The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-06
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE average glass of whisky for which 10 or Is
cents is paid costs the d~istiller one-sixth of a cent.
MRS. E. D.. E. N. UTHwo is announced to
be writing her s~ixty-ffth novel in her s~ixty-ffth year.
A MORMON only becomes a fractional part of a
WHOEVER when one of his wives dies, but when he dies
they all become full widows.
DAVID DAVIS laughed at a womap's poetry twenty
eight years ago and she has retaliated by laughing at
his shape ever since. He says she is the only enemy
he has.
Mrs. MARY ASHLEY TOWNSEND. the poet of the
exposition opening at New Orleans. is an Iowsn by
birth, and her husband is a New Orleans commission
merchant.
CARLYLE approved of a light supper before going
to rest. and advocated a quiet pipe twice in the even
ing, an innocent spoonful of ~porridge at 10, and bed
bed at IL.
Or Richard Monckton Mines Gord Houghton)
book on Keats, Carlyle makes this remark: IAN at
tempt to make us eat dead dog by exquisite currying
and cooking"
The young lady whom Stephen Gladstone, the
parson son of the Premier, is going to marry, is barely
twenty-one years of age, and is described as having a
perfect temper and unfailing spirits.
HEAR that Lord Coleridge has not heard the last
of the Adams affair. His involuntary soninlaw is
likely to sue him as well as his son. Mr.. Adams has
married the elderly young lady and seems prepared to
give her family a lively time.
THE convicts in the Ohio penitentiary write essays
every month. A curious fact is that in the December
batch there were three articles on vivisection and four
on capital punishment, written by murderers, and two
on the dangers of night work, written by burglars.
AN Arizona editor writes of his neighbor: Let the
onery cuss go on with his abuse; we don't care. He
reminds US of a fellow who should try to dye wool
while it is on a lambs back. And it isn't because he
is a lamb-dyer either; oh, no; quite the other way"
NINE. MATERNA had a narrow escape lately at the
Imperial Opera-house in Vienna. She was at the
wings and was just about stepping on the stage, when
a large ball filled with gas caught fire and suddenly
exploded close to her. Fortunately she was not in
jured, though her nerves were shaken.
LORD CoLERIDGE says that when in this country
he was struck by the absence of childhood We defer
to our children, ask their opinions, allow them to en-
gross the general attention. force social obligations on
them, and cut them off from 'all the sweet depend
ence of their years, - making grown persons of them
before English children have left the nursery.
IT is rumored that Samuel J. Tilden has wiled his
country-seat at Yonkers, known as Greystone, to be
used as an educational Institution of young men in
political careers. There is to be a select course of
study in the political history of the past, biography of
all the great statesmen, a knowledge Of all the i'm
portant legislation, supplemented by his large and
valuable library, and by the instruction of competent
and cultured teachers.
THE legitimate conclusion of the landlord system in
Great Britain is furnished by an American million
aire who spends his money among the English aris-
tocracy. Mr.. Ross Winans, of Baltimore, who has
secured by purchase and rental some $50 square
miles or less of deer-preserving forest land in the
Highlands of Scotland, has prosecuted a shoemaker,
who lives on one edge of the property, for permitting
a pet lamb to pasture on the preserves.
KEY WEST, which has a population of $4,000, is
one of the most peculiar cities In the world. It has
no chimneys, no s~how-windows, no brick blocks. no
fine buildings, no planning mills, no steam mills, no
machine shops, no farmers driving in with loaded
teams, no country roads, no railroads, no rattle of
machinery, no noise of any kind, except the beating
of the waves against the coral-bound shores, and yet,
for its size, does a very large manufacturing and ship.
ping business.
THE Gil Bias is publishing NJ. Emile Zola's new
novel, ''Germinal' as a f~euilleton. M. lola does not
disdain to write at so much a line, for his contract
with the Gil Bias was to furnish 30, 600 lines at one
franc per line-that is to say, So 900 for the right of
first newspaper publication. Successful authors have
often been fond of making a bargain at lineage
rates. When Mr.. Sala wrote the Thanksgiving sup
plement to the London Graphic he received q half
penny a word.
b. F. SHILLABER says of Adirondack Murray
II liked him very much, and through all his vicissi..
tudes thus far. The Aldermen Cutes have been ready
to put him down. but he is elastic and bounds up
again the more the pressure. He is, as Father Taylor
said Of his son-in-law. Judge Russell, not much of a
saint, but is a sweet sinner The world has been too
harsh with him. / once fell in love with a young lady
because she could climb a cherry tree. I equally adj
mired Mr.. Murray when a portion of the great tree on
the common blew down, and a policeman told him be
should have as much of it as he could carry off. He
shouldered "a limb of great size like a giant and walked
off with it as Samson did with the gates of GAIA
THE Duke Visconti-M Of Milan, has unex-
pectedly come into a large fortune by the death of the
Florence. The Duke became a millionaire and q
widower at the same moment. His wife had lived q
very quiet and reserved life, and it was generally be-
lieved that her income was very moderate. AS she
left no will an inventory was made of her fortune
after her death, when her husband discovered, to his
no small surprise, that not only in several odd corners
of her rooms, but also In a good many pieces of
furniture, bundles of bank notes were carefully hid
den, the net value Of which amounts to over 5000
600 lire, while the search In the fruitful field Is still
continued; but no one seems to know how the Duchess
made her pile"