The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-01
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mr.. W. H. MONTAGUE, of Boston, possesses the
bullet which killed General Warren, at Bunker Hill.
AND now Sarah Observation-Disclosures painter, sculp-
tor, aeronaut, author, traveller, dairy-woman-is
learning to play the organ.
THE Empress of Austria has learned to set type,
and she gores in the fact that she keep up with
the smarest Viennese compositors of the other
A CHAMPION swimmer in San Francisco, learning
that Patti "a celebrated diva in town, issued a
challenge for a match 'best three dives in five, of
Megs wharf"
Mr.. R. T. BOOTH, the temperance reformer, boasts
that since he went to Great Britain he has persuaded
700 900 persons to take the pledge and over a
million persons to wear the blue ribbon.
KING HUMBERT of Italy, seldom partakes of food
at the family table. He suffers much from dyspepsia,
and has the little that he eats-and he eats only
live-especialy prepared and served in his private
room.
Miss GABRIELLE GREELEY will occupy the old
Greeley homestead at Chappaqua during the coming
season. She is still lovely girl exceedingly retired
and has it is said refused many ambitious sutors for
her hand
Miss ARIA Copy daughter of Buffalo Bill is a stu.
dent at the female seminary at Morgan Park, N. Y.
She is handsome young lady of seventeen, and
among her other accomplishments is a skilled shot
with the rife, and is expert horsewoman.
IT is related that Representative George D. Wise,
of Virginia, and Townshend of Illinois, and Senator
German, of Maryland, pages in Congress,
along with the actor Stuart Robson; and German was
afterward president of the National baseball club.
THE report is gaining ground in Tennessee that her
late defaulting Treasurer, Marshall T. Polk is not
dead but is living Texas. 1t is said that the coffin
in which his body supposed to have been buried
was in reality empty, and was used merely blind
AN Italian pedestrian has performed the remarkable
feat of walking running from Caserta to Naples in
an hour and fourteen minutes. The railroad do
the distance in hour though this need not say much
for them. Of course the pedestrian intends to
start for America"
WHEN Charles Dickens was in America for the first
time he dned at the house of of the Harper broth
ers, the wel-known publishers A little Harper came
to the table. Dickens placed him ON his knee and
said: "You very fine boy you very fine
boy indeed; you the of the greatest pirate
earth"
CHARLES BRADLAUGH, through the French
eyes of NJ Philippi Daryl, of Les Temps is the
genius of cav personifed with the muscle of tiger
crouchng down N the jungle of the tangled leg
islation of the world perpetualy occupied not with
extricatng the spirit of the law but with trying to
discover its weaknesses"
NJ JULES CLARETIE says that high medical au-
thority told him lately that he attributed the great
crease in drunkenness among women in Paris to the
During the siege, especially they contracted the
habit when there little to eat and they wanted to
keep themselves up. Fifteen years ago he says, hab
its of intoxication were among Parisiennes.
THE Lancet reports lecture on tea and coffee, in
which people advised to put the coffee for break
fast in earthenware vessel pour cold water it
let stand night and bring it to the boiling point
by placing it in water bath double boiler in the
morning, thus preserving the aroma. AS the editor
pronounces the lecture as being perhaps the most
brilliant since its series begun the writer has
doubt tried the plan.