The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-04
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


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THE cost of the sanitary Gordon on the Adie, the
Lake of Garda, and along the Tyrolese frontier lie
estimated at IS, 400 day.
BOILED tripe, fried to very light brown in butter
and then sprinkled with salt and pepper said to
taste precisely like mushrooms.
OVER 700 different works have thus far been pub
lished in Germany vegetarianism in addition to a
monthly magazine the subject. WS
HANDMADE envelopes cost originally cents each.
The envelope-making machine now turns them out 50
that thousand may be sold for 30 cents.
Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY has returned to her
home in Rochester for months rest. She says that
the third volume of the History of Woman Suffrage"
is in the printers hands.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA will spend the whole of
next year in Australia before coming to begin his
course of lectures at San Francisco and thence
through the United States.
The latest in dress for gentlemen is the Father
Hubbard, Simply drop the suspenders and wear the
shirt loose the top of your pants instead Of tuck
ing it in, and you have the Father Hubbard"
THE oyster interest in New York employs twenty
million dollars capital and about sixteen thousand
men in the wholesale trade alone Gotham's average
daily consumption Of the bvalve is thrtyfve thou
sand bushels
Poor Teck, technically called duke, and even
prince, is wandering about with his equally impover-
ished wife, and the two tramps are a continuous
of worriment to that very worthy old woman
Queen Victoria.
WHAT do the ingenious mechanics think of General
Buffers attack upon the patent laws? Is aawyer en-
titled to 100000 year the product of his brain
labor and inventor to be told that he is monop.
oist for asking protectionin reaping the benefit of
bis brain work. s
M. LEvAT, a learned member of the French Acad-
envy of Sciences has discovered that melons contain
considerable proportion of alcohol After wet sum.
mer French cultvators find their melons almost un-
salabie Henceforth they hope to get good price
from the distlers
THE round going paragraph that the late Mrs. Mary
Cemmer Hudson, formerly Mrs. Mary Clemmer
Ames, was once the wife Of the Boston portrait
painter, Joseph Ames, is error. as Mr.. Amess
wife wellremembered beautiful brunette and
was one of the bellies Of Beacon Hill.
A MADRID correspondent writes that on recent
occasion the mayor of Madrid had to resort to
heard-of proceeding in the annals of bull fights in
order to keep the King and royal family from hearing
disagreeable remarks. He ordered the music to play
during the whole fight or rather the six fights, as
generally six bulls are killed during an afternoon. one
being dispatched before another enters the arena.
REV. DIR. w. w. Hicks, who became known
throughout the country the spiritual adviser Of
Guiteau and eperson to whom the assassin wiled
his body has resigned from the ministry and goes
Florida where it is said he has several large orange
groves. He pastor of the Church of the Taberna
Gle, in South Washington, and ninistered to the
spiritual wants Of large congregation
A WESTERN congressman lately at Saratoga inquired
eagerly for spring which he could drink from all day
like one he said, Twelve got out way. You
eat hearty dinner and then drink glass of water
from that spring in State and feel hungry that
you can eat another dinner right off As there is no
such spring at Saratoga he left not caring posi-
bly, to pay So per day andeat but dinner each day.
This is fact.
The Rev. Bernardo A. Thiel, Roman Catholic bish
op Of Costa Rca is in Washington, studying ethnol
ogy, at the Smithsonian Institution He is exile,
having been banished from Costa RIGA for protesting
against the establishment, at San Jose, of high
school without any provision for religious instruction.
but he win probably soon return home it being
derstood that the government is willing for him
to do so.
ROLLED gold is made by casting ingot of brass.
and while this is still hot pouring upon it thin layer
Of gold alloy The ingot when cold forced between
steel rollers until long thin ribbon is produced of
which the proportion Of gold and brass is the
Of the ingot The percentage Of gold is reduced as
low as two and three per cent. This rolled gold is
used in making cheap bracelets and watch chains and
costs but little more than brass It wears from to
ten years.
1T conveys idea Of the ucratveness of high places
in England in he good old days. thatin 1924 the then
Attorney general stated in the House Of Commons
that the late Lord marlborough had refused $400
900 for the office in his gift of Chief Clerk of the
Court Of Kings Bench When Lord marlborough
hoard that it was vacant he was horseback, and
aghting he wrote in pencil his saddle his sons APP
pointInent the groom being witness. The place-a
complete sincure--was worth $35, 900 a year.
THE terrible operation latelysubmtted to by Lord
William has directed attention to maladies Of the
tongue. One of the most extraordinary cases was
that Of Thomas Forder at Winchester, in 1924, who
was apparently in every respect healthy until within
about twenty hours Of his death, when he complained
Of soreness on his tongue, which gradually sweed
until he was sufocated A post morton failed to dis
cover any cause, and the verdict was Died by the
visitation Of God in consequences of sudden disease
and enlargement of the tongue"
THE value and proper Of the title Esquire Is
as much In doubt now apparently in England in tho
United States London Truth says 1t is generally
agreed that its use should not If possible be allowed
to any gentleman worth, say less than ten shings
week unless he DO an ofice-boy otherwise profess
sionaly engaged It has, however, been reserved for
the press to fix tho exact worth Of the title. Jour
nal published in the town Of Durham, small but
popular resort the Somersetshire coast, has the
following at the head Of It's list of Visitors The
word Esquire" charged three pence. prepaid. =