The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-25
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A PIECE of land was sold in the city of London
the other day at the rate of $40 0000 900 per acrS
COLONEL INGERsoLL has an excellent brother
in Wisconsin, who is a devout Christian and
foremost temperance advocate.
AN English rector expelled boy from school
because he did not make obeisance by bowling to
his clerical majesty on the street The school is
public one, receiving government grant.
IT is said that Miss Rose Coghlan is one of the
few ladies who can smoke and do it gracefully.
She makes no bones about the habit, and in
dulges in cigarettes whenever she feels like it.
Mr.. JOHN r. McLEANs house on 1 street,
Washington. will not be ready for occupancy for
months yet Mr. Mclean is building IN addi
tion almost as large as the presentStructure. and
intends to make it the palatial residence of
Washington.
THE orce famous singer Adelina Speech, for
whom Adelina Patti was named, died recently in
Rome. She was, in her day. considered the rival
of Malibran, but her extraordinary corpulency
compelled her to withdraw from the stage at the
age of twenty-four.
A TURPENTINE farm is one of the curiosties
of the South. The trees are counted into crops
of so many Thousand, and then cut. The first
run is clear oil, and, after being dipped out
with paddle, it is distilled, and hard resin is
left white and clear as glass.
HENRY IRVING allows a weekly pension to an
old man named Lewis, who was of great help to
him in the beginning OF his stage career, the
only condition being that Lewis shall never APP
pear on the street before p NJ. The reason
for this is that Lewis is a great drunkard.
A CIGAR contains acetic, formic, butyric, va
leric and proprionc acids, prussic acid, creosote
pyridine, viridine, picone and rubidine, TO say
nothing of cabagine and burdockic acid. That's
why you can't get good one for less than cents.
Mr.. WILLIAM T. ADAMS (Oliver Optic) will
make Minneapolis his permanent home after
this winter. 1t is said that ne will enter into
business il that city with his son-n law, Mr..
Sol Smith Russell the actor. who, with this
winters engagement will close his professional
career.
THE herring is the silliest of fish. He goes
into weir through wide door, and might cas-
lily 60 out through the same opening. Once in
side, however, he swims around and around in
circles, and is frightened by the waving Of the
weir brush in the water from approaching the
sides. So he stays in and is lost.
The English and American press has persist
emily called Frank List ''abbe" AS a matter
of fact he was a canon. and was always known
by that title on the continent-excepti in France
where he was known by a bewildering variety
of clerical and secular titles. Canon List it
should be, but Able Liszt it has been and prob
ably will be-
The we'll known oculist, DR.. Hermann Cohn,
of Breslau. objects strongly to the slate ordina
riy used by school children, and proposes the
use of white stone slabs Dr. Stefan, in re-
cent number of the Monatsschrift fur Augen-
Eeilkunde, shares Dr. COINS objections to the
slate, but recommends white enameled timed
iron as the best material for writing tablets
A PRIVATE letter from Royat, watering place
in Auvergne, says: "Sr Charles Dixie is here
with his wife and boy, quietly living at little
villa. He is so young-lookine, and she is so
very attractive! They speak to no one. but such
an odd thing happened last Sunday. The judge
who decided the Crawford case is also here and
in church he and Sir Charles happened to sit
side by side in the same pew. Sir Charles
plucked it out bravely, and made his responses
like saint, and by no means like martyr"
BISMARCK is not ungratefu. The other day,
on going from Berlin to Babelsberg to see the
Kaiser, he found he had lost the large lead-pen-
Gil he always carried in his pocket He asked
| the conductor if he could lend him pencil, but
the conductor had none. An assistant, after
| fumbling in his pocket, found fragment of a
| pencil, about an inch long, which he handed to
| the Chancellor The following day servant of
| Bismarcks appeared at the depot, and handed
the assistant an elegant silver pencil bearing
| the date of the preceding day