The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-08
proves the rule--that such accidents always re-
suit fatally. The exception is one in about ten
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

NELLIE GRANT will visit her mother again,
leaving Liverpool some time in December
WEBB HAYES, son of ex-President Hayes. will
be married during the Christmas holidays to
Miss Mary sherman. of Norwak O.
KATE FIELD, at recent BANQUET given By
women, thrilled her hearers by an eloquent
speech when proposing the toast-.sThe men,
God bless them"
ASSISTANT Bishop Or WILLIAM WIITAKEE.
of the Protestant Episcopal Church, will begin
his duties in Philadelphia this week. He is OF
slender but erect frame, with hair and whiskers
almost white, though he is only ffty-six years
old.
DR.. NORM, French physician, in his new
work of the hygiencs of beauty, makes dead
set against earrings In numbers of cases he
has known erysipelas proceed from their use.
The idea that they are good for weak eyes he
quite disposes of.
Mrs CoNsENo, South American, is the rich
est woman in the world. Besides her immense
wealth, Mrs Conseno also enjoys the singular
privilege of being empress over a tract Of terri
tory called Lota, which lies some 200 or 800 miles
20 the south of Valparaiso.
The American beauty, Miss Chamberlain, is
at present visiting in Scotland. bat will return
to this country for the coming winter The
young brother, whose premature marriage iu--
Cleveland was announced during the summer,
will be left at school in England
IT is hard to surprise some country landlords
Boston man had scarcely registered the name
of Christopher Columbus at village tavern ia
wisconsin when the landlord reached out mis-
paw and exclaimed: How are you. Christ Bin
expectin' We ever since the year 1892
THE Patriarch of Jerusalem is thus SescrbedS
by one who has just paid him visit HE is one
of the most kingly men I ever saw, meeting ones
conception of King David's appearance in mid.
die life (he lie about ffty-fve years oldl very
strong in every way, tenderhearted and affec-
tionate strong"
THE body of Anna Cromwell, daughter Of
Richard Cromwell and granddaughter of the IA
nous Protector, lies buried in an almost unrec-
ognizable grave in the dsused burial ground Of
St George the Martyr, Holborn, which is pres
emily to be converted into park. She was tho
only Cromwell born to the purple"
Mr.. SWAIN, the suspended judge-advocate.
general of the army. goes about Washington now
with cigar in his mouth and a red flo wer in his
button-hole, very much as he used to before he
was court-martialed, except that he drives one
horse instead of two. He is a shrewd specuator
In real estate, and is reputed to be q skillful
poker player.
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE and Civil.service Com
missioner Edgerton are old chums. At recent
in police court. and Edgerton there venerable
and distinguished though he looks, was my eli
ent, the prisoner at the bar He was accused OF
gambling on Sunday; but he got off. and got So
by way of fees" YES" said Edgerton, chats
quite true. But it was an awfully dull Sunday
in an awfully dull Ohio town. and we weren't
playing for money; don't think we had any,"
THE death of Herr Won Walten, late press--
dent of the Austrian Anstalt, has caused
great commotion in Austrian financial circles,
where ne was star of the first magnitude The
physicians give the cause Of his death as heart
disease but they admit the real cause was grief
over the death of his SOD, who killed in
duel last summer He leaves son and two
daughters. who inherit fortune of ten millions
in money, a number of landed estates, and q
great amount of household property in Vienna
Dr. ALFRED RUSSELL WALLACE, the eminent
English naturalist, now IN this country, is about
sixty years old, tall though STOPPING. with white
hair and beard, but a fresh countenance and
bright eyes looking out through glasses His
lectures in America will be on the phenomena OF
what he calls island lite; that is, the geographic
ical distribution of plants and animals illGS@~
trated by islands, and on the colors of animals
and plants as illustrating the "Darwinian
theory" He claims to have arrived at this theory
independently of Darwin.