The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-07
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The Marquis of Butte offers to give 800
to any young women of the town of Rothe-
say VINO are anxious TO marry but are too
poor to do So
1t is believed that Hon. Benjamin Har-
risons law practice. will flbe too pressing
to admit of his going to Pennsylvania TO
take the stump for his old friend Wanna
maker.
j. w. Henderson. the well-known traveller
and antiquarian, has just purchased the
Oldest house in America-that al St Angus
tine, Fla, which was built i'm 1854 and was
used by the Spanish governor general as a
residence. 1t was9lt first monastery
Pope Leo received gifts valued at ST. 200, 900
on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary
OF his ordainment as priest. Among the
cash gifts were a check for $4,000 from the
Duke of Norfolk. $4,000 in gold from the
queen regent of Spain, $l25G from Kaiser
Wilhelm $4,000 from the Austrian bishops
and $4,000 from the Hungarian primate
Attention was directed some time ago to
the untidy and dilapdated condition of the
grave of Charles Lamb and his sister, in
Lower Edmonton Church yard A member
of the London Christ's Hospital Club has
Just repaired the grave and placed around
tombstone has been restored and an in
scrlption added TO the effect that the grave
MAS Was repaired by an Old Blue, Christmas.
1891. In future the grave will be kept in
order by the Old Boys Club.
kpling's stanza ON Boxing for Nichol-
sons already-famous Almanac of Sports. :"
is something more than sportive:
Read here the moral roundly writ,
For him that into battle goes
Each soul that hitting hard and hit
encounters gross or ghostly foes
Prince, blown by many overthrows
HAIR bllnd with shame, half choked with
Man cannot tell but Allah knows
How much the other side was hurt"
If Fire Alarm Flanagan or anybody else
has been, guilty of Offering Missouri leg
islator bride of $3.50 he ought TO go to the
penitentlary, the Oregon (Mo) Sentinel
Tor using more than $3.50 in a deal of that
Kind would never occur to a sensible, self
respecting man.
They say she is a poem
Quite likely that may be;
1 md unto my sorrow
she Is averse to me.
Love and Folly.
Speaking of Congressman Dingley's char
acteristics a correspondent of the Boston
Transcript says: HE loves to get some
person aside and fill him up with informa-
ton respecting the tariff schedules. For one
personal attribute he is especially famous
and that is his overcoat. 1t may fairly be
said that Dingley lives in his over
coat lie has a notion. apparently
that the best way of avoiding physical
ills of all sorts is to keep ones self wrapped
up like a mummy. AT all events, he is seen
buried in the inevitable garment even when
the atmosphere III the House is consider
ably above the summer heat"
Nine. Dreyfus, wife of ex-Captain Drey-
fus, complains that she receives only copies
OF the letters her husband sends her, the
originals being retained by the French gov
eminent. This is done because the govern
ment suspects that the two are carrying
on q correspondence In cipher His Keepers
noticed that he had received information in
advance of the recent exciting demonstra-
ton in his favor. Besides this, it has been
observed that for every letter he sends his
wife Dreyfus makes no fewer than TWEEN
ty or thirty rough drafts, which, when COM
pared show strange differences in spelling
and penmanship. Now, Captain Dreyfus
was a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique
but his letters have lately been marked
by the most absurd mistakes in syntax and
even of spelling. 1t is suspected that these
ostensible plumbers are made in accordance
with preconcerted arrangement, and form
a secret system of cipher.