The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-05
ABOUT PEOPLE.

RObbhl DONNEh uOW OWHb ~ NURSES.
WIDOW VAN CoTT claims the credit of sixty re-
cent conversions at Watkins, N. Y.
NINE. MoDJEsKA aud Count BozenJa are IN
Santa Fe. N. M, witnessing the tertio-millennial
celebration there.
has been offered the presidency OF the Minnesota
State University.
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG, who is in Paris, has
leased a house at New Hartford, Conn.,, near her
birthplace, nd will spend the summer there
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL now has his
house in London lighted throughout by eectrici-
ty, supplied by a small gas engine in the cellar.
REV. CHARLES H. FoRNEY, d. D., ed tor of the
Christian Advocate. published at Harrisburg,
Pa, has been elected president of Findlay Col
lege.
BISHOP SIMPSON, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. is not in good health He will spend
the summer travelling with his daughter in Colo
RADIO.
GENERAL HoLABIRD, who succeeds General
ingalls, as Quartermaster-genera of the army,
has six years to serve before he will go on the
retired list.
REV. STEPHEN H. TYING, SIR who is eighty-four
years old, has no recollection of anything occur
ring in the past fifty years, but as to events in
1880 and before he is perfectly clear
EDISON says ELECTRICITY is ten-acre lot,
with very high, close fence around it. All we
know about it, so far, we have gained by peep
ing through the cracks in the boards"
GENERAL CLINTON B. FISK, the founder OF
Fisk University, who lives at Rumsome, near
Seabright, is building cottages for his colored
workmen. He will sell these to them at cost,
receiving payment by installments, and charg-
ing nothing for the ground.
NJ oF
jurors, contemplates bringing suit for $4,000
against the st. Louis Republican. His ground
of complaint against the paper is that it charged
him with being common drunkard and dis
grace to the star-route jury and the country.
THE Hon. George II. Pendleton, though IN no
sense of the word duellist. is splendid pistol
shot. He can throw empty champagne bottle
into the air. whirling over and over, and can
shoot into the mouth and knock the bottom out
every time without injuring the bottle other
wise.
ACCORDING to n correspondent the King of
Spain is active and supple. with a bull fighters
ply steal address. His eyes are brown, but full
OF changing tints aud his mouth is singularly
vivacious and expressive. His mustache is very
fine and silken, his hair all but black, his teeth
very white and his smile extremely fascinating.
PRECISELY why Mrs. Garfield should be called
a "chang ed woman" don't understand. says a
correspondent The Miss Nancies OF journalism
created an ideal Garfield and an ideal Mrs. Gar.
field. Insiders knew the absurdity of both Pic
lures. Mrs Garfield is exactly as she always
was-differing only from the ideal, which was
made up for the occasion.
PROF. WELCKERs, of Halle, announces that
the body resting in the Weimar mausoleum is
not really that of Schiller. This he processes to
have proved by comparing the skull with the
cast OF the poets face taken Immediately after
his DEATH and he intends to ask permission TO
make excavations in Sohil er's original burying-
place. i'll search Of his real remains
Now that the centennial anniversary of Mont.
golfers great discovery has just beer eelebrat-
ed, 1t may be OF interest to recall memories OF
the scare that invention gave to England
equal to that now caused by the proposed Chan.
mel tunnel. cartoon of that period represent.
ed MoDtgOlter, seated in the car of his balloon,
and exclaiming: ooh, by Gar! dis be de grand in
vention! Dis. will immortalize my king, my
country and myself. We will declare de war
against enemie; we will make des English
quake, by Gar! We will inspect their camp, we
will intercept their fleet, and we will set fire to
their dOckyards, and, by Gar, we will take Glib
raltar in de air-balloon aud when we have CON