The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THEoDoRE Triton has left Paris for the South of
France. He seeks more sunny surroundings.
QUEEN VICTORIA, it is said, has to pay postage on
her mail matter just the same as any of her subjects.
LORD DUFFERIN's picture stares at you in every
public house in Canada, says a recent traveller in the
Dominion.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has offered Prof Goodwin Smith
the professorship of history at Oxford. In case Prof.
Smith declines the position it will be offered to Prof.
Edward Freeman.
GENERAL K~ILPATRICK'S widow, who is now in
Washington, is said to be in very reduced circum-
stances, and her friends will petition Congress to grant
her a suitable pension.
SENATOR MILLER. of California. owns the house
built three years ago by Thomas Wilson, and in spite
of so-called palaces since erected it is still considered
in many respects the finest residence in Washington.
SIR MOSES MoNTEFIoRE has fully recovered from
his recent attacks Of bronchitis and is slowly regain
ing his usual strength, which for a man within a year
Of having lived a century is as wonderful as it is graft
flying.
NINE. ERNST quotes this mot that NJ. Gautier once
addressed to her: When you wish to appear beautiful
and attractive consult your best lady friend, show her
all your dresses and ask her to select the one you
should wear, and then choose another"
SIR LEPEL GRIFFIN, in his article in a recent Fort
nightly Review, among other unkind things said about
America, declares one may find more beautiful wo-
men in the streets Of London in one day than in the
broad expanse of the United States in a month.
LORD Lyons, English minister in Paris, has never
changed any of his servants-of whom he has eight
during his long residence in that city, and a CORE
| spondent states that they esteem it the greatest honor
to have him shake hands with them, which he does
regularly every Christmas morning.
The monument of Garibaldi tina. is to be set up in
Turin represents the General standing on the summit
of a rock in Caprera, his eyes directed toward distant
Italy. On the pedestal stands a female figure with a
star on her forehead and a majestic hon-the latter
being a symbol of Garibaldis strength.
FoR the last month the Gar has been in such a de-
plorable state of nervous excitement that to all in
tents and purposes he may be regarded as insane. He
is said to be thoroughly terror stricken, and lives in a
state of panic which would be ludicrous if it did not
produce such melancholy consequences.
THE Nawab Mir Lalk Ali eldest son of the late Sir
Salar Jung, who has just been appointed by the Nizam
to be his Dewan, or Prime Minister, is probably the
youngest occupant of such an oficein the world, being
only twenty years Of age. He is a youth of gigantic
physical frame, pleasing manners and high intellectual
culture.
No fewer than sc 1000 women make a living in
Paris by the production of artificial flowers, and the
majority of them are said by an admirer to be real
artists, initiating nature almost to perfection. At
present there are many of these women out of work,
owing in part to flowers being out of fashion and
partly to competition in England, Germany and Amer
lea.
The great composer, Felix Mendelssohn, who died
in lS47, was the grandson of the celebrated philoso-
pher, Moses Mendelssohn. His father, a Berlin
banker, who came in between these two famous per
sonages. used to say, 81 should like to know who I am.
When l was young they used to call me the son of
Moses Mendelssobn, and row that l am old I'm only
called the father of Felix Mendelssohn."
AYooB KHAN, who sought to become the successor
of Shere Ali, took up his abode at Meshed when he
was driven out of Afghanistan. Then he went to
Teheran, where the shah received him kindly and
granted him a pension of 81. $50 a month. But now.
for no apparent reason. he has given up home and
subsidy and gone with his household of $50 persons
to Bokhara. 1t is suspected that he has some politi-
cal intrigue in view,
THE long bridge over the Quinnipiae river at New
Haven has been assailed by the teredo, whose de-
structive work is very common and surprisingly
rapid in southern waters. A section of one Of the
piles has proved on examination to be completely
honeycombed. This discovery has made necessary a
minute examination of the entire structure. The
best protection against the remors2,rss industry of the
teredo is supposed to be the impregnation of wood
exposed to it with the oil of creosote.
THE great building at Salt Lake, which the saints
have been twentyeight years in constructing, is ap-
preaching completion. The main walls are done. 1t
is built of granite, which is hauled from the noun
tains back of Salt Lake, on great wagons or trucks
with wheels twelve feet high. The walls are ten feet
in thickness and e~ighty-fve feet in height 1t has cost