The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-18
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE best paid hotel clerk in New York receives
IS, 900 a year.
Miss CHAMBERLAIN, the young American whose
beauty has attracted so much admiration in Europe, is
to spend "a month at Newport this summer.
AN English journalist says that if the emigration of
young Irish couples to America continues the popu-
lation Of Ireland will eventually fall to three mill
ions.
CH%IEFJUsTIcE WAITE is a short man, and he wears
a dignifed broad brimmed hat. The face is a very
strong one. The Chief justice turns his toes out in a
dainty way and touches the ground with the whole
fiat of the sole.
JENNIE JUNE observes: 'There never was a time
when the dress counted for so little in the estimate of
characters as now. 1t is getting TO be pretty well
understood that a woman who is celebrated for her
clothes is known for nothing else"
SIR f. ABEL, chemical professor, says that smoke
less powder can be made for rifles as well as for
other purposes. Half the Englishmen who fought in
the late battle in the Soudan were blinded by the
smoke under which the enemy crept.
DURING the recent fighting in Egypt Baker Pasha's
c~heekbone was s~plintered by a four-ounce iron bullet,
which was so firmly fixed in the bone that it had to
be sawed out-a long and painful operation-which
was endured without any anesthetic.
JOHN RUSSELL Young, our minister to China, is NOW
dean of the diplomatic corps at Pekin. He possesses
a certain advantage over his colleagues in his warm
friendship with Lii Hung, the Premier, who liked him
first because he was Gen. Grants friend, and then for
himself.
IT is said in a letter from Khartoum that General
Gordon has had an Arabic text inscribed above his
throne in the palace, which may be translated as God
rules over the hearts of men, and that in the. recep-
ton chamber. where he receives daily the crowds who
come into his presence, it is conspicuous.
GAIL HAMILTON once placed Mr.. Medill, the owner
of the Chicago Tribune, in what she called her
''rogues' gallery" In fact, Blaine and Medill have
been bitter enemies, but now they are letting bygones
be bygones and are hobnobbing with their feet under
the same table and heads close together above the
board.
LADY BRAssEY, of the yatch Sunbeam. has pretty,
long-haired pet pig. HE is the quaintest little animal
imaginable, - she says; ''he sits up like a dog, and was
discovered, after lunch to-day, comfortably ensconsed
among the pillows on the sofa. He is about half the
size of my favorite old pug Felise, and has very sharp
teeth of his own"
LEOPOLD MORSE, of Massachusetts is the only pro-
fessed Jew in Congress. He is a native of Bavaria,
but came to this country when quite young. He be-
gan business in Boston in a little clothing store. Now
he is worth s., 900 900 or more. He has been in
Congress three times, but does little else than vote
with the Democrats.
CHARLES GOODNIGHT is a king among cattle kings
in Texas, and has fenced in 700, 900 acres with $50
miles of wire fence, at the head of Red river in the
Panhandle. His ranch contains nearly twenty-five
thousand acres more than there are in the entire
State of Rhode Island, and he bought the whole at
FROM so cents to 81 an acre.
IT is impossible, says the London Truth, not to
sympathize with the widowed Duchess of Albany, A
girl of 10, who is brought up to be a queen bee Of
some sort or another in a dull German town, does
not know what she is doing whom she marries a CON
frmed invalid, afflicted with the terrible nervous
disease of which the Duke of Albany died.
SIR STAFFORD NORTHcOTE recently declared Lord
Randolph Churchill to be playing the part of bonnet to
the government" The House of Commons was puzzled
TO understand tine expression, but the Slang Dict ion
AIRY says that the bonnet" in rogues' parlance is the
confederate of the rd-sharper and thimble-rigger.
who, with an air Of innocence, decoys greenhorns into
the trap.
AT a Boston seance g disconsolate widower sue.
ceeded in establishing communication with his wife.
who had passed iuto the spirit land from the Hub, Of
whose aesthetic circles she had been a member. The
man inquired if she was happy and if she liked her
new surroundings, to which she replied: well. dear.
it is very charming and lovely and all that, but of
course you know, dear, it isn't Boston"
PROFESSOR FEIdx ADLER lcctured on Sunday in
New York, on Reform in Home Life" In his dis
course he said: TOO much d~rudgery is imposed upon
our women. The kitchen is made the base Of onr
houses, and there are people who believe family life
should rest on the kitcheni that mothers aud wives
should spend their timo in the kitchen. If u woman
spends her time in this way she cannot exercise those
e~nnobling influences we demand of her"
Mr.. Sims REEVES tinidity and temperance: why
even when going down to the concert-room 1 am
often overcome by nervousness. and-~wish the cab