The Indianapolis journal., 1885-02-06
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE Rev. Charles E. Burdette a brother Of the
Hawkeye humorist was married recently to Miss Min
ME Russell, fellow wmissionary in Farther India.
BRAKES Magazine Ella Wheeler Wilcox the poet
ess says she goes to sleep draped in SOFT luxurious
gloom" We go to sleep draped in a sixty-fve cent
night shirt. Tastes differ.
NEW rose, possessed of manifold attractions, per-
feet in form and color unequaled in fragrance hardy
in habit and perpetual boomer, has been named by
its originator 1.-The American Beauty"
1T is curious fact that of the 1873 members of the
English Privy Council, 90, or rather more than one
half, peers. AS there are 513 peers, it would
seem that about one in every fveis Privy Councillor
A LONDON etcher named Axe Herman Haig, has
made an etching of the Poets Corner Westminster
Abbey which will doubtless commend itself to Ameri.
cans for the prominent position which the bust of
Longfellow occupies in the view.
THE Colonna Mackey wedding will be only a family
event. owing to the smallness Of the miniature chapel
handsome settlement The Queena of Spain and Italy
have written their congratulations.
WEST PITTsFIELD Mass, now produces the latest
Oldest postmaster in the person Of A. W. Williams.
who is a Shaker elder and elderly Shaker eighty.
years DID, and shaking in his shoes for fear of los
ing position he has held since the days of President
Pierce.
GEORGE DOLBY, the historian of Dickens's Amer.
ican tour, has incurred the wrath of Bufalonans bv
recording that the novelist struck by the absence
of female beauty among his Buffalo audiences, and
that the faces of the girls of that city were of "a
of German Irish Scotch mixed-with. Indian type"
PHILADELPHIA Record: Ten years ago Cal.
vim Fletcher. when oA a visit to Orange.
Los Angeles county, CAL, stuck his stick into
the ground. The took root and is now A. stately
sycamore tree, fifty feet high, with widespreadng
branches and its base three and half feet in c;rcp
ference
THE word knickerbocker which Washington Irving
took in vain, means marble-b baker. Marbles for the
boys to play with formerly baked out of clay
gingerbread baker called koekebakker Sneider.
which we hear so often pronounced. was the word
for Mr.. Taylor, and Roosekrans, which appears to
bea true Dutch name meant a rose crown or gar.
land.
BARON A. DE RoTHscHILps new stesm yacht, built
by Messrs Shuttelworth g. Chapman, has arrived at
Gosport from Firth. 1t is understood that Messrs
Camper g. Nicholson have undertaken the contract to
complete her. This vessel is five feet longer and one
foot than the yacht building for Mr.. N.
b. Stewart The latter vessel, though only ordered
four weeks ago. is now in frame.
THE daughter of Sheboygan man. having become
dear While learning 10 play the piano. and continuing
her favorte amusement after hel action her father
had the mechanism of the instrument altered SO that
the keys would not strk the wres thus producing no
sound. The daughter. however, continues to play.
and it is noted singular fact that when she plays
for company in her rarlors. receives mo.e
| applause than she.
A STORY comes from Chicago concerning young
member Of the Knickerbocker Club of New York. Two
years ago he went out Ito see if there was ANYTHING
there Upon his arrival he boldly declared that IL he
met nice girl during his visit he might marry her.
A member of the Chicago Union Club gave him list