The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

SARAH BERNHARDT gets $500 day for acting.
Of this her creditors take $3.50, leaving her $3.50
Her table costs her 500 day and fuel and lights
about $5 ore. Her carriage hire-she has sold her
own equipages-comes to So day. and cosmetics, in
Guiding rouge SIS more
Miss LILLIAN NORTON COVER ('Giglio Nordica')
is granddaughter of Rev. John Allen, of Maine
known among the Methodist brethren ''Cainp-meet
ing John" Lilly has committed no crime; but she
changed her name for one because she wanted
to sing opera in a macaroni language.
RECENTLY letter arrived at Berlin postofice adj
dressed to "Gugllelmo Imperial." 1t was handed to
the Emperor, who not little amused to find it
containing most enthusiastic expression of undying
love, apparently for himself After inquiry it was
found that the letter meant for Italian artist
of that name who now douby treasures the docu.
ment
MISS MAUD HOWE, whose mother has charge of the
woman's department of the New Orleans exposition
has written enterta tanning account of the woman S
exhibit for the March number of the Domestic
Monthly. Miss Howe, herself, is in charge of the
literary part of this exhibit and she tells how near
sthe whole thing came to failure With their own
hands Mrs. Howe and her assistants made tables and
counters and hung bunting and draperies.
ANOTHER attempt to drive in the thin end of the
wedge has been made at Oxford, and this time sue.
cessfully proposal has been introduced in congre.
CATION to admit women to the first examination for
the degree of Bachelor of Music and has been carried
by majority of two TO Before long it may be
supposed that the wedges will be driven in q stage
further and that will be able to obtain at least
one of the Oxford degrees.
ONE of the most remarkable oils yet discovered is
that found in the Arago oil basin in Wyoming Terri
tory. In a shaft put down the east side of Bath
creek to depth of twelve feet oil flows in Of excep-
tionally high specific gravity. 1t is. when first
posed of brownish color and be cut with knife
like soft butter 1t gradually turns black on expos.
ure. 1t has little odor when it first from the
shaft though what escapes the south side of the
adjoining ridge has slight pungency, which it loses
on EXPOSURE
REMARKABLE mirages are among the atmospheric
effects in Dakota. The Darlington ID - News says
that few mornings since in that town, the Wesing-
ton Hills sixty miles distant, could plainly be
seen in all their magnificent splendor in the horizon
of the north The rnirages occasionally seen phe
nomenal wonders. Yorktown, Kmbal and other
towns are plainly visible floating sit were in the
clouds The hills on the west side OF the Missouri
river are also visible and afford the observer land
scape picture he beauty of which cannot be described
by PEN
FINE bronze statue of Hercules in perfect state
of preservation, excepting fracture the legs
has been discovered in the of the work con-
nected with the building of theater in Rome 1t
is probable that it belonged either to the Baths of
Constantine to Hadrians Temple of the Sum- which
stood each other at the corner of the Quirina
hill. The statue upward of six feet in
height. and, considering how very few of the many
bronze statues which ernamented the ancient ciyiof
Rome have been found, its recovery constitutes an
archaeological event of the highest interest
THE original autograph love letters of John Keats
which about TO be sold comprise thirtyfye eps-
ties of from to three pages each. They said
to present complete picture if painful OF the IN.
fortunate poets mind during the last two of his
lifc The comparison between the iFst of the SERIES
written at Shanklin. Isle Of Wight In the Of