The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-28
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
CHANG, the Chinese giant is going to try
roller skating
THE Mikado of Japan never wears a garment
that has been washed
THERE is a man in New York who can open
$500 oysters in one hour and twenty minutes.
Mrs. BARRIOS, widow of the late President of
Guatemala, is staying in New Orleans this win
ter She has fortune of $4,000 000
THEODORE ROOSEVELT is engaged upon a his
tory Of our with Mexico 1t is an ambitious
| affair, and will be issued in three volumes.
REFERRING to the report that James Gordon
Bennett is seriously i'll at Monte Carlo. the De-
trolt Free Press is mean enough to say: MANY
other men have been sick there"
IT is the fashion to place gold paper hearts and
dried rosebuds, wrapped in magnolia leaves on
the tomb of Juliet at Verona. Juliet's tears are
sold in Verona; but they are confectionery, sort
OF Vienna brandy bail.
A SENTIMENTAL poet says that kiss is 1.-THE
meeting of two souls" This pretty metaphor is
badly shattered when third sole, on the foot of
the girls father puts in a sudden appearance
80 are the young mans hopes
MISS HELEN GLADSTONE. daughter Of the ex-
Premier and head of Grton College, Cambridge,
10 cHSdSeu 10 Uo married 10 PROFESSOR stewart,
N T.. professor of mocha MICS at Cambridge,
and treasurer of the recent Stead defense fund
A LETTER awaiting a claimant in the West
Point (Ga., postoffice is thus addressed: ITO
my Papa in West Point, Georgia, America"
The missive came from Hanover, Germany and
is supposed to have been written by a small
child.
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 II 600 of his subjects wear the blue
ribbon of teetotalisn..
TELEPHONE communication has been estab-
lished between Paris and Rheims, distance of
about l Is miles, and the transmission of sound
is said to be perfect Five minutes conversation
costs one frame. and in FIVE minutes each party
can say some 800 words
MISS GLIDER writes from New York to the
Boston Gazette that she looks to George Van
derbilt to found great public library to which
his brothers will contribute million apiece, and
there is no law, we believe, to prevent Miss
Glider from continuing to look.
A BLIND beggar in London not long ago asked
aims of a gentleman, who in reply, wanted to
know why he begged. The pleaded that,
being blind he could do nothing. II am blind
too" answered the famous Mr.. Fawcett-for it
was he--"but earn my living"
SENATOR MILLER is now in the critical or
pivotal stage of his disease. His weight has
gone down over forty pounds. He looks very
sick, and evidently now has but little the start
of a dead man His doctor talks hopefully, but
that is taken as a matter of course.
Mr.. GEORGE W. CHILDs. of Philadelphia, is
so constantly engaged in acts of benefcence
that he was considerably puzzled how to distin-
guish Christmas from the other days of the year,
so he gave each Sunday school boy of ST.
Jamess Episcopal Church an order for $40 worth
Of clothes.
An emetic served as writ of ejectment a
few days ago, to live frog that had been caus-
ing Joseph Dounton. of Lost Creek, Calhoun
county, West Virginia, Undesirable pain and
anxiety for three years. The account states
that Dounton, for some time past, has been able
to make his existence tolerable only by keep
ing his stomach well filled with water.
AT the beginning of every session of Congress
a new pine top has to be placed on the Speakers
desk Pine is used because the ivory gavel pro.
duces louder sound upon it than upon some
tougher wood. Oak was once tried, but the oc-
cupant of the chair complained that a sharp
blow produced singing sensation in the hand
consequently pine has been used ever since
JUDGE HILTON, who inherited the millions of
A. T. Stewart, controls four large hotel proper
ties-the Metropolitan and Park avenue, in New
York city, and the Grand Union and Windsor,
at aratoga-besdes the hotel at Garden City
on Long Island. He is cross and grabbed old
man, in general way, but persons who know
him say he has few warm spots in his compo-
stion
THE Augusta Chronicle states that the income
of General Toombs averaged, from 1910 to 1875,
500, 000 year His last large cases were tried
when assisting the States attorney in the rail
road-taX cases, in the Dupree will case, and the
Eberhardt murder case, in all of which he was
finally successful He used to say that he had
often made 5000 at single sessions Of court in
Ebert county.
TIE Queen of the Belgans, who was one Of
the most regular attendants of the operate per-
formances in the Monnae Theater till the other
day, when the court went into mourning for the
death of the King of Spain, has, thanks to the
telephone, been able 10 follow the representa-
tons without leaving the Chateau Of Lacken, the
palace being in telephone communication with
the leading Brussels theater.
OK the morning of each birthday anniversary
for many years Prince Bismarck has received
from Dissendorf choice lot of vegetables and
fruit. and in return has sent letter of thanks,
complimentlng the sender on the creditable way
in which he maintains the reputation of the gar
dens Of Germany. These letters, Of course, pub