The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-29
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
Mr.. LLOYD, who has just been re-inaugurated
Governor of Maryland, is but thirty-three years
old
THREE papers in New York-the Citizen, the
Cook and To-day-have suspended publication.
Lack of money, that supreme necessity, was the
cause in each case.
MISS ALICE JORDAN, the only female student
the Yale law school ever had, has withdrawn, as
the faculty notified her they would give her no
degree on account of her sex.
ONE of the two new French periodicals, La
Revue nlustree. is avowedly modelled upon the
English and American magazines. It's literary
department. is said to resemble that of Harper's
Monthly.
GOVERNOR LLOYD, of Maryland, is only thir-
ty-two years old, and is not in robust health. At
the reception given in his and Senator Germans
honor at Annapolis last week, he was obliged to
retire at half-past 9.
GEN. JOHN S. BILLINGS. of Lafourche parish,
La, declares that the cold wave which recently
swept the South has positively benefited the
stubbe-cane in the sugar section, as 1t will pre-
vent too rapid thawing out
PoLITIcs is hotter than the atmosphere in the
land of oranges. The Florida Times Union de-
clares that the burning issue in the State is
whether Senator Jones ought to be paid salary
for 1.-The pleasant pastime of sparkling widow"
AN energetic colored preacher in Cobb county,
Georgia, makes each member of his congrega-
ton responsible for definite amount of his
salary, and when they have no money to give
him he makes them work on his farm until they
pay off their debt
DR.. FILLMORE BENNETT, who years ago wrote
the Sweet By and By" is reported to be living
in i'll S;obpo -
sumed that the public singers who have profit
ably sung the popular song will hasten to the
authors relief, that is in the sweet by and by.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in the House of Lords,
at London, to present Earl Granville with tes-
timonial in honor of his thirty years service as
Liberal leader. The sum of FL 900 has already
been collected. The present will probably be in
the form of picture of mis- wife and children.
IT appears that French doctors are placing pa
tients afflicted with govt on an entire milk diet
with success, The venerable French ststesman
NJ Barthelemy st. Hilaire, has lived for years
on milk. he rises at o'clock in the morning,
never wears an overcoat. walks from his resi-
dence in Passy, suburb of Paris to the Senate
and Institute and back.
The official organ of the city of Paris contains
the decree adopting the three children of Oil
vier Pain The motive for that measure, as set
forth in the preamble, is that it is the duty Of
the city to take under its protection the children
of man who resided for many years in Paris,
and who was, by his acts and writings, an ardent
servant of the democracy.
THE death of the second Lord Brougham at
the extreme old age of ninety-one will relieve the
pension list of considerable charge He was
formerly master in chancery, and when the
Office was abolished, in 1852, was compensated by
full pension for life. This was f3, 225 year,
so that the total amount paid to him by the
country has been tl03, 200
WONDERFUL and lttle-known flower has
been on exhibition at the Philadelphia Horticult-
ura. Societys rooms. 1t is called the moon
flower and blooms IN the evening From
small bud an inch and quarter in diameter
comes beautiful flower four inches in diameter.
The development requires less than an hour,
and the buds can be seen opening.
SENATOR CHAcE, of Rhode Island, is described
as tall, slender and rather delicate in physique,
while his face is that of refined and scholarly
man. His manner is one of fine courtesy and
gentleness, which seems to proceed as much
from his heart as from good breeding He is
Quaker, and still uses the plain language" ad-
dressing his colleagues byItheir Christian names.
In country district of England destitute of
telephone communication a physician has inaug-
urated the novel system of using carrier pigeons
for the rapid transmission of prescriptions He
makes his daily round of visits with basket of
carrier pigeons. When patient requires RENE
dies urgently, the prescription is secured to the
bird, which at once flies home to the surgery.
There the medicine is compounded and xdis-
patched at once to the patient, thus saving valu-
able time.
JERSEY Justice has been called upon to take the
bandage off her eyes and watch shose hay deal
ers who load down baled hay with heavy pieces of
wood which add twenty-five or thirty pounds to
the weight of each package. People who object
to having so much wood in their hay have pro-
cured the introduction of a bill in the Legsla-
ture providing that the wood, iron or other ma
terial used to bind OF confine such hay shall not
constitute more than five per cent of the gross
weight of the bale.
PRINCE BIsMARcK's health is causing the gray
est anxiety in Germany. Continual sleeplessness
is said to have worn him out He gives audiences
to the Ministers lying in great easy chair. from
which he rarely rises, and lassitude of body in
dicated by his attitude, is also said to have
affected his mind, which is rapidly losing its fer
tility of idea and resources, and even its firm
ness. At night he is racked with rheumatic
govt pains, which Danish sleep. and which them
selves have defed every specific that his physi-
clans can devise.
ONE Sunday night, at the tea-table. the con-
versation CHANGED to turn on the Bible story of
elisha and the bears" Little Jennie was much
awed by it, and her tender heart wept for the
sad fate of the children. Not long after she was
sitting upstairs with me, and had occasion to go
down. She soon came back, saying, 'Auntie,
dear, grandpas got company Mr.. r.. has come
to see grandpa" Still something seemed to
trouble the little curly head. and she looked
thoughtful and anxious for few minutes then,
with fearful glance about her and speaking
very slowly Lyou might say reverently she said,
Nice old man, auntie, very nice old man, but
the baldest headed old man | ever seew
SENATOR MITCHELL. of Oregon. says: 81 was
not Hayes Republican, nor was / an admirer
of General Garfield. like robust article of
poliiics-something that you can take pride in
and avow anywhere. don't believe in temper
ing or playing fast and loose with people. The
Republican party must go back under its old
leadership If il is ever to regain its lost place