The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-29
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


MEN who claim TO know say that Senator
Paynes check is good for IS, 600. 900 at sight
| IT is reported that $50 patents for manufact-
ured butter are registered in the Patent Office.
| GENERAL GRANT is to stand in granite on a
| $4,000 soldiers shaft to be put up at Salem,
| Mass
/ THE remains of Montaigne have been removed
to the vault of the Few University buildings,
| Bordeaux.
ii. PAsTEUR's son. rising young diplomatic.
holds the position of second secretary of France
| at the Italian court.
| Mrs JULIA FISH, wife of ex-Secretary Hamil-
ton Fish, sent gift of $50 to the Confederate
| Home, at Charleston S. G.
ST. ALBANs Register: The monument fund,
my son. Is even slower and more wasting. often,
than the disease which killed the man for whom
| the monument is intended.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS IT,, lecturing in
Boston. declares that TAT last labor has learned
the lesson that capital has taught 1t, and Is
swinging the invincible force of combination
| LUCY STONE asks: docs anyone believe
| that if the votes of honest men In New York had
been supplemented by the votes Of the women,
the present state of things could have existedf'
ELLA WHEELER Wilcox says 1t is the woman
who feels herself strongest in her virtue and Sc
cure in social position who Is most fearless in
her efforts to uplft the afflicted and unfortunate
| PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has formed no decided
| plans for the summer yet and will take no va
cation, it is said, until August. Then he will
| probably repeat his visit to the Adirondacks or
| go to some equally secluded place.
| Mr.. j. H. PARNELL, brother of the Irish
leader, goes into the peachblow business in a
Rnn
| acres moro in peaches on his Georgia farm, max
| ing a total of !, 800 acres in that fruit.
| THOMAS MAST uses his pencil to show that
Uncle Sam is lame in one leg because Of the sill
| yer surplus but he turns right around and puts
| his own money into Colorado mines. The car
icaturist has just bought half interest in two
| lodes
| THE oratorical action Of Pope Leo is said to be
a curious study. His speeches are meditated,
weighed and learned beforehand, and his gestic-
| ulation extremely violent. Sometimes one
would think he was delivering terrible
harangue. when he was in reality, delivering q
studied homily.
A PROSPEROUS Kentucky farmer. wellpre-
served widower of more than fifty, has two sons
| who were both in love with the same girl She
| found difficulty in deciding which to take, and
| the old man solved the problem by sending the
| boys off ON business and marrying the girl him
| self while they were away.
| A KENTUCKY temperance worker has his con-
verts sign pledge which reads. 81 do sincerely
| hope that If drink beer or whisky until ldate
| named here), without being considered sick that
| bad luck may be mine the remainder of my life,
| so help me God" The siener holds on until his
| thirst overcomes his superstition in luck.
| SIXTEEN years ago fve-year-old Johnny Fore
man, of Reading, swallowed one Of the fve-cor-
nered little playthngs children call ''jack-
stones" Commissions and partial paralysis fol
lowed, and to-day the boy-a man In years-is a
mental wreck. not knowing even his own name.
| Physicans say that the 'jack" is probably press
ing against nerve somewhere in his body. !.
| Mrs. WHITNEY, mother of Anne Whitney, the
sculptor is living at Watsrtown, Mass, at the
age Of l01 years. A few days ago she surprised
| the family by walking into the breakfast room
| at an unusually early hour. "Why mother" ex-
stairs alonel' why yes" replied the energetic
censenarian. II should think was old enough to
como alone!"
| AT the dinner Of the Phillips Academy alum
| nj, in Boston, on Wednesday evening, there was
! the cordial greeting of old schoolmates between
| DR.. Holmes and Captain Goldman. "Why, John, +"
| said the sutocrat, II haven't seen you face to
| face since we we're at Andover, but have seen
great deal OF you in the newspapers" well, "
| replied the Captain, "now think of It, / have
| seen your name occasionally In print"
| A PARIS chronicier says Of Bernhardt in
| Ophelia: mime. Sarah did wrong to put so
much vermilion on her face. In the drowning
| scene che seemed quite to color the water Be-
| sides, no woman while wearing such beautiful
| flowing dress Of India silk would, under any cir
| cImstances, sane or insane, como within quar-
| ter OF mile OF watery grave The force of
this criticism will DO recognized by all the ladies'
RUBINsTEIN who has made a large sum of
money from his historical concerts in Russia,
| intends devoting IS, 900 roubles to found auin-
quennial international competition among plan
| lists and composers of instrumental music
Prizes Of 5000 francs will be given to the sue
cessful candidates in EACH or to those pre-emi-
| nent in both. Persons Of all nationalities be-
| tween twenty and twenty six will be admitted
| to compete
WHEN the Rev. Phillips Brooks. of Boston,
was travelling in Norway he lost pair of field
glasses which he had bought when he lived in
Philadelphia and which were marked with Sis
name and address, ''2004 Chestnut street no
city being named. The Norwegian who found
the glasses sent them to "Mr. Brooks, 1904
Chestnut street, u. S. A." and the occupant of
1904 sent them to Mr. Brooks in Boston. All of
which proved that the honest men are not all
dead
SIR CHARLES WARREN, the successor Of Sir E.
Henderson as head of the London police, is son
of Major-general Sir Charles Warren, and is
forty-six years ca. He was educated at Sand
hurst and Woolwich. conducted series of ex-
plorations in Palestine, arranged the Orange
Free State boundary, settled the land question
of Griqualand West and was commander in the
Griqua and Bschuanaland campaigns in 1878. In
1882 he went to Egypt to restore the authority
of the Khedive in the desert and punish the
murderers OF Prof. Palmer. Last year he COM
manded the Bechuanaland expedition, which
added territory as large as Spain to the British
Empire, in Central South Africa He ran for
Sheffield in the Liberal interest in the last cleo
ton and was defeated, and went to Suakim two
months ago to take command Of tho forces in
III district Iondonars think ha ia iuat Tho