The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-26
ABOUT PEOPLE, AND THINGS.

John Wesley said: MY mother had ten
children; each of them had spirit enough,
yet not one of them was ever heard to cry
after it was a year old."fsf1
Harriet. eldest daughter Of Rev. DR.. Ly-
man Abbott. was married last week to
Francis Jordan. young New York lawyer.
She has been accustomed TO assist her fath-
er as secretary in his literary work
The state of Lady Henry Somerset's
health continues to- cause great anxiety to
her friends. She is residing at Eastnor Cas-
tie, her superb place near Malvern, and
feels intensely her enforced abstinence from
active work
Mrs. Murfree, of Meridian Miss, vice
president of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy, is seeking the assistance of
the Missouri Daughters of the Confederacy
in the project to purchase the old home Of
Jefferson Davis at Beauvoir.
DR.. Kitasato the great bacteriologist
thinks that the 'icteroid bacillus discov-
cred by the Spanish savant Is not the real
or sole germ of yellow fever. He is in
clined to attribute this scourge to a para
site growth in the larger intestines
When Elizabeth Barrett married Robert
Browning, the brides father expressed him
self on the subject with that cruel frank
ness which is to often heard in the family
circle. What he objected to-" he said,
was not her union with a silly young poet
but her marrying at all at an age when
persons OF her neutrality-suspicious. have
their minds fixed exclusively on the next
world"
Ignatius Donnelly and other Populist
leaders are out with an appeal to all Popu-
lists to contribute 10 cents each to raise
the mortgage on the home of Mrs. Lease.
But the Populists have refused to contrib
ute on the ground, as one Of them in Kan
sas expresses it, that Mrs Lease is MAX
ing good thing out of the Henry George
campaign, SO that she is able to wear silks
and satins and diamonds, and live at a
fashionable hotel in New York city,"
Joseph Jefferson, in a talk to the convicts
in Charlestown, Mass, gave them this en-
couragement: 'In this country, when a
man falls, If he has the strength to brace
up again, he goes to the West and, rubbing
up against new society, absorbs fresh
magnetism and recuperateS at once. But the
Englishman hates to leave his home. His
failings are known, and If he remains they
are flung in his face. There is no escape
for him, and as his friends shun him he
falls deeper in disgrace.
1t is estimated that as many as co. 900
farmers and others in France make their
living by the manufacture of Roquefort
cheese. Formerly the value of this cheese
was $50O0,0OO a year, but lately there has
been great decrease in the demand. An
official investigation showed that the cause
was growing disposition to sacrifice quail
ity to quantity, a lack of cleanliness and
patience, insufficient care of the sheep and
adulterati0n of their milk with COW milk
Experts have told the manufacturers that
the only way to recover lost ground is to
bear in mind that honesty is the best policy
Jokes about long sermons are always in
high favor with the clergy. Here is one
told by the Dean of Rochester at the Eng
lish Church Congress-: "a country clergy
man went away for his holiday, and a
benevolent neighbour who had curate
took his Sunday duties. After he had
preached his first sermon he remarked to
the clerk in the vestry, Il am sorry that
l gave you such a short discourse, but the
reason is that a dog got into my study and
tore out several leaves" The clerk gazed
wistfully upon the speaker. and said "Oh
sir. do you think you could spare our par
son a pup?'
The autumn girl who gathers leaves,
Won't hit it, we surmise,
Like the autumn girl who stays at home
And turns out pumpkin pies.
Detroit Free Press.
sneak across the street so wide,
/ wrggle, squirm. / rush, / glide;
l take my chances. oh, so Slim
trust to eye and nerve. and limb;
l scoot to right, gallop through
I'm here and there I'm lost to view;
My life, know. hangs in the toss
Another plunge-I am across.
Oh, give me pity if you can
I'm just poor pedestrian!
-Tit-Bits