The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE Turkish" towels for the American market are
made in Philadelphia.
EATING small piece of soap at stated intervals is
recommended by Berlin physician as better
remedy for. dyspepsia and stomach than soda,
magnesia, OF lime water.
MRS. FRELINGHUYsEN is described as "a dear old
lady in black with full puffs of soft gray hair on
either side of motherly face, beaming smile pair
of gold-rimmed eyeglasses aud gentle voice"
THE Marquis of Camden, twelve years old,
asked the Court of Chancery the other day to increase
his allowance of $50 600 year to $40, 900, the
ground that the former enough to keep up his
estate Of Baynham Court.
THERE is said to be a swell in Paris who his origi-
nal resources having been long since disspated lives
handsomely on sums paid him by rich parvenus,
whom he introduced into society.
THE late Fawcetts successor as British Postmas-
tergeneral J. ShswLefevre has the adva, tage Of
perience in the position which he held ad interim in
1882 and he is known to be warmly in favor of the
swiftest mail transit the Atlantic.
In the old records Of the town Of Clinton, Mass, a
certain little thoroughfare called Cat alley" In
the present book of tax registration the name is
euphoniaed into Pussy avenue" aud it is imposed
that the next step win be Feline boulevard"
MISS IRvISG, niece of Washington Irving has
offered to the class of So for the Princeton College
CLASH ivy at the coming commencement, slip from
ivy which planted by that famous authors own
hand The original plant from Sir Walter
SCOTS home at Abbottsford.
THE ugliest Princess in Europe is said to be the
Crown princess of Sweden. She is masculine and
in feature without redeeming point to dis
tnguish her from the veriest peasant girl in Baden
of which duchy her father and mother are Grand
Duke and Duchess. She is said, though, to be pos
sessed of many admirable qualities and is also highly
cultivated.
SOME of the scientific papers publishing item
to the effect that indebted to Pompei for the
canned fruit industry 1t appears that after the
excavations had commenced & party of Americans
found some jars of preserved figs in the pantry of
lava covered house. The contents found tn be
good, and during the next year fruit canning in
troduced into the United States
NJ. CHAecoT describes an hysterical patient who
slept unnterruptedly for fty.four days. The noise
of gong beaten violently at her bedside was
unpreceived yet she able to cat and drink and all
the functions connected with nutrition performed
without difficulty The awakening was spontan-
eous and found the patient in good health. She did
not know she had been unconscious for nearly eight
weeks.
FLIEGENDE Batter: From the diary of hypochon-
sho has too little to do and too much to say.
My wife is very accomplished she used give public
lectures but since marriage these have been given
only in private My wife is silent as the
tomb-that is, a tomb with tombstone which says
everything. have only one fault and that
is my wife.
PRINCE GEORGE, Of the Prince of Wales was
popular and smart middle on board BE- h the
Bacchante and Canada and he is now proving himself
apt student at the Royal Naval College, where he
enjoys special privileges other sublieuten-
ants and by his frank genial ways is quite fsvorite
He took rstcess certificate for seamanship and is
rapidly qualifying himself for appointment to one of
the vessels Of the Mediterranean fleet.
AN English editor in a recent article on the scan
dalous attacks presidential candidates. says that
the late campaign reminds him of remark of Sam
Ward. When that gentleman was told by a friend
that Professor Huxley had pronounced the modern
horse to be descendant of the ancient mesohippus
he said that of it very sad, and he added
that the scandal would never have out "if the
horse hadn't been running for something"
TEDIOUS examination into the causes of the bad
odor of the drinking water in the city of Manchester
England led to the discovery of an unusually large
quantity of Limnae pond snails These little ami
mails had spawned SO profusey as to make the water
now delighted to know that new water-works are not
necessary and that all they have do is to supply
the reservoirs with few hundred good-sized fish
who will enjoy pondsnsil spawn diet.
"MR. ARTHUR is having an easy life of it these
tumn days" says The Boston Advertisers Washington
correspondent Most days it is before he
appears at the White House, and by o'clock he is
always on the way to the Soldiers Home where
but his personal friends venture to ntrude. His cot
tage there is a handsome two-story wooden house.
with large rooms open fires and pretty furniture He
has the same cooks and servants at the White House
and has each day pretty bill for dinner as Del
monieo could serve"
IT is a decided distinction, says the London World
to be an honorary freeman of the city of London There
are not dozen living individuals who boast OF
the privilege, first conferred upon the great Earl of
Chatham and last upon the phlanthropio Earl of
Shaftesbury. Among them are Lords Napier of
Magdala Wolseley, and Alcester, NJ de Lessops. Sir
Henry Bessemer, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Pre-
mier and the Baroness Burdett Coutts. There is
proach ia lord Brougham.
SERGEANT BRAINERD, Of the Greedy party, said
that Ellison never complained and whenever any
complaint made by others his simple remark was;
Boys. don't what you have to complain Of l
don't complain" That remark was always sufficient
to stop the grumting. Corporal Ellison never knew
that he had lost both feet A month after his feet
were gone some ono asked him how he felt. BE