The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-01
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

that eats oysters on the half-shell with remarka
BILE relish.
THE wife of wellknown Senator has made
application to join the chorus of the American
| Opera Company.
| PERE LA CHASE is so crowded with graves
that good Americans are advised not to 60 to
| Paris any more when they die.
| LOVERS of imported fancy cheeses will find
food for thought in the statement that nearly
one-half of the oleomargarne exported from
this country returns again as foreign cheese.
THE midnight sun is not wearing attraction.
Miss Scidmore, of Washington, who has been at
| Beyen, Norway, writes that she has seen it, and
would give dollar for dark night and an hon
est sleep.
SUNSET Cox writes to an Ohio friend ST
may come home, and may again go into the old
arena The odor of sawdnst comes over me, and
| and feel like vaulting through the hoop, ETC..
1 to fill out, the scene"
| A LY-CONvERTED reporter thus notices a
minstrel troupe ''For those who do not con-
sieer it sin to witness minstrel shows. this en-
| tertalnment will furnish pleasant relaxation
| from revival meetings"
| DR. SIGL awell-known Munich journalist de-
scribes the Emperor William as looking remarka-
bly, well, his cheeks tinged with red, and his att
| slightly inclines forward.
y IT is remarked as notable fact that since the
conflict of authority between Secretary Lincoln
and General Sheridan, which brought out some
rather sharp correspondence, the latter has never
| been designated to act as Secretary of War.
HENRY WILLARD is expected to put his sign
out again in Wall street thirty days hence. He
has rented room on the fifth floor of the Mills
| building, and will represent syndicate of Ger
man capitalists in their American investments.
IT has been asked by what right General
Boulanger could stop the sale of his recently
| published biography The explanation is that
| the book contaided his portrait. and in France
mans portrait cannot be sold>without his per-
| mission.
RELIo-HUNTEEs are pulling to pieces the Dor
chester Church. one of the very Oldest in South
Carolina. A clergyman in Summervlle four
miles away, has the old sounding board which
stood behind the pulpit as one of the ornaments
| lii his parlor.
! LIGHTNING struck in the middle of a potato
patch Plattsvilie, Ulster county, during recent
thunderstorm and scorched the vines in circle
of fifteen feet. Directly in the center of the circle
| the tubers were uncovered, and many of them
were baked
A PHILADELPHIA peanut vender informs the
bibulous citizens of that town that if man has
been drinking liquor and doesn't wish to have
the odor of it on his breath, he cannot do better
than eat peanuts afterward. It is better than
eating mint candy or cloves. Those things give
| him away.
DALLAS HILL, of Norwood, Ca, made "fat
meat poultice" for a swelling and went to bed
While he slept. as only tired negro can sleep,
rats, attracted by the smell of the meat came
| out and gnawed on Dallass greasy fingers, LAGER
ating them badly and possibly dangerously,
without waking him.
NINE. CosIMA WAGNER lived in seclusion for
| a full year after the death of her husband. Her
| food was mainly fruit and bread. Now again
| she has begun to take part in public matters.
! She is at "Wahnfried," her home in Bayreuth
and gives most of her time to supervision Of
matters preliminary to the bringing out of Iris
| tan and Isolde"
| Nova SCOTIA magistrate who was taken to
task for delaying suit is reported to have used
this argument in justification Of his delay
| Look here, if you know anything about the
first principles of law or the Revised Statutes,
| you must know that five clear days must elapse
| after the summons is served, and it's been rain
| ing now for three days, and it may not clear up
! for a week"
ANARCHIST PARsoNs's father was once q con-
| fectoner in Montgomery, Ala. He made money
| enough to ride in his own carriage and the first
| Sunday he drove his new vehicle to church some
| bad boys got some chalk, slipped up behind the
| carriage and wrote the back of the seat in
| large letters:
who would have thought it?
Ginger cakes bought IL"
HARRISON H. OLIVER, of Bolton. Tex, is
noted for having l01 bullet wounds on his body
| When he was boy friend thought he was a.
! deer and fred thirty-seven buc6shot into him:
hax hot all rn in ba 10
| a Bolton dentist took him for an enemy and put
fifty. duck shot into his back perforatiug his
! liver and kidneys. Sixty bullets, ranging in size
! from duck-shot to ounce ball, remain in his
body.
| FIFTEEN years ago letter was received at
| home IN Maine. tossed unopened into a bureau
| drawer and forgotten. The other day the bu-
reau was sold and the letter found. 1t was at
once forwarded to its rightful owner then in Old
| Orchard She found that it contained money
INTENDED for an old lady who, oddly enough, was
also spending the summer in Old Orchard and
| who. though eighty-two years old, was right glad
to get the money so long in coming.
PRINCE NAPOLEON .Plon) was recently
visiting the Vatican galleries in Rome, and he
used every effort to induce oue of the Papal
| officers to allow him to remain hidden in some
| nook while the Pope passed through the galleries
/ in going 10 his apartments. The Prince, how
ever, was treated as any other tourist would be,
and was ablged to got out. 1t is said she went
off 10 huff but it is probable the Pope was not
| particular as to the manner of his going.
! IT has been discovered that the speech deliv-
cred by Milton j. Durham, Comptroller of the
Treasury, at the session of the Grand Lodge of
odd-fellows Of Kentucky, in October, 1852. on