The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-30
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

BISHOP HOWE, of the P. E. Diocese of Central
Pennsylvania is working hard for the establish
ment of home for friendless children at Read
ing.
ROMAN Catholic court is holding weekly
meetings to consider the claims to canonization
put forward in behalf of the late Bishop Neu-
mann, of Philadel phia.
IT is rumored that Lord Rowton's life of
Beaconsfeld is delayed to wait for Mr. Glad
stones death on account of the references made
to that constant antagonist of Disraeli
DIR. r. MCCORMACK, who was the chief medi-
cal officer and naturalist of Sir ]. G. Rosss mem
orable Erebus and Terror expedition toward the
south pole in 1898, and with Sir Edward
Parry IN his arctic voyage in 1927, is now eighty
six years old, hale and hearty He lives at VIM
bledon, England, and still takes deep interest in
all polar explorations
GENERAL BOOTH, of the Salvation Army is
tall man with mass of iron gray hair combed
roughly back, and long gray beard that sweeps
his breast His features are rugged and bold,
the nose being especially prominent. His eyes,
looking out from under bushy brows, are of
magnetic gray. Although his face is scanned
with lines of thought he impresSes one as being
a man of some resolution.
THE late Professor Stoves long white beard
had history. He vowed he would not shave
until slavery was abolished, and as result his
flowing beard gave him rabbinical appearance.
They take me for rabbi said ne once to Rev.
S. M. Isaacs, whom he visited to secure materi
ais for an article on the Tamud which WAS pub
lished in the Atlantic. And certainly he looked
rabbi, with his black skull cap and patriarchial
beard
THE full name of the owner of Jay Eye-See is
Jerome Increaae Case. He comes into promi-
hence again through the unsupported marriage
Of ann IN tba d;uowcAd xxifo Of Racira ma
chanic Mr.. Case is worth about S.. 600, 900,
made principally in the manufacture of thresh-
ing machines before he INDUCED preference for
fast horses He started as blacksmith forty
years ago. The son is named jackson Irving
Case, and, like his father, takes to fast horses.
SUCcI, the Italian faster, receives letters daily
from all parts, asking his secret of living with
out food The other day the chief telegrapher of
the Mediterranean railway at Grassano Scale
sent him the following despatch: Being sus-
pended from my functions for month, beg
you to send me little bottle of your elixir
that may not starve before reSuming work
But Succi refuses to reveal the secret that would
solve the social problem which has caused 30
many revolutions.
A GENTLEMAN who has devoted the greater
part of his life to study of the subject, has at
last completed an invention which enables any
one who improvises on the piano to preserve a
perfect record of his ideas as they flow. Every
note is transferred to paper by this valuable
accompaniment to an ordinary piano, and it now
remains to be seen whether there is much origi-
nality in the usual improvisation, and whether it
is not largely composed of "reminiscences which
scarcely bear elaboration or development.
INDIA abounds with professional story tellers.
In the inns for travellers the professed story tell
er is always a welcome guest. He enters them
with cheerful and dignifed mien, all converse
ton is hushed in a moment. seat is provided
for him in the center. and the clustered inmates
eagerly listen to his romantic aud pathetic
stories. He intersperses them with verses and
songs and he never forgets rhyme and rhythm
even in the palmer passages of his variations.
In establishments of princes and men of rank
and wealth, number of these story -tellers
always retained for the delectation of the house
hold