The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


"BuRDrE" is Mr. BurdettCouttss pet name for the
wife of his bosom
THERE were 5000 Northern school.teachers
at the New Orleans exposition during the holidays
Miss LIZZIE PLANKINToN daughter of John PLANK
inton is the donor of bronze statue of Washington
that is to be set up in Milwaukee on July next.
AWoMAN has opened barber shop in opposition t9
the Chinese barber of Tacoma, Wy. T.. and the China
nan says ne will have to marry the female barber OF
go.
MISS SUSAN B. ANTHONY will remain in Washing.
ton until after the meeting of the Womens Rights
ASSOCIATION on JAM 20, after which she sails for Eu-
rope.
THE Gar of Russia has an income Of mora tbar
$o,oOo,ooO year. The Emperor Of Austria re-
ceives 81, 0c0, 900, and the Queen af F.c,and
So 100000.
REV DIR. DWIGHT SPENCER, Of Utah. a Bantiss
missionary, says that the Mormon Church controls
the votes of its members and them in body foP
the Democratic candidates.
BECKY JONES, the wonderful woman who preferred
to go to Jail rather than to tell what she knew conn
plains in the New York newspapers that certain
alderman annoys her with his ove-making.
Mr.. PAssMoRE EDWARDS has purchased tha
Weekly Times, of London for $4,000 and villa
make it organ of advanced Radicalism, surprising
even his former journal, the Echo in violence.
The last number of Shakspearana contains the sur.
prislng statement that Prof. Kuno Fischer the WE'LL
known historian of philosophy, is a convert to tho
Bacon-Shakspeare theory, and will lecture upon 1t al
Heidelberg this winter
Mr.. HENRY JAMES. the novelist was mistaken foe
the Prince of Wales the other day, by ST James's
Palace sentry, and being addressed as Your Royal
Highness so pleased the America Englishman thas
h., o4nI4 Al -.
From Stockholm comes word of the death of Johann
JOHN. Forty years ago he was the most promising
poet in Sweden, but he found that writing comedies
and NOVELTIES paid better than poetry, and so
changed his into less elevated but lucra-
tive channel
PATTI told the Boston Herald that she had wora
diamonds worth $500, 900 the last time she sang in
La Traviata" in this city but that she supposed the
audience thought her dress was fronted with glass
beads instead of gems. She had left of the coli
ection in safe deposit vault during her tour.
NEW YORK Tribune I am told that Mr. Connery.
under whose edtorship Truth finally ended it's una
truthful career is making arrangements to bring ou
anew morning penny paper, some time this month.
1t was the general public impression that Mr. Cons
nerys mistake as to Truth was in not changing itR
1T is thought that Queen Vctorias stag hounds may
DO given up Farmers complain bitterly of losses in
ficted by the followers of the royal hunt and the
thieves and roughs who hang about the meets" help
make the sport dangerous business. The Queen
but little about the hunting anyway and is said
to be very willing TO have the dogs go.
Dr. HAWKS, an oldtme eloquent and popular New
York divine once asked vestryman of his church to
increase his salary, because of his increased family
expenses. Don't trouble yourself said the vestry.
man, the Lord has said he will care for the young
ravens when they cry" know that said the clergy.
man, "but nothing is said about the young Hawks"
The Marquis of Ripoa iE.sbout the only Governor-
general of India to whom hat Office was not more or
less object from pecuniary standpoint. He is
very rich man, with beautiful house in Carlton Gar
dens London, splendid villa in Putney, grand seat
in Yorkshire and another in Lincolnshire. Lady Rpon
has an independent fortune of $50, O0Oa year, and
they have only one child. He is unmarried
A New YORK widower lately conceived the ro-
mantle idea of having his deceased wifes portrait
brought up to date in the matter Of age and dress
Under>his direction an artist carefully added Ave
years to the face and changed the clothes to those
which had become fashionable. The work was donN
lovingly and reverently, and the bereft husband i
content in considering the portrait for thai
companionship which death had taken away from
him.
Miss BERTHA VoN HILLERN, lady pedestrian OF
reputation has discovered that the majority oe
human ailments may be walked away" She says
that moderate and general walking will cure general
debility, dyspepsia, colds, fevers and hears
disease The daily habit of walking eevates the tone
of the general system and enables person to resist
contagious diseases Miss Won Hillern is satisfied
that walking is the best of rapidly restoring the
squandered health of the American people.
FELIX DURYoS whose death is reported was long
Louis Phlippes chief cook. He amassed fortune Of
$4,000, and has left it to his two nOphews ON con.
diton that the inscription his tombstone consist Of
of his famous cookery recipes engraved on brass
tablet If they do not do he wished in this respee
the money is to to public charities But in France
they have an ''epitaph commission, which will nob
allow the recipe to be put the tombstone and SO
the nephews going to law about it. Surely the re
cpe would be in better than the average eptapb
of fulsome Aattery
THE Sheygya Arabs have been led in the Soudan By
Joan or Boadicea daughter of Mahmud, one of the
Mahdis leaders who was killed in the last battle with
the Mudr's troops. This has always been Soudanese
peculiarly AT the time Of the first conquest Of the
Soudan by the Egyptians under Isma Pasha in 1920.
the Sheygya Arabs were also led bya woman, or al
all events, virgin was put forth the ostensibs
leader. M. Waddington tells us in his "Journa. of
Visit to Some Parts Of Ethiopia that to the present
day the signal for attack among the sheygyas is given
by virgin richly dressed and seated on dromedary.
and who is held sacred even by the enemy.
Senator Logan Against the Foster Treaty.
Chicago Times.
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