The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-30
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

| CHAPLAIN MILBURN has discontinued address
| ing prayers to the shorthand reporters, by re-
| quest.
| On card in Philadelphia street-car is a
| truth thus succintly stated: advertising is a
| great deal like making love to a widow-it can't
| be overdone"
| MAN breathes twenty times a minute ex-
cept when he is about TO put the important ques-
| ton to his best girl. Then he breathes twenty
| times second.-Puck.
| ALREADY two White mountain hotels that have
| employed student walters" have decided, in
Difference to public opinion, to dispense with
| their intellectual services hereafter.
LORD CHARLES BEREsFoRD has list of sixty
vessels in the British navy about half of them
| in service, which he thinks should be ''sold,
broken up or blown up, but in no repaired. !"
| JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL is to be invited to
deliver the address the celebration of the two
| hundred and fftieth anniversary of Harvard
| College, Nov. Z The Governor and State Off
| GERS will also assist in the ceremonies.
| MRS GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN will go to Europe
with her daughter ami son after the latter is
| welcomed by the French Princes, who were her
| husbands associates and warm friends
| THE rumor that Prince Albert Victor of
| Wales is to wed the Princess Clementine of Dem
mark is probably baseless Certainly it is not
| true that the Princess, who is only fourteen
| years old. is being educated Protestant
| QUEEN VICTORIA will open the Indian and
Colonial exhibition in person next week; Tenny-
| son will 10 present to hear Mme Albani sing his
ode; Sir Arthur Sullivan will conduct the music,
and of course the gathering will be great and
| fashionable.
GEN STEPHEN D. LEE, president of the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi,
| expects to see that State devoted to fruit and
stock raising He believes that already the peo-
pie of Mississippi are looking beyond the cot
| nrow' for their financial future.
| ALvAH CLARK, the maker of lenses for the
big telescopes, lately celebrated. at Cambridge
Mass, the sixty-sixth anniversary of his mar
riage. BE began life as portrait painter, and
| has never entirely given up the brush. Last
| year he painted portraits of two sons and q
| grandson.
| Bishop Taylor, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, who is said to have more missionary
| spirit than some whole missionary boards and
entire churches, and who has recently travelled
| six hundred miles on foot in the tropical climate
of Africa establishing mission stations is seventy
| years old.
| Mr.. PETER BURNHAM, the antiquarian book
seller under the 'Old South began business in
| Boston sixty years ago as vender of apples and
/ beer, to which he soon added small stock of
| books has now 100 600 rare volumes, and awhile
ago sold the lot on which his old book shop stood
for $780, 600.
Mr.. PETER BURNHAM. the antiquarian book
seller under the "Old South" began business in
Boston sixty years ago as vender of apples and
| beer, to which he soon added small stock of
books, has now 900 rare volumes, and a
| while ago sold the lot which his old book
shop stood for $3.50, 900.
WILLIAM j. DAVIES, a resident OF Harr DDS
burg, KY, has begun the experiment of fasting
for forty days and has already eaten nothing
| for over two weeks He rises early walks two
| miles, and on his return seats himself at the
| breakfast table, looks at the dishes of which he
is fondest, and leaves the table without partak-
| ing of food
| ANEW JERSEY railroad conductor says that a
newspaper folded lengthways and tucked down
the back under the coat, SO that one end shall
| project up against the back of the head makes
| a most comfortable and thorough rest for tired
| travellers head. This ought to be suggestion
| enough for a smart Yankee We may expect
1 soon to hear that the Eureka Patent Pocket
Head Rest and Tourists Companion is on the
| market.
SENATOR BLAIR, according to his photographer,
thinks highly Of his soft, expressive eyes, into
| which he tries hard to throw look Of profound
intellectually. When placed befors the camera