The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-17
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

OF the 623 newspapers and periodicals published
in foreign languages in this country 483 are in Ger
man.
JOHN MCCULLOUGH is steadily regaining health
and all IDEA of placing him under the control of
guardian has been abandoned.
PHOTOGRAPH taken in North Scion, o.. contains
the pictures of mother and her nine sonss young
est of the latter being forty years of age.
PROFESSOR AGASSIZ, when requested to deliver
course of lectures and tempted by liberal offer of
remuneration, reped Il cannot afford to waste my
time in making money.
GENERAL" BOOTH, of the Salvation Army re-
Gently advertised for clerk who must write short
hand and be fully saved"
AN alarming prevalence Of lung diseases among the
society" people of Washington is curiously- at
tribted by local medical authorities to constant in
suffciency of substantial food.
PITTsBURG Chronicle Telegraph: An absent hus-
band telegraphed to his wife, II send you kiss He
received the reply: Spruce young man called and
delivered the kiss in good order"
THE rollerskate dates back to 1861, The patents
for seventeen years. Not until the patent rights
ran out did it become popular. Now there some
1900 legitimate Kinks through the North, and it is
the universal and popular craze
M SALLIARD, the archeoogist has discovered the
workshop of aprehistoric armorer or smith on a
steep rock by the sea the southwest side of the
peninsula of Quiberon Brittany which dates from
the stone age.
THE illustrated London Police News known some
times the Penny Dreadful has circulation of
about 300 600, chiefly in the rural districts. This
paper and the Christian World about the only two
papers ever in communities.
ANNA DICKINSON has abandoned politics, dropped
such characters Claude Melnotte' and Hamlet
the stage, has resumed her old position on the
lecture platform and is enjoying reasonable
cess in some of the New England towns.
WHEN Mrs. Gaines appeared in court her husband,
the gallant General always sat by her side in full uni
form, with sword and belt Ifany wrangle occurred
in the progress of suit he failed to remind
counsel that he accepted the full responsibility for all
the lady or her lawyer might say do. 2
A GEORGIA man has not slept in a house since the
He travels from place to place within the State
carrying his entire wardrobe with him as we'll as his
cooking utensils, and spends the night wherever dark
ness may overtake him. He reads the news
papers and devotes all his spare time to studying the
Bible.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA: II have heard some
thing about the alleged taciturnty of your ustrous
soldier, Ulysses s. Grant. Well, can solemnly as
sure you that heard him after dinner in England.
with an ex member Of Parliament for Brighton speak
ing for thirty minutes the City of Mexico and Civ
ing the most lurid and picturesque account of it
which had heard"
Mr.. LABoUcHERE relates in Truth that he was in
Florence when The Grand Duke was turned out. II
was in the palace" he says, when patriotic but
practical Italian friend of mine said Metternich
always sent the fallen despo of his best wines let
us drink it. The proposal carried by acclama
ton. trembling mental ordered to bring up the
wine, under pain of instant execution. We drank it.
1t was singularly excellent"
SARAH BERNHARDTs gorgeous imperial mantle,
in Sardou's new play, Theodore" is the talk
of the hour in Paris Though not so valuable as the
original which was said to be worth 5000, 900, the
modern mantle cost 81, 600, and is exactly copied
from the famous mosaic portrait of the Empress of
Ravenna. 1t is made in blue satin, bordered with
gold and with peacocks having sapphire and en-
erald pumage and ruby eyes, and is by Theodore
when visiting the hipprodome in state.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA: "Some people say that
Louis Napoleon not brave. | say that he was one
of the most phlegmatic and bravest of He rode
through the streets of Paris fully ten horses lengths
ahead of his staff when at every window there might
have been an assassin with the same imperturbable
countenance and the same expression of beirg only
half awake that had first noticed. saw him when
young man, in the zenith of his power, and again
after his downfall, but always there was the same
semi-somnambuent-leth argic expression.
THE figure of Walt Whitman, says the Philadelphia
Press SIS becoming less and less familiar upon Chest
nut street and Camden ferryb boats, whereon he de-
lights to ride in time back and forth. The
poets football is heavy and irregular he is above the
average height his hair and beard are long and white
but the blood beneath the skin gives rudy almost
tinge to his face 1t must have been beauti
full face and even now as he talks, the lines of
age fade away and the beauty of its youth becomes
again visible. The eyes bluegray and the fore
head prominent above the eyes. but not high Though
he rejects old forms of poetry the clothing of his
body from the big white felt hat the spotess shirt
collar. the expanse of shirt bosom fastened with