The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-09
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE walls of Fort Sumter still mass of ruins
over which peer the frowning muzzles of few old
cannon.
BRIGHT editor out in Nebraska calls his new pa
per The Prairie Dog The suppostion is that he in.
| tends to gopher his enemies.
LOUIS KoSsUTH, from feeble health has been com.
| PEELED to stop teaching English at Turin, and has
gone to live in the Alps on farm where his sons
win hereafter support him.
| PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has been exceedingly for.
tunate in the matter of health since he has been the
| occupant of the White House. He has not yet had
occasion to call in physician.
AMONG the audience at one of Missions recentycon-
certs in Sweden of the great singers BROTH
ers, honest peasant who had left his native
place and never before had heard his sister sing.
The Medical journal states that few handfuls Of
common salt thrown daily into closets and an occa-
sona handful into washbasins goes far toward
teracting the noxious effects of the omnipresent
sewer gas.
THE property of France stored in the Garde Meubc,
in Paris. is said to have value of round so O00,.
OOO francs 1t consists chiefly of furniture, glass and
china and contains among other pieces of historical
interest, the bed and writingdesk of Louis XVI.
THE Waterville, Me-. Sentinel says that General ID.
T. Butler has expressed the intention of giving his
whole private library-than which there isn't better
private library in the State of Massachusetts-in
year or two to Colby College.
MRS. MARK HOPKINS, who lives at Great Barring
ton, Mass and left California out of fear of Denis
Kearney and his followers has at least $50 900 600
| to manage She makes good interest on shrewd in
vestments and careful management.
PROF. JOHN STUART BLACKIE says man ought
sometimes to be Tory sometimes a Liberal and
sometimes Radical. "Plato waA the biggest Of all
Tories; Walter Scott second. Wordsworth third and
then Goethe. Carlyle, and whole lot of Them
THE Empress Eugene intends to the
mains of the late Emperor Napoleon, and Of the
young Prince Imperial from Chselhurst to Aldershot
Arrangements will be made for carrying out this pro-
ject the Empress returns from the CONT
| nent
| THE social organization in Boston, the Tavern
Club gave complimentary dinner to it's president,
| Mr.. W. d. Howells, on Monday evening. There was
large attendance, and but thing prevented tbs
banquet from being complete success the upayoida-
| BILE absence of Mr.. Howells.
SOME time ago compassionate German nobleman
bought the favorte old horse of the Emperor William
Sadowa and kept it in comfort till its DEATH short
time ago. Now the skin has been we'll tanned and
dressed, and is preserved as an ornament and relic
in the nobeman's country seat
WHEN Prince Luitpold of Bavaria, heir presumptivs
of the crown, went to visit nis crazy nephew. the
king, on business of Importance, fortnight ago. Lud
wig Ii left his study by door, while Luitpold en-
tered by another, and turning the key on his uncle,
got away into the mountains Strange to say the
Gle didn't take the joke kindly.
Four brothers, who have been in business ever
since 1850 without keeping elaborate books any
accurate account of the money each has drawn from
the enterprise have filed deed in San Joaquin ooun-
ty, California, providing that, it is impossible to-
straighten out their affairs their heirs shall never
ask for accounting. but divide the property share
and share alike.
A SUNDAY school scholar was asked, apropos Of
Solomon, who the great queen that travelled so
many miles to him. The scholar-in fact the
whole schoo-looked if little help would be
liked and the teacher, therefore, said 1.-THE queens
began with an S." I've got it, sir" exclaimed
the delighted scholar Well who was ita "It was the
Queen of Spades"
DID anybody say that a brateet was not useful
Little did he know the many ends which an English
girl will make it She will fasten it in her hair
that it will look like the top of comb and when
she wears square-necked waist she will place the
bracelet about her throat tying it with bit Of
velvet and driving her friends wild with envy of her
new necklace. Not useful, indeed
IT is to Viennese blonde that we owe the preva-
lence in dresses this of yellow Previously
brunettes considered imperial yellow peculiarly
their own, but fair Viennese beauty ventured a
gown of golden brocade and bound her yellow hair
with golden lets, and the effect overpowering
success to be initiated by all shades and all types Of
female loneliness not only in the gay capital OK
Austria, but throughout the fashionable world.
UNITED STATES army recruiting officers now
argue that the road wealth. or at least to compe
tence, lies in march of thirty years with the sol.
diers. You single of nineteen" said ons
| inquirer; suppose you enlist now. You will lead
healthy, respectable life, with anxiety as to
maintenance; you will draw pay surely and regularly
and out OF it you can with perfect comfort $5U
year. Put that interest, and at fifty years Of
age, adding the allowed by the government to
men who retire after thirty years service you viii
have enough to live on the rest of your life in idle
ness"
A NEW device has been invented for telephone sta
tions. They constructed that person who
wishes to use them enters box and, deposting
nickel in the fare box clock indexes his entrance
and he is permitted to occupy the box five minutes
At the expiration of that time he must leave the box
or, if he remains he must pay second fare Should
he decline paying the fare he is bolted within. and
the machine telephones the fact to the central occ
Then he must main until released by messengef
from said Office These boxes designed for cigar
shops drug stores and such places accessible to tha
public.
BISHOP SPAULDING a most pronounced case OF
dandy drag itself inertly past The fellow had all the
symptoms of acute idocy so markedly visible that
there was no installing the social disease. Angloma-
mia, that had ptifully altered him from the healthy
vigorous sensible young fellow that he otherwise
have been. WELL here's thought for comfort the
Bishop is quoted as saying. II happen to know who
he is. His family wealthy and very fashionable
He has been brought to think that work is for him
to think of and that his life is destined to be perfect
y idle. In that view, don't you comprehend the best
course for him to pursue is the one that Is most
harmless, and what could have less actual