The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-21
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS,

MRS. NELLIE GRANTSARToRIs denies report that
she will visit Long Branch this
THE Buffalo Express calls the Southern revivaist,
Rev Sam Jones' the cracker Talmaee"
In the black list" of Worth the Partisan
milliner appear the Of number of titled En-.
glish ladies'
COMMENT is made the fact that Mrs. Catherine
Love, who lately died in New York was great belle
in that's city u the year 1900. She was 1913 when
she died.
AMONG the thirty lifepeers nominated by the Crown
of Hungary, in consequence of the reform of the
Hungarian House of Magnates, is NJ. Paul Gyuail,
critic, novelist and poet.
LUCAS MALET, the author of the new novel
Colonel Enderby's Wife" is discovered to be
daughter of Charles Kingsley and displays, like
Julian Hawthorne, instance of inherited literary
powers.
THE "hand-cart man, Henry G. Simmons. who left
New York in May 1884, and ''toted" his three chill
dren all the way to Minnesota in handc dis
lance of about 500 miles--has taken homestead in
Emmons county, Dakota
In Prohibition towns in New England the dscour-
aged but ingenious opers have resorted to of
peppermint, which being in solution of alcohol is
diluted down to a drinkable point The drunkenness
produced is intense and lasting.
THE typical baby walks in forty seven weeks kisses
in twelve months, and jumps in twenty-seven months,
but it takes longer to perform these operations with
intention and success. The typical mother however,
claims that her infant accompshes greater feats in
onehalf the time.
Mrs. J. E. B. STUART, the widow of the dashng
confederate cavalry general, is visiting her father.
Gen Philip ST. George Cooke, of Detroit. Mrs. Stuart
married six months before the broke out and the
father and son n-law entered the opposing armies.
General Cooke was opposed to General Stuart only
once on the battlefield.
A SENSIBLE Georgian Democrat who went to Wash
ingon for Office and found the process of waiting
Improbable invested part of his last $15 in oranges
and a basket and set about peddng fruit with 50
much that at the end of months he finds
himself with 500 in pocket and thriving trade He
has withdrawn his application for messengership
A GIRL at Harvard, Miss Brown of the Annex, has
led the entire college in all its departments She
passed the examinations to enter on an equal footing
with her brothers, has taken instructions from the
same professors though at separate rotations and
heads them all in rank. She cannot take a diploma
but she can have certificate Of testimony of what
she has done.
WHEN Whitelaw Reid was out on the Carson & Col
orado railroad the other day. he called on the editor of
the Hawthorne Bulletin, who at wrote a CO. phi
mentary notice of him, ending as follows: "If lie had
larger field and paper of his own, mr. Reid would
make his mark in journalism. He has ability and if
connected with the Nevada press would soon be ad.
mitted to the Press Associations"
THE Miuisteriasts will be represented at the Prin
cess Beatrice's wedding, next Thursday by Lord and
Lady Salisbury Lord and Lady ddesleigh, the Duke
and Duchess of Richmond, Sir Richard and LADY
Cross, and Sir Michael and Lady Lucy Hicks Beach.
The invitations to the Opposition include Mr.. and
Mrs. Gladstone, Lord and Lady Granville Lord Hart.
ingon, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll and the Duke
and Duchess of Bedford.
THE japanese have at last promulgated s nstent
law. The new law appears like many other recent
japanese laws, to be compiled from similar laws of
other countries-a clause from England here from
France there, from Germany in another place. as
seemed advisable in the circumstances. The term of
protection is fifteen years. articles that tend to dis
turb social tranquility, demoralze customs and
fashions, or injurious to health" and medicines
cannot be patented.
KAISER WILHELM occupied his old quarters this
year at Ems, but his habits completely changed
His morning stroll on the promenade was abandoned
guests were invited to dine with him and he sci.
dom went to the theater He is dreadfully feeble
says the World Qordon), land cannot walk without
assistance The court physicians have warned the
Crown Prince and Prince Bismarck that he may GO off
at any minute and he goes to sleep but there is
apprehension that he viii not wake again"
FRANZ L1szr's recent visit to Aix-la Chapelle has
revived the often mooted question whether
the maestro frequently spoken of as Able really is
priest not. From the best authority-Liszt's own
the Echo der Gegenwart takes occasion to settle the
question for oil List after having resigned his