The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-12
ABOUT PEOPLE.

GEN. JUBAL EARLY has the rheumatism, and
his face is said TO be drawn up to look something
like hickory-nut. He is "a character in Vir-
ginia.
Miss E. A. ORMERoD, the consulting entomolo-
gist of the Royal Agricultural Society, is the
greatest authority in England on insects that
are injurious to the crops.
THE New York city council has decided to
purchase Leuze's picture of "WashingtOn's
triumphal entry into New York, Nov 25,
1888" The price asked is $4,000.
ROBINSON LOCKE, the newly-appointed United
States consul at Newcastle on-Tyne England, is
the eldest son of Petroleum V. Nasty" and has
for number of years been editorially connected
with the Toledo Blade.
A SCIENTIST says the reason kissing is so pleas
ant is because the teeth, jaw-bones and lips are
full of nerves. and when the lips meet cleo
trio current is generated Perhaps Ella Wheel
er's poetry is not so far wrong, after all.
MINNESOTA sends to Congress this year the
first Scandinavian ever elected to the national
legislature. His name is Knute Nelson, and he
represents race of men who are fast gaining
prom inence in the politics of the Northwest.
REV. DR.. PIERsoN, of Iouia, Mich, has one
very goo0 customer. Last week he married her
to her third husband in eight years, the first two
husbands having died, and he having officiated
at all the weddings. The lady is only twenty
seven years of age.
THE Countess Schossberger Batthyani, whose
husband OF a day was killed in duel with the
young lawyer, Rosenberg, in Hungary, only
little over month ago is said to be engaged to
marry soon an Austrian baron. This will give
the little lady three husbands inside of six
months.
THE dowager Duchess of Marlborough did not
tba I'D
spouse when she determined to find consolation
with living She has a grandson aged
thirteen. That lady who at one time assumed
almost royal dignity should take man with
such u plebeian name as Currie is somewhat
puzzling.
FEW people IT fleet upon the fact that the In
dams are the richest andholders in the United
States. We have 239,066 of them, exclusive of
| the Alaska Indians, holding Isl, 307,769 acres
of land. Some of the tribes own 5000 acres per
Indian. The average is about one square mile
to each Indian, while white man is not allowed
to pre-empt more than 16O acres of the public
Iand.
JUSTICE DUFFY, of New York, is a marked
man, and when woman sutfra GO becomes general
he will be the first individual to be retired to the
obscurity of private life Hear what he has
said: Some people say mothers-n-law are an
anus e class, Dut since Htu Deen on Iue p6uCA
have had before me over one thousand cases of
abandonment. and in almost every instance the
aforesaid relative made all the trouble"
MRS. ALLEN, a Providence medium, is the pres
ent wonder and delight of the spiritualists. Out
OF her cabinet issue many as twenty differ
ent materializpd spirits in evening. They
walk among the mortals, talk like ordinary Wis
itors and at times disclose themselves as spirits
only partially embodied. But no slkeptics are
admitted 20 these seances, and tine accounts are,
therefore, not tho WORK of professional report
ers
JOHN SWIM is a miser who won't sink if money
can keep anyone afloat. He lives in West JEFF
fersoD, o. He is Il small man, seventy years
old, and has the appearance of a tramp. He
married when very young. His first wife and
two children died early in life. He married
| again, but soon separated from his second wife,
who is now in the poor-house. Swim left the
practice of law and became rag-picker. He is
worth 5000, 900. He hasn't slept a bed for
thirty five years.