The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

1t Is said that s. f. b. Morse. the in
ventor of the telegraph, had strikingly beau
tiful hands. and Ii was his hand that fur
nished Benjamin West with a model for
the hand OF Christ.
Queen Victoria was exceedingly angered
at her recent drawing room because a
certain peerless who has recently lost a
near relative appeared at court without a
vest!ge of mourning about her toilet.
Gen. II. B. Darlington, formerly Of Indi-
ana, and now a resident of Boston. is COM
plotting arrangements for the publication of
his new book, Beacon Lights of Patriot
ISM General Darlington recently cele-
brated his seventeen birthday.
Assistant District Attorney Francis L.
Wellman, of New York, will, II is re-
ported, be married to Miss Emma Juch,
the operate singer, in June next. Miss
Juch is said TO have Cancelled her engage
ments for next season, and after mar
riage will retire from the stage.
DR.. Zakharin, OF Moscow, who attended
the Gar during his recent illness, is de-
scribed as a very eccentric man. A med
zeal journal, however. declares that the
most notable thing about him consists in
his success in curing patients who have
been given up by the other doctors.
The State Of New York has a brand new
statute designed to restrain the pernicious
activity of cats. Owners of cats are now
required to take out license to permit the
animals to live, and the cat which is not
worth the license fee is adjudged unworthy
Of life by the New York Legislature.
There was a pathetic scene In the Cleve-
land Criminal Court the other day when
Mrs jon Theu. a German. cam from
Ashtabula to receive the sentence intended
for her husband, who had pleaded guilty
of petit larceny. The wife said John was
could best TOf be n spared f to serve PSs oit the
time. She was much disappointed that the
court did not agree to the arrangement
Up In the mountains near Casey's Knob.
Nd, lives Jerry Reese, a man OF many
brothers and half-brothers. His father had
three wives, each of whom had eight sons.
Twelve of these sons were in the Union
army during the war of the rebellion, eleven
of whom were killed-some at the battles
of Bull Run and Antietam- The remaining
brothers were In the confederate army,
and were never heard from, and are sup
posed to be dead.
John Lofquist, a life prisoner in the Co
lumbus. O., penitentiary, has, during the
term of his Incarceration, raised a flock OF
several hundred pigeons. Every one OF
at call. He Says that each has a name
and that he can tell one from the other
claims, are as characteristic as the faces
OF human beings. The pigeons, when they
take their morning fly for exercise. soar
never, unless driven by hunger, go be-
yond the boundaries of the big walls.
Marshal Won Moltke's letters to his fan
Gee and wife who was only sixteen when
she married. while he was forty-one) have
just been issued in two volumes. In one OF
them he urges her not 10 try to copvert
people to different political opinions. Let
every one have his own 1t is odd that in
politics everybody fancies that he is called
upon to give his views, whereas In truth
there are in all the world only a few dozen
persons who know anything about it
Women in particular should remain silent
their field is domestic economy, their faith
erland the home. When / listen to these
sentimental danes who, ignoring all facts
compacts, finances, and similar trifies, only
consider their own wishes, L always fee
like asking them the price of a pound OF
butter"