The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


younger than Edwin Booth.
Tom HUGHES has discovered method of getting
rid of James Russell Lowel-he is going to take his
life for publication il. a magazine
CRUMP, the former steward of inc White House.
says he still suffering from the effects of overwork
during the illness of President Garfield.
KAISER WILHELM makes no secret of how he got
his recent fall Some speaking of how 'his no rse
fell with him." he promptly interposed: "Oh, no
that was not the way it happened. 1 fell from the
horse"
The Marquis of Camden, now twelve years old,
asked the Court of Chancery the other day increase
his allowance of $4,000 year to $4,000, on
the ground that the former not enough to keep
up his estate of Baynham Court.
CAPTAIN E. D. ELLSWORTH, father of Colonel Ell
mer F. Ellsworth, who shot in Alexandria while
tearing down rebel flag at the beginning of the war,
still maintains in pasture in Mechanicsve the horse
that belonged to his son, which is now thirty three
years old.
THE Presidents wives now living are: Mrs Polk,
at Nashville; Mrs. John Tyler, at Richmond; Mrs.
Grant, in New Jersey; Mrs. Hayes in Fremont, and
Mrs. Garfield, in Cleveland. Of these the widows
Mrs Polk, Mrs. Tyler, and Mrs. Garfield, draw from
the government pensions of $5, 900 year each.
A MEMBER of the dominant party, wishing to pro.
claim his political sympathies an expensive and con-
New Orleans Exposition of buying a diamond yclept,
the Cleveland Gem" This precious stone will weigh
when cut, between forty and fifty carats and will cost
about 81 900 carat.
PHILIPS BROOKS is by far the biggest man in
Boston, yet London Spectator says of the
he preached in English churches that they more
accute than profound, more ingenious than pene-
trating, not always clear and deep" Beacon
Hill has suddenly dropped Anglo-mania and is in
raptures over Kate Fields Paris dresses.
THE ugliest Princess in Europe is said to be the
Grown Princess of Sweden. She is masculine and
coarse in feature without one redeeming point to
distinguish her from the verest peasant girl in Baden
Of which Duchy, her father and mother are Grand
Duke and Duchess. She is said though, to be pos
sessed of many admirable qualities, and is also highly
cultivated.
THE Brunswickers are Tuning like nest of hornets
the testamenary disposition of their late Duke
and are tearing down all badges of mourning for him.
He left small personal legacies to few body servants
and larger to several favore ballet dan GERS but
nothing more to any of his subjects, who lose
the park, and theater that they enjoyed dur
ing his life and for which, indeed, they themselves
paid largely
THE word brat, which is applied to an ugly i'll
favored ill-behaved, dirty child originally simply
meant offspring, Archbishop French mentions this,
and gives the following quotation from Gascoigne's
DE Profunds;"
30 Israel, o household of the Lord
Q Abraham's brat, o brood of blessed seed
chosen sheep that loved the Lord indeed"
The word brat was the Anglo-Saxon for cloak rag
THE Supreme Court of Iowa has informed young
wife who married a knowing him to be intemper.
ate and then applied for divorce the ground that
he is confirmed drunkard that she voluntarily chose
a drunkard for husband and should discharge the
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pledge of reformation, made before marriage says
the court, "does not justify you in deserving him.
Having knowingly married drunkard, you must
make yourself content with the sacred relationship"
DR.. NEwsHoLIME in his recent work on hygiene, is
disposed to favor total abstinence and emphatic
to the necessity of restricting the OF alcohol TO
the maximum of an ounce and a half in twenty-four
hours. This put in turn into ordinary and
liquids would mean about two quarts of small-beer
pint of stout little more than half bottle of weak
caret, about three glasses of port sherry Madeira
(reckoning twelve glasses to the reputed quartz half
as much of brandy and little less than half of
whisky,
THE wedding dress Of Lady Millcent st Clair
Erskine just married to the Marquis of Stafford was
worthy of the future Duchess of Sutherland 1t was
of white satin the edges of the long plain train being
outlined with embroidery of pearls and silver and the
of pearls that it seemed to he covered with clusters of
flowers. Mingled with this was great quantity of su
perb old Russian lace and it all full veil of the
lace, while the only ornament necklace of
oriental pearls, the bridegroom's gift.
1T is now five years since s n. Silver, of Auburn,
Me-, began eating only one meal day. He spends
hour in eating but eats than he would if he
had the other two meals daily. He is twenty-five
pounds heavier and is able to endure than when
he ate three times day. He never has cold. at is
a problem of perfect assimilation of food" says he
'Twothirds of the food eaten by person ordinarily
Is wasted" Mr. Silver's wife, too, has but one
meal day for three years. and she is in perfect
health. He says that fifteen twenty of his &C
quaintances have adopted his system.
THE price of Meissonier's wonderful little picture
The Vedette, is stated to be $22 500. Fifty years
ago Meissoniers nimitable drawings fetched from 81
to So apiece In order to finish them he had to spend
half the day in the Bibiotheque Nationale at Paris
studying Indian engravings, which afforded subjects
suited the taste of the dealer whose orders the great
French artist-then unknown to fame-was executing
Messonier has himself left record that his lunch
then consisted of raw apple and his dinner when
he could afford one of soup, fried potatoes, and bit
of bread. He could only afford to sleep night in
two and for six months he claims to have lived
sum of so francs.
CHEFJUsTicE CoIERIDGE of Great Britain, came
inuo notice in dramatic manner He pleading The
cause of man trial for MURDER it late in the
day, and draught extinguished the candles, He
stopped speaking, and the silence and darkness were
oppressive not the less on account of the judges
scarlet robe tbs haggard face of the prisoner, and
the haflights and shadows the candles strug-
Cling into light Gentlemen of the jury" said Cole
ridge the life of the prisoner is in your hands You
can extinguish it that candle extingushed
moment since. But it is not in your power it is not
in the power of any one. to restore that life
taken as that light has been restored" He the
case