The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-12
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

| ADOoA AhOA lii NM AhAANNO'
| "a HORSE as Detective is a heading in
change. Now that is something like. Heretofore
have had only mules.
| Miss LAURA HAYGooD, sister of the Rev DR.. Atti-
Gus G. Haygood, of Georgia is going to China to
gage in missionary work.
WHAT is wanted in this country" said the bride.
she examined the wedding presents, lis silver
service reform; that set is plated
Mr.. CHARLES GEORGE ('Chinese) GORDON,
oordng TO correspondent who to admire him
for this eccentrcy, has rot read newspaper for the
past five years.
LOUIS ScHAEFER, of Canton, O.. who has offered
home to Mrs. Mekleham, the granddaughter of Thorn
Jefferson, to whom Congress- recently refused TO
grant pension says Il shall be proud to give her
home. She shall have the best my viii allow.
That is the kind Of Democrat am
A RELIGIOUS newspaper published at Bombay, and
called the Guardian in referring to the red sunsets
that have visited Bombay says: I'VE viii not venture
predict that this may be by the way of preparation
for the final confagration but thing is safe say
namely, that it is well for every oneto be ready"
"IT is reported says the Newport Mercury, 'that
strong effort is being made to induce President j. b
Angel, of Ann Arbor, Mich, to return and take
charge OF the Providence Journal President Angel
was the managing editor previous to Mr. Danielson
taking charge Of the paper, and deservedy
popular
MGR. CAPE1 boldly tells friend in Boston that he
never read Lothian in which his portrait is
supposed to be drawn in the character of Catesby.
And yet in the first edition of the novel the printer,
the proof and Disraeli himself overlooked
single page where the intended name Catesby
written and printed Capel
| A YOUNG man was going home with two young
| ladie in Rath Ma he thera and ed
casually, in the of the chat the way that
one of his weaknesses was that he couldn't say
One of the girls Selling upon this to his charac
ter proposed to him. after the other had been left at
| her door and was accepted.
| BISMARCK is avenged. He reprimanded
| for whistlng Sunday in Scotland He will now
learn with grim satisfaction that member of a
| Scotch United Presbyterian Church. having been
elected to the Office of elder has been refused ordna
ton by the session, the ground that he took
walk in the country the Sabbath afternoon"
THIS week General Sheridan and Secretary Lincoln
are going to Pelee island Lake Erie, on their semi
annual fishing tour. They will join General Arson
stager, Mr. Marshall Field, Mr. j. W. Doane, Mr.
George 81. Pullman and others from Chicago at San
dusky and go to the clubhouse Point Sheridan
for a couple of weeks fishing for bass in Canadian
waters.
CHARLES OCoNoRs reason for living at Nantucket
is thus explained: Years ago he was engaged in an
1 important lawsuit in which many of the witnesses
were weli-preserved old people Struck with their
bright health he learned that most of them from
Nantucket, and he thereupon promised himself to
withdraw from practice and settle down for his old
age by the sea.
CHEERFUL. new novel is about two children
brought up among graves, the little girl being the
daughter of the sexton Their greatest pleasure is to
play in the hearse of which the lad grows up be-
come the regular driver Owing to the usual machina
tons the pair separated and the young girl takes
poison her lover coming to claim his bride with the
hearse, which is their only carriage.
PRINCE BISMARCK WAS once admonished for
whisting the Sabbath day in Scotland, has never
forgotten it. and will be in the least surprised
when he hears he will with grim satisfaction that
| Mr.. Gray, a member of the Helensburg United Pres
byerian Church who had been elected to the office of
elder has just been refused ordination by the session
on the ground that he took walk in the country on
Sabbath afternoon"
'You are the real queen" said the Duchess of
Berri to the late Marie Tagioni; you have to fear
neither exile nor instruction" NO but there is
in-health. and old age is inevitable" True but by
the time your health and youth fail you will have
your diamonds and your chateaux." The prophecy
was only in the part fulfilled. Taglioni indeed won
gems and gold but just when the period of life began
when she would need them most, they were swept
away by the troublous times of lS70-7l.
THE late Professor Gross of Philadelphia, was one
of tho earliest American of chloroform as an
anesthetc and he adhered to it all his life preferrng
it to ether which in general practice has largely su
perseded it. He made of chloroform in more than
5000 important operations without single accident
resulting hereroma fact speaking much for his care
and skill. The last medical and surgical essay writ
| ten by him was read yesterday by Professor Parvn
before the American Medical Association in Wash
/ ;agton.
THE enormous outer coffin of Prince Leopold was
long that it literally could not have been laa Into
the vault the space is large one 1t was there
fore removed and the inner coffin shell carried
to the grave and finally deposited in the royal vault
1t was replaced in the French case but is be
inclosed in oak one made like all the III the
vault, 1t seems ma alter of etiquette that royal
collins should be bulky and heavy possible AT
one funeral princess Sophia the bearers gave way
| and the coffin fell with . crash into the grave.
| DIR. SCHIIESLANN enthusiasm is boundless when
he makes an important find" '"Three cheers for Pal
las Athenai" he writes from Tiryns. c" have succeed
ed here in wonderful way, having brought to light
| immense palace with innumerable columns, which
cupes the entire upper acropolis of Tiryns, and of
which the floor and all the walls we'll preserved.
Of paramount interest are the wall paintings,
which my architect and collaboration, DR. Dorpfeld is
now copying with the colors OF the very high