The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-29
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE Emperor of Austria gave the Pope as an Easter
offering chandelier for 600 candles.
The French Premier has decided to grant amnesty
to Prince Krapotkine, NJ. Gautier and Louise Michel
MISS KATIE PREHM, seventeen years old, edits and
manages the Eagle Grove (Ia.) Times, the current
mental pabulum of town of 1 500 inhabitants.
MADAME ADAM, editor of La Nouvelle Revue, is re-
ported to be writing account of Five Months at
Guernsey which will largely treat of Victor Hugo
home.
The Talmud: When pitcher falls stone woe
unto the pitcher When the stone falls the pitcher
woe to the pitcher. Whatever bcfalls, woe to the
pitcher.
GOVERNOR LEON ALBEIT. of New Jersey, preserves
his digestive faculties by drinking glass of orange
juice every morning at breakfast, and lunching at
noon on milk.
MAURICE KINGSLEY, the son of Charles Kingsley,
the English writer is about to settle In New Haven
for the purpose of educating his children He brings
with him a large fortune accumulated in Colorado.
STEPNIAKs new book on Russia under the Cars,
two volumes, appears OPPORTUNITY, and is received
with marked cordially by the English press 1t con-
tains detailed exposure of the horrors Of Russian
despotism.
The Italian government allows Signor Galletti five
years in which to complete his monument to the mem
cry of Cavour. The monument will be about sixty
feet high including bronze statute at the top six.
teen feet high.
In the Tuilleries garden is chestnut which is said
to always open its leaves the goth of March to
memorate the return of Bonaparte from Elba. This
year. however it was beaten by two other trees in the
garden bv nearly a week.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES who is a famous ply
stefan well writer, carries horse chestnut in
his pocket as preventive of rheumatism. Now
who dares say that "old woman's remedies are
sneered at by the profession!
AMONG the unexpected things which have happened
in China of late has been the formation of literary
society, which is likely to publish its journal of
proceedings and other little formalt;cs like the full
Aedged institutions of the old world.
MRS. RUSSELL SAGE is very domestic in her tastes
and habits. 1t is no nfrequent thing for her to go
into the kitchen and prepare delicate dishes with her
hands, and she still makes many of her own
clothes and all of her husbands shirts.
GARLIC among the Greeks was held in such abhor-
that any person who partook of it was regarded
as profane The Romans the contrary, gave it to
their soldiers with the idea that it excited their cour
age, and to aborers to strengthen them.
STATEMENT was recently published that horse
flesh is being sold in large quantities to the poorer
inhabitants of Manchester, England under the name
of beefsteak and further. that many of the saugh
tered horses were believed to be diseased.
THE height Of absurdity in royal authorship is
reached in the announcement that Queen Victoria is
editing the speeches" Of that poor little epeptic
the late Duke Of Albany. AS usual Sir Theodore
Martin has been called in to correct The spelling.
IN recent preliminary paper the estimated popu-
lation of England up to the middle of 1884 81
132,449, against %, 9744 enumerated in the
&c Tba oharo i 1ae+ =,
given at 531 95l; marriages. 40s, 4lO; births,
9OS,5S4.
They seem to be little particular about funerals
of the occas ion" writes of the papers about
recent funeral was a little difficulty between the
clergyman and of the mourners concerning the
ownership of flask found in the carriage they had
occupied"
COLONEL IvANHoFF, whom the Russians threaten
to turn loose in Afghanistan is still young man,
very tall and handsome, with fair complexion and a
full thick beard This beard has for him the APP
pellation of Sara-Sakai-Tura-"The Yellow Bearded
Chief'--and the natives of Turkestan speak of
him or address him by any other
In Jamaica collins often brought to the house
before the sick person is dead Recently American
actor who was travelling there was taken sick at 10
A. NJ, and was buried at the same day. His com
panon the next day but was taken i'll at 3 A.
NJ, and by the same morning had begun his last
long sleep in the cemetery just out of the town.
GLASS drinkingcups have been found in Anglo
Saxon graves and they ali round bottomed. Such
cups could not be made to ctand upright, and il
has been supposed they designed in order
to cause the drinler to empty them at once. This
feature is said to have given rise to the word tum
bier, which has been applied to drinking vessels
though these do not possess the curious shape Of the
modern cups.
In personal appearance the Cosseck is not heroic
He is clumsy. with the and common features OF
the Tartar type and his stumbling air and manner o
not compensate for his want of fine proportions Blu.
he has courage endurance. and fidelity. On service
the Cossacks sleep in the open air, and capital