The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


day. and "tires OUT two men on the road
A MEMBER of Plymouth Church is writing q
novel in which Henry Ward Beecher figures as
the hero.
HENRY JAMES has rented house in South
Kensington, London, "and will thenceforth re-
side there"
OREGON has more school children than
Florida. Florida's number is 66.79S, of whom
28,687 are colored. Oregon's number is 50, 857.
A MUSICAL attachment for bicycles has been
invented by which the rider can grind out all the
popular melodies as he pedals along. The thing
is called the melocipede.
A CHICAGO joke: Another brick building
has fallen in St Louis. The poor old town is
crumbling away faster even than was antici-
pated. Who says we have no ruins in American
SIR JOHN AND LADY MACDONALD rode nearly
all enc night on the buffer-beam Of the locomo-
tive through the picturesque Rogers pass, in
British Coiambia, last week.
PREsIDENTsIEt1oT of Harvard, remarks: 81
recognize b he mental acquisition as an es-
sential part of the education of a lady or gentle
man. namely, an accurate and refined use of the
mother tongue"
GIVE Minnie Hauk credit for being genuine
American girl She has this year rented out
her Swiss castle with the distinct proviso that
''the stars and stripes are to be kept flying
above the DOME"
NINE. BERNHARDT's husband, Darala, has
been arrested on the Spanish frontier as one of
a band of lace smugglers. He excuses himself
on the ground that when his wife is away life is
intolerably monotonous.
IT is stated, upon the very best authority,
that Mrs Ella Wheeler Wilcox was offered the
editorship OF Literary Life before an effort was
made to secure Miss Rose Elizabeth Cievelands
services in the same capacity.
EX-SENATOR BRUCE, the able colored man.
who was long Register of the Treasury, is going
to lecture. He will begin in October, and has a
hundred engagements at 800 night. He is a
pleasing speaker and a very cultivated man.
LEON, Guanajuato is the great manufactur-
ing city of Mexico. Every week are made there
10000 saddles, % 900 common blankets 10000
fine blankets, $4,000 pairs of shoes for men.
900 pairs for women and so, 600 pairs for chill
dren.
GENERAL BoULANGER thinks tho young French
officers are marrying too fast for the good of the
army, and he proposes to raise the dowry re-
uuired by law Now any subaltern can marry
lady who brings him an income equal to about
$50 month.
AGAIN the fashion is to wear the engagement
ring with the jewels turned toward the palm,
presumably because the promise is not yet full
filled. On the wedding day it is turned to the
gaze of the world. held in place by the plain gold
marriage token.
P. T. BARNUM is reported to have remarked,
in a moment of confidence, that if he lived much
longer and retained his present activity, he
would exhibit himself in side tent as zone of
the greatest curiosities Barnum ever handled"
= A SARATOGA correspondent likens Mrs. John
A. Logan to Madame De Stael. He says: You
will always see Mrs. Logan at her best in group
of politicians and pubic men. She is not a do
nestle woman; she is so attentive in her care of
John that she overlooks everything else.e
A BRAZILIAN diamond dealer sent the inventor
Edison draft on the Bank of England for fl00
for an electric gelatine shirt composed of three
hundred and sxty-five layers of inconceivable
thinness, one of which could be removed every
day, the "clean" shirt lasting year The man
had read of this invention, attributed to Edison,
in the American correspondence of a Berlin
newspaper.
Cor. Z. T. G. JUDsoN's estate, the farm of
Eagles Nest, near Stamford, N. Y, and per-
sonal property worth in all 500. 900, is claimed
by the wife of his prime. who says he deserted
her when he enlisted in 1861, and has not lived
with her since. When he settled in Stamford in
1863 young New York city woman came with
him as bis wife, AID she survives him with a
son. Ned Buntline was not model man, it is
to be feared