The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-01
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

JUSTIN MCCARTHY is said so have realized
500. 900 from his History of Our Own Times"
DR. 81. r. GREGORY, of Leipsic, has finally ac-
copied repeated call to Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity.
Miss ADA G. SWEET expension agent, is now
travelling in the interest of heating apparatus
firm.
LOUISE MIcHEL's forthcoming novel is to bear
the title of 'sThe Microbes" Its virus is not at
tenuated.
THE cold wave reached beyond Florida as far
as Guatemala, producing cold coffee as well as
frozen oranges.
EXPERTS declare that there are autograph let
tiers of Mahomet among the papyri acquired in
Egypt by Archduke Renter, of Vienna.
CHALEs EGBERT CRADDoCK's manuscript is
said to be so legible as to endear her at once to
the heart of compositors and proof-readers.
Mr.. JAMES WHISTLER, the artist, who was to
have visited this country and lectured on art
cables to a friend that his visit has been indef-
nitely postponed.
MISS AGNES PIERCE, whose engagement to ex-
Governor John D. Long, of Massachusetts,, is
announced, was few years ago assistant in the
Melrose first grammar school.
LITTLE girl in edar Rapids, nine years
olu, WIotC ala dCSOuub VI % OAALuICAS pdIbyt cOb
it UP in type and corrected the proof and the
work was we'll done, too. The American girl is
ahead.
THE colored Sunday school, which was started
at Lexington, Va, over twenty five years ago, by
s'Stonewall' jackson, when he was professor at
the Virginia Military Institute, is still in flour
ishing condition.
PROFESSOR MAX MULLER dares to say that
there are long passages even in Homer which
seem to him extremely tedious, and that not a
few of Goethe's writings seem to him not worth
a second reading
SARAH WINNEMUccA, the Piute princess, has
built school-house at Lovelock. New, where
twenty five little Piutes are learning to read and
write free of all expense. They are said to be
very bright scholars.
THE Hon. VIM. D. Kelley, Of Pennsylvania,
thinks he was the first public man in America to
make a speech for woman suffrage. It was
forty-fve years ago, and he has firmly believed
in the cause ever since.
SENATOR INGALLS, is an ardent lover Of nature
It is not unusual for him to start off on tramp
across the Maryland and Virginia hills alone,
and it is his boast that he frequently walks
twenty miles on bright, clear day.
THE North German Gazette. of Berlin. says:
"The prosecution is imminent Of numerous Ger
mans who style themselves doctors on the
strength of diplomas purchased in America
There are 3, 400 such doctors in Berlin alone"
A wELL-KNowN lady of Macon has curious
superstition. Upon entering a room for the
first time she stands in the center, and bows to
each corner. She declares that this exhibition
of politeness is intended to propitiate the spirits
PRINCESS CHRISTIAN, in view of the great dis
tress prevailing at Windsor, is organizing cheap
dinners for children and has invited several be-
nevolent ladies to assist her. The Lord Mayor
will act as treasurer of the fund.- to which the
Princesses Victoria and Louise of Schleswig-
Holssein and number of the Aigher nobility
have already contributed.
NINE ADALINA PATTI will be a princess after
her marriage with NJ. Nicolini, according to the
Paris Gaulois, which declares it has its informa-
ton from the most authoritative source Nico-
lini is to be created prince by a foreign chan
cellory. This honor has been obtained by the
diva herself. who, being warehouses by her
first marriage, wishes to become princess On
the occasion OF her second.
OAKEY HALL was talking month or SO ago
in London club with Mr.. Lawson the editor of
the London Telegraph. VI suppose you are a
Radical over here" ventured the London Jour-
nalist mot at all, SIR quickly replied the ex-
mayor of the American metropolis; II am a
bowling Tory. have seen too much in my own
country of the bad effects of universal suffrage
to want to see it flourish here"
A LARGE publishing house states that 1t gen.
orally employs as readers men and women of
culture. who themselves have done literary
work; sometimes lawyer who finds time from
his professional duties to give attention to liter
airy pursuits. or doctor similarly situated. and
sometimes woman of refined education quail
fed to do the work. When any manuscript on O
scientific medical or special subject is handed
In. some recognized professional man in that
particular is engaged Nearly oil writer's bear q