The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE Germans are now making delicate watch wheels
from paper pulp.
THE Pail Mall Gazette says the first London edition
of George Eliot's life is already being sought after by
collectors.
THE noted Arab chieftain Abd-el-Kader always
maintained that the two great enemies of the horse
were rest and fat.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND's summer home in
the suburbs of Little Rock. Ark, is of primitive plan,
and has been named by him Hominy Hill.
BOSTON has a man-milliner, who makes such too
too-utterly sweet bonnets that Boston women look
almost pretty in them. His fortune is assured.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR's favorite flower was the rose.
President Cleveland's is the lily of the valley. Every
morning a fresh bouquet of the latter graces the ex-
ecutive table.
MINISTER PENDLEToN's wife and daughters speak
French and German with accuracy and ease, and are
certain to increase the respect with which American
women are regarded.
II. w. BERTHRoNG, of Boston, has nearly finished
a nearly fulllength, life-sized crayon of General
Grant. which ex-Secretary Boutwell, pronounces the
best picture he has ever seen of the distinguished
subject.
THE second and third husbands of the famous
Kentucky beauty, whose fourth marriage took place
the other day, lie side by side in the Louisville ceme-
terry, Cave Hill, and over their parallel remains the
widow has placed a splendid monument, inscribed ''To
my Husbands"
RUsKIN says in a preface he has written for a book
on usury: II had myself no idea, till l read the con-
nected statement which these pictures illustrate, how
steadily the system of moneylending has gained on
the Nation, and how fatally every hand and foot was
e~ntangled by it."
ALExANDRE DUMAS has in his study a small paint
ing by the late Eugene Delacroix. He refuses to sell
it for $4,000, yet he only paid the unfortunate artist
800 for it, and even then poor Delacroix warned
him that he was paying a daring price. "Ah!' re-
piled Dumas, you reckon with contemporary imbe-
ciGty; I with future extravaganza"
LORD DURHAM, whose suit for a separation from
his supposed insane wife caused SO much excitement
recently. retails Goals in London. The earl of
Shrewsbury, the descendant of the famous Talbot
who conquered France, supplies the ~cockneys with
hanson cabs, and Lord Vernon furnishes their
breakfast tables with butter and M ilk.
A TORONTO lady laughed for FIVE hours the other
day. Doctors were called in, but nothing could be
done to stop her. Her husband was brought in reel
| ing drunk, and she shrieked with laughter. Finally,
| a neighborhood lady carc in, and began to tell her
| about her new spring bonnet which she had imported
from France. The cure was instantaneous.
THE estate of Schonhausen, presented to Prince
Bismarck on his recent birthday. is in a very good
| condition at present, its former ruinous state having
disappeared. although at the same time two million
| marks was q large price to pay for it. Prince Bis
| marck's total landed possessions now amount to about
ninety English square miles, of which two-thirds arr
forest land.
A NEW portrait of Queen Victoria represents hsl
with brilliant blue eyes and q clever, thoughtful ex
preston, standing on the highest of three steps, ove
which the rich folds Of a black velvet dress trail tx
the ground. The folded hands hold a long fan and
large pocket handkerchief. A long veil of costly lac,
falls from the head, and the blue RIBBON of The Garter
crosses the breast.
THE late Charles O'Conor was a distinguished La,
Catholic all his life, but it seems that he died withou
the last rites of the church. Bishop Hendricks, O
Massachusetts, attempted to see the dying man, bu
was told that no person would be admitted who cam,
on a religious mission. Mr.. OConor expressed hi
desire to die as a simple Christian. He was buried il
st. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.
AT Queen victoria's last drawing-room among tn,
American ebutantes presented was Miss Van Rens
selaer, granddaughter of the old PATRON Of Albany
She is greatly admired, as well for her accomplish
ments and wit as for her striking style of beauty
which is Italian, with large, soft, ~lustrous eyes. It i
hard to imagine she is of Dutch descent. Her mothe
is a Southern lady, celebrated for her beauty and al
fractions, and belongs to o family of the "blues
blood of the South.
IT is certain that o great amount of fetishism pre-
walls in China. Near Pekin. q few miles from tn
walls on the east. Is an enormous tree, which fol
! there ever since. II Is called the divine tree. and