The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-18
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

SENATOR EYARTs has nearly recovered from
the accident which happened to him Aug %.
THE Gear of Russia adds an abnormal fear of
hydrophobia to all the dangers, real and imasl-
nary. which surround his royal path
SUPERINTENDENT RAMSAY, of the United
States Naval Academy, is mentioned the
probable head of the ordnance department at
the Washington maynard
HAVING completed his bicycle tour through
England, the Rev. Dr. Wayland Hoyt, of Phila-
delphia, sailed for home last Wednesday, and
will occupy his pulpit next Sunday.
MRS BELvA LOCKWOOD has developed into a
pugilist of no mean pretensions She threw a
troublesome client out of the window of her law
Office In Washington the other day.
IT is said of Hon. Hannibal Hamin that if he
meets man of his own age he can call him by
name, tell who his father was, whom he married.
and where his children are. while, If the &C
quaintance be man a generation younger than
himself, he not only knows his ancestors, and
whom he married, but also whom he wanted to
marry and didn't
THE low-class Englishwoman is not noted for
her delicacy. When Mr.. and Mrs Gladstone,
who had been visiting Mrs. Charles Morley, at
Chiselhurst. were leaving that place for London
woman cried out 'There goes Parnellite."
Mr.. Gladstone turned round and was about to
say something, when the woman began to hiss.
Mr.. Gladstone smiled and passed on
A DESCRIPTION is given in the Boston Post of
Gen. Francis A. Walker as having "a fine, strong
Unmarked face, which suggests that of Napoleon,
and his manner of wearing his hair incre asses
the resemblance. His eyes are full of express
sion, dark and lustrous; they emphasize the in
telligence which is impaired by his lips, and his
earnest and deliberate manner gives weight to
his utteranceS."
EARLY marriages are common among regular
army officers, owing, perhaps, to the fxity of
their pay and position, and many of them, i'm
mediately on being graduated, take the woman
with whom they have danced the most cadet
germans to share their two rooms and $115
month and allowances. The class graduated at
West Point in June numbered seventy-seven
mem berS. Of these eight were married before
Aug. 81
ETERNAL vigilance is the price of prohibition.
A Boston whisky dealer bought cheap coffin,
put 4s-gallon keg of rye whisky inside, screwed
plate on the lid Of the coffin, on which en-
gravod the name, age and birthplace of the al
legged corpse. boxed the coffin, as is usual and
shipped it to a town in Maine. There an under
taker took charge of the box and drove ten miles
into the country before the coffin was opened and
the liquor removed.
THE women of Teheran. Persia, recently sent
a deputation to the Shah, to represent to his
high Mightiness that their husbands were accus-
toned to prolong their sittings in the cafes of
the capital to very late hour and that this con-
duct twas contrary to tho development of fam
lily life and domestic happiness in general" The
Shah replied that he would adopt means to make
their husbands stay at home, and he issued An
order Immediately closing all the cafes in the
kingdom.
JOHN BOYLE OREILLY. having been requested
to send, for publication in Miss Ceveland's Lit
erary Light, about two thousand words at q cent
word, with promise Of better remuneration
in future, wakes indignant at this attempt to get
about Sc worth of work for ST. cash, and sends
the following reply to the publishers: Il cannot
sec why You should appeal to the charity of lit
erary people for the benefit of your magazine.
If your letter is not an appeal for charity, it is
humiliation and disgrace to the literary profes-
sion."
A WRITER in Truth (London) relates that
when "Unser Fritz" was guest at the Tuileries
during the exhibition of 1867 he wished to see
the interior of the forts round Paris. But as
they were in miserable state of defense, it was
arranged TO evade complying with his wish. He,
however, managed in this wise to do without an
order of admission: For some mornings he
made early excursions to distant places accom-
panied by French aide de camp who was placed
at his disposal. One morning. on his way to the
Bicetre Asylum, he said to the officer 'What
If up to the fort beside it9" The aide-de.
camp did not SEQ the harm and took him not
only into it, but into all on the south side of
Paris. With his well eye the crown
Prince saw the military poverty of the land and
the exact defensive capacities of the line OF forts