The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-15
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

PAUL DANA is commonly known as Young Sun.
shine"
OF the Anglican bishops six are widowers. FIVE are
married for the second time, and one is living with his
third vito.
IT is stated that 80, 900 copies of NJ. Max O'Rell's
Lies Files de John Bull were absorbed within three
weeks of its appearance in Paris.
The stone sarcophagus for the tomb of Calhoun
has been finished and will at once be set in place, in
st. Philips churchyard, Charleston, S. O.
ION THUMBS estate, after all debts and expenses
are paid figures up $16,431. So it is that Mrs.
Thumb has gone into the show business again.
REV. DIR. PARET, bishop-elect of the diocese of Ma.
ryland, has been suffering with infamed eyes, which
are still so much affected as to incapacitate him for
intellectual labors.
The new American prima donna, Mile. Rolla, who
is about to commence her operate career in Italy, is
Mrs. Rammelsberg in private life, a widow, quite
young, and very pretty.
The model of Abraham Lincoln's apparatus for
lifting vessels over shoals, which is now in the Patent
Office in Washington, is to be in the Patent Office ex-
hibit in the New Orleans exposition.
IsMAfL, the ex-Khedive, is not a pauper. Between
1874 and 1873, when he abdicated, more than $780,
100000 was paid in to his account at various Euro
pean banks, principally in Holland aud Belgium.
Mrs. WIS HoYT, daughter of the late Chief;jus-
tice Chase, has successfully established an industrial
school at Pelham Manor, where furniture carving,
clay and plaster modelling, tapestry work, ETC., are
taught to girls and boys.
A PARTISAN doctor prescribed for a lady who had
objections to growing stout: "Take exercise, my dear
lady. Consider the trees of the fold; they never take
exercise, and, as a consequence, they go on growing
bigger and bigger every year"
TWILIGHT parties, at which the only light permit
tod is fbat fpopo &ba cnak0 &C. go -.-.--s -
among the more cultured classes of society people.
Each member of the company tells a story or recites
a poem to the group af listeners about the glowing
Goals.
AN ingenious newspaper fle-stick has been patented
by an inventor in Norwalk, Conn. 1t consists Of
grooved rod or bar, a binding blade, a permanent and
a removable ferrule, with a snap spring so contrived
as to securely hold papers and docum ents, with a cove
if desired.
ONE of the causes of Strauss remarkable popular.
ity in Vienna, as lately shown on the occasion Of his
anniversary festival, is the Indictment which his
waltzes have contributed to the formation of frequent
dancing parties, with the result of bringing young
people together, and, as a consequence, of promoting
matrimony.
CONNECTICUT papers relate that in two instances
least in that State during the recent campaign young
men applied for marriage licenses to town clerks,
whose heads were turned by politics, and were given
first naturalization papers, the mistake not being dis
covered until bride and groom had presented them
solves to the clergyman.
BUT little happens nowadays to remind the world Of
Salmon P. Chase, says the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Yet it was only last Saturday that his old partne r at
Cincinnati, the Hon. Flamen Ball, retired from the
practice of the law, and closed up the Office which was
opened in 1882 by Chase g. Ball, the weather-beaten
gilt sign having hung outside ever since.
GENERAL WILLIAM B. KINsEY, of the Philadelo
phia Board of Health, has received, through a Masonic
lodge at Mahomet, Texas, a sword which was lost by
him twenty-one years ago, during a skirmish with the
rebels. The weapon came into the possession of a con.
federate officer, who retained it till the close of the
war, when he presented it to the lodge which has just
returned it TO the owner. ~
olas avenue and One-hundred- and Thirty eighth street
with its spacious grounds and wide porches, is 5000
TO become transformed into a series of ordinary city
lots. Eighty years ago, and more, Hamilton spent
there the happiest days of his life, with his wife and
seven children. The building is two stories high ani
sixty feet square, commanding a noble view Of th(
Hudson river and the Palisades.
OUR life is but a winter day,
Some only breakfast and away;
Others to dinner stay
and are full fed;
the oldest man but sups
and goes to bed;
large is his debt
that fingers out the day;
he that goest soonest