The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THERE is still talk about offering President Arthur
the presidency Of Union College
On the 10th Of July the Dutch contemplate com
memorating the tereentenary of the murder of Will
lam the Silent in the then courty residence Of Delft
FE4kLE vaccinators have been introduced into
Madras, so that native women need not have their
preiudicss shocked by being treated by medical
BIBLES no longer to be found in watering-pIace
hotel parlors and bedchambers, Formerly the Bible
was as much part Of the furniture as the match
safe
STANLEY, the explorer, after years in Africa
is about to retire. His successor will be Sir Francis
Winton, formerly aide-de-camp to the Marquis of
Lorne
LAWRENCE BARRETT, who is now in Germany Wis
iting his daughters will leave Liverpool July s. and
three weeks later open his next dramatic season at
Denver, Col
A CHAMPAGNE house at Epernay recently offered
prizes for the best five poems champagne. The
topic was 50 inspiriting that fewer than LOO
poems were sent in.
THE Princess Dolgorouky, widow Of Alexander II
viii spend the summer at the Belvidere, at Lucerne
on the Lac Quatre- Cantons. The hotel has been re-
tanned for her and her children
SITTING BULL is advancing in civilization, and is
becoming esthetic. At dinner given to him by the
officers at Fort Smelling he expressed his unbonded
admiration for the silver forks, canned peaches and
the wife Of Col Andrews.
DRuRys portrait of Mrs. James K. Polk, lately
hung in the White House, pictures her at the age
of thrty6ve and dresses her in adecollete style 1t
is good likeness of Mrs. Polk as she was when mis-
tress Of the presidential mansion.
LORD DRUMMoND, who had been working as a por-
ter for Carhart Whtford & Co.. in New York. has lost
his position by the failure Of the firm He is still
solved not to desert his wife though by doing so he
would be Acknowledged by his noble relatives.
THE Duke Of Albany left only 100000, and the
Queen has consented to pay portion Of his debts in
Guiding share Of the funeral expenses. There is a
heartless clause in the grant to the Duchess which
takes away her 10000 year if she remarries.
! THE ablest men in either branch of Congress did
not have the advantages Of collegiate education.
This applies to Edmunds, Sherman, Wilson Of Iowa,
Bayard and Pendleton in the Senator and to Randall
Carlisle, Kelley, McKenna, Reagan and Curtin in the
| House.
III the shrinkage Of stocks keeps up much longer
Mr.. Vanderbilt will have to go to the poor house A
year ago he had $55 900 900 in registered govern
ment bonds; now he has only $32, 100000. The diff
ference is supposed to have evaporated In the dc.
preston.
/ SIMON NEwC0MB, who was made an LII. D. by
Harvard University, Is the man who makes the
almanacs for the government at the Washington OBJ
servatory and is supposed to have sat for the por
trait Of the old professor in Mrs Burnetts Through
One Administration"
/ A CORRESPONDENT Of tho Lancet says that Dr.
| Weir, health officer of Bombay, found in the well
water used by certain cholera patients the so-caed
cholera bacillus discovered by Prof. Koch Dr. Bal
| four who was present, drank at once quantity of
the water much against Dr.. Weir's Wishes But Dr.