The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-22
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE druggists of Lawrence Kan sold 100 gallons
of intoxicating liquor for medical purposes in March
M. CLEMENcEAU is said to be the greatest tea
drinker in France, which may account for his conci
iatory views lately in respect to China
THE committee appointed by the plenary council to
select site for the proposed Roman Catholic Unvers.
ity have been called by Archbishop Gibbons, of Balt
more, to meet in Washington, May7.
THE widow and Of Garibaldi have coded the
island of Caprera his old home to the italian govern
ment which agrees to build hospital for seamen and
lighthouse there, and preserve his grave forever.
BABIES that were born after the first money was ap
propriated for the new capitol of New York voted
at the Albany municipal election Tuesday and the
Legislature passed bill appropriating 81 600 600 to
| complete the building.
NOTED drug gist says: 'You can always tell the
morphine eater by the eye the pupil of the optic be-
comes contracted and when the case is pretty far
gone as have sometimes seen it, the pupil becomes
as small pin head"
IT is announced that the marriage of Miss Edwina
Booth and Mr.. Ignatius R. Grossman, OF New York will
take place next month privately at the home of the
brides father in Boston. The young couple will take
passage for Europe on May 20. and spend the sum-
mer there.
BOSTON Transcript: ''Max ORell' is not an English
man and his name Is not MacSore though he has
contrived to MacSorel legions of Engishmen. He is
Frenchman, and his name is Blouet. Thus do we
Blouet way the 6ctons that have clustered about the
saucy fellow.
THE new Commissioner of Agriculture isn't much
more of granger ia his ideas of living than was his
predecessor. He will not stop at agricultursts'
tavern, and take his meals from the gingerbread
stands on the Common, during his stay in Boston
next week. but will 60 to the Vendome. Just where
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THE Charleston News says that so soon as exGov-
ernor Moses, who is serving term in prison for
stealing money from Col. T. W. Higgnson, gets out
This is very bad indeed but if he does not take the
footghts scenery and orchestra chairs perhaps the
platform charge would not be pressed
ALTHOUGH marked yet by public event, Mr..
Irvings welcome back to England has been warm
one. Wherever he has gone crowds have gathered in
the streets to cheer him, and his American triumphs
have apparently made him more popular with the
English public. Whatever Mr. Irvings merits and
defects as an actor may be- there be no question
of his success in winning good will
MRS JACKSON oh. HI being detained in San
Francisco by illness, received wild flowers from
an unknown friend and wrote poem in acklowledg
ment Not knowing how to reach the donor, she sent
the verses to the San Francisco Chronicle with
pleasant explanatory note This and the lines were
returned with estimate of the cost of publication
so much on the inside and so much somewhere else.
WONDERFUL stories told of the natural wealth
of Wyoming Territory. There is said to be a mount
ain of solid hematite iron In the heart of the Terri
tory, with GOO feet Of 1t above ground. moro than
mile wide, and over two miles in lengths bed of Hg
mite coal big enough to light tho world for centuries
eight lakes Of solid soda Of them 600 acres