The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-13
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

RUGBY. IN Tennessee, Tom Hughes's experimental
colony, now has between $50 and 400 inhabitants,
only one-half of whom are English.
Kew. DR.. LEONARD. the Prohibition candidate for
Governor of Ohio, is accused of a sneaking fondness
for the fermented juice OF the grape.
GEN. @. w. LEE, the Oldest son of Gen. R. E. Lees
has. at the request of the trustees, recalled his resig-
nation as president of Washington and Lee Univer.
sity.
THE publishers of General Grants book have even
received an application for the right to sell in South
America To a South American bookseiing agent
the answer was returned, "All gone but Patagonia"
A NEW YORK woman, according to a correspondent
OF the Buffalo Express, seeks literary fame by avow-
ing herself to be the Duchess and giving her
friends presentation copies of the books as the volume
appears.
AFTER managing for the women at the New Or
leans Exposition and exploiting Goethe's women at
Concord, Julia Ward Howe is now going to Mime
apolis to manage the annual meeting of the Women's
Suffrage Association.
The beggars of Paris support a bulletin, the Guide,
by a monthly subscription of eight sous. 1t contains
such announcements as: Tomorrow, at noon, funeral
of a rich man at the Madeline "At l, marriage of a
clerk, no Importance or, "a cripple for a watering.
place.
THE ascent of Mont Blanc has been accomplished in
o"~ OAA ~ " ny bE Ii ~"
Evans, of Chester, England, with three guides. This
is considerably the quickest ascent yet made. The
party crossed the glaciers below the Grauds Mulet,
by moonlight.
ELAINE GOODALE, the poet, who has been at Gen.
Armstrong; Hampton institute for two or three years.
as teacher and as editor of the Indian department of
the Southern Workman, is going to Nebraska and
Dakota to study the social and educational needs and
possibilities of the Indian at home.
w. +. CoNANT, an inmate of the Concord, n. H,
asylum, was made violently insane, it is believed, by
remorse, because he deserted from the army in the
war. His doctor recently wrote to President Cleve,
land, asking the mans discharge, and has just re-
ceived it. 1t is Il thought the news will save his life.
A CURIOUS incident occurred in the Parade Church,
Shornclife, Eng, on Sunday, July rs. 1t was found
that the church was besieged by various kinds of
birds, principally swallows. Every effort was made
to dislodge them, but without effect, and at last some
soldiers were obliged to fire a volley of blank cart
ridges. which completely routed them, and, the church
being soon vacated, the service was held.
A FRENCH chemist, Mr.. J. Kergovatz, proposes to
dispose of the bodies of the dead by rubbing them
over with a solution of plrmbagine, and then exposing
them to a bath of zinc, copper, or even silver or gold.
The body is thus preserved at a much less cost than
that of embalning. If necessary, the bath can be
prolonged till the corpse is as hard as granite, and
thus every dead man of eminence might be his own
statue.
ONE of the most striking figures among the members
OF the Grand Army, in Saturdays funeral procession,
at New York, was the figure of a middle aged man
with one leg, lost in a battle in Virginia, who marched
with his clutches from the city hall to the vault in
Riverside Park. He firmly refused to 60 in a carriage.
though pressed to do so, declaring that he would con.
slider it unsoldierly not to walk in such a procession
on such an occasion.
PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR, the future King of
England, went to church at Yarmouth and took a seat
in a large empty pew, from which he was expelled
with ignominy by the indignant owner, who now feels
much as the rich lady and severe beadle ut Deal did
when they fred a hook-nosed, gray-headed old man
In q shabby coat out of her pew and into the free
seats among the town poor, and then discovered that
he was the Duke of Wellington.
fTls said of the Boston girl who got lost up in the
Catskills, the other day, that she shouted in an intel.
lectual tone of voice: II require the assistance from
some honorable man of culture and refinement"
When the farmer who found her was leading her back
to the hotel she asked him if he was a regular sub.
scriber to the Atlantic Monthly, and if he had read
Natural Laws of the Spiritual World" And when
he said mo" she forgot to thank him for his assist
ance.
SPEAKER ALDRIcH, of the New Hampshire House
or representatives, bears a strong resemblance to
President Cleveland. He was in New York recently
with General Carpenter, of Governor Curriers' staff.
Il take it as a compliment, " said Mr.. Aldrich. 'to bs
mistaken for the President of the United States, but
when walk along Broadway 1 do not want Carpenter
to send boys after me who yell: Look how he walks.
he thinks everybody thinks he looks like the Presi.
dent"
COLONEL FRED GRANT, in speaking of the vast ont.
pouring of the people on Saturday to offer their tri.
butte to the memory of his father, is reported to have
said: IF my father was so much to the world. who
barely knew him, you can, perhaps, imagine how
much he was to his family. His official career was not
his greatest. He had a side to his life which very few
can appreciate" When the stir and pomp of his
obsequies fill less space in the public eye and thought.
the private life of General Grant. with it's admirable
virtues. will be more frequently dwelt upo1. They
certainly will be held in lasting and atfecUionate re-.
memberance.
MISS BELvA LOCKWOOD is not quite so ridiculous
as campaign caricatures made her. She might be
forty, or she might be fifty. Her features are Of the
clear-cast Grecan, refined type; aquiline nose, straight
forehead, overhanging a pair of sharp, penetrating
eyes, a glance into which at once convinces one that
the lady is endowed with more than ordinary brain
power. Mantled over her forehead is a roll of hand.
some, wavy gray hair that adds much to the natural
beauty of her face. There is nothing in her outward
appearance or expression that would lead a casual
observer to guess that she belonged to that much
ridiculed class of women denominated strong mind
Cd"
THE village of Ellsworth, in England, was recently
visited by a remarkable plague of flies, which stimuli
taneously covered an area of one mile. At some places
it was impossible to move without closing tho eyes and
mouth. Around every lamp in the town the spectacle
was most curious. Attracted by the light, thick
swarms abounded, and their buzz resem6led that of
o hive of bees. At the p~ostofice, where the upper
portion of the door is open for ventilation, and where
necessarily the light is kept burning till the early
morning, the insects, covered the sorting boards, let
tiers, and bags, and had to be continually swept off
with brushes, At one lamp thew simDlv bune down