The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-22
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

GOVERNOR CLEVELAND will not even allow his
kitchen maids to wear white plumes in their hats.
AsHMEAD BARTLETT Courts has incurred Glad
stones displeasure, and the two gentlemen do not,
etc., etc., meeting each other on Pail Mall.
Mrs. JOHN JACOB AsToR is said to have left Paris
because of the opportunities of the shop-keepers and
trades-people, who wore out the hotel carpets.
LORD RowToN, Lord Beaconsfeld's faithful
Monty, apologies for the delay in the publication of
the life, which has been owing to his own delicate
state of health, which prevents his working with the
energy he would wish.
This is the way a lady visitor at Sharon Springs
describes William H. Vanderbilt: His bushy brown
whiskers look slightly gorilaish, especially as the
thatch on his crown is so thin, but for al that he has
a pleasant face and is always smiling"
THE President has a curious lot of names for his
fayorite horses, for they are all favorites. Faith
and "Unfaith" are the names which he gives one pair,
Hope, " Charity" and Olga, are among the other
names, which are placed above the stalls.
A PARIS paper contains the following cool adver-
tisement: Found, on Sunday last, a lace mitten,
embroidered with pearls. If the person who lost it
will be kind enough to leave the other one at the Office
of this paper, she viii greatly oblige the person who
found the frstin
II woNDER now, y said a dull old fellow recently to
Spurgeon, the celebrated Baptist minister, .how you,
as an influential minister, can reconcile it to your
conscience to make so many jokes in the pulpitq'
You wouldn't though, = said Sturgeon, tif you knew
how many 1 kept to myself"
MIR. JULIAN HAWTHORNE has declared at last his
nationality as an author, which has been claimed by
English and American critics. He says of England:
Il would fairly have been stifed at the idea Of having
to spend my life there. No American can live in Eu-
rope, unless he means to return home, or unless, at
- -. ---s-I /. - = = - a .,
Mrs. WALKER, of Auburndale Mass, has for the
past fifteen years been caring for the children of for
eign missionaries who have been left in this country or
returned to it. It is now desired to raise $4,000 to
purchase a house and furnish an ndowment fund. A
meeting was held last week to take some decisive ac-
ton toward raising the amount. Mrs. Walker has
had under her care for the past year twenty children.
CONTRIBUTOR to the Atlantic urges a rule of life
both pleasant and wise: "Do in life what you like to
do; or, if this is impossible, take care to like what you
have to do. The wrinkles we have gathered, this sur
prise Of unlovely age, come upon us-may they not be
due quite as much to the chill disafection and half.
heartedness with which we have gone about our af-
fairs as to the actual toll or disaster which fell9to our
lot?'
Dr. PRoUsT, in Paris, recommends people, during
the prevalence Of cholera, TO avoid chills at night, long
cold baths, all excuses of labor or pleasure, and iced
drinks-in short. everything that can cause physical
depression. He advises care in the selection Of drink.
ing water, which should be boiled. He recommends
abstention from raw vegetables, and remarks that
both drunkenness and indigestion are predisposing
causes.
The Duchess of Albany, although a royal widow,
will not be a rich one. 1t is said that after all Of the
late Dukes debts are paid there will not be more than
$4,000 left to his widow, which is far below the
sum first estimated. She win not suffer, however,
any great p~rivations for a person of moderate tastes,
as she receives from the government an annuity Of
$4,000 a year. This annuity viii be stopped in case
Of her second marriage.
A TREAsURERs temptations are revealed by a
Maryland county official, who says: when I first
took hold of the treasurership of our county / was
literally besieged with communication from New
York banking firms of doubtful notoriety. They
came in every mail. They were marked private
personal and all that sort of thing. They proved to
me-on paper, of course-how | could easily double
all investments They showed that by putting up my
money l was absolutely certain to win, and that it was
impossible for me to fail"