The Indianapolis journal., 1885-12-04
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS,

THE TALMAGE' is four-story hotel in Atlanta
NINE PATTI generously speaks of Nicolinis sons as
my children"
PIcKwICK PAPERS is the most popular of Dickens's
novels in England.
THE great publishing firm of Routledge in London
print 5000. .OC0 books in the year and bind 4OOO-
OOO
CANON FARRAR says of the responsibilities Of
this Nation is to "strangle the growth of mammon
worship"
OLD Mr.. Weller real person. He was ''Old
Chumley in the fesh and drove the stage daily from
Rochester to London and back again.
Mr.. JOHN GURNEY, the mayor elect of Norfolk,
England is totally blind; but he could see his way
an election, or he wouldn't have run.
MRS. CORVALLIS WEST from being a little
beauty, has grown to be big bouncer. She put a
out of hall the other day for interruptng her
husbands political speech.
IT gives notion of the cost of royal travelling in
the last century that the bill of George ~ at the Ho
tel de Harscamp Namur, for one day, was 5000
francs ($6O1.sO). The head waiter received $40
The charge at the table hote at that time was two
francs
MR.. FRANK II. HAGGERTY not yet twenty-eght, is
man on the Pennsylvania road but went to Dakota in
x,
and stock-raising and is alleged to have cleared
$1,000, 600 within FIVE years.
LORD CHIEFJUsTICE COLERIDGE is said to have
yielded to every demand made upon him by Mr.
Adams. his daughters husband. He has given his
daughter 5000 year, and her husband is to have a
life interest in it. Their children if they have any,
are to be endowed with 417, 900.
THIS professional item appears in the Texas Cour.
ier-Record of Medicine: "Dr. Palmer who, in fight
with Dr. Galloway, at Blooming Grove, had the end of
his finger bitten off by the latter is in critical cond
ton, owing to blood poisoning having set in. The
finger amputated, but it is thought this will not
save his fe."
PROFESSOR EATON, of Yale College, in a recent
lecture to the students told them it was not certain
Eve npted Adam with apple in the Garden of
Eden. He thinks probably it was a ounce, because
the apple of the present day propagated from the
crabapple and it is not at all likely Adam would have
been taken in by such puckery little bait"
CoURIER-JoURNAL: Gentlemen about to be hanged
will be interested in the statement of the English doc.
tor, that jerking mans head off with rope is far
more mercful than strangulation Possibly the con-
toron of the features after the head off is merely
expression of the pleasure felt by the criminal over
the modification he finds in the new process
THREE relatives of Schiller are living in Vienna,
who did not-being in mourning at their mothers
death-make themselves known to the committee in
charge of the Schiller festival of 1859 They are the
sisters Clotilde, Mathde and Sophia Kodwess daugh.
ters of F. E. Kodweiss, who was the son Of E. j.
Kodweiss who was the brother of Schrer's mother,
Elizabeth Dorothea Kodwess.
THAT small but observant lecturer and writer Mr.
Bob Burdette has gauged the quality of style of
general with extreme accuracy. He says: well,
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at that battle although it fought mainly by troops
of my dvisoni in fact. seldom had time to attend
in person any of my battles. was kept constantly
engaged writing my memoirs of the war;"
TRADITION prevails among the Indians of Alaska
that on Summer island, one Of group about 600
feet high with almost perpendicular Sides an exten.
sive lake exists with shores and bottom of "glass
rock" probably crystallzed quartz. The Indians say
that kind of fog overhangs the mountain about half
way up, which, when reached, takes luckless hunter
in its embrace and carries him away to be seen
again. Hence they carefully avoid even landing on
the island for fear of being spirited away
CAPTAIN HoWGATE, TIE signal-service defaulter is
thus described by who claims to have recently
met him on an Ohio river steambcat His manner
and appearance were sadly changed. His face looked
rough and unshaven, scattering foxy beard having
been permitted to partly the lower part of the
face His hair was clipped short and a small black
hat gave him an odd and comical appearance He
wore suit of very cheap and coarse gray, which dis
closed at the bottom heavy, brogan-like shoes His
whole appearance that of broken dispirted man
He had quite recovered the of his injured hip and
leg"
THE vicissitudes of life illustrated by story in
the Chicago Tribune. The other day poorly dressed
approached a couple of business men in front of
the Board of Trade building drew one of them aside
and begged loan of 10 cents. Not many years ago
the borrower was one of the heavy operators on
Change He said to literally control the oats crop
and counted of the shrewdest of SPECTATORS
He owned fine mansion and fast horses. All at