The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-07
ABOUT PEOPLE.

ADMIRABLE wax casts of the face and bust of
the late Archbishop Purcell. of Cine innati, were
made immediately after his death.
A DAKOTA paper claims that it costs ST. 200
for man TO get moderate outfit for farming IN
Iowa, but all a woman needs to run a homestead
in Dakota is an oil stove, three hens and roos-
ter.
BARNES, the Kentucky evan gelist, writes back
as to Miss Marie, his daughter and assistant:
"She lost her heart in Tennessee, and the attach
ment, which am happy to say, has my hearth.
est approval, abides in increasing strength"
OLD Mother Hubbard
Went to the cur picard
To get her poor daughter a gown;
She made it up slattern,
With a sack for "a pattern,
And the style spread all over the town.
THE following placard hangs up in Tonnes
see store-window
Peppermint lie for
He'd AXE
Belie 50
10th
WOMAN who has been looking over blankets in
a Man-street store: "Wen, didn't mean to buy.
Am just looking for friend" Clerk, politely:
"Don't think youth find your friend among the
blankets. We've looked 'em all through"
Hartford Times
WHEN a lady living in Chelsea sent to London
for doctor she apOlOgized to him for asking
him to come such distance. Don't speak of
it," said the NJ. D.; 81 happen to have another
patient in the neighborhood, and can thus kill
two birds with one stone"
THE Chinese have ingenious way of pro-
tecting carrier pigeons from birds of prey. They
fasten to the tail-feathers a compact system of
reeds, eight or ten in number. not weighing over
grain or two, which, in the passage of the pig.
con through the air, emits a whistling sound
tl,a IA
The plan is so effective that it is coming into ex-
tensive use in Germany.
BEFORE marriage: excuse me, George. Did
my parasol hurt youq" ooh no, my dear. 1t
would be pleasure if it did, After marriage:
"Great heavensi There never a woman
under the sum that knew how to carry parasol
without scratching fellows eyes out" "Aud
there never man that knew enough to
walk on the right side of woman with para.
SOL" "rhere isn't any right side to a woman
with paraso Hartford Post.
THE recent tragic death of Captain Matthew
Webb will lend melancholy interest to an arti-
Gle on "Eea-bathing and floating" from his pen,
which appears in the current number of Harpers
Young People. 1t is a pleasant and readable
paper, full of useful hints to the young bath
err. Curions to say, one of the lessons which the
Inflated swimmer endeavors to impress upon
the rea 1ers of his article is the difference be-
tween "pluck" and ''fool-hardness."
TIE following prelates have been summoned
to Rome: Archbishops Corrigan, of New York;
Gibbons. of Baltimore; Williams, of Boston; Fee
han, of Chicago; Elder, of Cincinnati; Heiss, of
Milwaukee; Perche, of New Orleans; Seghers, Of
Oregon City; Kendrck, of ST. Louis; Alemany, of
San Francisco, and Lamy, of Santa Fe. OF these
Archbishops Perche, of New Orleans and Ken
drick of st. Louis, Will bo represented by their
coadiutors-Bishops Lerray and Ryan.
AT the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, there is
a room full of diamonds, pearls, and other pre-
eious stones. An Empress of Russia is allowed
to borrow from this room after giving a receipt
for what she takes, and generally the Grand
Duchesses are allowed to borrow from it also.
French diplomatic lady was once allowed to
enter this room. She beat hasty retreat after
one glance around for she felt that If she stay ed
her principles would succumb to her admira-
tion, and that she would try to steal some of the
contents.