The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-08
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

the women the best laborers to be found there.
| THE Severn tunnel was completed Sep. s. 1885,
after thirteen years of hard work II is 1892 feet
| long.
MINISTER S. s. Cox still enjoys his little joke. He
mails newspapers containing personal illusions, and
printed in Arabic, to his transatlantic friends"
FASHIONABLE girls in Philadelphia just
enthusiastically engaged in knitting dainty silk stock
ings marked with extraordinary clocks. Knitting
circles are all the rage.
JOHN L. MITCHELL, of Tioga county, Pa, is
| United States Senator from Pennsylvania. John II.
| Mitchell, the new Senator from Oregon, was also
native of Tioga county, Pa.
ACCORDING to DR.. Carl Seller some persons have
defect OF smell analogous to color blindness One
person finds that to him violets smell like garlic
everything else smelling normally.
One OF the largest items of expense in running the
express steamships the Atlantic is that of COAL
| The Cunarders Etrura, Umbria and Oregon burn be-
tween 800 and $50 tons each, daily.
AMONG the questions offered at the Chicago faith
cure convention for serious discussion was this us
| 1t proper for broken bone to be set by surgeon
| before relying on the strength of prayers"
MORE than $500, 600 year is received by Queen
Victoria from the estates of persons who die in
testate and without heirs all such property belong
ing to her Majesty in right of her royal prerogative
|
the Queen, her Majesty is represented in her royal
| robes and wearing the crown. standing throne.
while the rich folds of the purple train fall gracefully
| down the steps. and wearing the Garter.
ST right into the parlor and make yourself at
home. said the nineyearod son of the editor to his
| sisters best young Take the rocking chair
and help yourself to the album. Helen Louise is IN
| stairs and won't be down for time yet-has to
make up her form. you know. before going to press"
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS HAMMOND has perhaps
written his last novel. He is sixty, and is going
| to lead to the altar blooming bride of twenty
seven. If that doesn't take the romance out of
him. he will, in the language of the lamented Mrs.
Partington. be the greatest pecac" in the profes.
| sion.
KING MILAN. of Servta is great reader of French
liter ature and his favorite book-indeed his inseper-
| able compartments WHAT 1.-THE life of Caesar" by
Napoleon III! By the way. one might draw fair
| parallel between ATilans outrageous invasion of
Bulgaria and Napoleon's fatal aggression of 1870.
| The campaigns differ in magnitude rather than in
| character
| GEN GEORGE H. SHERIDAN formerly of Louis
| lana, is preparing address on General Grant to
be delivered before the Grand Army posts of the
country under the auspices of the Grant monument
committee, for the benefit of their fund 1t will first
| be delivered early in January. By a similar plan
General Sheridan raised large sum for the monu-
ment erected to tho memory of the late Ex-Governor
| Morton, of Indiana.
PETER DoNAHUE who died recently in San Fran
cisco, worth $40, 600 900. He began life as
| blacksmith, and ashamed of his humble
| calling. When he to build S25. 600 tomb or
vault in Calvary Cemetery, he placed upon the front
huge bronze medallion, representing in basrelief
tremendous arm. with heavy hammer in the fist, and
| underneath the words, Labor Omnia Vincit, while
over it the sir gle name, 'Donahue." His daugh-
ter is the wife of Baron Won Schroeder of Germany
| and lives in Stuttgart.
AMONG the New Workers who went to the funeral of
John Mccullough was Bob Pritchard, for many years
the dresser for the amented actor He suit of
clothes given him by Mccullough and carried one of
| his play books Mr. Pritchard sometimes becomes
mixed in his figures of speech especially when he has
been to place where mixing is a regular business.
He telling interested group of some of his per-
sonal "reminiscences when he broke out as follows:
'Ah fine he was. He gave me this suit of
| clothes. He of natures noblemen. Many's
the time he's wiped up the dressing room floor with
| me-"
THE Empress of Austria received on her wedding
day in 1854 present in thu form of an album con.
tanning oil and water,color paintings many of them
by the foremost living artists The other day man
named DrIowsky, one of the imperial body guard
committed suicide, and it subsequently ascer-
tanned that he had at intervals stolen twenty of
these pictures. and sold them having been given to
him on commission by officers Who wished to have the
matter kept secret Many of these pictures had been
sold again by the Dealers TO foreign countries
but the police, aided by the newspapers succeeded in
recovering all of them but one
IN Chilli and Peru the and women in the
churches sit in different parts of the congregation as
was formerly the custom in the Methodist churches of
| this country. The women far outnuinber the men.
Each lady worshiper brings little Garnet on which
she knees sits during the celebration of the mass
The women specially devout the men not as much
| So The women wear in church the manta which has
long been the favore dress of the CHILEAN and Peru
Wan women. peculiar custom prevails in the
churches of these countries the bell ringing The
bells from the towers those who are with
out as we'll as to the congregation within the elevation
OF the host and other portions of the where the
devout Catholic is expected TO knee and cross him
| self
JUDGE ALBION W. ToURGEE relates this story in the
Pittsburg Dispatch: 1T was in Cleveland and Henry
! Ward Beecher and were stopping at the Kennard
House. He was to lecture there the next night and
CHANGED to right across the hall from me- Sam
Payne reporter on the Press. He was a green.
| looking country boy who hadn't been on the paper
long and about rough and uncouth- looking eiti-
you could well find Sam went up to interview
Beecher My door was partly open and saw him go
up to Beechers door and knock. When the reverend
gentleman opened the door Payne presented his card
Henry Ward glanced at it and said ENORMOUSLY: No
l can't be interviewed. 1 am tired and busy and can't
| be annoyed with any Interviewing The reporter
looked at him moment and replied with dignity
| We'll, Mr.. Beecher, didn't want to interview YOU
| heard that you were in town, and knew that you
would feel hurt if a gentleman of my prominence
didn't call matter of courtesy. Then with an
elaborate bow, he walked away. Beecher didn't say