The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-18
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

MRS. JOHN A. LOGAN, like Mrs Garfield and Mrs.
Blaine, a school teacher.
EACH of the special performances in Munich before
the King of Bavaria sole auditor cost over So OO0
REV. WILLIAM ALVIN BARTLETT, of Washington,
will sail a vacation trip to Europe the last of this
month, without his wife.
WHEN the will of the late Michael T. Bass, the En-
glish brewer, proved fortnight ago the person
atty sworn at SO, 900 600.
FRANCIS T. KING of Baltimore who is president of
the Board of Trustees of the Johns Hopkins Hospital
has just refused for the second time annual salary
of $4,000, rendered him for his services as chief
executive officer of that institution.
CARLYLEs cottage at Ecclefechan is to be retained
| in the family's possession Mrs. Alexander Aiken
Carlyle, who has just bought it, will put it in good
order and then make it storehouse for all the relics
of the dead that she collect.
So many London society write to the Maori
King for his autograph that his secretary has adopted
the following stereotyped reply Maori is pronounced
Mowrie the Now being pronounced like cow
'Tawhias is pronounced Tafeeice.'"
HER apparently unappreciated authorship has
prompted Queen Victoria prod her publishers into
issuing a sx-penny edition of her little book about
Brown for popular circulation and the publishers have
agreed to have such edition ready in autumn; but
the trouble is that the book in any edition isn't worth
a sixpence.
AN advertisement in the Paris Figaro announces
that of SO, titled intelligent and energetic,
would accept any situation. perous and
quring him to go far away, marriage in for
the payment of 800 900 of debt. Any one who wants
him must write to B. L. H. Poste Restante Rue Mon
taigne Paris.
JOHN RUSSELL Young, according to private let
ter, intends to resign his position as Minister to
China, of which he has grown very tierd and resume
journalism in this country 1t is rumored that he has
had very fattering offer from Philadelphia, where
he begun his newspaper work; but it wholly proba
BILE he will come back to New York.
THE Boston Transcript is said be owned by ladies
"a fact which gives point to the following paragraph
which appeared in it the other day: She-"Dont you
think the waltz is a charming dancel" He-'All but
the spinning round. The music isn't so bad and the
hugging is heavenly. Her mouth calls him "a great
nuisance" but her eyes agree with him perfectly.
THE Photographic Journal reports an ingenious
way to prevent forgery of bank notes. This is no
other than the employment of invisible actinic ink
of which no trace be seen on the paper OF upon
the image on the focusing screen. AS soon however,
as you come to develop your plate the word ''forg-
cry appears in bold letters right the negative
TOAD to enter the chicken-yard of An
drew White, of Newcastle, N H. climb into the feed
ing saucer of some young chickens and roll himself
over and over in the meal He had noticed that flies
swarmed about the meal dish and they began to
do so about him. When a fly passed within two inches
of his nose his tongue darted out and the fly disap-
peared.
THE Salvation Army people have got even with
their enemy the policeman, by Unfolding him in their
song book like the fly in the amber. Here is a stanza
which they sing uproarously when they arrested:
"Therell be no policemen there,
There Il be no policemen there,
In the mansions above
Where all is love,
There1 be policemen there"
DIR. HEINRICH ROBERT GoPPERT. one of the fore
the age of eighty-four He the first to dwell on
the Importance of archaeological investigations
the student of botany and his collection of fossil fora
was probably the most expensive in the world 1t re-
mains the properly of the botanical garden at Bres
lau, of which DR.. Goppert for many years di
rector.
AN illtimed cough or has often involved I'M
pleasant consequences, but Nine. Dodeau to
grief the other day through merely sigh This lady
tired of her husband, a master butcher of Havre
eloped with young in his employ, after she had
provided funds for good time out of the butchers
cash box to the extent of So 900. NJ Dodieaus tele
gram brought detective to the fugtive's hotel in
Paris. There he found in bed solitary young man,
who swore roundy at him for violation of domicile
The officer about to retire, when half sthed
sigh arrested him. Search revealed cunningly
cealed closet opening which the erring and stray
ing butcheress fell half fainting into his arms.