The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

CHICAGO is overbuilt Result 300 vacant tene-
ments.
A VERY large majority of the advertsementsAfor
drug clerks in the English papers insist that the young
men shall be tall.
IT is reported that Mrs James T. Fields and Mrs.
Celia Thaxter have become firm believers in the doc
trine of spirtualism.
LORD HoUGHToN's "reminiscences will be looked
for in the autumn. They said to have much to
tell of his personal relations with the Caryles.
ROSE CREOLE, 1O8 years old, living in Philadel
phia has been blind for twenty years. She has now
her eyes opened and has commenced cutting anew set
of teeth.
THE needlework for the summer will be strips of
embroidery on canvas for covering the long fender
stools which offer such effective seats for Agatha and
Edith just before the lamps brought in.
THE largest bird rookery in Florida is on Lake
Gentry, in Breyard county. The rookery covers
eghtyacre tract of ground and it is estimated that
several millions of birds at this rookery every
son.
SENIOR SERARsATE, the famous Spanish violinist
has created sensation in London by his perform
ance of work of NJ Emil Bernard, leading organ
ist of Paris, whose previously unknown in
England.
WILD animals have killed great many cattle in
Montana of late years, and the bounty law cost the
Montana treasury $12. 900 paid for scalps of wild
animals during 1884. There were killed during the
year SAT BEARS 143 mountain lions $40 wolves and
1,621 coyotes.
A CORRESPONDENT writes: "Caneseatei chairs are
the enemies of trousers. Tell careful housewives to
interpose textile substance between the and
the seats of the neither garments" In newspaper of
fees the textile substances commonly employed
for this purpose copies of esteemed contempt
raries.
A MATHEMATICAL genius has ascertained that if all
the people of the world brought together at Bos
ton and stretched along the railroad track they would
only extend as far as New York. To accomplish th
he punches them together at the rate of three to
square yard and allows them to extend half mile on
either side of the track.
A MUGwuMP sat on a threelegged stool,
And voted himself political fool,
For the fact to his mind was not very plain
How the country had gained by the slaughter OF Baine
And twas very clear that with Grover Reform was
a sham,
And all his pretensons were not WORKMAN obstruc-
ton thrown across stream to furnish water
power for a saw-m.
THE drink bill of Great Britain and Ireland for
1884 amounts to 9126 349, $50 sterling,
than 5000, 900, 900. Of this STA 4S3, 500, 1872
AIS 100 was spent for beer. At least $500 600 900
of this vast total from the working struggling
starving classes Hard the times were this fright
full total shows an increase Of 81, $50 900 above
1888
THE largest room in the world under one roof and
unbroken by pillars is in ST. Petersburg. 1t is $40
feet long by $50 feet in breadth By daylight it is
used for military displays, and battalion
pletely maneuver in it. Twenty thousand tapers
are required to light it. The roof of this structure
is single arch of iron and it exhibits remarkable
engineering skill in the architect
MRS GLADSTONE is kept pretty busy following her
husband about and countermanding the preposterous
purchases he Makes in hundred hats in
another the whole contents of toy-shop, etc. The
story is current that his going to see screaming
farce at London theater the very evening the news
of the fall of Khartoum received the work of
his friends and family who constrained him to go
there lest broodng over the terrible news should un
settle his mind.
NJ. E. DE HEsSE-WARTEGG and Madame Minnie
Hauk, his wife. have bought an old CASTLE 'Schloss
Bningen, in Switzerland, and living beneath
their rooftree. The building was reared in 11O1
and has walls from six ten feet thick 1t is sur
rounded by pretty park of fifteen acres which boasts
a trout brook and many splendid old trees. Ihe
American flag floats over the tower. M de wartegg
has lately been visiting King Leopold of Belgium
whose friend he has been for many years.
A SALT LAKE jeweler has invented novel time.
piece in the shape of steel wire stretched his
show window which stuffed canary hops from
left to right indicating goes the hours of the day
by pointing with it's beak at dial stretched beneath
the wire and having the figures from to twenty
four When it reaches the latter figure it glides
across the window to again. There is mechan-
ism whatever that be seen it all being inside the
bird The inventor says he was three years in study
ing it out.