The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-03
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

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TIE ladies' of Bridgeport, Conn, wear mourning
for Grant in the shape of black and white bunting
twisted round their straw hats.
OF Rose Coghlan, Laura Don, who is dying of con.
sumption, once remarked: This woman has only one
thing to recommend her-her brother; and he never
does.'
FRIED herring, served three times a day, is the
principal article on the bill IF fare at the Mount Des-
ert hotels. AT Lennox, pumpkin pie is said to be the
swell thing.
A WOMAN always shades her eyes by turning her
hand over-the palm upward-so that the back will
not sunburn. During the civil war a woman in the
army, in male attire, was discovered by this gesture.
WORCESTER, Mass, claims to possess the champion
mean man, in the person of a w~ell-to.do resident, who
borrowed a print of butter, and in due course returned
another pat with a piece sliced off, explaining that in
the interim butter had riz.
PAPER baskets, for farm and factory use, are now
manufactured. The rims are protected by a wooden
hoop on each side, both nailed together, and the large
baskets (two-bushel size) are strengthened by wooden
ribs, and furnished with iron bottoms and handles.
July has been a fatal month for Presidents and ex.,
Presidents. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died
July A, 1926; Monroe, July 4, 1881; Taylor, July 8,
1850, while in Office; and Grant, July %, 1885,
while Garfield received his death wound on the I'd of
the same month, 1881.
WHEN the chief engineer OF the Illinois Central
railroad was laying out the line, and wanted a mel
lifuous name for a station, he would shuttle a pack of
cards, each inscribed with a letter. until a satisfactory
combination suggested itseIf-as Tolono, Onarga.
Aledo, Diona, Nokoma, and so on.
AN advertisement in an English UNCONVENTIONAL
newspaper is reprinted here, gratis: "a Christian
~tricyclist desires to suggest to his many brother
wheelman that thov ebou16 zaa10us1v ytili1a the many
opportunities they have of scattering tracts during
their journeys in the rural districts"
PRINCE HENRY of Battenberg, the fortunate young
German who has just married Beatrice, Queen Vic
toria's youngest daughter, has hitherto been very
poor, his military pay amounting to $4OO a year, and
his paternal allowance being only $3.50. The bride
has probably lost her chance of inheriting the Empress
Euge ME wealth by marrying a German.
RUSSIA is at present without an executioner.
Froloh, the former hangman of the empire, has been
discharged and sent to Jail for theft. Moreover, he is
suffering from a severe attack of delirium tremens.
His successor has been discharged for incompetency,
and the authorities are hunting among the jails for
another artist, whose debut in the profession will be
watched with interest.
MISSIONER. who is a short, thick.set man with a
flowing white beard, dresses in a style of his own.
He wears low shoes, which display red silk socks; his
IN L enclosed IN yellow KID gloves, ana his cufIS
are simply narrow lace frills. A shiny silk hat crowns
his head, and a complete suit of dark blue serge COW
es his body. He carries, lightly, a thin rattan cane,
while a spring overcoat is always thrown artiscally
over his left arm.
FROM a letter from an English woman: you can
have no idea how difficult it is for a young man to get
along here. My son, who was educated at Harrow,
then spent two years at Hamburg, learning German
correspondence, and two more in Belgium and Paris,
finishing his French, and finally was a year In his
fathers shipping Office, has been able to find nothing
better than a c~lerkship at $50 a year. He prefers
living with us i'll the country, and his railway ticket
costs &32."
In Germany, according to an exchange, a servant
has one Sunday out every two weeks. There is an
understood hour for her to come home, and if she
stays out later she loses her next Sunday holiday.
Her pay is never more than 500 a year, and in some
families it is only $l2. When there is a dispute be-
tween mistress and maid, it is settled by the police.
But one servant is usually kept, and the work is hard,
but the washing is done outside, and pies, cakes,
bread, ETC., are bought.
For some years the microscopic edition of Dante.
printed at Padua in 1873, was thought to be the
smallest book in existence; but in 1881 there was
discovered at Florence an 'Oficiolum' Venice:
Giunti, 1880, only 32mm. wide and 5Omm. high.
But the volume had evidently been cut down in re.
binding, and hence has had to give the place of honor
to a newly discovered 'Oficiolum," from the same
press, which in the original cover measures only 80
by &Smm. This last book may be described as the
smallest volume in the world.