The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-11
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

| business in final article to be entitled THE Silent
| South"
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has offered the Liberian
mission to the Rev c. w. Bryant pastor of the Afri-
NJ. E. Church in Nashville.
THE roll of women doctors--that is. Of doctors who
are women-in the United States includes moro
! than twenty-five hundred names.
| MISS KATE GREENAWAY has prepared book
which will be published by George Routledgo & Sons.
| 1t is called the Marigold Garden.
Discussion between a wise child and its tutor:
That star you up there bigger than the world"
mo, it isn't" Yes, it is" Then why don't it
keep the rain off,
LADY TENNYsoS is in very delicate health. She
and her poet husband have returned to their home at
Farripgton, Isle of Wight, after sojourn in the
| bracing air of the Hampshire Downs.
| Mr.. STEAD, the editor of the Pail Mall Gazette,
| which has just raised such rumpus over the immor
atty of London is brilliant and industrious writer,
and has introduced many American Journalistic
methods in his office successfully.
TEXAS Siftings: Are you supersttious, my deara"
said Miss Birdie McGinns to newly -arrived stranger
| in Austin, to whom she had become engaged. mot
bit; but why do you ask replied the youth. Moth
ing, except you are the thirteenth young gentleman
0 whom have been engaged"
| DIR. ANDREE of Lepsg, at a recent meeting of the
| Archaeological Society of Vienna discussed the
| question whether iron was known in America in pre-
historic times. He concludes that moteoric iron
certainly in use among of the Indian tribes and
the Eskimo but he thinks they were acquainted
| with the art of forging iron.
| SIR PETER LUMsDEN who is receiving high honors
| from the Queen and the new Ministry, when ordered
home from Afghanistan had to ride all the way from
Herat 20 Astrabad the vilest horses along tracts
almost impossible, and without change OF clothing for
days. In day the General, who is ifty-eght,
rode eghtyoight miles. Sir Peter is both phys
| icaly and mentally strong
| NOVELTY at Milwaukee convent commencement
exhibition Of cooking on tie stage Oi-stoves
We're used. and the curtain rose upon very pretty
young lady in the act of taking loaf of bread from
the tin where it had just been baked. Another equal
ly pretty and expert put newly kneaded rusks in the
oven to bake while third turned her attention to
| preparing fricasseed chicken.
| AT Detroit Mr.. and Mrs. Van Damme had wills
drawn and by singular mistake she signed his tes-
lament and he signed hers. When Mr.. Van Damne's
will came to be probated after his death there
interesting time in court but after brief considera-
ton of the question Judge Durfee decided to be guild
ed by the manifest intentions Of the deceased and so
admitted to probate Mr.. Van Dammes will signed by
| Mrs. Van Damme.
| PROBABLY the most unpretentous tourists hotel
in existence is that at the bottom of the Grand Canon
OF the Colorado accessible by stage from Peach
Spring Station, the Atlantic s. Pacific railway 1t
consists of board shanty, of single room below,
with kitchen attached and two bedrooms under the
roof above. The stage driver is road owner guide
land ord and cook, all in one but makes his guests
comfortable The distance from the station is only
few miles, but the descent is 4 ZOO feet.
GENERAL LoGANS striking appearance caused
much comment in the East where he is not personally
so well known as in this region. AS he and his party
reentored their carriage after inspection of the
cu1ostes at the old State-house in Boston quite
party assembled the State street entrance of the
building among them large gathering of newsboys
and telegram messengers. Il say shouted one of the
gamins, don't he look like North American Ingine
Quite laugh ensued at this spontaneous criticism
BISHOP O'CoNNOR of Nebraska says in an inter.
view on the other side that Bishop Irelands colony
around St. Paul was failure because the Irish colon.
lists would not work, help the men the Bishop
sent to direct them Il heard he says, of one fell
low refusing to hand up the shingles to roof cabin
| which the Bishop building for him" An intend.
ing colonst, he thinks, should live with farmer for
! a year and then go out West. lie should not
think of going TO Nebraska with family with less
| than So, 600.
IT is fearful to think says writer what an enor-
nous expense it would be for Patti to bring up
child She would have to sing it sleep every night
for about three years and at the regular rates this
would amount T. $5,00OO00 Then, if she would
have to sing two extra to it each night
the amount would rise to SI5O0OOO, provided that
the child always in good health. Allowing the
usual third for sickness she would have to sing to it
all night for 800 days, say five hours at time Four
thousand dollars for few minutes singing is her
| cost $24O,O00
THE London correspondent Of q French journal paws
his respects to Mr. Henry James in clever paragraph
THE fashionable English novelist of the day is as we
all know, American; and there is nothing more
diverting, to my mind, than to see him occasionally
tackled by a new Importation who insists on claim,
ing patriotic knship with him. and discussing the
presidential election. Our novelist knows nothing
about the presidential election; nowadays it is no
| longer his FORM and l believe the only thing that
troubles him is tnat he cannot conscientiously affect
ignorance to the whereabouts Of Chicago. No one
has entered thoroughly into the Split Of the life
about him; paint the portrait of lady or
for that matter of gentleman, with so much insight
no one has a sweeter lisp"
| DIR. FRANK IL HAMILTON received much valuable
| assistance in the preparation of his medical works
from his wife who died last Saturday. A friend Of
the family writes: Not a page of any one of the
seven revised editions of his great work Fractures
and Dislocatons ia book of 1000 octave pages but
had the benefit of her suggestions in the manuscript
and her trained eye in the correction of technical as
we'll as mere typographical errors; and the same may
be said of his Treatise Surgery, and Military
Surgery and Hygiene. 1t is to her that DR.. Hamilton
audes when in the preface to the sixth edition of his
larger work, he makes acknowledgment as long
delayed tribute of affection and gratitude to who
has assisted him in the reading of the proof OF each