The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-27
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE Duchess, of Monrose, who is almost seventy
nine, announces that she will hereafter manage her
own stud
THE November Century the press for the fourth
time. The first edition of the February number cone
tanning General Grants "Shiloh," will be 10000.
THE wife of the new minister from Sweeden-Mme
Reuterskjold-is a beautiful She has
been much admired in Paris, where she is called
beauty.
A PRETTY Baltimore girl who advertised for some
one who would be kind her, received forty offers
the first day 1t ought not TO be very hard to be kind
to pretty Baltimore girl
EUGENE, ex-Empress of France, is highly esteemed
by the people of Marlborough the streets of which
town she is often SEEN afoot, not only shopping"
but on errands of charity.
A DEAv mute who is blind attended religious
service for deaf utes in Baltimore afew Sundays ago,
and was made to comprehend the entire service by
deafute who interpreted by certain pressures the
blind mans hands.
JUDGE WHEELER, of Jamaica, VT recently removed
to Bratteboro twenty six miles, taking favorite cat
The cet the day returned toits old home but find
ing the doors and windows closed it returned TO the
family at Brattleboro.
SUNDAY night-She: "ChoIy, which do you like
best in the grate-wood coalf' He-''Well 1
don't know Emmer; either will do me-" She-'I like
wood the best" He-"And why do you like wood the
bestl" She" Because, Chclly, it pops!"
RECENT visitor to the Grande Chartreuse says
the liquors are made in the monastery. but in
large stone edce In the village Four monks reg
ularly employed in the manufacture. On New Years
day each monk receives bottle of liquor.
AT a recent sale Of fans in Madrid one of ivory,
painted by Vatican, which formerly belonged to the
Princess Adelaide of Savoy, fetched $3.50. fan
painted by Boucher sold for $780, and another,
painted by Lebrun for the Duchess of Medina Cell,
brought $3.50.
QUEER Islander suit is pending out in California.
A sued and G for SANDER B ard do not deny
having applied opprobrious epthets to A. but insist
that because is deaf he could not hear the SANDER
GUS language and therefore far as he is concerned
it did not exist
THERE is an unpublished legend to the effect that
on the one evening passed at Craigenpattock by
Emerson, In 1888 Carlyle gave him pipe, and
taking one himself the two sat silent until midnight
and then parted, shaking hands with congratulations
on The pleasant evening thcy had passed. So
THE Rev. Dr. W. F. Mallalieu, lately elected Bishop
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who has been
assigned to duty in the South, reached New Orleans
last week and will make his home In that city. He is
native of Massachusetts, and spent most of his life
there and this is his first visit to the South. His FAM
ily now Ill Boston, VIII JOIN MIN IN reDruary'
JOHN TAYLOR the head of the Mormon Church,
swore in recent trial in court that he had absolutely
no knowledge of certain matter but qualified the
statement to his congregation in his sermon on the
following Sunday by saying that he had absolutely no
knowledge of it to divulge. Nice sort Of man that
to DO at the head of church, and nice sort OF
church it is that has such at the head OF it,
THE Grafton which Mr.. Robert G. Winthrop was to
deliver at the dedication Of the Washington monu-
mont is stated to be completed and in case OF hil
inability to deliver it, it will, perhaps be read by
some gentleman selected for that purpose. The fact
that he made the formal address at the laying of the
cornerstone of the monumec ic--S Increases the
disappointment sprlngiug from his seeming INABILITY
to respond to the part assigned him for the 21st of
February.
WILLIAM BLAIR LORD, who diel in Now York on
Monday, had led unobtrusive life for nearly sixty
years yet had been witness to of the most stir
ring scenes Of the ccunrys history and enjoyed close
acquaintance with the foremost public leaders for
than quarter of q century. Mr. Lord went to Wash
ngton thirty years ago stenographio reporter IN
til the Congressional Globe started, in 1858, he
reported the House proceedings for the Union. a
newspaper of that day which published yerbstm re-