattered poisoned barley about his yards
every night gathered crop of 800 rats in
one day. Where they came from seems to
be q my stery.
JOSEPH MANSFIELD, of Elizabeth, N. j..
is a young man who play s foot ball. and the
other night as he was coming home three
dogs attacked him. With fine drop kick
he laid one dead, sent a second flying In
the. air with several broken ribs and so
scared the remaining dog that he ran away.
Learn to play football.
QUEEN VICTORIA has written two books
which have never been published. They are
volumes of travel. and recount her impress
sions of various places on the continent.
She has been so annoyed at the criticisms
of her published works that she has re-
fused to have these manuscripts put into
print. They will be published after her
death.
A WEALTHY citizen of Dover, Me-, was
mortified the other day. He had just been
making clean breast of his deplorable
financial condition to the assessors; and on
going to grocery store soon after, he was
appalled, to find that the assessor had taken
his statement SO literally as to order q
barrel of -four, Goldfish and some other
articles sent to him at the towns expense.
PETERS PENCE was collected last year
according to the following table: Austria
contributed f16,0OO; Italy and France, Ella.
600 each: South America f12,OO0: North
America Ell, 800; Spain. $4,000; North Ger
many. 81, 200; Portugal. 10000; ireland, f5.-
$4,000; Great Britain. f3, 800: Africa. fs 600
Poland. f3.400; Australia. fS, 400; Switzer.
land, f2,2O0, and Russia, FL 600.
WHEN General Nelson A. Miles was in
Arizona he found in.Geronimo's band two
white girls. A poor white family, crossing
the plains. had been captured by the saw
age Apaches. The father and mother and
Oldest children were killed. leaving two
young girls, whom General Miles by q
| clever ruse rescued. He took the two little
waits to the fort, put them in his wife's
charge. and Kept them for nearly two years
| at his own expense. He then succeeded in
| getting good homes for them, and his
friends say that to this day-that was
eight years ago-he has kept watch over
| them, sending them gifts of money from
time to time.
Ii is told in the. Kansas City Times that
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams is now review
ing and destroying the diary which, like
his forefathers. he has faithfully kept fol
many years. When his wife. who is deeply
interested in the record of the days befor,
| the marriage-a record, by the way, sh,
has never seen-rem0nstrated with him f0l
burning up the diary, he replied: Il didn'
know what a colossal fool was a qnarte
| of century ago." The other evening al
President Adams sat by the open freplac,
| tossing the white pages of the diary int,
the flames one by one, he read to a party
of friends an account of an Interview ;
| quarter of a century ago. twas something
| like this: Reached Washington early thu
| morning. One of the first persons that
met there was Senator Sherman of Ohio
Had long talk with him, but the charac
teristic statement made by the Senator wa
this: Il agree with my party In large things
as matter of principle. in small things a.
| matter of convenience