The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-11
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

AGRENADA, Miss paper has PERSONAL which
reads; Dear W.: Come home. The grand jury has
adjourned
A RAILROAD. in which the cars run astride single
rail has been successful in Africa that like is
to be built in France
BARRY SULLIVAN will soon start on his third pro-
fessional tour around the world and afterwards pub
ish book of "reminiscences.
THE Earl of Crawford and Balcarres has printed,
for private circulation, fifty copies Of list of the
Bibles in his famous collection.
THE Paris cabs each pay the city franc day.
This amounts to about $3.50, 900 year and the cab
proprietors are agitating for reduction of
| half.
MLToN's Bible has found its way into that national
treasure-house the British Museum 1t contains the
dates of the birth of his children in the poets hand
writing.
The family of the late Bishop Simpson are at Long
port near Egg Harbor Inlet N. j., where the great
preacher owned property. and intended to build a
summer home.
Mr.. HIRAM SHELLEY, of Rochester, N. Y, has given
Cornell University $4,000 in addition to his previous
donations. It is to be used to maintain mechanic
arts department.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has awakened great indignation in
the breasts of the advocates of suffrage. His
attitude upon the question has caused him to be
dubbed William the Woman Halter"
THE distress among English agricultural laborers
still continuing Mr.. Leopold de Rothschild repeats
his generosity of last year and again RENTS 10 per
cent of rents to his Bucknghamshire tenants.
AT sale of unclaimed freight the other day, in
Baltimore. a number of tombstones were Sold which
had lain in freighthouse for twelve years A few
brought fifty cents apiece, but the greater number
brought only FIVE cents each
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federate army under Stonewall jackson, is now the
wife of Colonel John s. Hammond who lives in DIAL
las, Texas and is yicepresident of the Commercial
Travellers Protective Association.
An English firm of soap manufacturers spends
about 100000 year in advertising. It employs
capable artists essaysts and poets and sends pack
age of soap ratutousy to each of the infants whose
birth is announced in the London Times.
THE pleasant creed of the last sect discovered in
Russia that it is the bounden duty of the faithful to
say all those who do not agree with them in their re-
hgous views and is said that numbers have already
paid the death penalty for non-conversion.
CHARLES READEs London publisher says that
once the novelist as they were travelling together,
pointed to piece Of water in the distance and said:
That's where Christie Johnston caught the herrings"
He regarded this incident of his invention as re-
atty, so sincere was he in his work.
BENEDICT ARNoID's three sons Richard Henry
and John, according to the Toronto Globe, visited
Canada about 1882 look after the land granted to
their father-some 10, 400 acres in Leeds and Gren-
vile counties They settled there married engaged in
business, and left numerous descendants who are now
among the most prominent and highly esteemed resi-
dents of that part of the country.
THE little city Of Central Colorado perched up IN
the mountains producer of national celebrities as
wen as ore. 1t has given to fame Pullman the Sleep
ingcar millionaire HILL the pioneer of smelling and
United States senator Teller. ex-senator and Score
tary of the INTERIOR Ghaee ex-senator and chairman
Of the executive committee of the national Republi-
can committee and Irving Hale, who has won renown
as the foremost of all West Point students.
A GREAT trade in paper bottles is growing up in
Germany and Austria. Ten per cent. of rags forty
of straw, and fifty of brown wood pulp are used in
making them The paper is coated and impregnated
with solution composed 60 per cent of debrinated
fresh blood, 35 of lime, and of sulphate Of
ammonia; dry and coat again. put ten or twelve
sheets together and then dry in heated molds under
pressure They made in two pieces and joined
afterwards and said be perfectly proof against
spirits and other liquids.
A LOWELL mill girl thought she had talent with
which to become an eminent actress She saved all
she could from her wages for several years and IN
vested it in theatrical venture in small way-all
except $50, which friend surreptiousy took out of
the fund and used in buying in her name Florida
land grant She returned from her professional tour
in year broken in purse and spirits: and ready to
resume work at the loom; but the Florida purchase
had happened to appreciate about hundredfold in
value and therefore, she go Paris for dramatic
education.
ATTENTION is given to the singular theory in Lon
don that '.mind-reading" as of late exhibited, is
based the muscular action of the hand. At a re-
cent sitting of savants and an expert demon
strated in wholly satisfactory to the spect-
tors, his interesting proficiency in muscle-reading
Though he admitted that he could not succeed against
determined opposition, and declared it impossible to
read abstract thoughts the attending his di
rect efforts surprising He says that the delicate
muscles Of the hand respond to the processes of
thought that mental action has its correspondence in
muscular movement and that where the mind is di-
rected to the contemplation of particular object or
material fact there is produced disturbance Of
minute muscular forces which an adept can detect,
and from which he may receive guiding impulse in
his own mind, though its influence is unconscious.
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