The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-15
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


NINE TUssAUD has added Battenberg in wax to her
famous collection and in the time Henry will
wax the British people out of $4,000 year to sup
| port his Royal Highness."
| EX-PREsIDENT ARTHUR has been invited to ad-
dress the veterans of the late at Greenwich
Saratoga. Mr. Arthur lived several years of his boy
hood in Greenwich, where his father preached in the
| Baptist Church.
| DIR. DOUGLAS says that shortly before his death,
| General Grant wrote the following epigram his
| tablet II am not personal pronoun, but verb A
verb is thing that does, is, suffers find in
myself all three of these"
He who runs may read on q monument at Columbia
S. c., that Gen S. r. Gist lies there. But he who
pauses moment may learn that his full is
States Rights Gis and straightway great chapter in
| the countrys history is unfolded.
Miss KATE FIELD went from Chautauqua to
Buffalo, where she taken to a club picnic ard
treated to supper, music and moonlight SAIL which
prompts her to ask why the West (neaning Bufalo)
sets good examples which the East (meaning Boston,
| fails to follow9
WILLIAM D. HowELLs says that no woman live
in the house with genius-which would indicate
astonishing scarcity Of genius-but the idea
hooked from Jane Welsh Carlyle who warned her
against marrying of genius but continued to live
with Thomas till she died.
A SET of Turkish paper money is among the most
| valuable possessions of the Numismatic and An
| tiquarian Society of Philadelphia. The particular
value of this set arises from the fact that bank
| notes are now used in Turkey, the many forgeries
compelip the government to stop their circulation.
SENATOR HILL, of Georgia, is said have received
the largest fee earned by Georgia lawyer. 1t
| amounted to $3.50 O00 Only $50, 900 of it, how
ever, collected. Judge Chisholm, of Savannah,
a f.. Al.
antic & Gulf railroad, and General Henry r. jackson
an equal sum.
| A SAN FRANc1sto manager, John A. Stevens. who
| is we'll known in New York, has hit upon plan for
| utilizing the crazy -qut fad. At every Wednesday
matinee at his play house. satin programmes dis
tributed to the gentewomen of the audience; and
they are Of different color each week 1t readily
be that the astute manager has made strong bid
| for female patronage.
| GENERAL SHERMAN once made very fair criticism
when he said in his graphic way and with his crisp
| style of expression: Grant always seemed pretty
certain to win when he went into fight with anything
| like equal numbers. l believe one great reason why
he much more successful than others that,
| while they thinking much about what the
enemy was going to do, Grant thinking all the
| time about what he going to do himself
| WRITER in an exchange describes an old way of
heating the district schoolhouse On brick arch
was placed an inverted potash kettle with hole in
the bottom for the funnel When that old kettle be-
came full of live Goals the minds were ready to work.
THE American Israeiite, the leading Jewish paper
of the country is stirring up the Jewish merchants
for keeping open their places of business Satur-
day. which is their holy Sabbath. The merchants
say they do half of all their business on that very
| day
THE Duke of Cambridge has left London for his
nual visit to Hamburg for relief of govt and ques-
tons asked if the people to pay in future for
his trips. Two hundred dollars charged in the
| last estimates for his conveyance from Dover to
| Calais. He draws 100000 year out of the public
pocket and irst-cass passage from Dover to Calais
is only So but his Grace Of Cambridge preferred that
the public should pay. There is feeling growing up
against the outrageous demands of these high
nesses and others who have descended like ocusts on
the land because they the Queens cousins uncles
| and aunts.
| THIRTY odd years ago. John M Langston starting
from Chillicothe O-where Rutherford B. Hayes had
just married his estimable wife-to see Mr.. Hayes
knocked at the door of the Neil House in Columbus
at night and sought the accommodations of tray
| eler. He denied because of q yellow skin. On
Monday morning President Hayes and ex-Minister
| Langston met in the corridor of the Fifth-avenue
with Mr.. Hayes So much has the black race advanced
in thirty years by General Grants sword and Abra-
ham Lncoln's proclamation, that the presence of
| these two gentlemen at the table excited no
comment whatever.
JEANNE BLINN, Marchandon's (the French muir.
derers) Mistress is being overwhelmed with offers
from parties eager to turn her notoiety to account
Two hundred photographers hailing from all parts of
the globe want the monopoly of the sale of her pho
tograph for considerable consideration. An Ameri-
can Snowman offers her prima donnas salary for the
right of exhibiting her in the States. The manager
of one of the Paris theaters has offered her lucra
| tive engagement. The proprietor of st. Peters.
burg cafe bids 900 rubes per for her to act
as cashier in his establishment One bold individual
a Pole, gees far to offer her marriage
"You will make an excellent housekeeper feel sure"
he says IN answer for you; for your past will
be guarantee of the future. 1 love you'll
| MERLY the noted French baritone lately deceased
allowed politics to ruin his artist In the
reign of Napoleon III he great favorite at the
opera One evening soon after he began his engage
ment there the Emperor and Empress came to hear
| him. The piece "Gullaume Tell" and every.
| thing went we'll up to thu famous phrase: 'L'inde.
pendence on la mort! Merly advanced as near as he
could get to the Imperial box and Numbered out the
words at its occupants shaking his fist in their di-
rection at the same time. The house was stupefed
| The Emperor repaid the insult with contemptuous
smile and shrug of the shoulders. Merly refused to
make the apology which the director insisted On the
next day. and his connection with the opera and with
it the prospect of rising to the summit of his pro-
| fession, camc to an untimely end.
| LYDIE PASHKoLL announces in the Figaro the APP
preaching restoration of the Empire of Tamerlane
under the sceper of the White Gar and she explains
that this empire must include matter of course
for otherwise it would not be Tamerlanes empire
Delhi the Ganges. In the first instance, however
the White Gear will be satisfied with all the territory
lying between Afghanistan and the frontiers of China
and it will not be until after with England that
he will take possession of Delhi the Ganges The