The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-11
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE marriage is announced of Sophie Croizette, the
French actress, to Jacques Stern Berlin banker.
IT is said that W. D. Howells, the novelist has be-
come embarrassed by the failure of James R. Osgood
& Co.
PROFESSOR MARIA MITCHELL, of Vassar, has just
been celebrating her sixty seventh birthday snuver
sary at Lynn, Mass
Ex-FREsIDENT HAYES is getting thin He keeps
the lower part of his face hidden with his long beard
which is nearly gray.
ONLY one respectable personal contribution has
been made to the Grant fund in New York-that of
Hamilton Fish for So 500.
BoSToN'S famous lawyer, Sidney Bartlett. is
eightysix years old and estimated to be worth $12,
10000, chiefly derived from excellent railroad
speculations.
THIS astute proverb comes from India ut must
always be the women who are in the wrong, and not
the men, because men have reserved to themselves
the right to decide what is right and what wrong"
PHYSICIANS in the Sandwich Islands have come to
the conclusion that the only way to stop the alarming
spread of eprosy is to begin vaceinatng with eprosy
microbes They think the operation will be success
but have found yet willing to submit to it.
ACCORDING to the Journal of Inebriety of 2O2
Illinois physicians whose deaths reported by the
State Board of Health six committed suicide,
were poisoned by overdoses of choral or morphine,
and lover thirty known to spirits to excess
A MANHATTAN (Kan.) citizen has in his possession
the ticket he cast in voting for General Grant in
1868 1t was printed on silk, and after it had been
kept file in the Office of the clerk the time fixed by
law, he obtained it, and will hand it down to his
children as an heirloom.
EMMA ABBOTT'S health has been improved by her
season of rest. She is getting trae stout, and
has begun to walk six miles day in the hope of keep
ing flesh down She takes the matter cooy, however,
and says pleasantly that will do for her to be-
come any stouter than she is
MRS. VANDERBILT, says Saratoga correspondent,
dresses in gauzy black toilettes with her gray hair
pretty crimped the forehead and fine aces about
her neck and hands. She very little jewelry-a
tiny diamond gin, few rings and watch.-and sits
quietly on the piazza reading most of the day.
THE word consols is an abbreviaton of the term
consolidated annuities. The English consols differ
from national debt in this way: The principal
may vary in amount but the interest never. They
constitute perpetual obligation of the United King
dom, bearing per cent. interest, and representing
an irredeemable principal
Miss HAY the daughter of the wealthy and retired
merchant, John Hay of Philadelphia, is noticeable at
the New Jersey summer resort, Key West on account
of her diamonds She wears dog collar of diamonds
her waist, large solitaire headlight" earrings, and
several rows of bracelets and rings.
ENCYCLOPEDIA making is still the rage among the
literat of Germany The latest work of this kind is
an 'Algemeine Naturkunde' natural history in its
broadcast sense-whch will fill seven eight volumes,
three being devoted to THE History of the Earth.
two to PLANT Life and Man." and three to Ethnol-
ogy The work will be issued by the Bbiographisches
Institute of Leipzig.
IT cost &1S3, $40 997 last year to keep the Eu-
ropean armies in fighting trim. Russia is easily first
with total of than SAG, 900, 900; France is
second with than 933 500, 900; Great Britain
third with nearly e31 500, 900 and, Germany fourth
with over &22, 500, 900. France is first with ma
tional debt of over $3.50 600, 900; Great Britain
second with over 3759, 600, GOO Russia third with
96O3, 600, 600. and Spain fourth with e501 ,OOO,-
900.
A FEMALE officeseeker in Washington last week
manoeuvered her way into the White House with six
small children in tow and made most pathetic plea
for appointment which would enable support
her widowed brood 1t neat bit of strategy, but
it wofully mscarried when she recognized by
of the attendants. She married at ALL and
the squad of Juveniles had been borrowed for the oc
casion. The author of so ingenious device almost
deserved success.
LONDON is city of gardens. Even in the heart
of the city proper yon constantly stumbling on
verdant hooks bright with flowers. Comfortable
benches abound. which usually filled more espe.
cialy in such summer as that with which England
has this year been favored. Between l and of
these haunts are full OF young business men, who
after luncheon, seek their repose with cigarette and
newspaper for precious half hour The ground
around ST. Pauls is beautifully planted and
bright with parterres
A WRITER in the Nineteenth Century asserts that
the Tewfk Pasha Khedive of Egypt, though stripped
of power and given little opportunity to learn how to
govern has nevertheless addressed himself vigorously
to the task of qualifying himself to rule and in the
years he has passed as a puppet On the throne of
Egypt, has made thorough study of the problem of
sefgovernment. There is ntmation that had he the
unlimited power of his father he might turn out to be
energetic and sagacious prince. There is no prob
ability however, that he will be given chance to show
what is in him.
WHEN Ries counsel put in plea of ms anity in the
prisoners behalf, says the Critic the Canadian half
breed sprang to his feet completely thunderstruck',
His protest was silenced The mans conduct in this
emergency showed the justice of his counsels plea
Situated as he was, no one but mailman would have
objected to an attempt to prove him insane The de-
Tense failed however. The jury found Riel guilty
but the foreman with tears in his eyes mended
him to the mercy of the crown. The crown, less inn
questionable than the iuryman, sentenced him to be
hanged Whether he will be put to death or not is an
open question. friend in Canada says in private
note you ask about Rel. He seems to me to be a
Chinese Gordon sort of mana crank in religion and
in other matters odd compound of talent and folly?
He has fine traits of character, and my impression is
that he has meant we'll throughout"