The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-07
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

fashionable edition of Sampson Brass"
MRS MARY PHELPS DODGE, the editor of ST.
Nicholas receives salary of $4,000 year Mrs.
Mary L. Booth the editor of Harpers Bazaar receives
a like amount.
IT is said that bio Lewis has got over his cranky
notions about the diet of the human race As mat
ter of fact he eating chicken potpie when he adj
vised the rest of mankind to fill up turnips
'IN upper Austria" writes a correspondent, Il saw
slight and very pretty young girl carrying the NOR
tar up to the second story of building, while man
waited there to put it in place when she arrived"
A CORRESPONDENT reports having woman
in Holland drawing a canal boat, bent nearly double
with the eathern she rudged along the tow
path man sitting at his in the boat smoking
Mr. WINANs the Baltimore millionaire pays
els. 900 pounds annually for his shooting preserves
in Scotland but he and the mobiles speak as they
pass by possibly because they envious of his
lands.
A PHYSICIAN who has compiled hints for travellers
seriously advises everyone to carry crochetneedle to
relieve possible ennui at health resorts, very dis
tinguished Chicago merchant having been greatly
benefited of his dyspepsia and insomnia by learning
to crochet beautifully during long winter at GER
tain New York spring. Hereafter all mothers will
teach their the delicate of the crochet needle,
and tides will not be spurned by masculine contempt
CAPTAIN BURTON, the Arctic traveller, writes to
The London Academy that he feels scandazed at the
pungs of the English press over the gallant but I'M
fortunate Greedy expedition He says SIN Ell Islam.
a religion of common sense, there is no obloquy for
the unfortunates whom hunger compes horribly to
save life. If it is civilization to make such pol
troons that we dare not venture everything for
bic need the abdicate in favor of less adj
vanced people the better"
JOHN MCCULLOUGH was not ashamed of having be-
gun life as chairmaker. Concerning this humble
period of his life he neither snob nor Boun-
derbv-of Coketown At one of his rehearsals recently
a Philadelphia stage manager produced an antique
chair for one of the scenes of Vrgnius. ut istoo
modern said the actor. Il shouldn't wonder by its
looks, if it made thousand years ago retorted
the manager Il know it wasn't" said the Roman
father 'for made it myself!'
DIR. GEORGE E. Posi- medical missionary from
America to Beirut, Syria has acquired envabls
reputation for skill among the Turkish officers, and
would have large income if he was willing to receive
pay for his services But his work is almost wholly
among the very poor His numerous textbooks OF
medicine and surgery printed III Arabic, and he IS
preparing work descriptive of the fora Of Pal
estine and Syria which is said to be the first work of
its kind on this subject in any language.
THE change in the temper of the Partisan populace
ers have ali had to get large supplies of the uninv
ting features of Bismarck, and correspondent de-
cares that if the Iron Chancellor to appear
on the boulevards there are men calling themselves
Frenchmen who would join in cheering him. and this
is the temper within year after the kissing of King
Alfonso for accepting German regiment, and within
six weeks of the tearing down of the German flag from
the Continental Hotel.
Mr.. CoxwELL, the English aeronaut, is writing an
aeronautical novel. His object is to show up in a
humorous fashion the humbug and extravaganza
which at present surrounds ballooning; and the first
chapter (which is laid in the city of New York, for
which, as the scene of public ascent every year for
the past twentysx years, Mr.. Coxwel has developed
quite an afeetion) is conceived in the Pickwickian
VEIN The new story will be the antthesis of Jules
Vernes stories for every incident described the chap
ter and verse of actual fact will be furnished.
THE Saturday Review is in much trouble over
English pronunciation 1t says of Miss Mary Ander-
son: son the first night of the revival the lady's
cent was more strongly American than formerly, and
Cialatea who speaks American is sadly destructive of
Illusion" And again. in another place: 1.-THE truth
is however that really good pronunciation of English
is getting yearly rarer and that the folly of spelling
reformers who try to reduce everything to rule helps
the errors of those who have been unucy enough not
to have their educated by surroundings of careful
speech and their eyes by the study of good books"
SOME hitherto unpublished letters of Pref s. F. B.
Morse are made public by Judge W. W, Boardman, of
New Haven to whom they addressed forty-two
years ago while the latter gentleman was in Congress-
feature of the correspondence interesting because
of the advances in other departments of electrical
science than elegraphy is quotation from letter Of
Professor Joseph Henry to the great inventor. He
says: ''In the minds of many the electromagnetic
telegraph is associated with they various chmercal
projects constantly presented to the public and par
ticuarly with the schemes popular year or two
ago for the application of electricity moving
power in the arts"
Mr. GLADSTONE has of course, long ago lowered
all legitimate records achieved in the field of exuber
rant verbosity. Few aware however of the fear.
full and wonderful rate at which he continues to add
to the pages of Hansard 1t is nearly twelve months
since an enthusiastic statstcan who is also devoted
Gladstoneite spent six hours each day during
fifty days in the library of this House Of Commons and
sixty-fve days overhaung the newspaper files in the
British Museum in the task of tracing the Prime Min
lister back the first recorded syllable of his political
voice. This victim of hero worship found that Mr.
Gladstone had talked up to July, 1888, fourteen
miles and half of print He has added 700 yards in
the interval He hardly hope to put girdle
round the earth but he has far exceed all other wind
mills of his age in articulation.
THE Memoirs of Lord Mamesbury" arc creating
considerable sensation, and all the papers quot
ing some of the choice bits. There very funny
gmpses in the private life of Gladstone and Disraei
for instance Gladstones appearance is described
disappointing because so like that of Catholic
priest and one Of his crazes in the of his
musical education was an enthusiastic love of negro
melody which he used to sing with the greatest spirit
and enjoyment, never leaving out Camp
town Races" was for time his favorite ditty. Dis
rae appears much less cold and apethec in private
than his sphinxlike immoblity in public would sug
gest He confesses himself on one occasion, when
there prospect of getting office that he felt
delighted as young girl going to her first ball and