The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-03
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Miss BLANoE HOWARD has dramatized her novel,
'Guenn."
DURING the recent run on che New Haven Savings
Bank girl drew out her entire savings for
years, and invested them in a sealskin sacque.
AN obituary notice in San Francisco paper re-
ferred to deceased citizen as having "gone to hap.
pier home" This seem to be unnecessary exposure
of family affairs.
MAN in Rome Ga. holds note drawn in 1S48,
which was made payable when Lewis Cass should be
elected President of the United States AS he never
became President. the note has never been paid.
GENERAL SIMON CAMERON expects to celebrate his
eighty sixth birthday at the City of Mexico. He will
be accompanied his Southern pilgrimage this year
by Colonel James Duffy Lawrence Jerome and Charles
A. Dana, of New York.
THE mother of Lieutenant Schwatka has Just died at
Salem, Ore, aged seventy-three. Her daughter died
last week. Lieutenant Schwatka's father seventy
four years of age who lost both legs in an accident
year ago, is verv feeble.
Mr.. HORACE HOWARD FURNEss has given thou.
sand dollars to Vassar College, to be used as prize
fund FOR successful competitors in Shakspearean
essays, in memory of his wife, Kate Rogers Furness
who Shakspearean scholar.
ONE of the strangest for snas has been dscov-
cred by the London Adulerator. Bruised in milk and
boiled they much used in the manufacture of
cream and retired milkman pronounces them to be
the most successful imitation known.
THERE sixteen women on the rolls of member
ship of the order of the Legion of Honor in France
Lady Pgott, who received the decoration from NJ
Theirs in 1872, in acknowledgment of her war serv.
ices, is the only foreigner among Them
WELL, how the ladies dressed?" was asked at
one of the clubs of member who had just come in
from very fashionable dinnerparty. my dear fell
low, he replied II really don't know The fact is,
I didn't think of looking under the table,"
Mr.. CLEVELAND has been presented with one cane
which he intends to keep. 1t was made from tree
which planted at Ellcott City, Md, the day
that General Jackson inaugurated President. The
donor is Mr.. James Cartwright of that place.
ONE of Mr.. Spurgeons publishers has just made
him present of black-and tan-colored carriage,
upholstered with the most luxurious cushions, and
containing various shelves for books and parcels an
array of cigar boxes and trays, and handsome look
ingglass.
BOSTON Globes He was playing whist, and taking
up hand bristling with spots and wholly lacking
trumps, he scornfully said: Bring a cat. will
your What for?" asked his astonished partner.
why, want something to play with" Silence as Of
the grave followed and the wind howled without
THE Rev. Charles Franklin Thwing, the new presi-
dent of Grinnell College, Iowa, is native of New
Sharon, Maine, graduate of Harvard and Andover,
and is only thrtyone years old He has been pastor
of Congregational Church at Cambridge Mass, and
is known writer on religious and educational
topics.
MADAME GUICcIoLI described Lord Byron as hav.
ing very capricous temper and with nothing of the
passion which pervades his poetry-a1d which he was
in the habit of ridculing-in fact with cold temper
ament. It surprising to the number Of letters
written to him by women offering themselves to him
any terms. They were mostly from English ladies.
A RECENT traveller gives the following as some of
the rules for living held by the modern dervishes,
which somewhat upsets the popular idea of dervish:
BE kind to those below you in life do not criticse
the faults of others; you them conceal them if
| you cannot do this with your hand do with your
skirts your tongue and your heart. day win come
when nothing will benefit you; neither family nor
wealth; nothing except submission to God with pure
| heart"
VICTORIEN SARDoU is firm believer in spiritual.
ISM and declares that he is often under supernatural
| guidance. He shows plate of copper which is
! engraved with minute exactness and marvellous skill
picture of Moliere's house. Seated one day at my
table," he says II fell into reverie. Unconsciously
took up the graver and mpelled by secret influence
let hand follow its direction that plate
The engraving you is the result of several hours
| of purely mechanical toll. I could not Of my OWE
viii make such picture to save my life"