The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-27
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

"SANITATE! Sanitate!" is the paroxysmal but time
~ editorial cutlery of the Memphis Appeal
AMOS A. LAWRENCE, Of Boston. is member of
twenty charitable organizations whose work is
largely made necessary by liquor
Dr. DALLINGER, the eminent London moroscop-
ISL has sat sixteen successive days at his microscope
studying the motions of bacillus.
FARMER near Sacramento says his crop af aspara-
gus this will bring him 81 000 of which So.
900 will be profit. He has twelve acres of it.
OF the eighty one wholesale liquor dealers in Nash
vile, Tenn, sixty-eght are church members The
rest may be presumed to constitute thirteen club.
SIR WILLIAM DAWSON, principal of McGil Col
lege. Montreal has accepted the presidency of the
British Association at its Birmingham meeting in
1886.
GENERAL DOUBLEDAY aud General Crawford are
the surviving Fort Sumter officers. 1t is said that
neither was invited to the Brooklyn Fort Sumter
club dinner last week.
1T is good thing to be cook Of great man. Herr
Eye Prince Bismarcks head cook, has been favored
with gold medal a national token of gratitude for
his care of the Chancellor's stomach.
ONLY six artists have right the title of Royal
Prussian court snger-namely, Mierzwinski. the Ar
totPadllla couple, Mime. Etelka Gerster, Nine. Al
bani and Nine. Jenny ndGoldschmidt.
LADY DuFrERIN, wife of the viceroy of India, re.
Gently laid the Foundations of hotel Cor the ac-
commodation of medical students who are women in
connection with the Calcutta Medical College.
THROUGH the death of Lord Cairns there is not
single law lord in Great Britain in receipt of
pension as ex-Iord Chancellor a state of things
which is unprecedented for nearly sixty years.
IT runs in the family. Miss Susan Hale, who has
written very readable biography of Thomas G. APP
pleton turns out to be sister of Edward Everett
Hale, with literary proclvites. and she also paints
pictures.
Hon. HENRY L. PIERCE of Boston, who voted for
Cleveland last November considers himself Repub-
lican STILL and declares that that party contains the
bulk of the moral and intellectual sentiment of the
country
A PROMINENT Democratic politician in Crawford
county, Pa made pointed speech recently to this
effect: Burchards alliteration" Rum, Romanism and
Rebellion-is eclipsed by Cleveland himself, for he
has adopted Rebels, Renegades and Republicans"
THE name Netis, used frequently in connection
with the Riei rebellion was, observes exchange,
originally applied to all mixed breeds of the North
west. There two divisions of Metis-the Mets-
Francais or Canadians, and the Metis-Anglas, de-
scendants of officers of the Hudson Bay Company
PREMIER GLADSTONE, who is seventy-six, has big
b.othcr-Sir Thomas Gladstone-who Is fourteen
years older and is hale and hearty in his ninety first
| year. He lately to London to SEQ his son off
with the army to Egypt and may confdest fly look for
his return from that region almost any aftel noon
THE largest herd Of high-bred cattle in England is
TO be brought to the hammer April u and 26 This is
tho stock of Hereforis belonging to Mr.. Knight of
Dowton Castle. numbering 22l head and containing
many splendid animals Lord Spencer's choice herd
of shorthorns the latest auction sale of thorough
bred cattle in England
| ENGLISH consos which have of late been the most
watched quotation the markets of the world,
amount in value to S.. 500 900 900. on which the
annual interest is $1i5, 600 O00 They constitute
perpetual obligation of the United Kingdom bearing
per cent. interest and representing irredeemabe
principal For seven years back they have not been
quoted low as at present their fluctuations being
and wherein it differs from national debt is that
the principal may vary in amount. but the interest
never. Tho word consol. by-the.way is abbrevia
| ton of consolidated annuities."
| FROM recent surveys it has been ascertained that
the entire city of Virginia Nevada has moved over
thirty inches 20 the east since the big fire of 1878
| The Maynard Block, iu Golden Ill., Ia known to be
| gradually sliding down in the direction of Gold
canyon and mas moved nearly two fee. since its ersc
ton. This movement IS gradual that it does no,
affect In any the safety Of the building as the
ground. to depth OF nearly one hundred feet to the
bedrock is known to be continually sliding. 1t is
! weliknewE fact among practical miners that the
| ground on which Virginia City Is built Is what Is
termed sllde and that 1t Is necessary to sink nearly