The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-04
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
JULIAN HAWTHORNE wears a curly confusion
of hair and dropping mustache.
NINE. NILSSON has just refused $50, 900 for if
teen concerts in Russia because it is 80 cold.
THE Pillsbury Touring mills. at Minneapolis,
divided $685. @ surplus profits among 100 en-
ployes last year.
AT St Helena, CAL, a few days ago, several
thousand gallons of ten-year-old California wine
sold for cents gallon.
DIR. SUSANNA RUBINsTEIN has received at
Lepsic the highest diploma in philosophy it is in
the power of the university to bestow.
THE rules of William and Mary College il 1772
forbade the students to drink anything except
cider, beer. toddy, and spirits and water"
REPRESENTATIVES REED, of Maine, and Lout
tit, of California, were once respectively school
teacher and blacksmith in the same California
village.
STUART ROBSON has been elected an honor
airy member of the Cook County Democratic
Club. of Illinois. Crane, the other Dromio, is
Republican.
Mr.. THADDEUs FAIRBANKS. the inventor of
the Fairbanks scale, recently celebrated his
ninetieth birthday and still lives in the old way
at st. Johnsbury, VT, where he stands among
the highest in the social scale.
MRS FRANCES HoDGSoN BURNETT who was
obliged to leave Washington to secure the abso
Lutte quiet her physician commands is still living
at Lynn, Mass, but is rapidly recovering her
health and is beginning again to write serial
stories.
THE learned gypsy, Franz Sztojka, who lives
in Uszod, has just completed dictionary of the
language of the Hungarian gypsies. The Arch
duke Joseph has undertaken to print the work,
and also volume of Sztojka's dialect poems, at
his own cost.
AT meeting of the Massachusetts Female
Suffrage Association, on Tuesday, one of the
speakers asserted ''that 90 900 young girls in
Boston should be compelled to work for less than
81 per week was due TO the fact that women in
Boston could not vete.n.
EX-GOVERNOR JOHN P. ST. JOHN will open
the Prohibition campaign in New Hampshire by
series of speeches, beginning at Manchester
Feb. 16, and continuing in most of the larger
towns of the State. He speaks under the auspi-
ces of the Prohibition party.
VERMONT is prohibition State, but prohibi-
ton prohibits 80 little there that citizen favors
law infiicting ten lashes upon the drunkard's,
twenty upon the liquor sellers and forty upon
the distiller's bare back. He believes that this
would hurt much more than the present fines.
A NEW YORK jeweler says that the demand
for secret society badges is dying out in the East
In the South and West there is still a demand
for them but in this section Masous, Odd fellows
and others of that ilk prefer rings engraved with
the mystic emblems to the conspicuous badges
once so fashionable.
The town of Dunleith D. IT,, having offered
$500 and town lot to the first baby born within
it's limits, a lady living some two hundred miles
distant went over, gave birth to bouncing boy,
ofaA Iav %hoI odd 10 Ia
ard finished up the entire transaction ia less
than forty eight hours
On purchasing some real estate in Washing
ton lately Justice Horace Gray of the Supreme
Court, sent note to the lawyer who was pre-
pairing the transfer papers, saying; Il shall re-
fuse to accept any deed which describes me as
being of Washington D. e. am of Boston.
Mass And the deed was thus made out
| THE Queen has received a present from the
| United States of quarto volume, bound in seal
skin, with Innings of damask satin, and hand
| painted inscription. The work is regarded as a
| triumph Of American book binding, and copies
have been presented to the German Emperor
and to the Emperor of Russia. The Queens
copy has been placed in the library at Windsor
| Castle
| A CERTAIN Austrian princess widow with
young children, has lately, to the horror of the
| fleuH6So hrlStocrdcy, Ocou going ABOUT WlLQ
wandering musicians to sing at little beer houses
/ in the capital She has been forced to do this to
| procure livelihood for herself but some of the
noble families have begun negotiations to render
this alarming expedient unnecessary.
| HARRY WORKMAN, bright boy in Fostoria, O..
| showed so much interest in electrical expert
ments that he became privileged character at
the eIectric-light works. no other outsider being
permitted near the dynamos. The other day he
| wanted to receive good shock" and so he got
a pan of water, and, touching the positive pole
| of dynamo with a rod in one hand, put the 9th.
er hand in the water. and fell back dead.
| THE Emperor of China is not SO immature as
the cablegram insisted He was cabled as only
ten years DID, but Tsaitien, the Emperor. was
born in 1871, making him fifteen years old now.
and, in that country OF precocity. old enough to
be married, If his aunt, the Dowager Empress.
| will permit, as she seems disposed Moreover,
the boy mas been Emperor, by proclamation Of
his succession to the throne, ever since Jan. %
1879. and in the matter Of marrying will prob.
ably do as he himself likes
LADY GRANVILLE GORDON, whose new de
parture as . hat and bonnet maker in Londor
has excited attention. is ths daughter of Mr.