The Indianapolis journal., 1885-12-30
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


tises to give 160 acres of land to any man who
will send him an acceptable lady for wife
SOME of the medical papers say that great
deal of quiet tippling especially among women
is being carried on by means of the quasi -medi-
cament called beef iron and wine."
The health of ex Vice. president Wheeler, who
has not been we'll for some time, is now better
than it has been for several years. The people
OF Malone, where he lives, say that he is quite
his old self again"
THE January Century will contain picture Of
a missing link, with descriptive article. The
scientists are inclined to call it "dudo" as the
| strange creature seems to combine some feat
ures OF the man, the bird and the reptile
The incursion of w. W. Astor and others into
the field of light literature moves the San Fran
cisco Post to inquire if there is to be no protec
| ton for poor and industrious persons from the
competition of cheap millionaire labor.
WHEN man and his wife wish to be divorced
in Burmah, each lights candle. Then they sit
down and look glum till one of the tapers burns
| to the socket, and then the owner of the candle
| that lasts the longest obtains the decree. The
adoption of this custom in Chicago might
strengthen the market for sperm candles.
THE only living survivors of presidential
| tickets are, of Republcans-John G. Fremont,
1856; Hannibal Hamlin, of 1860; Rutherford 3.
hayes, Ol loiO w III. "A. w Qeefer, or 1910; CneSter
A. Arthur, of 1885, James G. Blaine, of 1884,
| and John A. Logan, of 1884. OF Democrats
George I'll. Pendeton, of 1864 Horatio Seymour,
of 1861 Samuel j. Tilden, of 1876; Major general
| Hancock of 1880, and VIM. III. English, of 1880.
A STORY has just got into circulation which in
dicates that President Cleveland believes in his
luck. During his stay on the upper Saranac. in
the Adirondacks, last summer he was invited
| one evening to join rubber of whist and asked
| q nj
| Mr. Cleveland, she said alphabetically, that
rear 1t will destroy all your chance of winning"
OE, never mind that, returned the President
pleasantly; I'VE shall have Cleveland luck, you
| know"
PROFESSOR BEEsLY, the eminent apostle of
Cornte's Positivism, was tho Radical candidate
for Parliament in Westminster, and was de-
feated by Mr. William Lehman Ashmead Bart
lett Burdett- Coutts "Who is Professor
| BeesleyY asked of the two millions" of
another. "Blest if know exactly" was the
ply, "but think they. call him a philosopher"
| But what's philosophy" "Wel, I can't say;
but they tell me it was invented by French
count!"
A TORONTO special to the New York Morning
Journal says: "a peculiar ceremony was per
formed in the East End on Wednesday evening.
A marriage took place, both the bride and
bridegroom wearing narrow black masks
| over their faces, which were removed
| just AS soon as the ceremony was over. It is
alleged that the adoption of the masks was
| freak of the bride. Another vagary she insisted
| on was that mention whatever should be
made of their nuptials in any of the public
prints The bridegroom without a murmur &C.
quiesced.
SIGNOR FARINI the explorer of the Kalahari
| desert, in Africa. makes interesting statement
bearing on Pasteur's inocuaticns for hydro
phobia. He says that in the region mentioned
similar operation is resorted to in cases of poison
Gus snake bites. Every native, when he goes
| out hunting, carries with him some dry poison
glands of snake. If he is bitten he i'm
mediately introduces small portion of this stuff
near the wound and goes to sleep. The limb
swells, but after two days it regains it's normal
size, and the patient recovers. Animals are
treated the same way.
GENERAL POPE, in January Century: ''I had
not seen Hooker for many years, and I remem
bered him as very handsome young man, with
forid complexion and fair hair and with figure
agile and graceful AS saw him that afternoon
on his white horse, riding in rear of his line of
battle, and close up to it, with the excitement of
battle in his eyes, and that gallant and chivalric
| appearance which he always presented under
fire, was struck with admiration. AS corps
commander with his whole force operating un-
der his own eye, it is much to be doubted
whether Hooker had a superior in the army"
THE metric system of weights and measures
was adopted enthusiastically in many laborato-
ries when first introduced, but is now said to be
rapidly losing ground. 1t has been the cause of
many serious errors. The fact that the mis-
| placement Of little dot will turn a comparative
ly harmless dose of medicine into one having
deadly poisoning power, bears strongly against
it. Mr. Oscar Oldberg much respected drug
gist, who formerly advocated the system, has
decided it to be unsuited to our requirements
and this will have much influence with many
people who felt the defects Of the system, but
did not like to reject it.
ACCORDING to the Hong Kong Daily Press the
Empress of China has caused great comnotion
among her counselors by her liberal ideas and
her conduct She has abated the rigor of court
etiquette, has transferred her residence from the
winter palace TO the castle in the imperial park
takes boxing lessons and does not conceal her
opinion that reforms in social and religious mat
ters needed, and that China no longer can
keep UP her isolation from the rest of the world
The conservatives complain that her conduct is
weakening the popular belief in the divine power
Of the imperial house, and are confirmed in their
belief that woman is unfit to rule country.
THE wife of the great preacher, Rev. t.
Dewitt Talmage, while she has always modestly
kept herself in the background, is nevertheless
almost as remarkable for her fine intellect as her
renowned husband A woman of medium height,
with dark hair and flashing black eyes, and a
face showing great strength of character, Mrs.
| Talmage is a noticeable figure wherever she is
| seen. She is an earnest worker in the church, as
we'll as devoted wife and mother, and the du-
ties that devolve upon her as the wife of min
ister OF so large congregation would appall any
woman less gifted with good Judgment and un-
firing energy than she. Mrs. Talmage has,