The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28

speaker Reed has made arrangements
with magazine to write an article upon
current economic and political subjects
every two weeks for a year.
Mrs Ormiston Chant denies that she en-
Joyed the cigarette she smoked in Crete
She says 1t did not appease her pangs of
munger, but only blistered her lips
The find of the papyri on the borders of
tho Libyan desert is said TO be very valu-
able, as dating back to about sixty years
after the crucifiXion, is found to contain
many detached sayings of Christ. They will
fund.
William Allen Butler, the chief promoter
or the latest great transcontinental railway
scheme, in which three big trunk lines fig
ure, is the man who in ante-bellum times
created the famous Flora McFlimsey in the
celeDrated poem, Nothing TO Wear" Mr..
6utier is now successful lawyer in New
York.
In Beloochistan, when the physician
gives dose, he is expected to partake of a
similar one himself as a guarantee of his
good faith. Should the patient die under
his hands the relatives-though they rarely
exercise it-have the right of putting him
70 death, unless special agreement has
Deen made freeing him from all responsible
lty as to consequence; while, If they should
decide upon immOlating him, he is fully eX-
A. r. Spofford, the librarian of Congress,
who has been relegated to second place,
was war correspondent during the war of
the rebellion. At one of the Bull Run bat
ties he had for colleagues Murat Halstead,
Wizard, Boynton and WhiteiaW Reid. He
was appointed librarian by President Lin
coin, and for thirty-fiVe years held the Of
flee.
Anthony Hope Hawkins, being asked if
he would write book on America after his
reading tour in the fall answered: Not if
you treat me we'll over there. Indeed, l
will be there too long to write my impress
SlOns. understand that no traveller ever
writes book who stays in country more
than week, and l will be in America three
months at the least"
Hevre, the French composer, whose COM
&c opera is now the rage in Paris. began
his musical career as an organist. When a
boy he strolled into a church one day and
persuaded the blower to let him try the or
gan after service. He then improvised
something wonderfully sweet and strange.
The priest stroled in and was amazed.
my boy?" he asked. This is the first
time have ever played it, father, he re-
piled. Wei, you had better apply for the
post of organist here" said the priest
There is a vacancy next week" The boy
applied and was accepted.
OF Mr.. Winans, the American millionaire,
who died the other day, London Figaro
says: He had a curious mania for mill
lionaire. He made it a rule to pay no bills
except once every six years, when he had
a general settling-up to satisfy the law Of
prescription II any tradesman insisted on
being paid sooner, Winans declined to deal
with him again. Most of the tradesmen
submitted, because they knew their money
was safe enough and that they would be
paid all they asked lavshly in the end. But
sometimes they served writS upon him,
which made him very angry indeed. Unlike
Some millOnaireS, he had no reluctance
about parting with his money, but he al
ways said that he thought it ought to be
the privilege of a millionaire never to have
to think about money"
They were sitting in the moonlight,
On an old stone wall,
And he put his arm around her,
That she might not fall.
George" she said to him quite sternly,
You have quite gall"
MANY times I've had my arm there,
In a large dance hall,
And you never once objected,
Said he, through it all.
But" she answered, that was different"
Well" he said, wen hire hall"
Facts and Fiction.