The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-18
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Labouchere Is by no means an epicure.
His favorite dish is broad beans and bacon.
A married lady in Calhoun county. Mich
igan. teaching a district school at so per
month, boards herself and does the janitor
work.
A number of Georgia papers during the
campaign have referred to Governor Atkin-
son as a "wife-made man. and his friends
have not denied the assertion.
The will of the late Miss Anna Eliot
Ticknor, of Boston. gives 1000 to the So
ciety to Encourage Home Study and $1,000
each to the Boston Home for lncurables
and the Boston Young Mems Christian
Union.
Col. John S. Mosby claims that he in
vented the phrase of 1.-The solid South"
first using 1t in a letter advocatinE tha
election of General Hayes In the presiden-
tial campaign of 1876, the exact date being
Aug. u.
The first New York woman 10 don the
new rainy day costume was Miss Grace
Welby, who came out on Tuesday last in a
suit of golden brown cloth made with a
stylish jacket and a skirt that cleared the
ground by fully six inches"
The Century Company has just issued a
Autograph in color of an American flag
21x29 inches. having on It's stripes the
names of the thirteen original States in the
the stars the name OF each of the forty
five States, with the date of its reception
in the sisterhood of states.
VI u. 1uIIle WHO CldlIIlS 10 Ot the IN
ventor of a successful aerial machine, is a
master engineer at Cranston Hill. Glasgow.
He speaks with the utmost confidence of
his machine, which has occupied him for
fifteen years. He says that it is a very
great departure in aerial navigation, and a
big revelation in a particular line.
Ian Maclaren'' boldly denied from Beech
er's old pulpit that a Scotchman once went
on his wedding trip alone on account of the
expense of two people travelling together.
Never ask a Scotchman if it is raining.
l have never heard a Scot admit that the
rain is falling. What have heard him
turn out wet"
Aubry de We're. the poet, lives in a beauti-
full house at Curragh Chase. Kildare. and
is writing an autobiography, which will
contain interesting "reminiscences of the
many men of letters and other eminent per-
sonages with whom he has been in init
mate association during the last half cen.
fury. Mr.. De We're. Notwithstanding his
activity of mind and body.
The following articles were found in a
boys pocket in Elizabeth, N. j., the other
day when he was searched by the police:
A live water turtle, a pint or more of hick-
DRY nuts, pictures and business cards. a
clay pipe, half a box of cigarettes, a piece
of chewing tobacco, buttons, matches, a
quantity of old strings, and a small vial of
water, which, he said, was for the turtle.
which he considered a great pet.
w. G. Souther, an old-time newspaper
man, died In Topeka this week. At the time
of his death Mr.. Souther was probably the
only living witness of the famous duel be-
tween Abraham Lincoln and General
Shields. He was a reporter on the Sanga-
mon Journal and smuggled himself across
to the dueling ground as driver of the
horse which worked the sweeps on the
ferry boat. He was much sought after by
Lincoln historians and possessed a navel:
Gus wealth of anecdote about old Abe"
as he always called him.
The lady fair mounted her wheel,
A-looking just too sweet,
And the villain laughed his chill 'Ha ha,"
And had them sprinkle the street.
Detroit Tribune.
A wheelman struck a fallen limb,
Which knocked the breath quite out OF
himb.
But what was worse
And made him corse.
He found he'd smashed his forward rimb.
Buffalo Courier.