The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-27
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

AMERICAN homemade pie now appears the
bills Of fare Of London hotels If it is homemade it
cannot beve fresh.
THE coneeit of Kansas man is to remove the tomb.
stones from his family burial plot to the roof of his
house. where they stand in row Of seven along the
ridgepole.
DIR. GRIFFIN Mary Anderson's step-father, has
concluded that he and Labouchere must not speak
they pass by because Of the article in Truth rejecting
on Marys histrionic ability
WHILE Robert Bonner now millionaire many
times over, in Hartford, recently, Revisited the
Courant Office and told "reminiscences of the time when
he worked there for So per week.
ROBERT T. BALL, LID, F. R. s., the astronomer
royal from Dublin University will arrive in Boston
about the last of this MONTH He will be the first
royal astronomer to visit this cuuntry.
A PARIS novelty is magnifying fan Two sticks
bored and the holes filed with small lenses of the
finest crystal The wearer covers her eyes with the
fan and uses the sticks as an opera glass
NEW device for evading the Maine liquor law is to
open the eyeholes of young cocoanuts scad out the
interior and refill with whisky The meat of the nut
is said to pleasantly flavor and improve the
tents.
NEITHER Gordon nor Wolseley is a teetotaler. They
smoke tobacco Gordon in all kinds pipes. cigarettes,
cigars; Wolseley the latter and the best that be
had. Both are temperate in food and of incessant
activity.
Iris becoming more and more evident every day
that the ancents knew pretty much everything that
is known now. Professor Sayce has just deciphered
Assyrian tablet which describes transit Of Venus
/ 500 years before the Christian era.
A MANUSCRIPT Of Charles v, in an antique leather
case delighted the bibiophiles of Paris and was con.
sidered bargain at 50. 600. It turns out to be
fraud but the workmanship clever that at an auc-
ton sale it brought 5000 as "a curiosity.
THE veteran banker, w. w. Corcoran, has returned
in full health from White Sulphur Springs to Wash
ington. Since his last severe sickness in 1871 he
has buried each of the three physicians who then
attended him and who pronounced his case hopeless.
JOHN B. GoUGH is round with campaign anedote
that Lyman Beecher father Of Henry Ward Beecher.
after hard days work used to get out his violin and
fiddle himself to sleep. Coughs story stops before
telling the effect produced on the rest Of the family
and the neighbors generally.
i JOHN B. Couch like most public speakers, finds it
difficult to obtain sleep after delivering of his
lectures, because of the strain his system.
He says; Son retiring to my room go to reading
some interesting book and in this manner fill my
mind with other thoughts, and then can Sleep
MAX BAcHERT has arranged with joaquin Miller
for lecture tour through the country to begin soon
after election with the text 1.-THE Danites of New
York" Mr. Miller will treat of such subjects as the
| stealing of Stewards body, the lives Of Gould and
Vanderbilt, dthe Wallstreet operations of Grant
| and his associates.
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