The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-31
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

LADY TENEYsON is in such delicate health to
cause much anxiety to her family
LIEUTENANT DANNENHOWBR in a recently pre-
pared paper has taken firm stand against arctic ex-
plorations
THE San Francisco papers say thst the practice of
shipping coin by men ofwar frequent in former
times, both by American and British vessels the cap
tain having per cent. as personal perquisite.
DAN RICE, the old circus clown has set up claim
to the whole island on which stands the city of Gal
weston, Tex. Mr.. Rice has in his possession an old
Mexican land grant obtained from Daniel McLaren,
an original Spanish settler which covers the claim.
ELLA VoLPI, the Italian artist, is painting for the
Queen of Italy beautiful FAM which is described as
marvel of elaborate finish 1t is painted on kid leather
and represents the Queen surrounded by the Graces
and other allegorical figures with the genius of Italy
in the act of browning her.
THE remains of Prince Paul Demidoff, after resting
in the chapel of the Villa di Pratoina during several
months, lighted day and night by enormous candel-
abra have been sent from Florence by special train to
Siberia accompanied by the pope of the family The
Demidofs are immensely rich. Their ancestor was
blacksmith.
NEW YORK Sun: Prospective bridegroom ito pros
pectve bride)-Would it be possible do you think,
dear, to postpone our wedding until Monday? am
portant business. P. brde-T1n afraid not, George,
dear. The wedding presents you know only
rented until Saturdays
ELEPHANTS are not numerous the western slope
Of equatorial Africa being found only aShg the fer
tile river valleys, and rarely going the banks
Of the Congo until the hiy and barren country is
passed. Above Stanley Pool they increase in num-
bers and roam in large herds seldom being nolosted
or hunted by the natives
IT is told of Gabrelli that when she visited Russia
III 1868 Catherine wished to engage her services, for
which the songstress demanded salary of 5000
ducats. Far too much" said the Empress, amazed.
why, that is more than pay my field marshals."
Then let your field marshals sing to YOU" was the
swift rejoinder of the singer.
IT recalled that Carlyle speaking of the late Lord
Houghton, once said "Well Dickey Mines has his
peculiarities, but he has kind good heart Many
starving of letters his life him. No one
knows better than do the many $50 notes he gave
to keep struggling mans head above water and no
one ever knew it from himself
STATISTICS show that the export of wheat from
California Oregon and Washington Territory gives
employment nually to than four hundred
sailing vessels The average passage for each craft is
about 10000 miles, in average time of between
four and FIVE months. Many of the largest and finest
sailing ships, American, Norwegian and English are
kept busy in the trade.
PROBES IoNAL beauty on the Pacific coast finds
lucrative employment a pretended illustration of
the merits of patent medicine wonderfully lovely
young woman travels in the chariot of u vender of
medicine, which he declares, caused the perfection of
her complexion. He sells a tonic, too to which he
attributes the abundance of her hair and drugs for
the increase reduction of flesh to her standard.
SEVENTEEN years ago the death penalty for murder
in the first degree abolished by Minnesota and
life imprisonment substituted but the gallows has
just been regretted Michigan has tried the same ex-
pertinent and not long since bill was passed by the
lower house of the Legislature re-enacting the hang
ing policy although it failed of adoption in the Senate
Maine did no hanging for six years, and then went
back to capital punishment.
A WRITER for Alexander Dunas's short.liyed
journal the Mousquetaire recolects that the editor
fixed liberal prices accepted articles but that the
cashier usually showed empty money drawer when
asked topa Dumas kept notice in the paper that
no books or theater tickets would be accepted as
gifts because he preferred that his critics should buy
what they needed but request for money with which
to obey this rule always made the cashier grin.
The lasso commonly used by cowboys is made of
sixty feet of rope, third of which forms the loop
When thrown, it is swung the head and left
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peculiar turn of the wrist calculated keep the loop
open until it encrces the object at which it is flung
Expert thIowers do not pride themselves on ca ching
steer by the horns but try to so hurl the in
front of the beast that he will step into it, thus en-
taugling his legs aud throwing him. In a Wyoming
exhibition, cowboy repeatedly caught bull by any
leg that the spectators named
SIR HENRY BEssEMER, the steel process inventor,
first made his mark by devising stamp that could
not be used twice. The English government made him
superintendent of stamps, at good salary, and he
called his betrothed to inform her that they could
get married soon His invention consisted of die
that punched four hundred holes in the paper to be
stamped and the young lady suggested that it would
be much simpler to make stamp that contained
movable dates. He set to work and devised one
which the government adopted, and which cost him
the position that had just oeen created for him. He
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