The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


Rochester his own Gad's Hill, where ne wished
to be buried and which furnishes some of the best
local scenes in many of his books.
THE Rose, Maidens Ball, in London, was very
successful Each maiden paid twenty-five dollars,
and received thereby the privilege of inviting FIVE gen.
tlemen- The wallfowers were exclusively of the
masculine gender.
R. ]. BURDETTE, of Hawkeye fame, has consented
to lecture in Cape May, but objects to the place
lected for the ecture-a hotel diningroom He says:
II won't lecture in a dining room; the next engage
ment would bring me into the kitchen"
HARRY FURNIss, the famous caricaturist of Punch,
says public should abstain, like actors, from
growing boards, othe: wise they spoil themselves for
being made in the illustrated papers old women.
little boys, aud ether favorite characters"
ALLEGED intellectual ladies' of Boston, who are
passing the heated term at the Isle of Shoals have
reading classes in the hotel parlors to which only
those full of knowledge to the brim invited They
ere Just too horribly select for anything"
SIDNEY, Neb.), bachelor answered matrimonial
advertisement in Omaha paper, few days ago,
questing photograph. The lady replied sending not
only her photograph. but those of her four chill
dren by her first husband, as WELL The bachelor was
satisfied.
AN exchange gives this rule for reckoning postage:
silver dollar weighs very nearly an ounce. Hence
any letter not heavier than dollar can 60 for single
twocent stamp. fvecent piece added will give the
If you have not the silver dollar five nickels
and small copper cent will give an ounce weight.
IT is told of Gab1elli that when she visited Russia
in 1868 Catherine wished to engage her services for
which the songstress demanded salary of 5000
ducats Far too much 4" said the Empress, amazed.
why, that is more than pay my field marshals :"
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Gabrielli.
MRS. HELEN HUNT JACKSONs illness began five
months ago, when she fell and fractured her knee.
Soon after low fever set in aud she went from Los
Angeles to San Francisco for relief but obtained none
and has been confined to her in the latter city
for four months. For some weeks past her only
food has been frozen cream the STOMACH refusing to
retain anything else Her mental vigor has remained
unimpaired
BAPTIST deacon is responsible for the following:
The weakest point in church machinery is the
lack of plan for relieving the churches of pastors
who refuse to resign after it is manifest to all interest
ed persons that change is desirable. AS it is,
pastors often hold simply from the fear that they
get other place should they resign. All other
denominations have some safetyvalve just here; but
the Baptists have none. The pastor has to die
there must be blowup in order to get rid of him."
MRS. GEORGE w. CHnDs, Of Philadelphia, is said
to have of the finest collection of dinner plates in
the country-Sevres, Worcester, Derby, Dresden
Minton and Copelands-and great variety; no two
a rule are alike and each gem. Many of her
plates cost several hundred dollars a dozen. She
gives orders to people of experience to be the look
out for very specimens. 1t is said that for din
of twenty persons Mrs Chds can. without any
difficulty, set table the decorations of which alone
will represent expenditure of $50, 600 $40 900.
THE Crown Princess Stephanie of Austria, has
made several sketches of the palace and grounds of
Laxenburg for the great illustrated work, "Oester
reich in Wort und Bid which her husband with the
assistance of the principal Austrian and Hungarian
writer's and artists is preparing for publication. The
first volume will appear in December. The Crown
Prince aud his fellow-editors, being unwilling to
cept the Prncess's contribution without some &C.
acknowledgement have just presented her Imperial
Highness with savings bank book, with deposit
in the of her daughter the little Princess Eliz
abeth.
THE New Orleans Times Democrat relates that a
prominent citizen of Jones county, Mississippi who
stood high in the church. made visit to Meridian
Gently, and returning told his neighbors that he
had ice manufactured in that town with the
curry standing at ninety eight The members of the
church concluded that the brother had degenerated
into an able liar. committee was sent to Meridian
to investigate, but they came back and Endorsed
Brother Blanks statement. look of astonishment
the faces of the assembled brethren soon gave way
one Of indignation and Brother Blank and the en-
tire committee incontinently expelled from the
church.
NINETY years old and for sixty years filing the
chair of history in the University of Berlin Professor
Won Ranke still works about eight hours day from
8 to II and from 6 to 10. He dictates now to an
amanuenss. friendly physician forbids his leav
ing the upper story in the house in Luisen Strasse
where he has resided for the last forty years. His
habits and ways OF life extremely simple His
little cot reminds Of the equally simple couch of
the Duke of Wellington. He has a great horror Of
professional ntervewers He says that after he
pletes his present work universal history he 'in-
tends if it please God, to write recolecons of his
own life.'
THE Cafe Proespe, Paris, has closed its doors. It
was the Oldest establishment of it's kind in Paris It
was opened in 1859 by Scilian, who gave it his
name. and the resort Of the most illustrious
writer's of the eighteenth century. Ice creams were
first served from this cafe Here voltaire met his
literary friends when at the height of his triumph and
success-Piron, D Alembert, Jean jacques Rousseau
and others-who made of the cafe dependency of the
academy. On its walls painted a number of
noted litterateurs. 1t was also there that in the
palmy days of the empire Gambetta gave his noctes
cenaque deum and trained the intellectual youth of
the quarter in republican ideas
THE following the titles of several books which
were in circulation in the time of Cromwel "a Most
Detachable, Sweet-perfunned Nosegay, for Gods
Saints to Smell At, "a Pair of Bellows to Blow Off
the Dust Cast Upon John Fry" THE Shutters of Di
vine Love-" High -heeled Shoes for Dwarfs in Holt
ness" "A Shot Aimed at the Devils Headquarters
Through the Tube Of the Cannon of the Covenant"
"a Reaping- book Well Tempered for the Stubborn
Ears of the Coming Crop, Biscuits Baked in the
Oven of Charity, Carefully Conserved for the Chick
Of she Church. Sparrows of the Spirit and the
Sweet Swallows of Salvation" Seven Sobs of Sor-
rowful Soul for Sin, or Seven Penitentisl Psalms of
the Princely Prophet David"