The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-30
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mrs. PIERRE LoRILLARD of New York city, is the
admitted author of the novelette,, Those Pretty st.
George Girls"
GEORGE ELIoT's adam Bede'' is being drama
tized, and the adaptation will be produced both in
England and America.
CUT flowers carried in refrigerators from
Italy to England, journey of nearly two days, and
reach their destination looking fresh if ustcut
from the parent stalk
SIR MICHAEL COSTA, seventy-four years old,
is raying from his recent serious Illness 1t is said
he has in manuscript though not quite completed, q
sacred work equal to his ''Naaman" or Eli"
THERE a social gathering at the house of Lieut.
gov Ames, in Boston, on Wednesday evening, at
which present the Governor land six former Gov,
ernors of the State-Messrs Robinson, Gardner,
Banks, Clafn, CASTOR Rice and Talbot
CANON KNOX LITTLE recently preached in st.
Pauls, London, and his peculiarly revivast style
much criticised before high eccesiastic. "vox ct
praterea nihil, said of the party ooh no." re-
piled the Bishop, affecting to be shocked Knox ct
pretera Little"
EVERY pupil received into the lyceums and colleges
in France must give evidence that he has been vaccin-
ated. Since the enforcement of the new law not
single of varola variooid has appeared at the
Lycee Louis lie Grand where the utility of the re.
strction was fully tested.
GENERAL ROBERT TooMBs, speaking the other day
of Liberty Hall, the home of Alexander H. Stephens,
said: 81 want the people of Georgia to buy the prop
ery, and when they do will endow it with enough TO
make it such college little Aleck would like to see
there if he were alive"
LORD RowToN who is engaged in editing papers
left by the late Earl of Beaconsfeld, has found no
memoirs among his effects, although of partly
arranged notes and letters dicovered. Lord Row
ton will issue selection in the autumn but the full
memoirs will take two years to prepare.
Two English ladies have created considerable talk
in Riviera by their travels sociable" bicycle. In
September last they made their appearance there with
the vehicle having travelled it the Simplon
from Switzerland They propose to travel through
France and England in the same manner.
Hon GEORGE NJ. STEARNs in a recent will case re-
marked that as he was getting old and should soon
retire from the law he would advise to consult
his wife on important matters, and she would ask
questions from standpoint which
would be much better than try and get light from
machine lawyer.
WHEN Queen Pomare, of Tahiti, was in New York
last week she went shopping dressed in plain suit
and brown veil and rode to Central park in the street
attended only by the stewaress of the Labrador
and sat for hours unrecognized on bench watching
the equipages She promises to pay the United
States another visit next year.
INTELLECTUAL and bodily activity are rarely found
in of great age; but when combined add to the
chances of prolonged life Witness three who
have played great and active part in the world and
who combine these gifts of nature and will the
Earl of Shaftesbury the great humanitarian Cardinal
Newman and the Emperor William.
THE Princess Krapotkine lives close by the
prison of Cairvaux, and is allowed to spend the
greater part of every day with her husband to whom
the keepers extend every possible indulgence. The
Princes health is improving much that he prefers
to stay at Clarvaux rather than accept the govern
ments offer to transfer him to the Island Prison. off
Nice, from which Bazaine escaped.
IT should not be nine tailors but nine tailers and
the saying arose in this wise: In country villages in
England it used to be the custom and is now in rare
instances when person died at night the sexton was
told who then tolled the bell of the village church,
He first rang short peal and then finished up with
''taers; three ''taers for a child, six 'talers for
woman, and ni,;s. ''tailers made man."
A CURIOUS method of swarmng bees is practieed in
Corsica. During the swarming season a man stations
himself in front of the hive with empty hive his
shoulder. This hive has been rubbed inside and
round the border leading to the entrance hole with the
rind of lemon The mans mouth is filed with
lemon juice, which he squirts the swarm. One
bee is certain to the empty hive and the rest
follow.
KIT NORTH told Lord Cranbrook that, going one day
to see DeQuincey, he found him wrapped in a gray
watchmans coat made for large man-DeQuincey
was little fellow and weighed scarcely more than
ninety pounds-vhch swinging open in the fervor of
DISCOURSE revealed the fact that the opiumeater had
nothing else on He observed, cooy, that Kit would
see he not dressed, but it of consequences
and folding the coat around him again he went on
talking.
A MAGNIFICENT spectacle was presented on Friday
at the opening Of the Church of the Oratory in
South Kensington. Cardinal Manning was sufficiently
mony. Two thousand of the elite of Catholic society
were present. including the Duke of Norfolk the
Ladies' Howard the Earls of Denburgh:and Lords Tai
bot, Lennox and Armede. The Cardinal preached a
most eloquent sermon and asked who could have i'm.
agned $50 years ago that such a scene or such an
event could have been possible.
PATHS last words to inquirng journalist, just
before sailing the Oregon, that she would not
return to America next season. having decided to go
to Russia instead She is still very indignant at Ma
pleson for forcing her to divide the lyrical honors the
last night of the eason the Academy with Scachi
lin "Seniramde'), who had abandoned him for Alb
bey and only came back from mercenary mo-
tives She thinks that after saving Maplesons sea-
SON she deserved better treatment and she will never
forgive him. ncver never. never.
| A CORRESPONDENT of tie National Baptist, writing
in worry lively way the incidents of late trip to
Florida, when stopping at Palatka-a town which has
| suddenly started forward through the influence of