The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-05

doing conjuring tricks in saloons and pass
ing round the hat afterward.
The bronze statue of Harriet Beecher
Stowe which will soon be erected In Hart
ford Conn. will be twelve feet high and
will represent Mrs. Stowe seated with a
suppliant figure of Uncle Tom stretching
forth PAIR of brawny arms from which
hang broken shackles. The statue is the
work of Wv. Clark Noble.
Church Howe, of Nebraska, who has
been nominated by President Mckinley for
consul general at Apa Samoa, was men,
Der of the famous Sixth Massachusetts reg
iment, which was mobbed at Baltimore on
its way to the front He is a wealthy
farmer, and has been prominent in Ne
braska affairs for twenty-five years
Mrs. Annie Besant, who is now in Chi
cago, thinks that Debs's Socialistic expert
ment will fail. Socialism" she says, lis
the ideal state, but 1t can never be achieved
while man is so selfish. Our London ex-
pertinent has degenerated into a mere
stock jobbing scheme. All other Socialistic
colonies have failed. and for the same rea-
son-the grasping selnshness of man."
The London Academy tells a new story of
that erratic genius, De Quincy. He had
to fill up census paper. and the set ques-
tons puzzled him greatly. He finally man
aged TO characterize mis- occupation as
writer TO the magazines, but when it
came to the occupations of his three daugh-
tiers his troubles began again. AT lasts he
put ring around their names and wrote:
These are like the lilies of the field; they
toll not, neither do they spin"
Sir Walter SCOTS manuscript of THE
Lady of the Lake" has just been sold in
London for S. 450; thirty years ago it
brought S,3S5. The manuscript of "Old
Mortality" sold for $1,000 Lord Nelson's
autograph memoir of his own life with some
autograph letters was sold for 5000; TWEEN
ty-three other letters of his TO Trowbridge
fetched $l4O0. Robert Burns's private
journal begun in 1887, THE Edinburgh
Commonplace Book brought $1,S15. Eight
manuscripts of A. c. Swinburne poems
published in his first volume, sold for $19S.
Samuel Maxim, brother of the famous
Hiram, inventor of guns, lives in the little
village of Wayne, Kennebec county, Maine,
and is himself an inventor. Some time ago
his attention was called to the fact that
both India and Japan have produced swords
that will cut through a gun barrel without
losing their edge. This led him to study
ola t1lndoo literature on the subject of stee,
manufacture, and then to begin at Wayne
a series of experiments which soon re-
suited IN the production of a small quantity
OF steel possessing a remarkable temper.
From these few ounces of steel he had one
or two drills forged, and with these he was
able to drill holes through an ordinary file
without damaging the drills at all. He
mas not yet made any steel for sale, nor
does his process. at present, always pro-
duce the desired results.
'Tis not the man whose fireworks boom.
Whose patriot soul is most awake;
IT'S he who sits in silent gloom
And bears it, fol his country's sake.
Washington Star.
She goes where the smoke is thickest
She scents it from affair;
And she carries dismay
Mongst the men in her way
At the rear of the open car.
Washington Star.
Here's TO the man who loves to work!
If any such man there be-
Who never has felt inclined to shirk
But tolls all day with glee.
Here's to his everlasting health,
For he will need it sore
If he spends his days amasSing wealth.
And his nights amassng more.
Here's TO the man who lives to work.
Whose labor but gives him joy;
Who finds delight in a heavy task
When other pleasures cloy.
Here's hoping that, when he tells YOU that
He's making no false pretense
And here's hoping, too, if he tells the
truth,
That he'll finally have more sense.
-SomerVille Journal.