The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-04
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


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AFRENcH almanac predicts that Emperor William
and General Moltke will die before Dec. 81. 1884.
NED BuNTIINEp has invited President Arthur to
visit him at Eagles Nest, his home near Stamford,
NY
DIR. VIGoURoUx a glass Of lemonade,
taken as hot as possible every hour or half hour, as
not only an easy and agreeable but a most efficient
cure for diarrhoea.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has been Prime Minister, alto
gether, nine years and a half-a longer service than
any other since Liverpool and Pitt, who served
eighteen and fourteen years.
BUFFALO BILL recently said to an audiences at the
conclusion Of his exhibition: you have seen more of
life on the frontier this afternoon than you would in
ten years living on the frontier"
THE novelist Crawford is spending the summer in
Constantinople in a house high up above the Bospho-
rus overlooking the mouth Of the Black sea. This
may serve as scenery for his next exotic novel
THE Comte de Paris has just been removed, on ac-
count Of his age (~forty-six3, from the list of colonies
in the reserve or territorial French army. By law he
could not hold the commission after forty, but he has
been inadvertently overlooked, and the discovery also
is made and officially announced that he never has
been in active service at ALL
GENERAL ToDLEBEN, Of sevastopol, who died re-
centlyat Wiesbaden. was a striking illustration of the
i e&lenb 10 WHICH, III Ou6 lbuSSldn dFuy1 prOHVblOAA II
open to merit. He began life as the son of a Riga
shopkeeper, he ended it as count Of the Russian en-
pire, and in his last campaign he was COMMANDMENTS
chief of the Russian army in Bulgaria.
THERE was a scene in the dining-room Of a Sarato-
ga hotel the other day not down on the bill of fare. A
waiter, who probably had not been tipped" was inn
pertinent to a lady dining, whereupon her son arose
and laid the son of Ham fiat on his back on the floor
Ladies screamed, children cried and old Mr.. Moses
took occasion to purloin his n~eighbor's piece of pie
during the tto~xcidemend.p
THE revision Of the Old Testament, which it was
hoped would be out this year, viii probably not make
its appearance before early in 1885. The eighty-6fth
and last session Of the English revision committee has
been held, but months must intervene before the com
plete work can be given to the public. Nothingi is pos
lively known of any changes made in the old version
the revisers on both sides of the Atlantic having kept
their pledge Of secrecy.
DR. THoRoLD, bishop of Rochester, England, will
reach this country next month, landing at Quebec and
coming to New York for his eighth visit. He remarked
when here last that he felt a peculiar attachment for
America, as his grandfather was one of the seven men
in the House of Commons who voted against the ag-
gressions and war Of the mother country upon the
colonies. He comes hither this year in the interest Of
the Church Temperance Society.
MoLTKE the Silent, as he is called, at eighty-four,
is tall. slender, erect, with a salow, beardless face,
stony gray eyes, and yellow hair, wearing a cap and q
long military coat. Unattended by even a single SER
want he walks through the streets Of Berlin slowly
and noiselessly. Saluted by every soldier he meets,
he returns the courtesy, but apparently without no
ticing toiwhom, and everywhere he retains the cold,
absorbed, mysterious manner which he did not allow
to be broken even at Sedan.
CHICAGO lady who was annoyed by the redness Of
her hands has, after years of experimenting, found a
cure. She has a pair of large hooks attached to the
head. board of her bed, and to these her hands are
tied withla slip-not of ribbon. She has a book-rest
which holds a novel, and, stretched on her back with
the book before her eyes and her hands hung up over
her head, she spends FIVE hours of each day. Bodily
she is in perfect health; her hands are fat and large
but beautifully white, and dearer to her than anyof
her children.
AN official return has just been published In France
Of the women who are members Of the order of the
Legion Of Honor. There are sixteen in all, and just
half the number are sisters of one religious order or
another. One of the lay members, the wife of a pro-
vincial mayor, earned the cross by defending the
Marie against an armed attack, under what circum.
stances is not stated; an ~episodeof the war, doubtless.
One name well known in the world Of art figures on
the hst-that of Rosa Bonheur. The only foreign f-
male chevalier is Lady Pigott, who received the deco
ration from NJ. Theirs in 1872, in acknowledgement
OF her services during the war.
G. d. w. WRITES to the London Times concerning
the expression. "a rope round the neck" The orr.
gin of this expression, as well as its meaning, has
lately been variously explained. The practice, accord
ing TO Demosthenes, prevailed In the popular
| assembly Of the Greek State Of Locri, in Italy.
There, according to the observation-disclosures it Is
said, by Zaleucus-any citizenIwh proposed anew law
did so with a rope round his neck, and if the propo-
sal failed to obtain a majority Of the votes the pro-
poser was at once ~strangled. This practice kept the
constitution in its original purity for two hundred
years"
THE London Inner Circle railroad is a marvellous
fe at Of engineering skill. 1t runs throughout the en-.
tire distance under the busiest center of the largest
| city in the world, and the operations attending the
excavation and construction have proceeded without
| serious injury to or interruption of business or traffic.
Quicksands have had to be passed through, beds Of
old rivers SPAWNED, lofty warehouses and massive
buildings secured while their foundations have been
undermined, and an intricate network Of gas and wa
ter pipes sustained until supports had been applied to
them from below. Added to this, the six main sewers
had several times to be reconstructed Day and night
the work has been carried on for eighteen months,
and now the engineers are able to announce that their
tunnel is complete. The laying of the rails and the
building Of the stations are the only portions Of the
immense work that remain to be done. and In
very short time trains will be passing over the whole
of this wonderful subterranean road.