The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

LORD SHAFTEsBURY is to have statue in West
minister Abbey.
HELMBoLD, of buchu fame, is looking young and
hearty after all his tribulations.
ERNEST RENAN received 433 votes in one of the
Paris wards at the recent election.
MRS. ANGUS CAMERON, wife of ex-senator Cam
eron of Lacrosse, Wis, has become hopelessly in
sane.
The Duke of Norfolk's rent-roll now brings him in
over ST. coo, 600 year, and from other sources he
gets 81. 100000.
GEORGE G. Min, the actor. by force of habit
mounted the pulpit in the Unitarian Church, at Keo-
kuk, Ia and preached able sermon.
JOHN G. WHITTIER is enjoying his quiet country
life at Danvers, and probably will not visit Boston
this winter much usual He has many visitors,
| and is in capital health and spirits.
EX-GOVERNOR CURTIN, of Pennsylvania has, as
mementoes of his residence at the Russian court fine
halflength. lfesize paintings of Alexander II and
Gortschakoff presented to him by the originals.
ALI. Europe is shaking with laughter
To see the Sultan grow daughter,
And Prince Alexander is aughter
Union and peace without slaughter.
New York Star.
MIR. RUsKIN is being treated shamefully CORE.
spondent of Notes and Queries suggests that his
is derived from 'rus-red (pr. roux) and. the dminu-
| is therefore. Little Redhead."
OZONE baths speciality at Eastbourne, Eng
land The bath is filed with long green seaweed,
stepped for an hour before in boiling water The
bather remains in about twenty minutes and the bath
| is thought very invigorating.
CONGRESSMAN MAYBURY, of Michigan, says that
the widow of General Custer has declined the pension
agency at Hetroit in favor of Mrs Calhoun the dead
Generals sister. There is likely to be successful
opposition to Mrs. Calhoun he thinks that Mrs. Gus
| ter would not have encountered
MERGED (Cal.) Express Some of our creditors in
tmated to us this week that the printing business
must be good We wish to say that if they have dis.
covered any signs of prosperity it not brought
about in any legitimate business Four aces and a
ten spot furnished the money to produce the improve
ment
| VICToRIA-KAwE -I4ANALILo KALANINNJABI.C Ca.
PALAPA is the full nominal description of girl baby
| born to King Kaakau and Queen Kapiolani of Ha.
wa and her birth puts out of joint the nose belong
ing to Kalakauas sister, Lydia Kamekeha Liliuoka-
| lani who till now has been her-apprent to the Ha.
waan throne.
PROF. MAX MULLER is busily engaged in editing
"a History of German Literature" This will lay
before English readers in collected form the whole
field of German literature with some account of Ger
man men OF letters The work Is to be in two
volumes, and will presently be issued by the Oxford
University Press.
PRIVATE letter received in New York from close
friend OF Mr. Ruskin regarding the health of the
great critic: II glad to tell you he so much i'm
proved as to be able to his literary abors Tt
is newspaper scare about the relapse he never hav
ing had any such thing in the recent illness but from
the turning point, has steadily improved"
sTJNCTE TOMS AprNp &c ooJ1,d =, E.o-.1 ~,
de POncle Tom;" in German. "Oncle Toms Hutte'
in Danish, 'Onkel Tomas" in Dutch DE
Negerhut" in Flemish ''De Hut van
Onkel Tom;' in Hungarian, 'Tamas Batya;" in
italian, LA Capanna Della Zio Tommaso;" in Polish
"Chata Wuja Tomasza;" in Portuguese, "a Cabana
do Pal Thomaz;" in Spanish, LA Cabana del Tic
Tomas" in Russian; 'Khizhina Dyadi Toma," and in
Swedish, ."Onke Toms Stuga
f.. 3. WAsHBURNE says that Lisle Smith, the ora
tor. was the first man VINO called Abraham Lincoln
"Old Abe" 1t was in Chicago. in July, 1847, when
Mr. Lincoln was young man of thirty-sx. At that
time he tall, angular and awkward. He wore
straw hat. shortwaisted swallow-tail coat short
waiscoat that barely reached his ankles and
a pair of brogans. Seeing him the other side of
the street. in Chicago Mr.. Smith called out to Mr.
Washburne and others: There is Lincoln on the
other side of the street. just look at old Abel" And
from that time he was ''Old Abe"