The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-26
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE women students in the University Of
Michigan have organized for muscular develop
ment.
Mrs. BELvA LOCKWOOD having declared that
the Mormons are total abstainers, a Salt Lake
correspondent writes that she could not have
visited the drug stores there.
SINCE James Parton made a plea for a news
paper without advertisements he is in daily re-
ceipt of forty-seven copies of the Congressional
Record. He is in a fair way of getting too much
of what he wants.
A FRENCH author dedicates his book as fol
lows: 'To my brother Henri, who was killed by
the druggist-who, instead of the infnitesimal
dose OF strychnine called for, gave him enough
to poison an elephant"
COLONEL JOHN Hay has the handsomest resi-
dence in Washington, just completed. It's archi-
tect is Mr.. Richardson, of Boston, who has done
some of the best of recent work. He is a power
fully built man, with a strong, deeply-marked
face.
DAVID TYSON, a Clay county Georgian, wish
ing to move and having no means but a two-ox
wagon and one steer, yoked himself alongside of
the steer and did his part in pulling a load OF
! 200 pounds over seventeen miles of country
road.
A WRITER in a French medical treatise has
discovered a remedy for that most annoying af-
Fiction, the hiccoughs. 1t consists of refrigera-
ton of the lobe of the ear. Very slight refrig-
Grafton, such as a drop Of cold water, is said to
be sufficient.
A DISTINGUISHED physician, in q German
scientific journal, advocates the general use of
sugar as an article Of diet. He afirms that
during forty years he has eaten at least a guar
ter of a pound of sugar daily. not counting
sugar-forming substances taken at the same
time, with benefit.
A SCARCELY credible rumor is extant in Wash
ington to the effect that Secretary Lamar will
have his hair cut when warm weather comes.
1t will be only the second time for twenty years.
The last time it was cut was in 1876, when he
fell asleep In a st. Louis BARRIERS chair and woke
up to find himself looking much like ordinary
people.
NINE. ZIEGER, nee Alboni, the great artistic,
once feted on every stage in Europe, celebrated
her sixtieth birthday recently. A number of
the leading artistes of Paris paid her an unex-
pected compliment in the form of a musical en-
tertainment at her residence. Nine. Alboni her
self sang and showed that she still preserves all
her wonderful gifts of voice.
THE custom of having the gentleman precede
the lady down a theater aisle) is a relic of the
time when ushers in public assemblages were
unknown, and the cavalier had to find q seat for
his fair charge himself. Under the modern
regime, the gentleman who follows his lady
down the aisle to the pew or chair is more in ac-
cord with true etiquette.
PLUNGER WALTON says that he has given up
the turf and politics, and now his chief desire is
to start a 81. 500, 900 hotel in Philadelphia. The
Plunger has made and lost lots Of money. He
had a round million when he Quilted the ST.
James Hotel, and wisely settled a third of it on
his wife, who is handsome and bright. He has
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is by birth and education a Quaker.
A YOUNG Swede makes a living in Boston by
washing dogs. He goes from house to house in
the fashionable quarters. and for fifty cents or
seventy-five, according TO the size of the dog,
gives the pets thorough baths. 1t is said that
the plan was the thought of a we'll known chart
table woman. She wanted to help the young
fellow, who was out of work, and interested her
friends in the scheme, and now he has about all
the dog-washing he can attend to.
MRS. MAGGIE VAN CooT, the evangelist, is
now conducting a series of meetings in Denver.
To a reporter of that city she recently said that
during the past seven years she has delivered
1878 sermons, conducted 1904 meetings, spent
8,446 hours in churches, written 8, l99 religious
letters, brought IL, GOT seekers to the altar, trav-
eled II, 270 miles, received 4. 800 converts on pro-
baton and baptized l,O86 persons. She was born
in 1880.
LIZ 10 q VI aluVAS muSlClduS III Europe
at a little story from Naples. When Bellini
died his brother Carmelo came into possession
of all of Bellini's autographs. Carmelo kept the
writings shut up in a chest and never even unto
the day of his death, last year, so much as lifted
the lid But the other day Carmelo's heirs,
more curious, opened the chest and there found
the original Of "Ernani'-a priceless germ in the
eyes of the famous musicians admirers.
"MADAM.' said a polite tramp the other day to
a lady who was walking through Fourteenth
street, New York, ''you are in close proximity to
a corpse. / don't mean myself" he added, cal
though l have eaten nothing for the last week.
The corpse / refer to is that of a once Joyous
bird, which you carry on your hat. l am a mem
Der Of the Bird Protective Society, and ten cents
will make it unnecessary for me to report your
case to the grand chief" After getting the ten
cents he flew to the nearest stale beer saloon.
THE wife of Congressman Morrison watches
the course Of public affairs day by day. studies
the tariff and silver questions, and is as fully
posted as her husband on revenue matters. A
year or two ago she is said to have asked a friend
to lend her a certain work on the tariff. He COM
piled with her request, thinking it had its source
in feminine caprice, and that she would never
read one-half of the volumes. To mis- surprise
he found notes from aud illusions to the work
all through the next tariff speech of Mr.. Morri-
son.
EX-SENATOR JAMES ". BRADBURY, who is
only four years younger than the present cen
fury, is still living at Augusta, Me-, able to read
without spectacles. and with hand and foot firm
as 10 his younger days. He is fond of talking
of the Senate of 1848, in which he and Hannibal
Hamlin sat, with Simon Cameron and Jefferson
Davis. 1.-The latter's seat he says, twas next
to mine. Mr.. Davis was personally one of the
most agreeable mon in the Senate. He had the
faculty of making more friends In q given time
than anyone else / ever knew. He was peculiarly
aud intensely sensitive to public opinion" Mr..