The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-28
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

her tribute to the safety OF American travel.
Col BLACK Doc and Maj. Strike OK were the riya
candidates for chief of the Usage nation in Kansas
at last election, and the Colonel was victorious.
BISHOP WILLIAM TAYLOR, the Methodist travelling
missionary viii probably accept the steam yacht that
has been offered him for his enterprises in Africa In
dia and South America.
FoRT SUMTER has literally fallen. It is only ono
story high and has but half dozen guns not of
which could be used The government pays about
5000 month for watchmen, who keep lights burning
on the fort for vessels.
THERE was time when Egyptians took pride in
keeping the nnummies of their ancestors out of the
hands Of mpious infdels but specimens can now be
openly bought for $25 to 800, those with wellau-
thenticated pedigrees being the stvaluable.
THE Prince of Wales made such capital speech at
the emancipation jubilee in London the LIST Of the
mouth that some curious but disloyal subject hunted
for the original of it. and found it in an article in
recent magazine. Thereupon ensues lifting up Of
hands in horror.
STONE in the floor of the Virgins Chapel, in Je-
rusaem was lately found to be broken. great CON
troversy between the clergy to which had the
right to replace it. The contest waxed warmer until
they seemed likely to kill another, when the Turk
sh troops interviewed
Al TINY steamer brought across the Atlantic in
big one and towed through the st. Lawrence river
and the lakes is finally to be carried by men forty
miles overland to get her to Lake Pend d'Orelle,
which is close to the northern boundary line of Idaho
She is owned BY Englishmen who have bought tract
there.
TIL French ron-clad lie Riehelieu, the flag ship of
the Mediterranean squadron, is lighted by electricity
furnished by incandescent lamps. There $50 Of
these lamps besides ingenious system Of luminous
signals, which all fed by single dynamo of the
Gtor of
power.
THIS is the stanza of song which threatens to rival
the popularity of the lingo ballad Of Disraes time
in England, and John Bright joined with the 10000
in singing it at Manchester
The naughty peers must pass the BILL
And stand not in the way
Peers people must not rule
In this enlightened day.
In China mercury is said TO be the philosophers
stone Chinese medical works say takes 200 years
TO produce cinnabar from mercury, in 300 years it
becomes lead, in 200 years more it becomes silver,
and then, by obtaining transforming substance
called ''vapor of harmony" it becomes gold. This
doctrine Of the transformation Of mercury into other
metals is 2, 900 years old in China.
DR.. BLAND, of Washington, brings forwarda fresh
and serious charge against Agent cGillicuddy WheI
Red Cloud recently had his hair "shngled,n the
wicked agent burst out laughing at his altered APP
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