The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-14
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


BIsMARcKs salary is only $13, 800 The rest Of
his income is derived from his private estates.
JUSTICE BRADLEY dresses in such shabby manner
that strangers have been known to slap him on the
back and ask him how the old clio trade Aourshes.
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE MILLER, of the Supreme Court
is the leading Unitarian his colleague Judge Gray
is probably the handsomest member of the denomina-
ton in the United States
THE mail route in Cape Breton is carried by
a small girl, who takes the bag on her shoulders.
Some days she fails to to time and then she is
found in tree picking gum.
CONNECTICUT young lady, given to somnanbu-
lsm, arose from her bed some nights ago and wan
dered off to brook in which she was discoveredying
asleep in two feet of water, with her head on the
bank
MISS ABIGAIL DODGE Gail Hamilton) and her
sister making lesurely journey by carriage from
Augusta, Me-. to their home in Hamilton, Mass. They
have recently made trip to Aroostook county, Me-.
and Moosehead lake.
A WASHINGTON lady says it is mock modesty that
prevents the from riding the tricycle. They
object on the grounds that woman would look un.
dgnifed but the feminine expert claims that woman
horseback is much undignifed.
FURTHER accounts by mail confirm the Geographic
reports of late that the King of Spain is in seriously
failing health His physicians and intimate friends
ill conceal their sad conviction that he will not much
longer be able to direct the affairs of state and in
deed, that his remaining span of life is very short
THE venerable George Bancroft has decided that
when he leaves his Newport cottage he will spend the
coming winter in Boston instead of occupying his
home at Washington believing that the combined
fractions of Boston baked beans and Beacon Hill will
be enjoyable than the pleasures of the capital
A NEW HAVEN, Conn, minister lately declared his
disbelief in faith He wants his prayers sup
ported by good physicians and pronounces the sight of
people going about with bottles of oil in their pock-
cts, commanding other people in Gods name to do
what they unable to do spectacle to make angels
weep.
S. V. WHITE, deacon and trustee of Plymouth
Church bought and sold million and a half dollars
worth of securities Friday, and in the evening
went to Nyack and administered kindly but vigorous
spanking to his pastor, Mr. Beecher. Then he went
to bed, feeling that he had done a good days work.
and slept soundly.
A GREEK now in Paris writes; "a few days ago I
was at Missolonghi, where found that of Byrons
boatmen, John Kazz by name, is still alive. Al
though about eighty years of age he is still hale and
strong enough to his boat. In fact he took me
over to Klissova the celebrated little iset in the Ia
goons of Missolonghi."
THE grave of DR.. Josiah Gilbert Holland, at Spring.
field Mass has been kept covered with fresh flowers
all summer and this fall by his admirers throughout
the State. The first flowers laid there arbutus
and then wind flowers and vioets; and the mound
is covered with gentians and heotropes and the late
bloom of the honeysucke with sprays of golden rod
and glowing clusters of asters.
HoLEIN-THE-DAY was big Indian chief, brave in
war and cunning in the pow-wow, but Rev. Mr.. Hole
of Western Texas makes bigger orifce than the red
chief according to the Kerryvlle Eye, which says:
'Rev. Mr.. Hole can horse race, and can make it
hot for his opponents in footrace; he also jump
a hurdle, sing song, and at the end of the week
preach very good sermon withal"
GOETHE was given, in 1928, the most costly pres
emit that any mortal received namely twelve bot
ties of Rosenwen which sent him by the city of
Bremen In the famous Rathskeller in that city is
special vault containing this wine which vinted
in 1924 and then cost sixty reichsthaler the oxhoft
ian old measure). Taking this at compound interest
the value of each bottle sent to Goethe 22 $780,
600.
THE Vienna papers tell curious story relative to
Makarts Entry of Charles Into Antwerp" 1t is
said that when the antiquarian critics iercey and
peaedy assailed the anarchronsm of nude figures he
finally produced letter from Albert Durer to Me-
ancthon describing the entry and saying he himself
was anxious to join the procession, but prevented
nv his wife because nude women were taking part
in it.
MRS STOWE, the wcndrous story teller who has
given greater usefulness to fiction than all its people
except Bunyan, is again in health and homefulness at
Hartford. She is seventy-two years old; her
husband is eighty-two. At fifteen she was a school
teacher like Mrs Blaine. In essentials she Of
the West where she lived seventeen years and where
she began write. Therefore her leading characters
start in Kentucky ard escape to Ohio.
"DR. CoLLIs BROWNE, the so-called inventor Of
chlorodyne has just died." says the London corru-
spondent of The Medical Record Chlorodyne Is per-
haps the only patent medicine and secret remedy
which has been largely employed by medical men
The makers commended that it contained certain
alkalod which gave it valuable properties. They de-
clared that this could not be discovered by analysis
This proved to be SO far correct that many people
were inclined to regard the alkaloid as myth Sew
eral lawsuits have been waged over chlorodyne. Thu
final result to leave the original inventor DR..
Browne in undistuibed possession of his rights.
He derived large income from the sale Of the prepar