The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-30

David Crocketts Masonic apron is now
in the possession of Mr.. E. NJ. Taylor. OF
Paducah. Ky. 1t is in excellent condition
and treasured highly. 1t was given to Mr..
Taylor by a descendant of a friend one OF
the oid-time settlers, and an associate OF
Crockett
Judge Walter s. Cox of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia. will
reach the age of seventy years on the 18th
of October and, having served more than
ten years, will then he eligible 10 retire
from the bench with full saiary continued
until his death.
Rev. S. j. Barrows. who has been nomi-
mated for Congress by the Republicans OF
the Tenth district OF Massachusetts, is a
well-known Unitarian Clergyman and the
editor of the Christian Register or Boston.
He Is man of wide culture ana Is me
classical scholar.
When Governor Bradley, of Kentucky.
goes away on stumping tours or for private
business he always pays acting Governor
Worthington for his services to the State
out OF his own pocket. When he is away
on the States business he let's the State
pay the man who takes the executive chair.
Justice as it is dispensed officially and
otherwise, in Arizona had an illustration
the other day at Phoenix when man who
had thrashed q Deepng Tom went to Jus
tice tombstone and wanted to plead guilty.
but was told by the justice TO go back home
and drub the offender again upon any
provocation
King Leopold of Belgium has one subject
who is ready to show his independence. NJ.
Vandendriesche bought d lot in front of the
Kings villa at Ostend and built house on
it that interfered with the Kings view.
The King demonstrated whereupon NJ
VandendrIesche pulled his house down and
built twelye-story iron hotel on the lot.
The marriage of Mr.. and Mrs. Kincaid
of Minneapolis, grew out of the publication
in leading magazine of an article by Miss
Yates entitled "A Model Husband The
standard set up by Miss Yates interes ted
Mr.. Kincad, who began a correspondence
with her, and recently they were married.
The groom is Seventy-three and the bride
SlXty-one years old.
Those high in church authority in Paris
have been obliged to forbid the young
priests to ride the bicycle. Their long gar
ments have forced the youthful zealots to
use ladies' wheels. The sight of priests
riding ladies' wheels, their ecclesiastical
pett1coatS mapping in the breeZeS, has been
the cause OF too much hilarity and the
edict that they at least must not ride
ladies' wheels has gone forth
She" is dead, official news to that effect
having been received in London from Pre-
toria. Her real name was Natalie She
was the mystical queen of the so-called
Woodbush tribes of South Africa and is
known to have been at least 120 years Old
probably a good deal more, there being
official proofs extant to show that she was
divine queen more than d century ago.
Queen MaJajie was the original of the
heroine in Rider Haggard's weil-known and
popular novel She
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson has figured
as the defendant in lawsuit in Samoa
She acted as her own attorney and made
the plaintiff weary before she let him leave
the stand. Mrs. Stevenson was sued by r.
+. Chatfeld, proprietor of a Samoan news
paper, for expenses incurred in caring for
the estate of Valima during the thirteen
months of her absence. When Mr.. Chat
field went on the stand to answer Mrs
Stevenson's cross-examination the lady
held him for nearly three-quarters OF an
hour and her remarks did not lack abuse
of the methods adopted by the newspaper
man. The plaintiff met all questions with
q ready answer. and at the end of the trial
the justice awarded him half the amount
of his claim.
Lucretia walked the floor, and she
Was just mad as mad could be-
For Fido. saucy little pup,
Had eaten all the moth balls up:
But just know twas not to tease,
But cause he's bothered so with fieas
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