The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-18
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Queen Victoria speaks ten languages
f1uently.
In 1916 Francis Parkman, the historian.
spent the summer among the Dakota
Indians, and the experience cost him his
health for the balance Of his life.
Prof. Huxley, the great scientist. is
keen-eyed, sharp-featured man. He is quite
crotchety, almost cranky, in his ways, and
is renowned for his irascible temper.
Jerry Simpson, while displaying that suit
of old clothes in the House of Representa-
tives, was somewhat annoyed at a men,
Der who cried: Sock 1t TO 'em, jerry
1t is figured out that stamp collectors
have put away s1,0OO,000 worth OF the CO.
lumbar issues for which Uncle Sam will
not be called on TO perform any service.
Two members of the family of Alice and
Phoebe Cary are still living on the old
Clovernook farm, about nine miles from
Cincinnati. They are two brothers of the
poetesses, Asa and Warren. who are re-
spectively seventy-two and sixty-eight
years of age.
An English woman who recently made
her first visit to the United States says
she learned three things on that memoir
able trip; First, that you must not call
the Southerner a Yankee; secondly, that
you must not call the Canadian an Ameri-
can; and thirdly, that the sooner L found
out how l liked America, the better!'
Chauncey NJ. Depew drinks only one
kind of wine at banquets, and eats only
few of the more substantial dishes. He al
lows all of his glasses to be filed but he
lets them stand like sentines around his
plate until the champagne is served when
he vets his whistle He believes that
person can drink a quart of champagne
without harm.
George W. Gable electrified Washington
Sunday school class of pretty girls by tell
Ing them that he had three children at
home, half of them girls. Rapidly scram-
bling through their mental arithmetic, they
fairly rustled with surprise at the start
ing statement-and then heard with an
audible sigh of relief his explanation that
the other half were girls too.
Ephraim Bull, the originator of the Con-
cord grape, is dying at his home in Con-
cord, Mass, from injuries received last
autumn by fall from a ladder Though
eighty-seven years old, he was active until
this injury overlook him. He is poor, hay-
ing lost all his fortune in trying TO intro
duce a new grape that he originated sew
eral years ago. and his friends are caring
Tor him. tie may soon be removed TO a
Home for the Aged in Concord.
The following story is told of the late
Henry w. Paine, the Boston lawyer, who
more than once refused a seat on the
Massachusetts Supreme Bench: While Mr.
Paine was arguing law case one day be-
fore Chief Justice Gray the latter inter-
rupted the course OF argument with the
impatient remark: MIR. Paine, you know
that Is not law The nature and manner
or the interruption were of a kind TO throw
even the most self-possessed advocate off
his balance. Mr.. Paine. however, without
any outward manifestation of annoyance
or embarrassment, replied, with simple
dignity: 1T was law until your Honor
spoke, and proceeded with his argument
Congressman Tom Johnson is the son of
Kentuckian who was a colonel in the
confederate army. The son rapidly grew
rich through street-railway patents and
franchises, and he Is now financially inter-
ested in several important manufacturing
enterprises. He became an unwilling con-
vert TO Henry Georges land theory some
years ago Having read Progress and
Poverty, and being unable to meet its
arguments to his own satisfaction, he
turned over the book to his lawyer and
asked him as counsel to read il and render
an opinion traversing it's argument But
the lawyer, after reading the book, assent
ed 10 the argument, and Mr.. johnson hay-
ing made further personal examination of
the question, enrolled himself among the
dlsclples OF Mr.. George. Mr.. Johnson and
Mr.. George have been close friends for
some years.
Have you seen the pretty girl
With Napoeonic curl,
Hanging right down upon her forehead ?
Shes product of the day,
But you really couldn't say
That the style she has adopted isn't
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