The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-14
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

VI hOAHSG with LOQAAO SAOCSs
GENERAL LoNGsTREEr is now practically demon
strating down in Georgia his ability to keep a hotel,
and they do say that his charges are even more terrific
than those he made during the war.
IN Manchester, n. H., there is a horse whose hair
turned white in a single night, or perhaps more accu-
rately, in two days. The horse was rescued from a
burning stable, and afterward the hair on its fore
head and along its neck changed from brown to white.
MIR. RUsKINs health is by no means restored, and
he will have to take unusual care of himself during
the winter, and do no literary work; but the current
gossip about his mind being in disorder appears to
have no foundation in fact. The great critic contin-
us to reside at Brentwood.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA writes home to London
that he has made a pot of money featuring in Aus
tralia. He says Boucicaalt is doing a rushing bust
ness out there, in addition to getting married, and
that Genevieve Ward has cleared $50. 900. The
'Kangaroos" seem to be flush and liberal this year.
Mr.. ROBERT T.. LINCOLN, formerly Secretary of
War. says that President Arthur offered Colonel Fred
Grant a place in the army, and that the latter declined,
giving as the reasons for doing so that to acceptwould
seem 10 be putting himself beyond the reach of those
who might have claims upon him as creditors, and
this he would not do.
LA NACIoN, a Buenos Ayres paper, contained an
announcement, signed by eight physicians, that con-
nection by telephone will be made on application by
any patients requiring medical attendance at night.
The fee for a visit after IL PM. would seem some
what large in our NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. is not thought
to be exorbitant there.
THE Bismarcks have principally been farmers and
seldom soldiers or statesmen. Claus l, founder of
the line, was chancellor to Louis, Margrave of Bran.
denburg in 1853. In 1880, Ludolf III Won Bismarck,
of the Sch@nhausen branch, was q famous cavalry
man, and of the same branch three members fought
in tho Savo, Va.rc' yVno OIL 80 =. H. xuo.-.c NJ
leon. These are the exceptions to the agricultural
rule, besides the members of the present generation.
A WILL, in which the t~estator. a Bridgeport Conn.,
man, directed. Il will that not one of my connections
shall have a dollar: also, that not one of my wife's con-
nections shall have a dollar, u is now occupying the at
tention of the courts of that State. His will provides
that two charitable requests shall be paid and the rest
of his property turned into cash to be used discrationally
by the selectmen of Bridgeport for the special benefit of
the worthy, deserving, poor, Democratic, American
Protestant widows" residing in Bridgeport. A decision
is expected this month.
SOME time ago Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, pro-
posed for the hand of a princess belonging to one of
the great reigning families. Although the lady her.
self was not averse to the match, her parents secuted
the idea, telling the sutton he must rise a good deal
higher before he would be fit to mate with their daugh.
ter. The Prince took this rebuff in good part, merely
remarking: Very well, then, since you will not ac-
cept a mere Prince for a son-in-law, I must try to
make myself a King This was regarded at the time
as a mere idle vaunt, but Pince Alexander present
enterprises gives the utterances something Of the
character of a prophecy.
If the teller of a French bank has doubts as 70 the
honesty of an unknown customer he does not trust to
his memory to recall the features of the person he
suspects, but calls on science to protect the bank. He
gives a private signal TO the cashier and that rasnonS;.
bic officer, while the teller is in the act of making
payment, brings the Photographic camers convenient
ly placed beside him, but invisible to the customer)
to bear upon the unsuspecting party, and on leaving
the bank he leaves a proof of his identity after him
without in any degree being conscious of the fact. AS
this experiment has only been at work for a short
time it would be premature to pass a hasty Judgment
upon its merits.
The village of Minussinsk, in Russia, has been
troubled by the pest among it's cows, and the con-
script fathers of the community held a meeting to de-
eide upon the best means of putting a stop to the ca
lamity. 1t was agreed that resort should be had to
the old Slayonic custom of round ploughing. A Rus.
sian paper gives an account of the process. Seven
virgins, two old women and a young bachelor of good
character are elected. At midnight a procession of
the peasants is formed, led by the two old women car
rying pictures of saints. In the rear of the procession
N"S w h1i " u plOW, which IS
guided by the young man. A light furrow is ploughed
around the village; and thereby, according to the be.
lief of the local agriculturists a barriers is provided
against the evil spirit. He has no power to pass over
the mystical furrow.
HE expulsion of a member of a Masonic lodge at
Toronto, Can, who sometime ago announced himself
an infdel. created much newspaper comment. A sim
liar case now turns up this side of tbs border. A
member of a Michigan lodge, being stirred to do it by
the tidings of the case in Canada, wrote an insulting
letter to the Toronto lodge in which he declared that
he himself had been an ~agnostis for ten years, and yet
remained a master Mason. The Toronto lodge sent
a copy of the letter to the Michigan lodge. which pro-
ceeded TO expel its author from its membership, and
forever debar him from all the rights and benefits of
Freemasonry, for being an unbeliever and for insult
ing his brethren. BY way of remark, the Congrega.
tionalist says: "The tendency of the order appears to
be, it must ~candidly be confessed, toward liberalism
in religion; yet the idea of the divine existence as the
basis of all moral responsibilities would seem to be SO
inwrought in the very structure of the work of the
order that, where its principles are rigidly carried out,
the action above referred to would seem to be logical
and inevitable"
Mrs. OCoNNELI, who has just settled her boycott.
ing difficulties. is the daughter and heiress of a very
remarkable man, Charles Bianconi, who came to Ire.
land as a poor Italian boy peddler of images, and
founded the celebrated Bianconi cars, which for many
years were the only public conveyances in many dis.
tricts in Ireland, and the most popular in all. He was
a strong Nationalist, and supported munifcently all
OConnelrs political movements. The boycotted lady
when very young welded Morgan John O'Conneli, a
man thirty years her senior, a nephew of the LIBERIA.
tor, and, as Mp. for county of Kerry, one of the most
popular men in the House. Since his death and her
fathers, which followed. she has devoted herself to
her only boy, John, who was deformed and a crinnla
from childhood, and who, after being uusuccessfullv
treated by many of the first surgeons of Eurone has
been so completely renovated as to ride to hounds
through a series of operations by DIR. Lewis sayre. of