The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-26
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

with beautiful form is almost always homey.
AN accusation of cowardice during the American
war lately started in Paris against the Comte de Paris
has aroused intense indignation among the Orleans
party of France
M. ARTHUR CHESTER" is the way in which the
Paris papers alude to the President and of the
little evening journals already have begun to talk of
m. Cleveland Grover"
SINCE last September Emperor William has had five
fanng fits his vitality falling very low after
each attack and it is feared the Berlin that
he will die suddenly before the year is ended.
LAST Thursday was celebrated at Linz, Austria,
the centennial of the birth there of Marianne Jung,
the "Suleika" of Goethe Funds raised at the cele-
braton will be applied to the erection of statue of
Goethe in Vienna.
Miss IRVING, niece of Washington Irving has
offered to the senior class of Princeton College, for
the commencement ivy ceremony, slip from a vine
planted by her uncle the original of which he brought
from Sir Waiter SCOTS home at Abbotsford.
THE cane which President Lincoln carried on the
night of his ASSASSINATION is the property of
Colonel W. H. Harris, of Cleveland who was with the
President on that fateful night The cane has bent
| top dogs head of ivory and gold band, on
which is engraved: Abraham Lincoln, 1865"
Now is the time to buy good italian titles cir
cuar just issued states that the title of prince can be
bought for $25 900; that of duke for $4,000; thai
of count for So COO; and that of baron for 81 900
"A special discount will be made TO Americans who
| may wish TO purchase whole set for family use.
SIR WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNN was brought down
to the House of Commons bath chair at the recent
franchise bill debate and wheeled, hall paralyzed
through the division lobby to vote against the bill
This done in the of Lord Douglass Halybur-
ton in Lord Mclbournes time, and he died few hours
after.
A WHOLESALE mandatory of Swiss stamps of old
issues has just been discovered in Zurich The forg
ers have gone about their work very thoroughly they
have collected scraps of old letters bearing postmars
with various dates from 1s43 to 1860; and the bet
ter to deceive the unwary they have stuck the stamps
on to these pieces of envelope.
! WISE has discovered that the figures "22'
occupy considerable space in President Cleveland
history To begin, there % letters in his name
Hi born on the 22d day of the month, is the
I'D President Of the United States, executed man
on the 22d of the month and here are Just % let
ters in Rev. Mr.. Burchard's celebrated ALTERATION
KATE FIELD thinks ought to question her
patriotism or her earnestness in investigating Nor
monism because she spent eight months in Salt Lake
City and scarcely got welcooked meal in that
time. When fastdious feeder" says she. ignores
the expostulations of outraged stomach for eight
portance"
Mrs. BLOOD, who is announced by cable as having
recovered 600 damages for libel from the London
Modern Society for having stated that she was di-
vorced woman, is the energetic party well known in
this country Victoria Woodruff Her daughter was
married not long ago to Lord Colin Campbell the
Duke of Argylls son, and it was in paragraph about
Lady Campbell that the libel was published
| CALLER upon q certain authoress declares that
he found her clad in a suit somewhat like that worn
by Grosvenor in Patience, consisting of tunic and
trousers of black velvet the latter reachne to the
knees, below which silk stockings and sippeys
She said that skirts nuisance in her estimation
and that for relief, especially when composing she
discarded them in favor of the knickerbockers.
THE reputed site of the Garden of Eden, at the
junction Of the Tigris and Euphrates is now sterile
tract, where the only vegetable life consists of
cump of date trees, very small and dirty village
called Gurna at which the Turks maintain garrison
and telegraph Office. The inhabitants point out to
strangers the Tree of KnowledGea most sicky spec
imon, bearing a small green berry which would Ger.
| tainly a goat to turn away in disgust.
| MEDAL has been struck in com memoration of the
Tooth anniversary of Methodism in this country and
is sold in duplicate by authority of the bishops The
opens like book, and in the central portion sur.
rounded by velvet the medal is fixed that both its
sides exposed when the cover is opened. pastor
regrets that he lately found convert kneelng before
it in alteration, using it FOR idol He has heard
that such perversion Of the object is common among
tho negroes of the South where the medals are held
in possessing supernatural qualities.
FIGARO relates that Mime. Al5ani was engaged to
sing at old Mar Lodge. Lord Flies seat during Mr..
Gadstones recent vsit and at the Sunday service in
In the private chapel sang the anthem ANGELS ever
bright and fair" At the close Mr.. Gladstone asked
the prima DONNA if she was suffering from cold On
being assured to the contrary the Premier asked
whether railway travel affected Nine Atlantis voice.
Again was the reply in the negative the G. o. NJ.
contented himself with confdng to the prima donna
that the railway always affected his own voice.
MEMBERS of Parliament in England who breathe
threatenngs and slaughter against each otherin the
House. frequently the best of friends in lobby and
smoking room One would imagine from their public
uttsrances that Mr.. Chamberlain and Lord Randolph
Churchill the bitterest enemies Nothing of the
kind They have been climbing glasses ere now,
and will again. After the angry scene in the House
the other night, In which Mr. Chamberlain styled Sir
H. D. Wolff Lord Randoph's "jacbal" Sir Henry,
meeting the doughty Radical in the lobby, jocularly
rom arked: How came you TO think Wolff could be
jackaf'
| DIR. KImBAIII, of Saco, Me-, one of the oldest and
most widely-known practitioners in York county tells
good story Of himself. He had attended an old gem
tleman during lingering Illness and about year
after his decoase sent his BILL which amounted to
considerable sum, to the widow He repeated the
process three times without elciting reply and then
called He was put of from time to time