The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-16
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

\ BALM CON ES ~ Wudt SuG Httducipulh ANoHo
calls him.
ALMA TADEMA's daughter has written her first
novel, and calls it Loves Martyr"
M. AMBROSE THOMAS is composing for the
Paris opera a new ballet called Miranda
founded on Shakspeare's Tempest
''IF de wedder grows much worse and de work
harder all de timen said an Alabama colored
man, dis Niger will have call to preach"
A GERMAN Psychologist, who has been making
experiments on "a large butchers dog" declares
that beer retards digestion more than wine con-
tanning the same quantity of alcohol.
CHARLES CRooKER, the San Francisco million
aire, is said to have an ambition to possess finer
collection of paintings than that which William
II. Vanderbilt gathered He buys none but the
finest.
CHAN Hon FAN, a Chinaman of Portland.
Ore, is regularly ordained preacher of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and belongs to the
Puget Sound conference.
NEW YORK Times: Young Physician Ito old
doctorl-The medical profession does not prac-
tice bleeding patient nowadays to any extent,
does it, doctors
Old Doctor-No. not with lancet
MISS ELLA BREcKINRIDGE, daughter of the
member from Kentucky, is a brilliantly beauti-
full brunette. now completing her college life at
Wellesley. She will enter the law Office OF her
father as soon as her studies are completed.
Mr.. CHARLES LoNaFELLow. son of the poet
recently submitted to a very elaborate tattoo
decoration at Yokohama He was for more than
three months in the hands of the tattooer, who
did an amount of work on him during that time
that is usually spread out over period OF three
or four years.
AMONG the applications received at Castle
Garden from Western farmers who want freshly
imported wives is one In which the writsr de-
scribes himself as "widorer about forty yrs Of
Age, five feat six inches and AS good A man as
the gineral Avirage of men at my Age with Dark
Hare and Brown Eyes"
PRINCESS AMELIE, the Orleans fiancee Of the
Duke of Braganza, is over twenty. Her ccunte-
nance is mild and rather attractive. The
features are regular. She is extremely tall
Her appearance gives the idea of frail health
Although brought up to take part in field sports,
she Is of pensive habit. She has large
fortune, and is much more presentable than the
man she is to marry.
HENNER, the Alsatian, is one of the few artists
In Paris who sell all their pictures for good prices
in hard times as we'll as good. To a friend who
admiringly remarked to him that he must be
making $4,000 year, Every likely" he said;
II keep no account of 1t. But I might earn
still more If were not bothered and hindered.
These bourgeois are such cattle!'
ATTENTION has been drawn to the alleged fact
that all words beginning with ISL" have in some
degree a second-rate or bad quality about them.
"Look through the dictionary one writer says.
land you viii not find one that is quite first.
rate, for sleep which is about the best of
them, is after all, half way to death, and the
great majority of these words are more or less
disgusting as well as degrading
THE first letter written by the poet Longfellow
is copied in the new biography. The letter is
dated Portland January, 1874 the writer having
almost reached his fourteenth birthday It is as
follows: Dear papa: Ann wants a little Bible
like little Betsy's. Will you please buy her one
if you can find any in Boston? have been to
school all week and only got seven marks.
shall have a billet on Monday. I wish you to
buy me o drum"
M. REMAIN was lately one Of number of
guests entertained by the DUO D'Aumale, at
Chantily. On his return to Paris, "Who were
the other guests?" asked lady. ooh, dis
tinguished persons of various careers and vari-
GUS talents; the men learned and witty, the
ladies elegant and beautiful; indeed, a company
worthy of their host and his noble chateau. y
''But how did you spend your tlmea" "Partak-
ing Of delicious viands and fine wines, walking
in the park, talking on various subjects, going to
bed neither too early too late, and rising at
reasonable hour" "And what do you think of
your host" "Mon Dieu, madame! he is an
Academcan: of intellect distinguished as his
rank; and indeed, q man Of admirable judg.
ment' Then the inquisitor gave it up.
MAJoR-aENERAL ALFRED Ell. TERRY. United
States army. who has just been promoted to fill
the position made vacant by General Hancocks
death, was introduced not long ago. somewhere
in the Northwest, to the cultured wife of cap
tain in the Sixteenth United States Infantry.
Il am glad said the lady, "to meet the hero of
Fort Fisher" General Terry replied: sMad-
am, the real hero of Fort Fisher is the COM
mander of your husbands regiment If it had
not been for him, there would have been no hero
Of Fort Fisher to congratulate" The officer re-
ferred to by General Terry was Gen G. Penny
packer, who led a brigade at Fort Fisher, and
who now, at the age of forty three, is living in
Philadelphia In such retirement that the new
Democratic postofice authorities, the other day.
advertised thata letter directed to him remained
in the Philadelphia Office
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