The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-11
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE Prince of Wales is said to harbor superstition
that his mother will outve him. and that he will never
the British crown.
A CLERGYMAN of Bnghamton has denounced roller
skating for girls He says that the associations of the
skating rink are demoralizng.
PROFESSOR MAX MULLER, in a recent speech,
declared it to be "a national misfortune when board
ing schools took the place of public day schools"
Mrs. LANaTRY will not return to this country this
season, and many broken engagements threaten hee
peace of mind when she shall set foot on American
soil sgain.
Mr.. BEEoHER told his people that they ought not to
believe all the Old Testament says and in that re-
spect the Old Testament and Mr.. Beecher resemble
each other.
MRS. SARToRIs, daughter of General Grant, is
again settled in her English home She entertains =
great deal and her fathers army and navy friends are
frequently her guests
PRINCE MAToHRoH, the field marshal of Dahomey,
has been tried for high treason and sentenced to be
buried chestdeep in the EARTH and then shot at by
the Amazons until he is dead"
In the MS. of the dramatized form of Never Too
Late to Mend the late Charles Reade penned mar
gina note to passage; If the audience fails
weep here the passage has not been properly acted"
WILL NJ. CARLETON, author of Betsy and I Are
Out" has recently married and settled in Brooklyn
N. Y. His wife's Christian name is Betsy. Perhaps
Mr.. Carleton may give another version sc How
Betsy and Made Up"
THERE is great mourning in Denmark over the de-
struction of number of the works of Thorwaldsen,
the sculptor in the fire at Christina palace But lit
tie attention however is paid to the fact that men
lost their lives fighting the flames.
THE Bourats, uncivilized race living in South
Siberia, worship human god. When their deity has
reached the age of nineteen they poison him aud
ect male infant to receive their pous services in bis
stead Again upon reaching the prescribed number
of years. this god is poisoned and gives way to an.
other.
Oh the ground that it is his duty to oppose heresy
and schism," Archdeaeon Lightfoot, of Yelling
borough England has refused to allow an organist to
play in his church because he had previously ociated
in a Congregational Church. He went so far even as
to cut off the unfortunate musician from all the offices
and ministrations of the church
AMETHoD of military nocturnal signalling has been
devised by Russian, Captain Kostovich To a small
captive balloon is suspended Edison electric lamp,
which, by means of connecting wires, can be kndled
and extnguished at will by operator stationed
board ship in any other convenient position, a
res of such extinctons and reigntons being employed
according to Geographic code
THE Capital says of the late Mr.. Garrett; 'The
rett was his devotion his wife, He did threefourths
of his business in his library home with his wife at
the table beside him. Surrounded with telegraph.
operators-there were always three on duty and no
insisted that every dispatch the business of his
railroads sent the wires should be sent to him
his wife always at his side giving the ofite
homeke appearance.
NJ. THEIRS was an enthusiastic collector Of prints.
On one occasion, difference of opinion between him
and well-known curieux as to whether print
posed for sale was in the first second state the
latter losing his temper in the discussion, tartly OBJ
served: In the matter of engravipgs NJ THEIRS am
more of a connoisseur than you" No." cooly re-
piled the future President of the Republic staring at
the other through his spectaces, you not you
wouldn't have said you were"
THE late Frank S. Chanfrau once said: II believe
that marriages between members of my profession
and persons out of 1t nearly always i'll matches.
And naturally so. The stage is world in itself, and
wholly unlike any other Only those in it can under
stand it, If man in private capacity has an actress
for wife he hardly help feeling somewhat jealous
when she plays certain An actor, now would
know that the matter was purely one of busness-an
art-and meant morally than formal shake
of the hand between acquaintance"
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, says the London
correspondent of the Liverpool Post is spending his
time in Scotland shooting He is not particularly
fond of sport, knowing two ways of spending holt
day infinitely preferable to his mind One is to go to
Paris and live boulevard lifea course he pursued
last Easter when worn nearly to death by the labors
of the session The other is to go down to Brighton
and stay in bed for twenty hours out of the twenty
four He told me once that his idea of happy hfo
was to &c to bed in quiet room stay there through
the day reading and DOING dine in slippers and Dress
ing-gown in the evening, and convenient
thereafter go back to bed.
PEOPLE passing through Temple Place, Boston,
have lately been much interested in lofty gar
dens on the roof of high marble building Wash,
ington street. The flowers have grown that some
of them begin to peep over wire screen into the
street below sunhower, which has lately developed
rather lofty aspirations, looks from below as If 1t
were bound to overtop this screen and a number of
flowers are keeping company in its upward tenden'
cy. The howerbeds on this roofgarden are laid out
with taste and and they get foods of sunlight
and abundant moisture, natural and artificial they
are in very hourishing condition. Tho roof, being
substantial easily bears the weight Of the earth which
is necessary for the growth of great variety OF flow
ers and of course its water-tight properties arc
needed to prevent leakage into tho apartments below