The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-06
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL will be rendered pro
fessorshp at Oxford it is rumored as an nducement
for him to stay in England.
A French newspaper has been established in
Mauritius whose only aim is to promote the annexa-
ton of Madagascar to France.
SECRETARY LAMAR has invited a Mississippi lady,
Mrs E. " d. Miller to become his private secretary
and she has accepted the position.
Ell MAKKI, the rival of the False Prophet in the
Soudan, is said to be Larry Mackey, who used to
keep shoe store in Donegal, Ireland.
GOVERNOR ADAMS. of Nevada, did not sign the
antitreating BILL but it became law by limitation
nevertheless. 1t is illegal to ask friend to take
drink.
For the first time in her history, Rhode Island has
colored man in her General Assembly. The member
elect is clergyman and is of the representatives
chosen from Newport.
THE insole of Rev. j. Ell. Farnham's shoe is curio
sity 1t is % inches in length and eight in breadth
The wearer is colored clergyman in Chlcothe, n
c. He is six feet eight inches high and weighs 4IO
pounds.
DIR. FLINT is reported as having said that many
lives lost by starvation, owing to overestmate
of the nutrtive value of beef tea and juices In
typhus and typhoid fevers. he says there is good
substitute for milk and eggs.
Dr. LEOPOLD Won RANKE, the historian, on Tues
day completed his sxtieth year professor il Berlin
University ami made honorary citizen of that
capital-an honor shared only by four others
Bismarck, Moltke, DR.. Schliemann, and Herr Koch
ham.
MRS. LILA PAvY, widow of DR.. Pavy, one Of the
heroes lost on the Greedy expedition, contempates
making trip to Godhaven, Greenland, where her
husband lived six month"; and from there to Cape Sa
bine to search the island in hope of finding papers
and souvenirs buried there.
In the town of Warwick, R. l., is bowlder so
poised another rock that person standing on it
can rock it from side to sde When it is rocked dull
booming sound is given out, which can be heard for
miles over the country still night. legend says
that in this the Indians were accustomed to
summon their warriors to council at this place.
The city of Brussels is making very liberal appro-
priations for educational and artistic purposes Two
hundred thousand dollars is be expended for the
completion of primary schools this year. and the
Royal Athenaum which is to be finished during this
PERIOD will have cost $500 OOO and large sums are
to be expended for the identifying of the city and the
housing of the poor.
THE late Morrow B. Lowry, of Erie, Pa. at one
time representative in Congress- and who closed his
career in lunatic asylum, exceedingly singu-
larooldng man, and he dressed in way to call atten
ton to his pecularites. He wore peculiarly-cut
clothes and conspicuouslyrrffed shirts and always
faultlesslytied white neckcloth. His bushy red hair
stood straight up, like Andrew Jacksons s. and he
prided himself looking like preacher. but his pro-
family always gave him away" story is told of
him that during the early part Of the war; while
he was bearing some important dispatches between
Washington and Harrisburg, he was captured by the