The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-07
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

IT is now said that the sale of Mr.. Blaine's book is
exceeding all expectations, orders for 500, 900 copies
of the first book having been filed with the publishers.
EMPEROR WILLIAM invariably says: DO nothing;
say nothing; time will put everything to rights
when one member of the family comes to complain of
another.
Mrs. JULIA WARD HOWE, head of the womens's
department of the New Orleans exposition, is said
to contemplate ~resigning. She is being very harshly
criticised, whether deserving of it or not.
THE mayor of DEBORAH, Ia, determined to enforce
deccrum in the streets of hrs town at night, and to
that end dressed himself in the apparel of a girl, so as
to entrap the bad man who had h~abitually insulted
those maidens who ventured out after dark.
COLONEL DANIEL LAMONT, private secretary to
Governor Cleveland, received as a Christmas gift a
gold locket containing a lock of Thomas Jeferson's
bair. 1t was presented by Henry S. Randall, whose
father wrote the standard life of Jefferson.
THE nephews of the Paris cook, Duriiot, who left
testamentary directions that, in case recipes were not
duly affixed to his tomb, his property was to pass from
his relatives to charities. have decided to appeal to the
courts, inasmuch as the cemetery people viii not per-
nit the will to be carried into effect.
THE following challenge is printed in the London
Morning Advertiser: Hearing so much boast of
shaving in London, Paris, and other places, jules, of
Gable street, in st. Georges in the East, will back him.
self for from $25 to $50 to shave and lather six men
while blindfolded without cutting them. Man and
money ready"
To be greeted at her st. Petersburg debut by the
Gear, Czarina and entire court, and ar overlooking
audience, and to be called before the curtain thirty
times amid applause surprising anything ever before
known--this, Mile. Van Zandt thinks, pretty well re-
paid her for the rascally blackguardis ii with which she
was treated in Paris.
BEHIND the curtain of a barber shop, in the secluded
apartment sacred to the application of dye to gray
hair, a sharp observer declares that he saw the barber
clipping the locks from a mans head in order to make
him nearly bald. The explanation is that he remark
ably resembled the Prince of Wales, and was so proud
Of the likeness that he wished to perfect it by partial.
ly ~denuding his scalp.
EASTWOOD the Duke of st. Albans's seat in Motifs,
was bought by Charles Ii for 25, 900 and settled
upon the first Duke, his son, by Nell Gwynne. The
Beauclercs have never been as we'll to do as the other
Legitimate offshoots OF Charles. The late Duke got
only a life annuity of 10000 a year by marrying
Mrs. Coutts, but the present Duke had a fine estate in
Ireland with Miss Osborne.
In Barbados, one Sunday, the captain Of a vessel
from New York saw a very important colored lady,
gloved, shoed and parasoled, walking to church with
a barefooted colored servant, carrying her bag and
prayer-book. He was astonished at the lady of color
being able to keep up so much state, but was told that
the couple were sisters, and if he would wait until
next Sunday he would see the situation reversed.
THE students of a Western theological seminary
are reported to have discussed the question whether.
in case Of a prayer having been read from a printed
slip, on a formal occasion, aud there having been a
typographical error entirely reversing the meaning
of a passage. the petition was received by Provi-
dence as uttered or as originally written. The debaters
spent a whole evening over the point, ana then had a
tie vote.
NEW YORK Letter: Tt is rumored that John Rus
sell Young will return to this city and journalism
early in this year. He will be- heartily welcomed.
Men of brains and originality. with Culture and wide
experience among men. as well rs among pot-house
politicians. are greatly needed in the journalism Of