The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-24
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

EVERY member of the Utah Legislature is Nor
Miss JULIET CoRs0N received 1870 for her in
structon in cooking at Oakland, Cal
THE Emperor of Russia will soon send of his
racing horses TO England for entry in the races.
BEEcHER says the annoyances he has borne in this
life will look triing when his feet on the golden
pavement
Mr. BENJAMIN H. HILL, jr. of the late Sena
tor declines to be candidate for the office of Attor
ney general of Georgia.
peace if possible, justice at any rate" is what
Wendell Phillips is most fond of pretxing to his sig
nature for autograph collectors.
NJ EMILE OLIVIER is said to be engaged on a his
tory of the war of 1870 with special reference the
conduct of the French Ministry of which he was the
chief
Mr. OSCAR A. DRoEGE has just entered into
contract with the Mexican government to plant 2,
600 600 trees in the valley of Mexico within four
years.
THE sculptor of the statue of Beranger, in Paris
has depicted the great poet with volume of Horace
in his hand But Begranger himself declared that he
did not know word of Latin.
CHARLES LANGHEMER better known as 'Dickens's
Dutchman," has left the pententiary in Philadelphia
and gone begging He is eighty three years old,
and has spent sixty years in prison.
HENRI BLANC, who has just died in France at the
age of ninetysx is declared to have been the last
French survivor of Trafalgar, in which battle he
served on the Mont Blanc, and taken prisoner
when that vessel reduced to wreck by the
British guns.
A LITTLE girl known to reader of the Christian
Register has settled the doctrine of endless punish
ment and the bottomless pit After hearing pulpit
description of this pit she said: well if the pit is
bottomless, then the people must all go through and
come out on the other side"
THE Duke of Richmond and his relatives have cost
the British Taxpayers So, 900 900 since 1850. In
the same time the Marquis of Waterford and the
Beresford family have raked in $6,541 900 from
John Bull These specimens of the workings of
what John Bright described as the outdoor relief sys
tenn for the benefit of the British aristocracy
w. H McGUNNIGLE of Saginaw, Mich, has gold
watch in which bullet is embedded. His father wore
it in the seven days BATTLE and just an officer was
congratulating him upon escape, and he was say
ing, There's rebel bullet for me-" MIME ball
struck the watch. Tho momentum of the bullet was
such as to breal; Ii. 1Ir. McGunnigle's ribs.
In new English clopeda of Practical Quota
tons" there is at least one odd mistake. The words
of Pistol in Henry v" act iv l. "Tralst thou
the puissant pike given under the head of Gang
ling" An even more ABSURD biHder was made moi
long ago in the Harvard College library, where the
Star Chamber Reports were found under the head
of astronomy"
DISPATCH from Washington says: 1.-THE remark
able change in the Presidents personal appearance in
the last months has now wrought such arevoution
in him that he does not look like the same man. He
has grown thin and gray This in itself would cause
comment, but since he made his trip to Florida the
President has changed his entire habits of living He
has evidently taken himself in hand, and while he
does not work much formerly his work seems TO