The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

BhAOo SAut CDA " u Glo
brilliant young author. dramatist and journalist, is to
be married, this fall, to Miss Helen Hubbard, of New
York city.
A -cooN.HuNTER. R. D. Durrett, of Pamela county,
Miss, found $3S,525 in gold, in a hollow tree, last
week. He does not know whose money it was. He
does not care, SO long as he knows whose money it is.
The sceneis in Montreal. Thetoccasion. a reception.
The locality, a hotel. Irate LADY, demand prece.
dence. She claims good blood, but my husband de-
faulted for $500. 900, and hers came here on a paltry
shortage of SIS. 900.
A GERMAN medical journal has discovered a means
whereby life can be prolonged. It is based upon the
experience of Methuselah who did not marry until he
was one hundred and e~ighty,six years old, and then
lived to be nine hundred and sixty-nine.
The simple green-painted door of Washington Irv.
ing's quaint home at Sunnyside, is nearly covered
with Virginia creeper, Kenilworth ivy, and blooming
trumpet-vine, which cling firmly to the fast crumbling
structure, as if determined not to let it fall to pieces.
Don't you know, my son" said a kind father,
that it hurts me worse to whip you than it does youG
| would much rather receive the punishment, but I
whip you as an example for the other children"
Then let me give it to you, = the boy replied, Aand
we'll explain to the other children afterward."
The late Junius Brutus Booth bsilt the Masconomo
House. at Manchester-by-the-sea near Boston, for a
summer residence for himself and his family, but was
forced, by numerous applications for board, to con-
vert it into a hotel, which his widow, Mrs. Agnes
Booth. now keeps. and is making more money in the
business than she can ever on the stage.
THE embroidering of luneheon-cloths and doyleys is
a fashionable industry for Newport girls. A cloth
used at a luncheon lately given had threads pulled out
to form an inside square; from one corner very deli.
cate twigs embroidered in silk of the natural wood
shade start, from which a shower Of apple blossoms
are falling. The cloth has a knotted fringe edge. The
doyleys match.
In the recent elections at Brussels the wives Of
members of the Conservative party entered freely
into the contest. One of these ladies, after expend.
ing in buying what she did not need a considerable
amount Of money in a store, said to the mistress:
Your husband will, of course. vote for Mr.. gn
The proprietress. with eyes cast down, replied: ALAS,
Mime. la Baronne, Lam a widow"
A NEWSPAPER published at Milan declares that the
cholera germ described by DIR. Koch was first discov.
cred thirty years ago by an italian doctor named
Filippo Pacini He published in the Italian Medical
Gazette, in 1854, a treatise on the cholera, in which he
says the disease was due to "a very simple organism
which / shall call a choleraic mierobe." The treatise
was translated into French and into English, and was
republished in 1865. 1866, 1871 and 1879.
MADAME SAND, = says NJ, Lafon in his literary
"reminiscences, has left of herself a portrait as fat.
tered as that of Boulanger. but I must say, having
seen her twenty times with the twentyyear-old eyes
that are not apt to undervalue a woman's beauty, that
she was far from being attractive. Aheayy chin, a
thick, s~heep-like nose, a large mouth. bold eyes, and
hair that was thick without being long, were the
points that struck you in her appearance. Her car
rage revealed her sex beneath her masculine garb.r
INformer times it was the custom at Zurich, when q
married pair applied for q divorce on the ground of
incompatibility of temper, for the magistrates to shut
them up for a fortnight in a tower on the lake. The
couple were given but one room, one bed, one chair,
one fork and one knife. If. at the expiration of the
fortnight, they persisted in their resolution, the tri-
bunal ordered a serious examination of the case. and.
if possible, the divorce. But it was rare that the in
tervention Of the tribunal was necessary, the quar-
relsome pair being usually reconciled before the end
of the fortnight.
A CORRESPONDENT writes to Notes and Queries:
IAN old preacher, who many years ago went home to
the better land, was very particular when using that
grand prayer, and always prayed. Give us day by day
our daily bread. And, again, Leave us not in tempta.
ton, but deliver us from evil may say that he was
learned man in languages, and shrank from imagin.
ing that Deity should lead us into temptation. Now.
will some reader kindly tell us whether my old friends
Interpretation was sorrect9 1 when using the prayer, z
follow his practice, as 1 cannot but think there is both
reason and beauty in his reading
The revival or dropping flowers by an application OF
kerosene from an atomizer was unconsciously at.
tempted by a lady at the Ocean View Hotel, Provi-
dence, R. l., the other day, with naturally bad results.
It appears that a large stock Of flowers and plants
were on hand for decorating the ball-room, and the
lady undertook to sprinkle them. She gave an atom
izer to a belI-boy and requested him to fill it. The
boy, unacquainted with the use of the thing, mistook
it for a lamp, and poured it full of kerosene. This
lady had not sprinkled long before she detected the
offensive odor. but a large number of the plants were
SO saturated that they were useless for the purposes of
the evening. =
THE Chinese farmhouse Is a curiouslooking abode.
Usually it is sheltered with groves of feathery bam- ,
boo and thick-spreading banyans. The walls are OF
clay or wood, and the interior of the house consists
of one main room, extending from the floor to ths
tiled roof, with closet-looking apartments in the cor.
ners for sleeping rooms. There is a s~liding-window on
The roof, made of cut shells, arranged inlrows.
while the side windows are mere wooden shutters
The floor is the bare earth, where, at ~nightfall, there
often gathers together a miscellaneous family Of dirty.
children. fowls, ducks, pigeons, and a litter OF pigs,
all living together in delightful harmony. In some
districts, infested by marauding bands, houses are
strongly fortified with high walls, containing pertures
for firearms, and protected by a moat, crossed by q
rude drawbridge.
THERE is q wondrous beauty at Long Branch, &C.
cording to several writer's. Her name is Gloria Cos
pedes. She is a daughter Of Gen. Cespedes,. who was
killed about fourteen years ago in tie Cuban revoln-
ton. Twins were born to the widow i few months
after her patriot husbands death, and Miss Gloria is
one of them. She is described as a most beautiful
specimen Of the pure Spanish type. Her face while
characteristics of her nationality, is more Agular and
delicate in its features than Is usual among her
countrywomen. Her hair is jet, her eyes Large and
lustrously soft. her complexion rich and clear, and her
expression bright and amiable. Still more remarkable
than her perfection Of head is her faultlessncss of fig
ure, combining stateliness and grace in both carriage
and pose. Whenever she appears among the dancers
n a Initial narlor. or the lonngers on a xeranda. there