The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-17
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ABUUT PEUPLE AND THINGS.
LIszT is now in better health and doing more work
than for several years past.
REV. JOSEPH Cook is going to spend the winter
among the Nova Scotia blue noses.
POSITION in Paris bank although paying sal
airy of about 1928 yearly recently applied for by
5000 persons.
MINISTER LowELL's latest English success is his
election to the vicepresidency of the Egyptian Ex-
poration Society
NEW YORK journal; American young ladies who
have been abroad assert that it is dreadfuly hard
find an honest count,
THE two daughters of John Bell, the presidential
candidate of 1860, keeping young ladies' acad-
envy on Chestnut Hill, Boston.
SIR ERASMUS WILSON, eminent English physi-
clan who died recently bequeathed 81 900 600 to tho
Royal College of Surgeons, London.
IT reported in New York. Thursday according
to the Boston Post that Secretary Frenghuysen and
every male member of his family had voted for
Cleveland.
STILsoN HUTcHINs editor of the Washington
Post has been elected to the Now Hampshire Legis-
lature from Laconia in that State, where he has
summer residence.
EVEN George Washington Jones' the independent
candidate for Governor of Texas carried his own
county, although the Democracy has its usually large
majority in the State.
QUEEN VICTORIA has almost a mapia for collecting
relics of engagements in war Among others she has,
mounted in crystal and silver, the musket bah that
ended the of Nelson.
Mr.. GEORGE DoLBEY, who was Charles Dickenss
manager during his American tour, is writing per-
sonal aecollections of the great novelist These viii
be published early in December.
They call Trevelyau's promotion from the sscre-
taryshn of Ireland m (abinet t.kcLn0
him upstairs" from a salary of $22 500 to Of
$4,000; but then the honor is worth shlings.
MARTIN FARoUHAR TUPPER is living in extreme
poverty in London. Old in years declining in health,
the author of Proverbia Philosophy" lives deprived
of the luxuries and not few of the necessities Of
this life
ONETHIBD of the newspapers published in Italy
bear the title of Gazette" the name having been
been handed down from 1870, when the first gosspy
little sheet saw daylight at Venice and sold for
small coin, gazetta
MRS. MAcKAY's palace at Florence has been entirely
rearranged the past summer and she will occupy it the
coming winter Her Paris house in the Place de pArc
de Triomphe will be occupied during her absence by
General Guzman Blanco.
PRINCE B1sMARoK's audience chamber at Fried
richsruhe is adorned with superb chalk portrait of
Beacons6ed, painting of Theirs by Bonnat, bronze
laurelcrowned bust of Moltke and painting of the
Cardinal Prince Hohenlohe.
DIR. EBERs, the Psychologist, is very Ill and must
submit to avery serious operation. His is now man.
fully putting his house in order" Before the im
portant day comes he will have finished his biography
of Sepsius and also his new historical romance.
Ten Thousand extra copies of the November Gem
fury, containing General Beauregards article Bull
Run called for by the public and of the Decem-
Der number, containing General Lew Wallace's papor
on Fort Donelson-the second of the War Series
900 copies will BIO printed.
LEO XIII. evidently desires the most to be made
of the Vatican archives. He has reduced the length
of vacations given to the employees who working
on them and in various other ways indicated his
appreciation of the urgent Importance of issuing his
toricsl works based upon the genuine documents
tanned there.
THE Duke of Hamiltons library sale is declared to
be the greatest book sale record 1t continued
about forty days, and realized a total of PS50000
The Sunderland collection brought only little moro
than one-fourth much, and the Gosford only
$45 900. The American demand for rare books In
London is constantly increasing.
THERE can be little question that the continued
close covering of the head with hats and caps is
very constant cause of badness. Women seldom lose
their hair except from sudden causes and among
those nations where the head is habituay left bare,
or but slightly covered badness is pracJlcally I'M
known. The beard which is of the class of hair
that of the scalp, does not fall with age reform
in style of headgesr very desirable but it is not
at all likely to be accomplished.
AMERICANS may congratulate themselves that they
have hand in digging the De Lesseps canal, A con-
tract has been let to one of countrymen for
dredging 80 900 900 cubic metres, nearly quar-
ter of the whole canal and twelve hercules dredges,
in addition to the three already in use have been
dered These machines are entirely manufactured in
this country at cost of than 800, 900 each.
NJ de Lesseps who is in his eighteth year, proposes
to go to Panama in March open the first section Of
the canal-about ten miles in length.
In the photographed notes left by DR.. Humphrey
Sandwich, an English physician, he says Thackeray
told him shat the mother of Pendennis painted
from his mother and that the rides of young PEN
dennis to and fro so his boyish love his
youthful rides when he lived in the neighborhood Of
Exeter He told me that the original Of Becky Sharp
lived in his neighborhood He mentioned also the
original of the romantic Miss Amory and related how
he once Travelled with her in railway carriage and
cut his finger She tore what was apparently costly
cambria pocket handkerchief and exclaimed See
what have sacrificed for youi but he detected her
hiding the common rag which she had torn"