The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

They nave woman at the Paris circus that
Jumps from enc horse to another while the
horses are going around the ring in opposite di-
rections.
The Princess of Waies's health has been very
bad for the last few months There is begin
ming to be serious anxiety and fear that she
may become an invalid
PREMIER GLADSTONE, when he kissed the
Queens hand. on resuming Office, declined to
lunch at Windsor Castle, but walked about the
grounds until the time came to take his train for
London.
GENERAL BRAGG. who loves Mr.. Cleveland for
the enemies he has made is small, slightly
STOPPING. agile man. with gray hair and beard
and bright eyes under overhanging brows, and
with particularly defiant and beligerant air.
SINCE the publication of his latest volume of
poems. Lord Tennyson has received daily scores
of letters from ''the pestilential nuisances who
write for autographs" all of which he industri-
ously and conscientiously consigns to his waste
basket
THERE is negro girl in Athens who claims
that she has frog in her arm that travels up
and down her arm from her wrist to her shout
der. She says that another woman conjured her
when she was young, and the frog has been in
her arm ever since.
LORD HERscHELL. present Lord Chancellor of
Great Britain, is a Hebrew by race, not by re-
igion, though With Sir George Jessel, master
of the rolls he is the second of his race to hold
in that country high judicial position. He is
in his forty ninth year.
BISMARCK does not cost much. Germany pays
him $l3, 500 year. and 81, 500 moro for official
receptions, etc. British Cabinet ministers get
$50 600 apiece all around, and the Chancellor for
his $l8, 900 probably does more work than half a
dozen OF them put together,
THE Duke of Portland has ventured an innova-
ton upon established custom which comes but
little short of sacriege or Irish home rule He
has refused to lease the right of shooting over
his estates near Mansfield, and has granted the
sporting right to his agricultural tenants.
HIGHToNED Englishmen denounce Sir Charles
Dixie for not saving Mrs. Crawford from pub
lie shame They refer with pride to the conduct
OF the Prince of Wales, who, when Lady Nor
dounts good name was at stake, went on the wit
nessstand and 'perjured himself like gentle
man."
NINE JENNY LIND GoLDscHMrDT, with re-
freshing frankness foreign to her class, confesses
that for the past twenty-five years she has kept
her vocal organs at their proper pitch by yelling
at her children. Her years and voice now en-
title her to place in the front row OF sero comic
singers.
SAMUEL HENRY BUTTERNUT SMITH, a nephew
of the Mormon prophet Joseph. protested in
court, in Salt Lake, that he was obeyiug the law
of God in taking unto himself two wives, but
Judge Zane dryly suggested that "this court is
run under the Edmunds law" and gave Samuel
six months and $500 fine.
The Hon. Proctor Knott gives Moses the high
est place as statesman in the history of the hu.
man race. But the New Orleans Picayune
makes the pertinent and practical suggestion
IN
bride the legislature and no morning papers to
give mans mistakes away"
A CHATAUQUA county cheese broker went to
Buffalo the other day, and brought home a fine
imported cheese. All praised it but his wife
who. after the praise had ceased said she had
found her hus bands private mark on the cheese
He had paid thrty-three cents a pound for the
very cheese that he had made and sold for six
cents. A sea voyage is supposed to give 'tone."
LOUISE MIcHEL's memoirs tell some queer
stories about her amateur scientific performances
when in exile at New Caledonia. Among other
ideas she had one for vaccinating plants that
were attacked with maladies. She tried her ex-
pertinent on four pawpaw trees, inoculating
them with the sap of four other plants of the
same kind afflicted with jaundice, and saved
them.
The Empress of Austria's taste for field sports
is by no means exceptional among ladies of rank
in Austria and Hungary A little while ago the
Grown Princess accompanied her husband on q
excellent shot The imperial hunts in Hungary
are always frequented by number of ladies be-
longing to the higher court circles. AS matter
of fact. the prediction of the Empress for hunt
ing is fully shared by the ladies of the Austro-
Hungarian aristocracy.
Mr.. CLEvELAND's friends of the Whitney
stamp look down upon the White House quite
scornfully, and it is the correct thing with some
of the correspondents to write of it as a second
rate affair What kind of a place is that
White HouseY" asked friend of Mr.. Lincoln
1T is not a modern house. is it2 / do not sup
pose it compares with some other houses in the
country" Mr. Lincoln's eyes twinkled. II do
not know much about your modern conveniences
he replied sits the best house / ever lived in"
In an Omaha brewery is a man named Jewett
who used TO be friend of Grover Cleveland in
Buffalo, and who now wears an eighteen-inch
collar; indeed his companions have nicknamed
him ''shirt-colar Jewett" Editor Rosewater
of the Omaha Bee, called upon the President
the other day, and incidentally bore a message
of respects from Jewett "Oh yes" said the
President; II remember Jewett WELL queer
looking fellow; and, Mr.. Rosewater, don't you
think he has bigger neck than miner 81 don't
know" was the reply; sit may be quarter of
an inch bigger; but you crowd him pretty close
ALBION W. ToUReEE tells this story as coming
within his knowledge. A very pious old lady,
living in the South in the days before the war,
having mortal disease, wished to do something
for the church of which she was most jealous
member She had little property most of it
consisting of two slaves, man and wife, to whom
she was much attached. Being a spnster and
having near kindred, she left by will the
dusky couple to the trustees of the church, ssto
be used as far as possible to the glory of God. y
The subject was much discussed in evangelical
council; and after deep meditation and protract-
ed prayers, the slaves were sold at public auc-
ton. and the proceeds employed to send mis-
sionary to China to convert the heather!