The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

PoCAHoNTAs is to have monument in jamestown,
Va.
"PA is a mamma-dog a mastifl" occasionally.
my SON" 'Then, is papadog a pastiff" Then
silence reigned at the breakfast table.
IT is affirmed in Egypt that FL AIahdi possesses
eighteen wives and that his vakeel possesses twenty
four. The Mosems in Khartoum ARE Mortified at
the Mahdi's exceeding the number permitted in the
Koran
YES sir said the criminal lawyer ''that fellow is
ungrateful whep. 1 cleared him that charge of
murder when there is doubt he ought to have been
hanged for it; and when to settle, and pre-
sented my bill, he looked piteous, and asked why
didn't let them hang him"
THE name of Suakm, the seaport of the Soudan, is
said to mean built by the devil" and hitherto Sua
with traffic that justfes its diabolcal appelaton"
Suakim is the chief port the Red sea from which
African slaves are carried across to Arabia.
HER latest photograph shows Sarah Bernhardt en-
wrapped from head to foot in wonderful wad offurs
swelling her to the size of dime museum fat woman
OF inside these fus the presence of Sarah
only be inferred In styles she presents the
appearance of bare pole but in winter costume of
polar bear.
IT is said that Mrs Hester Charles the ''blue
woman" who died in Worcester county, Maryland re-
Gently, closely related to James X. Polk. When
child she had clear and beautiful complexion, but
she dosed with much suphate of copper during
an extended illness that she turned to a dark blue
COLOR. Her skin recovered its normal hue.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR is an Epscopaian, as is also
the Secretary of State and the Encouragement
Secretary Folger is broadga Presbyterian. Sec
rotary Chandler is a Unitarian. Secretary Lincoln
attends the Presbyterian Church, as does also Post
master general Gresham, who, it is said, is of the
orthodox stamp, while Secretary Teller is Meth
odist of the Rocky mountain quality.
JOHN OBRIEN, the Republican machine leader of
New York is thus described by one who chatted with
him the other day: "OBrien is a young of me-
dunn size, becoming little stout, with dark eyes
mixture of modesty and hunor his darkish hair now
turning little gray like his mustache and he says
they have grown gray the service of the Republican
party being up all night to get votes, and up nearly
all next day to get abused.
IT will not be surprising if Sir Henry Brand de.
cines the proposed elevation to the peerage and in
deed, if such elevation would, by any possibility
vitate his or his sons title to succeed his brother
Baron Dacre such declension may be looked for as a
matter Of course For the present Baron Dacre is the
twenty-third of his line and the iustrous house
dates it's creation, by royal writ back to 1907. Dur
ing the present generation the family has allied itself
by marriage with the Cavendishes, Vernons Sey
mours and Greys. Lord Dacre married the daughter
of Charles Cavendish, Lord Chesham, but has had
children while Sir Henry has had ten, the heir being
the second child, Henry Robert, who was elected to
Parliament in 1868 and is married to a neice of the
Duke of Dcyonshire.
THE peremptory American method of making tele
phone calls-"Helo!' ''Hellol' Give me 1890"
etcwould do in the polished Castillan tongue
Courtesy of intercourse must be preserved even be-
tween invisible communicates, and the unseeming
atiousness and petulance which the telephone
to provoke in Saxon moods is allowed to obtain
utterance here. The regular response from the cen
trial office to telephone call is "Mande usted which
is equivalent to Sat your command" Then prelim
naries are gone through something follows: Good
morning, senoritai how do you do'' VERY well