The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-01
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

n OhARAiI D DacnelOf DADDY GieNelanu 5 son
shows him as a rather handsome lad, with long face
and head, and a little bang.
WILLIAM SHAKEsPERE is editing a paper in Kala-
mazoo, Mich, and says he has heard enough of this
rot about his name being Francis Bacon.
FROM 1868 to 1888 the lottery players turned into
the Royal italian treasury $275, 900, 900. Count
Cavour used to call the lottery the tax on FOOLS"
Victor HUGO has sent an autograph note to DIR.
Nachtel, of the Paris Night Medical staff, compli-
menting the New York ambulance service as the best
in any city in the world.
Mrs. HORACE GOODWIN, of Boston. swells the
thousand birthday gifts to Sir Moses Moptefore to-
day by sending him a medallion of Washington,
framed in wood from the old house at Mt. Vernon.
THE Deutsche Revue tells that Immediately after
K@niggratz Count Moltke exclaimed to Prince Bis
marck, You are really agreat man now. Had we been
beaten, all the old women at home would have pelted
US with wet rags"
A "CoNvIoTs' Tavern viii soon be opened in Paris
as a rival in eccentricity to the medieval and Japanese
restaurants recently introduced. Tho cafe is to be
fitted up after the style of the hulks, and the walters
will wear convict dress.
A SWISS mountaineer has made a bet with a wealthy
Englishman that he can make the tour of Europe on
foot, visiting every separate country, inside of twelve
months, to start on Jan. l, 1885. The wager is for
81, 900, with expenses.
ABRAHAM THOMAS, of England, recently went to
Indian Territory and married an Ind;an girl worth
100000. That, under Indian laws, makes him a
fullblooded member of the tribe, but does not give
him any control of the property.
WHILE Sir Moses Montefore has this month cello
brated his one hundredth birthday anniversary, Sims
Reeves has passed his sixtythird CAST Tuesday,,
Tom" Hughes his s~ixty-frst CAST Monday, and Oscar
Wilde, on October 16, his twenty-eighth.
CHARLES n. MCKENZIE and Y r Gurnev the orIv
survivors in America of the Six Hundred who charged
into the jaws of death, into the month of hell" at
Baakava, We're given a banquet in New York on Sat
urlay evening, which was the thirtieth anniversary Of
the charge.
AS the late Prof. Hamilton was one day walking
near Aberdeen he met a wellknown individual Of
weak intellect. Pray" said the Professor, chow
long can a person live without brains2' Il dinna
ken, replied Jimmy, scratching his head; chow auld
are We YOURSELF
PROFESSOR CHARLES W. BENNETT resigns the
chair of history and logic in Syracuse University,
which he has filled ever since that institution was
founded, to accept the professorship of church his
tory in Garrett Institute, Evanston, Ill.,, succeeding
there the Rev. DR.. Ninde, who has been elected a
bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
THE secret is out. DIR. Schweninger, of Munich, he
who reduced the bulk of Prince Bismarck's figure, is
said to have achieved the success by never allowing
his patient to drink while eating. and not until two
hours afterward permitting him to quench his thirst.
With no fluid to wash down the solids, one would
scarcely be able to eat so much; hence, probably, the
advantage.
GENERAL ROBERT TooMBs has been talking about
his old associates. OF General Joe Johnston he said:
Johnston would have been the most successful gen
eral of the late war if he had been let alone. jeff
Davis was continually moving him from one place TO
another" Referring to Jefferson Davis, Toombs
said; HE is cOntumacious and incompatible, and a
man of diminutive information"
Mr.. LABoUcHERE says that the Church Missionary
Society of England has spent in thirty.three years
more than $500, 600 on missions for the conversion
of Jews and Mahomerans in Palestine, and has not a
single convert to show for it. The London Jews So
ciety has spent nearly 100000 for the same object
with the same result. This looks as though there was
something wrong somewhere, but perhaps it is in Mr..
Labouchere's statement.
NJ. CHARcoT has communicated a paper by NJ.
Mairet to the Academic DIES Sciences on the associa-
tons said TO exist between mental action and the use
of phosphorus. The drug is believed to be concerned
with both the action and nutrition of the brain. In
working the cefebrum is supposed to absorb sodic and
potassic phosphates, ard to give out phosphoric
acid combined with a base. intellectual work retards
nutrition. because it diminishes the proportion Of
acid combined with alkalies and increases the earthly
phosphates.
A FAvoRITE amusement of Dom Pedro III, of Bra
I'll, is to leave his gorgeous turnout in a side street.
and, accompanied by a gray-haired chamberlain and a
stalwart life-guardsman. walk the distance Of a square
or more to a mandatory or other establishment and
surprise the proprietor and employees by his sudden
and unannounced appearance among them. Of course
he is given the liberty Of the establishment, and he
takes his time in examining the machinery and modus
operandi. With a kind word of encouragement and
commentator, he goes away, perhaps to pay a similar
visit to another establishment. These visits he makes
impartially to the mechanical and mercantile estab-
lishments controlled by foreigners as well as natives.
SARAH BRRNHARDT is the subject of q new anec-
dote, from which persons who would like to have their
salaries raised may derive a bit of reflected s~atsfac-
ton. She had been offered in her youth and had ac-
cepted the magnificent sum of $50 monthly. Hardly
was the contract signed when NM. Duquesnel and
Chilly, the Odeon managers, heard a knock at their
door and in stalked Sarah. what can We do for
your" politely asked the managers. "a trihe. Add a
nought to the $50 and make it 5000" replied Sarah.
You're in two much of a hurry, my dear. Time
enough to think of that in len years or So" 'In ten
years, -" said Sarah, II shall be much more exacting.
One nought will not satisfy me, maybe, and managers
will then pay mo anything 1 choose to ask" With
that she laughed and vanished.
THERE was a rich widow who read q matrimonial
advertisement in which a man in Savannah repre-
sented himself to be a seeker of a spouse, She an
swered, and a short, sharp correspondence ensued.
Photographs were exchanged. That of the man
showed a face remarkable for its beauty of features.
and, as he said he was six feet in heighth, weighed
200 pounds, and was as straight as an arrow, tho
widow had no reason to doubt that he was a very
Apollo. He forwarded certificates of good character,
wrote in a glowing, intelligent manner, and confessed
with great frankness that he was poor. But when the
sutton presented himself at her residence she saw to
her horror and dismay that he was a mulatto. His
features were the fine Caucasian ones shown in the
photograph, but his color was brown.
THE students of Sewanee College, Tennessee. were