The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-04
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mr.. LEwEs. In his journal says that it was through
Herbert Spencer that he learned to know and love
Marian Evans.
THE venerable Parker Pllsbury is very proud of his
record antislavery lecturer and orator but in
dignantly denies the of his return the pulpit
which he vacated many years ago.
Mrs E. D. E. N. SoUTHwoRTH Is sixty.one years
old and has just finished her seventyfrst novel; She
is under contract to Robert Bonner to write for him
alone and on demand, at $S 900 year.
| In June last the Lancet said of General Gordon
His life is great mystery his character His
physical endurance in the desert would be difficult t.
understand in strong man. but In a with angia
pectoris, and with horror Of meals, it Is simply
| kind of miracle"
Nor the dictionary of Iittre contains the word
''mcrobe, it is said The word was first used by
NJ Charles Sedillot of Strasburg in 1873, and NJ. De
Parve says it into existence in the hall of the
Academy of Science one Monday in February, at half
past in the afternoon, just it was growing dark.
1t is making great stir in the world just in con.
nection with the cholera.
| To render new wanscoting and oak furniture dark
and give it an antique appearance. ammonia says a
high authority is the oeanest best and cheapest
teral that can be used. The liquid stains commonly
raise the grain of the wood whereas in the use
completely that it is difficult to tell whether the
| wood is really old.
| IT seems that if General Gordon had not gone to
| Khartoum he would have accepted command ten
dered by the King Of Belgium, and would now have
been on the Congo 1t also stated that by declining
the Belgian offer and accepting the British service his
heirs lose $685. 900, which the King Of Belgium pro-
posed to settle upon them But doubtless the British
government will more than make amends.
THERE are number of soap trees growing in Talla
hassee. They prolific fruters, the berries being
about the size of an ordinary marble, having yellow
ish, soapy appearance, with hard, black seed from
which the trees are propagated People in Tallahassee
boil the fruit to make soap, but in China Japan and
other tropical countries the berries are used as sub
stute for soap just they taken from the trees
GLANCE from the strangers gallery of the Senate
discoses sight which fills the American heart with
pride. Examine the heads of the Senators. Such in
teecual development, such skill in covering the bald
place with long hairs, as partially to conceal
the misfortune and then the different kinds of dye.
Most seem to prefer the green. The Senate
should sit in the galleries and let the spectators look
up at them.
IT was believed some forty years ago that string
of clear amber beads around the neck by
child prevented throat and children generally
ford to purchase such beads. Mr. Butterworth the
present Commissioner of Patents, still holds to this
faith and he and of his full grown sons both hav
ing delicate throats always wear a string of clear
amber beads close around their necks beneath their
collars.
SAILORS have a hearty appreciation of beauty. but
often odd way of expressing it, AT a reception
given on the American vessel Iroquois in the har
Dor of Manila, Philippine islands, among the many
beautiful Spanish ladies who came board was
blackeyed matronly lady, whose head covering
thin lace VEIL Her hair combed up from the back
and sides to the top and fore part of the heed and
massed in puffs and ours. Jack took her in at q
glance and said to of his fellows: 81 say, mate,
what do you think of that riga She makes the after
guard do foretopmans duty"
ROsSITER w. RAYMOND an expert, thinks that in
number of in which death results from asphyx-
iaton by Illuminating gas and which are most uni
formly ascribed to ignorance in blowing out" the
flame, the light goes out" itself. and thus does mis-
chief. He says: Il am of the opinion that in the ma
ority of these the fault lies in having the gas
turned down when retiring for the night, either from
an idea of economy in the saving of matches
other reason and the fame is aftorward extnguished
by any one of number of natural causes, with re.
sulting nsensbity and possible death of the victim
from nhaling the escaping gas"
THE Mudir of Kassala is a sorely tried He
has been besieged by the Mahdi's forces for nine
months, and, as if this not enough he has had
number of wild beasts in captivity thrown upon his
hands by the death of their The trade in ami
mails for menageres and geological gardens has devel
oped greatly of late years. the Soudan and Nuba
being the main hunting grounds One of the princi-
pal providers of wild animals for show Jew of
Vienna, named Kohn, who has brought to Europe at
various times from Nuba large number of lions,
giraffes, antelopes and ostriches. He had collected
number Of these shortly before Kassala invested
and had them in the town at the time of the attack by
the rebels. After short time he died. at the age of
seventy-two and history has not yet recorded what
became of the beasts
In nearly every railway station in England is a
small box legs, painted crimson, which may be
called an automatic postofiee. 1t is divided into two
compartments. On the top aperatures admitting
penny. being for postal cards and the other for
envelopes. You drop penny through the slot and
open little drawer beneath, and presto. you find q
postal card Drop two pennies in the right hand slot,
omen a corresponding drawer, and you find stamped
envelope adanty sheet of note paper These
little conveniences the property of a company
Omitted of course.) The profit must be very small
and only the envelope aud sheet of note paper 1t
may consist in its conveniently getting out of ordcr
occasionally and refusing to deliver; your penny has
gonein and be got out and there is sasfac
ton to be had by oburgating the box You can't get
tho best of it by dropping in bad penny as f not
full weight it refuses to deliver and keeps your short
coin conscating that punishment for your attempt
to cheat. 1t has golden rule that works only one
way.
H.H-..asn.z
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