The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-28
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


transaction.
OAMPANINI, in his rich retirement in Italy is cat
tie ratser, wine maker, miller, silk grower, tenor
singer Sunday-school teacher and farmer.
CHEESE should always be served before dessert,
it helps to digest the dinner. Brllat Savarn says
"a dinner without cheese is like handsome woman
with only eye"
LILY LANGTRY has returned to London from Paris
with trunk full of gowns, which will enable her to
appear in several of the best dramatic pieces that man.
millner Worth ever put on the stage.
Miss MARIE VAN ZANDT, the American prima
DONNA will not accept another engagement in Paris at
any price The backguardism of certain set of
critics has disguised her with that center of cviza
ton and courtesy.
JOAQUIN MILLER is an intimate friend of Buffalo
Bill and the two rode together in the carriage
the opening day of the New Orleans Exposition,
aordng the delighted popuace the chance to see the
two lions in one show. and for nothing.
FRENCH artist, finding it somewhat annoying to
have his creditors constantly his door pressing him
for money, procured bear, which he taught to
swer the dcor-bel and to show its teeth every time
an unwelcome visitor appeared. The plan
cessful beyond the artists most sanguine expecta-
tons.
SIXTEEN years ago Mr. Gladstone told the people of
St Serveol's Church. Penmaenmawr, that he would
give them bell as soon as they would build tower
to hang it in The tower is receiving its finishing
touches and Mr.. Gladstone has just ordered bell for
it. weighing twenty one hundred weight and tuned to
the note of Z.
RECENT calculation shows that weighing
$50 pounds and running a mile in six minutes, per-
forms work about equal to that of alf-horse engine
while walker sustaining FIVE miles hour for long
time does wcfk equal to that of quarter-horse
CINE, and consequently only one-twentieth of the
weight of food or fuel.
THERE is recent Paris plan for getting confessions
out OF prisoners: As the cuprt entered the morgue
he staggered and had to be helped into the mortuay
He then placed in front of the corpse of his vic
tim and tainted twice. A restorative was then am
ministered to him, and when he to his he
wept like child and made full confession Of his
crime"
THE famous Basilewsk collection has been bought
by the Russian government for 900 900 francs. to
the great disappointment of collectors and dealers.
Among the most precious of its contents the ia
nous "Fortuny' vase of Hispano- Moresque pottery
four pieces of Henri Deux ware italian plate with
the portrait of Charles V, large 'retable of a Linn
oges enamel by Penicaud and specimens of Christian
art from tho catacombs
HAMILTON Call paper says Chinaman has de-
voted the whole and fall to gathering horned
toads, which very the red hills, and
are as much dreaded rattesnakes Recently he
made shipment of 9, 900 of the toads to San Fran
cisco, from which place they will be sent to China.
The toads are there converted into various kinds of
medicines which sell very high. For the of
chils and fever they are said to be the finest things
known. A toad is placed in flask of whisky for
eral weeks, and then the stuff is sold as tonic.
YET another thing Mr.. Errington did upon that
historic trip to Rome He the Pope, but not
corning Catholicism in Ireland He asked the head of
the church to allow cast to be taken of the replica
of Praxiteles's Venus, once at Cnidos This dis
tinguished individual in marble has been, like
other nude figures at the Vatican furnished with
tin petticoat. The Pope refused to let the Germans
or French take it of. But Errngton's soft words
turned away all objections and cast of the Venus
now stands in the South Kensington Museum at Lon
don.
THEY laid out new town in Dakota last fall, AID
called it Golden City A Chicago Spectator who
out there took 500 lets at S. and in thirty days the
price of city lots had gone to $25 each. Some one
built and opened a saloon, and the figures jumped to
$50. A second saloon went up and the city lots
changed hands at $75 apiece The Chicago man was
advised to SELL but he concluded to hang for few
more saloons. The snow came, and it with diff
Guilty the Chicago mans agent could get through the
drift to find the place deserted by human beings; but
on tree was sign reading, Sell you the whole city
for So"
A BINGHAMToN, N. Y, who purchased two
ounces" of zephyr at millinery store in that town,
paying twenty cents therefor, returned shortly and
demanded his money, alleging that he had weighed
the yarn and found that did weigh two ounces
The mliner told the irate individual that yarn was
not sold by the ounce in the general acceptation of
A. To
certain number of skeins. He could not be paciied
and as his money not refunded, he brought an
action to recover the twenty cents The milner not
caring to quarrel further small matter, set
tied the dispute by paying the amount claimed and
eghty-fve cents costs.
MURAL tablet is to be erected TO the memory of
the boy Parker bearing tho following inscriptions
Sacred to the memory of Richard Parker aged sew
enteen years. who died at after nineteen days
dreadful suffering in an open boat in the tropics
having been wrecked in the yacht Mignonette.
Though he slay me, yet will trust him. Lord lay
not this sin to their Charge" The tablet which is Of
white marble and upwards O. seven feet high, was
presented by Mr.. John F. Hasking NJ E., 10 Captain
Mitchell the foster father of the boy Parker and will
be placed the graves of his father and mother in
the Pear Tree Churchyard, Htching Ferry, South
ampton The sentences of the who killed the
boy for food have been committed
BETWEEN Damascus and Jerusalem is tribe of
about 3 900 Hebrews which has been there probably
since the beginning of the Christian They have
neither city town; they live III camps. The toR;
pie is represented by spacious tent Thoy have
admitted among them person Of different race
or religion. Their ordinary language is Hebrew. In
their relations with others they speak Arabian These
relations however, very few. fer they have re-
MANNED like their primitive races exclusively lers of
the soil and warriors They cultivate the ground