The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-01
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

SLAB HOLLOW, Vt, has petitioned the Postofice
Department for a more dignifed title.
MR.. LABouCHERE says that Queen Victoria seems
to have aged much during the last ten months.
GOVERNOR HoADLY, of Ohio, intends to return to
his law practice, which is expected to yield about
$50. 600 a year.
JENNY LIND will sing i'll public, next summer, for
the first time in twenty-five years. Her appearance
will be for a charitable purpose.
THE Marquis Of Lorne has written for the Youths
Companion an article on Chances for American
Boys"
Mr.. GEORGE H. BOXER, the wellknown Philadel-
rhian, and the author of Francesca da Ri1nini, " has
written a play entitled "Glaucus, or the Last Days of
Pompe;i," for Mr.. Lawrence Barrett.
MORE than 910O, 900 a year is received by Queen
Victoria from the estates Of persons who die intestate
and without heirs, all such property belonging to her
Majesty, in right of her royal prerogatiye.s
SENATOR SABIN, having untangled his financial
skeins, finds that he is nothing like as poor as Jobs
turkey. He once thought himself hopelessly involved,
it is said, but now he is on his feet and in good shape
THE basket given by Washington to one of his mes
sengers, David Eaton, of New Hampshire, as a dis
patch box, is preserved carefully by his daughter,
Mrs. Burke, of Portland, Me-, who is now eighty-six
years old.
Miss MARY LEE, daughter of the late Gen. Robert
e. Lee, is an indefatigable traveller. She is now Wis
iting her cousin, United States Minister Lewis, in
Portugal, and before she returns to this country will
extend her tour to Japan.
THE police force of Berlin boasts a self.taught lin
guist who has improved his leisure hours by translat-
ing a recent work from the Chinese. He has mastered
four languages, and is also about to publish a volume
of stories and sketches entitled From the Diary of a
Berlin Policeman"
NINE. HELEN HoPEKlRK. with her short. cluster
ing youthful locks, her broad collar and her puffed leg
of-mutton sleeves, wrestling warmly with a Beethoven
sonata, is quite like a figure out of some old English
master" So she seems to the Photographic eye Of the
Boston Transcript.
Four children in white Liberty silk, shocked in pale
coral and coral Liberty sashes, waited upon Miss Mary
Ellen Gladstone ct her marriage to Stuart Trottar. in
Northwood Church, England. says London Truth.
The bridegroom gave to each little lass bar brooches
with the brides initials.
THE senior partner of the well-known publishing
house of Oliver Ditson & Co. recently celebrated. in
Boston, his seventy-fourth birthday. The foundation
of this house was laid in 1885, and Mr.. Ditsop. who
has been identified with its growth from the begin
ming, takes as active an interest in it's affairs as ever.
M. GREvY," says a chatty person in Paris. sis
very rich and very misery. He eats plain food be.
cause he is too stingy to buy the dainties. How much
he is worth no one knows, but it cannot well be less
than 81, 500, 600. a large part of which is in Paris
houses. And he is saving money all the time out of
his salary"
The ~.rappings of the white elephant of King The.
baw are said to be worth a million dollars. The roval
regalia are reputed the most valuable in the world,
especially in rubies and s~apphires. Ruby mines exist
just north of Mandalay, to which no European has
ever been allowed access. The Burmese war is, there.
fore, likely to yield plenty of loot.
NINE. DEMoREsr is described as being s.apnarentlv
~forty-fve years of age, tall, with dark eyes and hair,
streaked with a few silver threads, and combed
smoothly back from her face. She wore a black silk
dress, with front of open embroidery lined with white
satin. Her dolman was of black brocade plush, and
her bonnie and gloves of silver drab."
THE late Bishop Fraser, of Chester, England. ex.
claimed one evening twenty minutes before services:
II have not a single idea what I am to preach about. :"
He flung off his coat, and in his shirt sleeves sat down
at a table, and in twenty minutes emerged from the
room with the heads of a sermon which thrilled and
electrified a vast congregation for nearly an hour.
THERE died at Walingford, Conn, lately, a spinster
who remained one on account of a curious pre-nuptial
quarrel. The day had been fixed for her wedding.