The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-23
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


CHARLEMAGNE used to compel all his court to join
him in his swimming baths.
THE most cooling drink if one will wait for five
minutes for the effect, is said to be hot tea.
THE most eccentric belle at White Sulphur Springs
decks her pony with from name to tail.
PROFESSOR BUDD is the official hcrticulturist Of
Iowa. He viii blossom out some day and be Il daisy.
IT is said that the Welsh language is yielding to the
inroads of the English, and the exercise in pro.
nouncing double is and triple VS. heretofore an in
dispensable preliminary to trp in Wales can now
be dispensed with.
In response to pathetic appeal for poem to print
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes writes that he has laid his
pen aside and let his ink dry for the rest Of the sum
mer season for fear of writer's c-amp and that he
has borrowed pen and ink to say so.
QUEEN VICTORIA is said to dislike the royal sepul,
chre Of her family at ST. Georges, because the bones
of George " rest there She holds his memory in alb
horrence and does not wish the remains Of any Of her
immediate family to be placed near his.
THE King Of Bavaria has written to Miss Mary An.
derson S manager asking for the terms npon which
Miss Anderson Will consent to play "Pygmalion and
Galatea in his heater for short tor his sole
benefit himself to be the only spectator
Mr.. STILsON HUTCHINs, owner of the Washington
Post is member of the New Hampshire Iegisla
when news came of the destruction cf the Post
building by fire. But there was no postponement Of
the banquet.
A GENTLEMAN of leisure in Utica believes that he
has discovered the lost secret of making violns that
probably originated in England in the twelfth century
and which has nmortalzed the names of Anatis at
Breschia the Stradivar and the Guarners at Creme.
ma and Steiner in the Tyrol.
4 VIOLENT hater Of tobacco is Dr. Hitchcock the
professor OF athletics at Amherst College He attrib
utes to its irnmoderae USE especially by immature
young men, all sorts of physical and mental ailments
and predicts that quarter of century more of ex
cess will produce generation of weakings
FRANCIS H. UNDERWOOD who viii succeed Bret
Harte Consul to Glasgow, is sixty years old He
did not write the Heather Chinee but he was the
first e'itor of the Atlantic Monthly is author of hi
oeraphies of Longfellow and Whittier and has com.
piled hand6ooks of American and English literature
which have permanent standard value.
LIVING ableaus in the open air are the most fashion
able amusement in England this summer ard some of
them are extremely elaborate. Women and girls Of
the arstocracy pose in these shows and such artists
as Alma Tatema employed to arrange the pictures.
1t is said that the sacrifices of person to art in the
wearing of my theological costumes have in sew
elal instances been startling
CORKs are now made npervious by simply soaking
them for several hours in solution of onehaf ounce
glue geatine in mixture of threef 5urhs ounce Of
glycerine and pint of water treated to tempera-
ture of about 500 Cent. Such corks may be made
nearly proof against acids if dipped when very drv
for ten or fifteen minutes into melted mixture of
four parts paratfiue and one of vaseline.
THE poisonous properties of stockings dyed wish
the brilliant aniline dyes it said may be rendered
harmless by dipping the articles in bath Of rubber