The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

IEW professional DoduIlCS Gan SuIpdSS Ii CCVTu
of Petrarch's LAURA" Professor Willard Fiske has
about three hundred pictures of her.
A BRIDAL chamber in an Atlanta hotel is rather
SUCCESSFULLY decorated with Bryant's lines: 1.-THE
melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year!''
LIEUTENANT and Mrs. Greedy have planned to
spend the summer in England. The arctic hero has
been invited to visit London as the guest of various
learned societies.
THERE are no such things as pure white natural
teeth, says a dentist. Whenever you read of a young
woman's pearly teeth you may know that they are
made out of porcelain and sold at so much per tooth.
THE great Severn tunnel, in England, will prob
ably be finished this year. 1t was begun sixteen years
ago by the Great Western Railway Company. and has
been carried on in the face of immense difficulties. Its
cost will be more than 81, 100000.
Mr.. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL is intensely Ameri-
can and will tolerate no criticism of his own country.
Hawthorne insulted US all, said an English lady,
'by saying all English women were fat, but I dare
net say in Mr. Lowells presence that an American
woman is thin"
In a few days Messrs. Scribner will publish a strik-
ing new novel of the North and South, entitled
Across the Chasm." The author is a Southern lady,
whose name is not divulged. She has hit upon a new
situation in American life, and the result is a re-
markably original and attractive story.
PROFESSOR SUMNER, of Yale College, the expounder
Of free-trade doctrine, has accepted an invitation to
deliver a course of lectures at the University of Penn
sylvania. The students are very much interested in
his visit. His teachings are precisely opposed to
those of Professor Thompson, of that institution.
THE pronunciation of 'tuberose" has been a subject
Of discussion in an English paper, and the decision
that the word is a trisyllable has been at last unani-
mously reached. The flower is a lily and the name is
e. II N.--l ftLI.-o.-oB IL -. Il -.
like bulb of the plant. Shelley pronounces the word
in three ~syllables.
AFTER all Count Primo Magris magnificent
chateau may be more in Spain than in Italy. for Mrs.
Magri is going to take him to her own home in Mid
dleboro, Mass, where she and Tom Thumb lived to-
gether for several years. Possibly it is the old, old,
story-the Italian Count has the title and the Amer
lean bride the money.
PHILADELPHIA paper, referring to the recent
slight accident to George W. Childs, of the Ledger,
says: mo private citizen is more beloved than Mr..
Childs. In the Apocalypse it is said that the works of
good men do follow them. But Mr.. Childs does bet
ter than this, His good deeds are all about him, sur
rounding his pathway like a halo of benefcence."
Now that a statue of John Harvard has been erected
on the Delta, in Cambridge, it is proposed to find out
something about his private history. Henry Fitz-
Gilbert Waters. an expert New Engl>nd antiquary,
has recently obtained in England some important
clews, unknown to all previous Investigators, and
graduates are invited To contribute funds to enable
him to prosecute the work.
THE most elegant way to eat an orange. says a lady
from Philadelphia. is no longer to extract the juice by
a spoon, but to put a fork in the orange at the part
precisely opposite to the stem. With a steel knife
that has been sharpened for the occasion, pare down
the peel in thick slices until you have all the white
inner skin cut away. Then. without removing the
fork, hold it up to the mouth sideways and eat ii as
you would corn from the ear. This gives you the
pulp only.
HERE is an advertisement, taken from a recent issue
Of the London Court Journal, which suggests that in
the matter Of shrewd advertising the English can
easily hold their own: "To ladies going into mourn
ing through the unfortunate war in the Soudan, hav.
ing their wardrobes to dispose of, Mrs would feel
honored by their patronage. Furniture, carriages,
jewelry and plate bought. Money sent the same day
for country parcels. New street. Dorset square, N.
w. No post cards."
A WRITER in the Medical World says that as opium
is an antidote for pain, so, conversely, the real anti
dote for an overdose of opium is to cause persistent
pain. With this idea he has often placed a hand wise
ON the thumbs and snap clothes pins on the fingers to
~neutralize the effects of the drug" The method ap.
pears I'd nave Deeu SUCCESSFUL, UnOuSu II paIleutS QlQ
not feel pain until a considerable time after the appli-
cation. As the pain was increased in severity the pins
were removed one by one and the patient revived.
QUEEN VICTORIA fulhlls the biblical description of
taking up her bed and walking when she changes her
residence. 1t appears the Queen always sleeps in a
wooden bed of a particular shape and made up in a
special way, and whenever her Majesty goes to a
strange place a bed and it's furniture are dispatched
from Windsor for her use. Two were sent off a
couple of weeks since from the workshop of the castle.
the one for the Queens cabin in the steam yacht Vic.
toria and Albert, and the other has gone to Aixles
Bains. There is already one of the Queens beds at
Darmstadt. 1t was sent out whom she went there last
year.
MRS. CUSTER has sent to the soldiers festival at
Boston the flag of truce sent by General Lee to Gen.
eral Grant ct Appomatox. Colonel Sims. of Long
streets staff, who carried the flag to the federal lines,
in q letter to Mrs. Custer, wrote: ION the morning OF
the surrender ] rode into tho federal lines, bearing q