The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-06
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

in some pulpit there or in neighboring towns nearly
every Sunday.
THIS bill from a Philadelphia plumber is original
and unique:
To hunting a smell
To repairing of same
HENRY W. GRADY asserts inthe Atlanta Constitu.
ton that Charles Egbert Craddock, author of 'In
the Tennessee Mountains and Where the Battle Was
Fought, " is really N. NJ. Murfee, who lives in st.
Louis.
SEVERAL French papers announce that the rcaT
object of the King of Sweden's visit to England was
to settle the preliminaries Of a marriage between his
second son, Prince Oscar, and the Princess Louise, of
Wales.
The Countess de la Tore was fined the other day.
at the rate of ten shinings . day, for keeping twenty.
one cats and dogs on her premises in Pembroke
square, London. The ~neighbors considered it .
nuisance.
AT least one hundred American newspapers have
published that Professor Tyndall, one of the most
noted Of scientists, does not know the year of his
birth. If he dosen't he is respectfully informed that
the exact date is Aug. 81, 1920, and the place Leigh.
lin Bridge, County Carlow, Ireland.
Ten and 6fteeE,year-old girls, who are great singers
at their work, earn twelve cents for a days work of
seventeen hours in the silk factories of Italy. By q
frugal system of cooperation they expend only one.
half their daily income, and so manage to lay up
money in the savings banks against a rainy day.
HENRY JAMES finds humorous superlatives and
pictorial circumlocutions" the characteristics Of the
Boston social dialect. He knows people ''who-really
considering that their families have been so long in
Boston, you know, do talk in the most extraordinary
manner, always expressing themselves ~pyrotech-
nically.'
Texas Siftings: Some of the dime.novel writer's
are in a hurry to get their pay, otherwise they would
A.soo lzs- -. - 80
ments as the following to appear in type: 81 grew up
to manhood without ever knowing what the love of a
parent really was, for my mother died when my eldest
brother was born
A SOUTHERN Baptist paper says that General
Robert L. Lee never knew there was a religious de-
nomination In existence that did not believe in the
baptism of infants until he was told, after the war,
when President of Washington College, by the Rev.
John William Jones. who was pastor of the Baptist
Church in Lexington, Va.
THE Russian Ministry of Marine has issued to sew.
eral learned societies a plan for a Russian polar expe-
dition. The idea is to have several large parties start
from Jeanette island and proceed entirely on foot
across the ice, leaving large depots Of provisions in
their rear. It is thought that there are many islands
north of Jeanette island that could be utilized.
A LADY admirer said recently to Mr.. Whistler; II
was sailing down the river the other day from Vest
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Whistler in the clouds, Whistler in the dim outlines
Of the houses. Whistler in the haze that hung on the
water" YES, Whistler is reported to have said
complacently, II think nature is getting on nicely
THE Prince Of Wales was present on a recent 90.
casion at an audience given by Queen Victoria to
some of the Ministry. ri believe, says Labouchere,
in the London Truth, 1T is the first time that B. R.
h. has been in attendance on such an occasion; and
the incident may, perhaps, be taken as a sign that in
future he viii devote closer attention to public AZ
fairs
THE Chinese have what is termed a kite festival on
the ninth day of the ninth moon. Sometimes the
kites resemble serpents thirty feet long, at other
times a group of hawks lowering around a center, all
being suspendedb by a single strong cord, but each kite
moved by a separate line. Sometimes the kites are
cast adrift under the belief that they viii carry away
with them all impending disasters.
THE Japan Weekly Mail says the favorite puss Of .
rich noble lady was lately borne to its last home in
snow white coffin, covered with a gorgeous white silk
pail while its inconsolable mistress and a large con-
tingent of female mourners followed the remains.
Priests, chanting a solemn itany, met the bier and e.
corted it to its grave. Another defunct feline is com.
memorated by a handsome monument at the gate Of
the cemetery just outside Toxic.
JOE JEFFERSON, the actor, who. ought TO know the
effect of the constant repetition of one part upon the
actor, says that after playing one part for a great
length of time an actor is apt to forget his lines and
take up wrong ones. An English actor who forgot
his lines in this way was blamed by the manager.
Its very strange that you are not perfect IN that
part by this time, You have been playing it for two
hundred nights" do you expect me to remember it
foreverl'' said the actor.
THE old story of the telegraph operator in Hyder-
abad, who telegraphed the central office, Tiger jump
ing about the platform. What shall I doi" was Illus
trated by the experience of q station master on the
Calcutta railway last month. A large and apparently
very hungry leopard came into the waiting room and
approached the ticket window. The railroad man
barricaded himself in and remained a voluntary pris.
oner for five hours, when the leopard left. It vas
afterwards shot about a mile from the station.
THE second Duke Of Wellington might, had he been
so minded, have played a distinguished part in life.
He wrote excellent letters, conyersed with ease and
versatility, and was an admirable raconteur. But he
was fve-and-forty years old when his ~ilustrious fatLer
died, and from that father neither he nor his younger
brother, Lord Charles Wellesley. ever received JUS.
tice. The Iron Duke was neither a good husband nor
a good father. He regarded his sons as youths Of
very mediocre capacity, and gave them no encourage.
ment to enter public life. He always treated US as
buffers" his eldest son has often been heard to ex.
claim.
MADAME PATTI now has her Castle of Craigy.Nos.
in Wales, lighted by electricity. The installation.
says the Electrician (London) consists Of seventy
wenty-candlep power incandeseent lamps, distributed
in the winter garden, conservatory, dining-han, bon.
DOR, etc. In the winter garden and conservatory the
lamps hang by twisted silk cord from the roof, and
have tinted green lilies over them. The effect among
the various climbing and other plants which are fes-
tooned above the roof is charming. In the dining.
drawing and billiard-rooms and the boulder the lamps
are partly attached to the existing gas-fttings and
partly hung by silk cords from the ceilings. The
lamps are all covered with tinted opalesceut ruby and