The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-29
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Ex.vIcEPREsIDENT WHEELER is still in poor
health.
EXPERIMENTS have been made with the pulp of the
Florida banana and the result is that from it be
obtained splendid quality of paper and rope
EVERY visitor to the worlds exposition in New Or
leans is required to deposit silver half dollar in
glass box in charge of the doorkeeper, admission
tickets being sold.
DR.. LoNoUET states in LUnion Medicale that the
first Napoleons pulse beat about forty-ive times a
minute, even when he in his usual healthy condi-
ton The average pulse of well is given at sixty
JOHN B. SrETsoN a Philadelphia hat manufacturer
is the largest policyhoder in the world He carries
$780, 900 on his own life and pays premiums on
1850 900 for others. Hamilton Disston carries alto
gether $4,000
EXTREMES sometimes meet. In China a dog thief
is beheaded but the who steals million can be
but slightly punished and usually away to Corea
In the United States horsethef is lynched and an
absconding bank cashier goes to Canada
NOBODY seems to say or know much of Mr.. Con
ingsby Dis-ael except that it is related that not
long after the funeral of his ustrious uncle he
told that he would shortly be presented to the Queen
''Ah!" said he. II must get my hat roned them"
THE Infanta Isabella-Countess Girgenti-of Spain
inhers her mothers propensity for ridculng people
behind their backs but she has caustc wit and
less good nature than the ex- Queen. Consequently
she is much dislked and is probably the most unpop-
ular Of her httleloved family.
DIR. ScHLIEMANN's new work, giving an account of
his excavations at Tryns, is in the press and will
be published next March simultaneously in England
America, Germany and France. When the work is
more advanced the learned Doctor will proceed to
Crete, where he expects his excavations will be
crowned with his usual success.
GOODNESS is proitable-to Mr.. Sturgeon. He has
just received gift from Mr.. Psssmore (of Pass
& Aabaster, publishers, London black-andtan
colored carriage upholstered with the most luxurious
cushions ard containing various shelves for books and
parcels array of cigarboxes and trays, and hand
some lookingglass. pleasure seeking wording
could scarcely ask for more.
THE welbred man who smokes only for the love of
it puts but as much of his cigar in his mouth as is
necessary in order to draw keeps it in his mouth
longer than is necessary and fails to remove it
when he talks passes any toward whom he would
be respectful especially lady. Further, our best
bred men smoke in any street at an hour when
it is much frequented in any public place where
smoking is likely to be offensive to others.
THE venerable Archdeason Abraham Neles, of
Brantford, Canada West, whose death is announced
spent fyve years in the ministry among the Indians
of the Six Nations the Grand River Reserve, and
as an officer of the New England Company" who hold
the Reserve under charter from Charles II. He Of
fcisted in the old Mohawk Church of st. Pauls, the
first church erected in Canada West in the tower of
which hangs bell dated 17S6 and within the church
yard of which lie the bones of the famous and san
culinary warrior and chief, Joseph Brant.
MR.. PERCY REEVE, the rising young composer, has
met with a singular and singularly unfortunate acct
dent. On a Saturday night recently, in London, Mr.
Barrymore, the actor, who was leading man to
Nine. Nodieska for some seasons and is married to
sister of Mr.. John Drew, Mr.. Days first Juvenile,
was demonstrating to Mr.. Reeve and few friends at
the Greenroom Club the excellence of certain catches
and grips when wrestling, and in so doing he expert
mented on Mr.. Reeve SO successfully that he broke
that gentenan's arm close to the shoulder The suf
ferer was conveyed to the Charing Cross Hospital.
THE famous shell road of New Orleans is boule
ward Of almost snowy whiteness, nearly 200 feet in
width and nine miles in length, extending from the
western limits of the city to Lake Pontchartrain. A
sum mer evening drive along this road, through the
forests of cypress and oak the black hanging in
festoons across the way presents weird and novel
sight. st. Charles avenue the arstocraic residence
street of the city is IN the southern portion of
the town and is, perhaps, the most beautiful of ALL
1t is paved with asphalt and from its beginning at the
Trivo circle. where stands the Lee monument to its