The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Four grand hotels are to be ready by the 1st
of July for the accommodation Of visitors to the
| Yellowstone Park.
| PUCK: A spring meditation-W should think
shad would be pretty confident OF thing when
| it feels it in its bones.
| MISS ROSE KINGSLEY, the daughter of Charles
Kingsley is to become one of the editors of a new
English magazine for young people.
| AT recent meeting in Chelsea, London, for a
charitable object. much embarrassment was
caused by the refusal of ladies to act with Lady
Dixie.
| JULIAN HAWTHORNE, in Lippincott's for April,
says: II remember once writing for twenty six
consecutive hours without pausing or rising
/ from my chair"
| THE monument reared to the memory of Ell
| Mahd in the Soudan is tower of brick white
| washed and bearing the inscription 1.-THE EN-
bassador of God"
| SENATOR LOGAN Is SO sensitive about his age
that the year of his birth does not appear in the
| Congressional Directory. His next birthday will
| round his sixty-second year.
| Nor particle of fruit of any kind was found
| by Paris chemist in ''currant jelly" which he
| analysed lately. and which had been put up ex-
| pressly for import to this country.
! DR. LUCY 9. WAITE. of Chicago, has been ad-
mitted to the University of Vienna on equal
terms with the male students. She is taking a
special course in diseases of children.
SOME ''hallelujah lasses" of the Salvation
Army visited the Capitol at Washington the
other day. and skirmished around Representa-
tive tom Reed for time, but did not venture
to make a direct attack upon him.
Mrs. DINAH MULooH CRIAK's husband is the
editor Of Macmillan's Magazine He is younger
than his wife by good many years. Although
not famous, like the author of John Halifax, !"
he is clever enough. His father was Scotch
doctor Of divinity
THE sale at Edinburgh Of a copy Of the Xii
marnock edition Of Burns's poems for so guineas
recalls the circumstance that the poet, at the
time of getting out this edition. was so poor that
he seriously thought of indenturing himself to
work his passage on board ship from Scotland to
Jamaica.
M. PAsrEuR has been visited by young man
from Geneva who was bitten by rat which had
been inoculated with rabid virus in the labora-
tory of local scientist The rat escaped, but
was caught by the young man, whom it bit in
one of the fingers. The animal died in high
state of rabies.
Mr. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. who sailed on
Saturday, intending to summer in his beloved
England is credited with having declined sever
al offers to write magazine articles at 81, 900
each. Heretofore we have only heard OF the
very rare instances where writer's, like the late
General Grant, have accepted not declined such
liberal offers.
CHIEF ENGINEER ARTHUR, of the Brotherhood
of Railway Engineers, seems to keep his head"
in these railroad strikes and boycotting days
He says: eve publish a monthly magazine
with 16 900 circulation. Last week the Knights
sent committee to us to kill the advertisement
of a firm which they had boycotted l threw
the letter which they brought in the waste
basket and told them to mind their own bust
ness"
Mr.. CHARLES RUssELL M. p for Hackney.
and former NJ. P for Dundalls, is the first Ro-
man Catholic vino has occupied tie Office Of At
torney general of England since the Reformation
He is an lrshman. born in Newry in 1888 and
was educated in Trinity College The first Ro-
man Catholic judge since the Reformation was
the late Judge Shea, also an Irishman. from
Kilkenney Sir James Mathew, of the chancery
judiciary, is now q Roman Catholic and of q
Tipperary family. The Marquis of Rlpon, now
First Lord of the Admiralty. was the first Ro-
man Catholic, since the Reformation, admitted to
the Cabinet