The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-22
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

| ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
| BONANZA MACKAYs wealth is estimated at $3.50,
| OOO 900.
peer of peer
KOSSUTH still wears hat like the one he made so
| fashionable during his visit to the United States
| CANON FARRAR pronounces his recent host Mr.
| George w. Childs 'the ideal American gentleman"
THE person up at Pittsburg who has been in bed
| twentyni ne years is not policeman, but woman.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, possesses curious guidestone
on State street. near the head of Walnut, which was
| placed there in 1868.
| THE debts of the mad King of Bavaria amount to
| $7,5OO000. He has spent fully that much on his
| still unfinished mountain castle of Herren- Chiemse.
| SIR JOHN MILLAIs, the English artist, has ainted
picture of Dickenss Little Nell and her grandfather
This is of the greatest tributes offered the
| genius of the great novelist
Mr.. MENUS, of Cincinnati is making some alter
atious the Garfield statue in the Capitol He has
been trying to make the clothes look less if they
| had come from ''Misft Parlors."
| A WOMAN at North Danville, Va gave to the
building of local church until her last dollar was
expended, and then, work having come to stop,
presented the church fund with hor horse and buggy
THE venerable NJ De Lesseps who considers him.
|
ly, to meet Queen Isabella on her arrival at rail
way station in Paris One of his children is her god
| son.
| THE highest utilization of labor depends upon the
| largest number of industries The community which
has the greatest number of industries is to be
strong in all that makes people
| journal.
| BOSTON lady ornaments her hair with three small
| brooches in which set eleven diamonds OF great
purity. One is dragon fly, the second bottle fly
and the third large butterfly with two sparkling
diamonds in the tips of the antenn@.
| PRINCESS BEATRICE and her husband will be Obliged
to maintain strict ncognto whenever they go abroad
the courts of Berlin and Vienna will not grant any
precedence to Prince Henry will his style of
royal highness' be recognized
LIEUT.. FREDERICK SCHwATKA soldier. arctic ex
plorer artist doctor and lawyer has also proven his
title to literary honors. He is a stalwart. powerful.
| tough-looking man, with pleasant face and head
as big as walrrss, and is brilliant talker aud story
| teller
| WASHINGTON correspondent of the Now York
York Tribune says: "Col John r. Fellows has way
of running to Washington every Saturday and
spending Sunday here The President is always de-
lighted to him. and he says numberless good things
in the sacred secuson of Chamberns private dining
room"
MR. PETER BUTrER wears the watch given to Dan
| iel Webster by the Hon. Moses Fl. Grinnell and
others. 1t was given by Mr. Webster to the late Hon.
Peter Harvey, and by the latter was bequeathed to
| Mr.. Butler. Mr. Butler also possesses Mr.. Web.
| sters gold snuff box, which was given him by Mr..
Webster himself.
| In recent paper Sir John Lubbock says that ants
| of the same nest. however large it may be, have a
of recognizing each other not easily explained
| The recognition is immediate and complete even
after an absence of year from the nest. Concerning
the longevity of ants he said he had kept two queen
| ants for twelve years.
THE expression of the eyes of persons killed by VIC.
lence is considered important matter in criminal
Jurisprudence but it's value has been greatly lessened
by of its evanescent nature. A French scen-
fist has found of restoring the lifelike ex.
preston 1t consists in applying few drops of
| gycerne and water to the cornea.
/ THE following is specimen of the way in which
letters addressed in Arabia: In the name of the
merciful God the benefcent. This writing is from
one who his Lord from x the son of X; and if
God wills it will get into the hands of our friend Sidi
Musa, the son of Hamdalla the Prussian, the Chris
tian in the city of Tharabous Tripo the llusrious
/ the famous"
| GOOD joke is going the rounds with respect to a
Scotchman who has been recently knichted Sir
Richard Cross, who had 1.-The Draw laddie'' in tow
carefully enioined that he to take the Queen 8
hand and raise it reverently to his lips All this he
promised to do but at the critical moment he forgot
his lesson and Selling the Queens hand gave it a
fervd shake, excaiming: MANY thanks your Males.
| ty; many thanks" Sir Richard nearly tainted with
horror, but the Queen laughed good naturally and
thanked him for his hearty gratitude
| Ex-PREsIDENT HOPKINS naturally ono of the
observed of all observers at the meeting of the Amer
lean Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
says he Boston Record. Being considerably over six
feet in height his snowy and imposing head made him
Mont Blanc among the lesser emnences about him
Though eightythree years of age-eight years older
! than the Board-he has vigor of mind and body
which promises well for prolongation of his life into
the ninetes. There is benignant expression on the
xPresidents face which accounts for the flial aec-
ton with which bis boys" at Williams College have
always regarded him.
| CARLYLE's house in Cheynes walk is still to let It
has been unenanted since he left it for the last
/ time. The building offers a rather curious example
of the uncertain influence of famous personality
Because the philosopher had lived there the rent of
the fixed at rate double that of the
neighborng dwellings and the selling price announced
at $25, 900. A great many people admire Thomas
| Caryle he has still school and system; but
somehow the enthusiasm of his disciples and follow