The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-27
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE percentage of recruits in the italian army who
can neither read nor write varies from 81 in Pied
mont to "a in Sicily.
JUDGE KELLEY left Washington yesterday for Phila-
delphia to prepare for voyage to Europe. He will
sail from New York for southampton on Wednesday
next from which point he will travel overland to
Zurich via London and Paris.
THE late E. A Sothern the actor although resid-
ing in London, was citizen of the United States.
On Thursday last Surrogate Rollins of New York
city handed property and bank deposits valued
at $175, 900 to Mr.. Sotherns executors
THE ex-Queen and King of Naples. who have been
in wretched circumstances since they were driven
from their kingdom, restored to opulence by
the death of the dowager Empress of Austria who has
bequeathed to them fortune of Sc 100000
GEN. BOOTH, commanding the Salvation Army,
threatens to visit this country next fall if possible
and year from then anyhow, but kindly informs an
American interviewer that the dread of seasickness
will prevent Mrs. Booth from accompanying him.
NJ. PAsrEUR, who throws doubt upon his alleged
discovery of an antihydrophobia specific by refusing
to inoculate patients has used the microscope so
much that his eyes have nearly lost the normal capac
ity for visual adaptation and entirely devoid of
expression.
PRINCESS PIGNATEIII de Cerchiara, who through
family troubles was compelled for living to accept
an engagement at La Scala Music Hall, in Paris, has
thrown it up, and far fallen in the world that she
may be seen serving customers behind of the bars
at the Folies -Bergere.
JUDGE DRUNfMoND had acquaintance with Pres
dent Taylor who appointed him to the federal bench
and never him to his knowledge. With General
Grant he was we'll acquainted The Judge has been
in continuous service on the federal bench longer than
any other man in the service
CAPTAIN ISAAC BAssET doorkeeper of the United
States Senate is said not to have been absent from
his duties more than twenty days since Daniel Web
ster with whom he great favorite had him APP
pointed page in 1881. He still has in his posses
sion the bloodsained towel and soap with which he
washed the wounds of Charles Sumner, and piece of
Bully" Brookss gutta percha cane.
THE Empress Eugene is busy the book she
has had in mind if only rarely in hand since the
death of the Prince Imperial, and arrangements
already being made for the publication of her Me
moirs, which will be produced simultaneously in
England and France. The book is being done" into
English under the supervision of lady of the highest
rank, to whom the Empress is much attached.
Mr. CHARLES RUSSELL, who, since the retirement
of Benjamin has made perhaps the largest income at
the English bar received last year $75 0O00 Sir W.
Gull, who tops the physicians, made $50, 900; Mr..
Miais stained canvas to like figure; Archer the
jockey, made S43 900; Tennyson receives $25 line;
Ouida, So 000a novel; but in the race for wealth.
Sims, the dramatist of In the Ranks u rank piece
of stuff look with contempt on his bahled pursu
ers having made last year $3.50 900.
No two men could be in greater contrast than the
two Peels in the House of Commons-the Speaker and
Sir Robert The one appears somber, pedantic, model
of proprety and decoru while the other has the air
of Bowery tragedian, who had lived fast and furi
GUS and with mind so vagabond as to be beyond all
rules of restraint The other day his brother pulled
him up as being out of order, when he turned on
him, scarlet with rage at a rebuke from younger
brother and looking fierce defiance in voice broken
with passion, said II know what I am about" He
then deliberately repeated the ofense. The younger
brother did not proong the scene.
NJ. LOUIS MAIcHE, a wellknown French engineer
has discovered gold mine in the bed of the Seine
The little fragments of quartz and slick which form
the gravel in the bed of the Seine are according to NJ