The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN is arranging to hold a
| reunion of the Sherman family at Mansfield, Ohio,
the first week in September.
QUEEN VICTORIA dslikes the memory of her grand.
father, George III much that she visits the
ROYAL Park and palace of Kew his favore residence
GEN BOB TooMBS is on record in autograph
album as answering the question, IF not yourself
who would you rather be" with the word Gladstone "
BOTTLE of purple ink mistakenly opened
for port wine at Detroit supper and fourteen guests
filled their mouths with the liquid in pledging the
host.
MISS CLEVELAND is now talked of in Washington
for place on the public school board in which there
are vacancies which properly proposed to be filed
by ladies.
THE Paris Municipal Council has at last made plans
for using the $3.50 left by Rossni for the estab
ishment of asylum in that city for aged musicians
and artists.
THE Viscount Tredern, one of the great lights of
French society, has been condemned to fifteen days
imprisonment for wife -beating His wife is a cousin
of Louis Say.
THE editor of the Montgomery Orange county,
Standard believes he has discovered that the Horse
shoe Falls at Niagara have away than fifty
feet in the past thirteen years.
BEATRIcEs wedding cake cost So, 500, which would
for it. or about ten years if he had taken out annually
$50 for a suit of ready made clothes.
THE heroine of the ''Mikado' says moro frankly
than many society bellies: NO. am not progresses.
ing. Few young men like me at first. They have to
get used to me. / am acquired taste"
Josh BILLINGS is spending few weeks in Salt
Lake City, and will lecture there. Meanwhile the
trout in White Mountain waters disconsolate 1t
is many year since Josh" failed to visit them.
THE Pope has sent to the Queen of Spain and her
daughters a number of sacred relics To the Queen a
morse of the True Cross and to the nfanta Mercedes
splinter from door-post in tho Holy House of
Loretto.
IT is queer how some of EN- do hang on in spite of
the warm weather. Mrs. Nancy Edgerly, of Wolfe
borough n H., is the latest and she celebrated her
1O1st birthday Tuesday.
GENERAL GRANTS name was not Ulysses s.
Grant" 1t was Hiram U. Grant. The President
name is not Grover Cleveland" 1t is Stephen G.
Cleveland. The great spectators is not Jay
Gould" 1t is John j. Gould.
A WINDMILL with its sails moving lazily, is a
pretty and picturesque feature in landscape
and rich resident in Maine town has his wind
mill operated by steam, that the arms go round
whether the wind blows or not
THE practice of numbering houses on the streets of
our cities begun in Philadelphia, where it was intro
duced by the marshal who took the second United
States in tnat city. 1t in that that
all the inhabitants of the country mentioned by
THE city of Minneapolis has curious provision in
its law relating to the liquor traffic Besides charging
license fee of $500, the law marks out certain
patrol limits including the business core of the city
within which all the saloons there are must be estab
lshed, and where they be kept under close police
inspection AS TO the rest of the ctv including all