The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-07
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE monument to Miles Standish on Captain 8
HILL Duxbury is still unfinished because Of lack of
funds.
VICTORIA HCIsKAM, nee Morosni, has been en-.
gagged by the management of the New York Casino
Theater to sing in comic opera.
THE venerable Louis kossuth is summerins in the
Lanzo Valley at the foot of the Savoy Alps but in
September will go to reside with his sou, Louis IT, at
Naples.
Col. T. w. HIGGISsON mounted on a tricycle., with
his little daughter in the behind him. is of the
prettiest sights that crafty the spokesman and the
mugNump at Cambridge
DR. BRowN-SEQUARD has just received the biennial
prize of 20 900 francs from the French Academy of
Sciences. He received seventy votes against seven
in favor of the explorer De Brazza
THE Mahd had four wives, but he married none of
them until when forty years DID, and the time was rife
for him to pear and fulfill the mission he has failed
in. He leaves two sons neither four years old.
FIRED with emulation of Evangelist Sam Jones'
Rev. JOB Cooley Methodist minister at Spring Place
Tenn, preached vigorous sermon to his flock re-
ma king that if they didn't like his style thsy could
leave In less than five minutes Mr.. Cooley was
alone.
In preparing to play the part of boy in her new
play, THE Trump" Mrs. Langtry is said to re.
hearse several hours every day in pantaloons to get
the hang of en- and yet she is believed to have
worn them continuously during her sojourn with Mr.
Langtry.
Miss TIDLMAN, Staten Island music teacher,
makes her professional rounds on tricycle. A
patent continuance attached the rear of the seat
with strap fastening the handle to her waist and
neck holds an umbrella her head to protect her
from the sun.
WHEN Mr.. Vanderbilt arrived at Saratoga there
came with him Mrs Vanderbilt; his only unmarried
son, George Vanderbilt; Mr.. and Mrs. George A.
Osgood, two maids, valet horses, four ve-
hicles two footmen, two coachmen, two stabemen.
three dogs and fifteen trunks making grand total of
| forty-th
| ALMA TADEAGA, tho a'tist, has just executed a
picture three and nehalf inches by two and onehalf
to 60 into a frame ornamented with old silver shoe
buckles. With characteristic audacity he painted on
this surface scene with fullength reclining fgure
in the foreground and with wide expanse of beach
sea and sky.
THE popular newspaper in Madrid has no manag-
ing editor. A dozen reporters secure the news and
drop their manuscripts in bag where they STAY until
the foreman wants copy. He pulls out, indiscrmi
natey enough to to fill up and with the matter fixed
in the forms in the most convenient way, the paper
| goes to press.
That eStlmaDle actor, JOhn T.. owens, is said to be
in very bad health. lie recently went to Charleston
from New York by to gain relief, but when he ar
rived in the Southern city he was worse than when
he started He intended to return to the stage next
autumn but his friends do not now think it would
be advisable to do 50.
To prevent the street Arabs from getting two free
swims when they ouly entitled to one admission a
| day, the policemen in charge of the New Yok CITY
baths feel the applicants If the nose is cold
the boy is hunted off with gnominy and rattan. The
boys trying hearty friction Of the telae feature
to correct the frigidiy.
THE present population of the city of Buenos Avres
is estimated at 400 600 One of the local newspapers
predicts that in few years it will be the New Yo, of
the southern hemisphere. Emigants are arriving in
steady stream. and if the proportion of the first six
months of the year is kept up, their number will be
| $50 900 before the LIST Of January next Italians
| form the great majority of the ncomers.
| JOHN MCCULLOUGH is rapidlysfnding out that he
| will not live much longer. He spends his time wan
dering about the grounds Of the asylum. Friendly