The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-29
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

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Mrs. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON is out with a plea
for new divorce laws in which the rights of father,
mother and child shall be equitably guarded.
LIEUTENANT DANENHowER has been assigned to
take charge of the departments of electricity meteor
ology aud natural philosophy at the Naval Academy at
Annapolis.
In London man fell in drunken fit and broke his
neck The jury found out that his grandfather had
died of broken neck and brought in as their verdict
Died by the hereditary visitation of God"
The Baroness BurdettCoutts sits in proscenuno
boxes at London theaters dressed without any afec
tation of juvenility, but in the fashion of an old
woman Her young husband is attentive to her
MUCH painful surprise has been excited at the
Vatican by the discovery that King Alfonso belongs
to the Masonic craft Cardinal Jacobni has written
to the nuncio at Madrid, in the Popes name, asking
for all details.
Mr.. RUsKIN accuses the weather of having dete-
riorated shamefuy since he was young man. so that
he has to tent instead of sketching in the
open air as he did then-genius being no prevent.
i've Of rheumatism
Miss LAURA WHITE sister Of Hon. J. D. White of
Kentucky has been admitted to the Special School Of
Architecture in Paris The Cheyenne says that sew
eral French women have already distinguished them-
selves as builders and house decorators.
The neatest fraud in Saratoga is said to be a girl
who is apt at making such very disingenuous remarks
as this; "Deary me, Sophy, you have just the same
perfume in your scent bottle that your brother Dolph
puts on his mustache.p And then she wonders wide
eyed what they are laughing at.
WILLIAM PEAKE and wife, of the once farnoug
family of Swiss bellringers are living in want at
Waverly, n. Y. He is seventyseven and sick she is
seventy four and they appear to have been deserted
by their children Theatrical friends now trying to
secure for them admission to the Old Folks Home at
Elmira
VICTOR HUGO declares that although he has spent
nearly twenty of his eghtytwo years in England he
does not know word Of English. Frenchmen are
said TO adhere TO their national pecuiarities while
abroad than any other people and Victor Hugo,s
confession is indication Of the correctness of the
theory.
A GEORGIA maidstone an heirloom in the Alfred
family, of Pickens county is to he exhibited at the
New Orleans Exposition. The history of the stone is
to be written and placed the cabinet along with it at
the exposition, and accompanying it. also will be the
certificates of physicians who have applied it with
success in of snake poisoning and mad-dog
bites
YOUNG was killed on a railroad track near
Albany. His parents had separated his father taking
daughter and he going with his mother At the
funeral when the coffin opened the father stood
on one side and the mother on the other. As they
raised their eyes from the last look upon their dead
SON. they met each Others gaze embraced each other
impulsiyey, and were reconciled.
WHEN Hartmann, the Nihilist, was with Sophia
Perovskaia changed in 1881 working at the mine,
beneath line of railroad, with the view Of killing the
Gar while passing he became in need of funds to
finish the work, and Sophia suggested that he pawn
his watch, which he did for eight roubles. This
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make an in time Of firing the match and to this
the Car owed his life.
MISS MAY TwoMBLEY describes two kinds of news
paper workers: The amateur news-gatherer is sure
be Extensively personal; only the trained profes.
sional hand can indvidualize by generalization And
there is always this essential difference between the
newspaper amateur and the professional The former
is thinking only Of himself and how he can keep from
his associates the knowledge he giving to the world
the genuine journalist is thinking only of the credito
the profession and the honor of the journal he repre-
sents.
PROF DOUGLASS, Of the Michigan State Uniyer.
sity produces amateur cyclones at will by suspendng
alarge copper plate by silken cords. This plateis
charged heavily with electricity which hangs down
like bag underneath and is rendered visible by the
use of arsenous acid gas which gives it green color
The formation is a miniature cyclone perfect as
any started in the clouds It is funnelshaped, and
whirls around rapidly Passing this plate over
table, the cyclone snatches up copper cents, pith
balls, and other objects, and scatters them on all
sides.
The word Fudge has positive personality under
lying it. Such it is at least, if Disrae saceount be
authentic. He quotes from very old pamphlet, en-.
titled Remarks Upon the Navy wherein the author
says There was in time Captain Fudge,
"a. L.
from his voyage how llfraught his ship was,
always brought home to his owners good crop Of
lies, so much that now aboard ship the sailors, when
they hear great lie told, cry out, You Fudge it,
The ship was the Black Eagle, the time tkat Of
Charles II.
THE value and proper use Of the title "Esquire'is
as much in doubt now apparently III England in the
United States. London Truth says 1T Is gem
orally agreed that it's should not if possible be
allowed to any gentleman worth, say, less than ten
shilngs week. unless he be an ofice,b boy other-
wise professionally engaged It has, however, been
reserved for the press to fix the exact worth of the
title. A journal published in The town Of Burnham q
SMALL but popular resort the Somersetshire coast,
has the following the head of its List Of Visitors
The word ESQ., charged 3d., prepaid
CARL ScHURz recently chatted entertainngy,
Thus II was walking up Broadway when saw o
goodlooking, massiyey-buiit man coming toward me.
knew who it was at once though had never been in
his actual presence before could not help smiling
at the excellence Of this gentlemans likeness, as
portrayed by the caricaturists. But evidently ne
recognized from the many amusing pictures which
have been drawn Of me- for his face was like mime
the full grin. We knew each other at once We had
been pictorially introduced We both laughed.
simultaneously touched our hats and passed on" The
other man was John Kelly.
THE island Of Maurtius is the home of witchcraft
The London Times asserts positively that young
children are frequently tortured and killed for al
Logged magical purposes one Picot was tried by the