The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-15
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

men in Germany. The Connaughts will under his
| will, get about 81 500, 900.
WALEs's Oldest girl, Louise is photographed as
amable but very plain girl and her mother makes her
dress as plainly she looks.
| THE mosquito nuisance is avoided in Florida by
throwing oil into ponds and standing water, which
| prevents the insects from Matching.
MAN in Illinois asks the court change his name
from Sheol to Shrady. He thinks that the Scriptura
| revision renders the change desirable
Since Nov. 26 last at seyenty-six meetings held by
| Mr.. Francis Murphy and his in Pttsburg, Pa
800 persons have taken The pledge of total absi
nence
"WHENEvER you get near enough to an Indian
shoot him. was the remark made by reported
to be an "active Christian worker in of the
| churches of Chicago.
THEY talking about introducing the electric light
the farms in Algeria, that tie harvest can be
gathered at night the heat in the daytime being too
| intense for the farmers to work.
| NED BUNTLINE-Colonel E. T. c. Judson-has
averaged 500 600 year for the last ten years by the
sale of his stories Heis welltodo, and has beauti-
| home in the Catskils. He has written nearly 400
novels
THE Rev. Mr. Parsons, Of Capitol Hill, Washington
has lately received the order of Rising Sum- which
conferred upon him by the Japanese government for
his services professor at of the educational
| institutions Of that country.
THE population of Europe has increased in a CEN
| tuiy from 145 900 900 to $50 600, 900. English
men have multiplied fve-fod, the Russians four-fold
and the Germans less than three-fold while French
| men and Spanards have added only about so per
| cent.
TAKE slip of paper and place thereon, in figures
your age in years, dropping months, weeks and days
Multiply the sum by two then add to the result OBJ
tanned the figures 376S; add two and then divide by
two Subtract from the result obtained the number
of your years earth, and if you do not obtain
| figures you will not be likely to forget.
ALL students in Russian universities are now COM
PEELED to ceremonious occasions a uniform
consisting of blue cap gray coat and green trousers
all plentifully embellished with gold lace. The suit
will be costly that poor boys hardly buy it, and
the belief that the requirement is intended to hinder
the impoverished masses in educating their sons
LIEUTENANT SCHEUTzE, who has gone to carry
presents to the natives of Lena Delta, who aided in
the of the Jeanette survivors, is about thirty
five years of age and is bachelor. He is stout in
figure and very blonde in type He has broad, good
humored face, set off by savage mustache and short
goatee. He is very positive and energetic. He speaks
Russian like native, and is familiar with Siberia
For it's private work the Bank Of Devil Lake Da
kota has adopted rather peculiar butver suggestive
vignette. The base is sheaf of wheat which rests
silver dollar the back of which Satan is climb
ing holding in hand the scales of justice and in
| the other lance. At his left is mapof the lake.
which forms the place for writing the of draft
check, which the words Give the Devil his
due
VISITORS to Constantinople know the little railroad
which furnishes transit to and from Galata the bust
ness center of the city. The hill of Pera is steep
ascent, especially for the Turks who are apt to be
large and round and often short of breath and who
prefer to sit all day legged smoking pipe than
their legs for half an hour in vigorous climbing
French engineer has devised little tunnel through
which miniature train worked by stationary en-
CINE, is made to glide up and down.
GEN. FRANCIS A. WALKER, who is mentioned as
the possible president of Cornell College, had charge
of the taking of the last census. He is man in the
neghborhood of fifty years of age but his fresh color
bright, snappy black - IS and alert air place him
nearer forty in appearance. He has FULL round
head broad forehead, regular features red cheeks,
blue, closely shaver jaws shaded by heavy droop
ing black mustache He is always carefully dressed
He does not have the look of scholar but rather of
a man of the world
A CHICAGO Mail reporter recently suggested to
Pension Agent Sweet that when her tenure of Office
| ceased she might sail on matrimonial seas. well
hardly the lady answered; you see, I've brought up
and educated my younger brothers and sisters and
| feel quite matronly Besides made up my
mind good while ago never to get married until I
able to support husband in the style he was &C
customed, and haven't been able to save enough to
do that yet. The pension Office is fairly good one
but wine and cigars are expensive. No; shall Jog
| along in the old way
| A WATCH and chain, during the fervor excited in
the recent Saratoga missionary convention were i'm
| pulsvey taken by woman from her belt and given
to the secretary. They had cost hundred dollars
originally, she said, and she hoped that twenty five
might be realized from them for the cause of missions
II advised her to be slower said the secretary land
to take day to think it over before parting with her
| property. She wouldn't hear of denial however
and took the watch and chain telling her that she
could get them back at any time within three months
At the end of that period shall sell them and devote
| the proceeds to the cause"
| THE Rev. W. H. H. Murray, of Adirondack and
blackboard wagon celebrity and long the petted pastor
of the fashionable Park-street Church, in Boston
claims to have been where other white man ever
was and to have sailed for DAYS upon the vast fresh
water sea, which, he says is many times bigger than
Lake Superior, and yet is not any map or in the
knowledge of any other white men, save those who
have heard the Indgn agents of tie Hudson Bay Com
pany tell marvellous tales of its immensely and the
vast wilderness in which it lies. Mr.. Murray keep
ing little oysterhouse in Montreal. 1t is a neat lit
tie box and the walters pretty women. Murray
| stands the door, and to every customer who
| enters he bows and says Your servant, SIR" AS
special favor to friends distinguished visitors he
sometimes presides at the open coal fireplace cooking
oysters in batter and butter broing bird or fish.