The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-07
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
WOMEN are slowly winning their rights. An
Iowa judge has decided that a man is in duty
bound to tell his wife where he spends his even
ings when he is away from home.
IT is said that primrose roots are in such de-
mand in England. owing tie Dizzyprimrose
cult, that they will soon cease to grow in the
woods and have to be cultivated in gardens.
CLAAA NORRIS says: "Mr. Tilden and have
jointly made just about the most thorough study
of nerves and their disorders that can be i'm
agined. We have learned everything concerning
our diseases, except how to cure them."
In view of his intended immediate visit to
this country. Mr.. Matthew Arnold's vigorous de-
nunciation Of home rulers traitors does not
evidence that tact which might be expected in
an amiable apostle of sweetness and light.
THE engagement is announced of Mr.. L o.
Green, son of President Norvin Green, of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, and Miss
Amy Hewitt, daughter of Hon. Abram S. Hew-
lit. Miss Hewitt is now in Paris with her moth
er and sisters.
Miss ANNA DICKINSON has been passing the
winter at West Pittston, Pa, with her aged
mother, who is i'll and now near death, and
while Miss Anna may return TO the lecture plat
form. it is not probable that she ever again will
attempt to act on the stage.
PHILADELPHIA Herald: II hear, Mrs. Jones'
that you intend purchasing piano and giving
your daughter music lessons Eyes, but I'm
afraid Anna will never be much OF musician.
Well, don't care how badly she plays. l hate
the family next door and want them to move"
QUEEN VIcToR1As desire to marry her wild
owed daug law, the Duchess Of Albany
to her wdower son-in-law, the Duke of Hesse
can be accomplished without the passage OF the
deceased wife's sister BILL as there is no English
law against marrying deceased wifes sistern-
law.
GIRLS owning lockets made from genuine
United States coins would better not throw them
away or give them to the cook when She" goes
away with another for, as their manufacture
has been forbidden by the Treasury, their num-
Der is perforce limited, and by the time the Sec
ond centennial comes around they will be valu-
able relics. Somebody is always telling girls TO
look to the future. Here is their chance.
NJ DIsDERI, citizen of Nice, has brought to
the notice of the President of the French re-
public plan which he has conceived for making
every French man and woman an aEnutant at
the age of sxty-five. He would have q monthly
tax of one franc levied on everybody above the
age of twenty, and continued to the age of sixty
five. He evidently hopes that the millennium will
be attained should his vast plan be adopted.
THE legand connected with the birth of the
Prince Imperial is brought up again in Paris,
with the rumor. mentioned in a cable dispatch
that beautiful young girl bearing a striking
resemblance to the ex Empress Eugene is
about to bring legal proceedings in Paris ito
have herself recognized as the daughter and heir
of that unhappy lady" There are many people
who still believe that Gilbertian change of
babies was really effected at tho Tuileries.
A FLOWER concert" was given at Concord,
Mass, the other evening A SCREEN painted to
represent scene in a flower garden, stood on
the stage, and before it were potted plants in
profuslon. Some of the painted flowers were
very large and the center of each big flower was
an opening, skillfully concealed by movable
cover Behind the screen stood the singers and
their faces appeared In the center of the flowers.
The singing flowers were rose, dahlia, a sun
flower, daffodil, pansy. a tulip daisy, and
buttercup.
BEAUTY is subjected to severe ordeals in New
York city. Miss Chamberlain, the American
lady who has attracted so much admiration in
London and Paris, had strange experience in
New York not very long ago. In store, one day,
woman had the impertinence to pass hanGker-
chief across Miss Chamberlain's cheek, with
quiet remark, Il wanted to see If the color was
natural" The ancient Athenians were fond of
new sensations, but they never rose to this high
level of curiosity.
The venerable historian, George Bancroft
protests, in the current number of the Princeton
Review, against the change the revisers of the
English Bible have made in the seventh petition
of the Lords prayer: Deliver us from evil"
which they have narrowed and enfeebled into
Deliver us from the evil one.' This is with
ont question one of the most unacceptable alter
atoms the revsers made in the established text
and stands no possible chance of supplanting the
old form in usage: but Mr. Bancroft proceeds to
show, by careful examination Of Greek usage,
that it is as unwarrantable as it is undesired.
Mrs. s. D.. MOORE died near Adrian, Mich, a
few days ago, aged seventy zone years. Her hus
band, who is an atheist, refused to have cler-
gyman oficate at the funeral. At the house,
Mr. Moore. who is an old man, read an extract
from the Footprints of Life and then gave
sketch of the life of his wife. He then extended
invitation to any one to make remarks from a
secular standpoint. The eldest daughter read a
poem which she had prepared for the occasion,
in which she acknowledged Heavenly Father,
who folds His loved ones in his arms and ouets
them to rest AT the grave the husband ten
derry babe his wife farewell. closing by saying:
Eve are all of the earth and must return to the
earth again" The daughter, standing by her
father, recited another verse, in which she ac-
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