The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-22
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


Miss KATE FIELD is to lecture on Mormonism in
advance of the publication of her book on the Same
subject.
THE fashionable girl of theperiod now says sfather
in the good, odfashioned way Papa and ''1nama'.
are denominated vulgar.
THE leaf in the marriage register in Haworth Church
on WHICH is inscribed the of Charlotte Bronte
has been often handled by American travellers that
it is falling to pieces.
NJ. GERsTER, while constructing canal over the
Isthmus Of Corinth, unearthed remains of canal
works undertaken, but completed by Nero over
eighteen centuries ago.
A NEW device for wedding breakfasts is pyramid
of transparentc ice, having in the center photograph
of the bride and bridegroom. This is suggestive Of
cooiness, well as exclusiveness.
NEXT to Mrs. Southworth, Mrs Cemmer-Hudson
probably earned more money by her pen than any
other woman in Washington Her income for several
years ranged as high as 5000 a year.
HENRY GEORGE is living on a farm out at Jamaica,
L ong Island. He is writing another book or rather
rewriting the manuscript of one freedom of trade,
which gotdestroyed by accident over year ago.
| MATTHEW ARNoLD's daughter is reported as say
ing that, having seen Niagara and the Rockies and
drunk American cocktail, there is really nothing
worth botherng about on the American continent
! HENRY IRVING, at banquet in London recently,
stated that Americans eat with intelligence than
the people of any other country. just what he in
tended to convey by the remark is as misty Lon
don fog.
HYGIENE pillows in vogue. Three form
full equipment for bed of which one is filed with
hops, second with pine needless and a third with
marine They believed to cure sleeplessness
and nervous disorders.
/ A. DUDLEY WARNER, who was one of the commits
soners from the Confederate States European
sympathy and help, living quietly in Paris at the
advanced age of eighty-three. He never expects to
return to the United States.
IT is announced upon good authority that the Life
and Correspondence of George Eliot upon which her
husband Mr.. John Cross has been engaged since her
death, will be published by Messrs Blackwood before
the close of the year. 1t is to be in two volumes.
THE late DR. Joseph Janvier Woodward, of Phila-
delphia-who of those in attendance on Presi
dent Garfeld-was of the foremost microscopic
photographers in the country, and the author Of
numerous medical and surgical works of importance
The natives Of Stonington Conn., assert that it has
rained there the 10th Of August 101 years
That is the day they celebrate and the weather record
they say, has been accurately kept in the borough
ever since the first anniversary of the battle Of Ston
ington.
Two of the Eskemo dogs brought by the Bear and
Thetis from Greenands icy mountains are to be kept
in the Metropolitan icehouse in Brooklyn, until cold
weather on, when they will be exhibited at the
Central Park Geological Gardens-that is if they live
until then.
BOSTON women at Swampscott take their pet poo
dies into the surf every day and then drying the mis-
cradle little beasts on the beach, give an exhibition
that is not at all consistent with culture or refinement
There is a wonderful amount Of nonsense about the
alleged Boston culture.
/ In Massachusetts women and children are driving
out Of many industries. The trades in which the
former very large majority are awnings and
tents buttons dress trimmings carpetings clothing
cotton goods, woolens, fancy goods fax and linen.
hair work. hose rubber, mixed textiles paper, silks,
sporting goods straw goods and worsteds, twenty in
all. Sixty trades showa preponderance of men,
i Four steps regarded by Dr. B. w. Richardson
as all important for the Advancement of national
health, viz: The physical publication of the general
public the radical suppression of diseases which arise
by communication Of the affected with the unaffected
the promotion of knowledge and thrift and adequate
provision for food and drink among the masses and
lastly, the encouragement of unity and organization in
sanitary administration
Mr.. WHITTIER name, = says the Athen@um in
recent review, will always stand high in the rank
Of American poets If he lacks something of Long
fellows grace, Longfellow on the other hand has
of his fire; and if he less stately than Bryant
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pure, yet cold religious yet not didactic; who
swift Of thought and sure of touch, claims-what he
has SO largely receiyed-respect and admiration"
WHAT is there left for met" cries M. Emile lola.
My works known everywhere from China to
/ Peru cannot become famous if try" While
he grives, like Alexander because there
worlds for him to conquer the successsaated author
of Mana may CLEAN some joy from the announcement
that the above named work rs simultaneously been
printed in The Letters Cadn. Cave at Athens and
placed on the Index Expurgatorius by the Criminal
/ Court of Vienna.
AMONG the curious superstitions existing to-day
among the inhabitants of certain counties in the
mountain regions of Pennsylvania is one to the effect
that certain persons who claim to be wizards have the
power to extinguish fire by running three times
around the burning house barn. This method Of
putting out fire has never within the memory of
the oldest inhabitant succeeded but the belief In its
efficacy is unwavering, all the evidence to the
i trary. notwithstanding.
SIMON CAMERON was once told by an acquaintance,
with whom there dispute that he (the acquant.
ance) had the advantage, as Cameron would be sure
to die first. The two old men met not long since,
Cameron being eghtsix and twenty years the senior.
| They shook hands and smiled when the youngest
broke out with the remark BY Jove, Cameron,
see that am to be the first to go you're younger
man than am And so in all truth is the ex-Sena.
tor, WHO'S about the haest specimen of old
| be found on the continent
1 ANTONIO ToQUEz MAsAIRA having been accused Of
dishonest dealings in mining transactions. naively
writes follows to the Ell Paso, Tex, Times: Many
persons without knowledge of the facts haveputinto
circulation reports which reflect upon my honor and
integrity avail myself of this opportunity to state
that belong to honorable family my father being
not only wealthy, but occupies very enviable posi-