The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-22
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A strange defense has been offered in
England by a captain who ran an excursion
steamer, as it seemed deliberately on the
rocks near Scarborough. The passengers
thought he was drunk, but he wants to be
let off because he was under the influence
of opium taken to relieve pain.
Some years ago w. H. Brown, chief en-
gineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was
introduced to a clergyman as the greatest
bridge builder in the country, Can you
build a bridge to eternity? f ASKED the the
abutments, was the prompt reply
Thomas w. Stanford, who has made a
great fortune in Australia, is a brother of
Leland Stanford, deceased. Thomas has
given 100000 outright to build a library for
the university which bears the family
name, and has also given notice that his
will makes other liberal endoWments Tor
the university
girl baby of less than half a year is
given portrait in a Chicago paper as the
youngest descendant of Daniel Boone" Her
father is L. N Boone traffic manager of
the Western Union Telegraph Company at
kentucky pioneer. Mr.. Boone has also a
son, aged four years, named Hudson Ward
low
H. Rider Haggard the novelist, was a
pupil in Ipswich school, Nand is described as
a tall, lank youth, with thick crop of I'M
kempt hair, sharp features, prominent nose,
and eyes which had rather wild look
about them. In his classes he never took
d high place, and both his schoolmates and
his masters looked on him as rather
stupid boy.
Mrs. Lease, of Kansas, had an interesting
experience of late. when it was proved in
court that she had mortgaged her house,
worth 5000. for SLIGO, to a bloated capitalist
in the shape of woman who was both q
widow and obliged to work by the day; that
she then refused to paw a cent of interest
on the mortgage. thus making out of the
foreclosure highly profitable sale.
The latest news received from Bonn of
the health of the artist Munkacsy is any
thing but reassuring. Although he derived
great benefit at first from his visit to the
Rhine his condition now has become con-
Siderably worse, and very faint hopes of his
recovery are entertained. He is quite I'M
able to do any work, and his doctors have
forbidden him to attend to any business
matters.
The death of Mrs. Alexander Campbell,
at Bethany, w. Va. week before last at
the age of eighty-fve years will remind
the public of the remarkable growth of the
church founded by her husband. She saw
the very beginning of a sect which now
numbers over l,Q00,0 coo communicates, which
once turned the scale in a presidential cleo
ton. and which is rapidly adding to it's
membership in many States in the Union.
Won Moltke was an early riser and loved
early risers. Once while roaming around
his Silesian estate at daybreak he found
peasant woman bearing on her back a sack
of potatoes which she had just dug, making
a load heavy enough for a mule. Here
a thaler for you, said tne great field mar
shall: you see the early bird catches the
worm" Afterward he found out that she
was a night thief who had ravaged his
fields persistently, but whom his steward
had never got up early enough to catch.
love to hear the rattle
OF the mower on the lawn,
AS ii fiicks away the verdant blades
The dewdrops rest uponi
1t comes as sweetest music,
From every stretch and turn
That is of course, when some one else
Is pushing the concern.
Cleveland Leader.