The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-25
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

EVIL to Him. etc.-'Look here, my friend,
your molasses and wisky are not pure" Grocer
(striking an attitude)-"To the pure all things
are pure"
ANNA DICKINSON still contemplates returning
to the stage and is negotiating with London
managers to that effect. She appears to be quite
willing to again wear "a Crown of Thorns."
PRIVATE DALzELL, who is said to be poor and
broken in health, is trying to get his pension
increased from Sc to $50 per month. His
father, eighty-five years old, is in Washington
looking after the matter.
To every caller who requests an interview,
Arab Pacha sends out one of his own cards,
with line written on it saying he has much
pleasure in granting him the request but begs
the visitor not to mention politics.
PATTI says that she knows little about theater
buildings. The woodwork is mystery to her,
for the spectators are always so numerous as to
hide it from view. She wonders what half
filed house looks like. She said that before her
Eden Theater concerts in Paris.
SINCE the freeze, there is a call for diversified
farming in Florida. The Jacksonville Herald
says: ''Let us have less blow and more corn,
cotton. cane, fodder, and meat. and we shall not
be put in mortal terror every time the thermom
eter goes down to 200 above Zero"
THE claim made for the Northern Pacific rail
road that it's line would be free from the snow
blockades which interrupt traffic on the more
southerly Pacific roads has been substantiated
by this winters experience. There has not been
single stoppage from snow-storms.
: ''WHAT time did you get home from the club
last night BromleyY" SAT 3 in the morning I"
Awakening your wife. no doubtlH "Yes. Oar
ringer. That's my usual luck, you know"
What did you say to her?' II didn't say any
Tha~o pxyth;x 1af%
she was through"
MRS. CRAWFORD, the divorcee in the Dixie
case. is very pretty woman, as is her sister,
the widow of the late Ashton Dixie, Sir Charles's
brother. Sir Charless first wife also re-
markabiy beautiful woman, an Irish lady, a
Miss She'll. He has an only son by her. now
twelve years old.
GENERAL VIELE, of New York, and Judge
Green, of New Jersey, look much alike and are
often mistaken one for the other by visitors to
the House Of Representatives, and indeed by the
members and officers of the House. The princ-
pal mark of distinction is in their necktes, Gen.
Viele wearing red and Judge Green blue.
NJ WORTH, the man-millner, has great dis
like for perfumes. His employees are prohibited
from using scents. or even wearing flowers
Whenever lady sends him her costly laces
odorous from long confinement in perfumed
satches. the first thing he does ia to have them
thoroughly aired. Otherwise he could not touch
them.
SENATOR and Mrs Palmer who have just
quilt the finest house in Washington. have no
children. They have great liking for the little
son of the gardener at their Michigan home and
the boy spends six months of every year with
them surrounded by every luxury, and then re-
turns contentedly to the simple ways Of work
mans home.
Mr.. FRANK E. BRowNEIL of Detroit, who
killed the slayer of Elmer E. Ellsworth, the first
Union soldier to die on rebel SOIL has the latter's
diary, stating that when he was student and
copyist in Chicago lawyers Office, he often went
a whole day without food. This only shows that
the lot Of the young lawyer was no easier before
the war than it is to-day.
A WESTERN novelist is reported to be writing
novel entitled, 1.-THE Bacillus. or the Unseen
Monster" This opens up new field of sugges-
ton to writers who want to get away from the
commonplace Let them put animaleula and
such things in fiction; they wouldn't be any
smaller than some of the characters that now
appear in various current novels.
THE death of Mrs. Griffith Johns. of the Lon
don mission at Hankow, on Dec 90, 1885, is the
subject of extended notice in the North China
Daily News Shanghai which says that her last
days were marked by the sweet serenity of
Christian faith. Converted at the age of twelve.
she entered upon mission work when she mad
barely reached twenty, and was engaged therein
for thirty one years.
THE population of London now exceeds every
other city, ancient or modern, In the world
New York and all its adjacent cities combined
are not equal to twothirds of it. Scotland,
Switzerland and the Australian colonies each
! contain fewer souls, while Norway, Serva,
Greece and Denmark have scarcely half SO many
Yet at the beginning of the present century the
population of all London did not reach one mill
ion
BURNET (Tex.) Bulletin: The editor was
reused, like the salor-boy, from slumbers of mid
night last Friday night by sounds which seemed
to come from lot of cows that had broken into
his front yard, and were lowing to get out On
going out to release them, what was his surprise
and pleasure to find bevy of beautiful young
ladies and one or two gentlemen not so beaut-
full, in the midst of the grand old song, Sweet
By and By"
THE Empress of Austria's taste for field sports
is by no means exceptional among ladies of rank
in Austria and Hungary little while ago the
Crown Princess accompanied her husband on
shooting expedition, and proved herself to be an
excellent shot. The imperial hunts in Hungary
are always frequented by a number of ladies
belonging to the higher court circles. AS mat
ter of fact the prediction of the Empress for
hunting is fully shared by the ladies of the
AuStro- hungarian arlstocracy.
CAPTAIN BoYooTT, the Irish land agent to the
Earl of Erne. and whose fight with his tenantry
at the opening of the land war in 1879 gave rise
to the word boycott, which has been SO extern
sively adopted in this country as we'll as In Ire
land, has been appointed agent of Lord Wave
neys estates in Suffolk. How the English will
receive among them man whose petty tyranny
in Ireland set agoing a practice that has
turned their government upside down remains
to be seen.
OCTAVE FEUILLET. the French novelist, does
not hold the medical fraternity in high esteem.
He has just recovered from severe attack of
illness, which he insists was light form of
cholera, although the doctors say he is mistaken
''They gave my malady" says the indignant pa
tent s.some barbarous Latin name that I could
neither understa nd nor remember. but had the
good sense to throw away their prescriptions and
to violate every one of their orders. and by so