The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-08
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


LORD TENNYsoN will publish new poem sometime
this autumn. s
THE name Of the late Emperor Napoleon's charger
Hero. thirty-three years old, hangs to his knees.
A NEW novel by Frank Marion Crawford entitled
"An American Politician, viii appear in October
THERE rumors of acongress in Paris which is
TO settle the nature of the ofenses which demand
duel ff M
SAM SMALL Of Atlanta, Ga, boasts of having more
than eighty serapbooks covering the political history
Of mon and events in Georgia for forty years past
DIR. GIusEPPINA CATANI has passed brilliant ex-
animation in medicine at the University of Bologna.
and goes upon record 'as the first in Italy so
runs the account ITO become brother of Hippo
crates"
DE-. PRATT, Of London, states in a lecture that in
1000 married men between the ages of twenty five
and thirty there six DEATHS in the number of
bachelors there ten deaths; the widowers number
Twenty-Five
THE wealthiest man IN the world is the Chinese
banker Han-Qus, Of Canton. He pays taxes upon an
estate of $3.50 900, and is estimated TO be worth
billion taels which, in our money, would be about
81. 400, 900, OO0
WAIT WHITMAN, abiding to the recent earthquake,
said the other day. ~ believe with Kant In the I'M
substantially Of things It is doubtful if what we see
around us has any real existence Everything is
delusive, evasive and sliaky."
Miss FLoRENcE KELLEY, daughter Of Pigirons
Kelley, Of Pennsylvania. is going to marry Russian.
She has been carefully educated abroad is said
to be expert political economist and viii add
domestic economy to her other accomplishments.
THE wealthio Of most of the Newport nabobs goes to
daughters Mrs. William Aston has three daughters
The bulk Of Mrs Gammells wealth. and she is reputed
the richest married woman in the United States goes
to her daughters. John W. Ellis has daughters, Mrs.
Hartshorne has daughters, John G. Heckscher has
daughters, and so thelist goes on.
THE old Duke of Wellington on being condoled
with by friend account of caricature of himself
In comic paper, replied that tthe only caricature
which annoyed him was that pointing to his son and
heir, who grotesque likeness Of the father hav-
Ing the immense nose with tiny rctreathg chin his
life fulfilling the pronnisesof his face.
Mr.. CARbYLE's house in Cheyne Row, Chelsea is
still to let. tenant in the person Of Mr.. Haweis
was soon found FOR Rosetti's home, with its dark
passages and gloomy rooms but as yet no hero
worshiper has been found ardent enough to take
possession Of the famous tenement as we have
heard it called in which the dyspeptc seer grumbed
away so many years of his life. n2 .s'ss
A HONOLULU letter says: The pau or native riding
habit is simply about eight yards Of calico satin or
silk, which the native women and girls wind around
their limbs in such that both ends are left
from three to- four feet long each side, So whom
they sit astrds the horses these ends stream out be-
hind which, when party is riding with different col
ored habits, gives very pretty appearance.
JAY GOULD only brother, Abram, who has been for
eight years past the Colorado agent at Salt Lake City
Of the Union. Pacific railway, while on his way East
last week. said to representative Of the Kansas City
STAR Jay has been in many tight places since he be.
gan life and generally pulls out all right think You
will find that he is not scornered He has
always held bis own and every time he clnehes that
Wall-street gang they get the worst Of IL
Mr.. w. w. GoRcoRAN, the Washington philanthro
pist Is upward Of eightyfcur years Of age and il
yet strong and vigorous. He has grown somewhat
peculiar however, about bis eating, never touching
snything not prepared by his own cook or coming
from his own house. he expects to beabscnt from
homo at lunch time he carries hearty luncheon with
him. which he takes out and eats At tho proper time
with great relish.
Mn. LABoUcHERE thus cynically hits OF the Amer.
ican girl 'She Is always the victim Of . craze for
getting into society and she Is generally envious Of
those who already thcre by hereditary right She
ongs TO literary and artistic celebrities in the hope
chat by holding very tight to the acquaintance Of
ome rising novelist musical composer she may be-
lifted into the sunshine of tho upper ten. Hero she
y very often wcfmty disappointed"
TIKI Digger Indians were. until few years ago.
considered tho most ignorant aud least intelligent hi
man beings ON tho Pacifc coast Those who live on
Rancho Chico have now bcen educated in civilized
way- They have learned to Rad and write almost as
well as white people, and Of them have even be
como musicians. They recently gave an entertain. 4
mont in San Francisco under the Of their nsuct
era Sunday school hymns national songs and other