The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

GEORGE W. CABLE whose sons hitherto have
been all daughters, is now happy in the coming
of George w. Cable, jr.
The venerable Bancroft says he works as hard
daily as he did. but still enjoys the best Of
health from the fact that he never worries.
So it was to Northern men among them THAI
the Alabamians looked for the business details
of the Davis reception. A Northern man enter
tanned the party, and the public buildings wera
decorated by an ex-federal soldier.
RUSSIA has new remedy for hydrophobia
which "has never been known to fail in cures
1t is the onion shaped root OF the water plantaiu,
collected in August dried and grated. Tho
| powder is spread with butter upon bread and
eaten.
| Mr.. B. FL. WARDER, formerly of Springfield.
| o.. but now of Washington. has offered to give
$50 900 to the town of Springfield for public
library, provided the citizens of that town take
hold of the enterprise and erect suitable
building.
THE British matrons'p fuss last year about
the nude in art, and the deuge of letters to the
Times and other periodicals on the same subject
have been followed by unusually large NUM-
Der of unclad figures on the walls Of exhibitions
this season.
GENERAL and Mrs. Jessie Fremont are now
settled for at least year in Washington. where
DOM are nara at WOrK upon the UcneralS mo-
moirs, Mrs. Fremont acting as amanuenss, and
doing most Of the work in searching records and
reports on file at the capital.
| LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL pronouncea
| synod as though it were synod, and he makes
other slips of the sort that cause his hearers Co
wink at each other knowingly. In the House OF
| Commons. the other evening" Sir William Har-
| court pronounced millennium as If 1t were writ
| ten mile ennium.
| Orrurr Vrrr0pr e Ralnan al ia az doup.
on the Aberdeen county valua6on roll as worth
So, 500 year rental, while the entire estate is az.
sessed for taxation at q value Of 600. The
| valuation of the Abergsldie estate, which she
| rents from Mr. III. NJ Gordon for $40, 900 a year,
| is less than 81, 500.
| THE President hearing the report of the seri-
| Gus illness Of his predecessor. General Arthur,
sent him basket of flowers, with sympathetic
note accompanying them On Saturday he
| ceived reply written by General Arthur's own
hand, which would indicate that he is not so III
as he has been represented.
| SAID PAsHAs tooth brush stand is made Of
two oblong emeralds of the largest known to
the Rue de la Paix jewellers. They are arranged
| to form X, and at the point of intersection
are fastened with brillant-studded twist OF
| gold. The tooth-b brush handle is so bejeweled
and carved that it cost So 900 francs.
AT recent performance in San Bernarlinl
such noise was made by large portion of the
| audience eating peanuts that the voices Of ths
| actors could not be heard, and the star was
| finally obliged to come before the curtain and
| request q cessation of the gustatory proceed
ing in order to allow the play to proceed.
| A CORRESPONDENT Of the Sanitary Engines
writes: "a few weeks Since when in st. Augus-
tine. took stroll outside the town, and in q
| small graveyard in q lonely place l noticed
| shingle stuck in heap Of sand that appeared
| to be a grave. On examining it found on it,
| in lead -pencil that r. e. Caldecott the artist,
| whose illustrations have delighted so many
young people, and who died last winter, was
| buried there"
"MIss CONSTANCE EDGAR, step-daughter OF
Col Jerome Bonaparte will" says the Catholis
Herald take the final vows and become one OF
the Ladies of the Sacred Heart, in Baltimore on
| the 9th of May The Order of the Sacred
| Heart is teaching order and the highest in
point Of cultivation of all the teaching orders Of
the first class at Annapolis. and Is O star--thak
| is. one OF the first Ave in his class.
| Mss EMELfHE B. WELLS, OF Utah. who has
beon in Washington with a plea for the Nor
mons, tried to convert Miss Cleveland recently,
or, rather, she tried to show Miss Cleveland that
| light. She gave the whole theory aud principle.
| lock, stock and barrel. of the Mormon religions
waxing quite eloquent Miss Cleveland's reply
was: lit is very beautiful, the way you regard
it, bat. of course. do not agree with you, or 70
gard it as you do"