The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-03
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

mile be travels in his yacht. This beats crossing
tolI.bridge all hollow
Ex.PREsIDEST IMAGINATION is enjoying the hunting
season Of MS country home much more than he ever
enjoyed the soiries at the Elysee
Mas r. w MAcKEY has raid SO, 900 for tiny
canvas of Gerome the size of which is described as
almost as big as pocket handkerchief"
Tue Episcopaliaus of Charleston have started
ehurch burial association in which the membership
eosts dollar year and nsures hearse colin, car
rage and grave in case of death.
MILE. NEVADA shows with pride to the Boston re-
porters photograph of the flowers which she received
the night of her first appearance in New York and
they obligineiy publish descriptions.
ALTHOUGH the King of Bavaria's lavish expend
ture in building has crippled him of late he has a
splendid income. 1t il computed to be nearly 81 800
day. Bavaria is very cheap country.
TEx Duke Of Devonsh;re is the only person not ex-
ending royalty. who possesses four deer parks
Some of his brother dukes never eat their
son for the simple that they have got any,
FREDRRIcK w. SPRAGUE the Newport prophet
who has been publishing pamphlets for two years to
show that George Washington Christ. has been
declared insane. and viii be taken to the Rhode Island
State asylum.
NANCY WAISwRIGHT. the nurse Of the Brontes.
has recently been received il the Bradford work house
In her eighty second year. She does not bemoan her
lot but thinks ay of the Brontes had been alive it
would have been different.
"A GIgr. in Knoxville was struck in the faca by her
father The blow was light. but it the first she
bad ever received from him. and still. her
sweetheart present. She fell i'll that day,
sank steadily during year, and is now dead.
Who owns prescription after it has once been
flled-the hysican, the patient the apothecary?
The question comes mp In Connecticut liquor case
wherein order for half pint of gin has been du
phcated many times, and the excise officers wish to-
punish somebody.
ViRdILs birthplace-the little village of Petoe in
the Lombardy plain. about five miles from Nantna-
has just inaugurated monument to the poet Close
to the village rises small hill the Monthelli d vjr
Clio and here according to local tradition, stood the
house in which Virgil born.
THE much taiked.of Turner's lately discovered
by barker at Exeter. England, have been submitted
TO a jury of experts, and most positively
asserted not to be Turner'S at all but the work of
artist by the name of Lewis. These the pro
auctions for which the finder lately refused So 500.
LII is strange how difficult of conversion missionaries
find Jews all over the world. Society for the Con.
version of Jews has Just reported gain of four
! verts and expenditure of $85.427. Converts at
$25 600 apiece surely rather dear. Possibly the
subscribers of the $95 427 may not think them quite
worth the money. ssf
THE interesting information that Celia Thaxter, of
Boston has orders than she fill for copies of
her poems adorned the margin by water-color
sketches by her hand naturally leads to the in
quiry how Baron Tennyson presumed to send to this
country his poem on Freedom without at least an
accompanying chrome
DEoEMBss is q memorable month for Mr. Glad.
Parliament In December, 1892; was first made Chan
ceIlor of the Exchequer in December, 1852; became
Prime Minister in December, 1868; began the fight
that elected the present Parliament in December,
1879; and in December 1884, carries his great Fran
chse bill
AN interesting feature in Mr.. Blane's house in
Washington is picture believed to be a Rubens
which he bought at sale Of articles alleged to have be-
longed to of the Calvert family whose chiefs the
Lords Baltimore. propIietors in Maryland.
Looking at prints in old print shop, Mr.. Blaine
found an engraving ofthis very picture and learned
that Rubens had painted the original.
WINTER costume in the Adirondacks is comfortable
and sometimes picturesque. Guides and wood-outters
wear heavy scarlet wooden stockings drawn up over
the knees A warm blue Jersey and scarlet WOODEN
comforter tied around the waist help to make the
cynosure of all eyes. Visitors of both sexes
for driving buffalo overcoats, felt boots with
rubbers them, AMI seaskin turbaus, which can
be pulled down the cars
THE famous fire dance OF the Navajo Indians often
described though it involved some sort of genuine
neeromancy is explained by fact spectator
Il Is true no says that the naked worshpers cavors
around big bonfire with blazing faggots in their
hands. and dash the flames their own and fell.
lows bodies, all in most picturesque and maniscal
fashions but their skins first so thickly coated
with clay paint that they cannot easily be burned
THRILLING mistake often changes the entire
course OF persons life short time ago the local
paper at Red Bluff CAL announced that 1.-The prayer.
meeting at the III. r. Chnrch will be hell tonight
This Typographical error made many people believe
that something remarkable was to take place at this
meeting, and the church crowded. The officiating
brethren, greatly encouraged by the large audience
were inspired to eloquence aud the result was that
thirteen converted persons united with the church.
THEY talking about the runaway Richepin at
Pierre Vornons. aud 1t positively announced that
he at Miorca. DO YOU know why after ALL he
did not 60 into the desert9" some one asked ''No!
why was III" We'll, ne was careering along on
s.arnel when he met Arab and asked him the name
sf the waste land he saw extended before him. 'IYs
the great Se(h)ara" said the Arab. What. againf
cried Richepn really thought had got rid of her
And turning the cancels head round he returned 10
the spot whence he came"
REFERRING to the rumor that Prince Edward. ED.
est son of the Prince Of Wales is next year to be ee
waited 10 the peerage as Duke of Cornwall, Mr. La
bouchere. in Truth, says: This is not only quite
untrue but 1t is most absurd as the Dukedom of
Cornwall cannot DO held by any other person than the
eldest Of the sovereign by his eldest son. in the
event Of his death before succeeding to the throne
"a matter of fact IL Is intended to give Prince
Edward peerage next year. There is sort of
gsa@oa why he should DO admitted to the House Of