The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-25
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

EMMA THURsBY is going to Europe shortly, to be
absent three years.
CONGRESSMAN REED, of Maine. is mentioned by
the Washington correspondent of the Boston Jour
nal likely to receive the Republican caucus nomi-
nation for Speaker.
MRS. PHELPS the wife of the minister to
Finland, writes cosby correspondent, sis very
handsome WON an a little over the medium height.
She is quite fond of society,""
EMPEROR DOM PEDRO, of Brazil has been on his
throne fftythree years. but then he only six when
he began, and things look Wales will be sixty
before he has chance to sit in the old adys chair.
LIEUTENANT GREEDY is said to be haunted day and
night by visions of his long period of starvation in the
arctic regions and his physicians assert that the only
way he preserve his sanity is mngle freely with
others
HENRY SIaouRNEy, of the welLknown Boston
family, has married one Of the coryphees in the
ballet of Boston theater. Mr.. Sigourney is about
thirty years old, and has income of nearly 500.
600 year.
A SCOTCH gelatine manufacturer sends out with
each package of his goods leaf from the Bible. A
package recently opened in New York city furnishes
the cook with the interesting story of Abraham and
his wife Sarah.
QUAINT fancy at dinner parties is to have a sill
bowl in the center of the table filed with many
flowers there guests just after rising
from the table host holds the bowl and each guest
takes flower with his eyes shut.
MRS. HAMILL STEWART will get 1000 and the
two Misses Stewart $500 each per year from the
British Civil List pension, in recognition of the
ices of the son and brother. the late Col. Hamill
Stewart in connection with the defence of Khartoum.
CARDINAL NEWMAN. though now in the eighty
fifth year of mis- age has resumed his preaching at the
Edgbaston Oratnsy. On Good Friday he conducted
the service OF the stations OF e cross in the course
of which he delivered fourteen separate short ad
dresses.
AN imposing Buddhist temple is now being erected
at Koto, Japan All it's tinbers and pillars put in
place by ropes Of human hair. The devotees of
the god they worship offer their hair on its shrine
The hair is then cut of and is twisted by ths priests
into church ropes.
Miss LOUISA NJ. ALcoTr. the authoress has
aroused the wrath OF all the New England searchers
after the unknowable unutterabls. and unnelligiDe
by declaring that tho so.called mindcure Of which
she gave faithful trial for full month"; is an rnniti.
gated and unadulterated humbug.
GENERAL HAzEN having expressed himself as ION.
trely satisfied" with the official teprmand admins
tered him by the President he reminds the Boston
Herald of the little boy who was asked if he was sat.
isfed with the spanking given to him by his mother
CORY, yes he replied, 'Id been satisfied with less.
| Miss VAN RENSSELAER,, granddaughter Of the
old settler of Albany of the name, pre-.
sented to Queen Victoria at the last royal drawing
She is both accomplished and beautiful. pos
sessng the Italian style of beauty, with It's justrous
angushng eyes. This she inherits from her mother
a beautiful Southern woman, descended from of
the best families in the South.
AT the recent funeral of General Fabriz almost the
last Of the heroic group of patriot soldiers who sup
ported Garbald. small company of the original
Garibaldians fast thinning in red shirts and breasts
covered with medals, but otherwise in many cases