The Indianapolis journal., 1884-10-24
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ONE of the daughters of Henry Wadsworth Long
fellow is engaged to be married to Mr. Thorpe brother
of Mrs. Ole Bull
DR. o. w. HOLMES has back from his sum.
mer sojourn at Beverly Farms, and will sit as Au-
tocrat in his Beacon-street Boston house for the
winter. ~ t.
THE ex-Empress Eugenie now appears, through
much suffering, to have become almost insensble to
pam. Her face is pad her hair white and the ighb
is gone from her eyes. =.
THE report of the Agentgeneral of Immigration in
Fiji shows that out of 7 1877 Poynesians introduced
into the Fiji islands, from the western Pacific 270
have died in four years
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, boasts that the grave of Tim
othy Iitcomb Holland late editor of the Century, is
still continuously decorated by his admirers with
flowers, and may be for another century.
The correspondent of London paper alludes to the
terrible dearth of milk in many districts All is sent
up to London, and the poor get none In vii.
lage in southwest England milk, not long ago
only sold on the production of medical certificate
10 its necessity.
During the recent visit of the revising barrster to
the Isle of Wight, says Life Qlondon) "the vote Of
the Poet Laureate which the list in respect OF
his residence at Farrngford Freshwster, struck
on The objection made account of his hay
ing been granted a peerage."
II AM thankful to the Nihsts for one thing" says
the Czarina They have made me love my husband
dearly. Our home life has become so different since
began to look upon him as though he under
tence of death. You can't think how deeply his mem
aced state attaches him to me-"
LAFAYETTE, Count de Rochambeau Baron Steuben,
Benjamin Franklin, Aaron Burr Alexander Hamii-
ton, Mllard Fillmore and joaquin Miller among
the distinguished guests who at different times havs
Iaar 30 x.4....o = III q
offered for sale at auction in Albany, New York
IN the failure of the cable TO transmit any reason
for the release Of the Tchborne Claimant three days
before the expiration of the term of his sentence it
may be announced that it was to prevent the
blage of believing cranks that might congregate in the
vicinity of Pentonvile to cheer and otherwise dem
onstrate for the Claimant
The Lancet says it is sheer wantonness to throw
away game because it happens to be little high It
will generally suffice to cleanse the game and wipe it
quite dry with soft cloths rubbing little salt into the
worst parts. Game which is simply high without
being putrid says tho writer lis particularly easy Of
digestion, and of great value to nvalds."
AN interesting feature Of a recent franchise demon
sration at Inverness the weaving of plaid by the
workmen of Holm mills 1t was forwarded to Mr..
Gladstone with this dedication:
This plaid we weave for you Willie 81.
You IL catch nae caulds nor chlllS
By wearing this memento
Frae the weavers of Holm mills"
DIR. EMIL HoLUB, whose large collections in the
natural history and ethnography of Africa have
riched the of Austria is now carrying out
very large scheme of exploration He left Cape Col
ony recently intending to the continent FROM
south to north He expects to be gone three years.
Hehopes to the water parting between the Congo
and Zambesi rivers, region of which little is known
trace the of the Congo river in the country
that Livingstone alone has visited to solve the prob
lem of the destination of the river Wee, in which,
however, Dr. Junker may anticipate him, and to push
north either through Darfur or Wadai In 1879 Dr.
Holub vainly applied to scientific bodies to send him
to Africa. He finally started on his account
reached Port Elizabeth with $15 in his pocket prao.
ticed medicine in the diamond fields and spent his
earnings and two years and half of time in exlora
tions which were remarkably fruitful that the vi
Geographical Society and other bodies raised
last winter $25 600 enable him to carry out his
present enterprise.