The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-26
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

| CARLoTTA PATTI will presently give up singing
and 90 to Florence to live.
| In Kansas town an erterprising wet goods
| merchant is coming money by selling "Jeffer-
sonian Simplicity" by the glass or bottle.
| Mr. HAMILTON DIssToN, of Philadelphia. is
| said to be the most heavily-insured man in
America, having policies. aggregating $475 900 on
| his life.
JOSEPH ARCH, M. P, says his attention was
first strongly drawn TO politics by the reduction
OF his own wages from eleven to nine shillings
per week
ARCHBISHOP CRoKE would like much to visit
this country, but at his age-above sixty-he
breads the mental and physical strain it would
cause him.
The names of the "four Americans" recently
ordered out of Germany do not have an alto
| gether Plymouth rock sound. They are Barren,
| Jens, Jurgeasen and Jessen.
| Boston publisher gives as his opinion that
there is no such profitable piece of book property
| as "a novel with good deal of religion in it;
| not too much, but good deal"
| HUBERT HERKoMER," says Boston paper,
when not working with his brush in his studio,
| is engaged in engraving some very beautiful sill
| yer spoons from original designs"
THE Princess Amelie de Orleans, daughter of
| the Comte De Paris, her marriage with the
Duke of Braganza, will receive dowry of
| $4,000 600 from her uncle, the Duo D'Aumale.
| SUNLIGHT has been put to an odd use in Brus-
sells. Falling on a small shaft the rays cause an
upward draught of air which sets fan in motion,
and that, in turn, starts machinery that winds a
| clock.
| THE Duke Of Braganza-who will one day be
King of Portugal, and perhaps of Spain also
speaks every European language we'll except his
own. His father speaks English well and Portu
guese very ILL
AN English paper publishes the genealogy of
Charles Stewart Parnell, showing that the Irish
I leader is direct lineal descendant Of Richard
| Neville, Earl of Warwick, called 'the king
maker" who was killed at Barnet. 147L
| BIRMINGHAM England, still makes f1int-lock
muskets for use in the interior Of Africa, where
percussion caps or any form of fixed ammunition
would often be impossible to obtain, while pow
| der can always be made and fints picked up in
| the desert.
| THE language of sealing wax promises to sup
| plant that of flowers. Red wax must be used
for business only black wax for mourning, and
blue to signify love. Five tints of blue are made
| to express all the gradations of passion. Pink
wax is for congratulations, and white is for wed
| ding and ball invitations
AN intimate friend of General Hancock SAYS
that although he was very exact about all mat
tiers pertaining to his duties as soldier, he was
| always careless about money. He frequently
went over to New York without cent in his
| pockets a fact which he usually discovered after
being placed in some awkward situation.
| LADY physicians in France are in high spirits
| just now. One of their number, Mime. Sarrante
has been appointed by M. Turquet the Under
| Of the official physicians attached to the Ma
| tional Opera house in Paris. Such distinction
has never been gained by lady doctor in France
| before
| GENERAL SHERMAN intended to reply to Gen.
Fry at the recent meeting Of the Loyal Legion
| at Cincinnati, but the sudden death of General
Hancock on the evening before changed the en-
| tire programme General Sherman then sent
| his carefully prepared address to the North
| American Review for publication. It will ap-
| pear in the March number.
Miss CLEVELAND has adopted for use in her
correspondence a crest which is a copy of the
new seal recently provided for the President,
! and shows the bald eagle not with wings
| outstretched as formerly, but with his wearied
pinions at rest upon the breast of the eagle rests
the familiar shield, with its thirteen stripes and
thirteen stars. The crest is printed in dead gold
| and below it appears the words THE Presidents
House."
BISHOP FL G. POTTER dared to say in foreign
| ullssloH mooUluS az NOW IOrh, Duuudy, CudL ne
believed shat in the throng which shall tread
the streets of paradise will be many sanity men
| and women who will never have heard of Christ
/ until they look upon him in his beauty" This
| is more liberal than the new orthodoxy" which
| only allows the good heather to get into para
| disc after they shall have been made acquainted
with the sacrifice of Christ, even though it is
| after death.
In Senator Stanfords mail, the other day,
says Washington correspondent was letter
from Chicago, in which the writer stated that, as
| Mrs. Stanford was now in mourning, she could
| not make better use of her ball dresses and
| gowns OF similar description than by sending
them to her. Il belong she continued ito that
| genteelly poor class who are compelled to present
| an appearance out of all proportion to their linn
| tied incomes By complying even partially with
my request you will greatly obige, etc.
| WHEN Lord Beaconsfeld sought solace out of
| Office by writing 'Endymion' he made one of
his characters, Weldershare, Under Secretary
for Foreign Affairs. with a chief in the House of
| Lords. There can be no doubt who Lord Bea-
| consfed had in his mind. Sir Charles Dixie had
| just become Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
| had chief in the Upper House, and he played
| his part so we'll that he was universally named
as the future Secretary the position just reached
by Lord Rosebery. He would doubtless have
| filled it but for the Crawford scandal and the
| hideous depravity of that exposure makes po-
| litical future impossible to him. although it is
| well known that similar and even worse sexual
brutalities have been committed by aspiring and