The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

In Philadelphia there is funeral every half hour
the year round.
A CEDAR RAPIDS editor wants any young lady
who 'iumps at conclusions to consider him ICON.
cluson."
wALLrNd, the New York chief of police, looks like
farmer talks like dull child, and has been sent
away a vacation, with prospect of permanent re-
tirement II
Mr. CHARLES READE, who is declining in health,
always had desire to visit America but afraid TO
undertake the voyage because he knew he subject
to sgonizing seasickness. ts
WORK entitled Prince Bismarck in Russia: Dis
closures of what others have been silent
tribution to the biography of the German Imperial
Chancellor" is about to be published at Geneva.
WILL you have orange 6g9" inquired DR..
Jackson of fine little boy somewhat under the
weather. "a fig" answered the child with. aaerity
No fever there" said the doctor, "or he would
tanly have said orange.
PRINCE BISMARCK is great horseman and in
time he has remained horseback for days together
But he is not always fortunate in his equestrian per-
formances, as, according to his own words, he has
been thrown off about fifty times and sometimes got
dangerously injured.
PRINCE BISMARCK is no admrer Of eloquence. sit
is with these eloquent gentlemen he says, as with
ladies who have small feet. They boots which
are much to tight and always try to show their feet
SO if anybody has the misfortune to be eloquent his
speeches too long and too frequent"
DIR. GROSS is quoted in the Philadelphia Clinical
Record saying that if the brain is penetrated by
ball the rule to let it alone is an exceedingly bad one
investigation has shown that the brain be handled
to considerable extent with impunity and there is
great future for operations within the crania cavity.
MARK TWAIN lives in his own house, near Hart.
60 axvith ito ac tha its
front entrance on one side bristlng with peaks and
and chimney pots and in style of architecture the
crystalized expression of encounter between Mark
Twain and Queen Anne. Mrs. Clemens is the source
of wealth from which all this springs.
ELIPHALET MOTT POTTER, brother of Assistant
Bishop Potter is still in Europe and has not yet sent
back single line to intimate if he will resign the
presidency of Union College, of the trustees
earnestly desire and accept the presidency of Hobart
College to which he mas been invited. This dubiety
leaves both colleges about as much abroad as Dr. Pot
ter is.
IT is reported that Mr.. Evelyn Jerrold son Of
Blanchard ,Jerrod and grandson of Douglas Jerrold
has succeeded to the editorshp of Lloyds News one
of the oldest and most popular of the cheap weekly
journals. This is probably of the most remark
able examples of hereditary edtorshp continued thus
through three generations known in the history
of journalism.
WILLIAM WAsIuNGroN figures in the "Encyclo-
pedca Dictionary of the Spanish Language recent
" published in Madrid as the founder of the Repub.
lie of the United States and the first President" Penn
sylvania, the volume declares, "has popula-
ton of and half millions, the greater portion be-
ing German. German is the prevailing language of
the State" The book teaches further that Tin Phla
delphia is the United States Bank building"
AT a recent meeting of the Church Temperance
Society in New York speaker sought to impress his
audience with startling statistics of the liquor
traffic. There in this land he said, lover 900
dstilleres and 8 900 breweries more than 1000
wholesale establishments distribute the product Of
these places and 161 900 retail houses sell it to the