The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-12
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

other Fosters Dickens, with more of Cross Lewes
and other people in the book than there of George
Eliot
THE Rev. DR.. Paret bishop-elect of the Up. E.)
diocese of Baltimore will probably be confirmed and
enter upon his duties about the last of january
next.
LEWIS REDMOND, the once notorious king Moon.
sinner of the South Carolina Mo untains, is living
quiet and Industrious life at Sunny Dale in Pickens
county.
WILLIAM BLACK boasts that his dinner bell is a
cow-bell from Roman Campana, but Justin Mccarthy
sees him and goes one better with camelben from
Jerusalem
DR.. CHARLES MAcKAY viii soon begin a series Of
papers in the Independent descriptive of Breakfasts
with Samuel Rogers" The first will consist mainly
of "reminiscences of Bulwer and Disraeli
REV. JOHN BROWN, of Bedford Eng. who is at
work a new life of John Bunyan reports that the
author af Pilgrims Progress" was in jail twelve
years instead of ten, history has had it.
PROPRIETOR Singerly, of the Philadelphia Record,
who is singularly fond of real estate Investments
owns $50 houses in the Quaker City and proposes
build $50 more at average cost of Sc, 600 each.
BRIGNoLI enormous eater He once ate for
a dinner in Washington thirty-one hard-boiled
eggs and topped off with a piece of mince pie.
washing the whole down with two glasses of English
ale
THE will of the late Carrie J. Welton, of Water
bury, Conn who left the bulk of her fortune to Mr.
Berghs society, gives 81 600 for horse and cattle
drinking fountain to be built on the green in that
town
RUSSIAN aeronaut is constructing balloon at ST.
Petersburg which is shaped like cigar is to carry
sails, and will hold steam engine crew of sixteen
men and huge amount of ballast. Its contriver
reckons upon a speed of 100 miles per hour
1T gives us great pleasure to that Hough-
ton, Mif1in & Co. preparing for publication
volume of poems by Miss Edith NJ Thomas. 1t is fit
ting that first book of such excellent quality as this
should be added to a list that already includes the
names of most of Americas best poets.
HUBERT HERKoMER's wedding gift to his bride
cabinet desk exquisitely carved by himself, bears
upon its door representation of the sum- its disc
crossed by scroll bearing the inscription ITO My
Lulu" MY dedication explains the artist lis the
only cloud that has crossed the sunshine of her e"
GENERAL ABNER DOUBLEDAY, then captain Second
United States Artillery aimed and fired the first gun
in defense of the Union in the late unpeasantness at
Fort Sumter at o'clock in the morning of April II,
1861 after the confederate batteries had been bang
ing away two hours and forty minutes. He still lives
and is happy
SIR MOSES MoNTEFIoRE's uncle, Josh, was per-
haps the most remarkable of his fathers seventeen
cnlluleni IOi ne was lawyer author Duccaneef,
and score of other things; married a second
time at the age of seventy three and died at eighty
one, leaving young widow and six small children,
the youngest of them being only six weeks old
BEAUTIFUL statue of Bacchus has recently been
discovered hollow place beneath the staircase in
the library at Hadran's Villa, Rome. 1t represents
the god not the coarse dissipated old man. but &C.
cordng to his later aspect beautiful, effemnats
youth. tits singularly well preserved, the right hand
only being missing. Its great beauty rec
ognzed, and casts immediately made of
which is at Berlin another Strasburg and third in
the Cast Museum of Sculpture at Cambridge
England.
RICHARD s. SFoFFoRD, who the Democratic
candidate for Congress in the Seventh Massachusetts
district is the husband of Harriet Prescott Spoord
the Unknown novelist. Mr.. Spoford was formerly
the private secretary and aterward the law partner
of Caleb. Cushing He has been for some years pro-
fessionaly associated with General Butler For some
years Mr.. and Mrs. Spoford have spent of their
winters in Washington where they are held in high
by large circle of friends and acqnantances.
They have beautiful homo little island in the
MerriInac river, Newburyport, Mass.
IT takes ZOO roses to yield two grains of altar.
In the morning the red blooms collected by nand,
and distilled into clay stills with twce their weight of
water-the water which being set to cool
all night and throwing up the thin film of oil which
covers it in the morning like cream on new milk.
This is the altar which must be carefully swept of
with feather, and transferred to small phal After
repeating this operation night after night and
ing after morning, nearly the whole of the oil has
been extracted the little which is impossible sep
arae so Aavoring the liquid that it is sold as rose
water"
THE Unsuccessful Candidates for the Presidency
of the Nation" %, in the November Magazine OF
American History contains portraits of George Gin
ton Elbridge Gerry, Aaron Burr, Rufus King Dewitt
Clinton, William II. Crawford William Writ, Henry
Clay John O. Calhoun, Lewis Cass and General Scott
The picture of Henry Clay occupies the place of honor
frontispiece to the magazine presumably from the
fact of his having been three times unsuccessful"
The concluding paper this subject to be published
in December viii embrace the pictures of the defeated
since 1853 The second article of the current num-
ber IAN Old Colonial College, is from the pen OF
Prof Charles y. Richardson.
THE Mudir of Dongola, Engands only friend In
the Soudan is slight, delicate man, with pale PEN
sive face, lighted up by two large black, luminous
ewes which to be always looking into space and
from between which projects preternaturaly large
nose hooked like vultures beak. The effect of his
extreme piety the Musselman population is very
marked and has enabled him to maintain himself in
power almost within armstroke of the Mahdi. He is
only visible for short time each day before public
prayers which all officers civil and military, are
bound to attend On these occasions he squats on a
carpet and, holding his beads in one hand places
large Koran, resembling afamily Bible, before him,
while companion squats in front at the opposite
side Of the room, holding q similar volume, from
which he reads. This parsonage is splendidlookins
Nubisn six feet tall and cousin OF the Mahds
a fact which excites much comment