The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-26
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

'OUR children starve for bread" was on one
of the banners paraded in a Chicago social
istic picnic, at which the bill of liquors amounted
TO $780,
A PRIVATE letter from London announces the
serious illness of Justice Stephen J. Field, and
predicts his speedy retirement from the United
States Supreme Bench.
WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP, the novelist and
magazine writer will be married this month to
Miss Mary Dearborn Jackson, the daughter of
DR.. George A. jackson, of New York.
THE late Archbishop Guibert, of Paris, OBJ
served his VOW of poverty to the end of his life,
and never slept on anything better than coarse
straw mattress, in barely furnished room.
QUEEN ELIZABETH Of .Roumania. has just
brought out two novels-"Astra" and "Des
Deux Mondes"-which she signs "Dto" and
Item" in order to disguise her authorship.
A YOUNG man, applying for position as
teacher in a Southern school, was asked:
'tWhere is Africaf" The professor was
prised at the answer, which was not altogether
incorrect. Africa" said the young man, is in
Virginia"
SURF bathing is under the ban in the fsshion-
able society of Newport The exposure is ruin
Gus to the complexion: besides the common peo-
pie and the servant maids are fond of the surf,
so that 1t has become too dreadtully common for
select circles.
Mr.. CLEVELAND once asked Senator Voorhees,:
"Who is Judge Turpie2" "a citizen of Indiana"
was the reply, ''to whom feel like apoogizing
every time we meet" "Whyl" For the rea-
son that am in the Senate of the United States
and he is not"
IT is said that the fine and aromatic tobacco Of
Cuba is growing scarcer every year, and that its
degeneration is due to the exhaustion of the land
and the use of Peruvian guano as fertilizer
The United States produces yearly about 200.-
000, 600 pounds and to make cigars 1000, 900
pounds of tobacco for filters are bought in Cuba.
Mr.. MARION CRAWFORD has apparently taken
the title of his new novel from queer little viii
lage near Rome. "Saracinesca" in its very name
tells its own history. 1t was settled by colony
of Saracens, and their descendants reveal to-day
in body and in character the traits of their an
cestors They are handsome and fierce race;
and they furnish many model to the artists in
Rome.
THE Rev. Charles H. A. Dali. whose death. at
Calcutta, has been announced, began his mission
airy labors in St Louis, where he worked with
and lived in the family of the Rev. Dr. Eliot.
One day the Ellots had just sat down to dinner,
when Dali rushed in, exclaimed The worst case
yet" snatched the dish of roast meat from the
table, and rushed away again, to give it to poor
family he had discovered.
IN the August installment of Mr.. Howells's
new novel, 1.-THE Minister'S Charge" now appear
in the Century, occurs the following passage:
"Sewell the minister unused awhile. Then he
said with smile. Its very much simpler to fit
people for the other world than for this don't you
thinkp Yes, it is [rsplied the editor 1t was
cold day for the clergy when it was imagined
that they ought to do BOTH"
SIR HENRY THOMAS, OF London, gave dinner
to DIR. Holmes, asking the genial autocrat to
Du Maurier Mr.. Alma Tadema, Mr.. Browning,
Mr.. John Morley and Mr.. Gladstone No man
need ask to be in better company even in Eng
land, and yet everyone but the host was a COM
moner. save the guest of the evening, who was
sovereign in his own right by virtue of being an
American citizen.
A RECENT puzzle in the Dead Letter Office at
Washington was missive with this inscription:
takkata ter nurt amerikaa" The lady to whom
it was allotted read it over to herself till well
nigh distracted, and finally settled Mrs
Maria Peratola, Nora, Hamilton county. Dakota"
and it was duly delivered A more fearful
was this 'Gi hon aho la asst ha gew Ian han
yori ohio laan Pok jas Ameriika." II was trans
lated to mean John Ahola, Ashtabula Harbor,
Ohio"
DISAPPOINTMENT
l asked my love to row with me
Upon the moonit lake;
And, far from the shore, where none could see,
tried kiss to take.
She promptly boxed my ears and so
We're on bad terms just now
thought we'd have pleasant row.
Instead, we had a row.