The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-08-14
ABOUT PEOPLE AND Things.

MYRoN JILsoN. of Nottingham. VT. al
though only eighteen years old. is said to
be six feet ten inches in height and TO
weigh two hundred pounds. He is still
growing.
IL Paisley, Scotland, two boys. one thir-
teen years old and the other ten, were re-
Gently sentenced by justice of the peace
to receive two stripes each with the birch
rod for having msliciously broken twenty.
six panes of glass in the windows OF
house and stable.
A GENTLEMAN who has heard Oliver Wen-
dell Holmes comment on Holbein portrait
reports him thus: That eye God gave
him. That forehead God gave him In part,
but he has put the wrinkles upon IL him.
self; but the mouth. God gives that to each
one of us to make for himself"
DIR. j. NJ BUCKLEY said some resl mean
things In bis clever and incisive speech. az
Chautauqua, against the extension of suf-
frage to women. and excited not q little
indignant on among the yellow-ribboned
maids and matrons who listened TO him.
If the governing spirit were TO enter into
women, he thinks, this world would DO q
most uncomfortable place for the men.
GENERAL HAzEN took his eight-year-old
son abroad with him. About the boys
neck hung handsome gold medal on one
side of which was his name. On the other
side of the medal was this inscription: 1T
this child should be loet, send him at once
to his grandfather. Washington Mclean:
Cincinnati, United States of America"
Strange to say. nobody stole either boy or
medal
THERE is q movement on foot IN England
to permit bearers of the minor title OF
Honorable to prefix tits TO their names
upon their visiting cards. The honorable
movers hold that in these days. when there
are so many honorables that the public
can't remember who 10 honorable and who
il not, their distinction will 60 unrecog-
nIzed unless they arc permitted to lasse
themselves.
The late Conrad Jordan. of Salisbury,
Md, was an eyewitness of some of the
great events of the first Napoleon's time.
Az lad of only eight years no saw part of
the historic battle of Leipsic. and few
years later beheld the Little Corporal
riding at the head of bis army At Waterloo.
He was the son of Marshal Jordan who
with Joseph Bonaparte. commanded the
French forces and their allies at the battle
Of Vittoria.
Mrs. ELLEN HARRIS of Philadelphia,
who organized the first Woman's Aid Soci-
~ in the country, soon after Fort Sumter
was fired on, is living at Florence. Italy,
at an advanced age. Until prevented by
inhrmity II was her custom TO observe all
che best loves and to which she Is always
loyal, and to invite large party of Amer
lean friends to fine Thanksgiving dinner
every year.
THE resources of the lecture-room are
decidedly increased when Professor Dewsr
was able, in a lecture on Chemistry" in
London lately, to produce liquid oxygen in
| the presence of the audience. literally by
| pints. and TO pass liquid air about the room
-lo fl~r .rs.fia
about 1852 below zero. and air at 343o be-
| low zero. If the earth were reduced TO q
| temperature o. 1872 below zero il would
be covered by = sea of liquid air thirty
| five feet deep.
SARAH BERNHARDr is spending her sum-
mer in q little villa in St Johns Wood.
within q stones throw of the priory where
George Eliot lived for thirty years. AL
| though she IL TO be there but short time,
she has brought books. pictures and bric-a-
brac galore, together with ell the skins col
| lectcd in her recent tour around the world.
| Sic has comparatively few guests, and
| most of her time ~ spent with the small
| children who live in the neig hborhood. and
| who are always around her.
Mrs. MARTHA ANNIE REX. the aged me-
| gress who recently went all the way from
west Africa 20 see Queen Victoria, had put
aside her small savings for fifty years -
| accomplish the trlp. one is
years old, and one OF thirteen children who
| in their youth were all sold into slavery IN
| the United States. What became of hef
brothers and sisters she never heard. bpt
| her father. long since dead, MANAGED TO
| buy his own and her liberty and they both
went to Liberia. the free State In Africa.
| LIEUT.-CoL- j. b. II. STREAToR. Of the
| Pennsylvania National Guard. Is said to he
| man Of unusual strength. According 10
An exchange. he made q peculiar exhibition
of his powers at the division encampment
at Mount Grctna. In 1880. One night. W hlle
he was officer of the guard, he ordered some
! roistering milisiamen. six in all, back TO
their quarters. They refused To 90. and
! one of them insuited Streator. who there
upon picked ND the offender by main force.
| and, usng him as . batterin e ram. dashed
| HIM against his friends with such effect
that they were glad to beat retreat
THAT BEING TIRE CASE.
"Dou you recall" he whispered low.
| THAT afternoon parted.
| When on the train you sped away
And left me broken hearted,
| How thru latter you kiss
And you did not return III
| Twas cruel OF y0u 10 treat me tins;
| oh. say, why did you spurn IT.
s'I kepr the kiss" she softly Cried
81 thought with smile the quevresp