The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-26
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


HARRY GARFIELD, the eldest son OF the late
President Garfield, is soon to marry his cousin,
Miss Mason, of Cleveland, o.
Miss FANNY HAYES, the daughter Of the ex-
President, will complete her education this year
at Miss Porter's school in Pennington, Conn
HERBERT SPENCER has failed in health so rap
idly that he is now compelled to assume a COM
pletely recumbent attitude in his wheel chair.
he has given up all work.
BOSTON TRANSCRIPT: BABY carriages are now
made to cost as high as 1876 each. This is good
for the carriage-makers, but it looks very much
like blow at our infant industries.
THERE are in the employ of the government
$50 Smiths, 360 Browns, 800 Johnsous and 270
Joneses. The number of those who bear these
names who are willing serve the government
has never been recorded.
A CITIZEN OF Minneapolis is building a genu-
inc log house right in the city. 1t will be big
rambling dwelling, with queer corners and
quaint windows but it will have all the modern
improvements and will cost $4,000.
New YORK Sun: Magistrate-You ere old
enough to know better than to drink whisky,
Uncle Rastus. Uncle Rastus-I KANT help it,
go Honah ] inheritid tas' TO it. Magistrate
Inherited taste for it? Uncle RastusYas,
sir. Dat boy Sam o mine is drunk mos OBJ dc
time.
WILLIAM GILLESPIE WALKER, nephew of
James g. Blaine, has entered the order of Jesuit
Fathers at Santa Clara, Cal He is nineteen
gears old and has been student at the college
for year. Mr.. Walkers mother the
favorite sister of Mr. Blaine and was buried on
the day that President Cleveland was inaugu-
rated.
''THE child of the Alamo" the boy who was
rescued by girl from slaughter by the Mexieans
when Captain Travis made his desperate and I'M
successful defense, has recently had an affecting
meeting with his rescuer. Nine Candeleria, who
IS now al active woman ninety seven years old.
1t was their first meeting in fifty years, and it
made quite sensation in San Antonio
SINCE the late Chevreul celebration the IN
earthing of centenarians has become the rage in
France. A very old maid named Benoite has
been discovered at Auch. She has reached her
IO9th year. and the passage OF Napoleon through
her native town and the Hundred DAYS are to her
events of yesterday. A patriotic movement is
now set on foot in France to give national ban
quet next year to persons who have passed
century. Hopes are entertained that ninety nine
of them can be procured, and III. ChevreUl will
be asked to preside at the head of the table,
making up the hundred Their united ages will
thus amount to over 10 600 years.
A WRITER in the Washington Star thinks il
was grave mistake to put on the tablet on Sal
mon P. Chases coffin the words "Chief- justice
of the Supreme Court of the United States" eff
the person." he says, indting the inscription had
been as familiar as he should have been with the
Chief-justces notions of the title of his Office he
would have used the words The Chief Justice of
the United States During the trial of Presi-
dent JohnsonSon articles of impeachment, Mr.
Chase insisted upon and asserted that he was
Chief justice Of the United States. The act of
1869, through his efforts. specifically recognized
the title bv providing that the Supreme Court
shall consist of one Chief justice of the United
States and eight associates, ETC."
PROF FRENzEL, the head physician to the
Berlin Charlie. publishes in the Charite-Annalen
some observations upon ''immoderate smok-
ing" Some of the results at which he has ar
rived are calculated to astonish those who sup
pose that the worst cigars, or. at all events the
cheapest, are most deleterious The contrary
according TO his examination of his patients ap-
pears to be true. Heart complaints-particu-
larly irregular action of the hearr-are almost
always produced by the smoking OF the best i'm
ported Havana cigars which are by no means,
as DIR. FranZel says. rich in nicotine "Strange
as it may SEEM" the Doctor adds, "such com
plants rarely show the mselves among those who
smoke the ordinary trade cigar, even in an
enormous quantity"
OLD Dan Rice, the famous Snowman. told a
Cincinnati reporter pretty story the other day
about how. in looking over some of his fathers
old papers. he discovered that he was probably
the rightfui heir Co a vast estate in Texas and
Mexico, his father having been the owner of
100000 acres of land. Dan says ne went to
Texas and found the title perfect. and now he
has only to prove that he is the son of his father
whose name was McLaren. The showman's full
name is Daniel Rice MeLaren, but he only used
part of 1t for professional purposes. He says he
will soon be able to clear that matter up and
that men of means furnishing him the
money to secure his fortune As this is not a
nod ttVun nE -
terprise Colonel Rice's story will find quite a re-
spectacle circle of belieyers