The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-17
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


of literary capacity.
THE King of Dahomey has 3, 500 wives. The mis-
| sionaries are after him.
WOMEN in Congoland knock out their front teeth as
| soon as they get married
AN iron pier g. 166 feet in length, is being wilt at
| Boston 1t will be the longest in the world
EJUsT before the last election the only Democratic
newspaper in Rhode Island was started 1t has just
| died.
| DoRE earned $1,4OO,OOO by is illustrations, in
! twenty years, and his pictures sold for $500, 900
more
| A JAPANESE court has recently fined editor
for not crediting an article clipped from contem-
porary.
| GENERAL BADEAU's novel entitled Conspiracy "
to be issued is story of life in Cuba politics
| in Washington.
! PRESIDENT ROBERTS, of the Pennsylvania railroad
does not attend to business on Saturday but nvari
ably devotes that day to his family.
SPRINGFIELD, o., has one-pound baby which is
only twelve inches long. A dime museum has offered
| the youngster $75 week to exhibit himself.
CHIEF-JUsTIcE RICHARDSON, of the Court of
Claims, Washington has yet seen the fine resi-
dence which, at cost of $50 OOO he has abo ut com
| pleted there.
| WHEN Dean Stanley was guest of Cyrus W. Field
seven ago. he baptized grandchild of Mr. Field
few days ago Archdeacon Farrar also baptized one
of Mr.. Fields grandchildren.
| Mrs. LIvERMoRE is somewhat discouraged, and
thinks the future of New England is behind her. and
that the hope of progress now lies in the Western
| States settled from New England stock.
| PROFESSOR MARSH of Yale College, declares that
whereupon the Chicago Tribune remarks: 1.-THE same
thing observed in some American statesmen-now
| extinct"
| EMERSON: do not think it yet appears that women
wish this equal share in public affairs But it is they
and not we that to determine it. Let the laws be
purged of every barbarous remainder every barbar-
| Gus impediment to women.
The world has been taught to believe that the
Sandwich Islanders killed Captain Cook with club
The tradition has been exploded by exMinister Dag
gett who says the great crcumnavigator stabbed
| to death with wooden dagger.
MISS GRACE HOWARD who has devoted herself to
the education of the Indians is en- route from Fort
Yates Neb., with young aborignes for the in
stitute at Hampton, Va. Among them is the young
| Sioux who is said to have Miss Towards heart
| The taste Of Archdeacon Farrar's remark about
Dante that God dipped his morsel in vinegar and
gave him to drink is gravely questioned, since the
literal reference to Ruth would be without meaning
|
| AwoMAN ate cake of glycerine soap to cure a
cough, thinking it a mixture. When she
returned the remaining cakes to the druggist she
amazed the clerk by saying that she took of
those things. 1T awful to swallow but It cured
| the cough"
| MRS. JULIA SMITH PARKER the only survivor of
the famous Glastonbury Smith sisters who long ago
caused trouble by refusing to pay taxes because they
were not allowed to vote. broke limb in Hartford
Conn, recently and will not She is ninety
| four years old.
IT is said that the Hon. W. w. Astor, late United
States minister to Rome has written novel of Ital
ian life in the Middle Ages, which is shortly to be
| printed by Charles Scrbner's Sons. The story was
accepted by the firm before the name of the writer
| was known to them.
| The British Medical Journal confirms the opinion
| held by many prominent physicians in this country
that beef tea is stimuant and not at all nour-
ishing. 1.-THE popular belief it says, that it con-
tans the very strength of the meat is terrible err
Tor; it has no food value
! THE American Ornithoogists' Union officially rec
ommend that all public fostering of the English
sparrow be stopped; that its introduction into new
localities be prohibited by law and that all existing
laws for its protection be repealed, and bounties
| offered for its destruction.
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have set fashion in honeymoons Fired by a
desire to emulate 1.-THE Strange Adven lures of a
Phaeton' they started wedding tour tr
cycle. and riding through Hungary, to the
| great arnazement of the natives
| IT has not been generally known that Mr.. Longfel
low added to his poetic gifts those of artist The
biography which Samuel Longfellow is preparing will
contain letters and diaries written by the poet while
abroad and charningy illustrated by him with dainty
little pen andnk drawings which carefully repro
duced.
| The Philadelphia American tells new story of
| Whistler. Within year or two Whistler sent to
| Venice by London fine art company to make series
of etchngs suggested by that city Since their publ
cation he is said to have declared with full
of and disappointment ''They can't be as
good as thought they were; they selling"
BY means of new machine, wood intended for pa
per pulp is shaved off finely that it is ready go at
once into the boiler The machine takes log twelve
inches in length which it revolves at speed of 900
revolutions per minute and sharp cutter shaves off
a shaving thin that it would take $50 of them to
make an inch, nicely of execution which may be
judged of by the fact that 200 sheets of ordinary
per are required to make inch.
HERR ZELT, the Vienna impresario, is dead and
has just been buried at Pressburg After his death
| his boxes were opened and found to contain 5000
love letters from different lady admirers many NOV
ing in the highest society besides immense collec-
ton of tender pledges in The shape of ladies' gloves
roses and locks of hair Most of these compromising
trihes have been restored TO their original owners
| The rest have passed into the hands of Herr Zets
| friends.
AwOMAN in New York whose sympathy for the
blind has lately been quckened by the loss of her
own sight has succeeded, with the aid of friends in
establishing circulating library and reading for
| the blind in New York and neighborhood who it is
| said number about two thousand. How much goo
such an institution may accomplish is suggested in
the remark to the librarian of blind youth he
| taking home book 'You can have no idea sir how
terrible it is be forever alone with ones thoughts
| AN acnnaintance of Walt Whitman saws: II nayer