The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

MICHAEL DAvITT will have no mother in law
as Miss Yore, whom he is about to marry, is an
orphan and lives with her aunt.
GEORGE GOULD and wife will live at the
Windsor Hotel, New York having FIVE rooms on
the second floor, for which he pays 5000 per week
Mr. CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER will be one of
the writers who will accompany the Harper
Brothers expedition fitted out by Mr.. John H.
Inman
FRED NJ BUNKER, of Alegonia, Sumner county
Kansas, died in Fort Smith, Ark. and his re-
mains have been sent to his home He was tho
eldest son of Chang, the righthand one of the
Siamese twins. and was thirty years of age. He
was fairly we'll off.
A wELL-INsTRUcTED Boston four-year-old said
to his mother at breakfast. the other morning,
boiled eggs being on the bill of fare: mamma
unshel my egg" Then. apparently thinking he
had not been sufficiently polite. added: For
Jesus sake, amen"
A CURRENT advertisement in Seattle, w. T..
paper reads as follows: Whereas have left
my wife and board; whereas have become at
tached to another and more attractive woman,
hereby give warning to the public that will in
future pay my own bills without any assistance
from her whatever"
In new dictionary Of biography, containing
DO, 900 names, all the Rothschilds and Astors put
together receive only as many lines as are &C.
corded to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Cornelius
Vanderbilt receives less attention than Paga-
mini and A. L. Stewart no more than Daniel
Lambert, the fat man. Even the three rich
benefactors-Girard, George Peabody and Sir
Moses Montefore-united take less room than
John Wesley or Nathaniel Hawthorne.
THE tomb of Thaddeus Stevens upon which
Mr.. Blaine recently placed a rose, bears the fol-
lowing characteristic inscription, written by the
great Commoner himself Il rest in this quiet
and secluded spot not because of any natural
preference for solitude, but finding other ceme-
teries limited as to race by charter rules
choose to be buried here, that l may exemplify
in my death the principles have maintained
throughout long life-equality of man before
mis- Creator"
FoR ways that are dark and tricks that are
vain the old world gambler, perhaps, discounts
his enterprising brethren in America. A CORE
spondent writes that in gambling saloon in
Moscow the walls and ceiling were covered with
paper on which stars were stamped. Among the
stars in the ceiling holes were cut, and a map
lying on the floor in the room above saw the
hands of those playing cards and telegraphe6
them, by means of wires connected with his
shoes, to his confederate
KAISER WILHELM is economical He uses a
second time nearly all the envelopes of the docu-
ments addressed to him. One of these bearing
his autographs superscrption was recently seen
by correspondent of the Concordia, who writes
about it as follows: Privy documents sent to the
Emperor fromthe Ministers and imperial officers
are put unfoldod into an envelope, which bears
the inscriptions ITO his Majesty the Emperor
and King" The name of the sender appears in
small letters In the left hand lower corner of
the cover, as, for instance Foreign Office" etc.
The flap of the one ia question was closed with
red sealing wax. In opening it, the Emperor
had carefully torn it open close to the wax, and
after perusing the contents he had folded the
flap so as to make it long enough to cover the
original SEAL resealed it with his own hands.
changed the word ito" into 'from,n crossed off
the address OF the SENDER and directed it to
'Privy Cabinet Councillor v. W" This
economy is one of the characteristics Of tho
Hohenzollern family.