The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
Don CARLOS says he now has greater hopes
than ever before of soon returning to Madrid in
triumph.
PRocToR, the astronomer, has como to the
momentous conclusion that signaling at whist is
not honest.
MRS. MALAPRop says the shad is the sunmum
bonum of the fish kingdom. Well be herring
this denied probably.
Coz. CHARLES CHA1LLE LONG is visiting his
cousin, Dean Chaile, of the Louisiana Medical
University, at New Orleans
AN equestrian statue of General Meade will
soon be erected in Fairmount Park. Philadel-
phia. that will cost $25. OO0."
"There is nothing so merciless as the coercive
power OF narrow party majority"
JUDGE W. D. KELLEY of Philadelphia, prom
Uses to write an extended history of the tariff,
paying special attention to its later phases.
LORD HERsoHELL bids fair to be one of the
best Lord Chancellors of modern times. His
old colleagues at the bar are loud in their praise
of him.
ROBERT c. WINTHRop's opinion on the Blair
education bill: eve can better do without
armies and navies than without education for
tho masses"
SENATOR HoAR writes to the Unitarian Club,
of Boston, that Senator Dawes sshas been doing
for the Indian all that Charles Sumner did for
the negro and more.
Mr. WILLIAM LOWELL, of Bristol, England,
has introduced novelty in suicide by attempt
ing to hang himself to the door knocker of the
house of young woman who had refused to
marry him.
THE Right Honorable Sir Thomas Erskine
May, Clerk of the House of Commons, has re-
signed because of i'll health. He has been in the
House since 1881. and has record Of fifty years
of Honorable public service.
THE people Of Christian county. Kentucky,
have just discovered that in their midst is the
grave of jefferson Davis's brother. The grave
is unmarked by tombstone, and has been
plowed over. This year crop has been planted
on It.
THERE are American hams writes Mr.. Sala,
which, when boiled in champagne are paatable;
but, as a rule both ham and bacon in America,
as In Australia, are very nasty-hard intoler-
ably salt. great deal too lean, and clumsily
smoked.
T. DEWITT TALMAaE does most Of his work
on railway trains, and the entire series of SER
mons on 1.-The Marriage Ring" were composed
the cars, a weeks trip, last September.
When he loses sleep he keeps an account OF it,
and balances the account in summer time by
sleeping right straight ahead.
A USEFUL London charity has two purposes
70 prevent country girls, as far possible, from
coming to London, and to protects those who do
come. Extended in other Cities the society pro-
tects all girls travelling by placing in railroad
stations placards on which are given addresses
of good homes, and. Also the address of lady
referee. AS simple means of giving protec-
ton, the Travellers Aid" might be extended
with benefit in other countries
Mr. ANDREW CARNEGIE dedicates his book on
Democracy" 1910 the beloved Republic under
whose equal laws am made the peer OF any
man, although denied political equality by my
native land:" but he errs in supposing that he
feels for the Republic ian intensity of gratitude
and admiration which the pative-born citizen
can neither feel nor understand" Several
Americans who have been here longer than Mr.
Carnegie are similarly inspired.
ANENT Kaiser Wihelms recent birthday
celebration says the London Times: Increasing
years only seem to lend freshness and vigor to
the grand old Emperor; and as he fitted about
among the ladies of the diplomatic corps, now
chatting cheeriiy for a few moments with Lady
Ermyntrude Malet or bowling graciously to the
lesser lights OF other foreign skies, one could
scarcely realize that this was the same man who
won his youthful spurs at Bar sur-Aube and en-
tered Paris with the triumphant allies before
Napoleon had been madc to bite the dust at
Waterloo. Ruddy and radiant in his scarlet
uniform of the Gardes du Corps-not yet wholly
bald, and only partially bent by his great age
the Emperor was most fascinating object to
ALL"
CAPTAIN BoYcoTT, who will live as an active
verb in the English language long after he will
be forgotten an Irish land agent, will sell his
property at Tough Mask. county Mayo. Ireland,
at public auction, on Tuesday, April 20, and re-
move to England, where he Id appointed agent
of the Flxton Hall estates of Lord Waveney.
Captain Boycott has been for many years
patron of the Irish turf, and kept some famous
racers. He was agent for the estates OF the Earl
of Erne, in Ireland, and his harshness and cru
city helped to precpitate the recent Irish land
war Since he was boycotted six years ago, he
has lived In peace with the tenantry and had
grown nearly popular as an Irish land agent
could hope to be-