The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-08
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THERE are in this country at present according to
estimates, very nearly if not fully, SO, 900 skating
Kinks.
THE custom in France in the time of Charles VIII,
of strewing furniture. bedding and floors is
again coming into vogue.
A BOOKSELLER in Liverpool offers collection of
autographs and among them the autograph of adams
&c. Francs) late President of the U. s. A. letter of
three pages, signed, and dated London June 90 1868
IS 3D."
THE venerable and benevolent banker w. w. Cor
coran, of Washington has far recovered his good
health to be able to receive and social visits
and he is an occasional caller on the ladies at the
White House.
EMPRESS EUGENIEs "Recollections of My Life
will appear in week or two, and it is surmised that
of her recolections very similar to the
cries of Mrs. Harris-some of the incidents in the
career of each having been quite coincident
MRS. W. T. SMITH, of New Haven, Conn., wrote
President Cleveland's inaugural message, 1858
words on postal card in two and half hours. She
sent it to Mr.. Cleveland, with request for his auto
graph, and he has returned it with his signature
across the center of the card.
THE vassar alumne of Chicago and the west are
establishing educational fund for the education OF
Western girls whose scholarship and character make
cOUeglaJ6
ton, but whose poverty prevents their taking it.
Nearly SO 600 has been raised.
RESIDENTS of large American city would deem il
rather small business to hold a public meeting pass
resolutions and appoint committees composed of the
mayor aldermen and leading citizens all for the prr
pose of having baked and presented an ordinary wed
ding cake. Yet such tomfoolery has just been seri
ousy enacted in Liverpool cake for the Princess
Beatrice.
In Ferdinand Meyer famous museum of ancient
seals, documents, etc., at Berlin, decree on parch
ent has been discovered bearing the date of Tanger
muende Friday after Ascension A. D. 1856" in
which ancestor of the Iron Chancellor-C Claus Won
Bismarck-fgures as of the witnesses to decree
by which Margrave Ludwig, the Roman, of Brandon
burg, conferred two villages in fef on Johann Won
Pinnow.
STRANGE sight presented in the streets of Tue
son, Arizona, one day last month. woman appeared
carrying childs empty coffin her shoulder, fol
lowed by lot of little girls Later the scene was re-
versed and the coffin was borne by four little girls
followed by several women. 1t is uncommon sight
to see coffin borne to the grave the shoulders of
m an but woman rendering the service was novel
spectacle.
Mr.. QUARITcH the London bookseller has many
peculiarities. Perhaps of the best known his
attachment to old felt hat in which at any great sale
he invariably appears He has had for years. and OBJ
stinately refuses to part with it. It's shape is well
known to frequenters of the rooms" Onegentleman
well known collector had great desire to possess
the headpiece memento of the great bookseller
and tried but in vain, to induce him to part with it
Failing in possession he tried to soften Mr. Quaritch
with gold But still in van--even when the collector
offered SO for the old tile. Mr. Quaritch when the