The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

LADY STRADBRoKE was paid three dollars and
twelve for the paragraph which brought Edmund
Yates to grief
A VERMONT jury had to be provided with dozen
copies of David Copperfeld" recently in order to
estimate in libel suit the amount of damages the
plaintiff had sustained in being compared to 'Uriah
Heep."
JAY GOULD will get credit for being something of
prophet. In 1876 when it was announced with q
flourish of trumpets that James R. Keene had started
East from San Francisco In private palace car with
four FIVE million dollars with which he was going
break several Wall street magnates Mr. Gould is said
to have remarked well send him back in a freight
car"
THE Caterer furnishes these astronomical prov
cribs; Court the onion and flee the doctor. Discre-
ton is the proper for cheese Wise counsel
cometh not from empty stomach. True economy
in the household has heaven for its banker All should
profit by the aid of the cook-except the apothecary.
Neither the nbbler the glutton knoweth the value
Of the feast"
AT Edmburg, lately, copy Of Burnss poems,
printed at Kilmarnook in 1886 was sold by auction
for $40 and copy of the edition of 1898 containing
autograph inscription to Mrs White by the author,
who describes himself "a man who has ever had too
much respect for his friends, and much contempt
for his enemies to atter either the one or the other
brought 921. 2s. Cd.
THE spiritualists claiming the English royal
family for their own The story goes that Leopold
just before his death told a friend that his sister
Alice had come to him in the night and warned him of
approaching disaster, and he said that ''if anything
happened" he wanted military funeral. That it is
explained, is why the Queen who also accepted the
vision real, hurriedly changed the nature of the
funeral ceremonies at the last moment
ZONE day Booth and Coquelin passed an afternoon
together in my drawing ROOM" writes Lucy Hooper,
Il acting Interpreter, for neither spoke word of
the others language. And have longed often since
that day for painters power to reproduce the famous
pair-the Frenchman, bue-eyed, oose-shaven, round
faced and joyous looking and the American beautiful
with the sombre beauty of Hamlet. Comedy and
tragedy embodied in the person of their two great in
terpreters"
THE Bishop of Rochester England will again visit
America this year. sailing from Liverpool board
the Sardinia on July 81. He will visit several West
ern States including Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, Col
orado, and Utah Territory ecturing in the principal
towns and cities in behalf of the Church Temperance
Society and will also address, by special invitation the
New York Diocesan Convention, which meets Sep
TENDER "a. He will sail from Quebec on October A.
his return voyage.
IT is said that the fastest two PAGERS in the world
the property of Commodore N W. Kittson, of St
Paul. They are johnson and Little Brown jug, and
have records respectively OF 2:1O and 2:11s. Com
modore Kittson is millionaire Over fifty years ago
John Jacob Aston sent him into the Hudson bay region
TO purchase furs. and since that time he has been
identified with the Northwest. His fancy for fast
horses, however, only when his income mounted
into the hundreds of thousands and he has grated it
in the most complete and lavish manner.
JEAN BAPTIsTE DUMAS, the eminent chemist whose
death the other day announced, an energetic
little man with round, happy face, flowing hair
sparkling eyes and Gascon fuency and picturesque
ness of speech Louis Napoleon ncknamed him 'the
Poet of Hygiene, and it was Dumas who looked out
for the health of the city during Hsussmanns reed
caon of Paris. tits told of him that at the age of
eighteen he made his first two discoveries in chems-
try and these brought him TO the notice of Gaspard
De La Rive who asked him, is it you who have
made these experimental" Certainly" "And they
have taken you a good deal of timel" "Of course"
Then Unjust tell you, said the great scientist thst
you have had the good fortune to meet Berzeus on
the field of research He has preceded you, but
he is older than you" This great compliment over
whelmed young Dumas with embarrassment from
which De La Rive kindly extricated him by taking
him by the and asking him to breakfasts and thus
began a lifelong friendship between them.