The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-16
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
WE may be happy yet.


ELLEN TERRY introduced in this country the pres.
emit feminine fancy for short hair.
SAMPSON Low & Co., the we'll known London pub
fishers, to handle General Grants memoirs the
other side
PROFESSOR TYNDALLS gifts of money to various
American colleges will be handed over to the nstitu-
tions this month.
WHOEVER meets the Earl of Chester in Austria
should know that his lordshp is really the Prince of
Wales. He is travelling incog
EVERY county, save one, in Observation-Disclosures
lin, and that has male ascendency of only seventy
four-has greater number of females than males
MADAME KUKI, wife of the japanese minister is
blonde, and quite pretty. She is recognized mem
Der of the legation and receives salary from the
Mikado's treasury.
LORD WoLsELEY is to-day as unpopular public
there is in England His passing the
services of the marines in his dispatches is especially
noted with indignation.
MRS. WELDON, the heroine of Gounod's famous law
suit, has taken to the stage. She proved such
summate actress in court that she might have
ceeded behind the footlghs had she not lacked the
hstrionio training necessary to triumph.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN went to the theater often to
forget his cares. Grant not so frequently. Hayes
seldom. Arthur went every time there was anything
actresses too. President Cleveland does very
much for the theater, but he goes occasionally.
To test sewage by peppermint. first pour into the
highest fixture apafu of boiling water then half an
of the OIL followed by another pail of hot wa
ter The hot water sent down before the oil warns
the pipes and prevents the oil from clingng them
That sent after tends to voatze the oil and carry it
into every part of the system.
THE minister to Liberia was formerly cook on an
Ohio river steamboat Rev. Moses Hopkins born
in slavery and whenever he talks about his appointment
minister he chuckles in jolly way, he thought
it great joke He is very frank to say be isn't
Democrat. and further, that be was not expecting
such fortune as has to him.
EDWARD EaaLEsroN is with his family at little
town in Canton Vaud, Switzerland. He has been
taking two or three weeks vacaton-almost the
first rest be has had since he began work upon his
history of Life in the American Colonies five or six
years His health is improving but he is able
to work more than three hours day.
ATowN meeting at Derby, Conn, decided that the
town should relinquish all claim to beuuest of
600 devised by deceased justice of the peace on
condition that the town should touch any of the
money until it amounted to SIS 900, OOO It was
claimed that the Request would not become operative
for 200 years. The heirs-atlaw now get the money.
is in western Pennsylvania arranging for the removal
there of Chinese aborers from crowded localities such
San Francisco and other places, like Wyoming
where they in danger. He claims that five hun.
dred will be employed in the cokefurnace region and
that several iron-m manufacturing establishments are
about to employ them.
MAN in Syracuse collected accounts of the lives
of 10000 centenarians He found that 5000 Of
them came from Connecticut and that tho majority
were women. Fifty single women came up to the
century mark, but only twelve bachelors. One hun.
dred ministers lived to be one hundred, and only
thirty doctors, ten lawyers and ten actors A cen.
tenarian newspaper man could not be discovered
ON some of the German postal cards is printed
formula designed to save time in Importing news
transmissible by this medium. 1t runs as follows:
Only few lines to-day then follow FIVE lines on
which to write, then God be thanked, am in good
health and hope to hear that you are Also The
weather is -; write soon and give my love to all
In haste" and here follows the signature There is
even place reserved for postscript
The celebrated Johannesburg vineyard, which Is
owned by Prince MetterIich, contains only about
eighty acres but it Is worth fully $4,000 an acre
The yield averages AZ 200 bottles year none Of
which is worth less than So bottle ON the place and
of which sells for it's weight in gold The profit,
of the vineyard are estimated at $4,000 year, not
withstanding the fact that one-tenth of the annual
yield goes to the Emperor of Austria.
AFTER the review at Stuttgart, the Emperor WILL
lam was told by Prince Hermann of SAKE Weimar
that ninety threeyear-old veteran who had served
under him sixty years ago present having made
long journey just to his commander again in this
world. Kaiser Wilhelm much moved, and insist
ed upon aghtng from his carriage and walking over
to that in which the veteran was seated when he held
conversation with him and shook hands cordially
at parting.
A MARsEILLEs merchant who started in business
with So, 900 and became millionaire left his prop
ery to friend with the condition that he should be
buried with the of So, 900 placed in his coffin.
The executor bewailsd the reckless waste of money
and at his wits end to know how to defeat the
whimsical clause In the will At length happy
thought came. II will put check he said, into
the coffin for So, 900. 1t will be duly honored when
he presents it."
THE oldfashioned spinning wheel was introduced
short time ago into the Isle of Man Insane Asylum
with the idea of amusing the patients. The latter
seemed delighted that they could In this way contrib