The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-06
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
A MILLION and quarter of cat skins are used an.
nually by furriers.
On the principle that everybody should be taught a
trade, the Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria is
learning to make jewelry in Tyrolese workshop.
SECRETARY LAMAR prefers the poems of Keats
and Shelly to all others. and has committed many of
them to memory, and is ready to repeat them the
slightest provocation.
BISHOP HURST telegraphed expressions Of the cor
dial sympathy of the Methodist Episcopal conference
in Italy to General Grant from Venice April 20. The
bishop himself was well.
HELEN JACKSON writes her poems on the apex of
Cheyenne mountain, Colorado, 5000 feet above the
level of the She selects this place in order to
obtain as high a range of thought possible.
IT is positive that Beatrice and Battenberg will be
married in Whippingham Church, either July % or
3d. and Battenberg's board bills to be paid by the
English people, win begin about that time.
WHEN the Governor of Georgia gives State din
ner one course is always baked 'possum. The Gov
that roast pig uceess diet compared
with possum, and propheses that possum breeding
is coming industry.
THE last time Froude saw Emerson, the sage de-
scribed visit Carlyle wherein he asked what do
great woman-a great improper female and no
amount of pers uasion could induce him to alter or
soften the opinion-as indeed why should he?
1T appears that apples and caraway were formerly
eaten together and it is said they still served up
on particular days at Trinity College, Cambridge,
England. This practice is probably alluded to by
Justice Shallow, in Shakspeares Henry W." when
he speaks of eating "a last years pippin 4
with dish of caraways."
The Pail Mall Gazette is uneasy because almost
alone among sovereigns, Victoria did not telegraph
birthday congratulations to Bismarck but the Lon.
don World excuses her on the ground that she
is not personally acquainted with the German Chan
cellor, and "knows him only by reputation" 1t is
surmised that she has heard of him, and quite re-
Gently.
EXPERIMENTS have been made to obtain chloride Of
ammonia from the chimney of the cremation furnace
at Senju with The process is simply to keep
quantity of muriatic acid suspended inside the
chimney to make it combine with ammonia from the
substances consumed. This utilization of human
ammonia will be adopted at all other cremation estab
lishments in Japan.
AMONG the signers of the remonstrance sent to the
Massachusetts Legislature against the further extern
sion of suffrage to women are President Eliot and
eleven professors Of Harvard, Bishop Paddock, the
Rev. Henry M. Dexter of the Congregationalist and
fifty other clergymen. Thomas Bailey Aldrich,
John Boyle O'Reilly. William Endicott, jr., O. b.
rockingham, Alexander Fl. Rice, and Henry Cabot
Lodge.
THE utterance Of New York statesman is cited to
illustrate the tendency Of the American mind to ex.
press itself in metaphor Talk about statesmen
said he there statesmen to the square inch
in the First ward than in any other ward in the city
Why, If you'd take one of Sammy Tldens old
speeches and plant it In crack the sidewalks you'd
wake up in the morning find o tree forty feet
high with statesman sitting on every branch"
1T Is asserted by correspondent that at no time
since her separation from her husband has Mrs Theo
dore Tilton lived In an attic taken in sewing for
living Sho resides, she always has since that
time, in comfort and quiet elegance with her mother
in Brooklyn, and, far from being ignored by her
former friends, is surrounded by people Of intellect
and high social position. Neither Theodore Tilton
nor Henry Ward Beecher are among the number.
however.
A PARALLEL to Imperial Cesar, dead and
and turned to clay stopping hole to keep the wind
away, has been found In Rome this year. The ashes
of an imperial Caesar Piso were lately employed for
the lye Of Roman woman's wash.tub upon the dis.
covery of the urn in which they had reposed for
eighteen centuries. "Thcy were so white and clean
explained the workman, that I gathered them to-
geher in the basket and sent them TO my wife to mako
I've for her washing
THE versatile Ellen Terry. the actress, hrst mar.
ried Mr.. Watts, the artist. The gentleman hay.
ing obtained divorce, was succeeded by Mr.. War.
dell Not satisfied with her second choice Miss Ter.
ry divorced him, and, settling her affections upon
Charles Kelly, became his wife. Incompatibilitv
soon separated them, and death, by the removal
Of Mr. Kelly, has severed all entangng alliances
The London papers are saying that Mr.. Irving will
marry Miss Terry now that she is free again.
The great sand dunes along the banks of manv
rivers and particularly along the shores at the south
ern end of Lake Michigan due to the presence of
the Ammopbila Arenaria, or sand-gathering grass
which possesses remarkable power of drawing up
moisture. Indeed, 1t may be called miniature water
pump for 1t is able to keep the earth wet for several
inches around it. This wet earth catches and holds
the drifting sand. The process goes on, the grass
growing and the sand collecting. until great sand
dune is tho result.
Nj. BRAUN, the photographer. is now engaged In re-
producing the important collection Of pictures In
Buckingham Palace The most valuable masterpieces
those by Jan Stcen, Teniers and A. Van Ostade,
delineators of pleban character and life Terburg
Setscher and 4. Van der Neer, painters of elegant
social life; G. Dow q. Metzu and II. Mieris. AZ the
most refined portryers Of common lfs AMI domestic