The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-23
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

MR. BLAINE IS within nifty pages or the end or
his Twenty Years of Congress"
EX-SENATOR TABOR of Colorado, is to build
81, 600, 900 residence in Washington
HENRY WILLARD has left Berlin to return to
New York, where he will again take up his resi-
dence.
TENNYsoN's book is too late Two Milwaukee
poetesses have had their poems out in book form
for several weeks
SIR CHARLES DILKE's wife is fluent orator
She delivered long speech recently at the open
ing of q bazar in Chelsea.
AT charity fair in Berlin the Crown Princess
of Germany has been selling sausages at $50
apiece and sponge cake at 81 slice.
DR.. SCHLIEMANN seems inclined to believe,
from the figures of women on certain vases,
that corsets were in use in prehistoric Greece.
The present senior class of Columbia College,
New York. propose upon graduation, to leave
memorial in the shape of $500. 900 college gym
nasum.
Mrs. MILLBANK. of New York, is building a
900 villa on the site of the famous old man
sion once owned by William NJ. Tweed, at Green
witch, Conn.
THE Westield, Mass, bcyclists have formed
class for Bible study among themselves. A
favorte text is: Their wheels like whirlwind,"
Isaiah v, %
NINE. PATTI says she would rather broil beef
steak than bring down the house, and all the
time not spent at Craig -y-nos seems to her lost.
The Madame charges heavily for her lost time.
AN American sojourner in German uni
versity town was startled the other day to hear
this question seriously put and holly debated by
party of students: Twas Shakespeare drunk
when he made his willW
Mr. HENRY PARKMAN STURGIs who won
Liberal seat in the Tory stronghold of Dorset
shire, is an American, born in Boston in l8f7.
and he is married to daughter of Viscount
Hampden late Speaker of the House of Com
mons
WHEN the King of the New Zealand Maoris
was in England he promised to work for temper
ance reform among his people. He seems to
have kept his word for it is now announced that
more than IL 600 of his subjects wear the blue
ribbon of teetotalism.
THE movement to erect monument to Balzac
in Paris goes on apace. Jules Claretie, Emile
Angler, De Banvie, Jules Simon. and other
prominent men have interested themselves in it
and even the close -pursed President Grevy mas
| subscribed to the fund.
FIVE justices of the Supreme Court will keep
open house" in Washington this winter Messrs
Waite, Miller, Field Bradley and Blatchford
Justice Harlan's family is at Rockville Justice
Woods's is in Europe and Justice Matthew's is
in mourning, while Justice Gray is a bachelor.
THE school trustees of Hoboken, n j., have
| adopted the resolution that teachers shall not
compel scholars to hold piece of sponge in their
mouths as means of punishment. This extra
| ordinary act caused by the practice of one
of the teachers who punished in the novel way
| of the sponge gag.
| THE Prince of Wales has entered on his forty
| fifth year. He was born at 48 minutes past 10
on Tuesday morning Nov. 9, 184l. the event
coming very opportunely for the Lord Mayors
| dinner. From some CROCHET Of the Prince Con-
| sort, intelligence of the Queen being in labor
was not sent off till so late that some of the dig
nitaries whose duty it TO assist at the birth
did not arrive until after all was over, and the