The Indianapolis journal., 1884-12-11
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
Mr.. ST. JOHN is overjoyed to learn that large
majority of those who died from cholera in Paris last
month had been hard drinkers.
| A coLoRED citizen Of Boston, who a slave be-
fore the war rejoces II the name of yale College"
which was given him by his former master graduate
of that institution
MAY AGNES FLEMING has been dead for years, but
the success of her novels does stop. One invest
gator of the subject declares that the present Miss
Fleming wears whskers and trousers.
Mrs. JERE BLACK who is still with her daughter,
Mrs. Hornsby, in Washington. will enter the White
House after President Cleveland is installed there for
the first time since Mr., Buchanan's term expired.
COUNCIL BLUFFS has burglars and the mayor prints
the following notice Il will pay $50 to any citizen
who will capture mig hit thief in his house and deliver
him at the city jail The law permits you to shoot the
rascal on the spot"
A FRENCH newspaper, LIE Matin, has information
that Messrs Bennett and Mackey at the head of
syndicate formed to purchase The island of Cuba for
500, 900 600. The hardest part of such transac-
| ton probably would be to deliver the goods
''ARE you consumptivel Stay at home, mako
your will be happy and comfortable and try to live
long as you can. Study up the climate of Florida
and keep away if you have been expectorating blood
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Sanitary Gleanings.
OVER 100, 900 women and girls, it is said, make a
living on the streets of Paris They licensed by
the government, and sell different articles Thirty
| five thousand of them are under eighteen, II, 900
under fifteen, and 5000 of them little girls under
thirteen years of age.
PROF. RUsKIN has announced the abandonment of
his public lectures. He has done his best to regulate
the rush to bis lecture room but he has been beaten
in the struggle against his popularity, and feels
compelled to conne his lectures for the future to his
own pupils and their friends.
AT the recent marriage in Erie of the celebrated
cornetist Levy, an Episcopal clergyman performed
the ceremony The rules of his church do not recog
nize divorce and positively forbid the celebration of
the marriage rite between divorced parties Church
men are now inqurng what the rector is going to do
kbeut it.
| GENERAL, ARTHUR GoRGEY has finally been de-
cared by his old comrades innocent of the charge of
treason under which he has suffered since 1S49; but
it is authoratively declared that Kossuth not only
refused to countenance the performance, but never
will do so, and still believes that Gorgey betrayed
Hungary in his surrender the Russians at Villages
RUBENs in 1926 charged the Duke of Bucking-
ham 50 500 for two portraits, computing the price at
$50 day for fifty days work. Mr.. Whistler in
London recently sold six drawings for prices varying
f1o 500 to $400 saying Il at he had finished some
of them in twenty minutes. Rubens lived 200 years
ago; Whistler lives to-day The worked for future
glory; the other works for present gain.
THE plaintiff in the Colerdge suit Mr.. Adams, Is a
big heavily built man. over six feet in height and
dowed with quantity of iron-gray hair. He has an
excellent voice and delivery, and made good though
| terribly ongwinded speech His announcement that
he had been an invalid for the first twenty eight
of his life created considerable amusement for more
robust looking individual is seldom
| LAST week there explosion of over two tons
of powder at Salt Lake. which shook the whole city
and wrecked everything in the neighborhood When
the explosion occurred deaf old lady, who lived
about block away, pricked up her ears and said
Como in" She turned smilingy to her daughter and
exclaimed "Law me, do believe I'm getting back
my hearing heard that knock at the door plainly
as heard anything in my life."
EInER PORTS Mormon is honeymoon tour
with his bride number nine. She is twenty, English
pretty and stupid, though tolerably educated. She
made the Mormons acquaintance in Liverpool. She
believes that she will be the favorite in harem of
something like royal Turkish sumptuousness and
queen it over the eight other wives At all events the
Elder is spending money beray to crafty her during
their journey which will take in the New Orleans
hibitio before he brings her to the Salt Lake reality
LATELY good many letters have been read in law
courts By far the best has been that of Miss Fortes
cue to her ex-lover. "a pretter composition has sell
dom been penned and observes Labouchere, Il rec
ommend it to all those female harpies who to
think that male admiration is TO be estimated by the
amount of presents which it brings in All things
considered, think that Miss Fortescue is to be
graduated. l not girl, but were one, am in
clined to think that should prefer $40 900 to a
matrimonial alliance with Lord Garmoyle, even with
the chance of Countesss coronet in perspective"
| BUCHANAN READS poem describing Sheridans ride
from inchester is said by friend of the latter to
have become the bane of his existence In the popu
lar mind that little jaunt horseback is his only
achievement. The rest of his gallant services have
been thrown into oblivion far the knowledge of
the masses is concerned. Women especially worry him
almost crazy on the subject He is bound in common
politeness TO their questions about it. and
| unnumbered are the albums in which he has been
compelled to write a of the poem over his sig
nature He used to decline to do this, the ground
that it was not modest but he found that his scrupes
were not appreciated, and he scribbles coup
let which glorifes the horse only with mention of
| the rider