The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
pound.

A CRANK, according to Dr. Howard Crosby, is "a
man who has capital idea without sense enough to
work it OUT
A GREAT many coips-English shillings sixpences
coppers and one Canadian piece-were found in jun
bos stomach by the gentlemen having charge Of his
remains.
REV. R. HEBER NEWTON wants to have Grant me-
moralized in mammoth hospital, and the surplus in
the national Treasury spent Westminster Alb
bey' at Washington.
MUSHROOM hunting is King Humbert, of Italy's,
favore rural pastime just now While staying at his
country seat at Monza the King may invariably be
in the woods after shower industrousy gather
ing mushrooms.
THE goodhumored DIR. McCosh; whose grey hairs
seem about to be brought in to the grave by
the Princeton boys, has smiled of times when
told that the secret and sepulchra midnight password
of the students was: Jimmie McCosh by Gosh!"'
Col. CHARLES G. JONES JR, of sAugusta, Ga,
having investigated the subject is convinced that
neither Maj Gen. Nathaniel Greene Ma. Gen.
Count Pulaski sleeps beneath the respective monu-
ments which grateful and patriotic people have
reared in their honor"
ARsENE HoUssAYE relates of the Empress Eugene
that when young Cavaignac refused to receive school
prize at public distribution from the hands of
the Prince Imperial she went into Mysteries
and recovering declared that her son would have
to expate the guilt of the I'd of December.
Miss CLEVELAND was graduated from Houghton's
Seminary, Clinton N. Y, in 1866, and she delivered
her essay on Reciprocity" there last year. This
essay is second in her book recently published. The
wife of the Rev. DR.. A. FL. Bradford, of Montclair
N. j., classrnate of the Presidents sister.
THE President has received elegantly framed
n
from Prince Bismarck himself and bore his personal
autograph. 1t will be hung in the Presidents cham
Der. 1t represents the Prince in his military uniform
1t is probable that the President will return the
pliment and send back one of his photographs SINH
larly framed
A MAN in an English theater the other night at
tracted attention by kissing throughout the entire
performance He was finally questioned as to the
of his displeasure whereupon he explained that
operation had been performed time before
his throat, and that it contained silver tube
Whenever he unusually pleased kissing noise
caused by his breathing through the tube.
THERE a time in the publishing business,
says expert, when proffers of manuscript from
women numerous. Society bellies seem to have
all at caught the fever of authorship. AS
houses will publish almost anything in which the
profit is assured. but nothing from untred pens with
out guarantee, they usually give definite an
swer to applicant without first reading the copy
In the British Medical journal DR.. Fother gill says
that patient dying of exhaustion is generally dying
of starvation. We give him beef tea calf'sfoot je
ly, alcohol settler and milk; that is small quantity
of sugar of milk and fat But the jelly is the
poorest sort of food. and the beeftea stimu-
liant. The popular belief that beef-tea contains the
very strength of the meat is terrible error; it has
food value"
IT is said that the nations of the earth speak about
ninety different dialects But these dialects can be
traced to much smaller number of languages. All
these languages divided into three classes namely
thu IndoG ermanic which embraces the ancient class
cal languages and those of modern Europe; the
Sanskrt which embraces all the various languages of
India, and the Semitic, which embraces the Hebrew
Chaldaic, Syrac Arabic, etc.
THE alleged ex Empress of Mexico. long poetical
ly described Poor Carotta" is kely soon to reap
pear in society rich Carlotta. Her ply scians now
have every hope of her complete restoration
She has been franticaly mad has had the most
skilled and loving treatment and during her enforced
retirement her comparatively limited expenses have
resulted in considerable accumulation of her reve
nues, which, her friends hope, she will yet live long
and happily to enjoy.
A LONDON society for the suppression Of mendi-
cancy has handed 200, 900 begging letters to
committee in consequence of which 60, 900 pro-
fessiona vagabonds and mpostors have fallen into the
hands of the police. One beggar carried with him a
tongue in alcohol which, as a notice informed the
public was his tongue, lest by surgical opera
ton. Examination showed it to be a sleeps tongue
Vienna has also association for the discovery and
punishment of impostors public charity The
greatest difficulty is caused by those who feign cpl
lepsy; and the famous Munich surgeon Dr. Nuss
baum relates the of prisoner yho in order to
certain comforts allowed the sick, feigned cpl
epsy successfully that for several years he deceived
the prison DOCTOR we'll another physician called
N to assist in his examination.
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