The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-14
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


GIRLS of manageable age are worth 16 apiece in
Japan. with few takers.
! MIR. L. H. LEITER, formerly proprietor of one of
the greatest dry goods houses in the Northwest and
now occupying the Blaine mansion in Washington,
of the first to send hearty congratulations to
Grover Cleveland.
PROF. HUxLEY's unsatisfactory state of health on
account of which Sir Andrew Clark has enforced on
him winter residence in Italy is Of purely physical
character lie and Mrs Huxley now in northern
Italy. Venice the original selection as winter
quarters but Bsveno has been ultimately chosen for
its bracing climate and facilities for exercise
| The Russian Count Vaarieff who, according to a
dispatch to the Toronto Mail from st. Petersburg
has been converted to Brahminism, was at one time
minister in the imperial Cabinet, has renown as
writer, has published two or three novels at his
own expense and has in print book of prayers and
religious reflections, which will be issued within
few weeks.
AN expert in pianos remarks People will not
learn that a piano no matter how much
highart needlework there may be on it, is almost
useless unless it is waterproof Have as fancy
piano scarf you like but keep one of the plain and
homely drab rubber under it you won't
keep your piano. The better your instrument is the
susceptible is it to the effects of moisture"
| THE London Spectator is very complimentary to
Mr. Trevelyan Lord Macauley's favorite nephew
late secretary of the Irish administration is of the
opinion that he deserves the high compliment that was
paid to Charles James Fox in his early days-that
those who looked him the future servant of his
country noticed in all that he said and did the I'M
mistakable tokens of ingraned disnteresedness,"
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL. of telephone fame has
bought the library of the late Prof Joseph Henry of
the Smithsonian Institution 1t consists of about
1000 volumes, onethrd treating Of electric
al science and many of these bearing notes by Prof
Henry which will probably be of great value to Prof
Bell. He obliged to buy all the books as it was
condition of sale that the collection should be kopt in
| tact.
| PRINCESS KRAPOTKISE is if possible mora ardent
Socialist than her husband My father" she says
was u rich eold-mine proprietor and AMI princess
Look at that there pointing a wretched street
sweeper); 1 wonder he does not como and cat my
throat. What right have to be living in luxury while
he is working in the cold and dirt and living probably
in wreched garnet cellar with not enough to
eat"
| PAUL DE CAssAGSAc editor of the Paris Pays has
| foresworn dueng and at the same time found him
self the nheritor of $500 600 left him by the will of
NJ Julien retired merchant of Mars lilies. The
relatives of the latter will contest the WILL however
| on the ground of insanity, of them declaring
het sufficient proof of NJ. Juliens mental alteration
lies in the fact of his having been subscriber and
| reader of the Pays.
In Formosa there is not much sickness, but when
man is sick they string him up by the neck and let
him down again quickly. This generally kills cures
him. and if the former his death is celebrated by
general spree. AT twentyone man Is provided with
wife but until the age of forty he not visit her
| openly. He may do stealtbily however and if he
doesn't like her he get divorce in ten minutes.
| man often marries four five times a year. No
children born before the mother has reached thirty
seven are in any case permitted to live.
| THE Prince of Wales is the greatest colonel &C
cording to the London World, in numerical sense,
| tho world has known TO say nothing of his
honorary colonelcies in foreign armies besides the
headshp of the Butcher Hussars he is the colonel Of
no fewer than sixteen regiments in his royal mothers
armies He is colonelinchief Of all the three regi
ments of Household Cavalry and colonel of tho Tenth
Hussars. In the Indian army he is honorary colonel
of the Sixth and Eleventh Bengal Cavalry the Second
Bengal Infantry. the Second Goorlhas. the Guide
Corps, the Fourth Madras Sappers and Miners the