The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-09
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

NEW ORLEANS Picayune "God bless our
Holmes is a now motto Boston is working in
worsted.
SENATOR BOWEN is in luck again. having
just struck bonanza in his Colorado gold mine.
Let 'er CO."
1.-THE belle of the South" is the daughter of
General Gordon. Her beauty is said to be ex-
traordinary.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK has a tame wasp. 1t eats
sugar from his hand, allows him to stroke it,
ard returns to its bottle when told to.
MISS ANNIE PIxLEY Mrs. Robert Fulfordl has
experienced sad bereavement in the death of
her only child, bright boy of ten years
RHEA is a stage name, but it is the only one
tho actress uses except when legal contracts
force her 10 sign herself Hortense Loret.
A LOT of dairy COWS have recently been ship
ped from San Francisco to China, where the ma
tives are turning their attention to the dairy
business.
MISS SKIDMoRE, Washington correspondent,
made 81, 600 out of her letters during the presi-
Dental wedding week, and has gone to Europe
for the summer
A PRESIDING elder congratulated pastor in
his district on the saubrious air he was living
in. ''Yesp he naively replied eff could live
one"
BYRON, who loved the eye and studied it. ia
vored gray eyes. eff they have SOUL" as safe
gives this tint to Mary, Queen of Scots.
TENNYsoN is feeling melancholy over the rail
road which is to be built across the Isle of
lake country, put it runs there for all that
KANSAS Cry added fresh feature to its
Fourth of July celebration in the shape of
negro, Washington Dale. who was born July 4
l776-ths first Fourth of July that meant any
thing.
Col. FRED GRANT has presented to editor
G. W. Childs fine Kentucky mare and colt.
The mare was great favorite with General
Grant. which gives the animal especial value to
Mr.. Childs of course.
NEAL Dow in n recent interview said: ssTTntil
lately l have believed that the Republicans
could not elect another President, but now I
think it possible they will succeed once more
The Democrats are showing remarkable ca
pacity for laundering
MRS ELLEN BURNSIDE CAMERON aud Mrs.
Fanny Winsor Bishop. of Providence, have late
ly come into possession of the estate of Mrs.
General Burnside The estate is very valuable.
and was mostly planned and laid out by the Gen
eral
THE Macon tGa Telegraph has got its mad up
and declines to admit that it sent Cleveland that
breadtray wedding present (which was returnedl
as a joke, aud now its Georgia contemporaries
are charging it with being opposed to civil-sorv-
ice reform.
A CHICAGO citizen is dcsirous Of transporting
to his summer residence near that city one Of
the big California trees three hundred feet in
height, ninety-eight feet in circumference, aud
weighing about forty thousand pounds Tho
estimate of the cost OF the work is $4,000
THE list of living war Governors, revised and
corrected to date, includes Curtin of Pennsyl-
vania, Kirkwood, of Iowa; Ramsey. Of Mime
sofa; Sprague. OF Rhode Island; Berry of New
Hampshire; Blair. of Michigan; Solomon of
Wisconsin, aud Holbrook and Smith. of Ver-
mont
THE Emperor Of Russia, after attending the
maneuvers in Lithuania, in September will re-
pair. for few days. to Warsaw. About the
same time the Emperor of Austria will attend
the Austrian maneuvers in Galicia This oppor-