The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-24
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE prevailing rate of board for pugs in the White
6 mountains is So week.
SEVERAL of the aristocratc pet dogs at seaside re-
sorts have their maids who do nothing but feed
& and attend to them
= The prohibitionists have presented every man in
the Georgia Legislature who spoke for their cause
q with bouquet of howers-water lilies and such.
IN Germany it has been ascertaned that the average
life of rich is ifytwo years; of one of the mid
die class fortysix years and of poor man, foryone
s years.
NILSSON is about to make her first professional tour
in her native Sweden since she became great singer
She was born in woodchopp6rs hut in the forest of
b Wexio, forty-two years ago.
3 Il THOUGHT sent to London a mere dictionary,
but have found with pleasure that have sent there
3 a man of talent" is the compliment NJ. de Blowtz
Z makes NJ do Giers pay to NJ. Lessar.
THE case is mentioned of a vineyard Malaga
affected by the phylloxera and supposed have been
utterly ruined which nevertheless broke into full leaf
& and displayed fresh vigor after the earthquakes
which recently devastated the southern provinces of
Z Spain.
D VIOLENT hater of tobacco is DR.. Hitchcock, the
professor of athletics at Amherst College. He at
tributes to its immoderate use especially by immature
young men, all sorts of physical and mental ailments
PIeuICIa quarter more OF excess
VIII produce generation of weakings.
DAISIES look pretty on a farm but they are ncE
b welcome sight to the owner who knows that when
once these weeds have gained foothold they will let
nothing else grow. But farmer at Huron, N. V,
h has made very handsome thing out of the daisies
that had given his meadows bad name by shipping
them to the city, where they happen to be popular.
BERLIN has an asylum for overworked and disabled
horses under the management of veterinary surgeon
cavalry officer and farmer. The grounds have an
extent of nearly 100 acres, with excellent pasture
land, clay and moor patches water and bathing fac
B ities etc. In of need the patients have ambu
lance wagons sent for them transport them to the
hospital.
q The Garfield monument, by Happersberger. for San
Francisco, will have pedestal decorated with basre
liefs. One shows a canalboat resting on sprgs of
s laurel and palm and American flags, with an eagle
q above. Another shows eagle swords, and flags;
. third represents the taking of the oath of Office.
s figure of Columbia in will crouch at the base of
d the monument.
u TEXAS man, already aware that his boy was dull
of apprehension observed during heavy shower that
the youngster actually did not know enough to come
D in when it raned. Much impressed by the result of
this proverbia test he applied to court to have the
2 little fellow adjudged idiotic and committed to an
q asylum The motion denied, however, no other
q evidence being presented to sustain it.
q PROFESSOR HERBERT SMITH and his party of nat
q uralists from Baltimore, who have been for
q years in Brazil have made collection of 600 600
specimens of insects, birds and animals in eighteen
8 provinces of the empire, They will explore the val
Z ley of tie Amazon this fall Mrs. Smith and her
brother are in the party and the lady is said bear
8 the fatigues of the rough travel wonderfully we'll
8 WE have says London Vanity Fair, a minute
knowledge of Hansard we have studied Mr.. Upper;
1--we know Asons Europe; we read Mills Logic to the
b bitter end, and read the leading articles in
!, the Standard But until we saw Mr.. Barnett Smiths
K collection Of sentences-it is not arcle-about Mr.
Lowell in the Nineteenth Century we never knew how
4 stupid and dull andfutile human being might be-
q The paper is ar outrage clever
s IT is interesting fact that while marriage with
q deceased wfos sister is illegal in England it is en-
tirely legal in nearly all the British colonies and in
Australia four bishops Of the Church of England have
9 publicly expressed their approval of such marriages
4 One of these preates, the Bishop of Nelson reminds
the clergy that would be ibelous in Australia to
6 refer to these marriages 'ncestuous ''unholy
4 terms which in England are the chief arguments
Z against the practice.
9 CAROLINE HEALY DALI a veteran advocate of
8 woman suffrage declares that she has seen for long
= time that the feeling of highly educated people
3 less favorable to extension of suffrage than it
s was twenty years ago. and that the contamination
8 which she desires and anticipates has been back
at least another generation by the indscretons and
4 shortsightedness which have accompanied this aga
6 ton. The obstacle to suffrage is not man
& selfshness, she thinks but woman's reluctance.
g SAM JONES, the revivalist has his route mapped
out for nearly year 1t takes him successfully from
= Georgia to Mississippi Alabama parts of Tennessee
~; Dol4:.
Orleans and Galveston Relative to his literary style
Mr.. Jones says Il have adopted the language Of the
people, the language of the street. the office and the
d shop. When man means business he takes all the
5 nigh cuts even in his language, and so do l. 1 am
q always in hurry" At one time a gentleman pre-
& scented him with $1,000. NO" he said, TN take
$500 of that and request you to divide the remainder
among those saloonists who have reformed and de.
strOyed their stock, to their considerable loss"
4 DIR. SAMUEL A. GREEN, the wellknown physician
and mem Der of the Massachusetts, State Board of
Health, is much interested in American antiquities.
1t is told that he visited Mount Desert in the early
s days, when visitors arriving by steamer had wan
der about in search of the landlords Of the primitive
hotels, who strangely Indifferent to the conven-
& fence of their guests Leaving his baggage on the
d wharf, DR.. Green sought out one of the hoselres
and finding nothing better to do, obtained shovel and
& began to dig in adjacent mound, which from its
appearance, suggested to him an aboriginal origin
3 While engaged in this work woman rushed out fur
D ously from the hotel and shouted: ''What are YOU
4 diggn there for3 You just stop it," oh replied
8 Dr. Green Il was looking for curiosties in the Indian
s m ound. That amt Indian mound replied the
g woman; that's where them Higgins children is
{ buried"
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