The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-24
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

IHE GIN palaces ana peer SHOPS or LONDON, III
placed side by side, would form a row seventy
eight miles long
RIVALRY in the holiday trade reached such
pitch at Troy N. Y, that leading firm adver-
tses ''toys sold on installments."
DIR. JOSEPH PARKER, the London minister,
has written novel which he calls weaver
Stephen, or the Odds and Evens of English Re-
ligion."
JOSEPH FRANCIS the inventor of the life-car
used by the coast ife-saving service, is eighty
FIVE years old and has outlved every relative ex
cept his son.
KossUTH, being no longer able to earn his liv-
ing by teaching languages in Italy, has now
found home in the house of his sons who are
shepherds in the valley of Sixt, i'll Savoy.
THE Chinese in Portland, Ore, are said to
withdraw $4,000 cash from circulation and
send it to China every day in the year. They
| trade at their own stores and wear clothes and
live mainly on food imported from China.
SOME idea of the magnitude of the Escurial,
the great Spanish palace, may be formed from
the statement that tour of all the apartments
would involve journey of about l20 miles.
There are 200 doors and IL 900 windows in the
edifce.
Two card playing friends were passing through
pine forest in Maine, when one asked the other
this audacous conundrum: "Why cannot the
proprietor of this forest fell bis timber?"
Because no one is allowed to CUT when it is his
own deal"
GENERAL BEAUREGARD, in his history of tho
Shiloh campaign, in the last North American Re-
view claims that he was the sole commander on
| both days, and, without naming them, contra
diets the reports of Grant and Sherman as to the
Union forces being taken by surprise.
IT is stated On excellent authority that Dr.
Schemann, the arch@ologst, never heard of
his illustrous countryman, Richard Wagner
until the summer of 1882, when the latters name
was mentioned to him by fellow traveller who
was going to Bayreuth to hear "Parsifal."
REV. Mr.. STURGEON is man of large extrem
tiles, rendered proportional by large body. and
when entering from a door in the rear of the
first gallery comes limping down the aisle toward
the front with an evident effort He is slightly
lame. He commenced his pastoral life at seven
teen, and has been prodigious worker and great
organizer.
WHEN Spain held despotic sway over South
America from Panama to Cape Horn some of
her ablest vceroys and bravest and most brilliant
soldiers of Irish blood, the their de-
scendants who. after the disastrous Cromwelan
and Williamite wars disdained to take service
under the conquerors, and went IN thousands to
swell the armies of Spain.
Miss WILSON, who has been Miss Chamber
lain's rival abroad, is blonde, tall and stately
in person, with regular features and the air that
people call ''aristocratic." She came naturally
by her personal attractions through her mother.
a Miss Train whose portrait, painted by Porter
| before he became fashionable, preserves the
features OF one of the most beautiful women the
Hub has known.
The new statues of Beaconsfeld and Glad
stone by which the architect designed to mark
the era of the erection of the new gateway at
Magdalen College, Oxford. were mutilated dur
ing the recent election That of Lord Beacons
field was first defaced, and then, by way of re-
taationA Mr.. Gladstone's was decapitated ''by
certain undergraduates and other roughs," says
al Oxford paper.
| EDWARD KING, in recent letter says of
Donna Isabella, of Spain. that she has had for
the past few years an enormous influence in
| Spain. especially among the middle classes. The
secret Of Donna Isabellas popularity is to be
! found in her excessive generosity. She gives
right and left to everybody and every object
| troop of retainers, who swear by her because
| they live by her.
| BERLIN paper says: "It is incredible to what
expedients American newspapers resort to gain
point over competitor Three eatable papers,
| printed on sugar cakes fattened out appear at
| present in America; two on rolled chewing
tobacco, five on fly paper. one on porous plaster,
| seven on linen handkerchiefs Three publishers
have each Of their subscribers photographed