The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-24
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
REPORT has it that Francis Murphy, the tenn
perance evangelist. is soon to marry.
1T is said that the Queen of Portugal greatly
dislikes her new daughter-in-law. the Princess
Amelia or Orleans.
THE first woman surgeon who has been ad-
mitted licentiate in Ireland is Mrs. Mary
Emily Dawson, who has received the privilege
after four days examination at the Irish College
of Surgeons.
THE discussion of neurosis in royal families of
Europe recalls the fact that there is story cur
rent in Saxony that the old king, officially de-
clared to be dead, is really an inmate of very
quietly conducted asylum for the insane.
VANITY FAIR publishes clever cartoon of
Dr. Holmes, by Ward, with a good naturally
satircal and brief biography, concluding that,
on the WHOLE ''as a society lion he is great
success though Bostonan, he is not a prig
though brilliant taker, he can listen, and
though seventy-seven, he is still very young
man."
VISITING NJ. Remains birth place recently, M.
Jules Simon asked the housekeeper if many Wis
itors came to see it. eyes, great many En-
gsh folk" "Well, you might get handsome
little fortune from some of them by selling them
the pen with which NJ. Renan wrote his Life of
Jesus" "Alas! have it not! But will go to
the statoners tomorrow and buy two hundred"
FARMER DANIEL WADswoRTH, of Wolcott.
N. Y, has established new branch of musical
education. Instead of making the hills resound
with the musical echoes of ''P-o-o-e-e" when he
wishes to call his hogs, he merely whistles
yankee Doodle" aud the herd come in on a run.
The intense Amercanism of the porkers is shown
by the fact that they pay no attention to any
other tune.
will
ton in America. 1t was his original intention
to 60 to Colorado and the Yosemite valley but
subsequent engagements caused q change of
plan. He will arrive about Aug. 9, returning in
time to open his season in London Sept 10.
Miss Ellen Terry and her daughter will come in
the same steamer, acd will visit Newport, and
perhaps other Eastern summer resorts.
SINGULARLY enough, while the government
is active in its suppression of polygamy, it has
not yet taken notice of the fact that for years
Sitting Bull, the redoubtable Sioux chief. has
lived with two wives They are both shapey
good-looking souaws, and seem to be utterly
free from jealousy, being jointly proud of
their lord and master. The chiefs children are
petted just as much by one wife as the other.
In some of the more primitive settlements of
Canada they are ready to laugh at any joke
however old. A humorous lecturer recently ap-
peared in small back town in Ontario, and in
the course of his remarks, said that no piano is
needed il a house where there is male infant,
because there is always music in the heir"
The laughter that followed lasted ten minutes
by stop watch, and one young man was taken
out in commissions.
DIR. SUNDERLAND is greatly worried about one
statement made in accounts of the Presidents
wedding. He says 1.-THE papers are wrong in
saying Mrs Cleveland drank wine on her we'd
ding night. She did not stood beside her,
and can speak the truth in saying that not q
drop of wine touched her lips. AS the wedding
party stood about the table aud wine was poured
out, MISS Rose Cleveland filled glass with
Apolinaris water sent 1t around to Mrs Cleve-
land, and then filing another for herself, they
drank with the rest Mr.. Cleveland drank cham
payne, as he will doubtless continue to do"
WRITING of the family of the Comte de Paris,
M. Blowtz says 1.-THE young Due d'Orleans is
seventeen years of age. He has grown much of
late years His face is intelligent and full of
resolution and vivacity. and his dark eyes look
you full in the face with manly frankness. He
has a resolute and decided disnosition. He is an
indefatigable walker, an excellent fencer, swim
mer and rider, and a remarkably good shot. He
speaks correctly and f1uently four or five
languages Although he is not great enthus-
asst for literature, he has liking for Virgil and
Horace and is sufficiently at home in French
contemporary literature and history to take an
intelligent interest in conversation of the most
varied kind"
FATHER HyAcINTHE LoYsoN says he is aston
ished to see French legislators thinking of moth
ing but the expulsion of the princes, when far
greater peril lies in the ideas Of socialism, inn
piety and moral disorder that are simmering in
the public mind yet he says, 'the Parlia-
ment and government of the country are ex-
clusyely and passionately preoccupied with
other danger-that which is incurred by the
presence of the Comte de Paris on the soil of the
country which he honors by his noble virtues
and his mistaken honesty, well as by his
family connections. / protest against this
ostracism, this violation of justice, this work of
violence and sign of weakness. l do not know
what the monarches of Europe may think of
it, but the American Republic will weep for her
sister"
THE Grand Gordon, called the Nshin III Shelf
akat, is the Order of Good Works. 1t is PEN
dant star, set with diamonds. some twenty-six
each one of the five points of the star. The
center is of red and green enamel. 1t contains
the Sultan's monogram aud a text about benev
olence from the Koran. When worm a small
star is attached to a broad white ribbon, edged
with the green color of the Prophet The order
was instituted to honor Lady Layard, wife of
Sir Henry Layard. ambassador from England in
1878. She was a second Nightingale in the hos
pitfalls. The present Sultan. Abdul Hamid de-
signed the badge, which is exquisite in its work
manship. Recently the Queen Of the Neither
lands, the Grown Prince of Austria, the Mar