The Indianapolis journal., 1885-01-27
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ROBINSON CRUsoE" has been translated into Latin
by Professor Newman.
THERE is a very old English distich-
''1f Janveer caends be summerly gay
" will be wnterly weather till the calends of May"
MRS. s. K. HATToN, widow of the confederate
general, Bob Hatton, has been reelected librarian
by the Tennessee Legislature.
Miss CAROLINE RANSOM, who wants to sell her
picture of General Thomas to Congress for $15. .000
is a native of the Ohio Western Reserve.
ANOTHER Turkish atrocity is reported. The Sultan
has been converted to Magnetism and spends several
hours each day at the piano, numbering the works of
that composer.
DR.. BYRON D. HALsTED, managing editor of the
American Agriculturist, has accepted the professor
ship of botany in the Iowa State Agricultural College,
at Ames Iowa.
MR.. GossE once signed his poems E. W. Gosse.
The other day. when he went over to Camden to see
Walt Whitman Whitman inquired, What have you
done with your W., my friendF' To which Mr.. Gosse
replied Il have sent it down to Hades." "Ah!'
exclaimed Walt, when it gets there it will meet my
err'
THE Rev DIR. Noah Fl. Schenck, rector of st. Ann
Church Brooklyn, whe died the 4th inst, in
sured in the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New
York for $50 600. The policies were presented to
the company for payment the 9th inst and on the
same day President F. S. Winston signed the checks
for the claim with the dividend additions.
THE Gettysburg Club" is the title of organ
ization of veterans in Boston, and at dinner the
other night seventy persons were present Eight
Massachusetts regiments have bought land whereon to
build battlefield monuments and is likely that the
other regiments which took part in the battle will
mark with stones their positions the field.
DIR. CRUDELLI of Rome gives the following drec-
tions for preparing remedy for malaria, which has
proved eficacious when quinne has given relief:
Cut up lemon, peel and pulp, in thin Slices and boil
it in pint and half of water until it is reduced to
half pint Strain through linen cloth, squeezing
the remains of the boiled lemon and it aside until
cold The entire liquid is taken fasting
+ AN extraordinary power of sef-possession was once
shown by Prof. Tyndall. While lecturing before an
audience of the Royal Institution, he accidentally
received the full charge of powerful electric battery
through his person. the shock being enough
m momentary deprive him of consciousness. In order
to prevent alarm and perhaps panic in the crowded
audience he concealed his escape by joke
soon as he had regained consciousness.
ACCORDING to a veracious Boston paper the fol-
lowing is verbatim report of conversation caught
on the fly the other night in that city. Scene-Lobby
of the theater between the acts of the opera First
young man in lavish standing collar that prevents
him from bending his head forward Watcher
thinker Patti Gorjus arnt she!" Second young
man with desert of unwrinked shirt bosom: "Beuh!
Wonf Jey sush dimunsl Spose they're reall
Hear she don't eat when she sings. Markble artis'
Markbe!"
THE university which has for some years been in
progress at Tomsk in Siberia is approaching compile
ton Of the 727 957 rubles ($549 OOO) assigned to
the commission charged with carrying out the work,
49, 326 rubles t$35, ,700) were expended in October
last. The government contributed 800 900 rubles
through the Department of Education The remain.
dsA Of the money has from private sources. 1t
is intende5 that the university shall have complete
staff of professors. Tomsk, on the River Tom, is an
old and thriving t0Wn the great trading high way Of