The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-25
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


CELERY when served in style IN New York,
now is frozen hard.
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN is writing new opera
and preparing for marriage at the same time.
KAISER WILHELM and his sons, when travel
ing by rail, pay for their passage the Same as
other people.
PARNELL is supposed to receive more letters
and answer fewer than any other conspicuous
politician now in public life.
BROOKLYN girl stepped into jewelers., and
asked for pair of Consistency bracelets"
Somebody had told her that consistency was
jewel
THE German Chancellor is suffering one of
the penalties of greatness; popular preparation
for teething children is called "Bismarcks Baby
Powder"
SIR ANDREW WALKER who has just been
| made baronet owns some 200 public houses in
Liverpool. Nearly all the persons in England
who deal in drinks are Tories
LIEUT.. EMORY TAUNT, one OF the officers of
the Greedy relief expedition, is on his way home
from the Congo country, where he was sent by
the government on mission of investigation.
1T is reported that Messrs. Julian Hawthorne
and George Parsons Lathrop have in colabora-
ton written three act comedy, founded on the
story of the formers late novel; Love; or, a
Name"
''Now, sir, you are better" said a Boston faith
doctor to a patient be had been treating; tell
me just how you feel" "Well, SIR" replied the
victim, II feel like - fool. How much is
your bl?"
GIN Fun, San Francisco laundryman, has
joined the Anti-Coolie League, and posts over
the door of his wasbee housee the sign: '.The
Chinese must 60. None but Mclean man en-
ployed here"
FRENCH satire once more. At recent popu-
lar assembly in Paris a speaker parenthetically
inquired: "Why don't the great men of Paris
bestir themselves Why do they remain cold
and unmoved at the calamities of our country2'
Because they are cast in bronze" came from
sarcastic voice in the gallery.
SARAH BERNHARDT is to appear in musical
piece. In the first act man comes on the stage
with small tuning-fork, which he strikes In
the second act Bernhard appears as the vibra-
tion-500 to the second American pitch-of the
fork and in the last act there is great scene in
which she appears as dying echo.
DIR. j. P. NEWMAN, who has not been specially
conspicuous lately, is now in Washington, with
a reasonable prospect of a recall to his old church
there, which no doubt will be gratifying to the
Doctor, as the fashionable hours at the capital
will permit him to breakfast as late he pleases.
He is now attached to the household of his friend
and patron, Senator Stanford.
New YORK Tribune: Even editors are some
times unreasonable. The editor of Georgia
paper said in recent issue of his paper: s.If
the man who sold US FIVE dozen rotten eggs Just
before Christmas day doesn't come in and make
them good we win teach him what the penalty is
for cheating and swindng" Just as if any one
could make that kind of eggs good.
! SENATORS BECK and Voorhees, are mentioned
by the New York Post as prominent Western
Democrats who were under suspicion" of being
Blaine men in the last campaign. This being
said of two of the stanchest Bourbons is anus
ing. But good deal must be forgiven to the
| New York Post. It's hatred of Mr. Blaine is
disease which long since deprived it of any
moral responsibility, and has made frightful In
roads upon its intellectual powers.
| THE late Miss katherine Bayard, the Phila
delphia Press tells, had Oscar Wilde introduced
| to her when that young man was in Washington
1t was in the afternoon, and two brilliant social
events were to occur that evening. Said she
''Mr. Wilde, will you go to the reception to
night" ''Well," he replied, 'if l am not too
much fatigued after my lecture" A short pause
| followed and then he sad Miss Bayard, of
course you will be at the reception?7 ''Well,"
came the answer, ''if am not too much fatigued
after your lecture"
Miss ANNE WHITNEY is much talked of in
DOSLOu now as q sculptor OF marked power. she
used to fancy herself poet. One day, however,
having overturned a not of sand in the green
house, which, from its dampness readily took
impressions, she began to model it, keeping at
the work for hours, and returning to it next
day with zest, till she had wrought out her idea.
| Her thought had taken visible FORM and it gave
her such satisfaction that she then and there
decided to make sculpture the pursuit of her
| life. and began to work Immediately and in
earnest.
| Few men have left.more substantial traces of
their existence, says the st. James's Gazette
than Christopher Columbus; yet it is not known
| for certain where he was born nor even where
| he was buried for both San Domingo and Ha-
| vana claim the possession of his bones. The
! Able Casanova has, however, made out very
strong in favor of the right of Calvi in Cor
| sica to be regarded the natal place of the
great discoverer; and the people of Calvi are ac-
| cordingly making arrangements TO celebrate the
| fourth centenary of their illustrious townsman
| on grand scale.
| In the little village of Mount Pleasant, in the
potteries in Staffordshire England. is to be
found child whose extraordinary growth ex-
cites great wonder. Little Alice, as she is
humorously called. is but four years of age, yet
turns the scale at $50 pounds, the circumference
of her waist being no less than five feet, while
her height is four feet, so that literally she is
| broader than she is long She is bright, iptei-
gent and remarkably pretty. her head being