The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-04
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

SCAMP MEETING" JOHN ALIEN-the grandfather,
by the way of Mrs. Lillian Norton Gower-has lately
recovered from serious illness.
). VERDI says he never intended to compose opera
entitled 'Othello," ard that he will write more.
my is ended" he says 'let the younger
men have their turn"
LAWN chairs and settees, and similar articles Of
furniture, longer painted by hand but dipped
into watts of paint and then set to drip in troughs
The vanishing is done in the way.
IT Willis who said that there are so few inval
ids unemptable by sweetmeats, pastry and gravies,
that the usual dinner. table civtes ars very like
offerings of polite assistance to the grave.
ION account of the anniversary of the death of my
motherin-law, will take pictures at af-price to-
day." was the notice posted the door of Green.
wich Conn.,, photograph gallery last week.
COLONEL r. w. POPE, of Boston, fixes the price Of
all bicycles sold in the United States, and receives
royalty each machine. His business is enormous,
his profits large, and his wealth among the millions
A BEEKEEPERs' association has presented to Prin-
Beatrice a wedding present 'bee' set in da-
monds and precious stones. The Princess returns
her warmest thanks for the Charming and appropri.
ate'' present.
THE German and Dutch books printed in dark-b blue,
on palegreen paper, have not given a satisfactory
result. It confidently expected that the combna
ton would prove restful to the eye, and diminish
hortsightedness
VICTOR HUGO used to express a desire that his
of Villequier, the Seine half way between Rouen
and Havre where his wife and his daughter and her
husband were buried.
MARK TwAIN's wealth is stated thus: From the
publication of his books. 5000, 0OO the amount of
the being due to the fact that he has always been
practically his publisher. and thereby made all
the profit for himself; lecturing 800 900; scrap.
book $50, 0OO >wifes fortune 75. 900; total 1925
600. That is about the sum he now possesses.
A PARIS drapery house Is selling bath bags" by
the of which refined people may obtain sort of
velvety, oatmeal soap complexion ablution for the
moderate sum of eight cents These queer articles
consist of bag containing half pound of an
meal and little powdered soap. On wetting and
pressing the bag lather is produced and at the same
time, soft pad for rubbing purposes.
SENATOR EDMUNDS says, in letter addressed to an
Indian graduate of the Carlisle schools II shall be
glad at the next session to do anything in my power
to make general provision that an Indian who
chooses voluntarily and in some formal way to re.
his allegiance to his tribe and assert his desire
tobecome citizen of the United States with all its
rights and responsibilities, may do So"
THEY get ready for camp meetings in business
like way down in Texas 1t will be noticed that in the
following extract from the Bastrop Advertiser moth.
ing is said about the preaching but this was probably
an oversight Immense preparations are being made
for Major Penn's campmeetng, which begins in Hills
prairie the 1st day of July. August Albrecht will
run restaurant, ice cream lemonade and soda foun.
tain the grounds building now being erected for
that purpose forty feet in width by seventy in depth"
'OUR theory of the newspaper" says Charles Dud
ley Warner the editor of the Hartford Courant, sis
that it is very much what the public want it and
make it. and we believe that, rule, the tone of
newspaper is higher than that of majority of its
readers The editor feels inevitably the responsibility
Of his position, and, doubt, would often like to
make better newspaper than he does make. But
editors land especially publishers) human and
many of them have notion that they must live
somehow and that little lowering.of tone is profit
able
In the brides room at Mt. Vernon so called from
having been set apart for Martha Washington when
she came to her husbands home, the superintendent
points out dressing-case. 'You will observe" he
says that there are glass knobs on the drawers and