The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS,-

WHITTIER'S letter about the Burns anniversary
contains the assertion that there is not logger
camp in the Maine woods where the Scotch poets
birthday is not to be remembered majority of the
men in those camps are French Canadians. who never
heard of Burns.
NJ ANorALE DE LA FORGE. the deputy who was so con-
spcuous in the defense of Mme Clovs-Hugues is no
vulgar mob Aattering demagogue He is by birth and
breeding an aristocrat His grandfather guillo-
tined by the madmen of 1893, and his father
emgre. He is rich and independent and votes with
the Radicals matter of conscience
A GERMAN forestrkeeper has published in the Leip-
sic journal for hydrophopia which he has used
many times in fifty years with invariable success.
The bite must be bathed with warm vinegar and
water as soon as possible and when this has dried
few drops of muriatic acid poured upon the wound
will destroy the poison of the saliva and insure the
patients safety.
EDWARD EVERETT HALE is now paraded in the pa
pers as the only survivor of newspaper men
who reported Websters address at the laying of the
corner stone of Bunker Hill monument, sixty years
ago and his survival is attributed to his abstaning
from rum that occasion; and as E. E. II. only
three years old at the time the story is possible
the rum and probable in respect of the reporting.
BENSON J. LOSING has been asked to designate
which of the Bahama islands is the San Salvador on
which Columbus landed He replies that this has
been long deba able question and is still unsolved
Six islands of the group claim the honor Popular
belief holds to Cat Island while scientific and his
torical Investigators give for believing that
each Of the other FIVE islands is the first landing place
Of the great admiral.
In one of her letters Jane Carlyle says: even
when Darwin in book that all the scientific world is
I'll
come from the shell-fsh, it didn't move me TO the
slightest curiosity whether are not. did not
feel that the slightest light would be thrown on my
practical life for by having it logically
made out that my first ancestor millions and millions
of ages back had been or even had not been an
oyster"
Earl. CAIRNS son. young Lord Ga-moyle of For
tescue fame arrived at the Bellevue Hotel Philadel
phia and registered under assumed name. In full
dress with white vest he attended the performance
of Prince Methusalen" and seemed much interested
in the young lady who in the piece declares she loves
the aristocracy Later he went to what is known a.
the Dancing Class fashionable gathering, where
he was introduced to few Mr.. Cairns. The Phla
dephia girls did not to take TO him. and severa
refused to meet him.
THE district attorney of Boston says that he en-
counters no such obstacles in the discharge of his
ties as women. No criminal can be so undeservng o.
sympathy, so completely outcast, that he hasn't
mother wife sister to plead for him. They are thu
most persistent lobbyists EARTH he declares; th
most unreasonable and yet the hardest to withstand
They lie in wait for the prosecutor of their loved
their audacity would make the adamantine cheek Of
Washington claim broker seem a suffusion of modes
bushes; they meet arguments with tears and denial
with moans and he thinks that, the whole justic
is oftener defeated by them than all other causes
| THE hairdressers Congress, which has been draw
ing masters of the art from all parts of Austria towar
| Vienna was concluded by the curious spectacle o
competitive hairdressing performed by twelve ladies
hairdressers on living models, who were seated on
raised PLATFORM round which the Vienna publ
thronged. Half al hour was the limit within whic
the twelve young ladies' heads had to be adorned wit
coiffures of original design. The last competitor Fin
ished two minutes before the half hour was over an
the admiration and satisfaction to have been ger
eral especially at the feat performed by progressy
| hairdresser. who adorned his model with spark O
electric light instead Of the customary jewelry.