The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

AGOL LII ~ 40lIOOt
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THE Indian name of Chicago means skunk or pole.
cat.
BISHOP BRoNDEL, of Montana, personally excon-
municated John Magensie, a theatrical manager, for
bringing Robert G.. Ingersoll into the Territory to lee
ture.
HENRY GEORGE is spending the summer at ia
maica, L. l. rewriting the manuscript, which was ac-
c~identally destroyed, of a book on the freedom Of
trade.
A LITTLE girl residing on the outskirts of Saratoga
has Melted $50 from the sale of sweet pea blossoms,
which she raised and peddled in nosegays about the
hotels.
A PERcEPTrBLE mitigation of black in the matter of
mourning dress. says the Hour, has been lately at.
tempted. The Princess of Wales wears gray instead
of black.
ACCORDING to the annual police report of England,
just issued, 12,411 children under ten years of age
were lost in that country last year. Only six were
recovered.
QUEEN VICTORIA has never fully recovered from
the accident to her knee. She is not able to walk as
much as she used to do. and the enforced lack of ex-
erciseiha a bad efact upon her health.
THE monument placed on the spot where General
Clusters command was massacred, near the Big Horn
river, in Montana, is reported to be rapidly disinte-
grating under the influence of the weather.
OUTfof the twenty-five Boston ladies counted on
the piazza Of an Isle of Shoals hotel, eighteen wore
eyeglasses or s~pectacles, and ten had scientific books
ia their hands. ne intellectually Of the place is con.
~seqpently most pronounced.
AN illustrated edition Of Mr.. Edwin Arnold's poem,
THE Light of Asia, will probably be published in No
vember. The illustrations, numbering about thirty
six in all, will be fine wood engravings after photo
graphs Of Buddhist sculptures found in ancient ruins
in India.
The religious press have Elizabeth Cady Stanton by
the ears, with the demand that she expose, for the
benefit Of Christian scholars, the evidence for her
statement that it was at a Jewish polygamous wed.
ding that Jesus performed his first miracle, and that
~polygamy was practiced by Christians for centuries.
ARNOLD w. PIERCE, an eccentric justice of the
peace at New Troy, Mich, has the following printed
on mis- business cards: Marriage ceremonies per-
formed at all hours of the day or night. Especial at
tention given to claims of soldiers who were fright
ened or discouraged during the war. Office hours
from l o'clock in the morning to midnight, standard
time"
The late tsecond) Duke of Wellington used to re-
late many capital stories about his i~llustrious father,
and his friends often begged him to allow them 10 be
taken down in shorthand for publication. NO." he
replied, they shall die with me-" Neither would he
consent to have his fathers correspondence examined,
although he had a great mass Of interesting letters
written or received by the Iron Duke.
HENRY WILLARD left for Europe on the goth Of
August, by no means the poor man that is generally
supposed. He goes back to Bavaria with a clear half
million dollars. That, to be sure, is not the eight
millions with which he could turn the scales a few
months ago, but in the hands of a man Of Wizards
brains and energy, may be expected to prove the seed
of another fortune. His age is forty-eight, and no one
who knows him supposes that he will long remain in
the background.
WIFE-'Did you meet Mrs. Smythe at the partylast
EVENING" She has been abroad a long time, youknow."
H~usband-''Yes I had quite a chat with her, and,
Judging from her manner, / am very much afraid l
offended her." Wife-"Ofended her7 And how,
prayf" Husband-'By paying her a very pretty COM
pliment." Wife-"Nonsense. A woman is never
offended by . pretty compliment. What did you say
to herY" Husband-eI told her she was growing old
gracefully" Wife-"Wen, you are a fool"
M. ANDRrEUx, the French political leader, is de-
scribed as a sort of human cat, q stealthy, vengeful
Grimalkin, with his claw against every man. He as
cends the tribunal sideways, with the movement of q
cat on a garden wall He is a smooth, finished, cpl
grammatic speaker, with a lawyers brain and tongue,
and rich In willy compassion more offensive that hatred
to his foes. Moreover, he has the reputation of being
one Of the three most dangerous swordsnen In the
Chamber, the others being Paul de oassagnac and
Clemenceau.
THE area Of China proper measures l,34S,S7O-
square miles, being about half the size Of Europe,
seven times that of France, and fifteen times that Of
Great Britain. Each of the eighteen provinces, there
fore, Is on an. average almost as large as Eng
land. Though not 50 densely peopled as at one time
supposed-mistake estimates having been circulated
by travellers who had not penetrated the country
away from seaboard or river-it Is yet thickly pop
ulated. The population Of China probably exceeds
POO 600, 900 of "Celestials."
MR. w. MATTIEU WILLIAMS once Witnessed q dis
play Of drunkenness among 300 pigs, which had beenl
given ! barrel Of spoiled e~lderberry wine all At once
v;tbstheir swim. .sTheir behavior, " he says, twas in
tenseiy human, exhibiting all the usual manifestations
of Jolly goodfellowship, including that advanced
stage where d group were rolling over each other, and
~grunting sfectionateIy In tones that were very dis
tinctly impressive Of swearing good-felowship a
around. Their reeling and staggering, and the ex-
pression Of their features, all indicated that aicoho
had the same effect on pigs as on men; that under It's
influence both stood precisely on the same geological
! level"