The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-23
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

| GENERAL MCCLELLAN is to sit in bronze astride a
bronze steed in Washington.
| GEORGE w. CABLE, the novelist has become Sun
dayschool teacher at his new homo in Northampton,
| Mass.
BosToNIANs are proverbially considerate. They
| postponed fashionable wedding the other day be-
cause the chosen 'best man. was i'll.
LONDON Truth defines wedding present the
outward and visible sign of the inward invisible joy
girls family feels at getting her off their hands.
DIR. ALBERT THOMPSON, a young Irish physician
has been presented with the Albert medal for
ing poison in a of diphtheria by sucking it away
On the bill of fare of Western hotel is regularly
printed these suggestive lines: In Rome gluttony be-
| came so excessive that it repressed law. Bear
| this in mind"
| 1T isthe double distilled extract of vomica,
ratsbane and adders tongue" This is not adver
tisement of quack medicine but Talmages definition
| of social evil.
| FERDINAND WARDS work has been lightened in
Sing Sing Instead of grinding stove castings he acts
as en- errand boy porter, carrying castings from
| place to place in the building.
| THE tomahawk with which Hannah Dunstan, the
| heroine of the Deerfed massacre, killed her Indian
captors while they slept and made her escape, is
in the possession of gentlemen at Derby line, w.
who received it heirloom.
| COURTING by flowers is said to be in vogue among
the higher classes in Japan If lady favors lover
she leaves outs de her window, and in this
| at night he plants flower. This is mash. When
the Japanese cat begins to prow its smash.
| A WESTERN judge was importuned by convict to
| issue him pardon saying that he glad that he
had been sent to prison, there he had found his
Lord. The judge replied that, he found grace in
prison, he had better stay there where grace could
| find him.
| THE mission upon which NJ Durand, the husband
of Henry Greve has to this country is to make
for the French government catalogue of the French
| pictures that are here, that it may be known in
France where their large pictures are and in what
condition.
| THE American beauties, Miss Chamberlain and Miss
| Winslow, who went from London to Hamburg to as
tonsh the natives and casual visitors astounded
to find themselves forestalled by four American sis
tiers named Walker, who walked away with the palm
| for beauty.
| IN La Temperance, DR.. Magnus Huss, the cole
| brated Swedish physician, is quoted saying that
people of the northern states of Europe who abuse al
cohol degenerate visbly and afford frequently
than others examples of monstrosties at birth. In
London, at the beginning of the eighteenth century,
| there was an alarming decrease of the birth rate
| which. inquiry, shown to be caused chiefly by
| drunkenness.
| LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILLs Miss Jerome) head
| is one of the most beautiful in England The rich
warm bruno complexion, the curved mouth, the large,
velyety black eyes, the regular features and oval
| tours, all crowned by a mass of black haiy
| would make her observed anywhere. She usually
wears black, which is more becoming to her than any
hue crimson. It sets off, to bunch of prnroses
| the badges or of all her league"
| O>yr sl,c J. lo1,~ -
the other day This was the Earl of Buckingham
shire father of the celebrated Hobart Pasha He
nnety-rwo years of age. Lord Carlisle is now the
only reverend Earl. The Marquis of Donegal is an
Irish Dean, and Lord Plunket Archbishop of Dublin.
| The present Lord Petre is Roman prelate, and
his introduction the House of Lords his gaudy
state robes the violet cassock Of his ecclesas
| teal rank.
| DIR. ALVAREZ, Paris homeopathic, brought suit
| against the Princess of Medina Coeli for GOO. 600
francs for medical services stating that he emit
tied to than the usual compensation account
of the great wealth of his patient The court awarded
him "a, 900 francs he to pay costs. Most physicians
would consider SIT 900 handsome fee, but this doc
tor much chagrined the result A few days
| before he had refused much larger sum to compro-
| mise the matter.
| KING THEBAw, of Burmah. is described as a man
of twentysix years, TALL weA built and rather good
looking. He has fair complexion, good forehead
| clear steady eyes firm mouth chin rather heavy
and sensual looking but, the whole faira
| ing sort of chap. His mother is Shaun, the hill
tribes, who hate the English bitterly. He is the
youngest and brightest of the fortyeight of his
late lamented father, who rejoced in the name of
| Mengdung Meng.
| HALF.BREED Indian in the Dead river region in
Maine has domesticated huge moose and uses him in
| the farm work. In the winter, when the moose is
htched to sled and is driven upon the ice there is
no horse in the country round about which can keep
up with him. The hafbreed turns his big steed into
All Enclosure with fence of ordinary height Once
in while the moose jumps out and goes an excur-
sion but he fails to return this privilege is
not begrudged him.
| A PATIENT in New York insane asylum suffers
from the dreadful deuson that his teeth are loaded
to the very roots with dynamite and he lives in con-
slant fear Of explosion which will blow his head to
atoms. In conversation he exercises the greatest care
not to bring his jaws into collision, and he will eat
nothing but soft food The poor man carries his head
stiy his shoulders if the muscles of his neck
were parayzed and actually trembles with fear every
time demonstrative person approaches him.
| SIR NOEL PATTON has at present on his easel far
advanced toward completion, picture for Queen
Victoria which deserves some notice on account of
the purpose for which is designed as well as for its
sake The picture to be the eenterpiece in the
private oratory at Osborne It's subject is Christ in
the Garden finding the three disciples asleep and its
proper title IS Vgilate ct Crate" 1t is to be placed
the pra. desk between two other pictures by
the artist roplicas of larger works entitled re-
spectively, 1.-THE Good Shepherd" and The Man of
| Sorrows" The three pictures thus form in effect
triptych, though they will not be actually joined.
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COMMENT AND OPINION.