The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
NILSSON would not sing in Munich because
only twenty-five tickets had been sold.
A SINGLE copy of the first edition of "Pick-
wick was sold in London the other day for $40.
LOWELL COURIER: Editor Burr, of Hartford,
is the oldest editor in the State. BUR- must be a
chestnut.
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS has written
Burglars in Paradise in the style of 1.-THE Old
Maids Paradise
CONGRESSMAN HoUK, of Tennessee. educated
himself while working at the cabinet-makers
trade and reading by the freight at plight.
BOSTON is becoming sarcastic. On Wednesday
evening a hall was dedicated to music, litera-
ture and art" The name Of the place is Sleeper
Hall
1T is said by a contemporary that Isabella, ex-
Queen of Spain. ownsc considerable real estate in
Philadelphia, and, furthermore, is a shareholder
In the Keely motor.
A CONNECTICUT society that was organized
about 1900 for protection against horse-thieves,
is still in existence. and 80 nourishing that it has
declared a dividend of 200 per cent. payable
Feb. L
VIcToRIEN SARDou, the French dramatist,
was asked the other day by a lady, monsieur,
why did God make men?' Madame" he re-
piled, Ito keep women from assassinating each
other.n
MINIATURE silver barrels, filled with the best
Minneapolis -four. are the gifts which the Danish
| people of the Northwest intend sending to the
Princess Of Wales and her sister, the Empress of
Russia.
A PLATINUM wire too fine to be seen with the
naked eye is said to have been made by Mr.. FL.
7. Read, of Brooklyn. It is to be used in tele-
scopes as a substitute for the spiders web usual
ly employed.
Til day Of the wooden nutmeg is not alto
gether past. Two hundred patents have been
issued at Washington for machines to polish
low grade coffee that it may be palmed off on the
innocent as first quality.
THE largest dog in the country is said to be a
st. Bernard owned at Glen Cove, L. I. He
measures seven feet eleven inches from the end
of his nose to the tip Of his tail, stands twenty
five inches high, weighs 1872 pounds, and has
never been vaccinated.
VIOLET WORDSWORTH, a granddaughter of
William Wordsworth, the English poet, was
married at Ambleside, the other day. to a Liver
pool solicitor named Jones, who therepon
changed his commonplace name to the more po-
etical one of Wordsworth.
"LEo KILL" writes Mrs. Brewster from
Rome, lis a thin. wiry man, with q fibre as
strong as steel; he can stand shocks that s~touter,
labbier men cannot" The Pope has an income
of more than q million a year. He limits his
personal expenses to 81. 90 a day.
PERHAPs the most original plea for a pardon
yet made is that of a convicted Maryland forger.
and he has sent q petition to the Governor for re-
lease, promising, in the event of favorable
action, to become an exemplary citizen.
AN honest Iowa granger recently sent the fol-
lowing letter to a business man: "Pleas send
me at onst one of yure paten lether pumps witch
you sell fer So %. My ole pump hez about gin
out, and sence the probishun law went into
effeck the ole we'll is the only drink we have
PRESIDENT GREvY is a devoted chess player,
and every day at 2 o'clock a servant arranses a
table at his house when his presence is not re-
CURED elsewhere by state matters. His most
| frequent adversary is M. De Freycinet. 1t is
said that very few can boast of having beaten
him at the game.
CONGRESSMAN 'sTIM" CAMPBELL was asked
how he came to leave the Arlington Hotel to
board upon K street. '"The fact is" he an
swered, there is too much excitement at the
hotel for a quiet Teller, so have me quarters at
q quiet house, where l am the star boarder and
sit next the landlady."
"VNASoh PopoA q chVuShs'Oi Dull
geon suggests that the swords and bullets en-
ployed in dueling shall be carefully disinfected.
A party to a recent affair of honor had the mis-
fortune to be run through with a sword not abso-
lutely clean and died OF blood poisoning; hence
this humane suggestion.
LADY lawyer from Dakota has opened an
office in Washington. Her namei is Miss Cynthia
Cleveland, and it is said she was at one time
engaged to be married to a very promising young
- - q AA--.-l - -
profession, as she feared that the responsibilities
Of matrimony would interfere with her legal
practice. Il
GENERAL S~TONEMAN, the once famous cavalry
leader, who is now Governor of California, has
lived for most of the time since the war at the
San Gabriel Mission, near Los Angeles. His
health was completely undermined, and it has
taken almost twenty years to overcome his Sc
we're dyspepsia. His e~quanimity of temper suf.
fered correspondingly, and there were few peo-
pie who would brave his remarks by a visit to
the huge orange plantation which he cultivated.
It is almost unnecessary to add that his restored
health has completely altered his disposition,
and that there are few more genial men than he
to-day in California.
MAXINE LIsBoURNE was the leader of the
Commune of 1871 at whose orders the Arch
bishop Of Paris was killed and the city fred.
Later he served a term of seven years in New
Catalonia, with an iron ball chained to his left
ankle and wearing the prison uniform of yellow
pantaloons and red coat with yellow sleeves.
Evidently he became attached to this unique
garb, for he has opened a hotel in Paris in
which it and other features of his prison life are
reproduced. The door-keeper is dressed in the
uniform of a prison guard, and thirty walters
serve the guests in the regulation penitentiary
costume. 1t was found inconvenient, however,
to drag around the iron ball on the floor, aud it
is carried attached to the belt