The Indianapolis journal., 1885-12-11
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mr.. GLADsToNE's voice has quite recovered its old
| volume.
THE cigarette habit is alleged to be at the bottom of
! the Servian ill success.
| Mr.. BLAINE has been invited to deliver an grafton
THERE are nearly 200 kinds of dogs recognized by
| the fanciers and breeders
| CANON FARRAR lectured forty one times, all told,
during his tour just ended.
| In Albania, when girl comes of age her brothers
are expected to find her suitor.
EDWIN BOOTH has never any one play Ham
| let since, boy, he saw his father in the
| character.
| A PENNSYLVANIA girl with an eye to business,
added to her wedding invitations mo pickle dishes
| for presents
PROFESSOR MoLrroR. Of the Black Hills has sent
to President Cleveland tin brick as a specimen of
what is raised in that p&rt of Dakota.
SIR c. w. SIEMENs says there is limit to the heat
to be generated by combustion. At certain point
both carbon and hydrogen refuse to take up oxygen
! COUNT DE LUGIyAL, q French nobleman, aged
twenty six, has just been married to a widow of
| seventy two Her fortune is valued at 6OOO 900
| francs
PROHIBITION organ shows that in one ward of
Philadelphia, containing population of 10000
| saloons.
| M. GOssE has, it Is said found means to re-
store the feke expression to the eyes dead bodies
He places few drops of glycerine and water on the
| cornea; Gfe-like expression is reproduced.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND wrote his message with
| stylographc pen and rubber tube attachment. The
tube was inserted in ink bottle containing just one
| quart of ink, only onehalf of which was used.
| SAID Halifax young lady to telegraph operator
the other day: "You must be terribly exposed. re-
ceiving so many dispatches from places where they
have smallpox Of course you vaccinated!"
The Princess Louise, wife of the Marquis of Lorne
has completed statue Of her mother, the Queen.
which is said to be really fine piece of work 1t will
be placed on the west front of Litchfed Cathedral
THE singular fact is certified to that for fifty eight
years past some person has found it worth his or
her while to pay the annual interest on green ,,r
brella pledged for three francs in pawn shop of
Paris
SENATOR VOORHEES,. of Indiana will be one of the
principal speakers at the dinner of the Holland So
cety of New York to be given JAM 8. The Senator is
direct descendant of Stephen Coerte van Voorhees,,
who came from Holland in 1860.
WHILE Cables publishers are getting out his new
novel of Acadan Life in Louisiana the author pro-
poses to give it to the public frsthand in series of
Philadelphia, Washington and ST. Louis.
BED lily twenty feet high is the latest flower
marvel. 1t combines utility with beauty, as a silk
thread three feet long be taken from It. It is
really an amarys of the genus Doryanthes, and
grows in Australia the land of wonderful blossoms
COLONEL LAMONT is not very tall and so he sits in
Office chair screwed up like piano STOOL and puts
his visitors in low, ottoman-ke chair so that he
looks down upon them with superiority. He still calls
the President Governor memory Of the days at
Albany.
AN Englishman named Edmundson is after John
Millions scalp-a long ways after it, indeed Mr. Ed.
mundson claims to be able to prove that Milton bor
rowed most of the ideas and many of the expressions
in Paradise Lost" and Paradise Regained" from
Joost van den Vondel, who was born in Cologne in
1885.
1T is impossible to publish the novel Colonel Burma.
by, OF the Guards killed in the Soudan left behind
him, because no one has been able to decipher the
manuscript. It has been examined by who knew
the authors handwriting WELL and hss been in the
hands of professional decipherist" but nothing
be made of It,
Me- GARRETT of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. has
good looks good health, good digestion. hundred
pairs of trousers. million dollar dwelling big rail
road and telegraph line and several millions Of dol
lars. Still he is not happy His neghbor on Mount
Vernon place. Baltimore. with whom lawsuit 10