The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-30
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

| Mr. BROWNING and his sister recently went sevep
| miles on foot in Italy rather than ride donkeys
AFTER eighteen hundred years, the manis still ims
perfectly homogeneous is of the cleverest things
Mr.. Howells ever said.
| FRANK JAMES is now dry goods clerk in Nevada
Mo. The foor-walker is very respectful to him. and
customers dispute his prices.
| REV. DIR. FUNK, editor of the Prohibition Voice is
short. heavy an with long black hair streaked with
gray His complexion is very swarthy.
PARAN STEVENS made Sc. 600, 900 in the hotel bust
ness, and his wife the Victoria Hotel in New
York and share in the Fifthavenue Hotel in the
same city
SARAH CURRY, aged nineteen years. girl of Scotch
Irish parentage residing at Dover N. H., has re-
| ceved cablegram announcing that by the recent
| death of an uncle in Scotland she inherits ST. OOO-
OOO
Mrs. LANGTBY not satisfied with the natural color
of her hair, which beautiful, and of which she
took incessant has painted it kind of reddish
color which, it appears is becoming the fashion in
| Paris.
KAISER WILLIAM is not only the oldest officer in
| the German army in age but in service also. His
| commission major-general bears date of March
30, 1918, and he joined the army ensign March
| %, 1907.
IT is stated that the medical examiners of the boys
who candidates for the place of apprentices in
the navy, found that nearly all suffered from heart
trouble imperfect eyesight, caused by smoking
| cigarettes.
| EX-GOVERNOR JOHN D. LONG is said by Boston
Post gossiper to make the brightest of afterdinner
speeches, and yet be does not drink wine. The Post
says of his wittest efforts was made at dinner
given to Henry Irving by Mr.. Dorsheimer.
| Col. JAMES EDWARD CALHOUN, of Elberton, Gao
1ativ IF fhn Tobr ~ on1 &c
refinement considerable culture and more eccentric
ity is about to marry young widow, and yet at the
age of ninety his friends that he old enough
| know better.
JOSEPH SCAvENIUs EsTRUP, the Danish Prime
Minister is an aristocratc, fnelookng man Of the
old unker class. He has large head fine perception
strong. wellmolded features, large Roman nose, a
thick gray mustache and very obstinate expressioR
of countenance.
CLARENCE SEWARD, William III. Stewards son, ia
said with his fierce, gray mustache and long, gray
hair, which falls pcturesquely behind his ears FROM
underneath his silk hat to look like cavalier
soldier affecting the dress Of the civilian than an
tute, plodding lawyer.
Mr.. HowELLs calls his new novel "The Minister'S
Charge; The Labors of Lemuel Barker" It's pub
LEGATION will begin in winter number of The Century.
AS already stated some of the characters of Tho
Rise of Silas Lapham will reappear in The Mnisters
Charge" the scene of which is laid in Roston.
GEORGE f. ADAMS a wellknown newspaper man,
and of the three proprietors of the Washington
Star the first correspondent to telegraph the name
of Wilkes Booth as Mr.. Lincon's assassin. 1t
Laura Keene who informed him. Adamss dispatch
was filed before the censorship was established.
A PARIS newspaper lately offered prize for short
story, and Nm. Claretie. Sarcey and Win tbs
| jury. Among the works contributed NOT
one found worthy of commentator, while all
so lugubrious that of the jurors remarked,
After perusng all these tales sent in felt very
much as if had come out of hospital
| FEMALE car conductors are common objects IN the
towns of Chill During the war with Peru when most
of the able bodied men were drafted into the army
women were employed in this capacity and proved
themselves so successful that they have been contin
ned in the employment. They usually girls from
twenty to twenty-five dressed in natty uniforms and
iaunty Panama hats and white pinafores
| OF Major Benteen, who is to be one of General
Sheridan's aides. the Omaha Bee relates that at tina
close OF the he declined an appointment to be
major in the Ninth tcolored) regiment. saying he
would rather be captain in white regiment, and
accordingly made captain in the Seventh Twelve
years later he promoted to the very majorshp he
had declined before, but which he then accepted.
THE late Judge Delos Lake. of San Francisco, en-
desred himself greatly to the criminal classes by his
method Of passing sentence, which first, to ex.
hbt all the thnnderbos of the law then to point ous
that the culprit might not be hardened in SIM heaes
elemency might work cure, aud then &c remark
bandy: II sentence you to nineteen years and
eleven months-I might have given yeu twenty years