The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-13
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

NINE. MoDJESKA has taken quaint little cottage on
| the coast of Cornwall, England and means to live
there until she to America in September.
! FLOWER weddings are to be all the rage in London
this spring. They termed thus because the brides.
maids at each wedding will be dressed to represent
| some spring flower.
! THE late orion" Horne once said, in talking Of
novels II think 'Wuthering Heights the greatest
novel ever written. Romoa' the most beautiful and
! Vanity Fair the cloverest."
| ARTISTS painting saek.cloth
with colors thinned with turpentine mellow and
! pleasing limitations of old tapestry. Some of the
| mock Gobelin is very cleverly executed.
CURIOUS incident will happen in the Seig family
of Americus Ga the 18th of this month. There will
be three persons of the family have birthdays
the same day. Mr.. Seig will be forty. his father
eighty, andhis daughter one year old.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND it is said is not pleased
with the way his church attendance has been made
the basis for fashionable BOOM and he may yet de-
eide to go to the questionable Presbyterian church
of Dr. Wyncoop, in West Washington. or to hear DR..
Chester, Capitol Hill
THEIR Enthusiastically source would throw serious
suspicion upon the :erorts of MIR. Gladsones eccen-
trcities, such buying hats By the hundred. etc.
were it not for the fact that for month two back
the question of his sanity insanity has been ser
ously and anxiously discussedby his friends we'll
his enemies though for obvious reasons little pub
licty as possible has been given to it.
THE Duchess of Norfolk claims the possession of
the finest rubies IN the United Kingdom. Any woman
of reasonable may diamonds. but only
imperial wealth permits her to number rubes
among her jewels The Duchess of Norfolk would I'M
doubtedy give all these priceless gems to obtain sight
for her little son. whose future is shrouded in mental
we'll in physical darkness; but the oldest and
richest dukedom in England cannot buy health for its
sole heir.
DIR. WILLIAM A. RUDDAcX who died recently in
Pennsylvania, had during the last years of his life
been made miserable by the deusion that thirteen
women after him with matrimonial intentions
One of them, he said. wanted him to marry her and
feed her on peacocks brains and diamonds. The
Doctor thought of purchasing large farm and
stocking it with his bakers dozen of admirers One
of his latest vegaries to put his clothes in
eccentric fashion sticking his in the logs of his
trousers, and wearing his socks on his hands.
NEVER before had Bishop of London's wife such
array of noble relatives as has Mrs. Temple. The
story that at her wedding after the Bishop had
been hobaobbing amid very cluster of strawberry
leaves, came forward and said: Bishop,
don't think you've been introduced to your cousin,
the Duke of -" What quoth DR.. Temple, in
amazoment. as he was being conveyed away more
dukes! Mrs. Temple is niece to the Duke of Devon.
shire, first cousin to the Duke Of Sutherland, and
first cousin by marriage the Duke Of Leinster and
Argyll.
ONE of the tricks of French presidigitateur is
surprising illusion A wedding ring borrowed from
lady is hammered into bar by some volunteer assist
ant among the audience. The oonjuror borrows a
programme rolls it into cornucopia shaped recep
he II of he laft ham
crumpes the paper into ball. which the volunteer
holds tight in full view of the audience. When he is
directed to open it he finds that the crumped ball of
paper consists Of five sealed envelopes within the
other and with the perfect weddingrng in the small
est and innermost
The approaching visit of the Prince aud Princess of
Wales to Ireland calls to mind the fact that royal
visits to that island have been frequent during
the reign Of Victoria than for long time il ever
before. The Queens first visit in August, 1e49
when with tho Prince Consort and their children she
he j court at Dublin and made OF the country
She went again in August 1868, to attend the Dub
| lin Exposition, and again in August, 1861. The
Prince of Wales has already visited ireland, in 1861
| in 1865, when he opened the Dublin Exposition in
1868, when he made knight Of st. Patrick and
| il 1871, when no opened the Royal Agricultural Elk
hibition. Other members of the Queens family have
| visited Ireland various occasions.
| A DEACON in Pennsylvania town holds the opin
ion that certain young and maidens of his church
do not attend prayermeetings for tho glory of God
but for the love of each other They do their court
ing he thinks, while the services are in progress and
though they sing and lead in prayer with great
vigor they animated moro BY p-ofane than holy
motives In fact he objects to their singing as too
loud undvr the circumstances, and calculated to
disturb those deyout sonls who are accustomed to
drone through hymn and prayer Therefore as the
young people will not be saved according to the man
which the deacon thinks proper he has resolved
snatch them, noony out of the burning but ont of the
church. and to that end he has procured their arrest
on charge of dsordery conduct.
! AN Indian explorer, known as the Pundit A X,
in the employ of the Indian Survey has just returned
from four years journeyings in Thibot, during which
he spent year in Ihasa, the capital of Thibet and
tho Romo of Buddhism. Before this traveller, only
four Europeans in this century have visited Lhasa.
! Hue and CADET the French missionaries we're driven
from tho city forty years ago. after living there few
months. Moorcroft killed after he LEFT the city,
and another Traveller was permitted to remain there
| only few days. lie says the city is crowded with
/ temples and has its Vatican in the monastery at
Fotola, where the Dalai Lama lives, who is regarded
as the incarnation of Buddha This building is sur.
mounted by five gilded cupoas which when sparkling
IN the sunlight present dazzling spectacle. II con-
| tans numerous images ore of which is seventy feet
high During the festivals in the middle of February
| the Thibetans gathered to Lhasa from all over the
country TO pay homage all the gods and goddesses
who suppose; to be present. These ceremonies
last about MONTH at the end of which all the citizens
are considered TO have bccorae purified for another
year,
APRopos of the foreigners nowir the ranks Of Fl
SIahdi, the Gazette dc France relates the following
anecdotc of the Greek of independence: IAN
officer wearing the Greek uniform captured and
led into the presence Of the Turkish general who
iecked in the most picturesque trappings, and who
stiffencd up and scowled in most threatening man
ner at the prisoners approach my time has come
thought the Greek in his own mind. But he nuseo