The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE latest London sensation is Lo Lin, the Olcott.
Blavatsky prophet from Thibet He is TALL thin, ho
low-eyed and dark.
1T is said that Mr. Hewitt will make speech in
the House rejecting the view of the next adinistra
ton upon the reciprocity policy.
THEODORE TILToN is living in Paris where he is de
scribed giving good dinners to good persons writing
volume of poems, and minging in artistic society,
including that of Sarah Bernhardt.
PRINCE BISMARCK makes his Foreign Office cost
only 81 400 900 year, while those of England and
France cost SO, 100000 EACH His own private for
tune is said not to exceed $500 900.
PEOPLE who anxious to make European trip
cross the Atlantic for $14-in the steerage.
An emigrant go from Hamburg, Germany, to
Portland, Ore-nearly halfarouad the world-for $50
If he has the fifty.
JUDGE HoAR has said that the reason Wendell
Philips and Ben Butler quarreled-though each
quarreed with everybody else-was that neither
ceeded in finding adjective in the dictionary mean
enough to apply to the other"
A LoNDoNER made bet that he would invent
question to which fifty people would all give the
answer. He won the bet. The question was, Have
you heard that Smith has committed sucide} and the
answer in every was What Smith,
A MOVEMENT has been started to keep Francis
Murphy in Pittsburg the minister of church of
gospel temperance" A fund of SIS 600 has already
been raised in its support. During his late campaign
of eight weeks in that city, Mr. Murphy obtained 49,
900 signatures to the temperance pledge
The Rev. Dr. Scott whose death is announced in
San Francisco, has been preaching there for thirty
years with the exception of year or two in war
times, when his congregation hanged him in efigy
and drummed him out of the city for offering prapers
publicly for the of rebels and President jeff
Davis.
THE warden of the Kansas State prison says that
more convicts in proportion to the population,
from counties where the pronibtory law is enforced
than from counties where there is liquor law. A
prohibition population of 115 865 furnished sixteen
convcts than anti prohibition population of
1925
Mrs. LAMAR who died recently was quiet and re-
firing in her tastes very domestic and paid very few
visits while in Washington, preferrng the society of
her husband (of whom she was very proud, children
and few choice friends. Her disposition was sunny
and cheerful She leaves young daughter her
and two elder daughters being married.
A GERMAN inventor has brought out, theoretically,
silk 1t is to have steel tube wrapped with
silk to diameter corresponding with the ballistc
strength required. His argument is that silk has
greater elasticity than STEEL and quite much tenac
ity while the weight of silk gun would be only
third that of steel one and it could be fired much
oftener without getting hot.
IN religious paper an English rector has lately
given examples of the way in which children in
tona schools are taught to gable the church
Catechism One wrote: "To bear no manners or aired
in my heart" Another: 'To sucker my father, obey
the Queen and all that is put in thorty; to submit
myself to my governess teachers spirit pasters." An
other Suffered under the Pontious Plate was cruel
fed, He descended into heaven" Another my duty
towards my nabour is to do to men as would, and
no to obey the Queen, etc. These samples of
fifteen examples of what is called religious instruc
ton"
FRENCH traveller has just returned from Siam
boul with wonderful story of the sights he He
is eloquent about two thrones of enameled gold,
with organisations of pearls, rubes, and emeralds.
| In another room he two caskets, even mag
nifcent studded with rubies and diamonds in which
AAe hairs from the Prophets beard are jealousy
preserved. There also several curious instru
ments made of gold and thcky studded with gems on
! the back which were used as portable scratching
posts" Another hung with armor and
sceptres Baskets and escroires lay the table The
old eseritoires all shaped like pistol the inkstand
is placed at the spot occupied by the trigger and the
reeds and pen-knfe in the barrel There are
also inkstands in the shape of trays, each containing
FIVE saucers for ink, drying powder and other odds
and ends used by the writer's. In another room
the costumes of all the Sultans down to Mahmoud H.
Each of the costumes has silk scarf attached,
gether with magnifeently chased dagger and dia-
mond agrette. Then, heaped pellmel the keys
of the fortresses of the empire and finally the
sacred treasure consisting OF the relics of Isam the
mantle and the standard of the Prophet; his sword
and bow the swords of the first Calph and the Oldest
manuscripts of the Koran.