The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

FIsHING through holes in the ice the fashion this
season among society people in the towns of the
Northwest.
Mr. FRANK JONES. New Hampshire's only million
are is said to be able to buy any city in that State
cept Manchester.
IT is not very generally known that Queen Victoria
was once called Alexandria Victoria and that tie
oaths OF allegiance were in that name.
NILE. RHEA is said to have made will directing
her body at DEATH to be cremated aud half the ashes
TO DO deposited in her native Belgium and half beside
the remains of friend buried out in Nebraska
In is remarked in London that in the general lamen
tation for those who have died in Egypt very little
said for Colonel Eyre, who worked his way up from
the ranks by personal merit but had the misfortune
to be of plebeian birth.
For long time past the head man of the Paris
Petit journal, who used to be a workman at three
francs per day, has made average of two million
francs year 1t is claimed that the Petit Journal
has a circulation Of 500, 900 copies day.
AM told that DR.. George L. Miller the Omaha ed
tor who is seeking the postmaster, generashp is in
dorsed by Samuel J. Tiden and Horat;o Seymour
Miller of Tidens shrewdest agents in 1876
and COINED the coguomen of Old 5leuth" FROM his
political associates.
MIR. WATTTERsoN the confidential adviser of the
star-eyed goddess passed last week in New Orleans
AT OF the balls Tuesday night he was introduced
to Miss Maud Howe, daughter of Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe. Hewas presented Mr.. Henry Watterson.'
HAPPY to meet you Mr.. Watterson said Miss Howe;
where you from?'
The students of Harvard have in contemplation. as
venture in dramatic art, the production at an
carly date of Julius Cesar with costumes and ac
cessories modelled those in in Caesars time.
Most of the have ass;onad No sao;orc pro
essor White will supervise the representation. The
text use d will be that of the old folio.
For years after the gold fever had subsidized wretch
ed buildings might be alongside of palatal banks
and other such ediGces in Melbourne the explanation
being that the title was bad. The sites had been
bought in the flush days of goldfndng by successful
dggers, who had disappeared and could be found
and people afraid of building on the land
DOCTOR who ought to know says that the practice
of the wholesale of smelling salts which came in
with the universal fashion of carrying smelling bot
ties, is to have its influence on the olfactory
nerves sooner later, and render the victim unable
to distinguish cologne from asafoetida More than all
that it causes headaches throats and red noses
The last argument will have its weight The smelling
bottle must go.
The postofice at Leek, N. Y, is curiosity since
the recent fire there The letter boxes were DESTROYED
and tomato and peach cans are nailed to the wall and
used instead novel plan has been adopted to desig
nate the boxes J. f. Buttons bears a large button
Mr.. Coles has piece of coal attached; Mr. Woods
can is marked by piece of wood, Mr. Cobb's a piece
of corn-cob and Mr.. Knott finds his mail in the can
with hemlock knot attached
WRITER in the British Medical Journal who was
acquainted with Coleridge and De Quincy, says the
latter was systematic in his use of opium and in.
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ces of his health required But Colerdge took opium
by fits and starts and often such heavy doses as to
overpower him. He did this occasion when he
had engaged to lecture before the London Phosoph.
zeal Society. The hour arrived but the man was in
blssful forSetfulness of all material matters.
DR.. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES feels at seventy.
FIVE, much pleasure in composition as he did when
ne contributed undergraduate to the Collegian
at Harvard Writing has always been one of his
greatest Qualifications without it life would be incom
pete and unsatisfactory but all the indications are
that he viii retain his happy gift while he retains any
thing He ascribes much of his youthfuiness of feel
ing, it is sad to his and abundance of express
sion and the habit Of INDUCING in both with tongue
and pen.
A FEW remarks ON the Of watches are made by
writer in the Popular Science Monthly A good
watch should be oiled year and cleaned once in
three years. If eweler tells you that there is some
very serious trouble break in your watch, which
will cost several dollars to get repaired ask him to
take the watch down" ard let you see the trouble
1t is better to wind ones watch in the morning than
in the evening, since if you wind at night and expose
the watch to the cold the chilling of the tightly wound
handspring may break it. frequently empty out the
dust that accumulates quickly in your watch peck
ct 1t will not injure watch clock to turn the
hands backward.
The timber RATS Of the Rhine arg q noticeable
characteristic of that river. They consist Of timber
felled in the mountain Forests and brought down to
the Rhine by the Neckar, Main, Moselie and other
rivers. The single logs first hurled down from
the heights into the mountain torrent then few are
tied together and they float down the strearalet
grow like SNOWFALL till in the Rhine itself they are
made into huge floating fabrics which are carefully
navigaksd 10 Dorhecht and sold A raft has often
eight or ten small houses ii. and from 400 to 300
wotknsn, toaers and pilots The vast pile h steesed