The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-31
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

| EASTER brides will carry small bouquets of orange
flowers none at all.
WHILE Wales has ustinducted his boy into the Ma
sonic fraternity Sir Moses Monte6ore mentions as a
mere incident that he has been member of that body
! seventy two years this spring.
| PROFESSOR EDWARD EMERSON BARNARD of Nash
VILE not long ago assistant to photographer
and is only twenty years DID, but is already
recognized as the great astronomer of Tennessee.
MRS. VAN BoKKEIEN, wife of the rector Of Trinity
Church the leading Episcopal communion in Buffalo,
| is reported to have lain since January in an uncon.
scous state not having in that time partaken Of food
| of any kind
EASTER eggs are arranged in many pretty ways,
two of the prettest being to put them r tiny
hat piled up like peaches in minute peach basket.
When these eggs decorated, the effect is pro-
| nounced too cute"
| THE venerable William M. Gwin, of California
commonly known the Duke of Sonora, is not only
hale and hearty at eighty but is willing to make the
| voyage to Japan to replace the venerable John G.
Brigham who has long represented the United States
| in that country.
| GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA is rehabiltating history
by denying that General Grant is 'taciturn and de-
| claring that when he was over here
spondent and afterwards when he met General Grant
in London he found him of the hveliest well as
most agreeable of takers.
DIR. HEBER NEWTON thinks that, taking the
age human life he would be d bold man who, rightly
weighing his blessings that like the sunshine
and the dew would venture to pronounce tho lot of
man rather of pain than of pleasure. DR.. Newman is
| philosopher of the right sort.
WHAT is called curiosity table is the latest
| city for the drawing room. 1t is ordinary round
ebony table decorated with anything and everything
available, such photographs, Christmas and Easter
cards, handsome buttons, small specimens of crazy
| patchwork ETC. 1t is astonishing how ingeniously
table be covered when time taste and also
of humor are brought to bear upon it.
| SECRETARY CHANDLER became the happy father of
| son on Sunday morning. and in response to con-
| gratulatory telegram from home sent the words
! Luke, 1:63" The text reads "And he asked
(beckoned) for writing table and wrote saying his
name is John, and they marveed ALL" The boy
promptly named John Parker Hale Chandler for Mrs.
Chambers father, the late Senator Hale, of New
| Hampshire.
! WALTER s. HUTcHINs, popular young Washing
ton journalist is said to be the coming United States
minister to Paraguay And thereby hangs tale. He
is interested with Sig Don Roderigo Velasquez, the
representative of Paraguay at Washington in llama
ranch in South America and also interested in the
Sgnors beautiful daughter, Donna Eliza Marie Veas
! quez. and doubtless believes considerable honor as
| well as convenient profit could be acquired from
| diplomatic post in Paraguay.
AN immense sale is predicted for the revised version
of the Old Testament and the extent Of its usefulness
is likely to be greater than that of the New Testament
| revision. $50 many people know Greek says the
Week. that there has been approxim alton of the
English to the Greek Specifications of words So few
| know Hebrew that much of the Old Testament has
been dark, and passages in the minor prophets
vertable puzzles to all the learned In fact
| the majority of English speaking people will read
job Ecclesases and the concluding books of the Old
Testament for the first time with any comprehension
| BESIDES toy telephone, consisting of a bamboo
! cylinder and string, Chinese ingenuity produced
about $50 years ago "a thousand mile speaker" 1t
is described a roll of copper, likened to fe
tanning artful device; whispered into and imme-
diately closed, the confined message however long,
may be conveyed to any distance and thus in a bat
tie instructions may be conveniently communi
Gated" 1t was the invention of Chang un-shn,
of Huichon. writer occult science, astronomy,
| etc. His device to have died With him. as
it no longer exists in the chronicles of the his.
4 torian.
| THE Row. Reginald Barnes, Gordons most intimate
friend, relates how he made the acquaintance of the
hero of Khartoum, at Lausanne For some days
| did not know his name and after did it did
not occur to me that he might be the famous
| Chinese Gordon. One day he invited me to his
room. I noticed strange documents on the
table. You have been in Palestine, and know Arabic
he said look at those papers, took several and
| glanced at them, but laid them Town, remark
ing that knew very little Arabic. They are death
warrants he said was so startled that exclaimed,
Death warrantsG Why, who youa Don't you
L L
eral of the Soudan and still nominay retain the posi-
| tom but nothing remains for me but to sign
/ these papers--that will end it,
/ IT is probably that Mr. Lincoln often pardoned
deserters but it is equally true that many were exc
cuted For instance, in the fall Of 1861 Johnson
of the Lincoln" (New York; cavalry. went through
our lines near Fairfax, gave himself up to the first
| squad he met told them he adeserter, answered
! all he knew to our forces and then found that he
| yet with own men. He was brought back to
General Frankin's headquarters, the old senin
airy. and the second day thereafter shot all the
troops in the vicinity being out to witness the
ton. At least dozen hanged for desertion
| in the Army of the Potomac during December 1864.
| Such executions witnessed every Friday during
| that month, and of those occasions four men
| took the drop. If Mr. Lincoln did not sanction, he
| certainly did not stop military executions.
| DESPITE the attributed to her on hearing the
tragic end of her socaled husband the Princess Dol
| gorouki. it is rumored in Paris is about to marry
/ again. Only mysterious hints thrown out as to
the identity of her future husband, but ii is under
stood that he Is Russian prince, not far removed
in blood from the Gear himself and powerful enemy
( his regime This intelligence has caused great
sensation seeing that the continued mourning and
tremely retired Life of the Princess led the gay Par