The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-16
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

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WOMEN are numerous in the British civil service
In competitor for 165 places in the the postofices
1884 women entered.
MINISTER PHELPS is said to be the best bird shot in
Vermont and when it comes to driving fourth hand
nobody can beat him.
s. Mrs. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX now does nearly all
her literary work in a coy room in the top of her
house in Meriden, Conn.
Mr.. CHARLES LoNGFELLOw, of the poet, has
gone to Japan to join his friend Dr. c. G. Weld. To-
gether they intend to make two years tour.
DAVID SWING has found out something that we
all ought to know. He says: 1.-THE crazyqut is only
final attempt of the human heart to express its love
of variety
Miss CLARA BARTON, the interchangeable head of the
Red Cross Society is in very poor health, owing to
overwork, and has gone to Danvie, her New England
home for the summer.
IT is interesting to know, on Captain Burton's
thority that neither aladdin and the Wonderful
Lamp" nor "Al Baba and the Forty Thieves is to
be found in any edition of the true Arabian Nights
THE German Emperor has conferred upon Nine.
Minnie Hauk a new honorary title, Imperial Chamber
Singer" distinction shared by only three other
prima donnas-Adelina Patti, Jenny Lind Gold
schmidt and Artot Padilla.
To see her husband for half an hour the day set
apart for her semannual visit the wife of convict
at Portsmouth, England, trudged all the way from
Birmingham, wheeling their crippled child, eleven
years old in perambuator. The journey occupied
twentyone days.
IT is ascertained that the number of American
exceeds the entire foregn-bor population of the
country (both and women in the ratio of three to
The suffragsts claim this point in favor OF
giving American women the right to protect their
homes against the customs of the old world
DURING his recent sojourn at Vienna Rubnstein
asked at soiree by lady for his autograph Not
being in one of his most amiable moods, Rubnstein
gave her his card insteaS Undaunted by this rebuff,
thd lady next applied to Liszt for his autograph.
List his colleagues card in her hand, took it and
wrote under Rubnsteins name. 'and his admirer, F.
List"
CLUvER1Us, the Richmond murderer passes the
time reading the Bible and adring the bouquets sent
him by sympathiziug friends outside of the city. He
also receives presents of fruit His relatives write to
him to cheer up but the advice needless as he
a broad grin most of the time. He eats heartily
and sleeps well. He does not believe that he is des
tined to die on the gallows.
SEVERAL Neutrality-suspicious., commenting upon the
erection of Arch de Tromphe in their city say tho
only triumphal arch that should be built in Washing
ton to crate the perpetuity of the Union of
the States is bridge of stone arches the river
Potomac, of Roman soEdity and magnifcence giving
a splendid highway for rail- horse and foot between
Washington and Virginia, and clasping the States in
bonds of enduring steel and stone"
THE peculiar acid which exudes from the pores of
the body acts directly upon leather, and takes the
life" out rendering it stiff and hard In a pair of
shoes recently returned to prominent manufacturer
the uppers moist with sweat, the soes dry The
kid leather when it hardened was so brittle that it
could be torn and cracked like paper. The destruc
ton caused by perspiration of the feet. New
shoes from the maker and of the same material
were perfectly sound and firm.
BEER is becoming fashionable in Paris. Saloons in
which it is sold are called brasseries, and most of
them are handsomer than the wine shops. One estab
lisnment is beautiful reproduction of French inn
of two centuries ago. except that the fittings elab
orately fine. new idea is to costume the walters,
picturesquely grotesQuely. In place they wear
the uniform of the French Academy and the drinkers
loosely address them by the OF Academcians.
Such cries as Hi Sardou two beers!' are common.
IT is related of the late J. B. BucGstone the En-.
glish comedian that ambitious author once read
drama to him. The wit and poetry of the dialogue
went for nothing Meanwhile the embryo Shakespeare
listened in vain for word of commentator from the
manager of the Haymarket. At last he said: Il am
afraid that you do not care for my writing' ooh,
yes" replied Blackstone, Il dare say the company
will be very pleased with it, but am waiting till
enter You don't expect hen to cackle over another
hens eggs, do you?"
THE picture of Washington crossing the Delaware
has popularized scene that recurs every spring Ex
cept for the absence of the figures Of the commander
ana his compatrots it has lost Of its picturesque
features. When the winter SHOWS are melting and
the spring rains fall the swollen current of the river
sweeps along with its burden of jagged ice cakes as re-
sstessy when it imperiled the lives of the rugged
little army who dared the passage that Christmas
night one hundred years ago. At the point where
Washington crossed the Delaware it is comparatively
tame to what it is along the upper of the river
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