The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-28
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS better known as Uncle
Remus," has written the poem for the Decoration
Day exercises at Atlanta GA. is in plantation negro
pialeet
No ONE is so that he has not some friend.
kind of bug has been discovered which bores holes
through lead pipes. 1t is called the plumbers
friend"
ATKINSON Me-. has a blacksmith who keeps a
dentists chair in one of his shop and pulls
casional aching teeth He is also a good cabinet
maker. and when he can't get anything else TO do he
practices law.
The Rev. Robert Laird Collier says; THE Church
of England parsons pretty nearly all questions
that come up, the most tagging and inactive On any
political social question they may always be counted
upon to act with the 'holdback party
A THOUSAND dollars is offered by the Continent to
the reader who shall guess correctly all the of
the writer's of the series of short stories appear
ing anonymously in that publication. The money will
probably not change hands; but long and painful will
be the efforts made to secure it,
RUMoR says that Queen Victoria not only settled
considerable Princess Victoria of Hesse
marriage portion but paid large proportion of the
expenses of the wedding. Prince Alexander of Hesse
has agreed to allow his $4,000 year, and on
the death of his parents it is said that Prince Louis
will inherit about 81 5 900 year.
BALAKLAvA, although its name will be famous
in history associated with the famous light cavalry
charge. has hitherto remained unimportant town
1t is, however, beginning to develop resources
and bids fair to become fashionable resort for inva
lids. medical commission visiting it last summer
has reported very favoraby its sheltered position
and climate.
The room in which Ward is to stay is the one in
which Tweed died April IL, six years ago. The
watch of the prison will be augmented to six men and
will have the special duty of watching Ward both
asleep and awake AT time, said Herman will
he be left unguarded I'm responsible for prisoners
and I'll look out for him as carefully as would $780,
900 with legs.
THE discovery of vein of natural coke at Los Ger
rillos has quickened speculation among geoogists
This coke which has all the appearance of the artificial
product and burns clear and bright is found in vein
three feet thick between stratum of bituminous and
anthracite coal None of the theories respecting its
formation which have yet been published appear to be
quite satisfactory.
Mr.. EDWIN ARNOLD, author of 1.-THE Light of
Asia has translated an Arabic poem on the death of
the Duke of Albany, the last of which is ad-
dressed to Queen Victorai
'Wth this thy grief all thy vast realm is grievng
From rising unto setting of the
Think not alone of Albion, Queen, believing
That kingdom only is the mourning one;
Mother, thine Eastern sons in this bereaving
A GERMAN living along the line of the
Northern Pacific road lost cattle for which the
railroad company refused to pay and she wrote let
ter saying 'if Mr.. Willard was here he would pay
for all my little cattles because he is good. He
lived in my little village In Germany and he
great, big, fine young when l was little, small
girl going to school in village and he would never
let the big boys hurt the little boys girls in our
school,"
HORACE J. PERRIN, the Michigan millionaire, who
died at Marshall, in that State recently, passed the
summer of 1870 at Saratoga, where he met and be-
came engaged to Miss Annie Meredith. AS the time
for the wedding approached, Mr.. Perrin asked Miss
Meredith to release him. and she consenting married
younger lover, Mr.. Percy, Californian. Now Mrs.
Percy sues the Perrin estate for $40 900 alleged to
have been promised her by Perrin in consideration of
his release.
AN empty thester is to most people of the dis
malest of spectacles. Tho King of Bavaria differs
from the rest of the world in this respect. At the
state performance in the Royal Theater one-not
even the intendent Of these houses-is permitted to be
present. his Majesty has the house to himself. lie
Roi sAmuse" where the ordinary play-goers would
nope themselves into mortal fit of the blues. 1t has
just been notified that the Munich Theater Royal to
be closed for fifteen days give the King an oppor.
tunity of hearing Parsifal," Gluck's "Armida, and
piece or two Of Victor Hugo's in the solitude he
loves.
THE national monument at Washington, when fin \
ished will be the loftiest structure in the world by
about thirty feet The towers of the cathedral at
Cologne, just finished, have height of 524 feet and
IL inches; tower of St. Nicholas. Hamburg AIS feet
noh cupola of st. Peters, Rome 400 feet inches;
cathedral spire at Strasbourg 465 feet, IL inches
pyramid of Cheops, 449 feet inches; tower of st.
Stephens Vienna, 443 feet 10 inches tower of st.
Martins Landshut. ABA feet inches; cathedral spire
at Freiburg. 410 feet inch cathedral at Antwerp
404 feet 10 inches; cathedral of Florence 800 feet
inchesi st. Pars London, 365 feet inch; cathedral
tower MAgdeburg $50 feet IL inches tower of the