The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-25
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

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some of the Concord philosophers peculiar views.
IT does not seem to follow that in order to be long
lived we must have longlved ancestors. Sir Moses
Montefore aged hundred, states that his father
died atforty-four years.
BILL is pending before the Alabama Legislature
compelling persons carrying concealed deadly weapons
to designate the fact their persons by wearing a
badge inscribed Il am armed"
A CLEVELAND lady afforded the public considerable
amusement the other day by promenading the streets
two or three hours with card her cloak reading;
Former price, $780, marked down to $12 to close
out"
! GEN GRANT now recalls that in his class at West
Point he only three from the foot in languages
ard five from the head in mathematics, but he
ahead of the whole on misunderstanding, which didn't
count in competing for honors.
A BROOKLYN young man is quite gone" on "Ham-
let" Reading it to the girl of his heart last week he
came to the passage "Or if thou wilt needs marry,
marry fool" us that proposal dearl" she
asked Eyes, darling he replied. And they settled it
there and then.
REV JOHN j. KEAN, of st. James Roman Catholic
Church. New York has founded an organization
which he calls 1.-THE Holy Name Society and the OBJ
ect of which is to break of the habit of profane
swearing 1t is the widest field of reform yet opened.
| THERE remain in the French Senate only three of
the handles of 1880. One is Barley dAurevilyi
the second Rance, the architects and the third, the
negrophile Victor Schoelcher, who-dressed in black
with wide 'peg-top" trowsers frock-coat very tight
in the waist, scrupulousy clean, very angular and
very tail-impresses the spectator as a living moving
and breathing problem of Euclid
BAT LA PRAERIE, who can daily be seen on the
streets of Marshfed, Wis. born in the Michigan
peninsula in 1878, his father being one of Astor's
fur-trade"s, and his mother a squaw. He served
scout and interpreter in the war of 1912, and
was soldier throughout the campaign in Mexico.
For nnety-fve years he has used tobacco, and will
accept anything that comes handy in the way of
liquor.
In northern Siberia, if young native desires to
marry he goes to the father Of the girl of his CHOICE
and price is agreed upon one-haf of which is then
paid down. The prospective sonin-law at takes
up his residence with the family of his lady love- and
resides with them year. If at the end of the year he
still desires to marry the girl he pay the other
half, and they n.gried the next visit of the
priest If he does not want marry he need not and
simply loses the half he paid at the start.
! SIMON CAMERON, who is now SO years old, is
quoted by friend saying; 1.-The secret of life is to
keep moving. Men grow old only when they sit down
long enough get rusty fwant to live just as long
as can be happy. When reach the point when my
friends, standing the corners and seeing me come
up the street say Let's get the other side there
comes that old fool want to die. Men make great
mistake in this by holding to any position after
they have lost their grip and their company has be-
come unpleasant to their associates"
THE public baths of Vienna are said to be the finest
in the world The building is situated in the heart of
the city, and encloses basin $40 feet in length by
156 feet in width, and varying in depth TO twelve
feet. The enormous quantity of water contained in
this basin is renewed three times day. The whole
establishment has accommodation for 500 persons,
and is open from May to Oct. 81, and from in the
morning until dusk There is also bath restricted
to ladies' open from in the morning until l. and the
| Vienna ladies especially good swimmers.
THE most cunning in fish lore with consider that
the German or European carp is par excellence the
FISH of the future-the fish from the million. No
other fish can to large extent be cultivated for
edible purposes II possesses every requisite essential
to cultivation, and especially for still water 1t is in
the main vegetarian, aud. Indeed, omnivorous-not
refusing animal food if properly prepared. 1t re-
quires food during the winter which it
sleeps away in its kettle" alongside its bedfollows
until awakened by the warmth of a spring sun. The
rate at which this fish grows is almost Incredible.
THE chair in which all the English sovereigns for
the past 500 years have sat be crowned is rough
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backs of four wooden lions and has underneath the
seat the famous 'stone of Scone which the Scot
fish sovereigns, down to the time when there was
none knelt to be crowned. The stone is said to be
the same which Jacob used for pillow when he had
his wellknown ladder dream, but this part Of the
story need not necessarily be believed. The throne in
the House of Lords is modelled after the famous old
chair which latter is kept just behind the reredos in
! Westminster Abbey.
CHATTING with General W. T. Sherman, the other
day he said few pretty hard things of newspaper
men, though he admitted that there were exceptions
To illustrate how his kindness had been abused at
times, he said when the dispatch to me about
the Custer massacre called the newspaper boys all
in together. Now 1 says here is the dispatch 1
put you all your honor to copy and return it to met
Then gave it out two pages to this one two pages TO
that one, so they could all work at once. J. turned
my back, and whisk-Jack Robinson-the dispatch
was gone. 1t never turned up, either and it is in
consequence absent from the place it ought to occupy
in the official records
A CURIOUS phenomenon was observed recently at
the Loudon Zoo. A few weeks since fine loness
began to eat her own tail In one day she removed at
her leisure about twelve inches and after brief in.
terval she resumed her repast and swallowed some
more She was then placed in very narrow box in
the hope that something might be done with the
bleeding stump, and that she might be prevented
from further assaults upon herself But she was not
to be denied. The tail has almost entirely dsap
peared and she has directed attention to one of
her forepaws If time only is allowed she may sue
coed in performing the astounding feat of disappear
ing down her throat.
THE substitution of glass flooring for boards con.
tnues to increase in Paris this being especially the
in those business structures in which the cellars
are used as Offices At the headquarters of the Credit
Lyonnais on the Boulevard des Italiens the whole of
the ground floor is paved with large squares of
roughened glass Embedded in a strong iron frame, and
in the cellars beneath there is thus sufficient light evon
on dull days to enable the clerks to work without gas
The large central hall at the Offices of the Comtoir