The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-28
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

GENERAL Won MoLTKE's health is in a critical
condition, and his death, it is feared, is near at
hand.
JOHN JARRETT, the labor leader, is now at the
head of a Pennsylvania temperance movement in the
churches.
IT is said that Beacons6eld had Sir Charles Dixie in
his eye when he drew the character of Waldershare in
"Endymion."
THE ex-Emprees of Mexico is f~orty-fve. The doc
tors note an extraordinary improvement in her, and
anticipate a complete recovery.
Is it true that, when washing their faces, men always
rub up and down and snort, while women apply the
water and then stroke gently downward?
THE Supreme Court of British Columbia is the
only place in America Where the judges and lawyers
wear the wigs and gowns of English usage.
WILLIAM GLYNNE CHARLES GLADSTONE is the
full name of the heir of Hawarden, the ex-Premier's
grandson, christened in London a few days ago.
DIR. E. L. NICHOLS has demonstrated to his own
satisfaction that mems eyes are more sensitive than
those of women to the colors red, yellow and green.
THE Grown Princess S~tephanie, of Austria, contrib.
uted some original drawings for a picture book, and
accepted pay at the rate given to other artists, though
she presented the money to a charity.
M. ALPHoNsE DAUDET will soon finish a humoristic
novel entitled '"Tartarin au della des Apes" which, s
a sequel to Lies Aventures de Taratin de Tarascon."
The book will be published at the same times at Paris
and Dresden.
IN Siam the cats have their tails banged and are
dyed bright yellow; the forests abound with pink and
white albino monkeys; the python and boa attain to
gigantic proportions, and the people are sirgularly
temperate.
ONE of the most marked differences between En-
glish and Americans is their relative use of tea and
coffee. The English now drink FIVE times as much
tea as coffee. while the Americans drink eight times as
much coffee as tea.
THE cutaneous exhalation of Alexander the Great,
according to Plutarch, had an odor of violets. A
smell of prussic acid is said to be given off by dark
complexioned individuals, while blondes are said to
smell slightly Of musk.
BALTIMORE American: Nearly every dav a leading
citizen is shot in Kentucky, but the stock of leading
citizens shows no signs of depletion. Every man in
Kentucky, it seems, is a leading citizen, and he is
never so leading as when he is shot by another leading
citizen.
GENERAL BUTLER refused to speak on general
political topics, but added: Il want you to disabuse
your mind of the imp, ession that there is any coyness
or shyness in my refusing to talk. l simply am giving
no study or attention whatever to politics, and am
immersed entirely in my law business"
w ATTIEU WILLIAMS, in a series of articles on the
phlI'FOphy vi AObhAASj IlOLhpC ~ uOulOlSIfdtc LndU
women who have imbibed the Partisan notion that
soap and water spoil the complexion, and who there
fore only smear their skin with toilet vinegar or cos
metics, have dirtier faces than the blacksmith.
THE attractive young woman serves best as a clerk
where men customers are in the majority. A small
and pretty hand is the last thing desirable at a
woman's glove counter, the buyers ~disliking, propri-
etors say, to buy of hands that can don gloves so
much smaller and more shapely than their own.
THE New York Times announces the discovery that
there are in the metropolis a number of young men
who make a living by acting as escorts to married
women who have acquired the taste for betting on
turf events, and who visit the tracks without the com
pany, and generally without the consent or knowledge
of their husbands.
MME. PATTI paid the Marquis De Caux $50, coo
for her release, and it is reported that the diva is now
negotiating with Nine. Nicolina for the release of her
husband, that she and the tenor may marry. Nine,