The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-01

list, and for several years hlled the office
or state assayer and Inspector of liquors
ana later that of inspector of milk for
deavor convention in San Francisco was
the draping of many saloons in honor OF
Welcome c. e.
According to st. Petersburg journal.
Nansen has been in that city lately trying
to organize company with capital OF
50,0O0o 600 rubles for exploiting the iron and
expedition.
The greater part of the cast-off uniforms
of British soldiers find their way into the
shops of dealers in second hand clothing.
The coats are then either cut up. sold TO
tneSatr lS managers. or exported to Africa
ana ,SIsSNhefe Tor trading purposes with
the Kaffirs and other uncivi1ized people
Lovers of the Swiss Alps will rejoice to
hear that the Dissertation Of the Jungfrau
by railroad is postponed sine die. 1t seems
that the promoters of the project have en-
countered insuperable difficulties in connec-
ton with the disputed ownership of tho
land over which the railroad would pass.
Mrs. Steel. the novelist does not think
that British rule in India has been pro-
ductive of unmixed good. The western
standard of civilization-luxury is, she
says quite unknown in India, and simplici-
ty of life is still common, in spite of the
gradual change brought about by the for
eigner. But says Mrs. Steel this simple
life which fostered no distinctions of class,
had been preserved for 1900 years by In
dian civilization, but ours will destroy it in
fifty years"
John Howard Bryant brother of the poet.
William Cullen Bryant and oldest surviving
member of the family made famous by its
talented writer is ninety years old. He has
resided in Princeton. H., for sixty-three
years and recently witnessed a great family
union to celebrate the gentle old mans
birthday. Uncle John" as he is affection
ately called by all his neighbors, comes of
May1oWer stock. His father was DIR. Peter
Bryant famous Massachusetts, physician,
John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, of Court
ship of Miles StandiSh' fame. Uncle John
is poet of no mean ability.
Maggie Mitchell" says a writer in the
Philadelphia Times lis the most wonder
fully well-preserved woman 1 ever met. She
is not ashamed of her age, and is sixty
years if she is day old, and yet she looks
far younger and much more comedy than
most women of fifty. Her figure is as trim
and neat as well-made girls. and she
is as quick on her feet as miss of six
teen With the exception of slight streak
of gray on each temple her hair is as gold
en- brown as it ever was and its meshes
have thrilled many heart when she used
to let it hang down her back in the shadow
dance in 'Fanchon the Cricket She will
never play again, except. perhaps, for the
benefit of some dear friend, for she is very
wealthy and lives at her ease in Long
Branch 10
Mary had little lamb,
It's fleece was white as snow,
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.
Its fleece is still as white as snow,
But Mary's lamb has grown,
And now she'd rather walk three miles,
Than face that lamb alone.
Truth.
Here's to the man who doesn't sit down
And idly NOPE and fret
Over mistakes that can't be undone
By tears or by regret.
Here's to the man who turns from the past
And the things that might have been,
Determined to make what is the best
His health, and may he win!
Cleveland Leader.