The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

is running for Parliament is that he will favor tax
on bachelors.
PRINCE CoLoNNA who married Eva Mackey. has
already spent all the money he got with the girl and
is bankrupted
Do LEWIS says that wearing large, thick, heavy
boots and blue hand-knt stockings will improve
woman's complexion.
THE only young student at the Boston Uni
versity Law School called appropriately by the men
law students their sisterin-iaw.
MRS. Ross the charming Newport postmstress, is
in Washington laying her way for reappoiutment.
She is young and pretty and they hard to beat,
you know-the widders.
THE trades union congress, which met this year at
Southport England for the first time admitted
women as delegates. There were 156 mems and FIVE
women's societies represented.
THE latest gastronomc novelty in Paris is roast
monkey, which is said to resemble cross between
hare and pheasant. The Germans say the Parisians
are actually becoming cannbals.
Mr.. ASHMEAD BARTLETT deveopes in the present
Parliamentary canvass unexpectedly popular
orator, with magnetic influence that exctes his
hearers to extraordinary enthusiasm.
THE Supreme Court of Texas has decided that
will scrawled on candle box is legal instrument,
thereby following English precedent where the tes-
tator chalked his testament stable door
THE bang is purely Turkish, having originated
with them, the square cut of the neck of dress
known as the "Pompadour, which style that lady
had doubtless borrowed from the Turkish bellies.
PRINCE ALEXANDER, of Bulgaria has very small
household keeping only four servants. This is likely
to be very convenient for him. The kind of family
he needs is that can be sent easily by express
''WHEN read the journal in the year 2OO1"
marks the Boston paper of that name I'VE expect to
it recorded that George Bancroft and his friend
Librarian Spoford, yesterday rode horseback for
three hours together
GENERAL GRANT and Bishop Simpson, of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, were first cousins. The
Bishops father and the Generals mother were
brother and sister. Thor father and mother were
Irish, from County Tyrone.
LONDON Truth says: After an absence abroad of
three months, the Empress Eugene has returned
from Italy to Marlborough The Empress crossed
from Calais to Dover by the mail boat on Saturday
afternoon, and was looking very i'll and worn"
WALKING matches no longer command attention in
England by the name of Spencer lately
walked 6, 900 miles in twenty-one days, doing the
journey with such that in the asst day had only
of miles to make. He used stimulants through.
out.
PROFESSOR of Chemistry" Surprising you were
called to patient who had swallowed heavy dose of
oxalic acid, whatwould you administer" Jones (who
is preparing for the pulpit and who only takes chem
istry because it is obligatory)"I would administer
the sacrament"
AN eminent Methodist minister told the editor of
the Christian Advocate that when preaching once at
the Sea Cliff camp meeting, he annoyed by two
clergymen behind him on the platform talking about
lots apd bargaining about lots that he with difficulty
refrained from denouncing them.
THE venerable widow of Ezekiel Webster brother
of the great statesman is now visiting her grand
daughter, Miss Kate Sanborn in Boston, and she has
just returned from visit to Mrs. George Bancroft
with whom she has been intimate since both were
bellies in Washington, sixty years ago.
THE Academy says of Miss Murfree's last book
GAS series of positively lurid sketches of scenery
character and life, all harmonzing with each other
for it hardly be called NOVELETTE, Prophet of
the Great Smoky Mountains surpasses anything of
the kind that has yet come from America"
PATIENT comes in. Homeopathic doctor, after
short conversation, takes little powder from jar
and says to the patient: "Smell that-now you're
cured" Patient says Doctor. how much do owe
youl' Doctor says: Twenty dollars" Patient takes
out a twenty dollar bill and says: Smell that-now
you're paid"
AFTER giving concert in London ten days ago,
Nine Patti left England for foreign tour Later in
the year she will give three operate performances at
Bucharest, and should political affairs permit she
may afterward sing in Constantnople and possibly in
Cairo. In April she will reach Paris and will then re-
turn to England.
LORD SALIsBURY's rapid rallying after a severe
surgical operation is greatly due to his splendid phys.
ical Development Son of of the richest and proud
est houses of England, from childhood to manhood ne
was Injured to privation and hardship until he came
to regard hunger cold toll and pain tres too light
for serious consideration, and sickness became a
stranger to his athletic frame.
LOWELL Citizen: 1t was Sabbath morning in the
early autumn and the sexton met him in the vestibue
of the sanctuary. 'You appear to be stranger sir;
shall / show you seat9 Would you like to go down
frontG" Down in frontl should rather saw did,
am the regular ordained pastor of this church. and
find the pulpit myself" Hes got better mem
DRY than I have" was all the sexton said as he
turned away.
THE expression of galvanizing corpse! has ceased
to be exclusively metaphorical NJ Kergovaty a
Frenchman has discovered method Of preserving
bodies by giving them metal coating. We may ac
cording to means. besome silver-rlated nickel
plated, or galvanized with zinc copper. The pro-
eleven
human bodies and more than hundred times on
the carcasses of animals.
JAY GoULD's father, staid honest old farmer in
Delaware county, in this State had very little faith
in his sons capacity to get on because he was not
fond of chopping, ploughing. sewing or reapine.
When the lad decided to quit his rural home the elder
Gould, it is said handed him half dollar and told
him he would certainly go to the devil He NAV have
10 ~ A.
imagined he would for the old gentleman lived to see
the worthless boy millionaire and to be generously
assisted by his fortune.
THE San Francisco Society of Lady Artists is hav-
ing great time. 1t doesn't know whether to call
itself lady" artists women" artists It has long
been local habit to- take matrimonial squabbles and
all matters requiring peculiar fnesse and exquisite
Establishment to General Barnes. Accordingly,
aft IL: 4l...= Al, -.