The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-28
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

BARNuAf's show took in $4,000 at Charleston
one day since the great quake.
MARY ANDERSON advises young women not to
have anything to do with amateur theatricals,
as they are "a tremendous strain on the nerves
and do not pay one who has high ideal of dra-
matte art"
An Indian doctor in San Francisco rejoices in
the name of Observation-Disclosures Finite
Meerkhan. and police justice almost dislccated
his jaw in attempting TO pronounce sentence
| upon him for practicing without a license.
GENERAL KAuLBARs. the Cars Minister of
Mischief in Bulgaria, is tall. STOPPING bony
man with . low, soft voice. He speaks several
languages, writes poetry. is an amateur ento-
mologist, and is q charming companion and
member Of society.
DURING the fcrty-nine years of her reign
Queen Victoria has spent only twelve days in Ire
| land, and Mr. Labouchere wants her TO cele-
brate her jubilee by giving in memory of those
| twelve days IL pence to each inhabitant of the
neglected island.
JACOB SHARP, now under bail in New York
| for alleged bribery, began life as raftsman on
| the Hudson It did not take him long after
| landing in Now York to develop into a full
ledged land pirate and now he is shedding private
tears and wishing he hadn't
A LADY living in Italy writes that one count
of her acquaintance is a carpenter and another
bricklaysr; while she has seen the grand
American girls who think that Italian counts are
superior to the untitled gentry will thus be I'M
deceived.
Mr. w. d. HowELLs has written for the
Youths Companion charming article, which
will be published in three numbers, recording
mis- early life in Ohio. It is actual experience,
not fiction, and it brings out with many exquis-
lite touches the life of sensitive and poetic boy
in Western log cabin.
ONE of the best medical books of the year has
just appeared in Paris, and gives new light upon
typhoid fever. DIR. Albert Robin is one of the
youngest professors of the faculty OF medicine.
His book is collection Of lectures delivered to
the medical students of Paris. It consists of
twenty-one blossoms" upon the most advanced
| treatment of typhoid.
ELLA WHEELER Wilcox has written poem
adapted to recitation for Mrs. James Brown Pot
ter that illustrates the tendency of society to
forgive man who goes wrong while it remains
unrelenting towards woman who errs Its
title is 1.-TWO Sinners and Mrs. Potter expects,
by means of it, to heighten the fame she
achieved by reciting "Ostler joe last winter.
ADRIAN S. HEWITT 10 now sixty-four years old.
He is of slight stature, Of medium height and
he walks with a quick, rapid, jerky STEP His
shoulders are slightly stopped, his chest is mar
row, and he often goes ahead with his head
down. His face Is q nervously intellectual one
and it is covered with short whiskers of silvery
Wilderness. His hair, is also white and fine in
texture.
PIERRE LoRILLARD has expended 81 900, 900
on this pleasure ground" says New Yorker,
speaking of Tuxedo Park. AT the Tuxedo Club
ball the other night Mrs. Pierre Lorillard, ST.,
was "ablaze with diamonds and rohed in white
sicilienne and yellow tulle" Allen Thorndike
Rice danced with her in the quadrille d'honneur.
Mrs. James Brown Potter was "a dream in Law
ender." .l 4.I.
Two wellknown characters among the Onon-
dago Indians have recently died One was Aunt
Cynthia Farrar, famous for her wealth. She
kept bank account at Syracuse, loaned thous-
ands Of dollars and bought the lands Of her
debtors when they could not repay her. She
owned, after the Indian manner of title. more
than Eve hundred acres Of land, worth 800 per
acre. She began her career as manufacturer
of bead work. The other celebrity was Aunt
Dinah, an Onondago Of pure blood, and believed
TO be 108 year old when she died. She was
feeble and totally blind, but had good use of her
mental faculties. e f.ssa tf Is s.
GENTLEMEN with mind apprsciative OF
stories Of duelling. tell tale of French gem
eral, who bargained with skillful artisan to
pay him $4,000 francs for an absolutely bullet
gnnd swordrproof cont OF mail. to be worn under
tha ordinary dress When II was delivered the
general had the artesan put IL on. IA yen
guarantee the efficacy Of your coat, you will
hsys. presume. 70 oejestion q ssy tessine Z
dFyly xcmarked the general and before u
tonished artisan couiA profekh hA took oil
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